And the Lord will certainly scatter you among all the people from the one end of
the earth to the other end of the earth, and there you will have to serve other gods whom
you have not known, neither you nor your forefathers, wood and stone.
And among those nations you will have no ease, nor will there prove to be any
resting-place for the sole of your foot; and the Lord will indeed give you there a trem-
bling heart and failing of the eyes and despair of soul.
And you will certainly be in the greatest peril for your life and be in dread night
and day, and you will not be sure of your life.
In the morning you will say, “If it only were evening!” and in the evening you will
say, “If it only were morning!” because of the dread of your heart with which you will be
in dread and because of the sight of your eyes that you will see.
And the Lord will certainly bring you back to Egypt by ships by the way about which I
have said to you, “You will never see it again”, and you will have to sell yourselves there
to your enemies as slave men and maidservants, but there will be no buyer.
These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make
with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with
them in Horeb (Topah -- Devarim, and Deuteronomy according the Bible 28: 1-68 and
29: 1).
And now let me present you chapter 30 where we read about blessing of the sons
of Israel by the Creator and cursing of their persecutors.
And it must occur that when all these words will come upon you, the blessing and
the malediction, which I have put before you, and you brought them back to your heart
among all the nations where the Lord your God has dispersed you,
and you have returned to the Lord your God and listened to his voice according to
all that I am commanding you today, you and your sons, with all your heart and all your
soul,
the Lord your God must also bring back your captives and show you mercy and
collect you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.
If your dispersed people should be at the end of the heavens, from there the Lord
your God will collect you and from there He will take you.
The Lord your God will indeed bring you into the land of which your fathers took
possession and you will certainly take possession of it; and He will indeed do you good
and multiply you more than your fathers.
And the Lord your God will have to circumcise your heart and the heart of your
offspring, that you may love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul for
the sake of your life.
And the Lord your God will certainly put all these oaths upon your enemies and
those who hate you, who have persecuted you.
As for you, you will turn and certainly listen to the voice of the Lord and do all his
commandments that I am commanding you today.
And the Lord your God will indeed make you have more than enough in every
work of your hand, in the fruit of your belly and the fruit of your domestic animals and
the fruitage of your soil, resulting in prosperity; because the Lord will again exult over
you for good, just as He exulted over your forefathers;
for you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God so as to keep his command-
ments and his statutes written in this book of the law, because you will return to the Lord
your God with all your heart and all your soul.
For this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too difficult for
you, nor is it far away.
It is not in the heavens, so as to result in saying, “Who will ascend for us into the
heavens and get it for us, that He may let us hear it that we may do it?”
Neither is it on the other side of the sea, so as to result in saying, “Who will pass
over for us to the other side of the sea and get it for us, that He may let us hear it that we
may do it?
See, I do put before you today life and good, and death and bad. If you will listen
to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, so as to
love the Lord your God,
to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judi-
cial decisions, then you will be bound to keep alive and to multiply, and the Lord your
God must bless you in the land to which you are going to take possession of it.
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, and you are actually seduced
and bow down to other gods and serve them,
I do take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you today, that I have put
life and death before you, the blessing and the malediction; and you must choose life in
order that you may keep alive, you and your offspring,
by loving the Lord your God, by listening to his voice and by sticking to him; for
He is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell upon the ground that the
Lord swore to your forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give to them.
Then Moses went and spoke these words all Israel (Torah – Devarim, Deuteronomy according to the Bible 30: 1-20).
Finally, I was rewarded for my work.
Because I understood the true cause of all troubles and sufferings of the sons and
daughters of Israel,
which happened after the destruction of the First and Second Temples of
Jerusalem and continue to this day.
Why do all these troubles happen to our people?
I will try to explain this phenomenon, which has dire consequences for long-suffering Israelite people, in as much detail as possible.
About 3300 years ago our teacher and law-giver Moses (Moshe) wrote down legal
rules in his book for regulation of the relations among Israelites.
These are the humane laws and commandments, such as:
You shall not kill.
You shall not steal.
You shall not commit adultery.
Honor your father and your mother.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s possessions.
You shall take no bribe.
You shall not afflict any widow and orphan.