Chochma BaGoyim Taamin

 

Sometime after the outbreak of the Shemini Atzeres war, I wrote two posts about the people who are behind this. The first one (Nov 3, 2023) was titled New World Order - Part 2: When Did it All Start? And What is the End Game? This was a hysterical historical overview of the New World Order globalists who are behind all the events that are going on worldwide.

The second one (Nov 12, 2023) was titled Brutal Betrayal. It was an analysis of the suspicious nature of the October 7 events and security lapses that point to a grand collusion from the inside. There are definitely traitors in our midst.

Both of these posts are well worth reviewing.

Over the past months, I chanced across two lengthy interviews of one very astute non-Jewish individual named Francisco Gil-White. I do not know his occupation or claim to fame but he is one of the most broad-minded, honest, and introspective analysts I have come across.

The earlier interview is the longer one. It is just shy of two hours long. His main point is that antisemitism is not only a hatred of Jews. It is no coincidence that the most virulent anti-Semites throughout history were also those who aimed to squash all manner of human rights.

Almost all past social disasters that appeared to be aimed at us Jews actually persecuted the freedom loving gentiles more than us.

The Spanish Inquisition was really a war against Christian heretics, not against the Jews. Nazi Germany enslaved and murdered about 20,000,000 non-combatants including half of Germany and all of Eastern Europe. Only one third of those were Jews.

Think Stalin and communism, Fascism, and all of the Arab regimes. We can also throw in Mao Tze Dung and the Khmer Rouge who didn’t even have any Jews tp kill. They all just murdered their own.

Antisemitism is just a ruse to get all the peaceful non-Jews to look the other way until their turn comes. It is also there because the only way they can succeed in forming a one world totalitarian government and enslave all peace-loving people, is if they can get us out of the way first, just like Nimrod couldn't get his plan to fly as long as Avraham Avinu was around.

You can see the earlier interview HERE:

The later interview is a little shorter and more timely. Here, Mr. Gil-White hypothesizes about who is really pulling the strings in the Middle East and Iran and he points the finger at…drumroll…the American shadow policy makers. He shows how its clear that the US is playing the game both ways but their true goal is to take down Israel. After that, the rest of the free world.

This is for the same purpose as he discussed earlier, to depopulate and enslave the peaceful masses.

He posits that the US policy makers are the quintessential wolves in sheep’s clothing. And, as I wrote in my posts, this did not just start today. World War II and the Holocaust itself was the brainchild of the American Eugenicists.

 

Yes, indeed, Adolf Hitler was a rabid anti-Semite of the highest order, but he could not pull off his Holocaust without international backing (and banking). Actually, he was merely a puppet for the American Eugenicist capitalists who bankrolled him, supplied him, encouraged him and protected him. These were the likes of John D. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil which flowed freely to Germany, Henry Ford and his trucks, Tom Watson and his IBM tabulation technology, Prescott Bush, Allen Dulles, William Randolph Hearst and the Pattersons with their propaganda. They all helped build and maintain the Nazi machine.   

Of course, there were British and German collaborators, too, not to mention the good ol’ Mufti, but the Americans were the most powerful.

Anyway, he claims it is the Americans who are bankrolling Qatar and Iran and, by proxy, Hamas and Fatah and Islamic Jihad and PFLP, and always were. They are the ones who set us up for the Yom Kippur war, with the help of good ol’ American goyim like Henry Kissinger and Golda and forced us into Oslo and the disengagement. Evidently, they are the ones who handcuffed the IDF not to respond to October 7^th, to disarm the settlers, and to get all the nice guards and sentries to look the other way. It follows that they are the protectors of the leftist Israeli judicial court system and the instigators of all the prewar unrest.

Good ol’ Uncle Shmiel.

When you listen to his theories, a lot of what is happening now falls into place.

You can see the more recent interview HERE:

 

I highly recommend looking in on them if you have the time (Tip: change the playback speed to 1.5x or 2x). Both are quite long. If you can only watch one, it is better to watch the second one since it is shorter, more relevant, and more up to date.

In any case, keep your friends close and your enemies closer – if there is any difference.

This person is very wise.

