Sam asked
me to put up the link to the Drasha every week as he can only read half on his
cellphone and then searches: www.rabbipauli.blogspot.com
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Parsha
Emor
Last week, we started with the word Daber in Hebrew which is speak a more forceful word. Emor is a milder word like converse with the Cohanim.
21:1 And the LORD said unto Moses: Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them: There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people; 2 except for his kin, that is near unto him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother;
except for his relative: [The expression שְׁאֵרוֹ] “his relative” refers only [here] to his wife. — [Torath Kohanim 21:5; Yev. . 22b]
3 and for his sister a virgin, that is near unto him, that hath had no husband, for her may he defile himself.
Who
is close [to him]: [This expression is] to include the sister who was betrothed
[but not yet married] - [Torath Kohanim 21:5; Yev.. 60a] ... for her, he shall
defile himself: [This is] an obligation [for him to do so]. — [Torath Kohanim
21:8; Sotah 3a]
A Cohain is holier than the rest of the nation. He deals with Taharos all the time and cannot contact Tuma without justification. In fact I attended a funeral for a Cohain where the sons asked the brother-in-law to identify the body before Burial even in our times so that they could be ready for a Korban immediately. Regarding the sister, we see that if she is married or has children it is assumed that from the children or husband’s side somebody will attend to the burial. The only exception to this is Meis (Mem + Sof) Mitzvah. An unattended boy such as a soldier on a battle-field, a Jew who died on the way, etc. Nowadays we have police, photographs, and pathology labs that the Cohain becomes exempt from dealing with this situation.
4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
Rashi comes to bring down a Chiddush here regarding the wife. For if she was a Halutza (refusing Levirate Marriage), convert, a Maumzer, prostitute, adopted child with no known parentage, a divorcee, a non-Jew or forbidden relative; he is forbidden to attend to her. However, if she was married as a child by her mother or older brother and did Miyoun (refusal at the age of 12 to be married to the husband), she may marry a Cohain!
[But]
a husband shall not defile himself for [a wife who causes] his desecration,
[while she is] among his people: He may not defile himself for his [deceased]
wife who was unfit for him, and by whom he was desecrated [from his status,]
while she was with him. — [Torath Kohanim 21:10; Yev.. 22b] And this is the
simple meaning of the verse: “A husband shall not defile himself” for his
relative [i.e., his wife], while she is still “among his people,” i.e., while
she has [non- kohen] relatives who can attend to her burial, for she is
therefore not under the category of an unattended deceased. And which relative
[i.e., wife] are we dealing with here? [With a wife] “through whom he becomes
desecrated (לְהֵחַלּוֹ),” i.e., [because she was unfit to marry him,] he
subsequently becomes desecrated from his kehunah [and is unfit to perform the
Holy Service].
5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
An average Jew should not make cuttings on his flesh either. I would rule out bloodletting if the practice existed at the time of the giving of the Torah for a lot of things that we tribute to a more modern era goes back further to ancient times. Rather it appears to be as Shia do in Lebanon at certain times cutting themselves with razors and that is how Rashi describes this act and not bloodletting.
They
shall not make bald patches on their heads: for a deceased. But are not [all]
Israelites warned against this (see Deut. 14:1)]? However, when referring to the
Israelites, Scripture says, “[You shall not…make any baldness] between your eyes
[for the dead]” (Deut. 14:1). Thus, one might think that one is not liable [for
making bald patches] anywhere else on the head. Scripture, therefore, says
[regarding Kohanim] “[They shall not make bald patches] on their heads”
[teaching us that the prohibition applies to the entire head]. And we can
extrapolate from Kohanim to all Israelites through a Gezaira shavah [i.e., a
Rabbinical tradition linking the laws of two otherwise unrelated verses or
passages through common key words or phrases, as follows]: Here [regarding
Kohanim] Scripture uses the expression קָרְחָה - bald patches, and there
regarding Israelites, Scripture [also] uses the expression קָרְחָה - bald
patches. Thus, just as here [regarding Kohanim, the prohibition applies to] the
entire head, so is it understood further [regarding all Israelites], [that the
prohibition applies to] the entire head, wherever one makes a bald patch on the
head, [not just “between the eyes”], and just as there [regarding all
Israelites, the prohibition applies to making bald patches only as a gesture of
mourning] over a dead person [(see Deut. 14:1), “You shall not…make any
baldness…for the dead”] - so, here [regarding Kohanim, the prohibition applies
to making bald patches only as a gesture of mourning] over a dead person. —
[Torath Kohanim 21:11; Mak. 20a] nor shall they shave the edge of their beard:
Since it is stated in reference to all Israelites, “and you shall not destroy
[the edge of your beard]” (Lev. 19:27), one might think that if one removed [the
hairs] with tweezers or with a plane, one would be liable [to lashes].
Therefore, it says [here], “nor shall they shave,” [meaning] that one is liable
only for something called “shaving” (גִּלוּחַ) with “destruction” (הַשְׁחָתָה)
involved in it - that being a razor. — [Mak. 21a] nor shall they make cuts in
their flesh: יִשְׂרְטוּ שָׂרֶטֶת, lit. “nor shall they cut a cut in their
flesh.” [Why the double language?] Since regarding [all] Israelites, Scripture
states (Lev. 19:28), “You shall not make cuts in your flesh for a person [who
died],” one might think, that if someone made [several, e.g.,] five cuts, he
would be liable for [having transgressed] only one [negative commandment].
Scripture, therefore, states, “nor shall they cut a cut,” to make one becomes
liable for every individual cut made. For this word שָׂרֶטֶת is superfluous and
thus is to be expounded [as above], as Scripture could have [merely] written,
“nor shall they cut,” [in which case] I would have known that it means [not to
cut] a cut. [Hence, the superfluous שָׂרֶטֶת was written to make one liable for
each individual cut.]- [Torath Kohanim 21:12]
6 They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer; therefore they shall be holy.
They
shall be holy: [Since Scripture does not state “They are holy,” but rather “They
shall be holy,” it means that if Kohanim wish to defile themselves over the dead
and thereby desecrate their holiness]-against their will, the court must
[prevent them from doing so, and thereby] sanctify them in this respect. —
[Mizrachi; Torath Kohanim 21:13]
One of Korach’s Bamidbar 16:3 claims came from the fact that in last week’s Parsha 19:2 that we are a holy people! However, the Cohanim are holier than holy and the Cohain Gadol is the holy of holies.
