It’s A Miracle: One might think that Wikileaks is an international conspiracy network staffed by an army of the world’s top intellegence agents and information analysts, with sleepers in every country and moles deeply penetrated in every government.

That’s not all; WikiLeaks has exposed and outsmarted many leading intelligence agencies and governments, to the dismay and embarassment of many a two-faced politician who says one thing in public and something totally different in private.

There is no massive clandestine army agents, analysts, sleepers and moles. All of WikiLeaks is founder Julian Assange and a few volunteers. Who is 39 year-old Julian Assange? The local media here calls him a former computer hacker. According to our very reliable hi-tech sources, Assange masterfully developed a tiny bit of code that he succeeded to plant in US State Department (among other) emails and network systems which enabled him to be privy to tons of diplomatic mail.

Assange and Wikileaks are basically no more than a group of talented and innovating hackers that are trying to gain legitimacy by being whistle blowers. But with all their talent, they are nothing but a stick in God’s hands. Remember the first of the 13 tenets of the Bible: “I believe with a full and complete belief that God is Creator and Director of all the creations, and He alone did, does, and will do every doing.” So, it’s not Assange and WikiLeaks that exposed the world’s dirty laundry, it’s God.

Who would ever believe that one man and his tiny staff could reveal the world’s most intimate and embarrassing secrets? This is certainly a miracle of mega proportions.

Despite the fact that we have much to clean up in our spiritual act, God – by way of WikiLeaks,  has smacked the world on the nose.

Here are a few examples of God’s magnificent loving-kindness:

1. Exposed Erdogan, Turkey’s PM, by showing that he is a corrupt with eight bank accounts loaded with private funds in Switzerland.

2. By way of WikiLeaks, revealing the true face of the Turks, showing that they support Al Qaida. God is telling Turkey that if it continue, they’ll pay the same price that all the other haters of history eventually paid, from Haman to Sadaam.

3. The world tried to sell Achmadinejad and Iran’s nuclear threat as Israel’s problem, as if no one else was interested in neutralizing Iran. WikiLeaks has shown that Saudi Arabia and Jordan have been begging the USA to act forcefully against Iran, much more than Israel even.

4. The entire world – except for a few fellow tyrants – can’t stand Achmedinejad. Thanks to WikiLeaks, the truth is revealed, namely, that Achmedinejad and Iran are the world’s problem.

5. WikiLeaks has revealed the Arab duplicity in regards to the Gaza War (Operation Cast Lead) two years ago. Israel informed both Egypt and the PLO that they were going to attack Gaza.

6. The list goes on and on, but it seems as a result of WikiLeaks, 500 years of diplomatic and image-building efforts couldn’t do what WikiLeaks has done for the world.

Lets look at the spiritual lessons of WikiLeaks:

A. If one man can reveal the most intimate, carefully guarded conversations and communiques, imagine what the Heavenly Court can do.

B. God – via WikiLeaks – is reminding us that every single thought, utterance and action is recorded; we’ll each have to reckon for everything we did in this world, better or worse.

C. Don’t ever say behind closed doors what you wouldn’t say on the first page of the New York Times.

D. Now that we know that everything we do is transparent, it’s time for repentance.

A friend of Elijah’s

Whoever said the Creator doesn’t have a sense of humor?

Doug Nelson recently told a story about the pastor of his church. He had a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc.

The kitty would not come down. The tree was not sturdy enough to climb, so the pastor decided that if he tied a rope to his car and pulled it until the tree bent down, he could then reach up and get the kitten.

That’s what he did, all the while checking his progress in the car. He then figured if he went just a little bit further, the tree would be bent sufficiently for him to reach the kitten. But as he moved the car a little further forward, the rope broke.

The tree went ‘boing!’ and the kitten instantly sailed through the air – out of sight.

The pastor felt terrible. He walked all over the neighborhood asking people if they’d seen a little kitten. No. Nobody had seen a stray kitten. So he prayed, ‘Lord, I just commit this kitten to your keeping,’ and went on about his business.