חכמה בגויים תאמין

New World Order - Part 2: When Did it All Start? And What is the End Game? (Noach, Lech Lecha, Vayeira)

 

I have written in the past that, amazingly, the Jewish day school I attended did not teach Chumash until third grade. And even then, they only began at Parshas Lech Lecha. As such, I had learned about Darwinian evolution through secular media, like television and magazines, even before I knew about the six days of Creation.

On top of that, in my childhood, I had also learned some of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories. For those who weren’t born last century, Kipling’s Just So Stories are fanciful post-Darwin mythological tales that seem to complement “Origin of Species”. They have titles such as “How the Leopard Got its Spots”, “How the Camel Got Its Hump”, “How the Rhinoceros Got its Skin”, “How the First Letter was Written”, and even "How the Alphabet was Made".

It's a child’s guide on how things got started. Only, a child has a hard time distinguishing between fact and fiction. Just ask any kid who read Where the Wild Things Are.

Eventually, I did learn Breishis and Noach, but the damage was done. A story is a story whether it comes from Rudyard Kipling or Moshe Rabeinu. So, to people like me, when we study Parshas Noach and learn about the Dor Haflaga, aka, the Tower of Bavel, it comes across as just another Just So story.

How the Camel Got its Hump.

How the Whale Got its Throat

How the Leopard Got its Spots

How the Alphabet was Made

How the World Got 70 Languages

Just So!

Sadly, even for many Jews who were taught nothing but Creation and always believed it and who are not children anymore, they still don’t get the story of the Dor Haflaga. They still think that its main purpose is to tell us a true account of why the people of the world speak many different languages. They think that it was a one-time historical event that occurred over 4000 years ago and is totally a thing of the past. Ancient history. Nimrod lived and died and nothing remains of his reign and his tower.

They are making a huge mistake. Nimrod is still here. He is alive and well. And the purpose of the story of the tower is to tell us about the “birth” of the Freemasons, the Globalists, the Deep State, the Knights of the New World Order. It is here to tell us that they exist, and despite all their sweet talk, they are up to no good, and that we must not comply with them.

Yep, the New World Order is not all that new. It’s actually more than 3500 years old!

Of course, many of us are either ignorant or skeptical about all of this. But let me say this:

Every single Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, we say these words in every Shemona Esrei:

וכל הרשעה כעשן תכלה, כי תעביר ממשלת זדון מן הארץ

May all the evil be obliterated like smoke, as the malicious government is expelled from the Earth.

We say these words 13 times every single year, year after year. If you have been davening for ten years, you have said it 130 times. If you have davened for forty years, you have said it over 500 times. Have you ever stopped to think: Who exactly is this malicious government? What kind of government existed when our liturgy was first devised (at least 1500 years ago), and is still here today, and will remain until HKBH establishes His Kingdom over the world?

It can't be the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition, Czarist Russia or Nazi Germany. They're all gone. It cannot be the US, the EU or the UK. They weren't in power earlier on.

 

Well then, who is this "malicious government"? What makes them so exceedingly malicious?

The obvious answer is that it is the government of Nimrod. It is Nimrod’s one world government. They didn’t disappear. They were only scattered to 70 nations. Yet, there are those in all the 70 nations that still aspire to Nimrod’s plans.

And what makes them so malicious?

Well, for one thing, you and me don’t count. Remember what Chazal tell us that if a brick would fall off the structure and break, they would weep bitter tears. But if a workman fell off of the structure and died, they did not care. Everyone lives and dies for the state – the “Deep State”.

But the more important factor is that they don’t have the interests of the Creator in mind. The Midrash tells us that the Dor Haflaga was not fully united. There were three objectives that motivated the members to build the tower.

First there were the non-believer scientists. These folks either believed that HKBH left the world to work on its own (clockmaker theory) or they were plain atheists. They thought the sky collapses every so often and causes a great flood. The purpose of the tower was either to buttress the sky so it won’t collapse or, if it does, they can climb up into the tower and stay above water.

The second group were idolaters who simply wanted to keep their deities in high places. The third group were the ones that believed in G-d but wanted to banish Him from the earth. They wanted to wage war against G-d.

These are the Satanists. 

