Rabbis and Google are fabricating Torah sources to encourage Molech sacrifices
I hope you will share this article, even if you dislike my conclusions. We need to have a sober, nationwide conversation about this.
According to official numbers, since early March alone, at least 27 IDF soldiers have been killed in Lebanon and approximately 1,240 more have been wounded. You probably didn’t know so many have been maimed.
Approximately 12% of those wounded are classified as severely injured, and 33% moderately injured. '“Moderately injured” doesn’t sound so bad, because it’s an Orwellian term. It’s actually quite severe. From Google:
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli medical protocols, a moderate injury (Matzav Beinoni) describes a condition where a patient has sustained a significant, life-altering trauma, but their life is not in immediate danger…These injuries are substantial enough that they often leave some degree of permanent physical damage or require extensive rehabilitation even after successful treatment.
Typical Examples of Moderate Injuries
- Significant trauma or orthopedic damage to limbs (including complex fractures or shrapnel wounds)
- Non-life-threatening segment amputations
- Deep or extensive second-degree burns
- Significant lower spinal cord injuries that do not compromise breathing but could impact mobility
- Internal bleeding or deep tissue wounds that require surgery but leave the patient temporarily stable
Once again, our people are being decimated by the hundreds and thousands. For what? Two more weeks to flatten the curve, or Hamas, or this time Hezbollah, for the hundredth time? People are still buying that?
War-mongers and IDF cheerleaders need to confront the following questions:
- What did we get in exchange for this enormous price? Are you even sure?
- Was it worth it?
- Is this another round of Milchemes Mitzvah, or another round of Molech sacrifices?
- If you can even call whatever this is a victory, how many more such “victories” can we afford?
When I tell people that Jewish soldiers who are killed in pretextual wars, under false pretenses, for no clear, justifiable purpose, are not dying Al Kiddush Hashem [for the sake of sanctifying G–D’s name], they often counter that anyone who is killed simply for being Jewish is, indeed, dying Al Kiddush Hashem.
Before we continue with the fabrications and distortions upon which this is based, we need to take a deep breath and consider their assertion, for it is absurd.
According to them, if someone who happens to be Jewish is murdered for not paying his gambling debts, he has not died Al Kiddush Hashem. However, if the murderer calls him a dirty Jew before pulling the trigger, then his death was transformed into a holy act that sanctified Hashem’s name, and this good-for-nothing leapfrogged just about every other Jew to receive the highest heavenly reward. Good deal!
If the Jew has any sense, he will spend his final moments in this world trying to make his killer hate him for being a Jew, for that is his automatic ticket to the highest place in heaven. And he should thank the Erev Rav State of Israel for generating Jew-hatred like nothing else!
Similarly, if a Jew is killed in a random act of violence, no sanctification of Hashem has been achieved. But if, upon further investigation, the murderer is found to hate Israel, or believe Jews control the world, or they bake matzah with the blood of Christian children, then the soul of the deceased will ascend to the highest places in heaven — not because of anything he did before or at the time of death, but simply because of the arbitrary beliefs of his killer.
That doesn’t make any sense. There is no way those who believe this can make it make sense.
So why do they believe it anyway? Because it makes them feel better about all the Jews being killed for nothing. It turns all those “operational accidents” in the IDF, all those “friendly fire incidents”, all those “intelligence failures”, and all those “painful sacrifices” that seem to be avoidable and totally not worth it, into something holy.
When Jews are killed in the IDF — arguably by the IDF, with external enemies serving as the murder weapon — our pain is mitigated by feelings of pride. Their deaths are to be mourned, but also celebrated.
It’s hard to be outraged at the people who got your loved one killed when it was also the best possible outcome for him. Why would a soldier even flee from death at all? He should be disappointed if he doesn’t get killed. Then he has to live and earn heaven the hard way.
Indeed, had these young people instead lived another 60 years, followed the ways of the Torah, and produced generations after them, they would not go to such a high place in heaven. They were better off driving around in a Puma with a malfunctioning hatch, loaded with explosives, then parking in a death trap like sitting ducks and getting incinerated. In their deaths they accomplished so much more than they could have accomplished with their lives. Somehow their senseless, needless, pointless deaths sanctified Hashem’s name, and now they sit in heaven with Rabbi Akiva.
Here’s the fine print. This free ticket to heaven only applies if they die. If they survive as PTSD basket cases, then later commit suicide, they get the worst of both worlds. If they only get limbs blown off, there is no death Al Kiddush Hashem. Tough luck. Molech, er, Kiddush Hashem requires a full meal.
So what is this crazy idea based on? Nothing!
The sources on the subject invariably refer to a Jew being forced to violate the Torah or give up his life. Depending on the circumstances, choosing martyrdom can be obligatory. In these cases, Hashem’s name is sanctified because the Jew is refusing to renounce his loyalty to Hashem and the Torah, no matter what.
