k, it’s a bit long and windy….. but i think i get to some sort of conclusion at the end so just make yourself a big coffee….and enjoy the ride
Today we will speak about TZUR. (one of the) Princes of Midayn.
Do u honestly think he cared?????????????????????
When the name of the Woman killed by pinchas is mentioned, her fathers name is brought in for the ride as well, and as rashi explains to us the reasoning behind this is to show us just how important this girl was, she was a midyanite princess! and yet pinchas the knight feared her not (just to clarify something [as rav brevda always does regarding yehudah hamacabi], pinchas’s beard was probably down to his belly, and his fighting experience went no further than battling animals b4 shechting them. No bodybuilding, robocop type images allowed!),
Rashi also points out that even though Tzur was actually THE prince of the time, when the torah mentions him amongst the other princes he is relegated to 3rd place as a punishment to him cuz of what his daughter did………DISS!!!!!
Do u honestly think he cared???????????
Let’s try making things a bit more “nowadays”, let’s say Machmud Achmadianjadanowitzenstien (was scared if i actually wrote the name, i would get arrested) is considered the number 1 Iranian , celebrity nowadays according to all the recent polls (all competitors, and their voters were killed prior to the publishing of the results) and all of a sudden Israeli papers rate him as the 3RD most popular iraninan figure!!! SHOCKING!!! Machmud would be devastated!!!! he would not know how he could ever allow himself to be seen in public again!!!!! that’s exactly what the torah just did right? well………sortta
Do u honestly think he cared??????????
This is where reverse evolution comes in……………huh? as apposed to many (even though nowadays most scientists dont actually believe in it either) scientists which believe that with every generation the human race is getting more and more developed, and further away from our ancestors the cute little monkeys, WE (as in the torah………) believe (i.e know) that there is actually a decline with every generation, and we r getting weaker and weaker, as we stray further from our ancestors Avraham Yitzchak and Yaakov. And just as jews r declining so is the rest of the velt, cuz whenever the central, ikar point of anything declines, the entrie thing gets dragged down with it. And so just as todays jews are not like the jews of yesteryear (does that actually just mean last year??), so to the goyim of today are not the same.
And so, and we will start from our own shortcomings, we actually, really couldn’t care less what the torah wrote about us, as long as we r rated highly in ppl’s eyes, the torah can say whatever it wants! as long as holywood will respect us, it doesn’t really matter what g-d and his followers think of us. And since we think that way we project it unto our goyisha “friends”. In truth they also couldn’t care less now, but that is just cuz we have sunken to the level where we don’t care and so we dragged them down with us.
We don’t believe we r anything special, we r just Americans/british/aussies/israelis with sideburns/beards and funny yarmulkas/hats/shaitells/bandanas/tichels (don’t wanna get in trouble). But do not treat ourselves as the chosen nation, and so the world stopped regrading us as such.
One thing which has not changed over the years, is the hatred the goyim have towards us, as far as that is concerned the world is a very consistent, well patterned place to be. But as apposed to years ago when goyim hated us cuz we were something special, and cuz we represented ruchniyus in this world (something which flew in the face of everything they “believed” in), (where was that comma supposed to go? before the brackets of after em???) and cuz we were g-ds favorite son, now they hate us……………..CUZ. We are still all of the above, but we ourselves have for the most part forgotten about it. Yes we still live our lives by the torah (huh?), yes we still look different then the rest, yes we still have to wait 6 hours after we have a burger to be able to have ice cream, but are we really hashems representation in this world with every step we take????
And so, back in the day, the goyim respected the torah, they knew the torah was treu (french for “true”, they knew hashem was true, they knew the jews were true, they still hated us…but for exaclty those reasons. And so (i’m starting to get tired of that phrase), if the torah dissed them.,……….they were dissed, if the torah disrespected them they cared, if the torah “made fun of them”: they got hurt. And so (last time i promise….bli neder), when Tzurs descendants ( i think he was already dead at the time) saw that their great father was relegated into 3rd place, they were hurt till the depths of their stony hearts, they felt like a dagger was stuck into their solar plexus (get it???? pinchas……), Yes they DID care!