As we start off a new Pasha, I would like to remind you that this Parsha can be read also on www.rabbipauli.blogspot.com
Prayers for the ill: MEN: Asher ben Malka, Avraham ben Devorah, Zvi Yechezkel ben Leah, Shalom Charles ben Gracia, Bentzion Michael ben Chaya Zipporah, Naphtali Moshe ben Tziporah, Chanan ben Shlomit, Yoel ben Esther, Zev ben Rachel, Adin Yisrael ben Sarah, Yehonatan ben Malka, Aharon ben Rishol, Yacov David ben Gittel Chaya, David Zvi ben Sara Leah
Women: Karen Neshama bas Esther Ruth, Chaya Melacha Rachel bas Baila Alta, Zvia Simcha bas Devora Yached, Bryna bas Gina Sara, Rachel bas Chana, Feige Rachel bas Taube, Hodaya Nirit bas Mazel, Pearl bas Feige Rivka, Leah Nikia bas Bertha Sarah, Newly added Dora bas Dorit.
A brief note on the Sinai Desert that I remembered in my oral Drasha on Eretz Yisrael before the Congregation in the Grandview Stebble, Hollywood FL: In Yerushalayim, the Golan and Shomron – all the mountains look like the rest of the mountains in the world from an airplane or the ground. In Sinai near the Red Sea they look like G-D was playing with a pail in the sand and dumped a lot of dirt in different places close to each other no gradual assent or descent.
Parsha Devarim
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In Parshas Devarim, Moses presents a recap of the past 40 years in the desert. Moses refers to the ill-fated incident of the 12 Spies who scouted out the Land of Israel, and then advised the Jewish people not to go into the land! Moses emphasizes that when the idea of sending spies was first suggested, the people did so in a disorderly manner - with lots of pushing and shoving. The whole thing started off on the wrong foot. And as we know, the incident of the spies ended disastrously - causing a delay of the Jewish entry into Israel.
The story is told of Rabbi Chaim Volozhin, who approached the revered Gaon of Vilna, with an innovative idea to benefit the Jewish people. With great enthusiasm, Rabbi Chaim explained his new project. But the Gaon of Vilna turned him away, saying it was not a good idea. Undeterred, Rabbi Chaim went back a few days later and - with great excitement and animation - again explained the new project. But again, the Gaon of Vilna said it was not a good idea.
A few months later, after having thought about it some more, Rabbi Chaim decided to try again. This time, the Gaon of Vilna gave his whole-hearted approval. And he explained: "When starting any new project, watch out if you're struck with 'uncontrolled enthusiasm.' It's a sign that the idea is impulsive and has not yet sufficiently matured."
This is also a good principle for parenting. Let's say your daughter comes running to you and says, "Mom! Mom! I want to learn how to play the keyboard! Let's go out and buy me a new keyboard! Now!" We've all seen it before - after the initial enthusiasm wanes, the keyboard winds up collecting dust at the back of a closet. Better for the parent to say: "Let's wait, dear, for a few more weeks. If you're still excited about the keyboard, we can talk about it then. In the meantime, maybe you can borrow someone's keyboard to see how much you like it."
It's a good principle to live by. For as we learn from the Spies, one's attitude in the early stage, hints to eventual outcome.
1:1 These are the words which Moses spoke unto all Israel beyond the Jordan; in the wilderness, in the Arabah, over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab. 2 It is eleven days journey from Horeb unto Kadesh-barnea by the way of mount Seir. 3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;
All of Sefer Devarim is a series of lectures and writing down by Moshe given in the last seven days of his life. Imagine a whole Sefer Containing over 200 of the 613 Mitzvos all written down in 7 days by Divine Command. This was the message that Moshe gave to the Bnei Yisrael that were going in to conquer Eretz Canaan. First Ethical Guidance and then make war and conquest. On one hand everybody wants to appear Ethical towards their people and instill conquest in their soldiers but in such details is not the normal wall. I have heard about General Patton’s speeches to his soldiers before going into battle. Much what he had to say was a good pep talk but not too ethical. Moshe first teaches Torah, Mitzvos and Ethics and then gives the go ahead for the conquest of the Holyland.
4 after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei; 5 beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law, saying: 6 The LORD our God spoke unto us in Horeb, saying: 'Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain; 7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the Lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore; the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
With the exception of the time of Shlomo HaMelech, Israel never had such territory so did Yehoshua go wrong, was the population too small, was the logistics too hard or the whole countries of Lebanon and Syria are awaiting us in the Messianic Era. What will be with the population living in these areas, the only answer will be as the future comes upon us. As for what the rest of the Goyim of the world will say about our future conquest: Is it not recorded in Zachariah 14:9 And the LORD shall be King over all the earth; in that day shall the LORD be One and His name one. On that day nobody will bad mouth Am Yisrael and the Tanach shall be the basis for international rule of law!
8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.' 9 And I spoke unto you at that time, saying: 'I am not able to bear you myself alone; 10 the LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.-- 11 The LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He hath promised you!—
Moshe expresses his difficulty in being a leader of a diverse group and managing everything at once.
12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife? 13 Get you, from each one of your tribes, wise men, and understanding, and full of knowledge, and I will make them heads over you.' 14 And ye answered me, and said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.' 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and full of knowledge, and made them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe.
This is the advice of Yisro and the people knew this. It is not Moshe taking personal credit but explaining the organization of the tribal units as subdivisions in judgement and rule of a nation and the history for the burden because the nation knew from the age of Cheder to their adulthood all of their Torah and Parsha Yisro with the 10 Sayings on Mt. Sinai and two Luchos of the Bris were no exception.
16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.'
The statement about the charging of how to Judge is not recorded Shemos 18. The Judges were commanded to be fair whether it be an educated man vs. a boor or a rich man vs. a poor man the ethics in judging was to be fair, balanced and without taking any education, wealth, power or superior quality of one vs. the other proceeding the trial. This also applied for domestic disputes between twin brothers or husband and wife, the judge had to be impartial.
18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and dreadful wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea. 20 And I said unto you: 'Ye are come unto the hill-country of the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives unto us. 21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee; go up, take possession, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be dismayed.'
The people were told to possess the land and not to fear! Yet they demanded that spies be sent and that was their downfall. I would not tell you in modern times to go blindly into battle. However, if I had just witnessed 10 Plagues in Egypt, 250 on the Egyptians during the splitting of the Sea, Mann coming down from heaven daily, quail, etc. I would think differently in my life because the Hanhaga of the people were different.
22 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said: 'Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us back word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities unto which we shall come.' 23 And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe; 24 and they turned and went up into the mountains, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us back word, and said: 'Good is the land which the LORD our God giveth unto us.' 26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God; 27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said: 'Because the LORD hated us, He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying: The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.'
The spies did not see the Hanhaga. They had not faith or trust in HASHEM except for Yehoshua and Calev. They were gutless men who spread fear and terror in the hearts of men. It reminds me of a friend who was sitting on guard duty in Viet Nam. One was just waiting for the Vietcong to attack rather than attack them and usually because of this the element of surprise was with the enemy and not with the guarding soldiers. This is the semblance of bad military leadership or outlook.
29 Then I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The LORD your God who goes before you, He shall fight for you, according to all that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes; 31 and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bore thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place. 32 Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD your God, 33 Who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.'
This whole narrative has many points to add that were not written in Parsha Shelach Lecha (Bamidbar Chapter 13 to 14:10) and the frustration of Yehoshua, Calev and Moshe trying to convince the people to go and conquer the land until the people threatened to stone them 14;10.
34 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying: 35 'Surely there shall not one of these men, even this evil generation, see the good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers, 36 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children; because he hath wholly followed the LORD.' 37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying: Thou also shalt not go in thither; 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither; encourage thou him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 39Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it. 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.' 41 Then ye answered and said unto me: 'We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us.' And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and deemed it a light thing to go up into the hill-country. 42 And the LORD said unto me: 'Say unto them: Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.' 43 So I spoke unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country. 44 And the Amorites, that dwell in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto Hormah. 45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you. 46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.
