Jewish culture today can be viewed as a leaky boat, whose oarsmen paddle vigorously to counter military and political currents that seek to overturn the vessel. At the same time a leak in the boat caused by abortion as acceptable birth control and rejection of God's moral guidelines for living in so many other areas drains the nation of demographic and spiritual strength.

Modern Jewish culture faces great danger from external attacks as well as internal moral disintegration due to secularization bolstered by decades of misinterpreted Jewish law by many rabbis who claim false legal authority.

So many people are affected by abortion now because almost everyone has been in contact with someone who has had something to do with the little dead bodies of our unborn children.

Abortion is the intentional torturing of a baby to death in the womb. The procedure hurts women and devastates men. Chemical abortion, now 63% of all abortion, is frightening, painful, and sends more women to ERs than other methods. Abortion increases the danger to women who suffer from emotional and psychiatric problems. It has been used as a method of genocide against Jews and Jewish practice of abortion continues to eliminate Jews.

The order to destroy Jericho came after 400 years of chances to repent, which the city leaders declined. How long do we dare try the patience of the Almighty with child sacrifice and wickedness?

"Not by military force and not by physical strength, but by My spirit,' says the Lord of Hosts."

We are assured of God's blessings of grace and peace when we raise our consciousness to Him and love and serve Him with our whole being.

We know that each person is unique from day one of conception, and our psalms inform us that HaShem knows the destiny of each one of us from the moment He bestows the gift of life at conception.

More importantly are the profound sacrifices of reputation, family and peer approval or livelihood that may result as a consequence of taking actions that demonstrate God’s commandments to protect innocent human life from intentional slaughter.

Devoted faithfulness to God’s moral law in the midst of mayhem was quite a test for the newly freed Israelites. Some embraced it; some accepted parts of it, some rejected it entirely.