Like In The Time of The Judges

Thousands of years ago, during the Biblical time of the Judges, everyone did what he/she thought was right, interpreting the laws individually.  Many Biblical experts describe today's anarchy of questionable and contradictory morality as similar.

The Bible is the story of the Jewish People, so no where do we see the parallels more strongly than here in Israel.   The Judicial branch of the government ignores law and experts deciding according the the personal philosophies and agendas of the sitting judges.  And now this young espionage criminal, Anat Kam, claims that she did no wrong.

Ms Kam's lawyer said she did not harm, or intend to harm, national security.

"Anat denies that any damage was done to the security of the State of Israel or that it was ever her intention to do so," Eitan Lehman said.

A representative for the former soldier, who did not give a name, said security services were trying to paint her as an "enemy of the state".

She was a "Zionist" who acted as a "concerned citizen", not a left-wing activist, the representative said.

It's clear that it's not so innocent and simple, because she spent her IDF army service collecting documents, knowingly breaking the law.

Kamm, the main culprit, is accused of stealing some 2,000 secret military documents from the office of the commander of the IDF’s Central Command, burning them onto a CD and then handing them over to Blau on a disk-on-key data storage device.

 

Her motivation, according to the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), was her radical ideology. Her presence in a top general’s office and her exposure to classified material raises serious questions about the IDF’s ability to run background checks on its soldiers and prevent the infiltration of spies into its ranks.

I was recently at a Bible class during which we discussed the transition from Judges to Kingship and the reasons that Samuel the Prophet opposed anointing a king for the Jewish People.  It's believed that Samuel felt that the Jewish People were best governed by leaders who didn't inherit the position.  Kingship is an inherited system, while the judges and prophets were individuals who rose when needed.  That's similar to today's electoral, democracies.  Samuel was the son of two very righteous and brave parents, Elkana and Chana, but his own sons were corrupt as detailed in the Bible.

It's very obvious that both systems have serious problems and can easily lead to abuse.  Democracy, whether formal elections or the phenomena of the most charismatic individuals and ideologies rising to the top, does not guarantee that we will be led by the best or most moral.

That brings us back to the Bible and Chana, Samuel's mother, who came to Shiloh to pray to G-d for a son whom she would dedicate to G-d and the Jewish People.  Shiloh is in our hands.  Come here to pray for our People.   

תפילת נשים תל שילה ראש חודש אייר
יום ד' ל' ניסן 14/4
9:30
כולן מוזמנות
Rosh Chodesh Iyyar
Women's Prayers at Tel Shiloh
Wednesday April 14, 9:30 AM
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