2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD spoke unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days. {S} 2 And the LORD spoke unto me, saying: 3 'Ye have compassed this mountain long enough; turn you northward. 4 And command thou the people, saying: Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore; 5 contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.6 Ye shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. 7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness; these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.' 8 So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber. {S} And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the LORD said unto me: 'Be not at enmity with Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.-- 10 The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; 11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. 12 And in Seir dwelt the Horites aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.-- 13 Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered.' And we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation, even the men of war, were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore unto them. 15Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to discomfit them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed. 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, {S} 17 that the LORD spoke unto me saying: 18 'Thou art this day to pass over the border of Moab, even Ar; 19 and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, harass them not, nor contend with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.-- 20 That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 21 a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the LORD destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; 22 as He did for the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day; 23 and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.-- 24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of Arnon; behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who, when they hear the report of thee, shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.' 26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying: 27 'Let me pass through thy land; I will go along by the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left. 28 Thou shalt sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on my feet; 29as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.' 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. {S} 31 And the LORD said unto me: 'Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee; begin to possess his land.' 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. 33 And the LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones; we left none remaining; 35 only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us: the LORD our God delivered up all before us. 37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever the LORD our God forbade us.
3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Edrei. 2 And the LORD said unto me: 'Fear him not; for I have delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.' 3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. 4 And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these were fortified cities, with high walls, gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones. 7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves. 8 And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of Arnon unto mount Hermon-- 9 which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir-- 10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.-- 11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.-- 12 And this land we took in possession at that time; from Aroer, which is by the valley of Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites; 13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob--all that Bashan is called the land of Rephaim. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day.-- 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley for a border; even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 17 the Arabah also, the Jordan being the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. 18 And I commanded you at that time, saying: 'The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of valour. 19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle--I know that ye have much cattle--shall abide in your cities which I have given you; 20 until the LORD give rest unto your brethren, as unto you, and they also possess the land which the LORD your God giveth them beyond the Jordan; then shall ye return every man unto his possession, which I have given you. 21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying: 'Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings; so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou goest over. 22 Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, He it is that fighteth for you.'
Halacha from Danny Shoemann
From Rosh Chodesh Av (tonight - Sunday evening) until midday on 10th Av (10 August) is the period known as the "9 days". The custom is to not eat meat and chicken and to not drink wine during the "9 days", except on Shabbat. Food cooked together with meat should not be eaten - even if one doesn't eat the meat. Those who need to eat meat (or drink wine) for health reasons, may do so. If possible, even they should refrain (with the Doctor's permission) from the 7th of Av; the day the Romans entered the Bet HaMikdash. At a Seudas Mitzva (a Mitzva meal) - a Brit, Pidyon HaBen or Siyum - one may serve meat and wine. Besides for close family, one may invite up to 10 friends whom one normally invites. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 122:8
Even though some people have the custom even during family mourning to drink wine for Havdalah; many refrain from this in the 9 days and make Havdalah on tea or coffee that is drinkable (medium hot). What happens if one is in the army, on a plane or ship and the only kosher food available is with meat? My unit consisting of 7 or more religious paramedics was at the Sharm-El-Sheik airbase the week before Tisha B’Av – I made a Siyum on a different Tractate of Mishnayos that I prepared prior to my call up for the drill - The same for people who are in flight. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT SOME SEFARDIM EAT MEAT ON ROSH CHODESH AND OTHERS EAT MEAT UNTIL THE WEEK WHERE TISHA B’AV FALLS. YEMENITES EAT MEAT UNTIL EREV TISHA B’AV. In my army drill, the Sargent in charge of prayers at the base obtained fish for us Erev Tisha B’Av lunch and eggs in the evening. We were sent home early because the drill could not continue on Tisha B’Av but I fasted until 10 PM when I got home that night.
Unless Moshiach comes first, the fast of 9 B'Av will start next week on Monday afternoon and will last for about 25 hours until after nightfall on Tuesday. The fast of 9 B'Av commemorates 5 tragedies that befell the Jewish people on that date:
- It was decreed that the generation which left Egypt would remain in the desert for 40 years and not enter the land of Israel, after believing the inaccurate report of 10 of the 12 spies over 3,000 years ago
- The first Bet Hamikdash (Holy Temple) was destroyed on 9 B'Av almost 2,500 years ago.
- The second Bet Hamikdash (Holy Temple) was destroyed on 9 B'Av about 1950 years ago.
- The city of Betar was captured and tens of thousands of Jews were killed about 1,800 years ago.
- The wicked Turnus Rufus plowed the site of the Bet Hamikdash and its surroundings and renamed it Aelia Capitolina, about 1,800 years ago.
Since these tragedies occurred on 9 B'Av, it was decreed as a day of fasting and mourning. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 121:5
Other tragedies that happened on 9 B'Av:
- 4,000 Jews were expelled from England by King Edward I in the year 5050 (18 July 1290)
- 300,000 Jews were expelled from Spain by Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon in the year 5252 (2 August 1492)
- Word War 1 started in 5674 - 1 August 1914 - with Germany declaring war on Russia
One may do "minor" work on the fast of 9 B'Av, such as turning on lights and driving. Any work that takes times, as well as all business dealings, should not be done until noon, so as not to get distracted from mourning the destruction of the Bet HaMikdash - the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. While one may go to work and open ones business on 9 B'Av afternoon, it's commendable not to. One may have a non-Jew do ones work on 9 B'Av, and one may do any work needed to prevent a monetary loss.
Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 124:15
The "Seudas Mafsekes - final meal" before the fast of 9 B'Av - is eaten while seated on the floor. The meal typically consists of only a cold hardboiled egg and bread which is dipped into ashes. (One does not have to eat the ashes.) This meal must end before sunset. Before this meal one may eat a regular meal. One may wear ones leather shoes during this meal. One does not wear leather shoes on the fast of 9 B’Av; one must remove them before sunset - next Monday afternoon this year. One may wear shoes that have no leather in them; cloth, rubber and wood are OK. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 123:3, 5
One makes Havdalah as usual this week using wine (and spices and a candle). If there is a small child who can drink most of the cup of wine, then one gives it to him to drink.
If not, then the person making Havdalah drinks the wine. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 122:8
Some people have the custom of using beer for Havdalah this week. If one uses beer for Havdalah then the first Bracha needs to be "Shehakol" instead of "Borei Pri HaGefen".
Source: Halachos of the 3 weeks by Rav Shimon Eider zt"l page 7 My Rosh Yeshiva - Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt"l - always used wine for Havdalah and always drank it himself. One does not say Kiddush Levana (the monthly blessing over the new moon) until after the fast of 9 B'Av. On Motzei Yom Kippur one can say Kiddush Levana immediately after Maariv (the evening prayers). On Motzei 9 B'Av one may not say Kiddush Levana until one has broken the fast and put on shoes.
Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 124:19, 130:6 Shabbat Shalom – Danny
One can make Havdalah on tea or coffee if that is the custom in his house (See Perkei Avos regarding Rabbi Yishmael on Tradition). Residents of rainy and cloudy areas like FL tend to risk losing entirely the Mitzvah of Kiddush Levana by waiting. This happened to me and on the last day I had a few minutes break in the clouds to allow me to say the blessings. In short any time after 3 or 7 days depending on the Minchag one should make Kiddush Levana in areas where one could miss out on the Mitzvah. Since clear skies in the evening are usual for Eretz Yisrael one must wait until Motzei Tisha B’Av and Motzei Yom Kippur for making Havdalah in Eretz Yisrael.
