By Moshe Feiglin

Who is responsible for all of our troubles in the last decades? It’s not Peres or Clinton, or Rabin. This entire mess is because of …John Lennon!

You probably know his song, “Imagine.” It’s the type of song that sticks in your head. That is just what happened to me one day when “Imagine” came over my car radio. What a heavenly, relaxing melody. And the words? Simply magical:

Imagine there’s no heaven. It’s easy if you try.
No hell below us. Above us only sky.
Imagine all the people. Living for today…

Imagine there’s no countries. It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for. And no religion too.
Imagine all the people. Living life in peace…

You may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one.
I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will be as one.

I suddenly realized that, without notice, John Lennon had injected into my veins the complete opposite of what should be flowing there. He gives me a directive to dream his dream, and I, along with a few billion others, surrender to the hypnotic melody. Technology pumps the song quickly throughout the world, and now we all dream John’s dream together.

What does “Imagine” have to do with our present reality in Israel?

In my opinion, what we are facing here is modern-day idolatry. “In the beginning… the earth was chaos and void” is the foundational negative reality. The idol worshipper gives up the constant uphill struggle against chaos. Idolatry sanctifies the natural forces that slide naturally toward entropy, toward death, toward faceless uniformity – in John Lennon’s words: “no countries… nothing to live or die for…”

In order to bring life to our world, the Creator made divisions. He created light and darkness, good and bad. Separation permits freedom of choice, but it is so much easier to simply surrender to diffusion and chaos. That is the great idolatrous enticement. That’s the magic in “Imagine.”

I do not want to see the different nations and cultures erased. I want them to come to the Holy Land on the festival of Sukkot. I want peace – the real peace that comes from separation between good and bad, life and death. I want to see the nations ascending to Jerusalem because they are attracted by the good that will emanate once again from the Temple Mount.

Now that we understand what lies behind “Imagine,” I invite you to sing it with new words:

Imagine no more evil. No poverty or need.
Everyone knows his mission. No jealousy or greed.
Imagine all the people. Serving G-d as one.

Imagine there’s a country. Where G-d’s light shines clear.
A place to truly live for. Where truth and morality are dear.
Imagine the Jewish People. Lighting up the world.

You may say I’m a dreamer. But our fathers dreamt before me.
I hope that soon you’ll join us. To perfect the world for the
Holy One, Blessed Be He.

Moshe Feiglin is the president of Manhigut Yehudit and a candidate for Chairman of the Likud party. He led the Zo Artzeinu non-violent civil disobedience struggle against the Oslo Accords. Moshe graduated from Or Etzion yeshiva, served as a captain in an IDF combat unit, and is the author of the books Where There Are No Men and War of Dreams. Moshe and his family live in Karnei Shomron, Israel.

To learn more about Moshe Feiglin and Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership) and to read our plan for Israel’s future, visit http://www.jewishisrael.org/ .

Manhigut Yehudit is the largest faction inside the Likud Party in Israel. It strives to turn Israel from The State of the Jews into The Jewish State.

Contact: Shmuel Sackett, International Director (516) 330-4922 (cell)

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