Roger Froikin @R L FROIKIN wrote, "SHABBAT SHALOM I HAVE BEEN ASKED LATELY WHY I SOMETIMES END A COMMENT, WITH THIS המהפכה היהודית ממשיכה The Jewish Revolution Continues SIMPLE ANSWER REALLY. 1)

The Giving of the Torah to the Jewish Nation, to Am Yisrael, is the only real revolution in human history It is the only revolution that changed the relationship between mankind and it's Creator, and set the rules for moral interpersonal behavior, and 2)

established the principle of all people are equal under the law, created the concept of assumption of innocence - protection from the influence of the powerful (still unique worldwide it seems), and 3)

defined civilization and morality sociologically as a society that organizes itself to protect those who cannot take care of themselves at every stage in life. That is the real revolution. 4)

It started 3400 years ago. And now, though we have fantastic material advances, most of the world still does not understand it nor has implemented anything like a nation under a system that is truly civilized, 5)

being dominated by power relationships rather than value based and forward thinking behaviorism emphasizing personal dignity. 6)

Even in the USA, a nation founded by people who read the Bible and learned its values, the struggle is still on between control by elites and personally responsible freedom. 7)

No, most of the world is still a struggle between those who have grabbed, bought, or in some way achieved status & protect that status by trying to control others, trying to make others conform to what they believe & like, versus those who want autonomy, freedom, & choice. 8)

No, most of the world looks for heroes, saviors, to solve their problems, in exchange for their freedom of thought and behavior, or in exchange for their money. 9)

They want leaders to solve their problems — if not in this life, then in some afterlife where they think they will be saved. Saved from what, they seem not really to understand. 10)

They go so far as to persecute those who do not conform or who question their beliefs, and sometimes they kill to promote or protect their own barely understood beliefs that themselves are often based on distortions of the beliefs of others or distortions of reality. 11)

Or they define “revolution”. As merely the replacement of one ruler with another who will steal from them yet again when he goes from being hero to villain. Simplistic. Manipulative. But it is not enough to study Torah. 12)

It must be understood and implemented. And it must be understood as it was meant - in the original language, thinking the concepts that it provides, and not through foreign translations and interpretations, many done in order to demean us and replace us, and yet, 13)

under the pressures of persecution, many of these bad interpretations have been been absorbed by some of us and become lenses though which we see what is ours distorted. 14)

Take a simple word. We have all been told that Shalom, means peace, hello, goodby. But in Hebrew, it is from the root concept of “completeness”. You are really wishing someone a state of completeness, of harmony, in life. 15)

The only thing in another language that is the equivalent is in Japanese “WA” (和). In Hebrew Shalom, Peace, is Harmony and Completeness, not just an absence of conflict, nor something as limited as the term “peace:” is in most languages. Think about it. 16)

And then think about looking at the Torah that way. Not as a history book, but as a teaching of identity and everything that makes up an identity, our relationship to the universe and its Creator, family, historical experience, behaviors that hold a society together, 17)

and rules to create and maintain a moral (holy) social structure. And that is a Revolution. It’s up to all of us, to study it, to act upon it, to join this revolution. המהפכה היהודית ממשיכה" 18)

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