There are people who want to fast on Tisha B’Av because of the stringency of mourning for Yerushalayim. THIS IS ONE FAST WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOT RESTRICTED LIKE ON YOM KIPPUR and must not endanger his life or limbs in the slightest way. Below is a general guide for fasting on Yom Kippur and if one wants to follow it with less than the Shuir for eating and/or drinking but this is not necessary except for his being righteous between himself and HASHEM.
The person who likes to take on a Chumra like Yom Kippur should try only to follow the Yom Kippur rules but can break the fast at any time. Here are the Yom Kippur rules in general and the Sages permit breaking the fast even on Yom Kippur at the word of the patient! On Tisha B’Av if we break the fast immediately as there is no Kares or punishment involved in anyway.
Yom Kippur and Choleh sheh ayn bo sakana (A person who is not critically ill): CANCER PATIENTS EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT UNDERGOING CHEMOTHRAPY OR RADIATION OR THEY HAVE FINISHED TREATMENT NEED THEIR STRENGTH AND SHOULD NOT FAST!
It is best for each individual to consult a Rabbi and doctor regarding his illness (preferably a G-D fearing Dr.). For example a completely non-religious heart specialist told me not to fast at all a heart specialist who also has a Rabbinical Degree told me that there was no reason in the world not to fast but that I should take my medications. One does not have to shop around for a Chumra to fast but when I saw that the doctor volunteered the information without my asking and he did not appear versed in Jewish Customs, I did consult an equal medical authority who was versed in Judaism.
Diabetics in various degrees of the disease should not fully fast but should eat and drink less than a Shuir. There are authorities who permit them to eat and drink as usual on Yom Kippur and each case is individual. I would tend to be more stringent with myself if heaven forbade I had this condition but this IS NOT THE HALACHA but I think in many cases that eating less than a piece of bread every nine minutes seem sufficient to me to combat the disease. Between the morning and the end of Mussaf; one could eat a few loaves of bread and still be considered fasting. However, if the person is in a state of being in danger of losing a limb we ignore the Shuir also if he is overcome by a craving to eat due to the disease he should eat non-stop until he feels better and not to think at all about fasting on Yom Kippur. Persons with infections in various degrees and varying stages of heart patients should take their medications and eat as they feel that they need to. I drink less than a Shuir and take my medications including natural vitamins which I do not swallow on Yom Kippur. Now everything is up to the individual person regarding his own feeling. If I were to feel faint, dizzy or other symptoms of something is wrong with me, I would immediately eat a small amount or more despite the advice of the doctor. Also a person who faints should take in fluids even less than a Shuir just to keep him from endangering his life by fainting and banging his head.
A person with fever 39C or 102 F or above, the flu, infection, diarrhea or excess vomiting should not play games with his health and MUST TAKE IN FLUIDS and nourishment. I do not tend to cover each and every disease as some such as various Kidney Diseases or people recovering from an Operation the case is removed from me. The general rule is try to fast even if for a short period such as one eats breakfast at 7 AM to eat at 7:15 or 8 AM if he will not degrade his health. Eating and drinking on most public fast days we are very lenient with on Tisha B’Av we should try to be more stringent even by a quarter as long as we don’t become foolish and endanger our health in the least way.
A person after hospitalization should think about not fasting on Tisha B’Av even if he feels very well.
Perkei Avos Chapter 3 Mishnah 12 - 18 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/682516/jewish/English-Text.htm
12. Rabbi Ishmael would say: Be yielding to a leader, affable to the black-haired, and receive every man with joy.
One should respect authority (I am not claiming that our modern “leaders” deserve it but) the rank and title give them that status. You may be older with gray or white hair but treat the middle-aged and youth with proper honor and respect due to them. Also treat everybody properly and give them honor as your guest or on the street (He did not mean thugs or junkies coming up to you but normal average human beings).
13. Rabbi Akiva would say: Jesting and frivolity accustom a person to promiscuity. Tradition is a safety fence to Torah, tithing a safety fence to wealth, vows a safety fence for abstinence; a safety fence for wisdom is silence.
Do not over joke with friends or women as racy jokes in front of friends with their wives can lead to things one never intended. By continuing to observe an established Minchag one disciplines himself into follow the Torah. When one gives Maaser to Charity, HASHEM sees to it that he will grow wealthier.
I just wrote about not making vows but if they are made they should be to make a person better. The best fence for keeping peopling into thinking that you are smart is silence. One does not get foot-in-mouth or looks foolish if he shuts up.
14. He would also say: Beloved is man, for he was created in the image [of G-d]; it is a sign of even greater love that it has been made known to him that he was created in the image, as it is says, "For in the image of G-d, He made man" (Genesis 9:6). Beloved are Israel, for they are called children of G-d; it is a sign of even greater love that it has been made known to them that they are called children of G-d, as it is stated: "You are children of the L-rd your G-d" (Deuteronomy 14:1). Beloved are Israel, for they were given a precious article; it is a sign of even greater love that it has been made known to them that they were given a precious article, as it is stated: "I have given you a good purchase; My Torah, do not forsake it" (Proverbs 4:2).
This is further to his statement in Mishnah 12 about respecting ones fellow man.
15. All is foreseen, and freedom of choice is granted.
HASHEM knows what a person thinks or will react. He is given a free choice. If he does good such and such will happen and this is his reward. If he does bad such and such will happen and this is his punishment without Teshuva.
The world is judged with goodness, but in accordance with the amount of man's positive deeds.
It is obvious that if more and more people observe, Shabbos, Kashrus and family purity then the world is judged better and the reverse is true if one sins.
16. He would also say: Everything is placed in pledge, and a net is spread over all the living.
One can obtain a lot from this world on a temporary basis but one should know that like the net gathers in; at the end of ones days he is gathered in.
The store is open, the storekeeper extends credit, the account-book lies open, the hand writes, and all who wish to borrow may come and borrow.
One is free to take what he wants from this world and like opening up a charge account with a store. However, each and every deed is recorded and one day one will have to pay what is borrowed. If one has built up enough Torah, Mitzvos and assorted good deeds he will able to pay for what he took. But if not:
The collection-officers make their rounds every day and exact payment from man, with his knowledge and without his knowledge.
Everybody in the end has to pay the piper or STORE OWNER aka THE HOLY ONE BLESSED BE HE. If you have the payment in Teshuva, Tephilla and Tzeduka along with the Mitzvos mentioned above then you are in good shape.
Their case is well founded, the judgement is a judgement of truth, and ultimately, all is prepared for the feast.
There is no escaping the TRUE JUDGE aka DAYAN EMMES or even just the Beis Din Shel Maalah. But it is final and when the piper is paid for sins, everything is prepared for the days of the Moshiach and afterwards for life in Olam Haba.
17. Rabbi Eliezer the son of Azariah would say: If there is no Torah, there is no common decency; if there is no common decency, there is no Torah.
In Hebrew Ayn Torah – Ayn Derek Eretz; Ayn Derek Eretz – Ayn Torah! For one should have Torah to have honorable manners. It is a rare parent who can be non-religious and teach his non-religious children how to behave with proper manners. My father OBM was such a man but the coming generation most of the children are already lost. One who has manners can acquire. One who has proper Torah will eventually acquire proper Derek Eretz.
If there is no wisdom, there is no fear of G-d; if there is no fear of G-d, there is no wisdom.
In Proverbs:1:8 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and discipline. One needs this to make him G-D fearing and obtain wisdom as the wisest man of all Melech Shlomo wrote.
If there is no applied knowledge, there is no analytical knowledge; if there is no analytical knowledge, there is no applied knowledge.
Torah in theory alone is not worth too much and one needs deeds.
If there is no flour, there is no Torah; if there is no Torah, there is no flour.
A Torah Scholar needs to eat but without Torah and Mitzvos there will be no food to eat so they are intertwined.
