Parsha Va'eira a proper translation on the plagues
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Motzei Shabbos please stop praying for him. Shmuel Tzvi Ben Ita perhaps needs
something once a week for the next month. His third operation appears to be as
successful as one could hope for.
Parsha Va’eira
Moshe
came to Mitzrayim with great hopes that Pharaoh would let the people serve
HASHEM. As last week’s Parsha ends, Moshe is in the Nadir of his career. He has
gotten Pharaoh to impose harsh sanctions on the Bnei Yisrael and his people are
turning against him. To say that he feels down an out is an understatement.
Our
Pasha is going to cover the first seven of the Makkos (literally punches) but
translated as Plagues. Whether you are a Hebrew Speaker seeing Pharaoh’s ears
being boxed or an English Speaker seeing Egypt being plagued, it is great punishment.
6:2 And God spoke
unto Moses, and said unto him: 'I am the LORD; 3 and I appeared unto Abraham,
unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name YHWH I made Me not
known to them.
You know
ME by the full true NAME. For to them MY Might was enough.
But [with] My name YHWH, I did not become
known to them: It is not written here לֹא הוֹדַעְתִּי,
“but My Name YHWH I did not make known to them,” but לֹא
נוֹדַעְתִּי, “I did not become known.” [I.e.,] I was not recognized by them
with My attribute of keeping faith, by dint of which My name is called YHWH,
[which means that I am] faithful to verify My words, for I made promises to
them, but I did not fulfill [them while they were alive].
4 And I have also
established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of
their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.
The
people are about to gain access to living in the land. It should have been in
the generation of Moshe and then no exile would have taken place at all!
5 And moreover I
have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in
bondage; and I have remembered My covenant.
Contrary
to the hidden nature of their slavery, I have been there and have heard their
prayers. Now I have come to redeem them through you as MY prophet.
6 Wherefore say unto
the children of Israel: I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will
redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments;
I will
not only deliver you, but I will impose great judgements on the Egyptians for
their extra harsh treatment of you and not giving you the minimum human
dignity.
7 and I will take
you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am
the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
When you
recall MY NAME, you will remember that I am HE who brought you out of Egypt.
8 And I will bring
you in unto the land, concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am
the LORD.' …
I keep
my promises to 100 or 1000 generations.
10 And the LORD
spoke unto Moses, saying: 11 'Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he
let the children of Israel go out of his land.' 12 And Moses spoke before the
LORD, saying: 'Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how
then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?'
In case
Moshe had gained a little confidence in the beginning now at the nadir, he had
completely lost it.
13 And the LORD
spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of
Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of
the land of Egypt. … 7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in
God's stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
You are
my spokesman and I will have Aaron be yours.
2 Thou shalt speak
all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that
he let the children of Israel go out of his land. 3 And I will harden Pharaoh's
heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
You,
Moshe, should know the following from the beginning. You will request from
Pharaoh and be refused by Pharaoh to have the people sacrifice in the
wilderness. Pharaoh will continue to be harsh with you. First on his own accord
and then I will harden Pharaoh’s heart. You will signs (אֹֽתֹתַ֛י) and wonders (מֽוֹפְתַ֖י) [google
translates it as exemplary]. We need the original Hebrew here for the
translation might make people think of our modern discussion of Nissim
(miracles) and Niflaos (wonders).
But I will harden: Since
he [Pharaoh] behaved wickedly and defied Me, and I know full well that there is
no delight among the nations to make a wholehearted attempt to repent, it is
better for Me that his heart be hardened, so that [I can] increase My signs and
My wonders in him, and you will recognize My mighty deeds, and so is the custom
of the Holy One, blessed be He. He brings retribution on the nations so that
Israel should hear and fear, as it is said: “I have cut off nations; their
towers have become desolate… I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me, you will accept
reproof’” (Zeph. 3:6,
7). Nevertheless, in the first five plagues, it does not say, “And the Lord
strengthened Pharaoh’s heart,” but “Pharaoh’s heart remained steadfast.” -[from
Exod. Rabbah 13:3, 11:6; Tanchuma Buber, Va’era 22; Yeb. 63a]
4 But Pharaoh will
not hearken unto you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring forth My
hosts, My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by great
judgments.
