DEAR EDITOR:

Am Yisrael Chai! As a Ger Toshav, I cleave to the One True Living Elohim, HaShem (The Name) embracing Him in V’ahavta “You shall love HaShem your Elohim…” The Ger Toshav is uniquely different, yet not so much, from one Rabbinically defined as a Ger Tzedek, a convert.

Purim and Passover recall historical pursuits to exterminate the people, Yisrael. HaShem’s Garden of Eden declaration to the serpent “I will make enemies of you and the woman, your seed and her seed; he shall crush your head, you will bruise him on the heel.”

From the beginning of the beginning HaShem Himself is at the very core of the onslaught.

Historical and biblical texts record Yisrael’s ethnic and religious enemies including Pharaohs, Greeks, Romans, the Holocaust, Six-Day War, Yom Kippur War, and so-called Israeli Palestinian Conflict.

Death advances its evil, permeating its hosts metastasizing at epidemic scales.

Oct. 7, 2023, made it abominably visible. Antisemites declare the battle as a geographical, ideological, religious, or ethnic conflict with Yisrael held guilty.

HaShem declares to Yisrael, I have loved you with an everlasting love. I inscribed you on the palms of My hands and chose Jerusalem that My Name might be there. I give the sun for light by day and fixed order of the moon and stars for light by night. If this fixed order departs from Me, declares HaShem, then the descendants of Yisrael also will cease to be a nation before Me forever. I have drawn you out with kindness, I will build you again, you will be rebuilt, Virgin of Yisrael! Hear the Word of HaShem, you nations, declare it in the coastlands far away, say, He who has scattered Yisrael will gather him, He will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock. I will turn their mourning into joy, comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow. They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion, they will be radiant over the bounty of HaShem. Arise, let us go up to Zion, to HaShem our Elohim.

Death is not just against Yisrael! It is against HaShem Himself! HaShem binds His Own Name within Yisrael! Death seeks to exterminate Yisrael attempting extermination of HIM!

Delusional? Yes, but “the essence of Death is that even knowing its end, it pursues it with zeal.”

Yisrael will not perish! Yisrael Lives Because HaShem IS! Am Yisrael Chai!

MARK E. GUY

East Palestine