He would also say: One whose wisdom is greater than his deeds, what is he comparable to? To a tree with many branches and few roots; comes a storm and uproots it, and turns it on its face. As is stated, "He shall be as a lone tree in a wasteland, and shall not see when good comes; he shall dwell parched in the desert, a salt land, uninhabited" (Jeremiah 17:6). But one whose deeds are greater than his wisdom, to what is he compared? To a tree with many roots and few branches, whom all the storms in the world cannot budge from its place. As is stated: "He shall be as a tree planted upon water, who spreads his roots by the river; who fears not when comes heat, whose leaf is ever lush; who worries not in a year of drought, and ceases not to yield fruit" (ibid., v. 8).
So it has always been with me build up my practical Mitzvos and then I can build up my theoretical Mitzvos. To aid somebody, to comfort a mourner, go to a funeral or preferably a wedding, Bar Mitzvah or Bris but we know that Talmud Torah is above all. However, only Talmud Torah without the others is a useless theoretical thing that has no practical value in this world. To learn about Teruma and Maaser or to pick grapes and take what one learned about Teruma and Maaser are two different things.
18. Rabbi Eliezer [the son of] Chisma would say: the laws of kinin (bird offerings) and the laws of menstrual periods---these, these are the meat of Halacha (Torah law).
These are difficult studies and accuracy is required in the second as it is based on color identification of what is blood and what is notc.
The calculations of solar seasons and Gematria are the condiments of wisdom.
This knowledge is beautiful and one versed in it becomes very wise but it takes a large effort to learn these.
Being fed a pack of lies by mass media (Editorial): I don’t want to get into the topic of 6 days of creation vs. the billions of years of the Kabbala, but I want to focus this time only on science and the so-called man made global warming. I would like to quote a geology book that I bought in Yellowstone National Park on my recent vacation:
Geology underfoot in Yellowstone Country by Marc S. Hendrix Professor of Geology at the University of Montana.
On page 38 he speaks of a sea level “possibly 330 feet (100 meters) higher than the present sea level.” On page 46 “Two major simultaneous geological events cause midcontinent to flood during Cretaceous Time. First extreme global warming completely or nearly melted both of the earth’s polar ice caps causing the sea to rise 250 feet (75 meters). … The Atlantic Ocean peak surface temperature during Cretaceous Time was 98 F (37 C) about 12 degrees F (7 degrees C) higher than today.
In Geological Time this scale would be 145,000,000 to 65,000,000 years ago or biblically on the 4th or 5th time period or day of creation. Obviously, geologically speaking this has nothing to do with man-made global warming. So why all the hype about Global Warming – the answer is to push a certain geopolitical agenda of a certain group of people. As a person who is taught to question everything from the existence of HASHEM, every Mitzvah, why shouldn’t a rat camel or pig be kosher, and you name it; one needs evidence and proof of what is going on. Faking data by scientists with a political agenda or grants that desire certain results will perpetuate the myth. Is the earth getting warming? – Perhaps yes but is it man made? So let us check reality for the same people claiming MAN MADE Global Warming are claiming things against the rights of Jews to all Eretz Yisrael. There also is a question if there is enough data to indicate global warming or cooling over a decade or two vs. geological time.
From Heshy good news: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/28/us-circumcision-sanfrancisco-idUSTRE76R83D20110728
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The Israpost reported that researches at five hospitals in Israel confirmed that smoking and exposure to cigarette smoke leads to bipolar disorder over a long period of time.
In the Israpost in South FL it was reported that the Jewish Community is waking up to Joe Biden’s lack of applause when both houses clap for Netanyahu on the issue of Jerusalem is the united capitol of Israel. The policies of Obama in favor of the Arab Position prior to the election is scaring the Jews until awaking what will be in the second lame duck term. If the Jewish Community does not support him as they did in the last election, he will lose FL and the electoral votes.
Defying evolution continued: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41OD5NEV-Kw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKM9yoQ3Wug&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504&feature=related
It was hard to say Good Shabbos last week after hearing that a deranged man stabs to death one of our greatest righteous men and I passed on the information to the Schul in Florida: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4101783,00.html
Woe to us that we have lost a great Tzaddik in the Assassination of Rav Elazar Abuhatzaira
Normal vs. the wars of HASHEM of course at times when HE grants us or we merit it. Rabbi Meir Kahane wrote in memory of Shlomo Ben Yosef who was hung by the British after attacking an Arab bus in retaliation for their attacks on Jews: «Ayn kovshim et rosh ha'sela, im ayn kever ba'morad» sang the song, «one cannot capture the top of the rocky mountain, if there is no grave on the slope». And so it is and so it will always be. If one wants to climb the terrible mountain and conquer the terrible enemy and achieve the awesome greatness and overcome the awesome enemy, he cannot do so unless he is prepared to risk a grave on the slope. Do not fool yourself; no great things can ever be accomplished without the readiness to sacrifice and to go to the edge — and over, if need be. Parlor revolutionaries win only parlor victories and salon heroes play salon games, and when the struggle is one that involves high stakes and the lives and deaths of human beings, it is not speeches or petitions or parades that carry one to the summit but the blood and the sacrifice and the lives of the few who dared. [Source: "Beyond Words", Vol. 1, 'Only Thus', p. 460-461] – thanks to Tzipora. However, with Hanhaga HASHEM as we saw in the wars of Midian last week; not one Bnei Yisrael Soldier was killed. This was a great Miracle but most of us read it and think Ho Hum and the same with Kassams falling. As we well know that almost every Kassam explodes upon impact except one. The one that fell in the living room through the roof and the plaster of the Levy Family on Kibbutz Saad so Miracles and wonders out of the ordinary still exist and the world even if somebody is injured is not a Ho Hum.
When a giant Tzaddik is murdered there is a reason for it and an atonement for Am Yisrael. We do not know what the accuser in heaven brought against Am Yisrael for all the violation of Shabbos, Kashrus, and semblance of modesty. The Tzaddik was taken from us last Friday. Even though I never met the Rabbi in person, I had been told by friends of his power to bless and help many. One does not have to meet Moshe, Hillel, Rabbi Akiva or others in person to appreciate their greatness neither does one have to meet all the Republican Primary Candidates in the current election field to appreciate their personal ambitions or some of the treasonous statements by the Israeli Opposition ‘Leaders’ to appreciate their megalomaniac quest for power at the expense of the people of Israel. Here we have lost a man who did everything for the sake of heaven should we not mourn. He was from a family of Tzaddikim and unlike his uncle who among the religious people is known for more pomp and showmanship he was a great man.
Are their Tzaddik that go out of their way to help people on an individual basis and are their people who worry about each and every Jew still among us and I will say B”H yes. I wish that there were more but must of us look out for our own interests. Nobody can blame someone for looking out for his immediate family. However, many of us forget the whole general family of Am Yisrael. We have lost a Tzaddik who performed miracles for everybody but himself. A selfless person who devoted himself not to amassing wealth, power or publicity but a man living somewhere in the desert town of Beer Sheva looking out for all of Yisrael, we are lost sheep now so please say some Tehillim or learn a few Mishnayos to protect Am Yisrael for the Tzaddik and his merits can do no more in this world for us!
For more on the above story of the late Torah Scholar: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146356
The following is a composite of videos in Hebrew with English Narrative compiled by Edward: http://jewishmiracles.insightonthenews.net/?page_id=846
The Cab Ride (Rabbi A.L. sent me this it is similar to Rabbi Boyer’s Only No Infusion Story)
I arrived at the address and honked the horn after waiting a few minutes I walked to the door and knocked.. 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor.
After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940's movie. By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets.
There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware.
'Would you carry my bag out to the car?' she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb.
She kept thanking me for my kindness. 'It's nothing', I told her.. 'I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother to be treated.'
'Oh, you're such a good boy, she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address and then asked, 'Could you drive through downtown?'
'It's not the shortest way,' I answered quickly..
'Oh, I don't mind,' she said. 'I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice. '
I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening. 'I don't have any family left,' she continued in a soft voice.. 'The doctor says I don't have very long.' I quietly reached over and shut off the meter.
'What route would you like me to take?' I asked.
