Although he was honored with the government award for his excellent work – the
Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Therefore he was forced to leave teaching and move to the capital of Kazakhstan
– Alma-Ata city,
where he opened a privately owned shoe-repair booth in order to feed us, his six
children.
When I turned twelve I moved in with him.
We lived there among Christians, they, like Muslims, hated the Jewish people and
contemptuously called them Deicides and God-sellers.
This humiliation of our people made me to find out the cause of all troubles and
sufferings which came upon the sons and daughters of Israel.
To figure out this phenomenon I started my own investigation and for this purpose
began to study the history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
My first book on this subject was the Pentateuch (Torah – Bereshit, and Genesis
according to the Bible 1: 1), where we read:
Bereshit bara Elohim et hashomayim ve’et ha’arets – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
I won’t retell you everything that is written in the Pentateuch, tiring you, except
for the very end of the Fifth Book called Devarim or Deuteronomy according to the
Bible.
Let me present you some excerpts from the Fifth Book that relate to all troubles
and sufferings of the sons and daughters of Israel.
And it must occur that, if you will without fail listen the voice of the Lord your
God, to observe and do all his commandments which I commanding you today, that the
Lord your God will certainly put you high above all nations of the earth:
And all these blessings must come upon you, because you keep listening to the
voice of the Lord your God.
Blessed will you be in the city, and blessed will you be in the field.
Blessed will be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of
your domestic beast, the young of your cattle and the progeny of your flock.
Blessed will be your basket and your kneading trough.
Blessed will you be when you come in, and blessed will you be when you go out.
The Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before
you.
By one way they will come out against you, but seven ways they will flee before
you.
The Lord will decree for you the blessing on your stores of supply and every un-
dertaking of yours, and he will certainly bless you in the land that the Lord your God is
giving you.
The Lord will establish you as holy people to himself, just as he swore to you, be-
cause you continue to keep the commandments of the Lord your God and you have
walked in his ways.
And all the peoples of the earth will have been called upon you, and they will in-
deed be afraid of you.
The Lord will also make you overflow indeed with prosperity in the fruit of your
belly and the fruit of your domestic animals and the fruitage of your ground, on the
ground that the Lord swore to your forefathers to give you.
The Lord will open up to you his good storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain on
your land in its season and to bless every deed of your hand; and you will certainly lend
to many nations, while you yourself will not borrow.
And the Lord will indeed put you at the head and not at the tail; and you must
come to be only on top, and you will not come to be on the bottom, because you keep
obeying the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today to
observe and to do.
And you must not turn aside from all the words that I am commanding you today,
to the right or to the left, to walk after other gods to serve them.
And it must occur that if you will not listen to the voice of the Lord your God by
taking care to do all his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you to-
day, all these maledictions must also come upon you and overtake you.
Cursed will you be in the city, and cursed will you be in the field.
Cursed will be your basket and your kneading trough.
Cursed will be the fruit of your belly and the fruitage of your ground, the young of
your cattle and the progeny of your flock.
Cursed will you be when you come in, and cursed will you be when you go out.
The Lord will send upon you the curse, confusion and rebuke in every undertaking
of yours that you try to carry out, until you have been annihilated and have perished in
hurry, because of the badness of your practices in that you have forsaken me.
The Lord will cause the pestilence to cling to you until he has exterminated you
from off the ground to which you are going to take possession of it.
The Lord will strike you with tuberculosis and burning fever and inflammation
and feverish heat and the sword and scorching and mildew, and they will certainly pursue
you until you have perished.
Your skies that are over your head must also become copper, and the earth that is
beneath you iron.
The Lord will give powder and dust as the rain of your land. From the heavens it
will come down upon you until you have been annihilated.
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. By one way you will
go out against them, but by seven ways you will flee before them; and you must become a
frightful object to all the earth’s kingdoms.
And your dead body must become food for every flying creature of the heavens
and to the beast of the field, with no one to make them tremble.
The Lord will strike you with the boil of Egypt and piles and eczema and skin
eruption, from which you will not be able to be healed.
The Lord will strike you with madness and loss of sight and bewilderment of
heart.
And you will indeed become one who gropes about at midday, just as a blind man
gropes about in the gloom, and you will not make your ways successful; and you must be-
come only one who is always defrauded and robbed, with no one to save you.
You will become engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You will
build a house, but you will not dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not be-