7 They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profaned; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband; for he is holy unto his God.
Who
is a prostitute: Heb. זֹנָה, [a woman] with whom an Israelite who is forbidden
to her, has cohabited, for example, [relationships] punishable by excision (see
Lev., Chapter 18), or a nathin [a descendant of the Gibeonites who were
converted at the time of Joshua (see Josh., chapter 9) and who were forbidden to
marry into Israel for all generations], or a mamzer [a product of a forbidden
union]. — [Torath Kohanim 21:14; Yev. 61b] who is desecrated: Heb. חֲלָלָה, [a
woman] who was born from one who is unfit for the kehunah, for example, the
daughter of a widow from a Kohen Gadol or the daughter of a divorcee from an
ordinary kohen [the children of such unions becoming “desecrated” from the
kehunah]. Also, [the term חֲלָלָה includes a woman] who becomes desecrated from
the kehunah through relations with one of those who are themselves disqualified
for the kehunah. — [Kid. 77a]
In Meseches Shabbos it is written that if a woman had a lesbian relationship even if we consider it only friction since she was in body contact with another person, she is forbidden to a Cohain for it is liken unto harlotry. However, Halacha Le Maaseh today is that we brush over this and a woman who had relations out of wedlock but the original request was to have the Cohain marry a virgin for starters! Whoever goes according to this shall be blessed. The three exceptions from the Torah are his Yevama (dead brother’s wife and they had no children), a widow, the wife of his brother who died and had no children (Yevama) and a minor who did Miyoun.
8 Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of thy God; he shall be holy unto thee; for I the LORD, who sanctify you, am holy.
You
shall sanctify him: Against his will- [meaning], that if he refuses to divorce
[such a woman, lash him and chastise him until he divorces [her]. — [Yev. 88b;
Mizrachi; Torath Kohanim 21:19] he shall be holy to you: Treat him with
holiness, e.g., he should be the first to commence any matter, and to [be the
one who] begins the blessings at a meal. — [Gittin 59b]
What can we do today in modern society to a Cohain who marries a divorcee in a civil court, marry a Goya or any one of the forbidden women.
9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
If
[a kohen’s daughter] becomes desecrated through adultery: Heb. כִּי תֵחֵל. [The
word תֵּחֵל here, stems from the word חִלּוּל, desecration, and not from the
word הַתְחָלָה, beginning, and thus, the phrase here means:] If she becomes
desecrated (תִּתְחַלֵּל) through a forbidden union, whereby she had a
marriage-bond to a man and she committed adultery-whether [this bond had been] a
betrothal or a marriage. And our Rabbis differ with regards to the matter [i.e.,
as to which stage of marriage-bond is referred to here]. All agree, however,
that Scripture did not speak of a single woman. — [Sanh. 50b-51a] she desecrates
her father: She has desecrated and degraded his honor, for [people] will say of
him, “Cursed is he who fathered this one! Cursed is he who raised this one!” -
[Sanh. 52a]
A normal female who enters a forbidden union does not deserve death but an adulteress does deserve death by stoning but not the stronger death by fire.
10 And the priest that is highest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his head go loose, nor rend his clothes;
he
shall not leave his hair unshorn: Heb. לֹא יִפְרָע. He shall not leave his hair
unshorn as a gesture of mourning. — [Torath Kohanim 21:27] Now what is
considered “leaving one’s hair unshorn?” More than thirty days. — [Sanh.
22b]
The Cohain Gadol had a special haircut and it was so short that the hair before touched the root of the next hair something like a number 1 or number two cutter in height..
11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
And
[he shall not come] upon any dead bodies: [i.e., he shall not enter] the tent
[or house, etc., wherein] the dead person [lies]. — [Torath Kohanim 21:28] dead
bodies: [This comes] to include [the law that] revi’ith [a “quarter” of a log]
of blood [issued] from a dead person, defiles [anything found] in the tent. —
[Sanh. 4a] he shall not defile himself for his father or his mother: [Since the
Kohen Gadol, unlike the ordinary kohen (see verse 2 above), is forbidden to
defile himself for any dead body, even for his parents, this seemingly
superfluous statement here comes only] to permit him [to defile himself] for a
מֵת מִצְוָה, a dead person for whom there is no one to attend to [his burial]. —
[Torath Kohanim 21:28; Nazir 48a]
12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the LORD.
He
shall not leave the Sanctuary: He shall not [leave the precincts of the
Sanctuary to] follow the funeral procession [even of a relative]. — [Sanh. 18a]
Furthermore, from here, our Rabbis learned that a Kohen Gadol may offer up
sacrifices [even] if he is an onen [i.e., if his close relative died on that
day]. [The following, therefore], is its meaning [i.e., the meaning of the
verse]: Even if his father or mother died, [the Kohen Gadol] need not leave the
Sanctuary, but he may perform the service. — [Sanh.. 84a] he will not desecrate
the holy things: [meaning] that he does not thereby desecrate the Holy Service,
for Scripture has permitted him [to perform the Holy Service under such
circumstances]. However, an ordinary kohen who performs the Holy Service while
being an onen, desecrates [it]. — [Sanh. 84a]
It takes a certain personality to live within such close confines for years. It is not a prison but his house for him with a wife or wives and family. Nowadays, except for the very elderly or infirm most people like to travel a certain distance even those families who never leave Yerushalayim at all.
13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
This is only for a Cohain Gadol for a regular Cohain can marry the Miyoun woman, Yevama and Widow. However, once he marries, he cannot be promoted to Cohain Gadol.
