What Happens When We Tear Down Our Heroes?

when we finally threw off the oppressive yoke of those professed Brits who were really descendants of a German dynasty, besides the fact that old King George was absolutely clinically mad.

But we had enough of that, and Baruch Hashem, HaKadosh Baruch Hu had created the refuah for the makkah on Tisha B'Av 1492, in one of the most cataclysmic events of world Jewish history, when Columbus readied his ships to sail.

And although I think the idea that Columbus was Jewish has been put to rest, but it seems to be verifiable that that the first person from his journey to actually set foot in the so-called New World was Jewish, part of the advance crew of the longboat that they sent ahead from the main ship.

And that was a simen of things to come.

What's happened after that, starting from 250 years ago, was perhaps the most tranquil period in Jewish history.

It was the founding of a state, imperfect then, imperfect today, but a huge boon to the fortunes of Jews who were provided a safe haven As Rav Chaim Velazhin reportedly said in that vision that he had in the middle of Davening, that America was going to be the last stop of Torah for the return to Eretz Yisrael.

And then the second time he cried and said, what that is going to mean.

So we're all aware of the downside of the assimilation of the fact that When Esav welcomes us, the consequences can be more severe than when he is out to get us explicitly, but that doesn't erase the amount of Hakaras HaTov

we have

for America.

Whether people observe Thanksgiving yearly or not, they should be giving some thought this Shabbos, So the fact that HaKadosh Baruch Hu created such a country in which refugees could come, Torah could develop, and occasionally with Medinas Yisrael, we could even bomb Iran together.

Any bracha may come to an end, and many of us feel that this tekufah is also perhaps likely coming to an end, but it pains me to no end to see people in certain unnamed cities in the United States say that, well, they're going to And we know what Goyim do.

And they're all the same.

And America stinks.

And we don't have to have any kind of Hakara Sato for them.

And besides George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and all the rest of them were a bunch of practically atheist people who were deeply flawed.

So forget about American history.