Menachem Ben David

God Requires Kindness, Charity and Justice

Genesis 18:19 explains why God chose the Biblical patriarch Abraham — because Abraham would command his children to keep the Way of God, i.e., to perform charity and justice.

In utter contrast to the Way of God is the Way of Sodom, i.e., a society based on cruelty and injustice and lacking in charity and justice.

“The cry of Sodom is so great, and their sin is so very grave.”¹

The Talmud describes how the depraved Sodomites tortured a young girl to death for having given bread to a stranger, something illegal in Sodom.

America at this time is in desperate need of obtaining God’s mercy. By promoting and doing acts of kindness in society, America can merit kindness from God so that He will deliver her from her present travails.

Man has free will to serve God by imitating His path of doing good in the world. God’s ways and traits, that Man should emulate, are kindness, justice, and righteousness, as stated by the Biblical prophet Jeremiah.

“But only in this should one glory: In his earnest devotion to Me. For I am the LORD who acts with kindness, justice, and righteousness in the world; For in these things I delight —declares the LORD.”²

The prophet Micah has also emphasized the proper path for Man to follow in the world:

הִגִּ֥יד לְךָ֛ אָדָ֖ם מַה־טּ֑וֹב וּמָֽה־יְהוָ֞ה דּוֹרֵ֣שׁ מִמְּךָ֗ כִּ֣י אִם־עֲשׂ֤וֹת מִשְׁפָּט֙ וְאַ֣הֲבַת חֶ֔סֶד וְהַצְנֵ֥עַ לֶ֖כֶת עִם־אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃

“He has told you, O man, what is good, And what the LORD requires of you: Only to do justice and to love acts of kindness, and to walk modestly with your God.”³

There are many places in the Bible where we are urged to take care of the poor and do acts of kindness.

“Happy is he who considers the poor, on the day of disaster God will deliver him.”⁴

There are many ways that we can do acts of kindness in society. Here are just a few acts of kindness that I can suggest:

1. Donate money, clothes or food to needy people: This can be done for people on the street, or one can give charity and/or food and clothes to reliable non-profit charity organizations who will distribute it to the needy.

2. Help an unemployed person find employment: Provide him/her information about job openings, or advise him/her on how to obtain employment in a field you are familiar with, or else hire an unemployed person if you are able to do so.

3. Help an unemployed person to become self-employed: Offer them sound advice on how to start a business, or loan them some funds to go into business.

4. Offer support to a person experiencing a difficult or stressful situation (such as divorce, death in the family, etc.): Call or visit the person experiencing a difficult situation and let them know you care about them and you are available to help them.

5. Offer assistance to a person experiencing illness, or an elderly disabled person: Call or visit an ill or elderly person, and let them know you care about them and you are available to help them.

6. Invite guests for a meal or to stay overnight if they need a place to stay.

7. Assist strangers experiencing difficulties (when safe to do so): Offer help to motorists with disabled cars, or offer directions to people who cannot find their destination.

1 Genesis 18:20

2 Jeremiah 9:23

3 Micah 6:8

4 Psalms 41:2

Walking God’s Path

Walking God’s Path Means Being Guided by Biblical Ethical Monotheism

“And you shall walk in His ways.”¹

America is in a dangerous state of decline now due to its abandonment of walking God’s path that brought America great blessings in the past. America can restore its blessings from God by “walking God’s path” and by rejecting the Way of Sodom, i.e., the Democrat Party and the Woke “progressives”.

“Walking God’s Path” refers to all those persons, both Jews and non-Jews, who adhere to ancient Biblical principles of ethical monotheism and who reject Marxism, Islamism, atheism, globalism, and totalitarianism, IE the ideologies of the “Red-Green Axis”. These corrupt ideologies radically conflict with Biblical principles.

Ancient Biblical principles require that Mankind should adhere to basic principles of “ethical monotheism”. These principles require us to recognize one Creator of the Universe and adhere to the ethical laws of the Creator, including recognizing Man as a unique being created “in the image of God”.

Adhering to Biblical principles does not require that any non-Jews convert to Judaism.

This one God prohibits all idolatry, cruelty, murder, barbarism, robbery, homosexuality, adultery, etc. The one God demands that society practice charity, kindness, and honesty, and that both rich and poor may obtain legal justice for their legitimate grievances.