You are
to expect this and in the end I will lay MY hand on him. Rashi says in the next
Pasuk “A real hand” and then I will wreak upon the Egyptians judgements.
5 And the Egyptians
shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and
bring out the children of Israel from among them.' 6 And Moses and Aaron did
so; as the LORD commanded them, so did they. 7 And Moses was fourscore years
old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
Despite
their advancing age, Moshe and Aaron did the will of HASHEM with rigor. Perhaps
as I am just slightly under 70, I can appreciate this more.
8 And the LORD spoke
unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 9 'When Pharaoh shall speak unto you,
saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron: Take thy rod,
and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.' …11 Then Pharaoh
also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of
Egypt, did in like manner with their secret arts. 12 For they cast down every
man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.
They
must have been snake charmers but their rods could not swallow his and become
rods again. Still - 13 And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto
them; as the LORD had spoken.
For if I
were Pharaoh, I might think that this is a neat and new trick. If one does not
learn the Torah from every angle including Pharaoh’s perspective, one is not
learning Pshat.
14 And the LORD said
unto Moses: 'Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he refuses to let the people go.
Is heavy: Heb. כָּבֵד.
Its Aramaic translation is יַקִיר [heavy], and not אִתְיַקַר [has become heavy], because it is the name
of a thing [an adjective and not a verb], as in for the matter is too heavy (כָבֵד) for you (Exod. 18:18).
15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the
morning; lo, he goes out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's
brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in
thy hand.
The Egyptians had a sign that when the dog star aka
Sirius would rise on a certain day of the year and that would be a sign that
the Nile floods for irrigation would come. (Archelogy of the Pyramids). Rashi
and the Medrash speak about Pharaoh going to take care of his needs in the
morning at a certain hour and Moshe knew this from his days in the castle but
it seems. Sirius would rise early in the morning and that was the start of
their new year. https://isiopolis.com/2011/08/01/when-does-sirius-the-star-of-isis-rise-in-your-area/
The story here is consistent with the Medrash that
would place the first Plague in Sivan in the early morning for in Kislev Sirius
rises in the evening. For the Medrash tells us that each Plague lasted 7 days
and then after 23 days the next plague.
A brief summary of the first 7 plagues:
A hard heart by Rabbi Berel Wein Shlita
Posted on January 3, 2008 (5768) By Rabbi Berel Wein | Series: Level: Beginner
Stubbornness can be
a virtue or a terrible character defect. When it is a virtue we call it
tenacity. When it is a defect it is just plain foolish and counterproductive.
Pharaoh’s stubbornness, as exhibited in this week’s Parsha, is an example. His
advisers inform him that Egypt is headed for disaster because of his
stubbornness but he refuses to give in to the reality of the series of plagues
that threaten to decimate Egyptian society.
Of course the Torah
tells us that his tenacity was reinforced by the fact that God hardened his
heart. The commentators, especially Maimonides, judge that to mean that the
Lord gave him the courage of his convictions not to be influenced by the events
transpiring in his country but to continue on his evil path to enslave the
Jewish people.
Hardening his heart
did not influence Pharaoh’s choices in the matter. It merely allowed him to
transform what previously appeared to be tenacity into ultimate foolishness and
disaster. Hitler, Stalin, Mao and other such leaders displayed this same
reckless stubbornness over the past century, resulting in the destruction of
societies and the deaths of tens of millions of people.
Because of his
behavior, Pharaoh becomes the paradigm for the self- destructive trait of
foolish stubbornness. The Jewish people are also characterized as being a
stubborn people. This trait has served us as well when we were and are
tenacious in preserving our values and traditions. It is a foolish trait when
we continue the policies and misbegotten certainties that have always led to
our tragedies and misfortunes.