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing. As the first hint of sun was increasing the horizon, she suddenly said, 'I'm tired. Let's go now'.
We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico.
Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her. I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.
'How much do I owe you?' She asked, reaching into her purse.
'Nothing,' I said
'You have to make a living,' she answered.
'There are other passengers,' I responded.
Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly.
'You gave an old woman a little moment of joy,' she said. 'Thank you.'
I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light.. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life..
I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift? What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?
On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life. We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.
But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.
PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID ~BUT~THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.
PEOPLE ASK ME WHY THE MOSHIACH DOES NOT COME – FROM MY COUSIN DAVID: So many important things to deal with in the country and around the world, now some stupid committee is making another wrong choice!!! I am not religious but this is another step for Israel to become a country like any other, further away from what it was supposed to be.
B'H
Tisha B'Av (9th of Av - Tuesday, August 9, 2011) 'Fast begins evening before'
Our Sages taught that the first Holy Temple was destroyed because of the three sins which Israel committed in that generation: idolatry, forbidden relationships, and murder. There was not a place in the Land of Israel where they did not worship idols. The Land was destroyed only when seven successive high courts had worshiped idols, when the people had desecrated Shabbos, stopped the children from learning Torah, ceased the recital of the Shema in the morning and at night, and no longer felt shame in front of each other.
The second Holy Temple was destroyed because of baseless hatred among the people, because they did not admonish one another, they embarrassed scholars, they didn't differentiate between the great and the small, they lacked men of strong faith and courage, and they based their judgments on 'their' strict interpretation of Torah law, and would not make simple concessions to one another, and so 'Sinas Chinam' (baseless hatred), was rampant. If we look closely at events, we can see that it was this baseless hatred, cruelty, and disrespect among ourselves, that has kept our Third and final Temple from being built, thus ending our exile.
Today this problem among ourselves, still exists. Until we try harder to change the negative feelings that encompass us, and light up our souls with love and respect for each other and all mankind, we will remain in darkness and emptiness. This is the only remedy that will hasten our return, and bring the world to its highest level. We the Jewish People have been chosen to set this example for the rest of the World.
There is a promise that Tisha B'Av will be turned into a day of Joy. A day when we will once more be a people with a home, never having to wander again. A day when our beloved G-d will once again dwell with us in our Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Let us work towards this goal.
The Talmud (Berachos 32b), teaches that when the Temple was destroyed, all the Gates of Heaven were closed, except for one. That is the Gate of Tears. This Tisha B'Av, we must remember that the tears we shed for the destruction are precisely those tears which will bring about our redemption. We must resolve to bring this redemption speedily in our days.
Tisha B'Av is a fast day, like Yom Kippur, from the evening of July 29, 2009, 8th of Av, until the next evening. This will culminate the Three Week mourning period by the Jewish People. On Tisha B'Av we are forbidden to eat or drink, bathe, use any creams or oils, wear leather shoes or have marital relations. The reason we refrain from these things is to minimize our pleasures, so that we (our soul) can feel the sadness over the many tragedies that occurred on Tisha B'Av.
On this same day (Tisha B'Av) 9th of Av, throughout history some of the tragedies that befell the Jewish people are: (covered above in the Halacha by Danny Schoemann)
On the night of Tisha B'Av we read Eicha, the book of Lamentations, written by the prophet Yermiyahu (Jeremiah). We also say Kinos, special poems that recount the tragedies that have taken place in Jewish History.
Since learning Torah is the lifeblood of the Jewish people, enabling us to learn and enjoy the understanding of the Holy word of G-d, we are forbidden to learn Torah except those parts that deal with the calamities which the Jewish people have suffered. These readings are for reflection on the past, and why, and what can happen in the future, unless we change the reasons for our downfalls. 'May this be the last Tisha B'Av that we must observe!
Yaffa "May you all have an easy Fast" and one that will help Am Yisrael
Inyanay Diyoma
Personal Security Warning Regarding Social Networking: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=329441
From Lynette the U.N. will not stop terror but: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/07/28/un-busy-deciding-how-to-slam-israel/?cmpid=cmty_fb_Gigya_U.N._Busy_Deciding_How_to_Slam_Israel
Guess what Al Gore did not send me this: http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html
Syria has found a solution to Arab Protests in their country: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4102357,00.html
Syria’s rivers are being to flow blood red: http://www.debka.com/article/21176/
If you have asked why the Israeli right wing is not participating in the protest here is the answer: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146243
After Norway’s treatment to Israel and the reminder of them rounding up 500 of their Jewish Citizens to be killed by the Germans; I kept my silence last week. This article is fair to Norway and to Israel so I present this: http://www.aish.com/ci/s/Norways_Bigotry.html
A day before the terror attack I put out an article of the government of Norway sending 500 of their citizens to the gas chambers in WWII. I know that sometimes measure for measure of Divine Justice comes out. Do I want terrorism – no! Had it been a massive ice storm no one would think twice. One cannot applaud terrorism or like it but one has to wonder what HASHEM had in mind and why now?
Hezballah has infiltrated the Lebanese Army and this is the result. I knew the area quite well both my son and I did border patrolling there against terrorist infiltration it is south east of Metulla: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4102681,00.html
Mark Zuckerberg is one of the Jews who puts his pocket ahead of Am Yisrael: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/146280
Golani, Marines, Rangers and assorted members of Zaka and medical personnel after a battle: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-researchers-seek-to-develop-morning-after-pill-for-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-1.376253?localLinksEnabled=false
In Sept. we may have another round of fighting in the south and maybe the north? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4104256,00.html
We are forgetting our main problems: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4103972,00.html
USA is becoming a Joke and the Congress did not get it either: http://video.foxnews.com/v/1093000031001/trump-obama-made-us-laughingstock/
From my cousin David: Finally we will have traffic signs in only two languages. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/lawmakers-seek-to-drop-arabic-as-one-of-israel-s-official-languages-1.376829
THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL SHOULD APPLY ISRAELI SOVEREIGNTY OVER JUDEA & SAMARIA - NOW!!
BY GAIL WINSTON, Mid East Analyst & Commentator (I had to cut a few sections of this post to make it concise)
Why should the people of Israel apply Israeli Sovereignty over Judea & Samaria Now?
1. It’s the right thing to do and always has been.
2. It will disable the propaganda ploy intended by the Arab Palestinians, the Arab League and those Leftists in Europe, Asia, the US and the UN who support them. They proclaim they will declare a new State of Palestine, [a Second State of Palestine] in Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights, the Jordan Valley and all of Jerusalem that was illegally occupied and desecrated by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for 19 years from 1948 to 1967. And most of the world rolls over with them.
3. It will distract, disrupt, disturb the headlines of Barack Hussein Obama’s opening moves in his election campaign for the 2012 election for President of the United States. He will fume, thunder and excoriate the Jews of Israel, America and the world - which will turn the voting Jews in America against him. IF the Jews of Florida cut their voting support for Obama in half, he may lose Florida and maybe the election. Then he cannot further harm the human, civil and religious rights of the Jewish people AND the American economy may be able to safely recover from the disaster he has spawned on the American people - which negatively affects people and countries all over the world.
4. The people of Israel can do this much better and more safely than if the Israeli government has to do it. This is a much bigger campaign than camping out in hot tents to protest the high cost and unavailability of housing - and the high cost of cottage cheese. These points have been adequately made and the protestors now know how to effectively be heard. To defend the Jewish Nation/State of Israel for the Jewish people and all of Israel’s residents, this should be done now - not later after the General Assembly gives its approval to the Pals.
5. IF the people of Israel rise to this sacred challenge, I believe the world as a whole will be better off and safer. Israel and America can devastate Iran’s nuclear weapons’ and missile capability because they will then have the will to do so. They certainly have the means.
6. Judea and Samaria are the heart of the Jewish peoples’ Nation/State of Israel and Jerusalem is her soul. Let’s together work to defend her!
