Just what Manhigut Yehudit has been saying all along

Israel National News: Judaism Attracts Modern          Israeli Youth

Tishrei 4, 5770, 22 September          09 05:56
by Hillel Fendel


(Israelnationalnews.com) A survey of nearly 2,900 Jewish youths from          around the country finds that 85% feel it is important to maintain religion          and tradition.

The poll was carried out by TGI (Target Group Index) Israel, of the global          TGI network of single-source market research surveys, on 2,897 young Israelis          between the ages of 18 and 35. It was commissioned by L'Omek HaTodaah (To          the Depth of Awareness), a public relations firm targeting youth.
The survey turned up some surprising results, especially for those who are          disappointed by what appears to be an increasingly secular society. Over          71% said they plan to fast on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), and 73%          define "religious faith" as something "very important."
In addition, 84.3% say it's important to maintain religion and tradition,          while nearly 60% make sure to separate meat and dairy products. Kissing          the mezuzah - Torah passages affixed to the doorpost - is more popular than          might be assumed; 38.5% practice this custom.
Three out of every seven - 43% - say they feel more Jewish than Israeli,          and 40.4% say that bars, theaters, and the like should be closed on the          Sabbath.

Ziv Poplevsky, Chairman of L'Omek HaTodaah, explained, "Despite the permissiveness          and adventurousness of Israeli youth, it appears that many of them believe          that there is a Jewish tradition that must be maintained and accepted. It's          part of a recent trend that we call ‘pro-religion.' We see many performers,          from Madonna to Evyatar Banai, who pull the crowds in this direction."

Tel Aviv's Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau attributes more significance to          the findings. "I sense an increasing interest in the treasures of Judaism          on the part of youth that did not grow up in the lap of Torah. Instead of          grazing in foreign pastures in India, Nepal and Latin America, many of the          youth are finding their way to the Jewish bookshelf and tradition."

Rabbi David Stav of the Tzohar Rabbis Organization, and rabbi of the city          of Shoham, said, "We all see that there is a thirst for Judaism among the          public. When I gave a talk to the public high school in Shoham, 90% of the          students raised their hands when I asked who would fast on Yom Kippur -          and when I asked if their parents would fast as well, far fewer hands were          raised."

"There might be many reasons for this awakening," said Rabbi Stav, "including          disappointment in the State institutions, disillusionment from the idols          of silver and gold, or maybe even because the idols themselves returned          to Judaism. But in the end there is one very simple root cause: G-d's promise          that the soul will not go to waste, and will always try to awaken and rouse          sparks among each of us. We are happy to be in this generation that sees          this happen."

Analysis: Netanyahu, Obama, Abu Mazen Summit: By Moshe Feiglin

5 Tishrei, 5770
Sept. 23, '09        

What does Abu Mazen want?
Abu Mazen, (who holds a Soviet doctorate for his Holocaust denial thesis)          wants to destroy Israel - just like every other Jew-hater in the world.          Like every reasonable Moslem Arab who lives in Dar el Islam (a.k.a. the          Middle East) that is polluted by the Zionist entity, Abu Mazen would also          be pleased to carry on with the murders, rapes and mutilations that we all          remember from the Arab riots of 1929, 1936, Israel's War of Independence          - and from every opportunity that the Arabs in the Land of Israel have had          to express their unique talents.

But in the meantime, Abu Mazen's immediate goal is to perpetuate the current          situation. At the present, he needs Israel to prevent the Hamas from taking          over Ramallah and throwing him off a local rooftop. He also has to prevent          the establishment of a Palestinian state - at any price. Why? Because in          addition to all the honor and authority that he enjoys even now as "head          of state", he would actually have to take responsibility for the Arabs of          Judea and Samaria. Abu Mazen is not a pushover. He knows that as soon as          there is "peace" he will interest no one. What will he do then? Take care          of the sewage problem in Bir Zait?

Sound confusing? Just wait for the rest. For now, just remember that Abu          Mazen needs to talk peace and to present Israel as intransigent.

What does Obama want?

The places in which Obama grew up and was educated, the mentors and events          that, as per his own testimony, shaped his personality and world view -          do not leave room for sweet speculation. Obama is a dangerously radical          leftist who willingly subjugates himself to the most radical Islam.