“Walking God’s path” requires that we recognize Man’s creation in the image of his Creator. Then, as emphasized by the Jewish prophet Micah, “Walking with God” refers to Man serving and emulating God by doing justice, doing acts of kindness, and walking humbly with God.

All those who recognize Man as being created in the image of his Creator must embrace and assert their unique and precious identity, while also rejecting the corrupt ideologies promoting the descent of Man into an animal.

Noah Walked With God

In various places in the Jewish Bible, we are taught that righteous persons (such as Noah) “walked with God”, and that Man is also urged to “walk with God”.

“He (Noah) walked in G’d’s way trying to be helpful to others, and to instruct and if necessary to rebuke them, as our sages pointed out.”²

The Biblical prophet Noah lived in an extremely corrupt and immoral generation, a generation where “God saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth”³, a generation that God decided must be destroyed in a flood.

In the ancient rabbinic Biblical commentary “Midrash Rabbah”, it explains that the sin that finally caused God to decide to destroy the world via a flood at the time of Noah was the formation of marriage contracts between two males, and between men and animals.

We see in present Western civilization similar violations of God’s will, where homosexual marriages are being legally recognized and promoted by aggressive leftist activists and their accomplices in the Western media.

Noah was perhaps criticized by some rabbinic authorities for not aggressively trying to influence his corrupt generation to turn from their evil ways. However, despite the great evil that Noah observed around him, Noah resisted participating in the evil that was prevalent in his generation. Instead, Noah maintained his righteousness and was thus chosen by God to be saved from the approaching flood.

In our generation, we may not be able to reach the level of Abraham, but we can and must at least emulate Noah and walk in God’s path, despite the wickedness we see all around us.

1 Deuteronomy 28:9.

2 Sforno (rabbinic commentary) on Genesis 6:9

3 Genesis 6:5

Man Must Find His Purpose

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ’

And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”’¹

On this verse from Genesis, and also on the verse in Leviticus 13:47 (“if there will be a tzaras affliction in a garment”), the great rabbinic commentary Sforno provides profound insight into Man’s uniqueness and Man’s purpose.

Sforno’s commentary on that verse seems to be based on Maimonides’ Guide to the Perplexed, meaning that the term “image” used in the Genesis 1:26 verse does not refer to the shape or physical configuration of Man. Rather the term “image” in that verse is referring to Man’s unique intellectual apprehension and ability to reason, characteristics that distinguish Man from any of the animals.

The Hebrew term translated as “likeness” in Genesis 1:26 refers to Man’s power of free will and ability to choose good or evil, which Man alone possesses among all Creation. Thus, the ultimate purpose of Man’s existence that is intended by the Creator, is that Man should make the Creator’s will as his own will, so that Man becomes more like the Creator (in Man’s actions) than all other creatures.

Thus, a profound message of the Torah is that Man’s purpose must be to serve the Creator of the Universe, a non-physical Creator who stands above the Universe. Man’s purpose cannot be to serve any of the creations or to serve regimes created by Man.

Communism and the Left have redefined Man’s purpose as serving the totalitarian state and world government, instead of serving God. These leftist ideologies are very jealous ideologies that leave no room for Man’s free will to serve God.

Submission to communism, atheism, and the Left devolve Man into an animal who lacks free will and who also is deprived of the right to rational, critical thinking.

In modern society, materialism, scientism, and Darwinism now function as types of substitute religions for traditional religions. These ideologies remove any meaning or purpose to Man or to the Universe, and devolve Man into an animal.

The Jewish Bible teaches the existence of one God who created ex-nihilo the Universe and its scientifically intelligible laws. However, the God of the Bible is above and beyond nature and has always existed. The God of Judaism communicates to Man through His prophets and expresses His will in the Torah.

The Torah thus teaches a Universal, God-given morality to all Mankind so as to elevate Man above the level of the animals and thereby to produce a just and moral human society where Man can attain his correct destiny.

These concepts taught by the Torah represent some of the most profound and significant ideas in world history, and they offer great meaning to the existence of Man along with profound moral instruction. This is especially true in the present degenerate world that seems to have lost any sense of moral compass or direction.

Man is not an animal. Animals cannot serve God, they can only exist the way God created them. Unlike the animals, Man’s purpose must be to serve the Creator of the Universe, as opposed to defining Man’s purpose is to serve any of the creations or to serve regimes created by Man. Totalitarianism, scientism, and Darwinism now function as types of substitute religions for traditional religions. These ideologies remove any meaning or purpose to the Universe.

