Divine Discrimination

Refined people discriminate between good and evil. 

The only creature who has signs of both good (kosher) and evil (non-kosher) is the pig. In spite of its kosher signs, it is considered the most unholy of all animals. Our society is now telling us to accept the pig: accept everyone regardless of the evil that they do in life.

Instead of awarding hard work and promoting those who have an honest ethic of doing what is necessary over doing what feels good, we discriminate against diligence by rewarding people based on the color of their skin.  

Instead of incentivizing people to perpetuate the human race by favoring families with children, we show a preference for unions that will, in a single generation, obliterate the society that’s been built over thousands of years.  

Instead of rewarding people who follow the law, live honestly, and work hard, we let anyone assault, steal, and do nothing with the precious years of life that G-d gives them. Like the pig, the lawless demand that we include them as respected citizens while overlooking the evil they do.  

Hashem blesses us with rules that forbid us to ingest certain foods. The pig stands at the top of the list of unkosher foods. In spite of the pig’s kosher signs, we are forbidden to eat pork. Just as Hashem discriminates between kosher and non-kosher, Hashem wants us to discriminate between good and evil behavior.  

The First Warning 

As our King David said in the first two lines of Psalm 1, we distinguish good from evil behavior by being discriminating: 

Praised is the man that did not follow the counsel of the wicked, neither did he stand in the way of sinners nor sit in the company of scorners. But his desire is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. Psalms 1:1-2 

The man Hashem blesses is one who discriminates and chooses right over wrong, good over evil. He blesses the holy who pursues the commandments over the unholy that mocks them.  

Segregate yourself from those who talk nonstop about Joe Biden, Taylor Swift, and Megan Merkle. Instead, surround yourself with people who want to speak Torah in every situation.  

Don’t listen to the talking heads, paid for by the media, that tell you to accept everybody. Instead, listen to G-d.  

Hashem, the Judge of mankind, does not accept people with the progressive love of a Hollywood Studio: 

The righteous man shall be as a tree planted beside rivulets of water, which brings forth its fruit in its season, and its leaves do not wilt; and whatever he does prospers. Not so the wicked, but [they are] like chaff that the wind drives away. Psalms 1:3-4 

G-d distinguishes between good and evil.

True justice is where a person who gives charity gets rewarded by his local community while a pick-pocket spends a full year in a cage.  

This used to be our world. It still is.  

Just because the kind are scorned and the cruel are vindicated, doesn’t mean they are judged that way by G-d. Even if we see wrong rewarded and the right punished in this world – which we often do – in the Next World, the truth emerges in full force.  

Hashem gives good people their reward in an eternal place where every experience, feeling, and sensation is amplified a million times over. When the time comes, they will return to the earth during the days of Mashiach to live alongside Moshe, Aaron, King David, Rabbi Nachman, and the great Sages of all time.  

The Final Notice 

“American Idol” and “Shark Tank” might make for fun judgment in this world, but the Ultimate Judgment is by Hashem. He doesn’t judge who gets a round of financing or who gets a record deal.  

Hashem determines your eternity. He determines your health, finances, children, and future. In righteous judgment, He decides whether or not you will sit at the top of the eternal world that counts (where you will spend far more than the 120 years that you drudge through in this world), and whether or not you will live or be brought back to life when His Salvation comes.  

Who will make it? The leaders of the LGBTQ+ movement who tell people with illicit desires to indulge in them rather than fight the good fight? The people who tell you that good is wrong and evil is good? The people who prevent us from building up our Land? The people who steal, lie, cheat, and kill? 

King David sums it up: 

The wicked shall not stand up in judgment, nor shall the sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish. Psalms 1:5-6 

Hashem judges our actions according to His discrimination of what is good and what is evil, not according to the way we look. None of us can hide behind ideology, friends, or influence. 

And there is nothing Mark Zuckerberg, Yair Lapid, Avigdor Lieberman, Adam Schiff, Joe Biden, or Whoopi Goldberg can do about it.  

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David Ben Horin is the writer and trader for Endurance Investing & Trading Daily. He lives in the Jezreel Valley with his wife and children, lots of Jews, Arabs, and the occasional shepherd.