Rashi and Midrash
teach us the source of Pharaoh’s suicidal stubbornness. It lay in his belief in
himself as a god – arrogant and convinced of his own infallibility. People who
are never wrong never have to change their policies, beliefs or behavior.
I am reminded of a
sign that I once saw on the desk of a prominent public figure that said: “Don’t
confuse me with the facts; my mind is already made up!” He was joking about it
(I think) but that danger lurks in all of us. Once we are convinced of the
absolute rectitude of our position, we not only are tenacious in maintaining
it, we become downright blindly stubborn.
Moshe meets Pharaoh
at the river’s edge where he went to perform his bodily functions. Pharaoh is
exposed there – not as a god but only as a mortal man. Moshe means to teach
Pharaoh that the justification for his stubbornness – his sham sense of
infallibility – is itself false. A little humility on the part of Pharaoh would
have saved himself and Egypt a great deal of grief. That is why the Torah
stresses that the desired quality for true leadership is humility.
Moshe becomes the
paradigm for humility just as Pharaoh – his arch- nemesis – is the paradigm for
arrogant stubbornness. This lesson of wise tenacity versus foolish stubbornness
exists in all areas of human life and society – family, community, national
policy and personal development. May we be tenacious enough in life to avoid
foolish moments of harmful stubbornness.
Shabbat shalom.
Rabbi Berel Wein
Rabbi Berel Wein- Jewish historian, author and international lecturer offers a
complete selection of CDs, audio tapes, video tapes, DVDs, and books on Jewish
history at www.rabbiwein.com
16 And thou shalt
say unto him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying:
Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness; and, behold,
hitherto thou hast not hearkened; 17 thus says the LORD: In this thou shalt
know that I am the LORD--behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand
upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 18
And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and
the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.'
At this
point there was no reason from Pharaoh’s standpoint to listen to Moshe or
believe him. There was a case where the river turned to blood and that was
after Pharaoh’s daughter lifted baby Moshe out of the water.
19 And the LORD said
unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the
waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools,
and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall
be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in
vessels of stone … 24 And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water
to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river. 25 And seven days
were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.
26 And the LORD
spoke unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD:
Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 27 And if thou refuse to let them go,
behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. 28 And the river shall swarm
with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy
bed-chamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy
people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs. 29 And the frogs
shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.' …12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch out thy
rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats LICE throughout all the land of Egypt.'
The 1917 translation, which is now
free on-line often is a lousy translation. It is easy to work with for it is
not embedded. But if you need both a good translation and the Rashi go to: http://www.chabad.org/parshah/torahreading.asp?aid=2492610&jewish=Vaeira-Torah-Reading.htm&p=complete#lt=both&showrashi=true
This also changes around the
perspective and the film from National Geographic which I mentioned in last
week’s blog for it is not gnats but lice and the next plague is not flies but
noxious beasts.
… 16 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the
water; and say unto him: Thus says the LORD: Let My people go, that they may
serve Me. 17 Else, if thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I will send
swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into
thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies,
and also the ground whereon they are.
You will always find among the King
James Goyim and some poor Jews who still have the 1917 translation “Flies”.
Here is the Chabad translation: For if you do not let My people go, behold, I will
incite against you and against your servants and against your people and in
your houses a mixture of noxious creatures, and the houses of Egypt will be
filled with the mixture of noxious creatures, as well as the land upon which
they are.
18 And I will set apart in that day the land of
Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of ferrous beasts shall be
there; to the end that thou may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the
earth. 19 And I will put a division between My people and thy people--by
to-morrow shall this sign be.' ... 28 And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time
also, and he did not let the people go.
In the first five plagues, Pharaoh
hardened his own heart. He could have been let off without any more plagues but
once the sixth one started, he was beyond repentance.
… 3 behold, the hand
of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon
the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be
a very grievous murrain.
