One of my favorite things about Shabbat is I get to step off the world and spend time alone with my Creator, my family and my friends. Today, for just a few minutes I want to turn off the world as if they didn’t matter.

If one were to zoom out and truly take a moment to understand the current time and space the Jewish people are living in, as disturbing as it may be to some, it all makes sense. Unbeknownst to our enemies, everything is unfolding exactly as the Torah said it would. It doesn’t matter if you are a religious Jew or not, or for that matter whether you are even Jewish at all, what matters is what the Torah said and how the words of Hashem are coming to life on the world stage in clear view of anyone who is willing to take an honest look.

“…lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.” (Numbers 23:9)

You do not have to be a nuclear scientist or brain surgeon to figure out how these words are as true today as the day they were relayed to Moshe, our teacher. More than that as if to reiterate the point, our prophets reminded us of a similar fate. It’s worth noting that they were called prophets because they had insight and information a regular person was not privy to. Their words speak to us still today.

“For, behold, I make thee small among the nations, and despised among men.” (Jeremiah 49:15)

“Behold, I make you small among the nations; you are to be very despised.” (Ovadiah 1:2)

In clear view of anyone who is willing to take in an honest look. If this didn’t get your attention as to the certainty of the words of the Torah, maybe this will:

“Then the L-RD your G-d will upend your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where the L-RD thy G-d had scattered you. Even if you have been dispersed to the most distant lands under the heavens, from there will the L-RD your G-d will gather you, and bring you back.” (Deuteronomy 30:3-4)

Yesterday was Independence Day in Israel. It is the anniversary of the day the Jewish people officially took hold of their destiny as a sovereign entity in their own land. The Jews have returned home after 2,000 years just as G-d had promised our ancestors they would. It is the only time in recorded history a people had done this, and it was assured to us some thirty-three centuries earlier.

Take a moment and consider what this people, who make up but 0.2% of the world’s population, has accomplished by re-establishing their roots in the land of their fathers. When one calculates the odds the only conclusion which can be drawn is the Jewish people are a mathematical impossibility. Not improbability, impossibility. The numbers simply don’t add up. We are the fatal flaw of the evolutionary theory as it pertains to survival of the fittest.

How is it even possible we survived our various exiles, especially when you consider in none of them were we ever considered the fittest? On the contrary. It can be argued in each and every one, a good case could be made we were the weakest. Weakest in numbers, weakest in power, weakest in physical stature. Darwin missed the boat on the Jews. It’s not like we sat in the back of the room and hoped the teacher never called on us. We were not even allowed in the room and were subsequently blamed for what happened inside or out. The Czar, the King, the Queen, the church, the Prime Minister, the President, The Dictator, the Sheik not to mention........

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