  

Whichever way, there was no place for HKBH in their city and tower.

The Midrash says that Avraham Avinu understood what was going on and stood against the “project”. Unity for the wicked is not a good thing. Aside from Avraham, three other people opposed the project from the start – Noach, the father of all humanity, Shem his son, and Eiver who was Shem’s grandson. All of these were ancestors of Avraham Avinu. They tried to convince the people of the world not to follow Nimrod, but Nimrod’s influence and might was too overwhelming.

All of the descendants of Cham and Yefes sided with Nimrod. Even most of the sons of Shem, including Eilam and Kedarlaomer, followed Nimrod. Only one person listened and walked away – Ashur. He moved North and built four cities of his own, presumably without towers.

Anyway, HKBH gathered a Beis Din of 70 malachim with HKBH as the Av Beis Din. this made a total of 71 dayanim. It was a precarious moment because this was high treason and, once again, the proper penalty was to destroy the world. But, since despite their treason, they were able to coexist as a society, the Beis Din paskened that, for now, we will merely disrupt the communications of the parties and let them be. Each of the 70 malachim came down and taught a bunch of workers a different language.

Nimrod’s power was severely weakened, and the one world government and Central Bank Digital Currency initiative was put on the shelf for the time being. But Nimrod still ruled over the world.

I noted in my previous post (NWO - Part 1) that Nimrod was subservient to Kedarlaomer. I would venture to suggest that this fact was kept between Nimrod and Kedarlaomer. As far as the rest of the world was concerned, Nimrod was thought to be invincible.

Why?

Noach took the special clothes that HKBH made for Adam HaRishon with him on the ark. When he wasn’t looking, Cham snatched them away. Cham gave them to his firstborn Kush who gave them to his son Nimrod. These clothes had drawings of animals on them and this caused all wild animals to cower from them. Whoever wore the clothes could catch and tame any type of animal. That is why Nimrod was thought to be the greatest of hunters.

In any case, nobody messed with Nimrod. This is how Nimrod got the entire world to join his tower project and to get involved in Molech and devil worship. With or without the tower, he wanted to banish HKBH from this world.

Noach soon died and Shem and Eiver relocated to Eretz Yisrael to learn Torah and stay close to HKBH. Nimrod didn’t see them as a threat since they kept to themselves and didn’t try to spread the Word of G-d to the masses. At least not in his territory.

But there was one person who did remain in Bavel and started preaching to the masses that there is an omnipotent Creator who calls the shots and is the only being that should be worshipped, and that Nimrod is as mortal as everyone else. This was Avraham the Ivri (Opponent).

Nimrod had his medical license revoked, had him censored and deplatformed, shut all his social media including his X-Twitter account, sued him for spreading misinformation and even gave him beachfront property in Maui and zapped him with a DEW (Direct Energy Weapon).

Nothing worked but, eventually, HKBH told Avraham Avinu to relocate to Maarava (Go West, young man. Go west.)

But Nimrod wasn’t deterred.

Remember the war of the Four Kings against the Five? Four kings from Iraq (Bavel) – Nimrod and his friend Aryoch – and from Iran (Eilam) – Kedarlaomer and his friend Thidal – came all the way to Eretz Kanaan to fight against the Sodomites.

Why did they come? What were they after?

Well, the Torah gives us the official narrative. They used to pay taxes to Kedarlaomer and they abruptly stopped. Kedarlaomer was coming to collect his money.

But, as usual, we can never fully rely on the official narrative. Ther is always more to the story. In my previous post, I noted that the tax revolt may have been the main motive for Kedarlaomer. But it doesn’t really explain why Nimrod came under an assumed name. I suggested that, initially, he was sent to do it by Kedarlaomer because the Kanaanim were from Nimrod’s ethnic crowd.

Without discounting that theory, I came to another suggestion. Something that the Torah didn’t want to tell us straight out but can be read between the lines.

Nimrod was after Avraham Avinu – plain and simple. He couldn’t care less about the Sodom money. That was Kedarlaomer’s fight as we said last post. But joining up with Kedarlaomer on the Sodom campaign was his golden opportunity to get Avraham Avinu. Avrohom Avinu was his primary objective all along.