COMMENTS BY GAIL WINSTON
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1. Regaining the Initiative: Hundreds at the Conference for Applying Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria
WOMEN FOR ISRAEL’S TOMORROW - (Women in Green)
http://us.mc822.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=wfit2@womeningreen.org
& 2. Hevron Conference tackles applying Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria By Josh Hasten
& 2. B. The Sovereignty Conference is on youtube! From WomenInGreen
forwarded by Gail Winston, Mid East Analyst & Commentator
1. Regaining the Initiative: Hundreds at the Conference for Applying Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria
WOMEN FOR ISRAEL’S TOMORROW - (Women in Green) Hundreds of people packed the Machpela Visitors' Center in Hebron [next to Marat HaMachpela -Tombs of our Matriarchs and Patriarchs] for the "Regaining the Initiative - Israeli Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria" conference that was organized by Women in Green, in cooperation with Professors for a Strong Israel, Israel National News
(Arutz 7), and the Machpela Visitors' Center.
The purpose of the conference was to declare, again and again, that Eretz Israel is ours, and because it is ours, Israeli sovereignty is to be applied to it.
One speaker after the other related to the need to apply sovereignty and the complexity of the issue: what are the diplomatic, economic, security, demographic, American, and Arab consequences.
MK Tsipi Hotovely, MK Aryeh Eldad, Caroline Glick, Prof. Rafi Yisraeli, Eren Bar-Tal, Yoram Ettinger, Dr. Yitzhak Klein, and Dr. Gabi Avital kept the audience on the edge of their seats.
Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar, the leaders of Women in Green and the moderators of the evening, explained the activities of the movement in the Judea region - the struggle for Eretz Israel on the ground, literally, the struggle to open the Zaatra route, the struggle
for a Jewish Shdema and Adurayim, the struggle to save state lands at Netzer from Arab takeover, and more. All of these struggles are important, but this is not enough. Every day, every minute, the Arabs, who are well financed by anti-Semitic international organizations,
take over more and more state lands and hills that belong to us, to the people of Israel, to the State of Israel. They are establishing facts on the ground and stealing Eretz Israel.
It was clear to Yehudit and Nadia that, in addition to the important localized struggle on the ground, we must lead the great step of demanding the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, and therefore they initiated and organized the conference.
This is not the first initiative. Already in 1985, a Member of Knesset at the time, Geula Cohen initiated a draft resolution of a law for the application of sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District. Yehudit Katsover read selections from that initiative by Geula Cohen - moving passages about our right to the land, and the urgent need to
apply sovereignty. It's as if this draft of a law was written for our time.
The lectures at the conference were simultaneously translated in earphones for the English-speaking participants.
An optimistic spirit enveloped the conference. Yes, the application of sovereignty entails difficulties, but they can be overcome, and we will not relinquish the Land of Israel because of such obstacles.
MK Tsipi Hotovely, the initiator of the law for the application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, spoke of the practical aspect of the application of sovereignty.
MK Aryeh Eldad said that, in his opinion, Jordan is Palestine, and therefore the idea of consensual transfer is to be advanced.
Caroline Glick, the Deputy Managing Editor of the Jerusalem Post, and the Editor in Chief of the Latma site, said that the application of sovereignty is the only option if Israel desires to exist. "True, this is not simple, but the alternative is national suicide."
Yoram Ettinger presented optimistic statistics on Israel's demographic situation, and refuted the demographic lie. Jewish demography is on the rise, and Arab demography, on the decline. He also presented statistics on Israel's good situation in the United States, in the
Congress, and in American public opinion.
Eran Bar-Tal, the editor of the Mekor Rishon economic supplement, spoke on the economic aspect of the application of sovereignty, and the extent to which its application could solve many economic problems, including the problem of housing that is on the agenda at present.
The data presented by Dr. Yitzhak Klein show a dramatic change in public opinion, which is moving to the right. This change creates an opportunity to change policy soon. No more talk of a Palestinian state or of withdrawals, but talk of the application of sovereignty over
Judea and Samaria.
A survey conducted in May 2011 by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs headed by Dore Gold showed that a very high percentage oppose the handing over of territories, even within the framework of an agreement: more than 55 percent, and it reaches 90 percent regarding
the possibility of the handing over of territories that control the Ben-Gurion International Airport.
Dr. Gabi Avital, the Chairman of Professors for a Strong Israel,summed up the evening and called upon the public to be optimistic.
The struggle for the application of sovereignty over Judea and Samaria must continue and take on added momentum in both the public and parliamentary spheres.
MK Elkin, the coalition head and the chairman of the Eretz Israel lobby, sent a letter to those attending the conference in which he wrote:
No place is as suitable as Hebron for a conference discussing Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. The first act of acquisition in Eretz Israel took place in Hebron. An act of acquisition that the entire world knows! The application of sovereignty over Judea and
Samaria is the most just solution. Historically, we belong to this hill country, and this hill country belongs to the people of Israel. I congratulate those attending the conference, those speaking at the conference and the conference's organizers, for pushing to raise the consciousness that we did not conquer a foreign land, we rather returned to the regions of the Promised Land, and therefore Israeli sovereignty over them is only natural. With my blessings, Ze'ev Elkin.
2. Hevron Conference tackles applying Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria By Josh Hasten
Several hundred people from all over the country, along with members of Knesset, educators, and, journalists, gathered in Hebron on Thursday July 21, 2011, for a one day conference exploring the possibilities of Israel asserting sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.
The event, organized by the Women in Green organization, featured lectures by Israeli experts in the fields of politics, academia, security, demographics, and economics, who all made the case for Israel to annex the areas acquired in the Six-Day-War. The events’ speakers also addressed the future status of the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria, should Israel take such measures.
Jerusalem Post correspondent and LATMA founder Caroline Glick suggested that Israel assume control over Judea and Samaria similarly to the way Israel annexed the Golan and the Eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem - "quietly" without drawing the world’s attention. She stressed that regardless of whether Israel annex those areas slowly over time, or all at once, either way, we will pay the price both diplomatically and militarily (arms funding ed.), so it’s best to annex all at once. Glick said that most Israelis understand that future withdrawals from Judea and Samaria are a recipe for the destruction of the entire country, citing Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza from 2005, which subsequently led to rocket attacks and wars as the ultimate proofs. Glick was also critical of the Right in Israel for remaining quiet while talk of establishing a Palestinian State is rampant (which would be another terror state she is convinced), while not presenting other rational and realistic
options.
In regard to the economics of why annexation makes sense, Makor Rishon Economic Correspondent Eran Bar-Tal talked about the economic practicalities, of officially joining Judea and Samaria with the rest of the country. Currently he said, people focus on doing business "North to South" in this country, when in reality it is much more practical to focus on "East in West" with communities in Judea and Samaria just ten minutes away from Kfar Saba and Israel’s other economic hubs. He also said that the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria
would benefit economically from such an arrangement being enveloped under Israel’s umbrella citing the practical and financial detriment for Israel currently relying on foreign workers.
MK Aryeh Eldad focused his talk on the fact that a vacuum has been created here in Israel where the Arabs are making claims - an end to "occupation," and a demand for self-determination, while no leaders in Israel respond by clearly stating that the "Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people." While the Arabs Eldad says, demand sovereignty, we as Jews, fail time and time again to demand our legitimate sovereignty over all of Israel. Eldad believes the ultimate solution is to annex Judea and Samaria and give the Arabs living there full Jordanian citizenship.
MK Tzipi Hotovely said that she favors a staged approach to "implementing sovereignty" over Judea and Samaria (she is against the term ‘annexation’ since she feels that the term implies that you are lacking a connection to the area.) Hotovely feels that the biggest issue is what to do in regard to the Arab populations in Judea and Samaria. Therefore, the best approach she feels is imposing sovereignty firstly over the Jewish communities in area ‘C’, since only 100,000 Arabs live there, which can be a very important experiment in restoring civil control over the entire area, and later on finding a legitimate solution in regard to the Arab population. She also finds it logical for almost 600,000 thousand Jews in Judea and
Samaria to declare their sovereignty, just as Israel, which has a population of six million Jews, declared independence is a sea of hundreds of millions of Arabs.
