ייִדישער מחשבֿה אויף אסתר 4:13

Communist Russia together with the Vatican, Nehru, the student of Gandhi, together with the ‎devoutly Catholic Franco, the British Foreign Office with Chiang Kaishek, have all joined in the ‎attempt to isolate Israel and are being assisted by [Israel’s other] enemies in other lands. This ‎conspiracy began specifically after the establishment of the State, at a time when many of Israel’s ‎leaders thought that the Jewish problem had been solved, that Jewish isolation had been ‎eradicated and normality had been introduced into our ex i s t e n c e .The assumption that the ‎State of Israel has weakened antisemitism is erroneous. On the contrary, antisemitism has grown ‎stronger and employs false charges against the State [of Israel] in the war against us all. Who can ‎foresee the end of this anti-Semitic hatred? The Covenant of Egypt cannot be abrogated by human ‎hands. We remain a scattered people, nonetheless attached one to another. Our fate is the fate of ‎the Yishuv, and conversely the fate of the Yishuv is our fate. No segment of the ‎Jewish Nation will delude itself by “fleeing to the palace of the king more than all the Jews” (Esther ‎‎4:13). Everyone must “pray for his friends” (Job 42:10). An American Jew must not be silent and ‎rest until the danger in which the State of Israel finds itself is removed and passes. The inhabitants ‎of the Holy Land should not babble about the “New Jew” that has been fashioned there, one who ‎has no connection with Diaspora Jewry. We are all obligated to listen to the “Clarion Call of the ‎Beckoning Beloved” (Song of Songs 5:1).

First, the awareness of shared fate appears as that of shared experience. We are all in the realm ‎of ‎a shared fate that binds together the different strata of the nation and does ‎not ‎discriminate between classes and individuals. Fate does not distinguish between nobility ‎and ‎commonfolk, between rich and poor, between a prince dressed in royal purple velvet and a ‎poor ‎man who goes begging from door to door, between a pious Jew and an assimilationist. ‎Even ‎though we may speak a mix of different languages, even if we are citizens of different lands, ‎even ‎if we look different (one being short and black, the other tall and blond), even if we live ‎in ‎different economic systems and under different living conditions (the one living in a royal ‎palace, ‎the other in a humble cave), we have but one fate. When the Jew in the cave is attacked, ‎the ‎security of the Jew standing in the courtyard of the king is jeopardized. “Do not think in your ‎soul ‎that you, from all the Jews [will escape and], shall flee to the palace of the king” ‎‎(Esther ‎‎4:13). Queen Esther robed in majesty and Mordechai wearing sackcloth were situated in ‎the same ‎historical nexus. “All Israel are bound together (haverim)” (TB Sotah 37a). We are ‎all ‎persecuted, or we are all saved together.‎