I am thinking that Kedarlaomer wasn’t interested in capturing Lot and starting up with his cousin Abe. He was a Semite and had mixed alliances. He also knew that Avraham Avinu was no pushover and thus far, never lost a fight. It was only Nimrod who had the audacity to capture Lot so as to draw in Avraham. It was his plan all along.

We are told that when these kings whipped the Refaim, that Og escaped. He was a war refugee. How did Og (and apparently his brother Sichon) manage to escape when all these other Neanderthals got whacked?

I don’t think Og escaped. I think he was spared. I think he was purposely spared by Nimrod so he can capture Lot and then get Avraham to enter the war. Nimrod needed to crush Avraham in order to re-establish his New World Order.

He hadn’t given up.

The Torah tells us that Nimrod lost the war and got smitten but it doesn’t really tell us the he was killed. It only says that Avraham chased the remainder out to Syria. Either Nimrod was not finished off or, if he was, he had a son, also named Nimrod, who succeeded him. This Nimrod (whichever) actually came back and tried again.

Eisav got him that time and really killed him. But instead of taking out the Globalists, he just grabbed the fancy Adam HaRishon clothes and reestablished the New World Order in Rome.

Where do I get this hidden message?

In this week’s Parsha (Vayeira – Breishis 18:27), Avraham is pleading with Hashem to same some of the Sodom complex. He says to Hashem: ואנכי עפר ואפר.

I am afar (dust) and aifer (ashes).

Rashi on the spot explains – And I should have already been relegated to dust (afar) on account of the four kings and to ashes (aifer) on account of Nimrod, if not for Your mercy that sustained me.

Okay, there’s the four kings and then there is also Nimrod. And who is at the head of the four kings (at the start)?

Amraphel = Nimrod.

Avraham is saying I would have been ashes due to Nimrod and I would have been dust due to Nimrod. It’s all the same Nimrod from dust to ashes.

Now, here is something very scary.

Avraham Avinu first spoke about being dust עפר and then mentioned ashes אפר. But wasn’t the furnace before the war? Wasn’t the ashes before the dust?

Avraham Avinu is the father of Klal Yisrael. But he is also the Av Hamon Goyim. The father of the nations of the earth.

What is עפר (dust)?

ע-פר. 70 bulls. The seventy bulls that we bring on Succos for all of the nations. That comes earlier.

What is אפר (ashes)?

א-פר. One bull. The solitary bull that we bring on Shemini Atzeres for the Jewish people. That comes later.

Avraham Avinu is the father of the nations of the earth, so he has the attribute of ע-פר – 70 bulls of Succos. But he is also the father of Klal Yisrael so he has the attribute of א-פר – the single bull of Shemini Atzeres.

In Parshas Chukas, the ashes of the Parah Adumah are referred by both terms afar and aifer. But, notice something. In Bamidbar 19:9 it states:

ואסף איש טהור את אפר הפרה

And a pure person should gather the aifer of the cow.

Aifer אפר is associated with a pure person, with purity.

Later in Bamidbar 19:17 it states:

ולקחו לטמא מעפר שריפת החטאת

And they will take for the impure one from the afar of the sin offering…

Afar עפר is associated with an impure person, with impurity. Moreover, it is no longer called a parah (cow) but a chatas – object of sin.

First the seventy nations have their “chag”. We remain in the Sukkah. On the eighth day we come out of the Sukkah and celebrate our closeness to HKBH. But this is only if we distinguish ourselves from the seventy nations and stay separate. If we do not, there is no longer a Sukkah and no barrier between them and us.

Many people don’t know anything about this Globalist Elite and New World Order cabal. When people like me try to tell them it exists, the skeptics ask a very common question: If there is such a cabal, why are they doing all this? What is their ultimate goal? What’s the “end-game”?

Al I can answer is that this cabal is the reincarnation of the Dor Haflaga. Whatever their primary goal was then is exactly what it is today. They are the same people, so they have the same agenda. There is nothing new under the sun.

The reason the Torah told us about it isn’t a Just So Story about why we speak different languages. It is telling us who the ממשלת זדון that we beg Hashem to destroy every single year really are.