Obama wants to appease all the dictators of the world - first and foremost,          of the Moslem world - at Israel's expense. Anti-Semitism has always been          subtly present in American governments. But the common values shared by          the US and Israel had always afforded the two countries a basis for cooperation.          Obama is past all that. As opposed to the previous US presidents of this          generation, Obama sees no justification for Israel's very existence.

In the meantime, what is important to Obama is to talk peace and to appease          the Arabs by presenting Israel as intransigent.

What does Netanyahu want?
This is the hardest question. The analysts in Israel can't seem to decide          if Netanyahu would like to retreat but cannot, or if he can retreat but          does not want to. As we are not mind-readers, we will try to get to the          root of the matter.

What Netanyahu wants is what the State of Israel has wanted since it was          established and even before that. A state wants to be normal, a country          like any other country, a nation like any other nation. To accomplish that,          Netanyahu needs to keep up normal relations with the US and the western          world. The paradox is that the more that Israel surrenders its strategic          and tangible assets (its land, settlements, army checkpoints) as well as          its principles (recognition of our very right to a Jewish state) the more          that the nations distance themselves from her. The more that we surrender          our unique identity and destiny, the more that we insist that we seek only          peace - the more that we become an international pariah.

But Netanyahu has nowhere to run. The concepts of holiness, of Israel's          uniqueness and of Jewish rectification of the world are completely foreign          to him. All that he can do is to continue to play the peace game and to          hedge his bets that Abu Mazen will back down first.

In summary:
Abu Mazen wants to perpetuate the current situation.
Obama wants to appease Islam.
Netanyahu wants the US and the West to stop pressuring Israel.

The only one of the three who will get exactly what he wants is, of course,          Abu Mazen.

Jewish Justice or no Justice: By Moshe Feiglin

Translated from Makor Rishon

"Today the world is being born, today all the creations of all the worlds    stand in judgment." "And it will be determined for the countries, which    for the sword and which for peace." (Rosh Hashanah liturgy)

As we enter the gates of our synagogues this Rosh Hashanah, it looks like    we will also be entering the gates of the International Court in The Hague.    This is the inevitable destination of a nation that insists on detaching    its Judaism from its national life. If we are not interested in Jewish justice    in Jerusalem, we will be treated to Western, Christian justice in Spain,    England or The Hague.

When a Swedish newspaper reported that Israel's soldiers slaughtered "Palestinians"    so that they could sell their organs, we didn't believe that anybody would    take the bizarre story seriously. But it is actually making quite a few    waves. Soon an international investigative committee will be established    to reveal "the truth." After all, such serious charges must be investigated    thoroughly. And who, if not the judges of enlightened Europe, are more worthy    to reveal the truth with clarity and complete objectivity?

Blood libels are nothing new. There is nothing more logical about selling    "Palestinian" organs than about slaughtering Christian children to use their    blood to bake matzahs. So how do these absurd claims become legitimate?    It is not really a matter of legal fact. It is a matter of the location    of the judicial body.

When a Jew is in exile and the Christians are the judicial authority, the    blood libel becomes a possibility. The question is not if the Jews slaughtered    Christian children to use their blood to bake matzahs. The question    is if the issue is justiciable. In the Christian courts of the Middle Ages    the answer was affirmative.

Likewise, in the current organ harvest story, there is no question of revealing    the truth. The only question is if the judicial tribunal that we have accepted    upon ourselves will decide to judge these ludicrous accusations.

Then – in the days of the blood libels, the Jews did not have the option    to choose which judicial authority they would accept. They lived under the    dominion of the judicial authority that considered these libels fact. But    today, the Jews willingly surrendered their own judicial authority. They    chose, of their own free will, to forgo their ethical sovereignty and to    deposit it in the hands of the Western world and the International Court    in The Hague.

"What is the problem in Azoun?" my frustrated neighbor asked me the other    day, after a steady stream of rocks and firebombs has continued to emanate    from this 'peaceful' Arab village. "They bring in an entire IDF division    and they still can't stop the violence? Wouldn't it just be easier to cut    off their electricity?" Technically, my neighbor is right. We could easily    leave the reserve soldiers at home and enjoy quiet nonetheless. But the    State of Israel and the IDF are fettered to the Christian judicial dominion    that we have brought upon ourselves.

