On the anniversary of the miracles of the Six-Day War, the time has come for the Jewish people, known as "a wise and prudent people," to adopt a healthy approach to the gift that God gave us, and to understand that the territories liberated in '67 are necessary for our personal security.
The time has come that, after fifty years of weakness and prostration before the Gentiles, we will understand that God, the Almighty, is the one who runs the world, and He is the one who gave us this land.
We got ourselves into the mud and we are already trapped in the web we spun around ourselves, and are constantly busy (at least declaratively) with retreats and retreats from the achievements of the Six-Day War.
We have lost faith and confidence in our righteousness!
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The fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Jerusalem, meets me, like all my friends born that year, on both the public and personal levels.
Every week, a different friend from my class celebrates their birthday. Since my circle of friends includes religious, ultra-Orthodox, and even those who are not currently observant, I can follow the many shades of the various birthday events. But one thing is clear, with all the differences, that year apparently yielded a unique harvest.
Each of my birthday friends this year has her own style.
One celebrates with her extended family; another on a long trip with herself to India (thank God it's good); the third's daughters-in-law and daughters-in-law asked to record fifty things we learned from her for her birthday; and for the fourth, we actually chose escape rooms (I even survived to tell the story).
And there are also those who issue a feminist manifesto on the occasion of reaching the year of advice. In the chapters of Avot it is written "Fifty years old for advice." The sixth decade is the one in which the mind and spirit of the giver of advice are still at their peak and their accumulated life experience allows them to give wise, logical, and considered advice.
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They say the new fifty is the old thirty.
Looking at our Jerusalem, which has undergone many upheavals in the last fifty years, one can actually see the wrinkles. She smiles grimly at times. Her lips droop with a slight frown from time to time. This is not the same Jerusalem that we longed for and yearned for when we dreamed of a city that was united and "a Jerusalem covered in gold.".
We wanted love and unity and we got pride parades and abominations. We hoped for a Sabbath day of rest and today we get the scent of a weekday in the midst of Shabbat. And so do demonstrations by extreme Haredim against the state and against IDF soldiers.
How did we lose momentum? We probably weren't ready.
The consciousness of the servant remained in us even after the blowing of the shofar on the 28th of Iyar. I am not a strategist, nor did I serve in the army. I do not live politically and do not identify with minorities. But I can quote the words of the Rebbe from those miraculous days. If we had carried out his words then, our relationship with our cousins today would be completely different.
""If we had won, the exile would have ended and the redemption would have begun after the victory in the Six-Day War," the Rebbe told Rabbi Moshe Zvi Neriah. "However, since we did not win, there came people who were heartless, cowards, who had a feeling of inferiority before the Gentiles, and they sent a delegation to Washington to announce that they were ready to hand back the territories they had conquered because they did not want to quarrel with the 'Gentile' and wanted to please him, and this delayed the redemption!""
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So what to do? Do!
During the period of waiting for the war, the Rebbe conceived of the "Operation Tefillin" and explained that tefillin had a special power that caused the Gentiles to fear. "And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is called upon you, and they will fear you.".
Men, haven't you put on tefillin today? Want to put on tefillin. You put on tefillin, suggest that another Jew put on tefillin. Yes. This is the way to restore the sense of security and the necessary deterrence. This is the way to be united around one thing, even if not uniform. This is the way to return Zion to its glory days.
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The writer is the owner of "My Choice", an event host, lecturer, and radio broadcaster.
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