Regarding inhalers for Shabbos and Yom Kippur I finally got a Psak
Din from Rabbi Yona Gewirtz Shlita of the Star K: If one can travel to the
Synagogue from his home without needing one he is forbidden to carry or do tricks
to carry. If one cannot manage without to cover the distance without an attack
or need for the inhaler, then it is like a cane or leg and can be carried for
Pekuach Nefesh on Shabbos and Yom Kippur. On Yom
Tov it is permitted to carry from one domain aka private to public but on
Shabbos and Yom Kippur it is one of the forbidden Melachos. Thus if one
needs nitroglycerine pills for the heart one can take what one needs for an
emergency but not carry 20 or 30. One also has to think for example in Israel
the Synagogues are less than 7 to 10 minutes in the greatest heat away from me
for an inhaler while in my place in FL, the Young Israel is a mile away and
through a number of blocks and it means at my highest walking speed about 20
minutes on the average day and perhaps 25 plus if I am with my wife and my 10
year old forester son. On Pekuach Nefesh we are strict and liberal on Yom
Kippur and Shabbos. That does not give somebody the right to carry other things
that are not associated with lifesaving emergency measures as I did carry the
minimum when I was on border patrol in Israel.
Parsha
Hazinu
Moshe as just blessed Yehoshua and warned the people that sometime
after he is gone, they will serve Avoda Zara. Now he is teaching the song. The
first 14 Pasukim this week are praises of the good from HASHEM and the rest of
the song is warning what will happen when burning anger will issue from HASHEM’s
nostrils.
32:1 Give
ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my
mouth.
Only
with two witnesses can a judgement be passed. In the afterlife the walls of one’s
house, television, telephone and other inanimate object will testify for or
against a man. Things are not that simple neither in this world or the next.
Everything has a vibrating atom or spark from HASHEM so don’t say that you are
in the privacy of your house and you can eat that cheeseburger or bacon. Know
that there is a table, chair, wall, refrigerator that can testify against you.
2 My
doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the
small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
Whether
or not a leaf falls or when is determined by HASHEM. Once the students of the
Baal Shem Tov were touring the woods with him and he told them everything has a
purpose. They were told even that leaf falling you will see. On their return to
the Yeshiva one of the students turned over the leaf and found a worm
underneath. I once saw a dog crossing the street in the States before Yom
Kippur. The dog was heading straight towards and on-coming car which was about
to go over the hill and hit him. Suddenly some sound went out and the dog
turned its head. The wheel missed the dog by millimeters. These two examples
are of HASHEM’s Chashgacha.
3 For
I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
This is
what Moshe is doing and what we are supposed to do.
4 The
Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a God of faithfulness
and without iniquity, just and right is He.
Once a
Rosh Yeshiva had a good Talmid who was dying. He made the Talmid promise to ask
HASHEM why he was taken so young. After the Talmid passed on, he came to his
Rosh Yeshiva in a dream. The Rosh Yeshiva asked “So did you ask and find out
why?” The Talmid replied “I got to heaven and saw everything straight, just and
true that I was too embarrassed to ask such a question.”
5 Is
corruption His? No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and
perverse.
I cannot
talk about the morals of the previous generation during World War II for I in
the present incarnation was not around. However, I missed out on being at
Woodstock as I was starting to become Frum but I could have gone. My generation
had high morals with the idea of most girls and even boys that a woman would be
a virgin until married. I speak from the standpoint of a non-religious Jew. When
I saw some girls a bit younger than I or my brother’s age which is five more
years of playboy propaganda and Woodstock myths, I noticed already a lower
moral standard was lower than that of the older sisters and love and marriage
no longer went together like a horse and carriage. I have seen stuff on Dr.
Phil with the current generation that makes Woodstock look like an innocent
children’s game. So Moshe saw the decline and weakening of the generations.
[Don’t get me wrong the very Orthodox that do not hold hands until married keep
the tradition but I saw things from my non-religious education and what is
going on in the States today.]
