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Parsha Tazria-Metzora
The
four kinds of Tsoras mentioned in these Parshiyos doesn’t really exist anymore.
There are skin diseases types of Tsiaris existing today that seem to fit
partially the descriptions here. One thing it is for sure and that is to avoid
speaking all forms of Lashon HaRa. There is a Mitzvah to study this just as we
learn the Parsha with the Sotah and the Tractate along with Nazir, Nedarim and
Shavuos (vows not the festival) which are not practical today.
12:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying: If a woman be delivered, and bear a man-child, then she shall
be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she
be unclean.
Normally
I don’t like to repeat myself but each year I have a great number of reader
turn-over. I helped in the past Rabbi Gimmel from Rehovot and Aleph Cohen from
Ashdod who had three or four girls and no boys enjoy the pleasure of having a
son. Then this year one of my dearest followers had a son who is a Rabbi and
just had his third daughter. I brought down this Pasuk and the Rashi. In fact I
read of this first in 1970 in Look Magazine in an article on why Orthodox
Jews have proportionally more sons than daughters. That reason I will bring down
later but they quoted also Tractate Niddah Perek III perhaps Daf 23 or 26 on
this subject I skimmed through twice but could not find the material and Rashi
mentions Daf 27B.
If
a woman conceives: Rabbi Simlai said: “Just as in the Creation, man was created
after all domestic animals, wild beasts, and birds, so too, the law [concerning
the cleanness] of man is stated after the law [concerning the cleanness] of
domestic animals, wild beasts, and birds.”- [Vayikra Rabbah 14:1] If [a woman]
conceives: Heb. כִּי תַזְרִיעַ. [These words are stated] to include the
case of [a woman] who gave birth to a dissolved [fetus, i.e., the fetus had
matured, but had subsequently] dissolved [in the womb], resulting in a
semen-like mass (זֶרַע akin to תַזְרִיע), its mother has the impurity of birth. —
[Niddah 27b] As [in] the days of her menstrual flow: According to the order of
all the uncleanness mentioned in regard to the menstruating woman (נִדָּה), she becomes
unclean on account of giving birth. [This is true] even if the womb opens
without [any issue of] blood. Flow: Heb. דְּוֹתָהּ This
expression denotes a substance that flows from her body. Another explanation: It
denotes illness (מַדְוֶה) and sickness, for there is not a woman who sees [menstrual]
blood without feeling ill, [since] her head and limbs become heavy upon
her.
The
simple Pshat is that if she produces seed before the male then the child born
will be a male. The article in the Magazine states that a number of couples were
chosen both those wanting boys and those wanting girls and by following the
instructions of the doctors which I briefly bring down in Torah terms, they had
about an 80% chance of having the gender they wanted rather than a random 50-50
effect.
The
article in the Magazine was more scientific after the quotes from the Pasuk
above, Rashi and the Gemara. A number of factors are involved. First because of
family purity, there is a higher sperm count of the father. Second the woman
after refraining and going to the Mikvah is more receptive to her husband. The
only problem is that the male may be over-excited at this time. If one wants a
son, he has to concentrate on thoughts of holiness and things that lessen his
enthusiasm. This way the woman will produce seed first. In scientific terms it
means that she produces a more acidic medium which is more receptive to the
faster swimming male sperm cells.
3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be
circumcised.
This
is the continuation of the generations after Avraham and Yitzchak with the
Bris.
4 And she shall continue in the blood of purification three and
thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary,
until the days of her purification be fulfilled.
She
has the Tuma of the placenta upon her and is purified after a rest of 40 days.
She has been in the pain of labor and this period makes the heart yearn for the
husband.
She
shall remain: The word תֵּשֵׁב means only staying [or remaining], like,
“And you dwelled (וַתֵּשְׁבוּ) in Kadesh” (Deut. 1:46), “and he dwelt
(וַיֵּשֶׁב) in the plain of Mamre” (Gen. 13:18). In the
blood of purity: [I. e.,
during this interim period,] although she may see blood [issued from her], she
is ritually clean. — [Torath Kohanim 12:15] In the
blood of purity: Heb.
טָהֳרָה. [This could be mistakenly understood as “in the blood of her
purity.” However,] this is not an aspirate “hey,” [as is evidenced by the
absence of a dot in the final letter ה]. Therefore, it is an [unqualified] noun,
like the word טֹהַר [meaning “purity”]. The days
of her purification: Heb.
טָהֳרָהּ. [Here,] this is an aspirate “hey,” meaning “the days of her
purification.” She
shall not touch [anything holy]: [Although
the verse says “shall not touch,” this is] a warning against one eating
[anything holy] as is taught in Tractate Yev. (75a). [she
shall not touch] anything holy: This
comes to include terumah [being prohibited to this woman, before she is ritually
clean (Torath Kohanim 12:16). This woman is considered a טְבוּל יוֹם, i.e.,
someone who has immerses in a mikvah, but must still wait for that day to elapse
in order to become completely
clean. Now,
how is she considered a טְבוּל יוֹם ? We are talking here about a thirty-three
day period. However, she does fall under this category] because she is
considered a בוּלַת יוֹם אָרֹ [i.e., she must wait a “prolonged day,”
insofar as] she immerses after seven [days], but the sunset that she must wait
for [in order to become pure is not the sunset of the day of her immersion, but
rather, it] is the sunset of the fortieth day [from birth], since it is [only]
on the following day that she may bring the atonement [sacrifice] of her
purification. [Thus, the whole period is to be considered one prolonged day, in
the context of the law regarding her eating anything holy.]
5 But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two
weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of purification
threescore and six days. 6 And when the
days of her purification are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall
bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a
turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the
priest.
There
is really spiritually a difference between a male and female child for Tuma?
Rather I feel that both the wife was disappointed that she did not produce an
heir and the husband in a more agricultural society was disappointed. I believe
that HASHEM in HIS infinite wisdom ordained this so that the separation longer
would make the heart grow fonder due to the longer abstention. At birth after
the labor pains a woman might want to forego giving birth again but at 2 months
the desire of both husband and wife kicks in and is the age when the baby first
begins to smile. It is just a thought without a basis.
7 And he shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for
her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law
for her that bears, whether a male or a female. 8 And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two
turtle-doves, or two young pigeons: the one for a burnt-offering, and the other
for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall
be clean.
The
atonement is necessary for a woman who swore off her husband and perhaps because
of the fact of the dead placenta or some thoughts during the process of making
the child. These are three possible reasons.
One
as a burnt-offering and one as a sin-offering: Scripture places [the
burnt-offering] before [the sin-offering] only insofar as how they must be read
[in the Torah. This is due to the higher esteem of the burnt-offering, because
it is burned in its entirety (Maskil LeDavid).] But the sacrificing of the
sin-offering precedes [that of]the burnt-offering. Thus we learned in Zevachim,
in the chapter entitled כָּל-הַתָּדִיר (90a).
13:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 2 When
a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab, or a bright spot,
and it becomes in the skin of his flesh the plague of leprosy, then he shall be
brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests.
This
is type one of four. He or she has spoken Lashon HaRa and is separated from the
society.
Se’eith,
a sappachath, [or a bahereth]: Heb.
The [terms se’eith and bahereth] are the names of two [major] lesions [and the
term sappachath refers to categories related to these two major lesions], and
one [major lesion, namely, bahereth] is whiter than the other [se’eith].-[Shev.
6b].Bahereth:
Heb.
בַּהֶרֶת, spot, taye in Old French. This is similar to the verse, “it is
[like] bright [clouds] (בָּהִיר) in the skies” (Job 37:21)
[i.e., like the spots created by bright clouds in the blue sky].
[he
shall be brought] to Aaron [the kohen, or to one of his sons]:
It is a
Scriptural decree that the uncleanness of lesions and their cleanness do not
come about except by the pronouncement of a kohen. — [Torath Kohanim
13:43]
3 And the priest shall look upon the plague in the skin of the
flesh; and if the hair in the plague be turned white, and the appearance of the
plague be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is the plague of leprosy; and
the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean. 4 And if the bright
spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and the appearance thereof be not deeper
than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white, then the priest shall
shut up him that has the plague seven days. 5 And the priest shall look on him
the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague stay in its appearance, and the
plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days
more. 6 And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day; and, behold, if
the plague be dim, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest
shall pronounce him clean: it is a scab; and he shall wash his clothes, and be
clean.
If
this is the case he has become clean and can return to
society.
7 But if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after that he hath
shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the
priest again. 8 And the priest shall look, and, behold, if the scab be spread in
the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy. 9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he
shall be brought unto the priest. 10
And the priest shall look, and, behold, if there be a white rising in the skin,
and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising,
11 it is an old leprosy in the skin of
his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean; he shall not shut him up;
for he is unclean.
He
or she is kept away from society for a longer time.
12 And if the leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the
leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his
feet, as far as appears to the priest; 13 then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the leprosy have
covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague; it is
all turned white: he is clean.
He
or she no longer is Tamay but what an appearance something horrible and not a
pleasant sight for the eyes.
But
on the day that live flesh appears in it: If healthy flesh grows on it,
[Scripture] has already explained that healthy flesh is a sign of uncleanness.
[Therefore, what is this verse telling us here?] However, a case where the
lesion was located on one of twenty-four tips of the limbs is not deemed unclean
on account of healthy flesh because the lesion cannot be seen all at one glance
[once an area of healthy flesh appears within the lesion], since these [limb
tips] slope down on either side. [Therefore it is not deemed unclean.] If,
however, such a tip of a limb altered [in its form], allowing its slanted facet
to appear through fat-for example, when the tip of a limb became fat and
broadened, and the healthy flesh (מִחְיַָה) became visible within [the lesion, thereby
allowing the lesion to become visible all at one glance], Scripture teaches us
[here] that it becomes unclean. — [Torath Kohanim 13:86] But on the day [that
live flesh] appears: [The verse could have simply said, “But when live flesh
appears.”] What does Scripture teach us [by saying,] “on the day”]? It [comes]
to teach that there is a day on which you [the kohen] look [i.e., examine the
suspected lesion], and there is a day on which you do not look [i.e., when he
may not examine it]. From here [our Rabbis] say that a bridegroom is exempt
[from having a lesion examined] throughout all the seven days of the wedding
feast, for himself, his garments, and his house. Similarly, during a Festival
[people] are exempt [from having a lesion examined] throughout all the days of
the Festival. - [Torath Kohanim 13:87]
15 And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him
unclean; the raw flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.
This
is the second type.
It
is tzara’ath: meaning, that flesh. Flesh (בָּשָׂר) is
grammatically masculine. [Hence, the wording: צָרַעַת
הוּא, rather than צָרַעַת הִיא, as in
verse 8.]
16 But if the raw flesh again be turned into white, then he shall
come unto the priest; 17 and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the
plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath
the plague: he is clean. 18 And when
the flesh has in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed, 19 and in the place of the boil there is a white
rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be shown to the priest.
20 And the priest shall look; and,
behold, if the appearance thereof be lower than the skin, and the hair thereof
be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague
of leprosy, it hath broken out in the boil. 21 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
hairs therein, and it be not lower than the skin, but be dim, then the priest
shall shut him up seven days. 22 And
if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it
is a plague. 23 But if the bright spot
stay in its place, and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil; and the priest
shall pronounce him clean.
He
or she returns to society.
24 Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning by fire,
and the quick flesh of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or
white; 25 then the priest shall look
upon it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and the
appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, it is leprosy, it hath broken out in
the burning; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of
leprosy. 26 But if the priest look on
it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower
than the skin, but be dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days. 27 And
the priest shall look upon him the seventh day; if it spread abroad in the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. 28 And
if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread in the skin, but be dim,
it is the rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean; for
it is the scar of the burning. 29 And when a man or woman hath a plague upon the
head or upon the beard, 30 then the priest shall look on the plague; and,
behold, if the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin, and there be in it
yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scall, it
is leprosy of the head or of the beard. 31 And if the priest look on the plague
of the scall, and, behold, the appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin,
and there be no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up him that hath
the plague of the scall seven days. 32 And in the seventh day the priest shall
look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread, and there be in it
no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper than the skin, 33
then he shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall
shut up him that hath the scall seven days more.
It
is the scar tissue of the inflammation: Heb. צָרֶבֶת
הַשְּׁחִין, as the Targum
[Onkelos] renders it: רוֹשַׁם שִׁיחִנָא, a residual impression of the inflammation,
identifiable on the flesh [i.e., a scar]. Every expression of צָרֶבֶת [in Scripture]
denotes the contraction of skin that has become shriveled because of heat.
Similarly, the verse, “And all faces [from the south to the north] will be
shriveled by it” (Ezek. 21:3), retrire in Old French, to
contract.
34 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and,
behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, and the appearance thereof be
not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; and he
shall wash his clothes, and be clean. 35 But if the scall spread abroad in the
skin after his cleansing, 36 then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if
the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair:
he is unclean. 37 But if the scall
stay in its appearance, and black hair be grown up therein; the scall is healed,
he is clean; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
The
person now returns to society but looks horrible so will never comment on
somebody else’s looks again but accept them.
This
is the third type.
Dim
white: I.e., their whiteness is not bright, but dim. It is a bohak: Like the
whiteness that appears on the flesh of a red man, called ros [in Old French,
rosso in Italian], between the areas of his redness [i.e., flesh color]. This
[white pigmentation] is called בֹּהַק, just like a freckled man, whose skin
between one freckle and another shines brightly (מַבְהִיק) with pure
whiteness.
