Getting caught off guard is not
pleasant. It happened to me. I know generally that the four special Parshiyos
are in Adar before Pessach. I did not look at the Calendar and only after I
published last week’s Torah Drasha, did I notice that it was also Parsha
Shekelim. Women who normally don’t come to Schul, should try to go to hear the
reading for Parsha Zachor and Para. Parsha Zachor will be the 11th
of March or the 13th of Adar and the next week, the 18th
of March or the 20th of Adar will be Para. Hopefully more about
remembering Amalek next week without a vow.
New-Old this week, as I was looking
to fill up the Parsha with my thoughts I went back to stories from 5764 AKA 2003-4
that I published way back. I came across a few of my original stories and some
from others. Also the series on Rebbetzin Chedva Silberfarb Zal taken from
Chedva’s Hebrew Tape and a chapter of “Hey Taxi” by Rabbi Chaim Teller. Chedva’s
father, my wife’s uncle Rabbi Yitzchak Engel Shlita recommended the book and I
received at the time permission to copy the story. Also even under the law, I
added enough new material on her children and even her little granddaughter
Fraidy named after her so that no copy-write could be violated.
Parsha Teruma
This week is in a way a continuation
from last week’s Parsha but we see this as what Moshe learned on Har Sinai.
Remember he is still up the mountain at this time. Many of the items in our
Parsha will not reappear for since the Mikdash was built and completed by
Shlomo the Mishkan became obsolete.
Remember the mistranslated “seal-skins”
are really giraffe-skins.
25:1
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Speak unto the children of Israel,
that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart makes him willing
ye shall take My offering.
Unlike the 5 Shekels for the redemption of the first born or the
half a Shekel before Pessach for maintaining the Mikdash, this donation was
unlimited and voluntary. The princes of the tribes held back to fill the
coffers if necessary and missed out. That is why in Parsha Naso, we see the
princes giving but this is a set portion and not from the heart as the initial
appeal was.
3
And this is the offering which ye shall take of them: gold, and silver, and
brass;
From the initial level of donations one would think that the
Mishkan Donations were asked for based on the level of their value starting with
gold and silver. However, we see the more expensive Onyx Stones and Diamond later.
– From the young Rabbi Shlita who was master of
ceremonies at the Yeshiva Mercas HaTorah dinner.
A little personal note at this time. Due to some damages, my
office was a mess and one of my bookshelves was spread over three beds and
other places. After six months, the home repairs and shelves are back but have
to repopulated with the Talmud, Shulchan Aruch, Maharal, Chatam Sofer, Rabbi
Akiva Eger, and a few hundred others. Other personal things and dealing with a
forester child, Pessach Preparations and documents for taxes have swamped me
this week so I have to use a combination of some of the older Drashos instead
of completely new like above.
The following is from 5773 I am condensing the non-commentary
direct quotations from the Torah: During the last few Parshiyos we have been
dealing with the slavery and exodus from Mitzrayim. Then as free men receiving
laws pertaining to matters between man and man and now Moshe has gone up the
mountain. At this point HASHEM begins to establish the relationship between men
a G-D. The first thing is connecting to G-D through a house of worship. At this
point we begin to receive the requirements for the place of worship and
garments of the Cohanim.
25:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Speak unto the children of Israel,
that they take for Me an offering; of every man whose heart makes him willing
ye shall take My offering.
The key word here is heart and that
it must be an offering from the heart not a compulsory one. In Parsha Ki Sisa
we have the requirement of offering half a shekel. Rashi adds:
You shall take My offering: Our Rabbis said: [The word תְּרוּמָה, mentioned three
times, denotes that] three offerings are mentioned here. One is the offering of
a beka [half-shekel] per head, from which they made the sockets, as is
delineated in [Exod. 38:26, 27, in the parsha] “ אֵלֶּה פְקוּדֵי, These are the
accounts.” Another is the offering of a beka per head for the [community]
coffers, from which to purchase the communal sacrifices, and another is the
offering for the Mishkan, each one’s [Israelite’s] donation (Talmud Yerushalmi,
Shekalim 1:1; Meg. 29b). The thirteen materials mentioned in this section
[i.e., this chapter] were all required for the work of the Mishkan or for the
garments of the kohanim, [as you will find] when you study them closely (Tan.
5, Song Rabbah 4:25).