6 Do
ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not HE thy father
that hath gotten thee? Has HE not made thee, and established thee?
Is this how you repay
the Lord: This should be read as a question: “[Why] are you doing such
saddening things before God? He has the power to punish you, [nevertheless] He
has bestowed all these favors upon you. [Is this the way you repay Him for
those favors?]”- [Sifrei 32:6] You disgraceful… people: who have forgotten all
that has been done for them. Unwise: [because you do not] understand the
outcome, since it is in God’s power to do them good or evil [according to their
actions]. — [Sifrei 32:6] Is He not your father, your Master?: [The word קָּנֶךָ means:] Who acquired (קָנָה)
you; [alternatively it means:] Who nested you (קִנְּנֶךָ)
in a nest (קַן) of rocks and in a strong land;
[alternatively it means:] Who has rectified you (תִּקְּנֶךָ)
with every type of reparation (תַּקָּנָה).
He made you: A [special] nation among nations, And established you: After
[making you a special nation, God established you] upon every kind of firm base
and foundation (כַּן) [i.e., made you
self-contained]: your kohanim are from among yourselves; your prophets are from
among yourselves, and your kings are from among yourselves. [Indeed, you are
like] a city from which all [resources] are [drawn]. — [Sifrei 32:6]
7 Remember
the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he
will declare unto thee, thine elders, and they will tell thee.
Remember the days of
old: what God did to past generations who provoked Him to anger. Reflect upon
the years of [other] generations: [I.e.,] the generation of Enosh, whom [God]
inundated with the waters of the ocean, and the generation of the Flood, whom
[God] washed away. Another explanation is: [If] you have not set your attention
to the past, then “reflect upon the years of generations,” i.e., to recognize
the future, that He has the power to bestow good upon you and to give you as an
inheritance the days of the Messiah and the world-to-come. — [Sifrei 32:6] Ask
your father: These are the prophets, who are called “fathers,” as Scripture
states regarding [Elisha’s crying out to] Elijah, “My father, my father, the
chariot of Israel!” (II Kings
2:12). Your elders: These
are the Sages. — [Sifrei 32:7] And they will inform you: the events of the
former times.
A wise
person will guide his children and grandchildren on Torah behavior.
8 When
the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He separated the
children of men, He set the borders of the peoples according to the number of
the children of Israel.
When the Most High
gave nations their lot: When the Holy One, Blessed is He, gave those who
provoked Him to anger their portion, He flooded them and drowned them [i.e.,
that was their lot]. When He separated the sons of man: When [God] scattered
the Generation of the Dispersion [which built the tower of Babel], He had the
power to remove them from the world [altogether], but He did not do so. Rather,
“He set up the boundaries of peoples,” [i.e.,] He let them remain in existence
and did not destroy them. According to the number of the children of Israel: [God
let man remain in existence] for the sake of a [small] number of the children
of Israel who were destined to descend from the children of Shem, and [the sake
of] the number of the seventy souls of the children of Israel who went down to
Egypt, He “set up the boundaries of peoples,” [i.e., He separated man into
seventy nations with] seventy languages.
Technically speaking it
was the merit of Avraham Avinu who lived at the time of Migdal Bavel and
the 70 members that entered Mitzrayim that the Nations continued to exist.
9 For
the portion of the LORD is His people, Jacob the lot of His inheritance.
Because the Lord’s
portion is His people: And why did God go to all this effort [to save mankind]?
“Because the Lord’s portion” was hidden within them [i.e., mankind] and was
destined to come forth. And who is God’s portion? “His people.” And who is His
people? “Jacob, the lot of His inheritance” - and he is the third among the
Patriarchs. He is endowed with a threefold [parcel] of merits: The merit of his
grandfather, the merit of his father, and his own merit-thus, totaling three,
like a rope (חֶבֶל) composed of three
strands [twined together for added strength (Sifrei 32:9)]. Thus, it was [only]
Jacob and his sons who became God’s inheritance, not Ishmael, the son of
Abraham, and not Esau, the son of Isaac.
