In a totalitarian state "[T]he elite is not composed of ideologists; its members' whole education is aimed at abolishing their capacity for distinguishing between truth and falsehood, between reality and fiction. Their superiority consists in their ability immediately to dissolve every statement of fact into a declaration of purpose. In distinction to the mass membership which, for instance, needs some demonstration of the inferiority of the Jewish race before it can safely be asked to kill Jews, the elite formations understand that the statement, all Jews are inferior, means, all Jews should be killed; they know that when they are told that only Moscow has a subway, the real meaning of the statement is that all subways should be destroyed, and are not unduly surprised when they discover the subway in Paris." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, 1994; page 385).
Truth and falsehood, reality and fiction, facts and evidence – these are terms usually best defined in terms of cause and effect.
When the elites are able to dissolve every statement of fact into a declaration of purpose they are shifting from a cause and effect reality to an ultimate-end reality. Telos is shaped not by the aggregation of individual conviction but by the operation of the culture on the member.
Desert is an explanation of action which depends on a common sense of justice. Desert is the measure of common purpose.
The biblical regime and the covenantal partnership with the Old One defines that common purpose as the dignity and autonomy of the membership of the nation.
Any ideology that embraces desert and common purpose but removes the divine objective of the empowerment of the people and replaces it with the glory of the hubristic Leader, any such ideology qualifies as avodah zarah. According to that definition, the rabbinic regime should qualify its adherents as ovdei avodah zarah. When the Orthodox Jews dissemble in favor of patently foolish rabbinic rulings they are perpetrating avodah zarah.
The Old One answered the Jewish people's refusal to enter into the Land of Israel by allowing them die, en masse, in the European wilderness.
Now that the Jewish people have staked their claim on the Promised Land they need to adopt an authentic, rigorous, disciplined keeping of the laws of Pesach. Pesach rituals are an affirmative embrace of the covenantal relationship with the Old One. Pesach allows the people of Israel to see themselves, disintermediated of any representative of the ruling elites of either Egypt or Israel or the Old One Himself.
To get rid of the rabbinic regime the Jewish people need to go deep into the rituals of Pesach, the true expression of Israelite independence. In addition, they need to finish the job of the Genocide – they need to eliminate to 'beit avot' of those Jewish leaders who had refused and continue to refuse to enter the Land of Israel upright, with courage and with dignity and with an abiding faith in the Old One's covenant with His people.
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