The Ashkenazi Revolution

47arrived, by German submarine, to Ireland, fought in the year 1916 amongthe rebels and was executed.After the death of Solomon, the tribes presented to Rehoboam, his heir,something of an ultimatum in order to weaken the power of the centralauthority and to nullify the any danger of another destruction of a tribesimilar to how Benjamin was destroyed. The elders advised Rehoboam toaccept this offer. However, the youngsters, the “children”, who comprisedthe central authority, advised Rehoboam to make it even stronger and totighten his yoke on the tribes of Israel even more, lest they join togetherand destroy Judah just as Judah had destroyed Benjamin. The rebellion ofthe tribes against Judah was not to be avoided, and the Tribe of Benjamin,which was geographically close to Judah, and had bitter experience,decided to stand on the side of Judah in this intertribal war. The two sidesprepared for war, which was to be like a second version of the battleagainst Benjamin, and it is very likely that in this war, had it broken out,the Tribe of Judah, specifically, would have been destroyed. The organ ofdiplomatic understanding this time was Shemaiah, a man of God, as is said:But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying, “Speak toRehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the House ofJudah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying, thus saysthe Lord, ‘Do not go up, and do not fight against your brethren theChildren of Israel; return, each man to his house, for this thing is fromme.’” They listened to the word of the Lord, and they returned as the Lordhad spoken (Kings 1 22:24).The cult of prophets and scribes was, from this time onward, alwaysfaithful to this philosophy, and they always sought to minimizecontroversy. This is logical in light of the bitter experience they had withthe opposite approach some of them had taken in the controversy over theconcubine in Gibeah. Between Jeroboam and Rehoboam there was war“all the time”, and the relationship between the kingdom of Judah and thekingdom of Israel, during the 211 years it existed, were typical of