Prophecies and Providence

Without compromising his passionate love of the Jewish homeland, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, for whom a "virtual Jewish State" existed well before the State of Israel came into being, never lost his fondness for his hometown. As he put it, Odessa was a place where "every corner of local life used somehow to get entangled with affairs and questions of worldwide range." Jewish history has always been remarkable. In its exilic sense, culminating in the unspeakable terror of the Holocaust, the hallmark of its uniqueness was survival. Exiled, powerless, and oppressed, the Jewish People survived the tides of time as a separate religious and cultural entity, while great superpowers vanished. Post-World War II, with the advent of the Jewish State, the course of Jewish history stepped into new gear. Almost overnight, the State of Israel, a homeland for Jews gathered in from around the globe, became the dynamic hub of international affairs and the focal point of the global news desk. Prophecies and Providence traces the contemporary history of the Jewish People through the prism of the Bible and centuries-old writings of Jewish sages. It is little wonder that the extraordinary events the world has recently witnessed are well indicated in Scripture. The book exposes this representation, putting together a puzzle of modern history with pieces that are thousands of years old.