This is
what we call plague today.
4 And the LORD shall
make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt; and there
shall nothing die of all that belongeth to the children of Israel.' … 8 And the
LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the
furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 And it
shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil
breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of
Egypt.' 10 And they took soot of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses
threw it up heavenward; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon
man and upon beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because
of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the
Egyptians. … 19 Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all that thou hast
in the field; for every man and beast that shall be found in the field, and
shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall
die.'
This
time Pharaoh and the people are warned of the seventh plague and a solution for
both man and beast beforehand. Pharaoh wanted the people outside to spite the
Bnei Yisrael.
20 He that feared
the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his
cattle flee into the houses; 21 and he that regarded not the word of the LORD
left his servants and his cattle in the field … 23 And Moses stretched forth
his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down
unto the earth; and the LORD caused to hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there
was hail, and fire flashing up amidst the hail, very grievous, such as had not
been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. …31 And the flax and
the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in
bloom. 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they
ripen late.
Next
week’s Parsha will start off with the 8th Plague which is locusts
and they will finish off these two crops.
… 33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread forth
his hands unto the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not
poured upon the earth. 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and
the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his
heart, he and his servants. 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was
hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken
by Moses.
People don’t know this
about me but my district was just short of votes to win Congress. They wanted
to run me when I turned 23 just enough to tip the Jewish vote into winning. But
by that time, the Democrat decided to become more Conservative from a Liberty
Lobby rating of close to zero to about a 96 and I moved to Israel. Here is
another story which you may find of interesting about a non-Jewish
Congressional Candidate who converted.
African American
Republican Congressional Candidate Turned Yeshiva Student
For some people, fitting into the
status quo is soothing, comforting, peaceful. Not for me. For me, seeking a
life of truth, has brought me peace. Knowing truth exists is comforting, and
experiencing virtues of truth has been soothing to my soul.
Today I am a yeshiva student
studying Torah full time. Before this, I was a Republican candidate for
Congress. Before that, I was an entertainment executive. And before that, I was
a Christian who was born in a small farm town, raised by thoughtful, hard
working spiritual seekers.
My life can be broken up into
chapters. Every page written through Life’s Experiences becomes more authentic,
more vulnerable, more transparent, more empowered. The current chapter of my
life could be titled “as the Torah takes him to a place beyond his imagination,
while everyone watches.” Five months ago, I started learning at a yeshiva in
Jerusalem called Ohr Somayach. Yeshiva life is really
intense, it consists of learning 10 or more hours a day. Six of those hours are
spent learning Gemara and Mishnah, ancient Jewish collections of
laws, wisdom and commentary. The other four hours are spent learning the five books
of Moses (the Torah) and its commentaries in depth.
The biggest challenge for me so
far has been language acquisition. At Ohr Somayach there’s a big focus on
learning directly from the text. Only using Hebrew and ancient Aramaic, no English allowed. The rabbis speak
English in the classes, but the reading is all in Hebrew/Aramaic. The goal is
to give students the intellectual tools to go directly into the Torah, Gemara,
Mishnah etc. in the original language themselves to find answers without having
to go through an intermediary or translation.. And that is the very reason why
I became Jewish in the first place — to find answers about life, about God, my
place in His creation, through his Torah.
Learning in yeshiva and living in
Israel has probably been the most exciting series of experiences I’ve ever had
in my life. The beauty of Jerusalem is unexplainable, the culture, the history,
the innovation is something that can only be understood through experience.
Prior to coming to Israel, I
worked pretty much my whole life as an entertainment executive partnering with
companies like Warner Brothers, Sprite and Myspace; just to name a few.
In 2014, I decided to get
involved in politics and became the chairman of Jewish outreach for the
California Republican Assembly. In 2016, I was the Republican nominee for US
Congress in the 37th District (As Shariff Hazan) Running for US Congress
was challenging. Unfortunately, I lost in the Los Angeles primary by 0.9
percentage points.