39 then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in
the skin of their flesh be of a dull white, it is a tetter, it hath broken out
in the skin: he is clean. 40 And if a
man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
He
can now return to function with the congregation.
He
is bald. He is clean: Clean of the uncleanness of nethek lesions (Torath
Kohanim; Baraitha of Rabbi Ishmael 1:5). I.e., this case is not judged by the
signs of the head and beard, which are places of hair (see verses 2937). Rather,
[it is judged] by the signs of a lesion on the skin of the flesh, namely: 1)
white hair, 2) healthy flesh, and 3) spread.
41 And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head,
he is forehead-bald; yet is he clean.
The
fourth and last type of Tsoras on the human body.
At
the front of his head: [The area] from the slope of the crown toward one’s face
is called גַּבַּחַת \'82 “forehead,” and included in this are the temples on either side
as well. [The area] from the slope of the crown toward one’s back is called
קָרַחַת,
the “back of the head.” - [Torath Kohanim 13:144]
42 But if there be in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a
reddish-white plague, it is leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald
forehead.
A reddish-white
lesion: blended [of red and white]. How do we know [that the lesion is also
unclean if it has] other colors? Because Scripture says, “like the appearance of
tzara’ath on the skin of the flesh” (verse 43), i.e., appearing like the
tzara’ath dealt with in the passage of [lesions of the] skin of the flesh,
[which begins with] “If a man has [se’eith, sapachat or bahereth] on the skin of
his flesh” (verse 13:2). And what is stated regarding it [i.e., regarding a
lesion on the skin]? That one becomes unclean through [it, if it appears as one
of] four shades [namely: 1) the snow-white of bahereth ; 2) the white as “lime
of the Holy Temple” of the secondary form (sapachat) of bahereth ; 3) the white
as white wool of se’eith; and 4) the white as a “membrane that covers an egg” of
the secondary (sapachat) form of se’eith (Nega’im 1:1), and that it is judged
with [a possible] two weeks [of quarantine], and not like the appearance of
tzara’ath stated concerning inflamed areas and burns, which is judged with
[only] one [possible] week [of quarantine], and is also unlike the appearance of
nethek lesions, [which are tzara’ath found] in hairy places, which do not become
unclean through the four shades [as above].
43 Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising
of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the
appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh, 44 he is a leprous man, he is
unclean; the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean: his plague is in his
head.
This
next section deals with the Tsoras on his clothing or some sort of a mold in his
house. The modern ventilation system that we have today did not exist then. It
was easier to get this. Today in FL we are warned to keep our Air Conditioning
Unit at 75 F. in order to prevent mold. Was it a mold or real spiritual
Tsoras?
45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent,
and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and
shall cry: 'Unclean, unclean.' 46 All the days wherein the plague is in him he
shall be unclean; he is unclean; he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall
his dwelling be. 47 And when the plague of
leprosy is in a garment, whether it be a woolen garment, or a linen garment;
48 or in the warp, or in the woof,
whether they be of linen, or of wool; or in a skin, or in anything made of skin.
49 If the plague be greenish or
reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in
anything of skin, it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown unto the
priest. 50 And the priest shall look
upon the plague, and shut up that which hath the plague seven days. 51 And he shall look on the plague on the
seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the
woof, or in the skin, whatever service skin is used for, the plague is a
malignant leprosy: it is unclean. 52
And he shall burn the garment, or the warp, or the woof, whether it be of wool
or of linen, or anything of skin, wherein the plague is; for it is a malignant
leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire. 53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not
spread in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;
54 then the priest shall command that
they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days
more. 55 And the priest shall look,
after that the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague have not changed its
color, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the
fire; it is a fret, whether the bareness be within or without. 56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the
plague be dim after the washing thereof, then he shall rend it out of the
garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof. 57 And if it appear still in the garment, or in
the warp, or in the woof, or in an thing of skin, it is breaking out, thou shalt
burn that wherein the plague is with fire. 58 And the garment, or the warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing
of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then
it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean. 59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a
garment of wool or linen, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of
skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
Those
were the garments and now the house to follow after the purification process of
the man or woman with the condition.
14:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 This shall be the
law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the
priest. 3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall
look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; 4 then shall
the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two living clean
birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. 5 And the priest shall command
to ritual slaughter
one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. 6 As for the living
bird, he shall take it, and the cedar-wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and
shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over
the running water.
[As
for] the live bird, he shall take it: [Scripture separates the taking of the
bird from that of the other items.] This teaches [us] that he does not bind it
with them, but separates it, by itself. The cedar stick and the hyssop, however,
are bound together with the tongue-like strip of crimson wool, as the matter is
stated, “and then the cedar stick, the strip of crimson [wool], and the hyssop,”
i.e., one [act of] taking for the three of them. [I.e., the cedar stick and the
hyssop are bound together with one end of the tongue of crimson wool, and the
loose end is dipped into the blood together with them (Torath Kohanim 14:21).
Now, one might think that since it [the bird] is not included in the binding, it
is not to be included in the dipping [in the blood]. Therefore, Scripture says
here, “and, along with the live bird, he shall dip them,” thereby, re-including
the bird for the dipping. — [Torath Kohanim 14:24]
7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the
leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let go the living
bird into the open field. 8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his
clothes, and shave off all his hair, and bathe himself in water, and he shall be
clean; and after that he may come into the camp, but shall dwell outside his
tent seven days. 9 And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all
his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall
shave off; and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water,
and he shall be clean. 10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs
without blemish, and one ewe-lamb of the first year without blemish, and three
tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and
one log of oil. 11 And the priest that cleans him shall set the man that is to
be cleansed, and those things, before the LORD, at the door of the tent of
meeting. 12 And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a
guilt-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before the
LORD. 13 And he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they slaughter the sin-offering and
the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary; for as the sin-offering is
the priest's, so is the guilt-offering; it is most holy. 14 And the priest shall
take of the blood of the guilt-offering, and the priest shall put it upon the
tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot. 15 And the priest shall
take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. 16 And
the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and
shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the LORD. 17 And of
the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the
right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand,
and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the guilt-offering.
18 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the
head of him that is to be cleansed; and the priest shall make atonement for him
before the LORD. 19 And the priest shall offer the sin-offering, and make
atonement for him that is to be cleansed because of his uncleanness; and
afterward he shall kill the burnt-offering. 20 And the priest shall offer the
burnt-offering and the meal-offering upon the altar; and the priest shall make
atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
All
the above for an average man of average means but what about the “dirt poor” the
Torah continues onwards.
