Years ago I went to Mount Sinai with some Jewish friends, I was fifteen. What a remarkable thing to see the sun rise from the top of the Holy Mountain over the desert as Bedouin tribes crossed the sand, far below. It was a picture out of the Old Testament and beautiful for it.
As we climbed down from the peak, my friend's Father, an eminent neuro-endrocrynologist (!), went all '70s, "Moses must've been a hard man, leading all those Jews, for forty years, through the wilderness." His Father, gentle readers, was a Viennese Rabbi until the Nazis did for him.
That in mind, do you think God smote the Hitlerites with extreme prejudice because of their murderous hatred towards his chosen people? I'd argue yes, but feel free to disagree.
Yad Vashem,
LSP
Never again!
ReplyDeletePewsterspouse and I made that climb last year. I can imagine Moses looking around and thinking, "Lord what desolation. What am I going to tell them now?"
ReplyDeleteStubborn folks for a reason!
ReplyDeleteIt was a magical moment for me, BadFrog, but of course I was absurdly young! Today? Maybe a different story.
ReplyDeletepewster, back in the day there was a hermit living on top of the mountain, is he still there?
ReplyDeleteMost definitely, NFO!
ReplyDeleteLSP, No hermits, just Bedouins with cell phones and birkenstocks.
ReplyDeleteThe Lord God Jehovah was in the habit of loosing various tribes and kingdoms upon the Israelites when they needed an abject lesson or two, and who can say if Patton and Stalin were not instruments of His will in modern times.
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