“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)
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The Times of Israel—Rahm Emanuel to US Jews: ‘This is our moment’ to defend the values that aided us:
Rahm Emanuel’s grandfather arrived in Chicago exactly 100 years ago. He was 13, and spoke not a word of English. He had been sent to safety by his parents in Eastern Europe, who put him on a boat to get him away from the pogroms. He came to meet “a third cousin he didn’t know,” says Emanuel, in a city whose name “he could not pronounce.” A century later, his grandson is that city’s mayor.
Emanuel marvels at that “amazing journey.” Marvels that his grandfather managed to build a life — working initially as a meat packer and a truck driver and a steel worker. Marvels at the America that took him in and made that life possible. Marvels at the spectacular realization of the American dream that, just two generations on, enabled Rahm (Hebrew for “high” and “lofty”) to rise to play major roles serving two American presidents and now to run the third-largest city in the country, while his two brothers have forged stellar careers in medicine and in Hollywood.
That welcome for a Jewish immigrant a century ago, that opportunity offered by America, Emanuel firmly believes, brings with it an obligation — an obligation that now extends across American Jewry.
In an interview this week in Tel Aviv, the not usually understated mayor — known as an extremely tough and tough-talking political operator — was generous when discussing Israel. He was careful and circumspect when talking about relations between Israel’s governments and the administrations in which he served.
He spoke with fierce passion, however, when it came to American Jews’ responsibilities to “speak out” and use their influence in today’s America, to ensure that the policies that embraced his grandfather, and the values underpinning those policies, are not destroyed.
The mayor, who last week declared his city a “Trump-free zone,” argued that the Jewish community of America today is unprecedentedly powerful and influential. It needs to use that strength, on behalf of immigrants and others less fortunate, precisely as, in previous generations, others spoke out and acted on behalf of the Jews. “In our history,” he says, “we were better off because there were those who were righteous.” Today, “we have the responsibility… to use our position of power for those who are powerless… To use our position of security to provide safety and security.”
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SnyderTalk Comment:
Rahm Emanuel is a disgrace. I seriously doubt that his grandfather’s values are his values. I know that his values are not Yahweh’s values.
Sound presumptuous? Keep reading.
When I see or hear people like Rahm Emanuel speak, I’m reminded of something that Yahweh told Ezekiel:
“And wherever they went among the nations they profaned My holy Name, for it was said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and yet they had to leave His land’….I will show the holiness of My great Name, which has been profaned among the nations, the Name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh,” declares Sovereign Yahweh, “when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.” (Ezekiel 36: 20 and 23)
Yahweh will do through the Jewish people exactly what He promised to do. It won’t be because of them. It will be because who Yahweh is. He will never profane His own Name by reneging on any of His promises.
Rahm Emanuel is Jewish. Because of that fact alone, he represents Yahweh in the eyes of the nations. Rahm’s evil behavior profanes Yahweh’s Name.
You may be wondering, “What evil behavior?” The list is long, but I’ll answer that question with a simple statement:
Rahm Emanuel is a leader in the Democrat Party. He is solidly behind all the perversity that the Democrat Party champions. His values and the party’s values are identical. He makes that clear every time he runs for office.
In the passage from Ezekiel above, goyim is the Hebrew word that’s translated as “the nations”. It can also be translated as “Gentiles”. Literally, goyim includes everyone who isn’t Jewish.
Yahweh was saying that Jewish people are and always will be associated with Him. Whether they like it or not, it’s unavoidable by Yahweh’s design.
As I said, Rahm Emanuel is a disgrace. His behavior profanes Yahweh’s Name. At this point in his life, Rahm doesn’t have a clue what being “righteous” means.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
Yahweh is Elohim, not God.
God is the name of a pagan deity. Yahweh’s people need to stop referring to Him as God.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