21 And if he be poor, and his means suffice not, then he shall
take one he-lamb for a guilt-offering to be waved, to make atonement for him,
and one tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil for a
meal-offering, and a log of oil; 22 and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons,
such as his means suffice for; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the
other a burnt-offering. 23 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his
cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tent of meeting, before the
LORD. 24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt-offering, and the log
of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD. 25
And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt-offering, and the priest shall take of
the blood of the guilt-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him
that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great
toe of his right foot. 26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of
his own left hand. 27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some
of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD. 28 And the
priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of
him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the guilt-offering.
29 And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the
head of him that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the LORD.
30 And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as
his means suffice for; 31 even such as his means suffice for, the one for a
sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, with the meal-offering; and
the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD.
32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means suffice
not for that which pertains to his cleansing.
Now
if somebody saw on his garments the disease or mold then he should try to air
out his home for it is next. The clothing and the home I assume have a physical
cause but if a spiritual cause of Lashon HaRa on the house or on the garment
then I would have written my personal ideas as I have not received a tradition
from my teachers on the house or the garment and long ago I forgot what I read
in the Talmud on this.
33 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 34 When
ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I
put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; 35 then he
that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying: 'There seems to me
to be as it were a plague in the house.' 36 And the priest shall command that
they empty the house, before the priest go in to see the plague, that all that
is in the house be not made unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to see
the house. 37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in
the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the
appearance thereof be lower than the wall; 38 then the priest shall go out of
the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.
…
The
diseases here are academic here and perhaps next years but for the sake of
brevity, I have skipped over this section and go into a man who has an issue of
semen or a woman a flux the modern scholars deem this the venereal disease of
gonorrhea.
15:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and to Aaron, saying: 2 Speak
unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When any man hath an issue out
of his flesh, his issue is unclean. 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his
issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his
issue, it is his uncleanness. 4 Every bed whereon he that hath the issue lies
shall be unclean; and everything whereon he sits shall be unclean. 5 And
whosoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the even. 6 And he that sits on anything whereon he that
hath the issue sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even. 7 And he that touches the flesh of him that hath the
issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until
the even. 8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even. …19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she
shall be in her impurity seven days; and whosoever touches her shall be unclean
until the even. 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be
unclean; everything also that she sitsh upon shall be unclean. 21 And whosoever
touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be
unclean until the even. 22 And whosoever touches anything that she sits upon
shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
The
Gemara in Meseches Shabbos 11A the Mishnah states that a Zav aka the man who has
a flow of seed should not sit down to eat with the Zava aka the woman who has
fluxes of blood. A ZAB MUST NOT DINE TOGETHER WITH A
ZABAH, AS IT MAY LEAD TO
SIN. The
detailed discussion starts on 13A. The
reason the Gemara states is that they should not become to regular to be
together and cause them to sin. There is great logic in this as he says you are
forbidden to others because of your Tuma and I am too since we have the same
level of Tuma why not have some hanky-panky together. There the Sages put a
fence around this. The whole reason is to keep the Nation of Yisrael holy.
**This week we start Perkei Avos and one of the advice of the early Sages was to
put a fence around the Torah next week I hope to make up for it as I have too
many stories this week below
…31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their
uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile My
tabernacle that is in the midst of them. 32 This is the law of him that hath an
issue, and of him from whom the flow of seed goes out, so that he is unclean
thereby; 33 and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of them that have an
issue, whether it be a man, or a woman; and of him that lies with her that is
unclean.
Sophia
sent me with the blog of Devorah Chava: Red Heifer in the Lakewood, NJ area:
http://shiratdevorah.blogspot.com/2015/04/para-adumah.html
The
Turkish Commissioner said: “I’ll give my son 100 lashes.” as told to me by my
son Chaim
A
Turkish Rabbi was visiting Tiberia which was off limit to Jews but not Turkish
Citizens. He was attacked by a group of people including as ring leader the son
of the Turkish Governor of the area. Since he was a Rabbi of a large city
commissioned by the Sultan, the Governor was furious and even ruled justice be
done with 100 lashes to be given to his son. The Rabbi was wise and said that
the punishment should be for educational purposes that it would never happen
again. Therefore he should take a whip with 100 hairs on it and lash the lad
that way. In this way the Governor will appear just with 100 lashes to his own
son and the son will not hate the Jews.
And
so it was as the son eventually became the governor of the city and for the 100
hairs allowed 100 Jewish Families to live in the city and thus the modern city
of Tiberia started.
'I
Lay Injured with My Hand on the Grenade Pin' http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193757#.VSPNBpv9nIU
Soldiers
reveal what happened before Hamas took the body of Oron Shaul - and why the
wrong choice of tanks mattered. Nine months after one of the most difficult
nights of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, Yediot Aharonoth and
Channel 10 have published part of the IDF's investigation into the
kidnapping and death of Sgt. Oron
Shaul
.
On
July 20, Golani Brigade, armor and engineering corps forces were met with
effective close range guerrilla actions in Shejaiya, Gaza. Thirteen soldiers
were killed when a bomb detonated below an armored personnel carrier (APC); the
bodies of First Sgt. Shaul and Second Lt. Hadar Goldin were kidnapped by
Hamas.
On Monday, soldiers who survived the attack revealed that there were communications issues between the tanks - and that's where the trouble began.
On Monday, soldiers who survived the attack revealed that there were communications issues between the tanks - and that's where the trouble began.
One
of the APCs became stuck, a soldier stated during the interview, and no one
could find a tow cable.
Commander Ohad Rosefeld, who was driving the stuck APC, left the vehicle along with a comrade and approached the commander of the operational APC beside him for help. The two agreed that one APC would demolish a terrorists' home in the adjacent neighborhood, and that the other would cover in the event there was a shootout.
Commander Ohad Rosefeld, who was driving the stuck APC, left the vehicle along with a comrade and approached the commander of the operational APC beside him for help. The two agreed that one APC would demolish a terrorists' home in the adjacent neighborhood, and that the other would cover in the event there was a shootout.
As
soon as the mission began, the drama flared.
"About
1.5 or 2 meters before I got back to my APC, the APC exploded," Ohad recounted.
"They shot at us an RPG missile that hit the engine of the carrier, causing an
explosion. I was left without a weapon, lying wounded - my legs were paralyzed
and I couldn't move."
"I
took a grenade from our arsenal and was lying there with my hand on the pin," he
added.
G.,
another anonymous soldier who survived the attack, corroborated the account.
"Suddenly
I see like a comet flying and hits an APC," he recalled. "No one knew exactly
where the soldiers were. Ohad said he had seen two soldiers outside the APC, but
so far the IDF couldn't verify that." The IDF believed that all the soldiers
killed were in the APC at the missile hit it.
"Immediately after the missile hit, heavy Kalashnikov fire began at us," says G. "I see Ohad's APC is on fire and I'm yelling, 'I have an APC on fire, all crew dead. I just cannot believe what I saw."