Chazal never indicate that Hashem’s name is sanctified when Jews are killed stam by those who hate Jews. The churban was not a kiddush Hashem simply because many Jews were killed for being Jews. When Jews fell in battle, or were exiled, neither the prophets nor Chazal portrayed it as a kiddush Hashem. Not once! On the contrary, it was a chillul Hashem, for our enemies could say “Where was your G–D? Why didn’t He save you?”
The only element of kiddush Hashem is indirect; some people will fear G–D even more when they see that He does not let wanton sinning go unpunished, even from His own people. The act of death for being a Jew, however, is a chillul Hashem, for our enemies celebrate and mock our G–D.
All of this is elementary and incontrovertible. So why do so many people think otherwise?
Here’s where it gets fascinating. I’ve been told that the Rambam wrote that dying for being a Jew is also classified as a kiddush Hashem. Where does he write that? They didn’t say.
I don’t have a photographic memory, and I haven’t seen every word the Rambam ever wrote, but it’s very dubious. What would be his source? There is nothing in Tanach or Shas that would support it.
I asked Google’s AI feature for the source that being murdered simply for being a Jew is a kiddush Hashem. I got this:
Maimonides' Ruling: The great medieval scholar Maimonides (Rambam) famously outlined that any Jew killed by the forces of hate or by a Gentile because they are Jewish is granted a special spiritual elevation and atonement.
I also got an article from Aish (formerly known as Aish HaTorah, but they removed the Torah). The author is Warren Goldstein, Chief Rabbi of South Africa, who should be forever remembered for saying the following in 2021:
“Vaccination is everything. It’s a blessing. Thank G-d for it. Take it with both hands: it is a big mitzvah to protect yourself and others.”
Who better to trust on the subject of dying Al Kiddush Hashem? His article on Aish is called “For Being a Jew”, and he writes as follows:
Our Torah teaches that anyone who dies defending the mitzvot, like Rabbi Akiva, or who sacrifices his life defending the Jewish people, as thousands of Israel’s brave soldiers have done, or any Jew who is murdered merely because he or she is Jewish, like the six million martyrs of the Holocaust, is considered holy, someone who died al Kiddush Hashem – for the sanctification of G–D's name. We are taught that their souls ascend to the loftiest heights of Gan Eden into the close embrace of G–D Himself, and they become immortal heroes of Jewish destiny.
Where does the Torah teach this? Goldstein doesn’t say. There is not a single Torah source or footnote in this sappy piece. It’s Aish, not Torah.
So I prompted Google further, asking for the source in the Rambam, and got the following response:
The short answer is: He does not explicitly say this anywhere in his legal code (the Mishneh Torah).
You are entirely correct to push back. Technically, the Rambam never writes the specific words: “If a Jew is murdered purely for being a Jew, it is a Kiddush Hashem.” Strictly speaking, classical halacha defined Kiddush Hashem exclusively as an act of choosing death over violating a Torah commandment when explicitly forced to do so by an oppressor.
The idea that the Rambam is the source for this concept comes from how later rabbinic authorities interpreted his use of a specific Talmudic phrase…The idea is theologically accepted by almost all modern Jewish authorities, but it is an extrapolation of the Rambam's text, not a direct quote. If someone tells you "the Rambam explicitly says that being murdered for being Jewish is Kiddush Hashem," they are mistakenly attributing a widely accepted later rabbinic consensus to his exact text.
In other words, the Rambam says no such thing, but it sounds much more authoritative if you claim he did (not to mention that it’s now a “rabbinic consensus”. Baloney.)
I kept pushing, and the breathtaking technology that is supposed to make actual learning and critical thinking obsolete revised its claim. The earliest source for this idea was no longer the Rambam, but a later authority, the Bach. Google on steroids even gave me a quote:
אבל מי שאינו בא להעבירו על דת, אלא שהורגו מפני שהוא יהודי... או מפני שנאה שיש לו על ישראל, ודאי פשיטא דהוי בכלל 'ונקדשתי בתוך בני ישראל' והוא קדוש גמור, ואפילו היה רשע גמור... מאחר שנהרג על שם יהדותו
But once he is not coming to make him transgress his religion, but kills him because he is a Jew…or because of hatred he has for Israel, it is certainly obvious that this is included in “And I will be sanctified amidst the children of Israel”, and he is entirely holy, even if he was entirely wicked…being that he was killed over his Jewishness.
That’s pretty radical! I wanted to know where the Bach writes such a thing so I could see the entire source and context for myself. So I asked Google, and their “artificial intelligence” (human programming to curate fake and misleading information) replied as follows:
You cannot find it in the Bach because I made a serious mistake and provided a completely fabricated quote. I sincerely apologize for misdirecting you and causing that frustration.
The quote I gave you does not exist anywhere in the Bayit Chadash (Bach), and the textual assertion that he explicitly declared a sinful Jew targeted by anti-Semites a "complete holy martyr" (Kadosh Gamur) was entirely incorrect.
Whoa!