Am Yisrael is part and
parcel with HASHEM but we need to act his way.
10 He
found him in a desert land, and in the waste, a howling wilderness; He
compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His
eye.
He found them in a
desert land: God found them [i.e., Jacob’s sons] faithful to Him in a desert
land, for they accepted His Torah, His sovereignty, and His yoke upon
themselves-something that Ishmael and Esau did not do, as Scripture states,“The
Lord… shone forth from Seir to them, and appeared from Mount Paran” (Deut.
33:2). [The Sages (Sifrei Deut. 33:2, Tanchuma Beracha 4) explain this to mean:
God first went to the children of Esau (Seir) and offered them the Torah, but
they refused to accept it; then He went and offered it to the children of
Ishmael (Paran), and they also refused. See Rashi on that verse.] And in a
desolate, howling wasteland: An arid, desolate land, a place of howling (יְלֵל) jackals and ostriches. Yet even there,
Israel followed their faith. They did not say to Moses, “How can we go out into
the deserts, a place of drought and desolation?” The verse attests to
this:“When you went after Me in the desert” (Jer. 2: 2). He encompassed them: There
[in the desert], [God] encompassed [Israel], surrounding them by [protective]
clouds; He surrounded them with divisions in four directions, and He surrounded
them with the underside of the mountain [Sinai], which He overturned [i.e.,
suspending it] over them like a tub [see Rashi on Exod. 19:17]. — [Sifrei
32:10] And bestowed understanding upon them: There [God bestowed upon them]
Torah and understanding. He protected them: from snakes, serpents, and
scorpions, and from [hostile] nations. As the pupil of his eye: This refers to
the black part of the eye, from which the light is reflected outward. Now,
Onkelos renders יִמְצָאֵהוּ as:“He provided their
needs,” that is, God provided Israel with all their needs in the desert. [The
use of the word מָצָא is] similar to [its
use in the verses],“[Will flock and cattle be slaughtered for them] to provide
(וּמָצָא) them?” (Num. 11:22), and“The mountain is
not enough (יִמָּצֵא) for us” (Josh.
17:16). He encompassed them: [Rendered by Onkelos :] “He made them encamp round
about His Divine Presence”-the Tent of Meeting [where the Divine Presence
rested] was in the middle [of the camp] and the four divisions [i.e., the
tribal camps, surrounded it] from all four directions.
11 As
an eagle that stirs up her nest, hovering over her young, spreads abroad her
wings, taketh them, bears them on her pinions—
HASHEM
watches over Am Yisrael with the Shechina hovering above like an eagle on her
nest. In a similar vein, HASHEM cannot be attacked and protected his nation
when they observed the Mitzvos. All other birds are afraid of attacks from the eagle
who flies higher than them but the eagle flies the eaglets on her back as no predator
to attack her.
12 The
LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with Him.
HASHEM guided Am Yisrael
for there was not strange god. However, this song is a warning for the future.
And there was no alien
deity with him: Not one of the deities of the nations had the power to display
its might and to wage war with them [i.e., with Israel]. Our Rabbis, however,
explained [this whole verse] as referring to the future [i.e., “(So) the Lord
will guide them….”] (Sifrei 32:12), and Onkelos renders [this verse] likewise.
But I say that these are words of reproof. [Moses] called upon heaven and earth
as witnesses, and this song [i.e., parashath Ha’azinu] would [also] be a
witness, that eventually [Israel] would betray [God], and they would neither
remember what God did for them in the past [generations], nor [would they bear
in mind] what He was destined to do to them. Hence, this [verse] should be
understood to refer to both [the past and the future]. And [therefore] this
whole passage is apropos of [the phrase]:“Remember the days of old; reflect
upon the years of [other] generations” (verse 7)-thus [God] did for them, and
thus will He do for them in the future. [The passage is admonishing Israel:]
They should have remembered all this.