14 A widow, or one divorced, or a profaned woman, or a harlot, these shall he not take; but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.
a
woman who is desecrated: [The terms וַחֲלָלָה זֹנָה are not to be connected to
mean a חֲלָלָה who is a זֹנָה, but rather, they should be read as two separate
items, וַחֲלָלָה and then זֹנָה Thus, חֲלָלָה here refers to a woman] who was
born from those unfit for the kehunah. — [see Rashi verse 7 above; Torath
Kohanim 21: 34]
15 And he shall not profane his seed among his people; for I am the LORD who sanctify him.
Being extra holy, he was to only put his seed in a fitting vessel.
And he shall not desecrate his offspring: But, if he does marry one of those [women listed in the verse as] being unfit [to marry a Kohen Gadol], his offspring from that woman are desecrated from the holiness of the kehunah [and are permitted to defile themselves for the dead, and they may marry a widow or a divorcee]. — [Nachalath Yaakov; Torath Kohanim 21:34]
16 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 17 Speak unto Aaron, saying: Whosoever he be of thy seed throughout their generations that hath a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
Rashi explains because he eats G-D’s food. I view it more as a servant and representative for the nation. You do not designate as your representative to offer up a Korban a child, a blind person, limping person, Deaf-mute, a person out of his mind or a person who is senile. Rather you take the best Korban and the best person. Others can flay the Korban, slice the Korban into portions for the other Cohanim but are not the best of the best. Nowadays, a person who had stitches might be considered blemished or he might not depending on the Sanhedrin and if viewable.
18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath any thing maimed, or anything too long, 19 or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed, 20 or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed; 21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that hath a blemish, shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire; he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. 22 He may eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
The Pasuk lets us know that he can eat the Korgan and the holy bread but just not approach the Mizbayach.
23 Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not My holy places; for I am the LORD who sanctify them. 24 So Moses spoke unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.
Now the Cohanim are being commanded how they must keep the holy items away from the reach of ordinary Bnei Yisrael. Also a Bas Cohain looses her holiness if she marries outside of the Kehuna and a Cohain who has a Tuma is forbidden to eat of the holy things.
22:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, which they hallow unto Me, and that they profane not My holy name: I am the LORD. 3 Say unto them: Whosoever he be of all your seed throughout your generations, that approacheth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before Me: I am the LORD. 4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue, he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any one that is unclean by the dead; or from whomsoever the flow of seed goeth out; 5 or whosoever touches any swarming thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath; 6 the soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water. 7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he may eat of the holy things, because it is his bread. 8 That which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD. 9 They shall therefore keep My charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they profane it: I am the LORD who sanctify them. 10 There shall no common man eat of the holy thing; a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing. 11 But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he may eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they may eat of his bread. 12 And if a priest's daughter be married unto a common man, she shall not eat of that which is set apart from the holy things.
A slav e of a priest is allowed to eat if he is ritually pure as this is what the Cohain can do with his property to take a physical property and give it to a living person that he owns.
13 But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread; but there shall no common man eat thereof. 14 And if a man eat of the holy thing through error, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give unto the priest the holy thing.
There
is an involuntary transgression fee of an
added fifth to the value of the holy food and a person who violates with
intent is subject to Kares and whipping.
15
And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they
set apart unto the LORD; 16 and
so cause them to bear the iniquity that bringeth guilt, when they eat their holy
things; for I am the LORD who sanctify them.
The
next section deals with vows of the general public and what they can bring
before the L-RD and the quality there off as well as the required
purity.
17
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 18 Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons,
and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them: Whosoever he be of the
house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that bringeth his offering,
whether it be any of their vows, or any of their free-will-offerings, which are
brought unto the LORD for a burnt-offering; 19 that ye may be accepted, ye shall
offer a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
… 32 And ye shall not profane My
holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD
who hallow you, 33 that brought
you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD.
23:1
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them: The appointed seasons of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to
be holy convocations, even these are My appointed seasons.
Speak
to the children of Israel…The Lord’s appointed [holy days]: Designate the
[times] of the festivals so that [all of] Israel will become accustomed to them,
[meaning] that they should proclaim leap years for [the Jews in] the Diaspora
who had uprooted themselves from their place to ascend to [Jerusalem for] the
festivals, but who had not yet arrived in Jerusalem. [The leap year would enable
them to arrive in time. Consequently, in ensuing years, they would not lose hope
of arriving on time and would be encouraged to make the pilgrimage.]- [Torath
Kohanim 23:139; Levush Ha’orah. See also Mizrachi , Nachalath Ya’akov , Sefer
Hazikkaron , Yosef Hallel , Chavel]
3
Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest,
a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work; it is a sabbath unto the LORD
in all your dwellings.
[For]
six days…: Why does the Sabbath [designated by God,] appear here amidst the
festivals [designated by the Sanhedrin]? To teach you that whoever desecrates
the festivals is considered [to have transgressed as severely] as if he had
desecrated the Sabbath, and that whoever who fulfills the festivals is
considered as if he has fulfilled the Sabbath, [and his reward is as great]. —
[Be’er Basadeh ; Torath Kohanim 23:144]
The
Torah is not a math or spelling drill text book. When the Torah repeats over and
over not to commit adultery and to observe Shabbos and Yom Tov it is because
there is a big Yetzer HaRa and also a big reward and punishment involved. We do
not know the reward and the punishment is specified in the Torah at least we
know what happens in this world but of course not the
next.
4
These are the appointed seasons of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye
shall proclaim in their appointed season.
These
are the Lord’s appointed [holy days, holy occasions, that you shall designate]:
In the earlier verse (verse 2), Scripture is referring to the proclamation of a
leap year, while here, Scripture is referring to sanctifying the new month
[i.e., “designating” which day is the first of the month, based on testimony of
the sighting of the new moon. Both of these “designations,” therefore, have
bearing on the establishment of the festivals.] - [Torath Kohanim 23:
146]
Only
on HASHEM’s appointed seasons do we refrain from Melacha. Days like Purim,
Chanucha, Yom HaShoah, Yom HaAtzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim are non-Torah holidays
but work is permitted. On Tisha B’Av we try our best to refrain from working in
the morning prior to midday but this is not possible all the
time.