As the Beijing Olympics approached, I wrote that the State of Israel, as    the representative of the Jewish Nation, should boycott the games. The Chinese    have established concentration camps for opponents of the radically leftist    regime there. Next to the concentration camps there are "medical centers"    that specialize in supplying human organs by order. No lines, no problems    finding the proper match, any organ can be supplied; kidneys, corneas, hearts    – the organs are always fresh and plentiful. They belong to "criminals"    who have been executed but who, at the last minute repented and donated    their organs as an act of atonement. How noble. In reality, the organs are    harvested while the victims are still alive. That is probably the best way    to keep them fresh.

I claimed that Israel - the representative of the Jewish Nation, the People    of the Book who herald the ethics of the prophets – must see itself as a    lighthouse of morality for the world and should not lend legitimacy to the    regime of horrors in China by attending the Olympic Games.

The reactions that I received were more or less: "America, England and France    are not boycotting the Olympics, and you expect Israel to boycott them?"    In other words, it cannot be that we bear a more fundamentally ethical insight    than the Western world. Furthermore, we are so small, so who are we to boycott    the Chinese giant if the US and Europe are not doing so? In other words,    morality is measured in square kilometers and the size of a country's population    and army.

When charges of organ harvesting by Israel's soldiers began to emerge, I    thought that it was quite "measure for measure." We rejected our universal    role and refused to take a stand on the Chinese organ harvesting issue,    and got it right back in our own collective face.

We are the children of the King. We do not have the privilege to stand passively    at the sidelines and to be "just another country." We have only two options:    One is to judge the world according to Jewish justice – the ethical justice    of the prophets that must be restored to Jerusalem. The second option is,    right after Rosh Hashanah, to re-lock our universal responsibility safely    in our synagogues and to leave Judaism strictly in the domain of religion.    If that is the option we choose, we will not be judging the world according    to the ethics of the prophets. The world will judge us – in the International    Court in The Hague.

Holy Temple Mikveh Discovered Near Western Wall

(IsraelNN.com) A 2,000-year-old mikveh (ritual bath) has been uncovered just 20 meters from the Western Wall.
Given its location just outside the Holy Temple - where untold numbers of Jews regularly immersed before entering - the newly-revealed pool is among the largest ever discovered in Jerusalem. 
The mikveh was found at the site known as the Western Wall Tunnels, which has long been under excavation and study by the Israel Antiquities Authority.


It is located about 30 meters past the entrance to the Tunnels, in the general direction of the Western Wall. Once it becomes open to the public, the 11 broad steps leading down to the mikveh will be seen approximately 8 meters below floor level.
Josephus, the famous turncoat general and historian of the period, wrote that the administrative and governmental center of Jerusalem was located at the foot of the Temple, and that among the buildings there were the National Council and the Lishkat HaGazit, Chamber of Hewn Stone, where the Sanhedrin – Israel’s Supreme Court – convened. The archaeologists feel that it is possible that the luxurious hall aside the mikveh was originally one of these structures.

US Pressure – A Guide for the Perplexed, Yoram Ettinger

"News 1st Class," Sept. 9, 2009

Fact: In 1950, the US Administration pressured Israel to refrain from Jewish construction in Jerusalem and from declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel – Prime Minister Ben Gurion built, relocated government agencies and thousands of immigrants to Jerusalem and declared Jerusalem the capital of the Jewish State.

