‘Israel was revived by the will of the Creator with the irreplaceable support of Moscow’: Eskin
By Avigdor Eskin
Excerpt from Jewish View of the Russian Question
Here is an ancient prophecy directly aimed at the Russian-Jewish symbiosis. It appears twice in Jeremiah: "Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when they will no longer say, "As the Lord lives, who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt," but: "As the Lord lives, who brought out and brought the tribe of the house of Israel from the north and from all the lands where I drove them out," and they will live in their land."
These words should be reread hundreds of times with bated breath. Three and a half thousand years ago, the Bible predicted the main vectors of the development of the history of Israel with striking accuracy. Moreover, we will discover the idea of exile and return in the revelations of the Most Extemighty to Abraham and other forefathers. And if we approach the Scriptures in depth, we will understand the direct connection between the fall of Adam with his expulsion from paradise and the messianic return - and the history of the dispersion and return of Israel.
In other words, even the study of the "historical-existential" layer of the Russian-Jewish symbiosis will inevitably lead us to the deepest laws of existence. We know how people sought to explain Being through physical phenomena, through class struggle or racial differences - and all. Theories come and theories go, but Divine revelation exists forever.
After all the false teachings and false messiahs, we can easily see today that the biblical axioms of history turn out to be the only realistic and accurate explanations of the chronicle of mankind. If the expulsion of Israel and its return was predicted three and a half thousand years ago, what other story can compare with the one proposed by Scripture? Where else are all the essential vectors of human development accurately indicated?
And before us is not just a prophecy, but a repetition of the formula of Adam's exile and his return and deliverance throughout the history of Israel. The idea of a giant explosion (Big Bang) and exile with subsequent transformation is present in today's scientific speculation about how the Creation of the world could have happened. We will find a considerable similarity between the main postulates of this theory and the Kabbalistic idea of "distribution of vessels", on which all creation is based.
In our time it was: the northern superpower was deaf to the Divine call "Let my people go!" This struggle became one of the main geopolitical factors in the confrontation between the two superpowers. You can tell in detail how this "stone, which the builders neglected, became the head of the corner" (Psalm 118:22). We will generalize the "Jackson Amendment" and the beginning of the mass departure of Soviet Jews to Israel from the early seventies.
Now let's try to understand the reasons for the allocation of the "northern country" among others in the description of the last Exodus. The very preservation of Israel as a people for two thousand years and the ability to maintain inseparable ties with the once abandoned Holy Land.
It is significant that the exodus from Egypt was a migration from one country, and the messianic procession to Zion was from all four corners of the world. And the break with the "northern land" had to be especially painful, from where the rulers did not want to let go of the sons of Israel.
Perhaps there is no similarity in world history to the systemic obstruction of leaving the country, as it happened in the USSR. The picture will be simplified and reduced if we limit our explanations to the malice of the Soviet pharaoh. An attempt to tie and keep Jews is also from a sincere reluctance to part with them. Moreover, most Jews did not think about their historical homeland, being undivided to Russia.
There is an interesting story of one of the participants in the "aircraft case" of 1970, how shortly before the arrest, three of them argued about how many Jews would want to go to Israel if the USSR opened the borders. The optimist among them risked to name the figure of ten thousand, and the other two did not approach him in their estimates. Since then, at least a million Jews from the "northern country" have been repatriated to Israel. Isn't this a great miracle?
Unlike all the others who wrote about the Russian-Jewish knot, we did not engage in apologetics and refused to search for the guilty on duty. Our goal was to reveal the Supreme Meaning and the Supreme Design, the existence of which is evidenced by the prophecy of Jeremiah.
We begin this dialogue between Zion and Russia at a time when the descendants of the Nazis and collaborators are trying to subject the results of the Second World War to a worldwide revision. Recognition of redistribution of borders in favor of the USSR was an important sign of Victory. One of the significant aspects of the revival of Israel in 1948 was the manifestation that the Jewish people prevailed over Hitler's universal evil. Recall that Israel was revived by the will of the Creator with the irreplaceable support of Moscow. It's time for us to think about why the Almighty chose Stalin to carry out the most important mission? No one has yet explained the metaphysical meaning of this alliance aimed at the implementation of biblical prophecies.
In the context of the search for biblical meanings, we emphasize the unprecedentedness of Soviet restrictions on emigration. It is in the same semantic field that we will note how one of the most burdenous restrictions in the history of mankind was imposed on Jews in the USSR.
From 1927 until the late eighties, the Hebrew language was completely banned. Neither Jewish nor world history has known such a cruel suppression of the national spirit. The ban on Hebrew came to the culmination of the Russian-Jewish fall into communism. It would seem that after sixty years of voluntary and violent assimilation, this people should have disappeared without a trace. And he survived and took on the mission to bring into action the words of the great prophet of the Bible Jeremiah. And he led the struggle for the return of Israel to Earth on a global scale. Having understood all this, we will no longer doubt the greatness of the signs sent to our generation in the form of a "historical-existential" flow.
When all events are placed in one eye, we will feel the step of the Messiah and the spirit of primitive grace. We will not just find a special meaning in the soul-tormenting Russian-Jewish color, but we will begin to rethink from the height of universal historical truth. Let's think constantly about why the Creator plunged us into all the Russian-Jewish torments of love and rejection. And let's completely abandon the usual mutual attempts to sting and complain.
And, being in Israel, we will look back and confess: the "new world from Zion" would not have illuminated us so piercingly if we had not passed through all the heart tremors of the Russian-Jewish symbiosis. This new light is the correction of broken vessels and Adam's fall. The updated messianic light to which the Creator led us throughout history.