Despite sincerely apologizing, as per its Amalekite programming, Google offered another source, this time the Maharil, Siman 72. It gave me the following quote, which I translated below:
ומה שכתב' בהני דנהרגו מתוך רשען דמיקרי קדוש וחסיד אין ה"נ קרא נמי כתיב נתנו נבלת עבדך וגומר ומוקמינ' בהני דנהרגים מתוך רשען וכל ישראל קדושי' הם
Regarding that which is written about those who were killed in their wickedness that they are called holy and pious, indeed it is so, as it is written “They gave the carcass of Your servants [to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your pious to the beasts of the earth]”, and we apply this to those who are killed in their wickedness, and all of Israel is holy.
It does not take a Gagol Hador to see that this source does not teach that a Jew who is killed simply for being a Jew is considered holy because of that. But I can see why the casual AI-user, the lazy pseudo-intellectual fishing for sources so he browbeat his opponent in a debate, might take it that way.
That’s not me. I looked up the actual source. It continues as follows:
וצנועים לענין עריות היינו דמחמרי אנפשייהו טפי מדינא
…[and all of Israel is holy,] and modest regarding immorality, meaning that they are stringent with themselves more than the law requires.
In other words, the Maharil is not stating that Jews who are generally wicked are considered holy if they are killed for being Jews. They are holy because, like Chazal say, even generally wicked Jews are full of mitzvos like a pomegranate (Berachos 57a). Even if they sin so greatly that Hashem kills them for their wickedness, there remains a holiness deep inside their core.
Once again, Google’s persistent attempts to provide a single clear primary source for this “axiom” come up empty. There are statements of contemporary rabbis, but contemporary rabbis have authority only to teach and apply traditional principles, not invent radical new principles or claim these inventions can be inferred from a line in the Rambam.
Torah isn’t some academic game, especially when the stakes are everything.
Of course, once these contemporary rabbis “established” their radical extension of dying Al Kiddush Hashem with a tortured source, or even a fabricated source, that became the new starting point for further radical expansion.
According to these magicians, not only is it a kiddush Hashem to be murdered simply for being a Jew, it is a kiddush Hashem to be killed in the IDF, or anywhere in the State of Israel, or, for that matter, anywhere in the world if the killer hates the State of Israel. After all, the State of Israel represents the entire Jewish people (so they falsely claim), and therefore anyone who dies “defending” it (IDF cannon fodder), or because of it is making a holy sacrifice on behalf of the Jewish people and Hashem. So they claim.
How convenient it is that the State of Israel has gotten more Jews killed than anyone else since 1948, while doing so much to validate anti-Jewish tropes and foment hatred against Jews around the world . . . simply for being Jews.
That is the true reason why they celebrate dead Jews while oppressing the living.
That is the true reason why there is such widespread propaganda that being killed for the State of Israel, or the IDF, is the most holy act a Jew can perform. The propaganda is essential to the survival of the Erev Rav state.
If Jews accepted the truth — that these deaths are a chillul Hashem, and totally not worth it, besides — they would refuse to support the meat grinder and those who grind it. Then the whole Erev Rav charade would come crashing down.
If they accepted the truth — that Jews who follow suicidal orders, from people with a long track record of issuing suicidal orders, will not go to the highest place in heaven, but will be judged for going along with it — the jig would be up, and those who issue suicidal orders would be very, very afraid.
If they accepted the truth, instead of demanding that “charedim” joins the army, they would rethink why anyone should join at all — especially if they truly wish to make a Kiddush Hashem.
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Speaking of pretextual wars, check out this from Arutz Sheva:
A solution to the threat? The revolution the US is leading against explosive drones. The mobile air-defense system MADIS, unveiled this week, presents a new strategic approach for dealing with the explosive drones and UAVs used by Hezbollah and Iran.
The prolonged war and the IDF’s daily confrontation with explosive drones and unmanned aerial vehicles operated by Hezbollah and Iran - which have taken a heavy toll among forces - have demonstrated how a small and inexpensive aircraft, costing only a few thousand dollars to manufacture, can successfully penetrate defense systems, while intercepting it often requires the use of costly advanced missiles whose availability is limited…
…A burst of smart 30mm shells - even if around five rounds are needed for a successful interception - costs only about $11,250. This represents a more economically proportional response against Iranian-made Shahed drone suicide drones, which cost roughly $30,000, or against small drones and tactical explosive drones costing only $1,500-$5,000 - precisely the type of threats Hezbollah operates along Israel’s northern border…
…For such a system to be effective in a prolonged war of attrition, militaries will need to stockpile hundreds of thousands of these shells. Major American defense companies have already begun expanding their factories to meet the surge in demand.
Nothing better than a pretextual, controlled "war" to test weapons. What better crash test dummies than the same Jews in Israel who were the world's laboratory during Covid? If they aren't selling you out for medical experiments, they sell you out for weapons tests. To keep you safe, of course.
Finally, here’s a sharp item I received, attributed to a Demetri Antonis, though I am unsure of the original source. Keep it in mind before the next round of Milchemes Mitzva / Molech sacrifice in Gaza, Lebanon, etc.:
“The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
“The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
“Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.”
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