In 1967, the US Administration pressured against annexation of East Jerusalem – Prime Minister Eshkol annexed, reunited Jerusalem, and built the formidable Ramat Eshkol neighborhood. In 1970, the US Administration pressured Israel to relinquish control over parts of Jerusalem – Prime Minister Golda Meir constructed the neighborhoods of Gilo, Ramot and Neveh Yaakov (current population over 100,000!). The US Administration pressured, Israel constructed, Jerusalem expanded and the Jewish State earned strategic respect. Fact: In 1948, the US Department of State, Pentagon and CIA pressured Ben Gurion to avoid a declaration of independence. In 1961, President Kennedy pressured to stop the construction of Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona. In 1967, President Johnson pressured against pre-empting the Egypt-Syria-Jordan military offensive. In 1977, President Carter pressured Prime Minister Begin to abstain from direct negotiation with President Sadat and participate – instead – in an international conference, focusing on the Palestinian issue and Jerusalem. In 1981, President Reagan pressured Prime Minister Begin against bombing Iraq's nuclear reactor.  Defiance of pressure entails short-term cost but enhances long-term national security. Submission to pressure exacerbates pressure. Fending off pressure is required, in order to attain strategic goals.  Avoiding pressure – through concessions - leads to departure from strategic goals. Fact: US public and Congressional support of Israel is robust. "The Rasmussen Report" documents a 70% support (Aug. 10, 2009) and "Gallup" ranks Israel as the fourth-favored ally (March 3, 2009). 71 Senators signed an August 10, 2009 letter calling upon President Obama to shift pressure from Israel to Arab countries. The Democratic Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, Howard Berman, called upon Obama to end his preoccupation with settlements. The Democratic Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, resents Obama's opposition to Jewish construction in East Jerusalem. The strongest (Democratic) Senator, Daniel Inouye, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, is the most effective supporter of the US-Israel connection since 1948. Obama cannot get his legislative agenda without Inouye's support. While Congress has reservations about Israel's settlements policy, Congress opposes sanctions against Israel. Fact: Following the 1991 Gulf War, Israel asked for emergency assistance, which Bush/Baker rejected, Congress supported and Israel received $650MN in cash and $700MN in military systems.  In 1990, Bush/Baker attempted to cut 5% of the foreign aid to Israel because of Israel's settlement activities. Congress opposed the cut and the initiative was rescinded. The Legislature and the Executive are equal-in-power and fully independent of each other. The US Congress has been a systematic bastion of support of the Jewish State since before 1948. Fact: President Obama has been transformed from a coattail President to an anchor-chained President, taking a dive from a 65% approval rating in January to less than 50% in September, the sharpest decline in recent decades, other than President Ford's (due to his pardon of Nixon). Thus, Democratic House candidates/members are experiencing the lowest ebb in two years, while Republicans enjoy a systematic edge. Obama is confronted by an effective Blue Dog Democratic opposition. Fact: President Obama exercises psychological pressure against Israel. He cannot exert an effective tangible pressure. He was not elected to uproot Jewish settlements and prevent Jewish construction in Jerusalem.  His political future – and that of Democratic legislators – does not depend on these issues. The Arab-Israeli conflict is not among Obama's top priorities, and his position on Israel is not compatible with most Democrats. Obama needs the support of Israel's friends on Capitol Hill, in order to advance his primary domestic and national security/international agendas.

The Temple Mount - a Symbol of Israel's Fecklessness?

As a whole Israeli's want peace. Some, want acceptance by the rest of the world.

Hopefully most don't care about acceptance, only compliance with HaShem.

Bibi is a politician and his motives are questionable.

Moishe Feiglin is working to take leadership of Israel and the Jewish people to lead them in a biblical direction. Moishe is doing this from within the Likud.

Why are the more religious groups not joining Moishe...or why is Moishe not co-operating with the Nation Union etc? Is this division the reason that Israel is not going in the right direction? I believe it is.

Perhaps a meeting of all of the "Religious" right political parties could come up with a compromise. I guess the problem is that the Orthodox feel they can't compromise...and don't. They feel that things will change when HaShem wants them to and they are sort of standing by to participate as they work towards the Redemption and guaranteeing they are part of it.

So, what to do? Does Feiglin feel that the only people that Manhigut Yehudit should try to convince are the least religious? The group that wants peace at any cost and has no concern for giving away parts of Israel. What benefit can he offer?

Would a movement to regain control of the Temple Mount provide a unifying factor for the general population? What percentage of Israeli citizens care?

If a group that advocated regaining control of the Temple Mount...started a petition and went door to door...  Would 1 Million signatures mean anything?

What will it take?

Avi

To Hell With the United Nations!

Prof. Paul Eidelberg

The United Nations is the most pernicious, malevolent, and corrupt organizations on earth.  Israel should quit this den of iniquity.

“Praiseworthy is the man who walked not in the counsel of the wicked, and stood not in the path of the sinful, and sat not in the session of scorners” (Psalm 1:1.)   

The UN’s Anti-Israel Vendetta

For decades, the United Nations has passed countless resolutions condemning Israel for its actions against the Palestinians, while almost never formally addressing Israel's security concerns and the ongoing campaign of Palestinian terrorism against Israelis. The UN General Assembly has become an international forum for promoting Palestinian statehood and deligitmizing Israel.

Before Oslo, the General Assembly either “condemned" or "deplored" or “censured" or "denounced" Israel 321 times––the Arabs: Zero condemnations.  Meanwhile, the Security Council "condemned" or "censured" or "deplored" Israel 49 times; Arab states: Zero.  

