Eternal Nation: How Reincarnation Explains the Unbreakable Chain of Jewish Destiny
Physics says nothing is ever truly lost, only transformed. Torah reveals the same is true for the soul of a nation—a lesson with urgent implications for today
In a memorable 1980s radio exchange that has since become legendary, Rabbi Meir Kahane sat opposite host Larry King. The topic was the Land of Israel and population transfers. When Rabbi Kahane asserted that the Arabs had “stolen our land,” King, embodying a modern, individualist sensibility, interrupted him.
“The baby didn’t…” King countered. “The Arab baby living there today didn’t steal your land.”
Rabbi Kahane paused, then delivered a parable that cut to the heart of a conflict far deeper than politics. “My dear fellow,” he began, “if you owned a house, and for no fault of your own, someone kicked you out of your home… and when you return, you find the baby of the one who stole your home there, you would say, ‘I understand the point, but it is MY house.’”
This exchange was more than a debate; it was a collision of two fundamentally different worldviews. For King, the world is populated by individuals, each born a “blank slate,” responsible only for their own actions. A baby is innocent, in essence disconnected from the attitudes of its father.
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