"Immediately after the missile hit, heavy Kalashnikov fire began at us," says G. "I see Ohad's APC is on fire and I'm yelling, 'I have an APC on fire, all crew dead. I just cannot believe what I saw."
Sgt.
Aaron Omar (23), also a commander of the APC which was hit, watched his vehicle
burn.
"I
realized we had to continue forward and alert the rest," he said. "We couldn't
just watch our friends get burned, but we must continue the
operation."
Ohad's
company realized he was injured, so they began to move him. "Ohad's fellow
soldier recognized me as a figure approaching, and thought it was a terrorist,
and pointed his weapon at me, "G. said. "He asked Ohad permission to open fire,
but Ohad asked him to describe the silhouette approaching - and at the last
moment, just before he pulled the trigger, [Ohad] told him it was me and not
shoot."
"He
saved my life; one second later, they would have killed me."
G., he claimed, announced at this time initiation of the Hannibal protocol - which determines a number of regulations in the case of the kidnapping of a soldier concern and is intended to prevent the abduction of the soldier or his body parts.
G., he claimed, announced at this time initiation of the Hannibal protocol - which determines a number of regulations in the case of the kidnapping of a soldier concern and is intended to prevent the abduction of the soldier or his body parts.
"There
are seven missing", G. said, "I'm worried it's Hannibal."
However,
the Golani Brigade Commander Colonel Ghassan Alian replied that such a procedure
had not been announced; the IDF replied as well that an operation to that end
would disrupt the missions of three separate units, in any event. In retrospect,
the IDF determined that it was in these moments in which a Hamas cell managed to
snatch the body of Sergeant Oron Saul.
At
the same time, the troops were shot at from all sides.
G.
tried to direct the Tanks commander to come help them, but the Captain did not
find the trapped troops due to the same navigational error that led the two APCs
off course to begin with. Soldiers who survived stated that it took 40 minutes
for reinforcements to arrive, even though they had been something like 400
meters away.
"The
company commander's tank has a doctor, and in the meantime Ohad began to lose
consciousness," G. said. "He received a bunch of shots to his legs, he broke two
vertebrae and had shrapnel in the back of the hand."
"The
medic stopped the bleeding. But the company commander and the doctor did not
come."
When the tanks come, G. and other fighters tried to extinguish the fire with fire extinguishers.
When the tanks come, G. and other fighters tried to extinguish the fire with fire extinguishers.
"Very
quickly we understood what's going on there," G. said. "There were no whole
bodies, they were all destroyed, and the attempt to put out the APC with was
pathetic."
"Three
soldiers who were with me were just shocked, and did not move. Shell shock," he
added.
Battalion
commander Lt. Col. Alkabetz arrived 50 minutes after the APC explosion.
"I
came as soon as I realized what had happened," Alkabetz stated, and rejected the
argument that he took a long time, "It took me 20 to 25 minutes to arrive. I saw
the entire APC burnt, and the bodies of some soldiers still burning. I saw some
soldiers from the APC survived."
Alkabetz
began a preliminary investigation to determine what happened.
A
debate still rages on whether Alkabetz took too long to reach the site. Some
soldiers believe he had, although they qualify their accusations with an
acknowledgement of the chaos around them; others disagree. Gen. Alian supports
Alkabetz's version of events.
Problems
also arose due to logistics. APCs and Hummers are vulnerable to antitank fire,
soldiers stated, and initially the first choice was to use ground troops for the
operation, with Namers, or specially-equipped APCs that would be impervious to
antitank fire. Regular APCs were sent in instead, however, due to a shortage of
available armored vehicles; Alkabetz reportedly shut down objections by combat
soldiers buy saying, "I do not have time for games."
The
IDF has denied wrongdoings by trading out the heavy APCs for regular
APCs.
We
almost succeeded
I
have been working overtime for my new step-son nephew and with that came a price
of time and energy to become his legal guardian and we are still in the process
of becoming forester parents. Our goal was to bring him for Pessach to the
States. His father told the judge that one who goes outside of Israel leaves a
Jew and comes back a Goy. This made a wonderful impression as the Judge said, “I
went to another country and came back a Jew”. With that he slammed down his
gavel and awarded Menashe to us. However, that was March 11th. By the
time we got an Israeli Passport in our hands with a special process and the
elections it was March 18th. My mistake was not applying with the
on-line form 160 for a US Visa immediately. Had I done so, I would have made it
but I asked questions about an interview that was unnecessary for a child under
14.
My
wife left on the morning of April 1st without him. The Visa is by the
carrier in Petach Tikva at this moment but came a day or two late for my wife to
make arrangements for a flight change and his flight. It also would have meant a
lot of expense. As for Menashe he was supposed to be by my brother-in-law for
the Seder and Menashe was ill so suddenly the father who wanted him could not
handle him. With the exception of one day, Menashe was by his siblings most of
the time and enjoyed himself immensely. He got to see his own Nephews and Nieces
and relatives in the greater family. All in all it was a bonding experience for
him and we spoke via skype, phone and what’s app to him. He is getting his
chance to grow up.
As
for the future once we get the Visa in our hands, we can make the tickets for us
for a future trip to the States. I have an idea of something to do. In the
meantime, I bought him a second and third grade US reading book and questions to
get his understanding up. By the time we come back, with his brains, he may be
put into the honors English Class from a poor south Tel Aviv English that he
had.
Jules
Verne a master of Science Fiction
This
is not Torah but I found on my phone 50,000 e-books that one can read for free
one is not wasting Torah Time if one reads them in the toilet as one cannot
learn Torah there. I started glancing at the books and I came across a book
entitled 2889 it was published in 1889 attributed to Jules Verne. Some
interesting facts that I read in the first few pages show something of his time
and the prediction of a machine 1000 years into his future that could do from
house to house what skype can do from phone to phone today. The life expectancy
with better hygiene and sanitation had risen from the average of 37 years to 52
years of age. Verne, himself, lived to be 77 years old which was far above the
generation of the sweat-shops and pre-anti-biotic cures. Back in 1957 the
concept of skype phones was demonstrated by IBM with a television/telephone
about one and a half feet wide by two feet long by somewhere between four to
five feet high costing a small fortune. It would take a lot of miniaturization,
faster and better machines to produce the first crude version of skype. Israel
is behind in personal telecommunications still and the intra-structure
technology does not meet that of the US. Today there are futurists who try to
predict technological advances 20 to 50 years down the road.
From
Gail: The Pessach Seder in Prison by Rabbi Yosef
Mendelevitz
A miracle whose source is Jewish dedication to mitzvot. Arutz Sheva IsraelNationalNews.com Published: Friday, April 03, 2015 10:01 AM
Rabbi
Yosef Mendelevich former Soviet refusenik and Prisoner of Zion, a leader of
Soviet Jewry, was imprisoned for 11 years in the Gulag for attempting to hijack
a plane to reach Israel. His autobiography, Operation Wedding, describes the
story and release in 1981.