A few days later he was at the grocery store, and met one of his church members. He happened to look into her shopping cart and was amazed to see cat food. This woman was a cat hater and everyone knew it, so he asked her, ‘Why are you buying cat food when you hate cats so much?’

She replied, ‘You won’t believe this,’ and then told him how her little girl had been begging her for a cat, but she kept refusing.. Then a few days before, the child had begged again, so the Mom finally told her little girl, ‘Well, if God gives you a cat, I’ll let you keep it.’

She told the pastor, ‘I watched my child go out in the yard, get on her knees, and ask God for a cat. And really, Pastor, you won’t believe this, but I saw it with my own eyes. A kitten suddenly came flying out of the blue sky, with its paws outspread, and landed right in front of her.’

Never underestimate the Power of God and His unique sense of humor.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple; but only God can count the apples in a seed.

Over 300 years ago, King Louis XIV of France asked Blaise Pascal, the great Christian philosopher to give him proof of God. Pascal answered, “Why the Jews, your Majesty, the Jews!” That the Jewish nation, such a tiny group of people survived two thousand years of exile and persecution was nothing short of a supernatural phenomenon. Pascal wasn’t the only one who was so amazed by the survival of the Jewish people. Other thinkers, philosophers and historians have noticed something unusual about the Jews.

Mark Twain, an agnostic and self-acknowledged skeptic, penned this in 1899 in Harper’s Magazine:”The Egyptian, Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendour, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away. The Greek and Roman followed, made a vast noise and they are gone. Other peoples have sprung up, and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out and they sit in twilight now or have vanished. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal, but the Jew. All other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?

It has been in the Torah that Jews would be an eternal nation:”And I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and your descendants after you, throughout the generations. An eternal covenant to be your God, and the God of your descendants after you” (Genesis 17-7).

This promise is repeated many times throughout the Torah [Leviticus 26:43; Deuteronomy 4:26-27; Deuteronomy 28:63-64]. And it has come true. Even though Jews did not have a homeland, a common language or a shared history (the factors that historians use to define a nation), they have remained a distinct people.

It has been prophesied in the Torah that Jews will survive as an eternal nation despite dispersion, persecution and being few in number: “God will then scatter you among the nations, and only a small number will remain among the nations where God shall lead you” (Deuteronomy 4:27).

To every other people, a small population spells extinction. We know from the records that the Romans kept about 2,000 years ago, there were between 8-10 million Jews living in the world. How many Jews do demographers say should be in the world today?

If in the same period of time, the Chinese went from a population of 30 million to over 1 billion people, there should be approximately 500 million Jews alive in the world today. After the Chinese and the Indians, the third largest ethnic group on the planet earth should be the Jews! But there are only 14 million Jews alive today.

There are virtually no more Jews in the world today than there were 2,000 years ago and yet throughout all this time, the Jews remained a distinct people.

When we look at Jewish history, we see a history where the Jewish people have defied the laws of nature and the laws of history! We have survived and impacted this world though we have been thrown out of our land not once, but twice! We have impacted the world perhaps more than any other people in history – the concepts of the value of human life, universal education, justice and equality, the importance of and goal of world peace (as opposed to glorifying war), the importance of a strong stable family as a basis for a moral foundation for society, individual and national responsibility for the world – though we were beaten, killed and exiled from one nation to the other. Though few in number and spread to the four corners of the earth, we survived as a people, never assimilating into anonymity. Even our land, the Land of Israel, defied the laws of nature, only fertile when the Jewish people inhabited it.

Is this coincidence, good luck, a roll of the dice? Perhaps-except that each and every phenomena was prophesied and predicted in the Torah hundreds and thousands of years before the events. Does it make you think that perhaps something is going on here? That perhaps there is a special relationship between the Almighty and the Jewish people?

The Almighty, the Jewish people and the Torah are intertwined. In the past 3,300 years there have been effort after effort-from within as well as from without-to redefine and redirect our people. Each and every one has failed. If you wonder why, then perhaps the time has come to read the Torah and find out. The Torah is not only our heritage; it is the game plan for the Jewish people and the world.

By Rabbi Kalman Packouz