Monday, May 25, 2009

God: The One Thing missing from Obama

Despite kissing the hand of the Saudi king, and using his middle name Hussein when he spoke to Muslim students in Turkey, and admitting that many in his family are Muslim, very few people in America believe that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim because of one simple reason. It’s because he says so.
But the truth is that Barack Obama, no matter how hard he tries, is not able to keep the Muslim in him. We all know who he made his first phone call to when he was elected, and which Arab TV show was granted his first on the air interview. His first official act strangely was to close down a holding camp for Muslim terrorists. Were they dancing in the streets of Kenya on Election Day? I wonder if they danced better than the Arabs in Brooklyn on 9/11/01.
Our President uses his mixed status to his advantage. “He is who he is, when he wants to be, whoever, and whenever.” But the Hebrew language and its letters are holy and full of the truth. The letters, in gematria form, break down the veil of dishonesty that he wears. He told the media not to use his middle name Hussein, even though it was his Muslim grandfather’s name. The only time he proudly uses it is when he speaks to Muslim audiences. If we examine the gematria or numerical value of Barack Obama בּרק אובּאמה , we get 357, strangely the same value as the “Koran” קוראן. But if we add his middle name Hussein to Barack Obama בּרק חוסיין אובּאמה, we arrive at a value of 501, the same as the Yishmaelim, ישׁמעאלים.
Throughout Jewish history there have been two sources of oppression, namely the descendants of Yishmael, and the descendants of Esau. Yishmael himself did tshuvah (repentance) during his lifetime and his children were righteous, but Esau did not do tshuvah. Esau’s descendants included Amalek, Haman and Hitler, and the scars left behind by the terrible pogroms and massacres had Esau’s fingerprints all over them. Esau has always been the instigator of violence against the Jewish People and it started about 3600 years ago according to the Midrash HaGadol, Bereishis 28:9. Esau approached his uncle Yishmael and told him that there is a precedent for killing one’s brother since Cain slew Abel. He suggested that Yishmael should kill his brother Isaac, and he himself would kill his brother Jacob allowing them to inherit the world. Afterwards, Esau would kill Yishmael and have control of the world himself.
Esau knew that the only way Jacob and the Jewish People could be defeated was to combine forces with Yishmael. Esau had acquired merit by living in the Land of Israel and by honoring his parents. And together with Yishmael’s merit of circumcision and hospitality, they would be a single, powerful force that could overcome the Jews. As long as Esau and Yishmael were separated , Jacob was not worried about them. But then Esau and Yishmael became joined together when Esau married Mahalath, the daughter of Yishmael, Genesis 28(9). As soon as this happened Jacob sensed the danger and immediately left the Land of Israel for Haran. Mahalath thus became the link connecting the evil powers of Esau and Yishmael. And the dangers arising from this evil will be evident in the war of Gog and Magog.