It was
while I was in the Chistopol Prison. This was a very harsh prison. I was sent
there for having kept the Shabbat in the hard labor camp. This was considered to
be an offence. It was the tenth year of my incarceration. I was for some time in
the same cell with another Prisoner of Zion, Hillel Butman
A month before the Passover festival I suggested that we hold a Pesach Seder.
He only laughed: "A Pesach Seder in the prison? It's impossible." I knew that he was an obstinate person and that if he said no- there was nothing one could do about it.
Therefore, I decided to make all the preparations alone. In the Jewish underground in Russia one of the activities of Jewish education was to teach young people about the Pesach Seder. I was lucky. Among my personal belongings I kept a postcard from Israel on which there was a photograph of a Pesach Seder Plate from the Israel Museum- a Pesach Seder Plate from Germany, from the 18th century.
Therefore, from this postcard I learned what I would need for the Seder Plate. And there was a further small miracle: in the margins of the postcard there was all the order of the Pesach Seder: Kadesh Urechatz.. I began at once to write my own Pesach Haggada according to the order written in the postcard.
I would need four cups of wine. How to obtain wine in the closely guarded security prison? – Very simple.
My father, Moshe Ben Aaron of Blessed Memory, had sent me 10 years previously a kilo of raisins. This was during the interrogation period and it was permitted to receive raisins. After the trial it was no longer permitted to receive anything like this.
I had saved the raisins during these years, I only used them for Kiddush. Although one needed the fruit of the vine –wine, but out of ignorance I decided that raisins were also fruit of the vine. Every Shabbat we would gather in another hut and I would make Kiddush over two raisins. By the tenth year there only remained to me a few handfuls of the raisins, but this was enough to make wine. And there was more. Every day a prisoner would receive a spoonful of sugar. People at once ate the sugar. But I decided to collect it. Every day I added another spoonful and another. After a month I had enough sugar.
I poured the sugar, raisins and hot water into the water-bottle and hid it underneath the bed. Although I was afraid that there might be a sudden search and they would discover my wine, but I had no choice.
I wanted to find something bitter for Chazeret (Horseradish). Suddenly there began an outbreak of influenza in the prison. The prison management didn't have medicines. They heard that onion prevents flu. One day every prisoner received a fresh onion bulb. It was a real asset! For years I hadn't eaten a fresh vegetable. All the prisoners swallowed the onion in a trice. But I thought to myself that if I put the onion in water the onion would sprout leaves and I would be able to make bitter Chazeret from them. And that is what I did. I had an empty tin in which I put water the little onion bulb and placed it on the cell windowsill exactly under the bars. They all laughed at me – "Are you crazy? Why didn't you eat it? Are you trying to grow flowers here?" And I remained silent.
Now came the time for Karpas (celery or parsley). Where could I find some leaves like Karpas? Now, every day they took prisoners out for a walk. Not like you see in films where all the prisoners walk in the yard together. Our prison was only for security prisoners and it was forbidden that we should meet one another (Natan Scharansky also was a prisoner there).
In that place they used to take out all the people in one cell to the roof of the building which was divided into cells, but without a roof. Instead of a roof there were bars.
One day I saw in the yard near our yard (all of them 3 x 3 meters) a small green leaf bursting through the asphalt on the roof. When I had been previously in the forced labor camp we had eaten grass and one knew that this type of grass was edible. I prayed that no one would stamp on my leaf until the Pesach festival.
The egg I made from egg- powder (one spoonful of which remained in my bag), and I also had a Zeroa - a soup cube from Israel with a picture of a chicken on the wrapping. (For a certain time it was permitted to receive once a year a small parcel with soup cubes and egg powder, but after some years they forbade this as well. And miraculously I still had a bit of each left over.) It was still permitted to receive Matza which the prison authorities called "dry bread." I received a kilo of Matzot, the only food for the seven days of Passover.
All that remained was to find the Pesach Seder Plate. I decided to make a Seder Plate from a Pravda newspaper full of "true" Communist propaganda. What was good was that it contained big newspaper pages.
The eve of Pesach arrived.
On the way from the exercise yard I ran quickly to the adjacent yard and picked my "Karpas." Such a an act was considered a grave offence. The warder escorting began to laugh at me – "Who gave you permission?" I knew him, that warder- he was a good man. He shouted, but did not punish. I explained to him that this plant was very healthy. He listened to me and allowed me to take the Karpas to my cell.
In the evening I asked the warders to bring me the Pravda newspaper to read. I made from the newspaper a circle and wrote on it as on a Seder Plate: Zeroa, Egg, Maror (leaf of the onion) Everything was ready. I hid the Seder Plate under my blanket. When the evening of Tet-Vav Nissan arrived I called Hillel and said – "Pesach has arrived, come let us sit at the Seder table."
He laughed at me: "You again with your stupid ideas, I already told you that it is impossible to hold a Seder in the prison!" Then I showed him the Pesach Seder Plate. He examined it. Everything was in place. And then he said to me: "But you don't have wine- it's impossible without the Four Cups." I bent down and took out the water bottle with raisins from under the bunk. The truth is that I wasn't sure if I would get wine. Hillel uncorked the bottle, smelt, and declared "real wine." If that's the case, come let us sit down and hold the Pesach Seder."
Thus did I hold a Halachically-correct Pesach Seder in the prison. The next morning Hillel and all the members of Operation Wedding were freed and emigrated to Israel. For them this was a true "Festival of Exodus from the Gulag." However, I remained in prison for a further two years. That is what Hashem decreed. As soon as he arrived in Israel, Hillel Butman told the media how I had held a Pesach Seder in the prison. The story became "a real Pirsum Haness" – "Publicizing of the Miracle"
A month before the Passover festival I suggested that we hold a Pesach Seder.
He only laughed: "A Pesach Seder in the prison? It's impossible." I knew that he was an obstinate person and that if he said no- there was nothing one could do about it.
Therefore, I decided to make all the preparations alone. In the Jewish underground in Russia one of the activities of Jewish education was to teach young people about the Pesach Seder. I was lucky. Among my personal belongings I kept a postcard from Israel on which there was a photograph of a Pesach Seder Plate from the Israel Museum- a Pesach Seder Plate from Germany, from the 18th century.
Therefore, from this postcard I learned what I would need for the Seder Plate. And there was a further small miracle: in the margins of the postcard there was all the order of the Pesach Seder: Kadesh Urechatz.. I began at once to write my own Pesach Haggada according to the order written in the postcard.
I would need four cups of wine. How to obtain wine in the closely guarded security prison? – Very simple.