5
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at dusk, is the LORD'S
Passover. 6 And on the fifteenth
day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD; seven days
ye shall eat unleavened bread. 7
In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of
servile work. 8 And ye shall
bring an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days; in the seventh day is a
holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.
Meseches
Rosh Hashanah designates Nissan as the new year for kings rule, first of the
months for holidays and the first month. There is a dispute whether the world
was created on the 25th of Elul or the 25th of Adar and if
the deluge occurred in Mar Cheshvan or Iyar.
9
And the LORD spoke unto Moses saying: 10 Speak unto the children of Israel,
and say unto them: When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and
shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the
first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest. 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before
the LORD, to be accepted for you; on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest
shall wave it.
The
counting of Omer starts with the evening after the first day of Pessach
according to the Jews. The Karites use the Shabbos as the first night if the
Chag started on Friday night or Motzei
Shabbos Chol HaMoed and this in most years throws off their Pessach from the
Jewish Pessach.
12
And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish
of the first year for a burnt-offering unto the LORD.
you
shall offer up [an unblemished lamb in its [first] year]: It comes as obligatory
for the omer [not as part the additional offerings of Passover
The
following is the laws of Omer and the counting of the weeks until Shavous
including the mention of what Korbanos are brought, the bringing of the Bikurim
(first fruits) and the command of giving to the poor.
13
And the meal-offering thereof shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour
mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savor; and
the drink-offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor
parched corn, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the
offering of your God; it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all
your dwellings. 15 And ye shall
count unto you from the morrow after the day of rest, from the day that ye
brought the sheaf of the waving; seven weeks shall there be complete; 16 even unto the morrow after the
seventh week shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall present a new
meal-offering unto the LORD. 17
Ye shall bring out of your dwellings two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an
ephah; they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baked with leaven, for
first-fruits unto the LORD. 18
And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first
year, and one young bullock, and two rams; they shall be a burnt-offering unto
the LORD, with their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings, even an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD. 19 And ye shall offer one he-goat for
a sin-offering, and two he-lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of
peace-offerings. 20 And the
priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering
before the LORD, with the two lambs; they shall be holy to the LORD for the
priest. 21 And ye shall make
proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye
shall do no manner of servile work; it is a statute forever in all your
dwellings throughout your generations. 22 And when ye reap the harvest of
your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corner of thy field, neither shalt
thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest; thou shalt leave them for the poor, and
for the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
23
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 24 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying: In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall be a solemn
rest unto you, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of horns, a holy
convocation. 25 Ye shall do no
manner of servile work; and ye shall bring an offering made by fire unto the
LORD. … 32 It shall be unto you a Sabbath of
solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls; in the ninth day of the month at
even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your Sabbath.
I
have skipped other holidays and moved on to the section concerning the placing
of the Lechem HaPanim (Showbread).
5
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts
of an ephah shall be in one cake. 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows,
six in a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense
with each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial-part, even an offering
made by fire unto the LORD. 8
Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is
from the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. 9 And it shall be for Aaron and his
sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him of the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, a perpetual due.'
The
next section deals with people who curse G-D and murder or maim people and their
punishments.
…
10
And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out
among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of
Israel strove together in the camp. 11 And the son of the Israelitish
woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his
mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. 12 And they put him in ward, that it
might be declared unto them at the mouth of the LORD.
…
23
And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought forth him that had
cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel
did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Horror
Tales of Assimilation and intermarriage
The Jewish Tales are not better to publish. J1 had a daughter who married a non-Jew who is doing drugs and cannot hold down a job so daughter has to support him and their child. The daughter does not want to leave such a wonderful person. The son was dating a non-Jew and the baby daughter is engaged to a non-Jew. J2 has fortunately a child in Eretz Yisrael but also a daughter who is married to an alcoholic and is having problems.
Why does some of this occur? Our people have two problems. 1) Trying to blend in with a non-Jewish culture. 2) Not observing Shabbos, Kashrus and Mitzvos. In the days of the Talmud it was forbidden to drink wine touched by a non-Jew if the wine was not cooked first. Allegedly to stop them from taking our wine and consecrating it to an idol or to a non-Jewish religion’s god, but in Tractate Avoda Zara the reason given is stronger so that we shall not become comfortable and marry their women. However, modern drinks like Gin and Whiskey were not known then and did not fall under the classification. Even Beer did not fall under this classification so it seems to be made for us to keep our distance.
The second reason which I want to emphasize is violation of Mitzvos that have Kares and this makes us lose our children within a non-Jewish world being cut off. This is caused by improper education and also violation of the Shabbos and Yom Tov. It is not for HASHEM’s good that you guard the Mitzvos of Shabbos and Yom Tov but for yourselves.
Seventy years ago, on the night of May 16th-17th 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron flew to the Ruhr Valley, Germany’s industrial heartland, where the bulk of the Nazi war materiel was being produced. The British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis had invented the bouncing bomb specifically for use against dams. Barrel- shaped, spinning at 500 r.p.m., they were dropped from the Lancaster bombers flying at 240 mph (386 km/h), skimming just 60 feet (18.3 metres) above the artificial lakes created by the dams. The 4.2-ton bombs bounced across the surface of the water for 425 yards (389 metres) like pebbles on a pond, hit the dam, and sank to a depth of 30 feet (9 metres) when a hydrostatic fuse ignited the bomb.
617 Squadron targeted three dams, the Moehne, the Eder, and the Sorpe. The Moehne and the Eder were destroyed, and the Sorpe was damaged.
The damaged cause was immense. Factories, roads, railways, bridges, and farmland as far as 50 miles (80 km) away from the dams were destroyed. More than that: the German method of steel production demanded 150 tons of water to produce one ton of steel, so the factories which depended on the water in the dams for steel production were rendered useless until the dams were rebuilt and the valleys refilled with water, which took another month.
