NEWS
The True Leaders of the World
by Yated Ne'eman
The world is marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the infamous Auschwitz death camp with an unusual gathering of world statesmen in Israel.
But the world has not learned any lessons. The hatred that gave us Auschwitz is still here and active, though it has changed its form and its names.
But what is it at the bottom?
Hermann Rauschning, in Hitler Speaks: A Series Of Political Conversations With Adolf Hitler On His Real Aims, (whose authenticity has been questioned), writes that Hitler told him, "The battle for control of the world is fought between the Germans and the Jews. Everything else is meaningless. The Jew rules all systems of the spirit. He has infected humanity with bugs: faith, ethics, conscience and the concept of sin. Conscience is a Jewish invention. I will be the great liberator of humanity. ... I liberate man from this concept that has taken him over, the filthy and degrading false vision known as conscience and ethicism."
Hitler ym"sh wanted to kill the conscience and to get rid of man's tzelem Elokim. He understood that he could not do this as long as Am Yisroel Chai, as long as there is even one Jew in the world. The Jew who is the recipient of Torah min haShomayim arouses the conscience of the world and interferes with his project of purifying humanity of all its weak and lowly races.
The Torah of Israel, aside from the fact that it obligates us as the word of Hashem, is the only beacon that prevents the entire world from turning into a killing field. The values of the Torah are the only thing preventing the steep slide down the slippery slope.
Whoever wishes and tries to uproot Torah from the lives of the Jewish people is committing suicide. Those in Israel who try to minimize or uproot the influence of Torah on the life of the people of Israel help create a world populated by self-centered people, without native mercy or humanity and pave the way for the spread of anti-Semitism.
If the world wishes to remember the Holocaust and the horrors of Auschwitz and to ensure that its like is never repeated there is only one way: the lessons of the Jewish Torah.
Jews who want to help ensure that the crimes of that past are not repeated in the future must come stand at the foot of Mount Sinai and join the Covenant and proclaim: Na'aseh venishma.
This is the only way. With all its gravity and symbolism, gathering leaders from around the world to Yad Vashem will have no lasting effect if it is not complemented with the living legacy of those who were slaughtered because of what they represented.
Whoever does not continue the life of the holy communities who gave their lives for kiddush Hashem, defiles their memory. Whoever encourages assimilation and the spread of the worse elements of modern culture cannot atone for this with a short-lived ceremony, however impressive it may or may not be.
Those who stand up with thousands and proclaim to the Torah: Hadran alach... velo nisnashei minach, together with the Torah leadership of our time, they are the ones who carry the legacy forward and they will do more to ensure its power and influence in the future.
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