My father, Moshe Ben Aaron of Blessed Memory, had sent me 10 years previously a kilo of raisins. This was during the interrogation period and it was permitted to receive raisins. After the trial it was no longer permitted to receive anything like this.
I had saved the raisins during these years, I only used them for Kiddush. Although one needed the fruit of the vine –wine, but out of ignorance I decided that raisins were also fruit of the vine. Every Shabbat we would gather in another hut and I would make Kiddush over two raisins. By the tenth year there only remained to me a few handfuls of the raisins, but this was enough to make wine. And there was more. Every day a prisoner would receive a spoonful of sugar. People at once ate the sugar. But I decided to collect it. Every day I added another spoonful and another. After a month I had enough sugar.
I poured the sugar, raisins and hot water into the water-bottle and hid it underneath the bed. Although I was afraid that there might be a sudden search and they would discover my wine, but I had no choice.
I wanted to find something bitter for Chazeret (Horseradish). Suddenly there began an outbreak of influenza in the prison. The prison management didn't have medicines. They heard that onion prevents flu. One day every prisoner received a fresh onion bulb. It was a real asset! For years I hadn't eaten a fresh vegetable. All the prisoners swallowed the onion in a trice. But I thought to myself that if I put the onion in water the onion would sprout leaves and I would be able to make bitter Chazeret from them. And that is what I did. I had an empty tin in which I put water the little onion bulb and placed it on the cell windowsill exactly under the bars. They all laughed at me – "Are you crazy? Why didn't you eat it? Are you trying to grow flowers here?" And I remained silent.
Now came the time for Karpas (celery or parsley). Where could I find some leaves like Karpas? Now, every day they took prisoners out for a walk. Not like you see in films where all the prisoners walk in the yard together. Our prison was only for security prisoners and it was forbidden that we should meet one another (Natan Scharansky also was a prisoner there).
In that place they used to take out all the people in one cell to the roof of the building which was divided into cells, but without a roof. Instead of a roof there were bars.
One day I saw in the yard near our yard (all of them 3 x 3 meters) a small green leaf bursting through the asphalt on the roof. When I had been previously in the forced labor camp we had eaten grass and one knew that this type of grass was edible. I prayed that no one would stamp on my leaf until the Pesach festival.
The egg I made from egg- powder (one spoonful of which remained in my bag), and I also had a Zeroa - a soup cube from Israel with a picture of a chicken on the wrapping. (For a certain time it was permitted to receive once a year a small parcel with soup cubes and egg powder, but after some years they forbade this as well. And miraculously I still had a bit of each left over.) It was still permitted to receive Matza which the prison authorities called "dry bread." I received a kilo of Matzot, the only food for the seven days of Passover.
All that remained was to find the Pesach Seder Plate. I decided to make a Seder Plate from a Pravda newspaper full of "true" Communist propaganda. What was good was that it contained big newspaper pages.
The eve of Pesach arrived.
On the way from the exercise yard I ran quickly to the adjacent yard and picked my "Karpas." Such a an act was considered a grave offence. The warder escorting began to laugh at me – "Who gave you permission?" I knew him, that warder- he was a good man. He shouted, but did not punish. I explained to him that this plant was very healthy. He listened to me and allowed me to take the Karpas to my cell.
In the evening I asked the warders to bring me the Pravda newspaper to read. I made from the newspaper a circle and wrote on it as on a Seder Plate: Zeroa, Egg, Maror (leaf of the onion) Everything was ready. I hid the Seder Plate under my blanket. When the evening of Tet-Vav Nissan arrived I called Hillel and said – "Pesach has arrived, come let us sit at the Seder table."
He laughed at me: "You again with your stupid ideas, I already told you that it is impossible to hold a Seder in the prison!" Then I showed him the Pesach Seder Plate. He examined it. Everything was in place. And then he said to me: "But you don't have wine- it's impossible without the Four Cups." I bent down and took out the water bottle with raisins from under the bunk. The truth is that I wasn't sure if I would get wine. Hillel uncorked the bottle, smelt, and declared "real wine." If that's the case, come let us sit down and hold the Pesach Seder."
Thus did I hold a Halachically-correct Pesach Seder in the prison. The next morning Hillel and all the members of Operation Wedding were freed and emigrated to Israel. For them this was a true "Festival of Exodus from the Gulag." However, I remained in prison for a further two years. That is what Hashem decreed. As soon as he arrived in Israel, Hillel Butman told the media how I had held a Pesach Seder in the prison. The story became "a real Pirsum Haness" – "Publicizing of the Miracle"
A
long holocaust story of the Jews of Corfu who survived worth reading this link:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4647522,00.html
1 trampled to death at the funeral of Rabbi Shmuel Wosner (Shevet
Levi) who passed away at the age of 102 years. One still in serious and another
in critical condition. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193651#.VSC8QZv9nIU
Rabbi Chaim Grinerman passed away at the age of 91. He used to be
the expert on medical issues before Rav Firer came with an organization of
people to help the ill.
After Pessach will be 70 years since the liberation of the camps
and the Holocaust Memorial Day. 250,000 Ukrainian Jews killed in Barbi-Yahr but
1,700 Iraqis and a brief cry out and forgotten: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Mass-graves-found-in-Iraq-What-savage-barbarian-could-kill-1700-people-in-cold-blood-396422
Netanyahu and Yaalon demolish Synagogue:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/194022#.VSznHZv9nIU
Biblical Marathon enacting the story from the book of Samuel Aleph
4:11 on the run from Benyamin to Shiloh: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193860#.VSa5lZv9nIU
What should have been OK was kosher but Chametz for Pessach due to
mislabeling: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193877#.VSbqipv9nIU
The growing ultra-Orthodox problem with plane travelers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/us/aboard-flights-conflicts-over-seat-assignments-and-religion.html??WT.mc_id=2015-APRIL-AOL-EMAILED_AUD_DEV-0401-0430&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=AUDDEVAPRIL&ncid&_r=0
Once upon a time the Black Community liked the Jews for helping
them rise up and we treated them as human beings and not like the majority of
the white community. In honor of her 100th birth anniversary Tablet put
out a link to her rendition of a Jewish Song. http://tabletmag.com/scroll/190122/billie-holidays-cover-of-my-yiddishe-mamme
From Gail - Perhaps this explains why Barak Hussein Obama prefers
members of the Muslim Brotherhood on his White House
Team: OBAMA’S RING: ‘THERE IS NO GOD BUT
ALLAH’ By
Jerome Corsi He’s worn band on wedding-ring finger since before he met
Michelle Published: image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2012/01/Jerome-R.-Corsi_avatar-96×96.jpg
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THE
OBAMA WEDDING RING
In
the story, Jodi Kantor described its “intricate
gold design,” NOTING it
came from Barack Obama’s boyhood home of Indonesia and was not traditional, like
Michelle’s.
