"For Hashem your G-d walks within your camp to rescue you and to give you your enemies, so your camp shall be holy and there shall be no impure thing, lest He turn away from you (Dvorim 23:15)."
The Divine Presence and impurity - debauchery, immodesty, lewdness, and abominations - are mutually exclusive. When the Divine Presence leaves, Heaven forbid, the dark side and stern judgments (sitra achra v'din kasheh) fill the void. Like in the material world, there is no void in the spiritual world. There's either holiness or the opposite.
Just three days ago on my weekly Sunday slot on Israel National Radio, I spoke about the connections between the San Francisco gay parade and the wildfires all across Northern California. With a lump in my throat I added, "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," trembling at what might happen after the Israeli government and Supreme Court allowed a public display of abomination in the streets of Jerusalem and hoping that the emuna revolution in Israel would be enough to get us off the hook.
Jerusalem is Hashem's palace, but with 2,000 unclad gays flaunting their debauchery in the streets of Jerusalem, Hashem won't be there. When Hashem leaves, the Samech-mem (Satan) walks in the front door.
The mode of operation in yesterday's gruesome Kafkaesque terror attack - a bulldozer gone berserk - is proof that the Satan himself planned the attack. Nobody could imagine such a scenario. Guns, knives, bombs, poison - but a bulldozer? The Samech-mem's fingerprints are all over the place.
This is a war. Those of you who follow the Beams know that I've been speaking extensively about holiness and modesty in recent weeks. No one can defeat Israel as long as our camp is holy.
The location of the bulldozer massacre was very symbolic - right on the corner of Yafo and Sarei Yisrael Streets. This is in effect the border between the religious and non-religious neighborhoods. What's Hashem telling us? Don't just blame the gays and the impurade. When religious women's hemlines go up and necklines go down, when they wear tight fitting clothes with a long blond wig that reaches vertebrae #8 and clicky spike heels, then the Divine Presence also says bye-bye. Hashem demands much more from the religious sector who should know better. When Haredi women start following Paris designers instead of rabbinical ordinances, that shows that they couldn't care less about holiness.
The Gemara in tractate Shabbat says (page 106a), "If one of the group dies, then the entire group should worry." It's not enough that we blow the whistle on the anti-emuna regime's sanctioning of filth on our streets. We have to blow the whistle on anything improper in our own camp. We should all do teshuva for breaches in holiness. And yes, we are all responsible for one another. If a Jewish women in Connecticut doesn't cover her hair, then another terrorist is born in East Jerusalem.
Imagine, after your 120 years on earth, you're summoned to the Heavenly Court and accused of aiding and abetting the bulldozer terrorist. You protest and say, "What do you mean? I was in the USA at the time!" The Heavenly Tribunal then shows that your flirting/looking at another person's spouse created an evil angel (stern judgment) that destroyed people in Jerusalem. This is no joke.
I had tremendous inner turmoil about whether to post this or not. I showed it to the Melitzer Rebbe shlit'a, who said, "Post it - it's all true."
It's time for truth. Self evaluation and teshuva are the order of the day. Our lives depend on it.
Jerusalem is Hashem's holy palace. You can get away with certain things in a cow shed, but they won't be tolerated in the palace.
Holiness will win Jerusalem. The opposite is national suicide. Our camp must be pure.