Reply To: The Torah is Emes

I asked how anti-Semitism proves the truth of the Torah. The verses that you bring mention that we will be afraid, but it does not mention that others will hate us. In fact, you could very easily make the argument that we will be afraid despite there being no cause (such as Jew-hatred).

I have written that “At first, I was very dissapointed. Since we have gone through so much suffering at the goyim’s hands, I assumed that the pesukim would talk about our suffering at the hands of the goyim. The more I thought about how it (the pesukim)applies to us, the more amazed I was at how accurately the Torah predicted what will happen to us in gulos. The Torah is focused on the EFFECTS that the CAUSE brought onto the Jews.”

I wrote this paragraph because I realized that the Torah was not talking about the fact that the goyim hate us rather the EFFECTS that the CAUSE brought onto us Jews. So you would be right about the fact that the Torah doesn’t talk about nations hate towards us, however my point was that only what is relevent to us Jews the Torah predicts will happen and it did indeed come true.

The Torah would not talk about “fear in your heart in the lands of your enemies” if there weren’t be any enemies. It just says that there will no be any pursuers, because that is probably symbolic as Rabbi Miller brings the Torah is a combination of symbolism and actual people and events. The fear brought about through our enemies was not any pursuers’s doing rather Hashem’s punishing of our sins has brought our ENEMIES to bring FEAR in our hearts. Enemies are not exactly lovers. Enemies hate and persecute.

The point is that the Torah predicts things that have actually happened hundreds of years later after it was predicted. Whether the Torah talks about JEWS BEING LEFT OVER (those Jews left over from the churban and other times in history where the Jews were decimated), our being in ENEMIES LANDS and FEARING THEM, and Jews VANISHING BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS.

How in the world could the Torah have predicted all of this hundreds of years before it happened?

It should also be pointed out that ethnic hatred is not exclusively against Jews. Ethnic/religious hatred is practically as old as the world itself.

While hatred is as old as the world itself, which other nation was hated for so long as the Jews were?