Kantor
wrote: Just before the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. pronounced Barack Obama and
Michelle Robinson man and wife on the evening of Oct. 3, 1992, he held their
wedding rings – signifying their new, enduring bonds – before the guests at
Trinity United Church of Christ. Michelle’s was traditional,
but Barack’s
was an intricate gold design from Indonesia, where he had lived as a
boy.
There
was no mention in the article that Obama ALREADY had
been wearing the ring for more than a decade.
The photos of the ring
from the 1980s can be compared with more recent photos, such as the ones published
by the Huffington Post in 2010 in an article by Anya
Strzemien, “Obama’s ‘Intricate’ Indonesian Wedding Band: A CLOSE-UP,” seen here.
http://www.wnd.com/files/2012/10/OBAMA-RING-closeup-1.jpg
Inyanay Diyoma
Successful missile defense at a medium distance shown.
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israels-US-backed-missile-interceptor-Davids-Sling-passes-advanced-tests-395844
A 21% increase in anti-Semitism in the USA. We are always thinking
of Belgium, France and Britain but the truth is it is worldwide.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4643186,00.html
The US gives up sanctions for a perhaps
maybe: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/03/multiple-us-concessions-drove-iran-nuclear-talks-to-framework-deal-report/
I warned people years ago that Bosnia had Arab Terrorist tactics
and even one cousin stopped speaking to me because I said that Yugoslavia was
correct and Clinton wrong. He will not read this but years later I am proved
correct: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193672#.VSE3Xpv9nIU
Iran’s version of the nuclear framework deal shows a large
difference between the US and their version. http://debka.com/article/24514/The-Lausanne-Iran-nuclear-“deal”-An-exercise-in-spin-and-counter-spin
Israel’s defense minister on Iran: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Yaalon-Iran-a-terrorist-monster-wreaking-havoc-on-the-Mideast-396265
In Syria, ISIS slaughter Hamas and the PLO in a refugee camp while
Iran tries to supply Hamas from the Sudan to Libya and then to Gaza. Israel
reportedly attacked there storage facility: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193647#.VSGoT5v9nIU
Of
course when Israel does not injure a “Palestinian” then who cares:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193649#.VSbQR5OVZqO
Israel collects unpaid electricity bill and Abbas refuses check
and threatens: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4644519,00.html
Diane Weber Bederman: If I were a Muslim I would be embarrassed:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/70954
Coalition talks to stop the leftist backing from international
organizations and countries: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193756#.VSOqqZv9nIU
Ed-Op on the Saudis up in arms over the deal with Iran:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4644979,00.html
Iranian breakout with missiles maximum time via the “deal” is 2028
and they will have enough missiles to destroy the States by then:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193763#.VSPUB5v9nIU
Not too many Russian Spies left in Yemen: http://debka.com/article/24518/Yemen-war-Saudis-prevented-Russian-evacuations-by-air-bombed-Moscow’s-spy-center-in-Aden
How can the US ignore the ICBM’s? http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193787#.VSSMvJv9nIU
During the Chol HaMoed, a number of Israelis died on trips. One
was killed in a fall from an Omega in Peru, another fell off a 50 meter cliff in
the Golan, a Bas Mitzvah girl died in a ferry fire in the Far East, an Israeli
was stabbed in Berlin plus more anti-Semitism: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193866#.VSZyTZv9nIU
Assad and ISIS against Hamas: http://debka.com/article/24521/Assad-looses-ISIS-against-Palestinians-trapped-in-Yarmouk-camp---a-sinister-new-partnership-
Netanyahu is very slimy with his partners and pigs get slaughtered
in the end meaning the PM! http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193873#.VSbGhJv9nIV
From Shirley the Jews are waking up and taking their money to the
Republican Party thanks to Obama: http://www.israpundit.org/archives/63605884
Ed-OP Alex Fishman military correspond asks tough questions that
are unanswered by POTUS: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4645394,00.html
From Gail: Caroline Glick on the Iran deal: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/COLUMN-ONE-The-diplomatic-track-to-war-396034
From Gail an excerpt of an article by Amir Taheri:
Notwithstanding U.S. assertions that “the Iranian nuclear project
and its military-industrial offshoots would be put under a kind of international
tutelage for 10, 15 or even 25 years,” this alleged timeline — and oversight —
are absent from the Persian, as well as the Italian and French text summaries of
the “framework” agreement.
While the
U.S. articulates a phased process of sanctions “relief,” Iran insists the
sanctions would be “immediately terminated” upon announcement of a final
accord.
The U.S.
text even avers, albeit “in an oblique reference,” to Iran’s joint nuclear
weaponization/missile delivery development programs with North Korea, that
Tehran has somehow “agreed to take measures to reassure the international community”
on these military aspects of its nuclear project. But, “there is absolutely no
echo of that in the Iranian and other non-American
texts.”
Former CIA
analyst Fred Fleitz has chronicled (see
slide below) Iran’s burgeoning accumulation of low-level enriched uranium (LEU)
on the Obama administration’s watch, since 2009 — enough to produce eight to
eleven nuclear weapons.
Over Chol HaMoed 2 soldiers were stabbed and the terrorist
eliminated.
Ed-Op a solution to the refugee problem aka illegal immigrants in
Israel: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4645352,00.html
Saudis vs. Iranians in Yemen cont.: http://debka.com/article/24523/Iran-Saudi-Arabia-in-tense-buildup-opposite-Yemen’s-Gulf-of-Aden-shore-US-air-tankers-refueling-Saudi-jets
Make a red line says Naveh: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193943#.VSsox5v9nIU
George Schultz and Kissinger speak out on the lousy Obama
deal: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-iran-deal-and-its-consequences-1428447582
The Sinai front after 13 policemen and military were killed and 50
injured, Al Sisi is cracking down further and ordered a military shake-up. The
smuggling with Gaza is still going on as the expanding buffer zone finds more
tunnels but they are probably going deeper and deeper in. In the meantime
snipers may be the new war of attrition against the IDF: http://debka.com/article/24529/Sniper-fire-from-Gaza-as-part-of-Hamas’-massive-buildup-for-next-war
Ed-op that Iran is getting S-300 will not deter Israeli
attack. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4646802,00.html
A stray mortar on the Golan: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/194106#.VS7vZpv9nIU
Another car terror attack suspected: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/194115#.VS7wV5v9nIU
Arab attack on a Jewish Home: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4647356,00.html
F-35 Flight Simulator arrives at the IAF:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4647583,00.html
HASHEM
YISBORACH WORKS IN WAYS UNKNOWN TO US: http://debka.com/article/24531/Exclusive-Moscow-has-no-S-300-air-defense-missiles-available-for-Iran-Replacements-under-discussion
A
good Shabbos for all and a blessed one.
Rachamim
Pauli