13 He
made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he did eat the fruitage of
the field; and He made him to suck honey out of the crag, and oil out of the
flinty rock;
Of course
this is talking about Am Yisrael and a reference to water from a rock but Rashi
has a different take on the Pshat.
He let them suck honey
from a rock: It once happTened in [a place in Israel called] Sichni, that a man
said to his son, “Bring me pressed figs from that barrel.” The son went [to the
barrel, but instead of finding pressed figs,] he found honey flowing over its
brim. The son retorted, “But this is [a barrel] of honey [not figs]!” His
father responded, “Dig your hand deep into the barrel, and you will bring up
pressed figs from it!” [Pressed figs are as hard as a rock. Thus, we have an
illustration in the Land of Israel of “sucking honey from a rock.”]- [Sifrei
32:13] And oil from the mighty part of the crag: This refers to the olives of
[the place in Galilee called] Giscala. — [Sifrei 32:13]
14 Curd
of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan,
and he-goats, with the kidney-fat of wheat; and of the blood of the grape thou
drank foaming wine.
Up to
this point all the blessings heaped on Yisrael by HASHEM. However sometimes
from being too rich one grows fat and lazy and lax in observance.
15 But
Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked--thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou
didst become gross--and he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of
his salvation.
The
tribes together are called Yeshurun!
16 They
roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke
Him. 17 They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew
not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded
not. 18 Of the Rock that begot thee you were unmindful, and didst
forget God that bore thee. 19 And the LORD saw, and spurned, because
of the provoking of His sons and His daughters. 20 And He said: 'I
will hide My face from them, I will see what their end shall be; for they are a
very froward generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.
When the
nation provokes HASHEM with strange gods and other abominations mentioned in
the Torah, the first thing HE does is hide HIS FACE which is essentially saying
let nature and the natural odds like a few billion Muslims against Israel play
out without MY Chashgacha.
21 They
have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god; they have provoked Me with their
vanities; and I will rouse them to jealousy with a no-people; I will provoke
them with a vile nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in My nostril, and
burned unto the depths of the nether-world, and devoured the earth with her
produce, and set ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
Anybody
who has crossed the green-line before the Jews began resettling Yehuda and the
Shomron could see an occasional tree and mostly scrubs and rocks completely
barren like a desert. It is only know with the new Yeshuvim that greenery is
coming back to the area. As the Frum Yeshuvim grow so does the land.
… 44 And
Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he,
and Hoshea the son of Nun.
He the
Yud is missing. Rashi explains why Yehoshua is called Hoshea:
He and Hoshea the son
of Nun: It was the Sabbath upon which there were two leaders [because the
office was being transferred to Joshua, i.e.,] authority was taken from one and
given to the other. — [Sotah 13b] Moses appointed a meturgeman [literally, an
interpreter, here a spokesman] for Joshua, [to relay to the public what Joshua
said,] so that Joshua could expound [on the Torah] in Moses’ lifetime, so that
Israel would not say [to Joshua], “During your teacher’s lifetime you did not
dare to raise your head!” - [Sifrei 31:1] And why does Scripture here call him
Hoshea [for his name had long since been changed to Joshua (see Numb. 13:16).
To imply [lit., to say] that Joshua did not become haughty, for although he was
given high status, he humbled himself as he was at the beginning [when he was
still called Hoshea]. — [Sifrei 32:44]
45 And
when Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all
Israel, 46 he said unto them: 'Set your heart unto all the words
wherewith I testify against you this day; that ye may charge your children therewith
to observe to do all the words of this law. 47 For it is no vain
thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong
your days upon the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.'
48 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses that selfsame day, saying:
The 7th
of Adar the day he is about to pass away.
49 'Get
thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of
Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give
unto the children of Israel for a possession; 50 and
die in the mount whither thou go up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron
thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people.
Moshe
will go up the mountain, see the Promised Land and pass away peacefully in a
cave after which probably a mild earthquake will seal the tomb and change the
landscape.
51 Because
ye trespassed against ME in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters
of Meribath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified Me not in
the midst of the children of Israel. 52 For thou shalt
see the land afar off; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give
the children of Israel.'