Hydroelectric generation also ceased for about two weeks.
Though the overall effect on the war was fairly small, the famous Dambusters raid was probably the single most devastating blow against the Third Reich caused by a small attacking force.
(Incomparably greater damage was caused by bomber raids in Cologne, Hamburg, Bremen, Dresden, Berlin, and other German cities, but the forces there were also incomparably greater – 1,000 or more bombers. The 1943 Dambusters raid was carried out by just 19 aircraft.)
In the Jewish calendar, the 70th anniversary of that famous – almost legendary – raid falls this week, on Sunday, 11th of Iyyar and Monday 12 Iyyar.
Just four hours before the Moehne Dam was breached and some 150 million tons of water swept in uncontrolled fury to flood the Ruhr Valley, another equally famous and far more desperate battle was finishing.
515 miles (825 km) almost due east, the SS and police of the Third Reich were levelling the Warsaw Ghetto. SS Bigadefuehrer (Major General) and Generalmajor der Polizei (Major General of the Police) Juergen Stroop y”sh reported on Sunday night, 12th Iyyar 5703 (16th May 1943) that “the former Jewish Quarter of Warsaw no longer exists. With the blowing up of the Warsaw Synagogue, the grand operation was terminated at 20:15”.
Two epic battles, two totally different battlefields, two seemingly unrelated narratives, which happened almost simultaneously.
The Royal Air Force had among the best-trained personnel in the world, and the Avro Lancaster is almost universally acknowledged as the best bomber aircraft of the Second World War. Guy Gibson, who commanded 617 Squadron, hand-picked his air-crews for the Dambusters raid from the best that the Royal Air Force had.
The Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto were fighting against desperate odds. They knew that they were destined for death, and their hope was but to die fighting, to sell their lives as dearly as they could. The Armia Krajowa, the Home Army (the Polish resistance) refused to aid the Jews or even to recognise them as part of the Underground, and consequently the Allies (primarily Britain) refused to supply the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto with weapons or ammunition (as they armed other underground resistance and partisan forces across occupied Europe).
Yet with the few weapons that they managed to buy and steal, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto held the Nazis off for as long as Poland had done in September 1939, longer than Greece (which was reinforced with British Commonwealth forces).
There is a seemingly immutable law of history: when Jews are persecuted, they have mortal allies to rely on apart from other Jews.
The Third Reich was eventually defeated by a military coalition of the three mightiest armies in the world – Britain, the USA, and the Soviet Union. In that conflict there can be no argument that the Allied Powers were on the side of the angels.
But let there also be no mistake: none of those three went to war because of the Holocaust. Britain has the distinction of being the only country in the entire world which voluntarily declared war on Nazi Germany; but they did so because of a treaty obligation to Poland and fear that Germany would eventually attack Britain, not because of persecution and murder of Jews.
When the USA was attacked by Japan on 7th December 1941, they responded by declaring war on Japan the next day. Even at that stage the USA did not declare war on Germany. However on 8th December Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the Wehrmacht High Command, ordered the German Navy to attack American ships wherever they found them. Three days later Hitler y”sh formally declared war on the USA and within hours, President Roosevelt declared war on Germany.
The USA, left to their own devices, would not have declared war on Germany. When they did, it certainly was no to defend the Jews of Europe.
And the Soviet Union had earlier been a military ally of Nazi Germany – indeed it was the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of 23rd August 1939 that gave Hitler y”sh the confidence to invade Poland nine days later. Only when his erstwhile ally launched his attack on the Soviet Union on 22nd June 1941 did Joseph Stalin y”sh mobilise the Red Army to fight against the Nazis.
For sure the Allied victory over Nazi Germany was a day for every Jew to celebrate. But it is a testament of the poverty of the Jewish nation that we had no army of our own at our hour of most desperate need. The best we could hope for was to die fighting as in the Warsaw Ghetto (and as in so many other ghettos, concentration camps, forced-labour camps, and extermination camps throughout the Third Reich), or that powerful foreign countries’ interests would somehow coincide with our own, and sometimes to fight in the ranks of those armies (as did some 1,500,000 Jews in the British, American, Soviet and other Allied armies).
As the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto finally succumbed to overwhelming force, they could not have known that just a few hours later Britain would deliver a mighty blow to the Third Reich. And we can but wonder: would it have lifted their spirits had they known? Would they have felt themselves brothers in arms to those brave airmen of the RAF? Or would they have felt bitterly betrayed by a country which parachuted materiel to partisans and underground fighting groups throughout the Third Reich, but refused that lifeline to the Jewish fighters?
And they could not possibly have dreamt that within five years, we would be fighting in our own independent state, Israel reborn on its own ancestral soil. Five years to the day after the Warsaw Ghetto was vanquished, one of the more important battles occurred in Israel’s War of Independence. On 12th Iyyar 5708 (21st May 1948) a combined force of the Arab Legion (Trans-Jordanian army) and Moslem Brotherhood attacked Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, just south of Jerusalem.
The battle flowed back and forth. Three times the Arab forces captured the Kibbutz, and each time Jewish forces (the Irgun, the Palmach, and the Etzioni Brigade of the Haganah) recaptured it. The cost was high: 40 soldiers and thirteen Kibbutz members were killed in those battles.
But such is the difference between fighting in exile, fighting to die, and fighting in our independent Land, fighting to live.
Genocide of others marked: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167401#.UXZQOFffrIU
Perkei Avos Chapter 4 http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/682518/jewish/English-Text.htm
1. Ben Zoma would say: Who is wise? One who learns from every man. As is stated (Psalms 119:99): "From all my teachers I have grown wise, for Your testimonials are my meditation."
Who is strong? One who overpowers his inclinations. As is stated (Proverbs 16:32), "Better one who is slow to anger than one with might, one who rules his spirit than the captor of a city."
Who is rich? One who is satisfied with his lot. As is stated (Psalms 128:2): "If you eat of toil of your hands, fortunate are you, and good is to you"; "fortunate are you" in this world, "and good is to you" in the World to Come.
