Manchester is the Alarm: Turn to G-d

Another synagogue. Another Jewish community under siege. Manchester joins the list of cities where Jews are forced to worship behind barricades, under the watchful eyes of heavily armed police. The message is unmistakable: Jewish blood is cheap, Jewish lives are fair game, and the world is growing comfortable with that ugly reality once again.

This isn’t a local incident. It’s part of a global explosion of antisemitism — an old disease metastasizing in the age of TikTok mobs, academic elites, and political cowardice. The constant drip of propaganda dehumanizing Jews, portraying them as oppressors, colonizers, or somehow deserving of violence, has done its work. When a culture builds a drumbeat of contempt, it eventually erupts into bloodshed. The toll is staggering. It is not just statistics. It is mothers burying sons, children robbed of fathers, families broken.

And yet, as terrifying as this wave feels, there is a deeper layer at work, a divine pattern. In my latest podcast, I spoke about this very idea: how Hashem, throughout history, has turned up the heat of persecution not to destroy us but to redirect us.

When the ground beneath us shakes, when the world’s institutions fail us, when even our supposed allies in Congress shrug at Jewish suffering, it strips away our illusions. We learn painfully, urgently — that there is no salvation in politics, in media campaigns, in lobbyists, or even in the power of our own communities. Hashem forces us to confront one truth: we have only Him. The fire of hatred is not meant to consume us, but to drive us back into His embrace.

(If you want to go deeper into that idea, you can listen to the full class on my podcast — link below. It’s raw, it’s timely, and it will give you clarity at a moment when confusion reigns.)

For decades, Jews in the West believed they were finally safe. Comfortable. Assimilated. Secure behind the shield of liberal democracies. That comfort was a mirage. The same elites who lecture about tolerance are silent when it comes to Jewish corpses. The same institutions that leap to defend every minority leave Jews standing alone. The fantasy is over.

History repeats: when Jews trust in the powers of man, the rug is pulled out from under us. Hashem is reminding us sometimes with unbearable force  that only He is King.

Manchester is not just a tragedy. It is a wake-up call. Yes, we must fight antisemitism with every tool available. But if our entire strategy is police protection and press releases, we have missed the point. The message is spiritual before it is political. Hashem is bending the world to remind us that exile is never safe, that Jewish survival has never depended on human institutions, and that our destiny is tied only to Him.

That’s why I started teaching these classes on my podcast: not because the world needs more “commentary,” but because we need clarity. We need to see the divine pattern behind the chaos. We need to hear the message that Manchester, Paris, Brooklyn, and Jerusalem are all shouting to us in unison.

This article is just the beginning. For the full class on how Hashem uses these moments to turn us back to him and how we can respond with strength instead of fear: listen to my latest podcast episode.

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