Seeing Divinity: What Superhuman Proof Mechanism Exists Only in the Torah of Israel?

The Torah contains numerous prophecies spanning thousands of years into the future. Some prophecies indicate events contingent upon the behavior of the Israelites, while others predict unconditional events that would occur under any circumstances. These prophecies were not just for the near future but foretold happenings over millennia. Furthermore, many prophecies conveyed information that seemed absurd at the time of their delivery. Yet, despite being delivered thousands of years ago and appearing illogical and improbable at their time, reality repeatedly affirms their fulfillment. Only the "reader of generations," the Creator of the world, could know beforehand what will happen and guarantee the fulfillment of every prophecy given.

We will highlight just a few examples, among many. This time: the supernatural eternity of the Jewish people.

The prophecy in the Torah states that if the Jewish people turn away from Hashem and stray from righteousness, distancing themselves from the purpose of their lives and leading their souls to eternal ruin, difficult events would occur with the aim of bringing them back to righteousness for their eternal good. These events were prophesied to happen: The Jewish people would become few in number - "You will be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God" (Deuteronomy 28:62), and they would be scattered among different nations - "And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other" (Deuteronomy 28:64), and furthermore, they would be persecuted and oppressed - "And among those nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot... and your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night... In the morning you shall say, 'Would that it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, 'Would that it were morning!' because of the dread that your heart shall feel and the sights that your eyes shall see" (Deuteronomy 28:65-67). Yet, the Torah promises that the Jewish people are an eternal nation, which will never be destroyed - "And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them to destroy them utterly and break My covenant with them, for I am the Lord their God" (Leviticus 26:44). And indeed, the prophecies have fully materialized, both the harsh and the comforting ones.

Great empires have vanished throughout history—the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and more—yet the Jewish people, a small nation, exiled from their land and living in diaspora for 2000 years, dispersed among various countries, enduring pogroms, inquisitions, the Holocaust, antisemitism, and many hardships—live and exist. Against all odds, the Torah guarantees that the Jewish people will survive and even return once more to their land. Here is the wording of the Torah regarding the prophecy of the ingathering of the exiles: "Then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you. And the Lord your God will bring you into the land that your ancestors possessed, so that you may possess it; and he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors" (Deuteronomy 30:3-5).

The probability of a nation surviving while being small in number, scattered worldwide, and subject to persecution and extermination is negligible, and naturally, they would not survive for long. Nevertheless, the prophecy was entirely fulfilled. As the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy said: "The Jew is eternal; he is the embodiment of eternity."

On the eternity of the Jewish people, Arnold Toynbee, one of the greatest historians of the 20th century, who studied the rise and fall of civilizations, stated: "The preservation of national identity by a people without political independence, without a single spoken language, a people not concentrated but dispersed worldwide, and in the face of continuous persecutions—is an irrational phenomenon that leaves every historian astounded." Similarly, the French sociologist and historian Prof. George Friedman said: "The Jewish people have a history unlike any other. I once wrote that the Jews are an accident of history, something that does not conform to the accepted rules of history."

The existence of the Jewish people against all logic or probabilistic odds serves as further evidence, one among many, of the supernatural nature embedded within the Jewish people, the divine reality, and the incomparability in the Torah of Israel.

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