Who is honorable? One who honors his fellows. As is stated (I Samuel 2:30): "For to those who honor me, I accord honor; those who scorn me shall be demeaned."
2. Ben Azzai would say: Run to pursue a minor mitzvah, and flee from a transgression. For a mitzvah brings another mitzvah, and a transgression brings another transgression. For the reward of a mitzvah is a mitzvah, and the reward of transgression is transgression.
3. He would also say: Do not scorn any man, and do not discount any thing. For there is no man who has not his hour, and no thing that has not its place.
4. Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh would say: Be very, very humble, for the hope of mortal man is worms.
Rabbi Yochanan the son of Berokah would say: Whoever desecrates the Divine Name covertly, is punished in public. Regarding the desecration of the Name, the malicious and the merely negligent are one and the same.
5. Rabbi Ishmael the son of Rabbi Yossei would say: One who learns Torah in order to teach, is given the opportunity to learn and teach. One who learns in order to do, is given the opportunity to learn, teach, observe and do.
Rabbi Tzaddok would say: Do not separate yourself from the community. Do not act as a counselor-at-law (when serving as a judge). Do not make the Torah a crown to magnify yourself with, or a spade with which to dig. So would Hillel say: one who make personal use of the crown of Torah shall perish. Hence, one who benefits himself from the words of Torah, removes his life from the world.
6. Rabbi Yossei would say: Whoever honors the Torah, is himself honored by the people; whoever degrades the Torah, is himself degraded by the people.
7. His son, Rabbi Ishmael would say: One who refrains from serving as a judge avoids hatred, thievery and false oaths. One who frivolously hands down rulings is a fool, wicked and arrogant.
8. He would also say: Do not judge on your own, for there is none qualified to judge alone, only the One. And do not say, "You must accept my view," for this is their [the majority's] right, not yours.
9. Rabbi Jonathan would say: Whoever fulfills the Torah in poverty, will ultimately fulfill it in wealth; and whoever neglects the Torah in wealth, will ultimately neglect it in poverty.
10. Rabbi Meir would say: Engage minimally in business, and occupy yourself with Torah. Be humble before every man. If you neglect the Torah, there will be many more causes for neglect before you; if you toil much in Torah, there is much reward to give to you.
11. Rabbi Eliezer the son of Yaakov would say: He who fulfills one mitzvah, acquires for himself one angel-advocate; he who commits one transgression, acquires against himself one angel-accuser. Repentance and good deeds are as a shield against retribution.
Rabbi Yochanan the Sandal-Maker would say: Every gathering that is for the sake of Heaven, will endure; that is not for the sake of Heaven, will not endure.
12. Rabbi Eliezer the son of Shamua would say: The dignity of your student should be as precious to you as your own; the dignity of your colleague, as your awe of your master; and your awe of your master as your awe of Heaven.
13. Rabbi Judah would say: Be careful with your studies, for an error of learning is tantamount to a willful transgression.
Rabbi Shimon would say: There are three crowns--the crown of Torah, the crown of priesthood and the crown of sovereignty--but the crown of good name surmounts them all.
14. Rabbi Nehora'i would say: Exile yourself to a place of Torah; do not say that it will come after you, that your colleagues will help you retain it. Rely not on your own understanding.
15. Rabbi Yannai would say: We have no comprehension of the tranquility of the wicked, nor of the suffering of the righteous.
Rabbi Matya the son of Charash would say: Be first to greet every man. Be a tail to lions, rather than a head to foxes.
16. Rabbi Yaakov would say: This world is comparable to the antechamber before the World to Come. Prepare yourself in the antechamber, so that you may enter the banquet hall.
17. He would also say: A single moment of repentance and good deeds in this world is greater than all of the World to Come. And a single moment of bliss in the World to Come is greater than all of the present world.
18. Rabbi Shimon the son of Elazar would say: Do not appease your friend at the height of his anger; do not comfort him while his dead still lies before him; do not ask him about his vow the moment he makes it; and do not endeavor to see him at the time of his degradation.
19. Samuel the Small would say: "When your enemy falls, do not rejoice; when he stumbles, let your heart not be gladdened. Lest G-d see, and it will displeasing in His eyes, and He will turn His wrath from him [to you]" (Proverbs 24:17-18).
20. Elisha the son of Avuyah would say: One who learns Torah in his childhood, what is this comparable to? To ink inscribed on fresh paper. One who learns Torah in his old age, what is this comparable to? To ink inscribed on erased paper.
Rabbi Yossei the son of Judah of Kfar HaBavli would say: One who learns Torah from youngsters, whom is he comparable to? To one who eats unripe grapes and drinks [unfermented] wine from the press. One who learns Torah from the old, whom is he comparable to? To one who eats ripened grapes and drinks aged wine.
Said Rabbi Meir: Look not at the vessel, but at what it contains. There are new vessels that are filled with old wine, and old vessels that do not even contain new wine.
21. Rabbi Elazar HaKapor would say: Envy, lust and honor drive a man from the world.
22. He would also say: Those who are born will die, and the dead will live. The living will be judged, to learn, to teach and to comprehend that He is G-d, He is the former, He is the creator, He is the comprehender, He is the judge, He is the witness, He is the plaintiff, and He will judge. Blessed is He, for before Him there is no wrong, no forgetting, no favoritism, and no taking of bribes; know, that everything is according to the reckoning. Let not your heart convince you that the grave is your escape; for against your will you are formed, against your will you are born, against your will you live, against your will you die, and against your will you are destined to give a judgement and accounting before the king, king of all kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
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1.
Ben Zoma would say: Who is wise? One who learns
from every man. As is stated (Psalms
119:99): "From all my teachers I have grown wise, for Your
testimonials are my meditation." Who is strong? One who overpowers his inclinations. As is stated (Proverbs 16:32), "Better one who is slow to anger than one with might, one who rules his spirit than the captor of a city."
Who is rich? One who is satisfied with his lot. As is stated (Psalms 128:2): "If you eat of toil of your hands, fortunate are you, and good is to you"; "fortunate are you" in this world, "and good is to you" in the World to Come.
