Once upon a time, there was a good Jew. He knew the true meaning of Jewish religion and argued against the attempts to twist it. He accused the religious establishment of hypocrisy and condemned the rabbis for abrogating the religion with their fancy interpretations.
He lambasted Jewish leaders for the policies detrimental to Jewish people.
He came to Jews originally, but was forced to teach among Gentiles. Crowds followed him, but Jewish leaders grew apprehensive of his influence. They smeared him. “He was despised and we esteemed him not.” They brought false charges against him, and misused the law. Politically unable to execute him, they arranged for a hostile foreigner to murder the Jew.
After his death, his followers were dispersed and persecuted. Many were jailed, some – murdered. His words proved true.
His name was Meir Kahane.
Meir Kahane debates Alan Dershowitz - on DVD
Meir Kahane's lecture at Brandeis University - on DVD
[These are the two landmark pieces of apologia, Jewishness vs. democracy. The files are full DVD - you can watch them on your computer or burn DVDs - please distribute as many copies as you can. The files are huge, about 3Gb each, and you probably need a download manager like FlashGet. The files are .exe - run them to unpack the DVDs.]
Here is a link to YouTube.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_mfnsRA2EEw&feature=related
Incredible.
Nothing new under the sun I am afraid. The same story of the pre-xtian hisorical Jesus. The coming Mashiahk will have hell here. He will be revealed, concealed and revealed again. This will happen,revealed by HaShem, witnessed by Jews in Jerusalem first, then the Galil. The small group will accept him, then the rest of the religious will reject him for not following their new religion talmidism. He will suffer greatly for them, have many illnesses for them. They will accuse him of not being Jewish, he will have the similar story of Moshe in his early life. I could go on and on, but it's futile in all reality. If one studies Erev Rav, it will be simple to understand. As a dog returns to his vomit, so does a fool return to his foolishness.
YouTube and GoogleVideo have these lectures in small res. Here are full screen versions, formatted for DVD. DVDs courtesy of Maoz.
"they arranged for a hostile foreigner to murder the Jew."
I guess I am not the only one to have suspected that.
How true! He was a prime example of one with truly Jewish leadership capabilities who could have returned Israel to a true Jewish nation. The establishment there saw the danger and made bloody sure he would never stand a chance.
To remember how these traitors vilified him and his party, outlawing his party while allowing the most seditious Arab MK's and judges is a crime against the Jewish people. In spite of the lies this great man held no hatred for Arabs in general, but he knew what was required to protect Israel.
That should have been talmudism,(not talmidism).
Thank you Obadiah for bringing to my attention Rabbi Meir Kahane. It is because of your strong praise that I was motivated to learn more about this great man.
I have to say that I was highly inspired to see such a great man actually lived in our times. Surely, none like him has arisen since.
However I have to ask you: Some of the things I have read about his personal life are shocking to read. Are these accusations true? Or is it part of the smear campaign against him you were talking about?
If they are true, then how does R' Kahane conform to the profile of the Mashiach?
Danny,
Haw about a happy middle:
The uTube resolution is too low, and the DVD format takes too long to download.
If we could download this movie compressed into an AVI file with Xvid, or DivX, it could be viewed at decent quality at under 1G file (let's say 700Meg)size.
For those of us who don't have a fast Internet access it would make a difference:
It would be much easier to download 700Meg file in an internet cafe that 3 Gig.
Ray, I'll try.
The Admirer: I see nothing shameful in Meir Kahane's personal life. Do you mean that story about a Gentile girl? Even if it were true, it only demonstrates the rabbis' commitment to Judaism despite his personal feelings.