Growing up my mom was a social
justice professor in education at UCLA. Through her experiences I was able to
see many of the challenges faced specifically in the African-American and
Latino communities, even though I grew up in what would be considered the
upper-middle-class suburbs.
My family was successful because
I had two hard working loving parents, my father was an entrepreneur and my
mother a social justice educator. I see many of these values are exemplified in
Republican ideology. I would consider my parents Conservative Democrats — even
though they voted for Reagan during the ’80s. I embraced the Republican value
system because of the party’s belief in: family values, less dependency on
government programs, smaller government — which are virtues needed in the
African-American and Latino communities across America.
Running for Congress as the
Republican nominee in Los Angeles was a prime opportunity to bring new ideas
into communities in desperate need of social innovation. I believe in the power
of human potential, and I believe that the potential can only be expressed in
environments supporting individuality within a collective, entrepreneurship
& strong family values. These are the very principles I was raised by.
I was born on a small farm in
Springfield Ohio, close by to the university my father was attending. When I
was 2, my mother’s father passed away, so my parents decided to move to Los
Angeles where my mother was from and had grown up.
My path to Judaism was greatly
inspired by my non-Jewish parents, both of whom dedicated their lives to
seeking spiritual truths and reaching their potential as individuals. Both of
my parents grew up with strong Christian background but in their early years of
marriage they practice Sufism. Eventually, progressing to the teachings of Kabbalah, studying at the Kabbalah Centre in Los Angeles.
My personal path to Orthodox
Judaism started while attending the Kabbalah Centre about to 12 years ago. For
me and my family, the Kabbalah Centre was an amazing place. Teaching us how to
connect, personal development to the law and practices of Torah Judaism
without having to convert to Judaism.
Before the Kabbalah Centre, my
parents believed greatly in personal development, seeking mentorship and even
therapy. For us the teachings of Kabbalah brought everything full circle,
putting God, on the top of the pendulum.
Although, I loved being at the
Kabbalah Centre. My desire to want to learn more about Torah and the practices
of Judaism independently inspired me to leave the Kabbalah Centre to forge my
own path. This was the beginning of my journey to Orthodox Judaism. The
teachers at the Kabbalah Center supported my decision to journey on my own
path.
After meeting with many different
rabbis in Los Angeles. I found my home at Daat
Torah with Rabbi Moshe Hafuta. The
conversion process to Orthodox Judaism was very difficult taking close to two
years to complete. The process of conversion was more than just learning about
Judaism, as it was more about transforming the way I lived, the way I saw
the world, the way I saw myself in the world.
What will the next chapters
bring? Although dating is
extremely difficult in the frum world (Orthodox world) in comparison
to the non-Jewish world, I have total confidence eventually I will meet the
right person, get married and start a Jewish family.
My political career is
just getting started. I see myself eventually winning the congressional seat in
the 37th district Los Angeles as a Republican. My long-term political
aspiration is to play a major role in the decision-making of America, possibly
even running for American president.
Currently my focus is
continue learning in Jerusalem at Ohr Somayach. Towards the end of this
year, I’m going to enter Ohr Somayach Smicha/rabbinical program where
I will obtain the credentials to be an Orthodox rabbi.
I said to myself, “What would
have happened if one of Richard Nixon’s daughters converted and I had married
her in 1968?” Let us not condemn Gerim or Baalei Teshuva so quickly: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/leave-ivanka-trumps-judaism-alone/
I have always wondered if
Avram was warned that his children would be enslaved had prayed hard against it
– if it could have been prevented? Many times I hear about drug addicted
children, or married to a child. Disease here and there. I wonder if an ounce
of preventive prayer is worth 1000 Refuah Prayers afterwards?