A normal
person is punished for doing something but here Moshe is punished for not doing
something. He did not make a Kiddush HASHEM. Perhaps it is like the child
punished who did not do his/her homework.
The real
grave of the Maccabees is perhaps here: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200913#.Vf_WLvmqqko
People
with Epilepsy should not go off into the woods in strange lands alone and try
to do a Mikvah without a buddy!
Rabbi
Pauli’s temporary boycott worked: http://www.timesofisrael.com/iceland-capital-retracts-decision-to-boycott-israel/
Inyanay Diyoma
Burn baby
burn is matched by shoot baby shoot and the fire cooled down: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200805
Anyone reading the foreign press
about the rioting taking place on the Temple Mount would imagine that Jews were
running amok in Jerusalem. Nothing could be further from the truth. The
violence derives from the provocative actions of paid volunteers of Islamist
extremist groups such as Murabitun and Murabatat who, for weeks, have been
intimidating non-Muslim visitors to the Temple Mount. The majority of the
visitors have been foreign tourists who have had to be rescued by Israeli
security forces.
These
radical groups have been defying the established arrangements which allows for
non-Muslims to visit this holy place, which they have been doing silently and
respectfully.
It has been
the Muslim groups who have defied the law and order with dangerous provocations
leading up to them storing rocks and firebombs in the mosques and attempting to
barricade themselves inside while hurling these missiles at passersby and
police that had to come to re-establish order and quiet.
It was not
the Jews that ordered a "Day of Rage' but Muslim youths who seem
determined to light a global fire in Jerusalem.
Israel's
Prime Minister has appealed to both Mahmoud Abbas and to Jordan's King Abdullah
to use their influences to restore calm.
The same mutual
respect that exists within Israeli society that honors the faith of Jews,
Christians, Muslims, and others must reign in Jerusalem. Anyone, Jew or Muslim,
that provokes hate and violence must be punished to the full extent of Israeli
law.
Barry Shaw,
Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies,
Israel.
Russian
electronic warfare in Syria: http://debka.com/article/24893/Russian-troops-already-engaged-in-battle-against-ISIS-around-Homs
Three
rockets from Gaza and Hamas targeted: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200833#.Vf2TPjYViM8
Regarding illegal immigration I will leave you
with a thought in Spanish and the translation: El que apoya el mal es el mal...
The one who supports the evil is evil...
The one who supports the evil is evil...
Are the
Arabs now using live gunfire to increase terrorism? http://debka.com/article/24895/Did-Palestinians-use-live-fire-against-the-Israeli-Border-Police-
Years ago
I made comments in the blog about this filthy immodest anti-Semitic bitch it is
no surprise to me: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200850
Time to
use flame throwers on Arab firebombers fight fire with fire and ready aim fire:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200842
And
another anti-Semite with political clout: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200845#.Vf5PsDYViM8
Hamas has
captured a downed Israeli Drone: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Report-Hamas-captures-downed-Israeli-drone-in-Gaza-Strip-416672
Israel
uses pellets stronger than a BB Gun to sting or slightly injure rioters: http://debka.com/article/24895/Israel-security-forces-may-use-live-fire-for-Palestinian-rocks-firebombs-and-%E2%80%9Cpopular-terror%E2%80%9D
Another
rocket from Gaza: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200900
More
large stones and rocks on road 443. In the meantime a slap on the wrist for
Synagogue arson: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/200916
Ecological
disasters first film on Russia the second on China and they blamed capitalist
this is State Capitalism: http://www.aol.com/article/2015/01/16/lethal-lake-in-russia-could-kill-you/21131073/
The latest Martin Sherman Ed-Op: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Into-the-Fray-POTUS-vs-US-416503
Speculation
and cooperation with Russia/Israel over Syria. “We have no interest to remove
Assad!” http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4702869,00.html
A productive and easy fast - Gmar Hatima Tova,
Rachamim Pauli