3 And this is the offering which ye shall take
of them: gold, and silver, and brass;
These metals were available and of
value to them. On the spiritual level these metals and the kosher animals and
precious gems mentioned later on have spiritual values. Under the Kabbalistic
System the world consists of inanimate, plant, animal and humans. The rule of
Ayn Od Blilado (nothing exists without HIM) applies here. In physics we measure
different frequencies of resonance of atoms and that is probably where the
physical and the spiritual world meet.
Gold, silver, and copper, etc.: They were all given voluntarily; each person [gave] what his
heart inspired him to give, except [for] the silver, which they gave equally, a
half-shekel for each individual. We do not find throughout the entire work of
the Mishkan that more silver was required, as it is said: “The silver of the
community census was…a beka per head…” (Exod. 38:25, 26). The rest of the
silver, which was given there [in the work of the Mishkan] voluntarily, they
[the workers] made into service utensils.
4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
linen, and goats' hair;
These were rare and fine cloth sort
of luxury items for them.
Blue…wool: Heb. תְכֵלֶת, wool dyed with the
blood of the chillazon [animal], which bears a blue color. — [from Men. 44a,
Tosefta Men. 9:6] This Chillazon is a kosher fish
with a blue (Techeles) dye coming from the spleen.
Purple…wool: Heb. וְאַרְגָּמָן, wool dyed with a
kind of dye named אַרְגָּמָן.
linen: Heb. שֵׁשׁ. This is linen. —
[from Tosefta Men. 9:6] and goat hair: Heb. וְעִזִים,
the hair of goats. Therefore, Onkelos rendered: וּמְעַזֵי, [i.e.,] what comes
from the goats, but not the goats themselves [i.e., not the goat skins], for
Targum’s [Onkelos] translation of עִזִים [goats] is עִזַיָא (Gen. 30:32).
5 and rams' skins dyed red, and giraffe skins,
and acacia-wood;
More rare and luxury items used for
the Mishkan. The red color was probably some red earth which makes certain
pottery red.
Dyed red: Heb. מְאָדָּמִים They were dyed red after being tanned. Tachash skins: This was a species of animal that
existed only for a [short] time, and it had many hues (גַּוָּנִים). Therefore,
[Onkelos] renders [it] סַסְגּוֹנָא,
because it rejoices (שֶׁשָׂשׂ)
[ס and שׂ are often
interchangeable] and boasts of its hues (גַּוָּנִים). -[from Shab. 28a,
b] and acacia wood: Where did they get these [trees] in the desert? Rabbi Tanchuma
explained that our father Jacob foresaw with the holy spirit that the
Israelites were destined to build a Mishkan in the desert, so he brought cedars
to Egypt and planted them. He commanded his sons to take them with them when
they left Egypt. — [from Mid. Tanchuma 9]
As I wrote over the past few years
Tachash and Keresh (Unicorn) mentioned in Iyob 39:9 for the only animal with
two antlers and a boney horn bump on top of the head would have to be Kosher.
Since Rashi describes different hues from the Oral Torah I heard “Susgani” such
a variety of colors is in the Giraffe skin. I assume that in Rashi’s time February
22, 1040 – July 13, 1104 the sight of a
Giraffe was not common in Worms where he lived so he could not identify it.
6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing
oil, and for the sweet incense;
Oil for lighting: Pure olive oil to continually
kindle the light. spices for the anointing oil: which was made to anoint the vessels of the Mishkan and [for]
the Mishkan itself to sanctify them, and spices were required for it, as is
delineated in [the parsha] כִּי תִשָׂא (Exod. 30:22-33). and for the incense: Heb. וְלִקְטֹרֶת הַסַּמִּים,
which they burned every evening and morning, as is explained in [the parsha] וְאַתָּה תְּצַוֶּה (Exod. 30:7, 8). The
word קְטֹרֶת
means the raising of smoke (קִיטוֹר) and columns of smoke ותִּמְרוֹת עָשָׁן.
The Bnei Yisrael are compared to
the olive as you beat them and crush them they yield their oil and enlighten
the world. The olive is one of the 7 species mentioned as growing in Eretz
Yisrael. I have an olive tree and can vouch of it that the doves that Noach
sent out and used for Korbanos of childbirth love to eat olives. Spiritually
olive oil is edible and also burns well not to mention that we know now it has
great health benefits.
7 onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the
ephod, and for the breastplate.