Israel should cease demeaning itself and vacate this international cesspool.  Having a forum at the UN is of dubious value, as is the UN itself. John Bolton, former acting US. Ambassador to the UN, has said “There is no such thing as the United Nations. There is only the international community, which can only be led by the only remaining superpower, which is the United States."^[a] He also said that "The Secretariat Building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost ten stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."^[b]

Fred Fleitz, a former senior adviser to Bolton, exposes UN waste and corruption and the resulting human costs.  His book, Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s provides a comprehensive critical assessment of the UN.  Among other debacles, he shows how the failed UN mission in Bosnia led to unmitigated atrocities; how the UN debacle in Somalia emboldened terrorists the world over; how the UN peacekeeping operation in Haiti collapsed, with the billions of dollars squandered on it primarily benefiting Haitian President Jean-Bertrande Aristide.  And then there is Iraq and the “oil for food” scam between the UN and Saddam Hussein. 

Turning to Iran, it’s obvious the UN will do nothing, and can do nothing, to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons program.  And judging from the Obama Administration’s policy of appeasing Islam, Iran is close to becoming a nuclear power.  It may be months away from producing its first bomb.

For Israel, a nuclear-armed Iran is an existential issue that raises the specter of another holocaust.  Israel must therefore take its future into its own hands; it must act unilaterally and choose the moment to attack Iran—as Bolton urged in the Wall Street Journal on December 7, 2007. 
Bolton wrote that if Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities, the U.S. should aid Israel before, during, and after such an attack.  But this was before Obama’s election.  Dare Israel pull a fait accompli as it did with the Osiraq reactor in 1981?  Dare it wait until Iran deploys the bomb?  Bolton would surely say no. 

Let us take a closer look at what a nuclear-armed Iran portends not only for Israel, but for Europe and the United States—indeed, for Western civilization.  Here, let us consult Robert Baer, a most farseeing and experienced former CIA operative in the Middle East.  Last year, in his book The Devil We Know, Baer convincingly argues that Iran, contrary to what most believe, Iran is not a regime of crazies.  Its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, head of the Revolutionary Guard, is pursuing a political strategy whose goal is to restore the Persian Empire.  Iran’s nuclear weapons program must be viewed in these grandiose terms.  As for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he is Khamenei’s subordinate.

Ahmadinejad’s imprecations “Death to America” and “Death the Israel” should not be dismissed as the ranting of a maniac.  It is a double entendre.  It prompts the naïve to trivialize, hence obscure, Iran’s Machiavellian modus operandi.  For the cognoscenti, “Death to America” and “Death the Israel” signify the demise of Christianity and Judaism and the global ascendancy of Islam.  Let us take a closer look at the location of Iran, a nation of 70 million people, 90 percent of whom are Shiites, 51 percent Persian, and, on the whole, better educated than most Muslims.

Iran’s strategic location on the Persian Gulf will enable its Revolutionary Guard to turn off the flow of oil on which the West’s survival now depends.  Moreover, Iran is rapidly developing a worldwide network of power.  Iraq, which is about 60 percent Shia, will succumb to Iran when the Americans leave.  Iran is luring Turkey into its orbit, as it did Syria.  Iran’s proxy Hezbollah is positioned to control Lebanon.  Iran is the main supplier of Hamas, and Iran has eyes on Fatah. 

Apparently, Iran has already penetrated the Suez Canal.  Iran has sleeper cells throughout Europe, and even in America. Iran is collaborating with anti-American forces in South America. And of course Iran supports countless mosques in the United States that preach jihad against America and the West.  If this were not enough, hundreds of millions of Muslims throughout the world support Jihad.

If Iran’s long-range ballistic missiles are tipped with nuclear warheads, Europe, already inundated with more than 50 million Muslims, will be blackmailed into submission. Without Europe and its economy, the American economy will collapse beyond repair.  Iran knows this.  The U.S. is necessarily Iran’s primary target, but Israel, the Small Satan, comes first.  Perhaps Iran will not need to devastate America by exploding an Electro-Magnetic Pulse over Washington to terminate the Great Satan.


Viewed in this light, the United Nations is passé and good riddance.  If a new UN is desirable, it should consist solely of the ninety or so states classified as democracies by Freedom House, in which the state is merely the custodian of man’s God-given rights to Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness.
 
