| Translation
of the first passages of the Hebrew Book, which are missing in the German
Book.
[p.17 of
the Hebrew book]
1. The Problem of the Research: How will Israel
cope with its destiny?
"We should not write a book - unless we
want
to enhance the light in the darkness of our world."
(Reinhold Schneider) |
I went out from Golgatha and I arrived
at Moria.
I searched for meaning for the death of the Six Millions,
and found - that I must cope with suffering - and not invent meaning
for it.
I found this in the ancient sources of Israel
which for me are sources of living water.
In them is hidden the experience of life and history, of nation and
Man.
The Aqedah [the Binding of Isaac]
is the symbol for Israel's faith,
and in it the message, that Isaac
was not sacrificed,
and that the vocation of man is to grow and to live, to procreate and
to bring to life.
The
inspiration for this introduction , which in its main part was
written already in 1971, came to me , when I leafed through the
two little books of
Rabbi Ignaz Maybaum , The face of God after Auschwitz,
What has to change in religion and culture to save mankind in
the nuclear age. London 1965 and Ignaz Maybaum, The Sacrifice
of Isaac. A Jewish Commentary. London 1959 - |
And as the vocation of
Man, so is the vocation of the nation:
there is no need for human sacrifice,
no justification for martyrdom.
The goal of life and its meaning fulfill themselves in life itself.
Not in death, nor beyond death.
No need - maybe. But neither is it possible to avoid erring
and walking a "bad" path
which will lead towards sorrow and carry towards death.
"Badness" - ha-ra'ah - has the double meaning
of what is done by man and of what happens to man.
For hundreds of years man studied the laws of nature,
until he transformed from being its slave to being its master.
He is the master of nature, but he isn't the master of himself and
of his destiny.
Man, therefore, becomes better and better in mastering killing
and becomes worse and worse in shaping his destiny.
What are the laws of life which I have to know
in order to be able to cope with the twofold badness?
It's worthwhile to listen to the answer from our ancestors,
as it was heard for the first time from the mouth of Moses
[p.18 of the Hebrew book]
and continued to be heard from the yekhidee-segulah (the
unique individuals)
up to the last of the Sages in the Land of Israel.
There are three laws which they discovered in life
and on which they based their thinking and their behaving:
First law: the relation between doing and destiny.
Second law: the guarantorship between a man and his fellow
and between the community and the yakhid (individual).
Third law: the yakhid is an emissary for/to the community
These laws are not separate from each other -
all three of them have one focus, which is
that man is responsible for his destiny, i.e. - for his freedom.
If I take into account and apply this threefold Law of Responsibility,
I am a free person!
This is the result which I reached after five years of research
and this is the truth which proved itself in the five years of testing
it practically
by coping with one of the problems of the State of Israel (see
end of book).
It is true, that when meaningless
suffering prevails, in personal and national life,
the attempts to shirk coping multiplied also in Israel -
be it in a passive or be it in a violent way.
The passive people call suffering and death yesurim "chastisements".
These are wrapped in light and happiness and their meaning is good
and positive
for those who strive to gain the life of the coming world.
Those sufferers slowly took the meaning out of life on Earth
and transferred it to a world which is only good,
a world, which does not demand coping.
There is no sense in building a world, which allows life for all creatures,
for the goal is beyond history and not under our dominion.
The belief in "the meaning of suffering" replaces the doing
for "avoiding suffering".
On the other hand there were many Jews who loathed
passiveness
and shook off the "victim behavior".
But those only replaced weakness with weakness:
With violence did they wish to achieve life,
and brought down the catastrophe on themselves and on their generation.
For the violent evade facing up to the "badness" of life
no less.
They know the first law, according to which man determines his destiny.
But they ignore the second law, according to which
the deeds of the individual have an impact on the destiny of his fellow
and the foolishness of one individual
has the capacity of dragging the whole community into the abyss.
What then does it mean to
cope?
Who is truly a free man,
i.e. responsible for himself, including for his dependency on his
community?
This is the third law which says, that
"every single one is obliged to say:
For my sake was the world created".
which implies, that the existence of the world depends on me..
According to the second law I am a passive guarantor for what others
choose -
my sufferings are the consequence of their deeds, my death of their
neglects.
