Judaism On Power and Government
As background to what I'm about to quote and write, please see this
typical video:
http://www.infowars.com/?p=3D2170
I'd like to quote what real Judaism says about politics and the true
Jewish behavior in regard to politics:
ETHICS OF THE FATHERS
Chapter 1
10. Shemaiah said: Love work; hate domination; and seek not undue
intimacy with the ruling power.
Chapter 2
2. Rabban Gamaliel the son of Rabbi Judah the Patriarch said: Let all
who occupy themselves with communal affairs do so for Heaven's sake,
for then the merit of their fathers sustains them and their
righteousness endures forever.
3. Be you guarded in your relations with the ruling power; for they
who exercise it draw no man nigh to themselves except for their own
interests. They appear as friends when it is to their advantage, but
they stand not by a man in his time of stress.
Chapter 4
1. Ben Zoma said: Who is mighty? He who subdues his passions, as it is
written (Proverbs 16.32) =93He who is slow to anger is better than the
mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.=94
"Ambition destroys its possessor."
"Power buries those who wield it."
And see:
http://www.aish.com/spirituality/growth/Jews_and_Power_Ethics_of_th=
e_Fathers3_23.asp
That the Jews in the video did not heed the words of our Sages, that
they were so blinded by ambition to wealth and power that they did not
realize that they were being set up as the "fall guys" in (the
inevitable) case public opinion turned against the government, is no
reflection on Judaism or on the rest of us who were wise enough to
learn the sage lessons.