Who is honorable? One who honors his fellows. As is stated (I Samuel 2:30): "For to those who honor me, I accord honor; those who scorn me shall be demeaned."
2. Ben Azzai would say: Run to pursue a minor mitzvah, and flee from a transgression. For a mitzvah brings another mitzvah, and a transgression brings another transgression. For the reward of a mitzvah is a mitzvah, and the reward of transgression is transgression.
3. He would also say: Do not scorn any man, and do not discount any thing. For there is no man who has not his hour, and no thing that has not its place.
4. Rabbi Levitas of Yavneh would say: Be very, very humble, for the hope of mortal man is worms.
Rabbi Yochanan the son of Berokah would say: Whoever desecrates the Divine Name covertly, is punished in public. Regarding the desecration of the Name, the malicious and the merely negligent are one and the same.
5. Rabbi Ishmael the son of Rabbi Yossei would say: One who learns Torah in order to teach, is given the opportunity to learn and teach. One who learns in order to do, is given the opportunity to learn, teach, observe and do.
Rabbi Tzaddok would say: Do not separate yourself from the community. Do not act as a counselor-at-law (when serving as a judge). Do not make the Torah a crown to magnify yourself with, or a spade with which to dig. So would Hillel say: one who make personal use of the crown of Torah shall perish. Hence, one who benefits himself from the words of Torah, removes his life from the world.
6. Rabbi Yossei would say: Whoever honors the Torah, is himself honored by the people; whoever degrades the Torah, is himself degraded by the people.
7. His son, Rabbi Ishmael would say: One who refrains from serving as a judge avoids hatred, thievery and false oaths. One who frivolously hands down rulings is a fool, wicked and arrogant.
8. He would also say: Do not judge on your own, for there is none qualified to judge alone, only the One. And do not say, "You must accept my view," for this is their [the majority's] right, not yours.
9. Rabbi Jonathan would say: Whoever fulfills the Torah in poverty, will ultimately fulfill it in wealth; and whoever neglects the Torah in wealth, will ultimately neglect it in poverty.
10. Rabbi Meir would say: Engage minimally in business, and occupy yourself with Torah. Be humble before every man. If you neglect the Torah, there will be many more causes for neglect before you; if you toil much in Torah, there is much reward to give to you.
11. Rabbi Eliezer the son of Yaakov would say: He who fulfills one mitzvah, acquires for himself one angel-advocate; he who commits one transgression, acquires against himself one angel-accuser. Repentance and good deeds are as a shield against retribution.
Rabbi Yochanan the Sandal-Maker would say: Every gathering that is for the sake of Heaven, will endure; that is not for the sake of Heaven, will not endure.
12. Rabbi Eliezer the son of Shamua would say: The dignity of your student should be as precious to you as your own; the dignity of your colleague, as your awe of your master; and your awe of your master as your awe of Heaven.
13. Rabbi Judah would say: Be careful with your studies, for an error of learning is tantamount to a willful transgression.
Rabbi Shimon would say: There are three crowns--the crown of Torah, the crown of priesthood and the crown of sovereignty--but the crown of good name surmounts them all.
14. Rabbi Nehora'i would say: Exile yourself to a place of Torah; do not say that it will come after you, that your colleagues will help you retain it. Rely not on your own understanding.
15. Rabbi Yannai would say: We have no comprehension of the tranquility of the wicked, nor of the suffering of the righteous.
Rabbi Matya the son of Charash would say: Be first to greet every man. Be a tail to lions, rather than a head to foxes.
16. Rabbi Yaakov would say: This world is comparable to the antechamber before the World to Come. Prepare yourself in the antechamber, so that you may enter the banquet hall.
17. He would also say: A single moment of repentance and good deeds in this world is greater than all of the World to Come. And a single moment of bliss in the World to Come is greater than all of the present world.
18. Rabbi Shimon the son of Elazar would say: Do not appease your friend at the height of his anger; do not comfort him while his dead still lies before him; do not ask him about his vow the moment he makes it; and do not endeavor to see him at the time of his degradation.
19. Samuel the Small would say: "When your enemy falls, do not rejoice; when he stumbles, let your heart not be gladdened. Lest G-d see, and it will displeasing in His eyes, and He will turn His wrath from him [to you]" (Proverbs 24:17-18).
20. Elisha the son of Avuyah would say: One who learns Torah in his childhood, what is this comparable to? To ink inscribed on fresh paper. One who learns Torah in his old age, what is this comparable to? To ink inscribed on erased paper.
Rabbi Yossei the son of Judah of Kfar HaBavli would say: One who learns Torah from youngsters, whom is he comparable to? To one who eats unripe grapes and drinks [unfermented] wine from the press. One who learns Torah from the old, whom is he comparable to? To one who eats ripened grapes and drinks aged wine.
Said Rabbi Meir: Look not at the vessel, but at what it contains. There are new vessels that are filled with old wine, and old vessels that do not even contain new wine.
