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There is something baked into the nature of humanity that turns the Jew into a canary in the coal mine, revealing in its own inordinate suffering the heavy state of humanity as a whole. The proclivity to hate is revealed in how Jews are scorned and beaten. The human capacity to stereotype and to malign also bubbles through the surface in references to Jews \u2013 physiques, income, subterranean influence. These projections of bigotry are not so much reflections of Jewish reality as they are projections of human fear and rage. Like all forms of bigotry, anti-Jewish racism reveals the rotten core of the vicious, the victimizers, and the bullies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As absurd as such an idea might be, it is both ancient and potent. The Prophet Isaiah reveals God\u2019s promise that \u201call who become angry with you shall be shamed and humiliated; those who fight with you shall be like nothingness and shall perish.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s spend a moment reflecting on this extraordinary claim: that those who indulge in Jew hatred destroy themselves.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One need not be a professional historian to note two remarkable facts about Jewish history.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first is the unique example of a people who have survived across millennia, despite the lack of a political power of their own, a living language, their own defensible state. Wandering across North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and on to the other continents of the world, the Jews lacked all the tools that other peoples use to survive: neither government nor army of their own. All we had to take with us in our wanderings was our faith, our Torah, the commandments, and a commitment to the history and destiny of the Jewish people.It is amazing that we are still here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second extraordinary fact is that Israel\u2019s enemies, while possessing all the apparent power, wealth, influence, culture, and land, disappear. Pharaoh\u2019s Egypt, Assyria\u2019s empire, the Chaldean empire, the Roman empire, Byzantium, the Inquisitors, the Bolsheviks, the Nazis. All these hateful kingdoms rose up, assaulted the Jew, and then vanished from history, never to rise again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the Jewish people persisted. Against all odds. Against all probabilities. Without any of the props used by others to survive.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God, Torah, mitzvot, and each other. That didn\u2019t shield us from the vicious attacks of others, nor does it now. 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Its words speak of care, comradery, and cooperation. In 2010, Moshe Laufer and Avraham Fried composed the song \"<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chazak<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!\"(\"Strengthen yourself\") using the words of this verse. Since then, the song has been sung at weddings, bar-mitzvot, and other happy occasions. We sing the song as a declaration of our Jewish values of unity and willingness to help our fellow man.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the context of this verse in chapter 41 of Isaiah paints a very different picture. The chapter begins with God telling the nations of the world to listen carefully to the following prophecy. God then describes a great warrior who he has sent to redeem Israel from her exile and to prepare a path for Israel's return to their land. These words are then followed by the prediction that the nations of the world will be frightened by the prospect of Israel's redemption, and therefore begin preparing for ways to prevent it. Each man will \"aid his fellow\" in the preparations of the war to stop God's plans. Each man will say to his brother \"Strengthen yourself!\" to encourage him to fight in battle against the God of Israel. In context, this verse is a cry for war against God and Israel's redemption.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Should we sing this song at our happy occasions?\u00a0 In context, it seems more fitting for Tisha B'av, the Jewish national day of mourning. Alternatively, perhaps this verse, quoting the words of idol worshiping warmongers, was specifically chosen by Moshe Laufer and Avraham Fried to teach us an important lesson: We have the ability to learn positive behaviors from every person on this earth. 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This is an epithet of God, used in verse 4 - the God of history. But it doesn\u2019t just refer to predicting events, but actual direct involvement in them. Cyrus, for instance, didn\u2019t show up of his own accord. \u201cI have roused him [Cyrus] from the north, and he has come [to conquer Baylon], From the sunrise, one who invokes My name...\u201d (verse 25).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Seed of Abraham My friend<\/em> (verse 8). This is a love with roots, a reciprocal love. This is what a serious, stable relationship is made of. Not nails and rivets, like the idol-makers use (verse 7): \u201cHe says of the riveting, \u201cIt is good!\u201d And he fixes it with nails, That it may not topple.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>The worm of Jacob<\/em> (verse 14). How does a worm feel? 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