The question then remains: Why would a myth about Jewish blame for the First World War defeat become public opinion, against facts and against the unanimous view of German and other scholars?
It is on this point that we will turn to the wisdom of Kabbalah to discuss the phenomenon of anti-Semitism. Post-WWI Germany is one period out of a few when the Jews have been blamed for a large-scale crisis, and which also led to terrible consequences for the Jews. For example, in the Middle Ages, Jews were blamed for the Black Death pandemic that killed 75 to million people in Europe, nearly half the total population, and this led to the persecution of thousands of Jews across Europe in that period [12].
However, once again, the popular attitude of blaming Jews outweighed any need for conclusive evidence, and this attitude erupted into the brutal killing of many hundreds of Jews in that period.
When crisis hits, the Jews become a notorious scapegoat. In order to understand why this blame on Jews is a natural phenomenon, we need to explore who is a Jew.
Unlike other nations, the Jewish people have no biological roots. The Jewish people emerged some 4, years ago in ancient Babylon , when Abraham gathered a mixture of Babylonians who were drawn to the idea of uniting above the intensifying social division of the time.
Due to egoistic human desires growing to new proportions, society entered a time of increasing conflict. Abraham was a person who felt this ego problem, sought a solution, and took his quest for a solution to an extreme: a journey of self-transformation to find out what was causing the problem, and found a solution in the discovery of a single force of nature powering our world and our lives: a static, unchanging force of pure love, bestowal and connection.
In human relations, such attainment becomes expressed as people gaining the ability to unite above any differences and problems. Moreover, by uniting above differences, our balance with nature brings us an experience of heightened pleasure and confidence stemming from a newly developed ability to perceive and sense the force of nature, a force that connects between all parts of reality.
He found a way to unlock the human ego, letting a small desire that exists in every person develop: the desire for the meaning of life and for positive social connections. After their initial establishment of this spiritual unity, the human ego once again grew, and they dispersed. They experienced rises and falls regarding their unity. They experienced the harmony that emerged from their heightened states of unity in the constructions of the First and Second Temples, and since the ruin of the Second Temple, have entered a long period of dispersion and inclusion among the nations of the world.
Jews themselves are unaware of it, but the fact that their ancestry attained an extent of balance with nature, a spark of that spiritual energy remains latent in them. However, no matter what the Jews bring to the world, whenever crisis strikes, they become a popular target for blame. This is because the nations of the world subconsciously expect the Jews to re-attain their unity. By failing to unite, the lack of Jewish unity spreads to the world as a lack of global unity. Within words of notable anti-Semites, there is a certain calling for the Jews to carry out their role.
At certain periods, when this unity is needed more or less, then anti-Semitism awakens with more or less ferocity. The awakening of anti-Semitism to urge the Jews to fulfill their role—to unite and spread that unity to the world—surfaces through a natural system of thoughts and desires underlying our actions and behaviors.
Then, the ruler becomes as a funnel by which the abscess of Jewish hatred could erupt through the laws and decisions the ruler instigates. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the handiwork of the Lord. The purpose of delving into the topic of why Hitler hated Jews is not to recount historical information, but to explain the root of a certain problem—anti-Semitism—its solution, and also, what can happen if its solution fails to be implemented in time.
Today, on a global scale, there are similar tendencies to those that evolved leading up to the Second World War in Germany: crises, especially economic difficulties, becoming felt more and more, rising Nazi and fascist tendencies, as well as rising anti-Semitic sentiment, crimes and threats. The fate of the Jewish people and of humanity as a whole depends on the speed and intensity by which the Jewish people can carry out their role in the world: to unite, and be a conduit for unity to spread worldwide.
He himself left Europe and fled to Palestine, and warned other Jews in Poland to do the same. According to the Nazis, expelling the Jews was the solution to the problems in Germany. This political message and the promise to make Germany economically strong again won Hitler the elections in After he had come to power, the laws and measures against the Jews increased all the time. It ended in the Shoah, the Holocaust, the murder of six million European Jews. Antisemitism Hitler did not invent the hatred of Jews.
More about Hitler's antisemitism. Three decades later, in post-Anschluss Austria in , when Bloch wrote to the chancellor asking for help, Hitler arranged for him to be spared the harsh measures being taken against Jews until he could make arrangements to emigrate to the United States, where he died in According to Benjamin Netanyahu, Hitler would have sufficed with expelling the Jews from Germany, but Husseini complained that if he did that, they would just come to Palestine.
Anti-Semitism , some of it murderous, rose across the continent, including in Germany. When the Jews were kept apart in the ghetto, and limited to certain professions, it was possible to accuse them of clannishness, and resent the interest they charged on loans. But when they emerged from the ghetto, and became captains of industry and finance, and socially and intellectually prominent, there was a whole new set of reasons to hate them.
The success of the emancipated Jews was perhaps even more galling than the poverty and degradation of disenfranchised Jews — and it gave rise to racial theories that posited an essential biological difference in them. His political theories blended with increasingly technical racial theories that imagined the Jews, along with other groups like Slavs and Gypsies, as biologically inferior to Aryans, the white northern European race that pure Germans were presumed to belong to.
However perverted his thinking and outrageous his theories, though, and whatever personal experiences he did have that may have turned him against Jews, Hitler was supported at every level of German society by people who were ready to see their country return to the greatness they felt had been denied it, and to believe that it was the Jews who were responsible for that fall from grace.
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