Without his son-in-law
Trump has Media Problems like on Shabbos: https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/25/not-a-coincidence-trumps-media-troubles-surged-when-jewish-son-in-law-jared-kushner-was-observing-shabbat-this-past-weekend-source-with-ties-to-family-says/
From Valerie a miracle that saved two
Jews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhPUilW4Om4&feature=youtu.be
Creation – Pluto fly-by: http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-color-photos-pluto-flyby-2017-1?utm_content=bufferf5def&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-ti
Israel Army Radio will now be part of the
Defense Dept. I wonder if all the songs will be Ashkenazi like now or half
Sephardi? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4912613,00.html
Killer worse than terror – poor Israeli Road
Conditions: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223942
Inyanay Diyoma
New President returning government to the
people. https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/20/donald-trump-sworn-in-as-americas-45th-president-vows-to-eradicate-radical-islamic-terrorism-from-face-of-the-earth/
Leftists brainwashing an Ed-Op by Ben Dror
Yemeni: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4909768,00.html
Russia
wants to influence Syria and wants Iran out. http://debka.com/article/25897/Moscow-acts-to-oust-Iran-from-Syria-bombs-ISIS
For blessing the POTUS and USA he is attacked
by anti-Semites. http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Trump-inauguration-rabbi-attacked-with-antisemitic-hate-speech-479238
ISIS leader reported wounded but this is not
the first time reports have immerged. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223723
Back in the days, he was Assad’s friend now
they are rivals: http://debka.com/article/25898/Astana-floored-by-Russian-pick-as-Assad-successor
If the UN vote didn’t show Obama’s true colors
this did with the PLO funding. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223738
Bennett suggest a plan for Yehuda and the
Shomron which is realistic: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223774
Comptroller’s report shows
Yaalon and Netanyahu withheld information from Bennett and Lapid in the
Cabinet: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4912022,00.html
Israeli who fought ISIS arrested
in an Arab Country gag order: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=39821
Londonstan: Traffic warden
strikes Charedim with helmet and he is taken off his motor-bike. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4909873,00.html
Women’s March Organizer met with
Holocaust denier: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/21/womens-march-organizer-recently-met-ex-hamas-operative-has-family-ties-to-terror-group/
From Lenny: I am told that Trump approves this
message by Bill Clinton: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4351026/clinton-1995-immigration-sotu
Building freeze ends besides Yerushalayim
2500 houses to be built in the Shomron: http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-announces-plans-to-build-2500-new-West-Bank-housing-units-479456
Defense Minister says: “Next war in Gaza will
end with them raising the white flag”. He talks great but politician: http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Liberman-In-next-war-IDF-wont-stop-until-the-enemy-raises-the-white-flag-479469
State Dept. to review the $221 million to the
PLO: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/25/state-department-reviewing-obama-admins-last-minute-decision-to-send-palestinians-221m.html
IDF came under fire from the north and south: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=39835
Magic
Wand/David’s Sling long range Missile Defense System can hit Iranian Missiles
from Hezballah quickly. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223859
Hamas gets N. Korean missiles: http://debka.com/article/25899/Hamas-procures-NKorean-laser-guided-missiles
There are two problems here at this time. 1)
Finding a new secure facility outside of East Yerushalayim where the Consulate
is. 2) The negotiations carrot and stick that Trump wants to do. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4911934,00.html
US to learn Cyber-Security from Israel: https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/25/giuliani-trump-views-israel-as-key-partner-in-cyber-security-efforts-wants-to-learn-from-jewish-states-expertise/
Martin Sherman’s Ed-Op from last week: https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/19/generals-gimmicks-and-gobbledygook/
285 terror attacks from Yehuda and the Shomron:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4913490,00.html
Rudy comments on the tempest in the teapot
scandals in Israel. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Giuliani-There-are-more-important-things-to-worry-about-than-to-deal-with-cigars-479715
Miami, with a large Hispanic Community, decides
to comply with the Presidential Order on Sanctuary Cities: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/26/miami-complies-with-president-trumps-executive-order-cracking-d/21701318/
Good Shabbos, Chodesh Tov stay warm
dry and healthy,
Rachamim
Pauli