21. Rabbi Elazar HaKapor would say: Envy, lust and honor drive a man from the world.
22. He would also say: Those who are born will die, and the dead will live. The living will be judged, to learn, to teach and to comprehend that He is G-d, He is the former, He is the creator, He is the comprehender, He is the judge, He is the witness, He is the plaintiff, and He will judge. Blessed is He, for before Him there is no wrong, no forgetting, no favoritism, and no taking of bribes; know, that everything is according to the reckoning. Let not your heart convince you that the grave is your escape; for against your will you are formed, against your will you are born, against your will you live, against your will you die, and against your will you are destined to give a judgement and accounting before the king, king of all kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
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Despise the
Rabbinute (meaning the honor) – Perkei Avos
Thanks and praise HASHEM Yisborach that I am not a paid Rabbi! Last week there was a story of the Chief French Rabbi plagurizing. Not able to recover from the shock, the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi being charged with plagurizing Pasak Dinim. A month or two ago there were charges brought against former Sephardic Chief Rabbi B. Doron. So I shook my head and lo and behold the Chief Rabbi of Haifa is being charged with taking bribes. ENOUGH! What a Chillul HASHEM is going on. Beitei Dinim are making mistakes because they are power hungry, ignorant and perhaps corrupt too. I am just plain sick of the goings on. It was on the day that my father passed away that I said to myself in order to honor his soul not to take money for learning and being a Torah Scholar. Not everybody can I know. It is a matter of fact that money tends to blind the eyes. I cannot stop people from getting salaries who work full time at being Rabbis but to be corrupt and destroy all the good that people like I do burns me up inside. One Chillul HASHEM throws back a lot of the work that I do. One bigot knocks out all the love that I have for my fellow Jew because they are Sephardi or Black or even Chinese. Everybody has discriminating tastes. Of course that is why some men eat chicken legs and others the breasts. My wife and I actually complement each other regarding the chicken so it is quite easy to buy a whole one.
Another Charedi Brigade: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4370723,00.html
I read about this in last Friday’s paper: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167307#.UXP8Uspc2CM
Israeli wins a gold medal: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4370001,00.html
Oklahoma where the anti-Semitic remark went sweeping down the plain: http://www.jpost.com/International/Oklahoma-lawmaker-apologizes-for-Jewish-sl
Anti-Semitism among Israeli leftists: http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Parasites-comment-on-haredim-evokes-outrage-310932
Inyanay
Diyoma
Debka is a bit behind Fox News but ahead on intelligence to the origins of the bombers. http://debka.com/article/22911/Two-Dagestani-brothers-nembers-of-Chechen-Wahhabi-cell-identified-as-responsible-for-Boston-terror
A very important deal because refueling tankers are the key to Iran. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4369684,00.html
While it was Shabbos in Israel: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167305#.UXLiSVffrIU Al Qaeda and Russian Muslims with Saudi Money the Connection: http://debka.com/article/22914/The-Tsarnaev-brothers-were-double-agents-who-decoyed-US-into-terror-trap
Despite all the talk by the Defense Minister and Prime Minister: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167310#.UXPQL1ffrIU
Gog & Magog Hagel arrives in Israel for a major deal. Israel talks Turkey re: Syria & Iran http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167327#.UXPXOlffrIU
Blind optimist http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4369574,00.html
Ref from Gary: Something stinks in DC http://shoebat.com/2013/04/18/exclusive-photo-of-alharbi-in-hospital-and-more-evidence-of-coverup/
Chicago – Chicago a wonderful town: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-teen-accused-of-seeking-to-join-al-Qaida-310533
Don't you just love Islamic hospitality on your property: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167317#.UXP5I1ffrIU
Terror on Focus http://debka.com/article/22916/Boston-terror-focuses-Hagel-ME-trip-on-Syria-al-Qaeda---instead-of-Iran and contrary headlines: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167367#.UXUwh1ffrIU
Illegals in Israel http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167347#.UXS2ecpc2CM
What is becoming of Syria: http://debka.com/article/22918/Gantz-Another-Afghanistan-in-store-for-Syria-Hizballah-brigades-fight-for-Assad-
Boston Suspect in triple murder in 2011: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167402#.UXZTSFffrIU
IDF tells of Chemical Warfare in Syria: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/IDF-intelligence-research-head-Assad-used-sarin-gas-310773http://www.jpost.com/Defense/IDF-intelligence-research-head-Assad-used-sarin-gas-310773
Iran and Syria: http://debka.com/article/22920/Tehran-and-Assad-slide-past-US-and-Israeli-red-lines-–-nuclear-and-chemical
How can one believe that a Mosque would have ties to terror such a religion of peace! http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167442#.UXfc3lffrIU
Warning received this article from a source in FL north of me. The article had photographic evidence: NASA FIRING AMERICANS & HIRING MUSLIMS.... BY THE THOUSANDS
Administrator Charles Bolden and a delegation of several other NASA officials arrive in Saudi Arabia on Friday following a trip to Prague. From the Middle East, they will head next to Nepal where Bolden will give a keynote address at a climate change conference. Despite the fact Congress finally passed the three-year $58 billion NASA Authorization Act late Wednesday night, hundreds of space workers found themselves without jobs Friday.
Some could be blamed on the uncertainty that has hung over the space program for the past nine months, but most were because of the space shuttle's pending retirement.
United Space Alliance laid off 333 employees who worked here in the Johnson Space Center area Friday, as planned, and Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership President Bob Mitchell said "at least an additional 400" were being laid off at aerospace firms, big and small, all around the area as the week came to an end.
Jacobs Engineering laid off 129 employees at its Clear Lake offices just two weeks ago.
USA Communications Manager Kari Fluegel said Friday that her company had also laid off an additional 1,222 employees in Florida and Alabama. Almost 800 were terminated at Cape Canaveral. The Huntsville, Ala., newspaper reported that from 150 to 250 space workers were being laid off as NASA switched from one rocket program to another and that some were expecting to come back when work starts on the new program. That won't be all the layoffs at USA.
Fruegel said "we'll initiate the next layoff in January when another 200 to 300 will be laid off. We'll start that process in October with notices given out in about 60 days."
It is compelling that at the same time NASA Chief Bolden is reaching out to Muslims in Saudi Arabia, Americans by the thousands are being laid off as part of the Obama's retooling of the space agency.
Before It's News says America, meet your new Islamic Astronauts.
Three Muslims from the United Arab Emirates have been selected for space training at NASA, or what's left of it.
Mr Bani Malek , Hamad Rajab and Shamma al Qassim are from the Arab Youth Venture Foundation, an organization in RAK, for the Educational Associates program, which was previously reserved only for US citizens. While I have nothing against these people or the UAE, shouldn't Us Citizens come first?
When you add up benefits for illegal aliens and rights for terrorists, it seems US Citizens are always last in line in their own country.
America, welcome to your new Islamic Space Program -- courtesy of Barak Hussein Obama!
Have a great Shabbos,
Rachamim Pauli
