The Decree of Zohran Mamdani
The decree is already written. The ink is drying in Heaven. Judgment does not arrive in thunder; it creeps silently, one ignored warning at a time. We stand again at the edge of a flood — not of water, but of our own corruption and pride.
What if ten were to be found there? I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten. Bereishit (Genesis) 18:32
Man’s creations set today’s reality. We don’t ride on the horses Hashem makes; we use cars and planes. We don’t talk using the mouth God gives us, it’s with Smartphones and social media.
When we look higher, by default, we look to two gods to save us: Donald Trump or Bibi Netanyahu. To others, their master of the universe is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Yair Lapid.
We see a world run by man and dictated by what he or she does.
We forget that we lost wars precisely when we sinned against God, and we won when we returned to Him. In Gidon’s day, after the Jews repented, Hashem blessed Gidon with victory over 130,000 Amalekites and Midianites with just 300 righteous Jews.1
After the holocaust, God granted the Jews in Israel the miracles of the War of Independence (1948) and the Six Day War (1967). In both wars, we were outmanned, outgunned, and surrounded on all sides by enemy forces.
A week after the Six Day War, we gave away the holiest site in the universe, the Temple Mount, to our enemies for nothing. Our enemies could use the place where we made offerings to God to pray for another annihilation of our brothers and sisters.
We haven’t won a war since.
Imagine how the Jordan Valley would look if the Dead Sea was filled with sweet water. It would look like the green, fertile Galilee. That was the original Sodom. It was the biggest, strongest, most prosperous city in the entire region. Its destruction wasn’t due to a military mishap. Rather, they sinned against God, and Hashem decreed their destruction. Despite their financial and military might, they were no match for Hashem’s Will.
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For almost two decades, New York City was led by two powerful mayors: Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. In 2011, they legalized sodomy in all its forms. Right after normalizing such abominations, the bottom fell out.
The very next election in 2014 saw Bill de Blasio, the worst mayor in the city’s history, undo everything these two men had built. It was no different than when King Solomon spent 40 years building Israel to its greatness, only to see it all unravel when his successors split the great Jewish Kingdom into pieces.
New York City prides itself on financial greatness, but Hashem wants us to pride ourselves on our fear of Him. Zohran Mamdani exposes its folly:
He does not desire the might of the horse, nor does He take pleasure in the legs of man. The Lord desires those who fear Him, those who hope for His kindness. (Psalms 147:10-11)
God wants our righteousness. He wants our mitzvot.
The Deal of Eternity
We learn from Gidon’s battle that Hashem makes a covenant with His nation: If we serve Him through His mitzvot, He will protect us. If we don’t, He will destroy us. There is no middle ground.
He makes a similar arrangement with the rest of His world. Following the Seven Laws of Noah means life. Betraying them brings death.
When the world committed all forms of robbery and sexual perversions – the Torah calls it “hamas” (חמס) – God destroyed almost the entire world with a flood, but saved the tzaddik Noach and his family.2 When the people of Sodom did the same, God destroyed Sodom but saved Lot and his daughters.3
What is New York City’s Future?
A city that prides itself on sodomy will be destroyed. It has no future. A city that has a per capita GDP of $92,341 – more than any other city in the United States4 – yet ignores over 140,000 people without a home5, is like Sodom that punished people for exercising compassion.
Unless they repent like the people of Nineveh in the time of Yonah, they will end up destroyed like Sodom and like the world in the flood.
When Hashem decreed a flood upon the earth, He gave mankind 120 years to repent6, and even then, the rains started as a mere drizzle – to give the people one final chance. Hashem didn’t flood the world in a moment. First, He flooded a third of the world to warn everyone. Nobody listened. Then, He flooded another third of the world to give a greater warning.7 Nobody improved themselves.
Hashem gives us so many warnings. He warns us so we have time to escape like Lot, or to repent like Gidon and Nineveh.
Zohran Mamdani is a warning to New York. He is a warning to all of us.
Our time is up. We must take action.
The decree of Zohran Mamdani has been made. The clock is ticking for everyone.
May Hashem answer us on the day we call. (Psalms 20:10)
1 Shoftim (Book of Judges), Chapter 7
2 Bereishit (Genesis) 6:11-13
3 Bereishit 18:20-21, 20:1-28
4 statista.com “Real per capita gross domestic product of the United States in 2024, by state”
5 USAFacts “Which US cities have the largest homeless populations?”
6 Bereishit 6:14, See Rashi’s comment
7 Bereishit 7:11-24
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David Ben Horin lives in Afula with his family, 60,000 passionate Israelis, and Matilda, our local camel. Follow his channel, The Conquest of Israel.
11/10/2025
What’s more frightening than this decree is that many Jews voted FOR it!
It’s like consciously wading into the waters of the Flood instead of entering Noach’s ark, remaining in Sodom instead of leaving with Lot, or siding with the Amalekites instead of Gidon’s soldiers.