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The Timelessness of Ecclesiastes
American Thinker ^ | 22 Oct, 2023 | Sally Zelikovsky

Posted on 10/22/2023 5:02:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber

There is a cycle to everything. Anti-Semitism keeps coming back but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Ecclesiastes is typically read on the shabbat (sabbath) of the weeklong holiday of Sukkot. This means that, as Jews in Israel were being slaughtered by Hamas terrorists hopped up on poor man’s cocaine (Captagon), synagogues around the world were reading Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 (Kohelet in Hebrew) contains the oft-cited passage, “What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.” Just as the seasons come and go in a seemingly endless cycle, so too do the events in history.

What irony that such Jew hatred would manifest itself in a pogrom in southern Israel, hearkening back to the pogroms in Eastern Europe. What has been, will be.

When you really think about it, it’s remarkable how far we have come as a species. And then something like this happens to remind us of how far we still have to go.

It could be just a coincidence of calendars and a good day to massacre Jews. Or was G-d trying to remind us of the lessons of Kohelet? In my mind, one of Kohelet’s lessons is that we can be cynical and yield to the fact there is nothing new under the sun and let the good and the bad repeat and dictate our lives, succumbing to what is anticipated, repetitive, and mundane; or, we can find meaning in the repetition and fight for something more sublime.

We shouldn’t be surprised, then, when anti-Semitism rears its ugly head. Sure, it ebbs and flows like the tide with periods of calm and tumult. But no matter how loudly we plea with humanity that it must never forget...

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TOPICS: Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism

1 posted on 10/22/2023 5:02:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I am losing hope that things can ever change.


2 posted on 10/22/2023 5:02:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, clic/k on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Good article.


3 posted on 10/22/2023 5:05:48 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

bkmk


4 posted on 10/22/2023 5:55:39 AM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: MtnClimber

The only constant is that everything changes. If you are having a good life, enjoy it while you can and thank God. Funny that the older you get, the more you realize that. When your health is good, thank God. When you finally have your house they way you want. Thank God. When your job is going well, thank God. When you get old and sick, thank God for the opportunity to meet the challenges that are ahead. I do speak from personal experience. I am the healthiest terminal person that you could ever meet. Doctors told my loved ones that it was doubtful that I could live more than 3 days. They might have told me, but I was in a coma for 2 months and couldn’t hear them. That was over ten years ago. With several bouts of cancer, you would never know by looking at me. I appear healthy. Why did God spare me? For one reason. He still has a mission for me. I have done far more in the last ten years than I ever did in the sixty before it. Because I am special? Not in the least. Only because God still has a purpose for me. And when He doesn’t any longer, I will gladly go with Him to the World to Come. The message of Koholet is that you better learn the lessons of life because when you are comfortable, change is coming. But when it comes, the world that you had will become a new world, and new opportunities to make it a good world. Good luck!


5 posted on 10/22/2023 5:57:13 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: silent majority rising

Great post! Hope you’re doing well.


6 posted on 10/22/2023 7:02:42 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: Made In The USA

I am doing well, and thank you for your wishes. Basically, because I am challenged medically (I was approved for a transplant and was on the list until I took my name off 5 years ago), I get scans every three months. Now, my routine is that when I get a result of no cancer, then I mentally think ‘thank you God for another 3 months’. In that way, I live my life in 3 month increments, which I have come to understand that is the way we should live. In fact, day by day would be better. I get up everyday and try to figure out what is God telling me I should do today. You would be surprised how often I get an answer, and do it.


7 posted on 10/22/2023 7:40:14 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: silent majority rising

Brilliant. Thanks.


8 posted on 10/22/2023 9:32:22 AM PDT by Marchmain (boo!)
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To: MtnClimber

They will when Jesus returns.

In the meantime, I don’t believe there are ever any coincidences in God’s economy.


9 posted on 10/22/2023 3:58:45 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: silent majority rising

Thank you for putting your words of encouragement here. I needed to read this and understand I have had an answer to my prayers when I have prayed “what do i now” (cancer survivor, last chemo in 2017)

I have been a better cook just trying these recipes that I think my family might like. I never thought I could pull off some of these recipes. It’s not much but . I need to thank God everyday for all blessings like the kind of cancer i had was treatable with targeted meds, to the small things like being a braver cook in the kitchen. My husband thinks thats a big one i think!
Going to read KJV Ecclesiastes.


10 posted on 10/22/2023 9:14:38 PM PDT by redryder_90 (When a people forget God, tyrants forge their chains ~ Patrick Henry)
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To: redryder_90

Every mission is made up of a bunch of small missions. Little things, really. If you do all of the little things, they add up. Keep up the good work!


11 posted on 10/23/2023 5:05:47 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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