…And why the hatred of G-d? Because He wants man to resist temptation which is always a powerful urge toward pleasure in the short term but never in the long.

No, one eternal war is gentile hostility, “gentile” being a very good translation of the word “goy.” “Goy” means a nation, a people. When G-d bestows on Moshe the Tablets, He says His people will be a holy people, a “goy kadosh.” And the word “gentile” in English stems from the same Latin root as the Spanish “gente” and the French “gens” which means “people,” man’s largest social organization.

So one front is the hatred directed at us by the nations of the world – which UN voting patterns prove to be exactly as Hashem knew they would be — and the second front comes from within, from the erev rav/the mixed multitude that is forever tugging on the Jews to stop being Jewish…