Today is Esther's fast - the day that arose in Haman's Pur to kill all the Jews in the kingdom.
The fast was set in memory of the three days of fasting that Esther and her daughters fasted before she went to beg for the fate of her people before Ahasuerus.
This past weekend, the U.S. Senate approved a budget for the coming year.
Among other things, it includes traditional security assistance to Israel, which is positive for most opinions.
But at the same time, quite a few thorns were included: for example, the one that deals with the advancement of the Abrahamic agreements, but also includes a statement regarding the division of the land and recognition of a Palestinian state, according to Nitzan Kedar on Channel 7. The US administration.
This statement, serious in itself and precedent-setting (so far the reference to a political solution in the Middle East is not legally worded, but as a determination of the administration and the State Department), is not only textual but also down to practical lines, with $ 250 million from the US budget to be spent over the next five years. Israeli and business development in the PA. A separate amount will be allocated to humanitarian projects in Judea and Samaria and Gaza, and another budget item to the Palestinian security forces.
The Book of Esther tells the story of exile.
Of a people subject to the graces of the nations of the world, swayed like a fishing boat in a stormy sea, without an anchor, without a state, powerless, subject to whims and "a mother of the good king."
The life of the Jews is a game in the hands of the rulers and their advisers, and their only ability to defend themselves is through manipulations and "efforts" by the Fritz.
But since then, we have returned from exile and established a state and our situation is completely different, or at least so it should be.
We are supposed to take our destiny into our own hands and write our own story.
So why do we still act as if the nations of the world are the ones with the sole power to chart our path?
When Trump was elected - we rejoiced;
When he recognized the Golan as part of the State of Israel - we danced in the streets;
When he said that the settlements were not illegal, we hung American flags.
This is how it will be done to the man whom the king wished to visit!
And really, all of these are important and significant, but to an extent.
Not only are they not the main thing, but they are transient, and for evidence - the act of Congress in recent days, which has become part of the previous president's decisions and turned our illness into a eulogy.
And here we are wearing a sack and wallowing in the ashes because the pur has fallen.
The great United States of America has decided that the state will be divided between us and the Palestinians. We are bitter that the rift is great. As if we are a persecuted minority in the kingdom of Persia or the Third Reich, God forbid. Elected of another people on the other side of the world can determine what will be the borders of our country? If we rejoice or be saddened? If we fall or if we rise? For what did we have to establish a state and fight to sustain it, if that is still the case?
It must be remembered, today and always, that what really matters is what the Jews in their country will decide, and how they will act in accordance with these decisions.
As long as we have a state - that's what will determine our history.
Happy Purim.
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