Like Nimrod, they want total control over the world. They want to depopulate the world with war, urban violence, hunger, and poisons – in the form of processed foods, fluorides, pharmaceuticals, and vaccines - abortions, sterilization, and promoting homosexuality and transgenderism. They want to impoverish us with inflation, all kinds of taxes and high interest credit and low interest savings. They want to kidnap and traffic human beings for fun and profit.

It's all them and it’s all by design.

Only Avraham Avinu stood on the other side. Avraham Avinu was able to distinguish between the afar and the aifer. We need to be the progeny of Avraham Avinu and stand against Nimrod and the world. We need to be separate from the nations and their anti-G-d New World Order.

כי ביצחק יקרא לך זרע

New World Order - Part 1: The Baal Maaseh (Lech Lecha)

Sefer Breishis holds some amazing secrets about who we are, where we are going, and what is happening in the world today. All the events of the world are foretold in the stories of Chava and the nachash, Kayin and Hevel, Dor HaMabul and Dor Haflaga, the four kings against the five, Yitzchok and Yishmael, Yaakov and Eisav, and Avraham's ten tests. 

Some are very easy to see but others are very well hidden. People who think there is no such thing as a Global Elite with an agenda for a New World Order and a One World Government are both ignorant of recurring world events and of the messages forecast in Sefer Breishis. They also do not understand the davening of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (I intend to explain this in the next post.)

The following is a post that I wrote for Parshas Lech Lecha in 5779 (November 2008). It does not directly address the main topic of the New World Order but it is a very significant piece of the puzzle. In honor of Parshas Lech Lecha, I am reprinting it here as a prelude for what is to come.

The original title was:

Who Did the Land of Israel First Belong to After the Flood?

והכנעני אז בארץ

Rashi (Breishis 12:6) explains this pasuk to mean that:

The Kanaanim were progressively conquering Eretz Israel from the descendents of Shem, for the land fell within the portion of Shem when Noach apportioned the land…thereupon "And He said to Avram, 'To your offspring I will give this land…' ", i.e., I am destined to restore it to your offspring as they are the descendants of Shem.

I consider this Rashi as one of the most troublesome in all of Chumash, and I am not alone. For one thing, as Ramban points out, the Chumash clearly demarcates the borders of Kanaan in Parshat Noach (Breishis 10:19) which intimates that these are legitimate borders of the sons of Kanaan approved by Noach.

Secondly, Rashi seems to contradict himself profusely as follows:

Rashi in the first pasuk in Breishis (1:1) writes that the purpose of detailing the Creation as a preamble to the Torah was so that…

…if the nations of the world will say to Israel, "You are thieves, for you conquered the lands of the seven nations!", we will respond that "The entire earth belongs to HKBH. He created it and gave it to whom he saw fit. By his will, He gave it to them and by his will He took it from them and gave it to us."

This passage seems to imply that Rashi recognizes that the land was originally in the possession of the Kanaanim no less legitimately than it was later in our possession.

Further, in Bamidbar (13:22) Rashi confirms this sentiment by quoting the gemara in Sota (34b also Kesubos 112b) which says that it does not make sense to say that Chevron was built before Tzoahn of Egypt because "Does a man (Cham ben Noach) build a town for his younger son (Kanaan) before he builds one for his older son (Mitzraim)?" This clearly implies that Cham was the original master over the land of Kanaan and it was his right to build there.

Numerous commentators make note of this contradiction and at the forefront is Rabbenu Eliyahu Mizrachi (RE"M) who makes a note of it in all three spots (Breishis 1:1 and 12:6 and Bamidbar 13:22). And he repeats the same mantra throughout: These are contradictory aggadoth and Rashi acknowledges both. In Breishis 1:1 he points out that Rashi is prone to doing this in multiple instances in Chumash.

Two things bother me. First, the minor one and that is that to say "aggados chalukos" is always a last resort solution (kind of like אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה ) that we prefer to avoid. But, secondly, and more acute, I can accept the idea of contradictory aggadoth if there actually are two contradictory aggadoth – similar to the Talmud Bavli vs. Midrash Tanchuma issue I discussed previously about Ruth. However, in this case we know that Rashi's commentary on Bamidbar 13:22 is a gemara stated in 2 places. But what he says in Bresihis 12:6 (our pasuk) that Noach granted the land to Shem – where does he get that from?