1 Genesis 1:26

Fatherless Families & Societal Collapse

In the about last 50 years or so, there has occurred a steady collapse of the traditional, heterosexual American family, tragically resulting in many fatherless families. A feminist, divorce on demand legal system has developed that separates masses of American children, both boys and girls, from their fathers. Masses of children growing up without fathers in their lives has resulted in devastating consequences for American society.

“Almost all the mass shooters were dad deprived boys, whether it was the synagogue shooter, the Jacksonville shooter. . .” (Dr. Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis)¹

This statement by Dr. Farrell is very significant IMHO. American Jews are being led to believe by the liberal Jewish media that the synagogue shootings are the result of the rise of an anti-Semitic Right allegedly allied with President Trump.

There have always been some anti-Semites in American society, but it has been very rare that white male American Christians will open fire on a synagogue.

It is quite ironic that the same liberals and feminists who dominate the Jewish media never discuss the dad deprivation of mass shooters who were raised in fatherless families without father figures in their lives as a result of a feminist divorce culture and an anti-father family court system. (Of course I am NOT advocating here for any exemption from punishment for convicted criminals.)

The damage to boys caused by a feminist divorce culture and an anti-father family court system are simply never considered by these intellectually dishonest liberals and feminists. Instead, secular Jewish liberals and feminists attempt to deflect all blame for violence in American society to the availability of guns, anti-Semitic Rightists, racists, misogynists, Trump supporters etc.

In contemporary media, there is hardly any serious discussion of the immense damage to boys caused by the present dad deprivation divorce culture that produces many fatherless families. Women who believe they must divorce should at least insist on custody arrangements that allows their children to have significant relationships with their fathers.

1 https://video.foxnews.com/v/6002620929001#sp=show-clips

The Lefts War on Heterosexuality

In the Book of Genesis, all of Mankind was commanded to engage in heterosexual marriages, and Mankind is prohibited from homosexual relationships.

“Thus a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24)

The act of male homosexuality is one of the most severe transgressions in the Jewish Bible.

“Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abomination.” (Leviticus 18:22)

The citation above is one of the commandments of Biblical Judaism. Male homosexuality is a prohibited abomination for both Jews and non-Jews.

The Democrat Party declared war on God and on the Jewish Bible when it lit up the White House with homosexual colors during the Obama administration.

All US citizens living in the US have Constitutional rights to free speech and to freely practice (among themselves) their religious principles. However, no one is preventing homosexuals from doing what they like in their bedrooms. No one is advocating persecution of homosexuals. If you don’t like the right of free speech and the right of free exercise of religion in the US, then you are living in the wrong country!

There is a concerted effort by Leftists to undermine Torah principles and to suppress the free speech of religious conservatives. Some of these Leftists even call themselves religious Jews or religious Christians.

This free speech suppression by Leftists is accomplished by a number of quite undemocratic and unscrupulous methods, such as spewing abusive, slanderous comments against religious conservatives, or else falsely charging religious conservatives with bullying, or else scapegoating religious conservatives for the suicides of mentally ill persons, or simply telling religious conservatives to say nothing or to go away.

However, if you are a believer in Biblical morality, do not allow your free speech to be suppressed by the Left (even if they claim to be religious). You have every right (at least in the US) to express your opinions as the Left does.

The Lefts Assault on God’s Creation

“Male and female He created them. He blessed them and called them Adam on the day He created them.” (Genesis 5:2)

The Bible is teaching us some essential principles here that are perfectly consistent with modern science. Male and female are Divinely created distinct and fundamental identities, yet the male and female are essentially equal in value. This male-female distinction is the only significant distinction between humans. Other distinctions between humans such as ethnicity, race, or nationality are not really significant compared to gender.

The very destructive, nihilist, modern Left is making a brazen attempt to erase these fundamental human identities and thereby sabotage the Divine order taught in the Jewish Bible.

Transgender is a scientific impossibility, a depraved fantasy invented by the depraved Left. If a person is born with a penis, the immutable fact is that they are a male and will remain a male for the rest of their life, regardless of whether they mutilate themselves and regardless of the insane rantings of transgender activists.

