THE FIRST AND GREATEST FREEDOM STORY EVER TOLD: PASSOVER / JEWS ARE THE CANARIES IN THE COAL MINE
Vol. I | Issue. 82 | April 14, 2022
Passover, the Jewish Festival of Freedom is here. It is the year 5782 on the Hebrew calendar. In the Old Testament, this calendar dates back to 3761 BC, the year that G-d created the world and the clocks have been ticking ever since. I know what you are all thinking… How can the world be just 5782 years old if we have carbon-dated dinosaur bones that go back hundreds of millions of years? I'll be honest with you, I don’t have an answer to that question yet, but I’m working on it.
Let's not get sidetracked though... The Hebrew calendar has tracked time since the inception of the Jewish people, the world’s first monotheistic religion. We are the oldest recorded people to believe in one G-d. Before the Jews embraced the revolutionary concept of monotheism, almost anything could, and had been, worshiped as a deity; a stone statue, the sun, or essentially anything that the idolator wanted their deity to be.
The modern-day idolators of the Religious Left, of course, worship the Climate G-d, along with several others that form the religion of their secular fanaticism.
The Jewish people for the millennia have been the most hated, persecuted, and outcast people in the history of the World. Jew hatred is the world’s oldest form of ethnic hatred and exists in places where there has never been a Jewish presence. Throughout history, one thing that the Jewish people have always had is a passion for FREEDOM.
The Story of Passover is the first recorded story of a slave rebellion against a tyrannical ruler, "Pharaoh", resulting in the Exodus i.e. the Jew’s hasty departure from Egypt in the 13th century BC. While there are different historical views as to whether the Egyptian tyrant, Ramses II or Ramses III, was the main man who made "ancient Israelites his pyramid-building slaves”, the guy’s name was Ramses, and he was a monster.
As an infant, Moses was found floating down the Nile River, abandoned by his family to avoid being killed by the Pharaoh’s command as the firstborn Jewish son. Once found, he was taken by Pharaoh’s daughter, Queen Bithiah, and raised as an Egyptian Prince in the Pharaoh’s Palace. Years later, Moses learned that he was actually a Jew and when he saw a Jewish slave whipped and beaten by his Egyptian Slave Master, he took action, killed the slave master, and fled Egypt to a little place called Midian. It was then that G-d enlisted Moses to go back to Egypt and demand freedom for his people, the roughly 600,000 Jews that were held in Egyptian bondage.
Moses returned to Pharaoh’s Palace and made the demand that has echoed through history “LET MY PEOPLE GO!”. After begging, pleading, exhorting, and warning Pharaoh, the Tyrant finally relented. Moses then gathered the Jews for their quick exit. They had no time to bake bread, or adequately provision themselves for their long journey to the promised land i.e. Israel. The Jewish nation was in such a hurry to leave knowing that Pharaoh might change his mind, that they didn’t have time to prepare bread for their daily sustenance.
So what did they do?
They came up with an accidental solution... They started baking bread but grabbed it out of the oven before it could rise and called it Matzoh. Matzoh came to be known as "the bread of affliction” and is the single most symbolical food that Jews eat for the eight days of Passover.
Now back to the story, the Jews get all of their stuff together, they cross the Red Sea, then Pharaoh changes his mind. Why? Who knows, but probably because he needed the free labor to finish the Pyramids, and likely enjoyed beating the crap out of the Jews, which has become a time-honored tradition in many countries. When the Jews get to the Egyptian bank of the Red Sea, then known as the Sea of Reeds, G-d splits the Red Sea and they all make it across safely. Once Pharaoh changed his mind, he sends his legions in hot pursuit to prevent the Jewish Exodus. Then what? The sea, after parting, closes up and drowns all of the Egyptians.
What do the Jews do when witnessing this? Here comes what is one of the most important messages of Passover and a defining trait of Judaism and the Jewish people. Initially, there were cheers in celebration of the drowning Egyptians, although then G-d stated from Heaven: "DO NOT CHEER, FOR THESE ARE MY CHILDREN TOO.” From that point on, it has been enshrined and inculcated as foundational that Jews do not celebrate death, even of their enemies.
The Jewish Religion and Jewish People celebrate LIFE and FREEDOM.
The enemies of the Jewish People and America do not celebrate life and freedom. They commit murder, celebrate Death to America, Death to Israel, and Death to everything that does not support their twisted view of how the world should be.
Whether it is Palestinian Terrorists murdering Jews in Israel, or those who tolerate Jew-hatred in America, the Jews are and have always been the canaries in the coal mine. Our people were the first to rise up against tyranny and slavery. We celebrate our freedom every year at this time for ourselves and as a message to the world that freedom must be fought for and won every day, every year, and in every generation.
The founding of The American Way and the Story of Passover are inextricably linked.
-Emes
We have always been the canaries in the coal mine. It has made us stronger.