It's not a Bavli, Yerushalmi, Midrash Rabba, Tanchuma, Yalkut or anything. How can we say aggados chalukos if it's not an aggada?? (Note - there are places that Rishonim quote Midrashim that are not found in the classic sources – see the famous Tosafot in Bava Basra 119b about the wood-gatherer that likewise has no known source.)

The best we have is a Toras Kohanim in Vayikra (Parsha 10:17) referenced in Ohr HaChaim (Breishis 12:6) that merely says:

והיא אינה אלא חלקו של שם ואתה בניו של שם.

That the land is the portion of Shem. It does not clearly state that Shem received the land when Noach apportioned it. Perhaps Toras Kohanim only means that it was destined for Shem but that Noach actually awarded it to Cham? And even if it was awarded to Shem from Noach, there is no mention about how or why it came to the hands of Kanaan. If this is Rashi's only source, it is only telling half the story. How does Rashi know the other half?

To summarize, the Talmud Bavli, Rashi in Breishis 1:1, and the Chumash in Breishis 10:9 all seem to indicate that Cham was the original legitimate sovereign of Eretz Israel. Yet, Rashi here (12:6) insists that Shem initially inhabited it and Cham stole it from him!

Who was here first?

Let us look at another troublesome pasuk.

The Chumash (Breishis 14:1) tells us, “And it was in the days of Amaraphel the king of Shinar, Aryoch king of Elasar, Kedarlaomer king of Eilam…”

Rashi tells us that Amaraphel was in actuality Nimrod. And we sure know who he was! He was the biggest, meanest king on the face of the Earth. Nobody messed around with Nimrod. He was Numero Uno. This is presumably why he is here at the head of the pack.

But wait! This is the last time Nimrod gets first billing. And he is only mentioned in this story one more time – batting third! What happened to him?

Only 3 pasukim later (Breishis 14:4) the pasuk says: “For 12 years they served Kedarlaomer…”

Kedarlaomer? Where did he come from? Oh yeah - Eilam! Where’s that?

Why were they serving Kedarlaomer? Wasn’t everybody subservient to the great and despotic Nimrod?

And in the next pasuk (Breishis 14:5), here he is again. He seems to be at the head of the pack.

Why him?

Rashi tells us: Because he was the “baal maaseh” (instigator) he entered into the thick of the frey.

Excuse me, but why was he the “baal maaseh”? Wasn’t he batting third at the beginning of this story?

With the help of Sefer HaYashar (a book of Midrashim of dubious authenticity) and the Oznayim L’Torah (Breishis 14:2 s.v. Asu Milchama) we can put a new spin on this story and perhaps an answer to the contradiction in Rashi.

You see, Nimrod was a tough mean guy. Probably the toughest and meanest there was. And he was a fierce king. He did not need to answer to anybody – except for one person: Kedarlaomer.

Yep, as great as Nimrod was, Kedarlaomer was greater. This is because Shem was the elite of Noach’s sons. He got first pick (even though Yefes was the bechor, Shem was born circumcised – Rashi, Breishis 5:32). And Eilam was Shem’s first born. He got first pick at everything. And Kedarlaomer was the favorite son of Eilam, the king. And a great king he was. Even Nimrod shuddered from him. This is because Noach made the sons of Cham servants to Shem (see Sanhedrin 91a)

When Noach apportioned the new world to his sons, he awarded the prime real estate – Eretz Israel – to his prized son, Shem. Shem in turn granted it to his first born, Eilam. However, Eilam did not want to take possession of Eretz Israel for himself. I can only venture a guess as to why – but I will suggest that the klal of ארץ ישראל נקנה ביסורים applied even from day one. So he chose to set up his kingdom in southern Iran instead (Shushan HaBira was in Eilam). But, so as to maintain sovereignty on this precious land, he had a great plan: He will “allow” his underlings, the slave nation of Kanaan, to settle the land; BUT – they must pay him an annual tribute. Among other reasons, this is so nobody should forget that the land is really his.