Recently I had an interesting discussion with an experienced pediatrician. The doctor confirmed what I suspected: There are only TWO genders. (Both the Jewish Bible and modern science are in perfect agreement on this.) Even when a human is born as a mutant with genetic defects, a third gender does not exist and no spectrum of genders, besides male and female, ever exists. So-called transgender is scientifically impossible. A person’s gender is encoded in their chromosomes which cannot be altered. The individuals trying to convince us that imaginary genders exist are psychotic in my opinion.

In Genesis 3:1 the Torah teaches that in the “Garden of Eden” the serpent chose to speak to the woman (Chava), not the man. The great rabbinic commentator Sforno on Genesis 3:1 explains that the woman’s intellect was too weak to contemplate (the truth), and her imagination prevailed over her.

A major root of the conflict between the Left and Conservatives is actually a conflict between reality and rationalism versus imagination. The radical Left (both men and women) have created their own imaginary Universe disconnected from reality. For example, in the Left’s imaginary Universe, a person can be whatever gender they decide they want to be, regardless of their biological gender they were born with.

Conservatives such as President Trump and Judge Amy Coney Barrett are both hated and despised by the leftists and feminists because they both allow their rational intellect to lead them instead of their imaginations. The outcome of the next US presidential election may be crucial for the survival of Western civilization.

Will the demented imaginations of radical feminists vote in radical Left politicians who will destroy Western civilization?

Boycott “Progressive” Corporate Culture

“Diversity training” programs, within corporate culture and especially in government agencies, are, I believe, Woke political indoctrination sessions where people are being taught to demonize Caucasian people while glorifying and aggrandizing non-Whites. This is why President Trump issued an Executive Order banning diversity training sessions in Federal agencies.

Ethical capitalism is not immoral or oppressive, and in fact it can produce a high standard of living for everyone. Biblical values certainly allow ethical capitalism, but not the rampant monopoly capitalism or crony capitalism we see today, where governments simply serve the interests of large corporations but they do not serve the interests of preserving society and Biblical values.

The current “progressive” corporate culture violates Biblical values in the way it conducts its decadent methods of capitalism. The atheist, “progressive” corporate culture prevalent in America today enforces Leftist group think ideology on corporate employees. This group think propaganda is utilized to indoctrinate employees with perverse causes such as homosexuality, so-called “transgender”, and anti-white “woke” racial supremacist theories.

President Trump’s Executive Order did not apply to corporations who indoctrinate employees with CRT and Woke ideologies. Corporate employees who publicly maintain traditional or religious values are likely to be disciplined and then terminated from their corporate jobs. The atheist corporate culture causes great harm to society by undermining traditional family values and ethics, and by promoting “gay” rights and transgender movements.

“Progressive” corporations in the US that provide preferential treatment and special privileges for certain “minorities” or for those with certain sexual “preferences”, are committing major injustices and are violating the Constitutional rights of the majority, non-preferred groups.

Decent citizens must start to boycott all “progressive” corporations that are undermining traditional values.

Critical Race Theory Promotes Race Wars

The “Progressive” Left are aggressive missionaries for various false, atheist ideologies. “Critical Race Theory” (CRT) is one such atheist ideology that attempts to replace Biblical values with a very false world view.

CRT is a well organized and financed racial warfare program that attempts to delegitimize and demonize all Caucasian people as inherently “racist” and “oppressive” towards black people. CRT falsely alleges that America was founded on slavery and racism. The true end goal of the depraved CRT agenda seems to be to justify and legitimize oppression and destruction of Caucasian people, especially Caucasian Jews who gave the world the Jewish Bible.

The basic principles of the false CRT “religion”: America is irredeemably racist to its core, and its legal system is by definition, racist and invalid. Therefore, the members of “oppressed” racial groups are entitled and obligated to determine for themselves which laws and traditions have merit and are worth observing.

By examining ancient Biblical events, we can obtain some insights into present day conflicts whose roots are in those ancient events.

According to the Bible, the prophet Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Yefeth, who with their wives reconstituted humanity after the Biblical Flood.

“The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth—Ham being the father of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole world branched out.“(Genesis 9:18-19)

We can understand the three sons of Noah as representing archetypes of mankind and civilization in general. The natures of these archetypes is hinted to in the Biblical descriptions of the three sons of Noah.

“May God expand Japheth, but may He dwell in the tents of Shem” (Genesis 9:27) can be interpreted to mean “may God expand the mind of Japheth”.

