It's been a rough couple of weeks
for those of us who value Jewish blood.
The various rendezvous with the
Malach HaMaves differed only as to location because a roll call of these
tragedies reveals that the murderers and victims were the same in every
instance, as if pulled from central casting, albeit with the appropriate name
changes.
The murderers were all Arabs who
went out of their way to demonstrate for all who have eyes to see that the
Torah contains no superfluous words.
Before Yishmael was even
conceived his mother was told by the angel of Hashem that he would be a pere
adam (a wild-ass of a man). And as anyone who is familiar with Hebrew grammar
knows the adjective follows the noun, so we're not talking about a mentch that
has a wild side to him but rather an animal who happens to have some attributes
of a human being, with one of those attributes being the lust for murder
because animals only kill for food.
So this was Hagar's mindset when
she conceived, carried, and gave birth to Yishmael.
She already new the end of the story before it began.
The intended victims, on the other hand, were all Jews. The official body count of victims includes
two Arabs, but in the terminology that Hamas uses when one of their bombs
explodes in the process of being assembled, their deaths were merely work accidents with no malice aforethought.
And exactly from where did these murdered
Jews hail? Once again, the Torah
contains no superfluous words.
The Torah tells us that Eliezer
said the following as he stood near the well of water outside of Haran: "Let it be that the maiden to whom I
shall say, 'Please tip your jug so that I may drink and who replies,
"Drink, and I will even water the camels,' her You have chosen for Your
servant, for Yitzchok."
The maiden was, of course, Rivka,
the great grandmother of those Jews whose marriage to Yitzchok was conceived in
chesed.
We ask:
What possesses two Arab girls,
one 16 and the other 14, with scissors in hand, to march off to the shuk to
spill Jewish blood with little prospect of ever seeing their parents
again? And from what kind of society
spring three 16 year old boys who get themselves killed in three separate and
distinct failed knifing attacks at the Tapuach Junction several hours apart on the
same day?
The mother of the Arab murderer that killed several Jews last week at
the Gush Etzion Junction said that she was proud of her son. He spilled the blood of innocent Jews and she
was proud.
The mother of Ezra Schwartz, one
of the murdered Jews, was also proud of her son.
Just before he was murdered he was busy giving food to the IDF soldiers
in the area. She was proud that he died
in the act of chesed.
And at the end of the day, that's
the bottom line difference between the murderers and those who they
murdered.
As we said above, the Torah
contains no superfluous words. They are
who they are already from their mothers' milk.