Of course, he didn’t want the dirty work of collecting taxes from these deadbeats – so he gave the job to his Numero Duo – his chief “enforcer” the invincible king of the sons of Cham – Nimrod. It was Nimrod’s responsibility to see to it that the Kanaanites pay their taxes to Kedarlaomer. Nimrod dealt directly with the populace, took his cut, and funneled the rest up to the boss.

For 12 years this arrangement worked just dandy. The people paid their taxes; to who? – to Kedarlaomer. Just they did it via Nimrod. Finally, for the next 13 years they staged a tax rebellion. Nimrod wasn’t happy but Kedarlaomer seemed not to notice so things dragged along. Finally, after 13 years, Kedarlaomer told Nimrod that enough is enough and that Nimrod had better talk some sense into these savages. Thus, initially Nimrod led the crusade into the Holy Land and Kedarlaomer just came along for the ride. As such Nimrod and his deputy Aryoch went first and Kedarlaomer and his pal Thidal came after. But in reality, it wasn’t Nimrod’s battle. It was Kedarlaomer’s. He was the real feudal lord of Eretz Israel, it was his land, not Nimrod’s. That is why he was the “baal maaseh”.

When the battle heated up (imagine the temperature in Sodom), Nimrod wasn’t getting the job done. I would surmise that Nimrod had mixed alliances as he was truly a Chammite and Kedarlaomer was a Semite. Nimrod didn’t want to wipe out fellow Chammites and in truth he was an anti-Semite. So, Kedarlaomer, who knew it was his fight, had to take charge. That is why in pasuk 14:9 his position is moved up ahead of Nimrod’s (as Rashi says) and again he is the only king named in pasuk 14:17.

Now, if we take all this as the real story (up to you) we can resolve the apparent contradictions in Rashi. Firstly, we will have to presume the following:

• Noach did not apportion the new world the day after they stepped out of the Ark. He first waited for his sons to produce a few generations of people to do some populating. When he finally did it, people such as Eilam and Kush and Nimrod and Kedarlaomer were already up and around.
  
  
• Immediately upon the apportionment of the new world, Shem received Eretz Israel, and he immediately granted it to Eilam who was ruled by Kedarlaomer, and he immediately sold Nimrod and the Kanaanim building rights in Eretz Israel. This was at the same time as Egypt was awarded to Mitzrayim son of Cham. As such, Cham had the initial building rights to both Kanaan (Eretz Israel) and Mitzrayim even though technically Eretz Israel never belonged to him. It was only his on loan.

With this approach, we can say that our Rashi (Breishis 12:6) understands that Noach actually awarded Eretz Israel to Shem but Shem immediately “sold” to Cham (Kanaan) the rights to “conquer” it. When Rashi says they “were progressively conquering it from the sons of Shem”, he didn’t mean they occupied it by force, but rather with permission granted to them from the sons of Shem (Oznayim L’Torah 14:2).

Now, it is no longer difficult that the Torah (10:19) acknowledges to Kanaan defined borders. These were the borders that were allocated to them in their contract with the sons of Shem.

Likewise, we can answer the Rashi in Breishis 1:1 that even though the land was the true inheritance of Shem, since the Kanaanim were the first to settle it, and it was done without force, it appears as if it was originally their land. We could truly answer the nations that the land always belonged to us (also, we can answer in the manner of the Talmud in Sanhedrin 91a) but since it will not satisfy those who only know what they see, we need an alternative response that the whole world belongs to its Creator.

And finally, the gemara in Sota and Kesubos (Rashi in Bamidbar 13:22) is justified in asking why Cham built Chevron for Kanaan before Tzoahn for Mitzrayim and it did not give the obvious answer that Chevron was built by Shem. This is because even though the land belonged to Shem, Cham was “sold” the license to build there.

Thus, in spite of what seems to be a major concession in Breishis 1:1, Breishis 10:19, and Bamidbar 13:22 – if we stick with the Rashi that we see here in Breishis 12:6 we can proudly assert that the land always was, is and will remain the property of the sons of Shem.

Now, wasn’t Yishmael’s mother Egyptian?