Last Shabbat, sirens wailed across Israel as over 200 Iranian ballistic missiles fell from the sky. Rabbi Mark Fishman, who lives in Israel in Judea and Samaria, had a message to deliver.
In the past few days, he got online, and delivered it to three churches, one in Florida, one outside Atlanta, one in California. His goal was simple: make sure that Christians across America understand what is happening in Israel, why it matters, and why they should stand with the Jewish people.
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This past Shabbat was Shabbat Zachor, the Sabbath of Remembrance, the annual reading Jews do in the week before Purim, in which we read the biblical command to remember Amalek, the nation that attacked Israel without provocation, without warning, and without mercy. The Torah teaches us that evil is real, that it targets the Jewish people, and that the proper response is not to forget it.
At 8:13 that Shabbat morning, the reading was no longer ancient history.
When Rabbi Fishman sat down with those three congregations in the days following the beginning of the war, he told them exactly what Shabbat Zachor means and why it is relevant right now. He walked them through what had just unfolded: Iran firing over 200 ballistic missiles at Israeli cities, and America responding by mobilizing warships, aircraft, and precision strikes to stand alongside Israel. He made the biblical case for why Christian support for Israel is not just a political position but a moral and spiritual one rooted in Scripture.
He was also careful to draw an important distinction. This is not a war against the Iranian people. Most Iranians are decent people who oppose their own fanatical Islamist leadership and want to be free of it. This is a war against a regime, one that fires missiles at civilians on a Shabbat morning.
America’s decision to stand with Israel reflects something biblical: a recognition of the sanctity of human life and the God-given rights that no regime has the authority to extinguish. That is the message Rabbi Fishman brought to those three congregations. That is the message Israel needs Christians in America to hear.
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