But the choice is in my hands to be an active guarantor,
to be responsible not only for my own actions, for my own neglects,
but also for my dependency on the behavior of my fellow and of my
community.
Then I'll no longer be a "guarantor" by force,
but a guarantor from my own will and volition.
Then I shall be truly free - i.e. master of my destiny.
That's the path which walked our prophets and many of our Sages;
they walked it before they instructed in it their generations.
[p.19 of the Hebrew book]
"An active guarantor" can be only someone
who is conscious of his uniqueness on the one hand
and solidary with his community on the other hand
- as opposed to the collectivism of the "herd", be its nature
passive or violent.
And as the vocation of the unique individual so is the vocation of
the unique nation
A unique person was Moses
who led the herd of his brothers out of the house of slavery. He wanted
to educate the herd to become a unique nation,
a people aware of its uniqueness,
in order for them to gain real freedom.
"Who would give that all of HIS people
would be prophets" like Moses,
aware of their uniqueness, ready for responsibility.
I asked our ancestors how in their time they coped with the destiny
of the people.
I wanted them to contribute to me from their experience and their
thinking
concerning the avoidance of annihilation of Man today.
I believe wholy and truly,
that the teaching must come from Zion, with utmost speed in our time,
a teaching which shows the way to coping with life,
this is the Torah, the teaching , which "Man
will do it and live by it".
2. The Discovery of the
Law of Guarantorship
To be free, means to accept responsibility for
everything that happens to me.
This is the freedom which was meant for the slaves, be it by Moses
or by "God" .
Therefore from the moment in which the Children of Israel went out
from slavery
and reached the desert on their way to their land,
they were held responsible for every trouble that befell them (Loewenstamm
).
To be responsible for what happens to me, means
to cope with it.
And to be able to cope with the troubles of life, I must know the
laws of life.
In the German book the "Einleitung"
= Introduction
is preceded by a "Preface
for the German Reader"
p.1
p.2
p.3
p.4
p.5
p.6
p.7
p.8
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p.17
July 2013: It must have been a quantum-leap
in evolution,
when people understood the double 'ra'ah',
the connection between doing something 'bad' and experiencing something
'bad'.
And not in the way that former cultures understood it:
"We haven't honored the Gods' enough, that's why...."
i.e. the projection of the "Cain"-feeling/judgment
-
"I must be honored by others so as to feel worthy, i.e. able
to accept, love myself"
on the Gods.
And yet, for the last 3500 years neither Jews, nor Christians, nor Muslims
could understand the real connection between doing and experiencing.
There is no punishing God, there is a law of existence:
What you deny in yourself
- feelings, needs, qualities including greatness-
is reflected to you from the outside -
in your experiences,
and this not only in your personal life,
but in that of
"your children
till
the third and fourth generation!"
p.18
July 2013- See my direct application of these laws
in
"Conditions for turning a damaging dependency
into a positive partnership".
Until
I came in contact with "Right Use of Will", since 1987,
I believed, that this threefold law -was the ultimate guideline
for creating peace between nations
and harmony between people.
But, as with any truth,
it's only a certain "resolution" of the picture.
The greater the "resolution",
the clearer it becomes, what makes up the picture.
My persistent frustration was:
"Why do people/nations act against their own self-interest?"
Though this threefold law is totally congruent
with what I learnt from RUOW and Godchannel:
[I'm the perpetrator, I'm the victim,
I'm the one who has to heal the gap between them],
I had to learn, what prevents me from doing what is natural:
to become a pioneer in feeling>vibrating>understanding.
Only then is there a chance,
that people recognize their true self-interest
and strive for reaching it.
p.19
| The first part
of the German introduction is omitted in the Hebrew Book
INTRODRUCTION
1. The laws of Coping with Suffering
Suffering and Death are facts which concern
each person and each community. No one can afford, to not deal
with it. In the early literature of Israel one can differentiate
between two different ways of response. ...
[to be continued by someone else, I hope]
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p.19b
p.20
p.20b
p.21
p.22
p.23 
p.24
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Isaak geopfert, das ist Christentum, Fortschritt durch
sacrificial love das ist Christentum. Einer starb, nicht nur einmal sondern
immer wieder in der Geschichte, damit die Vielen leben.Das ist Christianisierung
des 