Arab and Middle East expert Professor Rafi Yisraeli admitted that if he felt a two-state-solution would bring peace then he wouldn't oppose such a plan, but since he feels strongly that it won't, he is against. Yisraeli said that the main problem is that if you give the 3.5
million Arabs in Judea, Samaria (and Gaza) a State you are not solving the greater "Palestinian" issue because the other 6.5 "Palestinians" in the Middle East would also demand a solution and hold Israel accountable for their current status. He added that while he wasn't against negotiations leading to the Oslo Accords, the reason they failed is that while the Arabs during those talks spoke of "the right to self determination," Israel never demanded recognition as a Jewish State at that point, or our own right to self-determination. In other words while Israel was willing to recognize the PLO as a partner, the Arabs never recognized the plight of Zionism. He concluded that if Israeli Arabs are interested in joining a future "Palestinian" entity they would have to relinquish their Israeli citizenship, but for Israel that wouldn't be the end of the world, since that would increase a Zionist majority in the Knesset.
Ambassador Yoram Ettinger focused his words on debunking the myth that Jews in Israel including Judea and Samaria will become a minority anytime soon. Ettinger said that despite the claim that ‘time is against Israel’ in reaching a deal with the Arabs because of demographics, the opposite is in fact true since factors indicate that Jews in Israel will remain a clear majority. Ettinger said that the Jewish birth rate is in fact increasing while the Arab rate is decreasing. He also cited an increase in Arab emigration to other countries particularly Arabs living under PA control. Ettinger also documented the fraudulent methods in which the PA conducts their census, and said that those skewed numbers are what the world bases their false claim that Jews in Israel will become a minority. He concluded by talking about the importance of Aliyah to Israel to further bolster our clear Jewish majority.
Dr. Yitzhak Klein, the Director of the Israel Policy Center stressed the time to assert sovereignty is now since negotiations have failed and the Oslo period is officially over. He agreed with Caroline Glick’s assessment that the majority of Israelis do not want to make
any more concessions, which will only lead to an increase in terror.
The conference was summarized by Dr. Gabi Avital Chairman, of Professors for a Strong Israel who insisted that the shared message from all the event’s speakers, despite differences in strategy for implementation, is the fact that the ‘Land for peace’ mantra has
proven to be disastrous, and that the only way towards a real peace is for Israel to annex Judea and Samaria.
Conference organizers - Women in Green heads Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover thanked everyone for attending, particularly those who arrived from Tel-Aviv and other places on the other side of the "Green Line". They stressed the importance of Hevron as the venue for the
event since the city of Hevron embodies the foundation of Jewish history in the Land of Israel.
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| 2. B. The Sovereignty Conference is on youtube! |
A JEWISH SOLUTION TO ISRAEL'S HOUSING CRISIS By MOSHE FEIGLIN
forwarded by Gail Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator 26 Tamuz, 5771 (July 28, '11)
Who caused Israel's housing shortage? The Left! That sounds demagogic, but let me explain:
The State of Israel's control of most of Israel's land is the result of ideology. Since the Second Aliyah, the Zionist movement - followed by the State of Israel - has been motivated by leftist centrist ideology. This ideology has helped to create the greatest monopoly in Israel today; the monopoly of the Israel Land Authority over almost all of Israel's land.
Ironically, the ideology that created the problem is the same ideology behind the housing protest. The solutions that it proposes will only intensify the problem because the protesters are calling for more of what caused the problem in the first place:
The two major factors that caused the crisis in the construction market are the state monopoly on land and the building freeze on Israel's most natural and logical land reserves in Judea and Samaria.
And what are the protesters calling for? Exactly the same thing: To empower the State monopoly and to flee Judea and Samaria once and for all. They want the State to build houses and to rent them. They want everything to belong to the State, which will decide who will receive housing and who will not. This state of affairs would mean that we, the people, would not have responsibility nor would we enjoy what the Torah prescribes: liberty. Liberty is very different from simple freedom. Liberty means taking responsibility.
The protesters want to empower the monopoly, but they want something else as well. The New Israel Fund that is bankrolling this display of pseudo-anarchism could not care less about the housing shortage. Its real goal is to depose the Likud and to bring about new elections that will complete the process of tearing Israel's heartland out of its borders. This will deal the final blow to any chance to really solve the housing shortage.
The Globes Newspaper website featured a short and simple film that outlined how the building freeze in Judea and Samaria was the straw that broke the camel's back of Israel's housing market. (Click here for this Hebrew film http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000602668 )
The film makes the following points:
First came Rabin, Peres, Beilin and Co. and gave Israel's heartland to Arafat.
The Oslo Accords halted the construction of infrastructure in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. (But in Tel Aviv they thought that this was the way to bring peace, while crushing the settlers for good measure, so why not?)
Despite the halt in infrastructure construction and the total elimination of new construction planning in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, construction of housing based on existing plans in the settlements continued. Construction in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, that at some points had provided Israel with more than 20% of its housing reserves, shrunk to approximately 5%.
At that point, there were still housing and construction reserves inside Israel's pre-1967 borders (and in Tel Aviv they thought that housing in tents was strictly the problem of the settlers). Afterwards, they decided to destroy Gush Katif, dispatching another 1,700 homeless families into the housing market. This still did not paralyze the market.
And then came the knock-out that completely blocked the housing channels and threw the entire country into a housing crisis: The building freeze in Judea and Samaria.
The protests of the young generation in Judea and Samaria who wanted to continue to live where they had grown up interested nobody in Tel Aviv. On the contrary – they were only too happy to watch the destruction of the tents and shacks that began to grow up on the hills of Samaria and Judea.
But now, when construction in Judea and Samaria provides only 0.2% of construction in Israel, the Tel Aviv young generation finds itself in tents, as well. When fellow housing protesters had the nerve to declare that the solution for the housing crisis is to build in Samaria, they beat them. All for the sake of peace, of course.
Good News: KNESSET PUSH TO BUILD IN YESHA
forwarded with commentary by Gail Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Strange and wonderful how good words and strenuous efforts do good works! Yesterday night here in Eretz Yisrael I penned a one-pager to 4 forwarded articles. Tonight we read the good news that 42 Members of Israel’s Knesset petitioned PM Binyamin Netanyahu to solve Israel’s ‘housing crisis by building in Judea and Samaria. A few days ago the Jerusalem Post had an OpEd that this was the solution to the housing crisis.
MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovitz said, "Time to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley."
I haven’t seen that particular phrase used before and was pleased to see it.
It’s not unusual that good ideas appear almost simultaneously from different quarters. I’m not claiming original credit BUT, it does sound good to hear from other sources also - especially if they have the power to vote it into reality!!! which I don’t. However, the people of Israel do have the power to demand this as a just, honest, fair solution to many concurrent problems - or rather challenges - here in Israel.
Here is my one-pager from yesterday:
HIGH COURT ISSUES ‘DEATH SENTENCE’ TO MIGRON
& SHARP RESPONSE TO MIGRON DECISION by A7 Staff
forwarded with commentary by Gail Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Dorit Beinish, Chief Justice and the 3 judge Leftist Supreme Court of Israel have just sentenced 47 Jewish Israeli families - 300 loyal Jewish Israeli citizens - to extraction, eviction, expropriation and destruction of the homes and community they have built over more than the past decade.
Peace Now claimed the Jewish homes were located on property belonging to PA Arabs. BUT, Peace Now has withdrawn their suit on 3 specific homes because they realized their case was faulty and they could NOT prove Arab ownership.
If that is true, then the whole accusation against the Migron community is patently false, hostile and biased against the Jewish pioneers who wish to live in the settlements and develop the Zionist enterprise.