If any country, from both a historical and theological perspective, is qualified to promote the formation of such a United Nations, it is Israel—of course, not the Israel that kowtows to terrorist thugs.   I mean an Israel on the way to constructing the Third Temple, when Jerusalem will stand majestically as in the days of King Solomon, attracting nations near and far.   Let your heart and soul recall with me the prophecy of Zechariah when

… ten men of every nationality, speaking different languages, shall take hold of every Jew by the corner of his garment and say, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you”

Yes, ten men of every nation—surely they will be nations that abide by the Seven Noahide Laws of Universal Morality, the true catholicism included in the Torah for all humanity. Ten men of every nationality journeying to Jerusalem the City of Peace as well as the City of Truth.   But at this point in time, let us not be carried away by tenderness.

For peace and truth to unite and prevail, Israel must first triumph over her enemies—today led by Satanic Iran.  Today Israel is waiting for the moment.  She knows that the mullahs of Iran are driven by the memory of the Persian Empire. She knows that a nuclear armed Iran in control of the Persian Gulf would ensure Iran’s hegemony over the Middle East and beyond.  Israel also knows that she will be the first target; for if Iran controls Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, a billion Muslims will exult in victory, will explode in frenzy and wreak havoc on the world, screaming Allah Akbar!

So Israel will strike first, and this will mark the beginning of a new Middle East, one that hardly anyone dreams of.  While Iran is being devastated, the Israel Defense Forces will crush Hezbollah, Hamas, Fatah, and Syria. Israel will eliminate the entire terrorist network west of the Jordan River.  Countless Arabs will flee from Judea and Samaria as well as from Gaza—as they did after the Six-Day War.
 
The cruel and cynical peace charade will be over.  The mendacity of Lilliputian politicians will be silent.  The Lion of Judah will have triumphed.  During the aftermath of perhaps two decades, Israel will organize the peace in cooperation with Muslim reformers that will be found throughout Middle East, who have been silenced by the mullahs and dictators.  The Seven Noahide Laws of Morality will unite the region.  Non-secular constitutional democracies will begin to flourish as outlined in a former paper of mine.  The United States will cooperate, but petro-dollars will no longer lubricate its diplomacy. 

And so at last, the ethos of jihad will cease to torment mankind, and the people of the Middle East, with the cooperation of a God-inspired Israel, will gain a new birth of freedom.

Happy New Year!

Torah's Government Program - by EliMaimon

Here is a brief outline of what the Torah's government program commands:

The first thing we have to do on entering the land is to name a King, whose main function is to unite the 12 tribes under one government. Whereas each tribe has to conquer and settle its own part of the land which makes eliminating the seven Canaanite nations an individual commandment, the King is to eliminate Amalek which is a national commandment. The King is also the one who will build the Temple when his rule is established – and Jerusalem is not part of any tribe's territory but belongs to all of Israel (and of course to no other nation).

We know the success of King David and Solomon, and also the failures which eventually led to our dispersion amongst the nations. Now that we returned to our land, our prospect is a government that will not fail in its task of eliminating Amalek and building the Third Temple that will not be destroyed again. This is a gigantic task and that is where Meshiach comes in (being understood that "meshiach" just means an anointed King).

His task will be gigantic because he will have to bring home all the exiles, restore and implement all the Torah laws as they were in days of old, enforce them and see to it that the people observe them (which means that the death penalty will also be restored). Under his rule, we will again bring the sacrifices. We will again observe the Shmita year when the land is not toiled. We will again sound the horns of liberation of the Yovel year when land and estate property are returned to their original owners, and Jewish slaves are set free. Only after we have established Jewish sovereignty over our land, will we be able to implement the Bnei Noah jurisdiction and accept them as Resident Strangers. 

Any one of any tribe of Israel can be named King but if this King is of the House of David, if he is victorious over the enemy nations surrounding Israel, if he succeeds in all his other tasks, and if he is in all his ways a faithful servant of God like David his ancestor, we will know for sure he is the Meshiach announced by God. Obviously, his success is the only condition to world peace.

If we really want Meshiach, we have to know what it is we are looking forward to, as Gideon said to the people the first time they expressed the desire for a regent and offered him the crown: "I will not reign over you, neither will my son – God will reign over you".

Gideon understood the time was not ripe for a King because he saw that the people were divided and weak, that they still worshiped idols, that all they wanted is a strong man who has the courage to do for them what they dare not do, someone who will bring success and prosperity to the land and protect them from their enemies. They expected from a King what they expected from their idols, someone  with the power to perform miracles. Gideon's answer to them was simple and clear: "Be men!"

So too, we have to be men before Meshiach can come.