“…the highest flower of the Japhetic tribe was Yavan was the Greeks; the highest flower of Semitic mankind, Ever, is the Hebrew people, Israel, who carried the name of God to the world of peoples. To this day, only these two human tribes, the Japhetic and Semitic, Greece and Judaism, have become the actual educators and teachers of mankind. Everything that the earth has gained in spiritual treasures is owed to them…” (Rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch on Genesis 9:27).

Thus Japheth can be considered the ancestor of the Greeks and Europeans who developed philosophy, science and technology. Shem became the ancestor of the Semites and the Jews. The Jews gave the world the Bible and thus disseminated the concepts of ethical monotheism to the world that replaced the pagan barbarism that reigned in earlier ages.

The name of the third son Ham refers to a person dominated by sensuality, emotion, and rage. Ham and his spiritual descendants were condemned as wicked by the ancient Jewish rabbis. This type of person is dominated by his unrestrained and destructive desires and emotions, and he causes the destruction of civilization, for example, BLM mobs burning down cities.

Although Western civilization is not based on race, but it is based on ideas derived from Caucasian men in ancient Greece and Israel. Creating a race based philosophy represents the destruction of Western civilization as we have known it.

American Caucasians are justified in opposing their replacement by non-whites. Western civilization can be viewed as a hybrid product of the minds of the descendants of Yefet and Shem. However, the descendants of Ham exhibit fierce jealousy and hatred for the civilization of Yefet and Shem, and a desire to destroy that civilization. CRT is a false intellectual facade of fighting imaginary “racism” and “oppression” while actually fighting to destroy the the civilization of Yefet and Shem.

Progressive Left Agenda

The Progressive-Leftist agenda is an attempt to create a New Age Sodom, where those who embrace Biblical values, or defend themselves from criminal thugs are prosecuted as criminals. Meanwhile, machete wielding third world criminal drug gangs pour across the southern border, and are offered jobs and citizenship.

The founding fathers of America would probably consider present day America to be a despotic police state where constitutional rights for law-abiding citizens have become nonexistent, where the Bill of Rights has simply been shredded to pieces by the Progressive Leftist tyrants.

Religious US citizens need to understand that as our out of control leftist government grows ever larger, it will become increasingly impossible to observe Biblical values in the US. The leftist Democrat commissars running many large US cities treat the US Constitution with utter contempt. The left’s perverse definition of “human rights” only seems to apply to illegal aliens, homosexuals, criminals, and Muslim jihadists, but does not extend to religious Jews or religious Christians.

COVID Pandemic Caused By the Evil CCP

Without a prophet, we do not have a right to claim God caused the bio-terrorism of COVID-19 as a punishment for man’s sins. A more correct Torah based viewpoint might be that God did not cause the COVID-19 bio-terrorism, but the world did not merit to be saved from that plague.

There is by now abundant evidence that the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime created the Covid-19 bio-weapon in one of their laboratories and allowed it to infect millions of people in the world.

Senior experts on Communist China claim that the COVID virus that originated in China is likely an unnatural bio-weapon. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jan/6/dany-shoham-virus-likely-unnatural/

A very informative documentary on the origins of the Chinese Communist bio-weapon is available on Youtube.

“The first documentary movie on CCP virus, Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bXWGxhd7ic

With their advanced weaponry and massive army, the Chinese Communist Party may possibly be the most powerful atheist enemy of God and the Torah in history. They are certainly the cause of the COVID-19 bio-weapon now terrorizing the world. Erroneous, fatalistic beliefs serve to deflect any blame being attributed to monstrous evils such as the rabidly atheist and very powerful Chinese Communist Party.

If we consider that much of the world has enabled and empowered that fanatically atheist regime, it doesn’t require a leap of faith to believe that man’s sins have caused a condition now referred to in the Torah as “hester panim” (IE Hashem hiding his face from man).

Is there a better example of “a nation that does not know Hashem” than the Chinese Communist regime? It would seem that the correct Torah hashkafah (viewpoint) is to pray that God should save us from wicked regimes such as the Chinese Communist regime.

There is a message we must receive from the disaster of COVID-19. We must stop empowering in any way any anti-Torah atheist regimes, especially the Chinese Communist regime, and we must promote Torah concepts of ethical monotheism throughout the world. We should encourage efforts to eliminate that regime, whose very essence is a great manifestation of “hester panim”.