If this is true, then the Leftist Court, modeled and molded by former Chief Justice Aharon Barak, is purposely voiding the entire purpose and history for the Jewish Nation/State of Israel. Aharon Barak was called the most "activist" Judge in Israel. "Activist Judges" work for the vested interests of those in power. Or they do it for the power it gives them.
IF the people of Israel are rising up and living in tent cities to protest the lack of or high prices for housing all over the State, what will they think about 300 patriotic Israelis who built their own homes by the sweat of their brows being thrown out of their own homes? If the currently "unhoused" had homes, it could happen to them too.
Don’t they realize that there is ample land available for them to also build housing on vacant hills in Judea and Samaria which is State Land because it was never owned by any Arab?
The Jewish people of Israel have been lied to by the Israeli Supreme Court - a 3 Judge panel which selects and elects itself - which is not responsible to the people of Israel but only to themselves and their putative bosses, whoever they are.
All the People of Israel who believe in truth, justice and Zionism should strongly protest this injustice, these lies and the destruction of true patriotic Zionism.
IF you do not come to the defense of these 300 pioneering Zionist men, women and children of the 47 homes in Migron, who knows, perhaps the next time they’ll come for you.
COMMENTARY BY GAIL WINSTON
KNESSET PUSH TO BUILD IN YESHA by GAVRIEL QUEENANN ARUTZ SHEVA IsraelNationalNews.com
Just hours after Israel's High Court ruled the government must destroy the community of Migron a group of 42 MKs petitioned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to solve Israel's 'housing crisis' by building in Judea and Samaria.
According to the petition, "to solve the housing shortage throughout the country, we, members of the Knesset, the undersigned, urge you to include, among other solutions taken by the government, housing for tens of thousands of citizens in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. "
"We are in days of protest over a housing shortage, and we, as a lobby, have something to say about it," MK Zeev Elkin said.
"Judea and Samaria has enormous potential to solve the housing problem. We turn here, named 42 ministers, deputy ministers and Knesset members who signed the appeal to the Prime Minister to act," Elkin added.
The petition was presented at a meeting of the Land of Israel Lobby and was also attended by Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, the Minister of Science and Technology, Daniel Hershkowitz and Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin.
"Zionism is essentially a settler movement," Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said. "Without the Golan or the Negev, who knows what would happen to Israel. Since we returned here as a people, settlement was a sign of our way of returning to our country."
"We must show faith with those who settle Israel," MK Daniel Herskovitz said. "I was in Migron today and they tell me the verdict is that their community be destroyed by March. The Zionist movement does not uproot, it plants. It tore my heart, and I hope you find a way to avert the evil decree."
MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovitz said, "Time to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley."
Signatories included ministers Michael Eitan, Yuli Edelstein, Daniel Hershkowitz, Moshe Kahlon, Yossi Peled, and deputy ministers Danny Ayalon, Menachem Eliezer Moses, Leah Ness and Ayoub Kara, and numerous Knesset members from Kadima, Likud, Israel Our Home, Shas, National Union and the Jewish Home.
KNESSET PUSH TO BUILD IN YESHA
forwarded with commentary by Gail Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Strange and wonderful how good words and strenuous efforts do good works! Yesterday night here in Eretz Yisrael I penned a one-pager to 4 forwarded articles. Tonight we read the good news that 42 Members of Israel’s Knesset petitioned PM Binyamin Netanyahu to solve Israel’s ‘housing crisis by building in Judea and Samaria. A few days ago the Jerusalem Post had an OpEd that this was the solution to the housing crisis.
MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovitz said, "Time to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley."
I haven’t seen that particular phrase used before and was pleased to see it.
It’s not unusual that good ideas appear almost simultaneously from different quarters. I’m not claiming original credit BUT, it does sound good to hear from other sources also - especially if they have the power to vote it into reality!!! which I don’t. However, the people of Israel do have the power to demand this as a just, honest, fair solution to many concurrent problems - or rather challenges - here in Israel.
Here is my one-pager from yesterday:
HIGH COURT ISSUES ‘DEATH SENTENCE’ TO MIGRON
& SHARP RESPONSE TO MIGRON DECISION by A7 Staff
forwarded with commentary by Gail Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator
Dorit Beinish, Chief Justice and the 3 judge Leftist Supreme Court of Israel have just sentenced 47 Jewish Israeli families - 300 loyal Jewish Israeli citizens - to extraction, eviction, expropriation and destruction of the homes and community they have built over more than the past decade.
Peace Now claimed the Jewish homes were located on property belonging to PA Arabs. BUT, Peace Now has withdrawn their suit on 3 specific homes because they realized their case was faulty and they could NOT prove Arab ownership.
If that is true, then the whole accusation against the Migron community is patently false, hostile and biased against the Jewish pioneers who wish to live in the settlements and develop the Zionist enterprise.
If this is true, then the Leftist Court, modeled and molded by former Chief Justice Aharon Barak, is purposely voiding the entire purpose and history for the Jewish Nation/State of Israel. Aharon Barak was called the most "activist" Judge in Israel. "Activist Judges" work for the vested interests of those in power. Or they do it for the power it gives them.
IF the people of Israel are rising up and living in tent cities to protest the lack of or high prices for housing all over the State, what will they think about 300 patriotic Israelis who built their own homes by the sweat of their brows being thrown out of their own homes? If the currently "unhoused" had homes, it could happen to them too.
Don’t they realize that there is ample land available for them to also build housing on vacant hills in Judea and Samaria which is State Land because it was never owned by any Arab?
The Jewish people of Israel have been lied to by the Israeli Supreme Court - a 3 Judge panel which selects and elects itself - which is not responsible to the people of Israel but only to themselves and their putative bosses, whoever they are.
All the People of Israel who believe in truth, justice and Zionism should strongly protest this injustice, these lies and the destruction of true patriotic Zionism.
IF you do not come to the defense of these 300 pioneering Zionist men, women and children of the 47 homes in Migron, who knows, perhaps the next time they’ll come for you.
COMMENTARY BY GAIL WINSTON KNESSET PUSH TO BUILD IN YESHA by GAVRIEL QUEENANN ARUTZ SHEVA IsraelNationalNews.com
Just hours after Israel's High Court ruled the government must destroy the community of Migron a group of 42 MKs petitioned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to solve Israel's 'housing crisis' by building in Judea and Samaria.
According to the petition, "to solve the housing shortage throughout the country, we, members of the Knesset, the undersigned, urge you to include, among other solutions taken by the government, housing for tens of thousands of citizens in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. "
"We are in days of protest over a housing shortage, and we, as a lobby, have something to say about it," MK Zeev Elkin said.
"Judea and Samaria has enormous potential to solve the housing problem. We turn here, named 42 ministers, deputy ministers and Knesset members who signed the appeal to the Prime Minister to act," Elkin added.
The petition was presented at a meeting of the Land of Israel Lobby and was also attended by Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, the Minister of Science and Technology, Daniel Hershkowitz and Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin.
"Zionism is essentially a settler movement," Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin said. "Without the Golan or the Negev, who knows what would happen to Israel. Since we returned here as a people, settlement was a sign of our way of returning to our country."
"We must show faith with those who settle Israel," MK Daniel Herskovitz said. "I was in Migron today and they tell me the verdict is that their community be destroyed by March. The Zionist movement does not uproot, it plants. It tore my heart, and I hope you find a way to avert the evil decree."
MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovitz said, "Time to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley."
Signatories included ministers Michael Eitan, Yuli Edelstein, Daniel Hershkowitz, Moshe Kahlon, Yossi Peled, and deputy ministers Danny Ayalon, Menachem Eliezer Moses, Leah Ness and Ayoub Kara, and numerous Knesset members from Kadima, Likud, Israel Our Home, Shas, National Union and the Jewish Home.
Be well and have a peaceful and wonderful Shabbos with a worthy productive fast. Rachamim Pauli