Shoham
stones: Two were needed there [in the Mishkan]
for the ephod, mentioned in [the parsha] וְאַתָּה תְּצַוֶּה (Exod. 28:9-12). filling: Since they make for
them a seat out of gold, like a sort of hole, and the stone is placed there to
fill the hole, they are called filling stones. The place of the “seat” is
called מִשְׁבֶּצֶת,
a setting. for the ephod and for the choshen: The shoham stones for the ephod and the filling stones for
the choshen. The ephod and the choshen are explained in וְאַתָּה תְּצַוֶּה they are types of
ornaments [worn by the kohanim].
For a detailed commentary on the
various stones and their spiritual pleasure look at last year and the year
before www.rabbipauli.blogspot.com Of Parsha Teruma.
8 And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may
dwell among them.
That I should live among them – I
will have the Shechina over the Mishkan where MY NAME is and sparks of the
Shechina will rest upon the men of Yisrael and they and their families will be
blessed.
9 According to all that I show thee, the pattern
of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall
ye make it.
According to all that I show you: here, the pattern of the Mishkan. This verse is connected to the
verse above it: “And they shall make Me a sanctuary…” according to all that I
show you. and so shall you do: in future generations (Sanh. 16b, Shev. 14b, 15a). If one of the
vessels is lost, or when you make the vessels of the Temple, such as [the]
tables, menorahs, wash basins, and bases that Solomon made, you shall make them
according to the pattern of these [that I will describe in the following
verses]. If the verse was not connected to what was written before it, He would
not have written, “and so shall you do,” but" so shall you do"
[without the word “and”], and it would be speaking about the making of the Tent
of Meeting and its vessels.
In Yerushalayim today, the Temple Institute has poured a mold for
a gold Menorah and it is standing between the Churva Synagogue and route past
the Burnt House towards the Temple.
10 And they shall make an ark of acacia-wood: two
cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
They shall make an ark: like the chests that are made without feet, made like a sort of
chest called escrin [in Old French, ecrin in modern French], (i.e., a chest or
box), which rests on its bottom [without being raised off the floor by the
attachment of legs]. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ark+of+acacia-wood&ei=UTF-8&fr=chr-greentree_ff&ilc=12&type=902615 There are over 1,300 species of Acacia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacias
11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within
and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round
about.
From inside and from outside you shall overlay it: Bezalel made three arks, two of gold and one of wood. Each one
had four walls and a bottom, and they were open on the top. He placed the
wooden one inside the golden one and the [other] golden one inside the wooden
one. He covered the upper rim with gold, thus it is found that [the wooden one]
was overlaid from inside and from outside [with gold]. — [from Yoma 72b, Shek.
16b] a golden crown: Like a sort of crown surrounding it above its rim. For he
[Bezalel] made the outer ark higher than the inner one, until it extended
upwards opposite the thickness of the ark cover and slightly higher than it, so
that when the ark cover lies on the thickness of the walls, the crown extends
slightly over the thickness of the ark cover (Yoma 72b). And that [the crown]
is the symbol of the crown of the Torah (Tan. Vayakhel 8, Exod. Rabbah 34:2).
Moshe had no engineering or metal work skills and was shown the
Mishkan on Har Sinai and either at that time or when Moshe spoke Betzalel
pictured in his mind via prophecy what it should be like.
12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it,
and put them in the four feet thereof; and two rings shall be on the one side
of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
And you shall cast: Heb. וְיָצַקְךְתָּ, an expression of
casting, as the Targum [Onkelos] renders. its…corners: Heb. פַּעִמֹתָיו. As the Targum
[Onkelos] renders: זִיוְיָתֵיהּ,
its corners. They were attached on the upper corners, close to the ark cover,
two from here and two from there, across the width of the ark, and the poles
were placed in them [the rings]. The length of the ark separated the poles, two
and one-half cubits between [one] pole and [the other] pole, so that the two
people carrying the ark would walk between them [the poles]. So it is explained
in Men., in the chapter entitled שתֵּי הַלֶּחֶם (98b). two rings on its one side: Heb. וּשְׁתֵּי טַבָּעֹת,
lit., and two rings. These are the four rings [mentioned] in the beginning of
the verse, and [Scripture now] explains to you where they were [to be placed].
This “vav” is superfluous, and it is to be interpreted as שְׁתֵּי טַבָּעֹת, two rings. But you
can reconcile it [by interpreting it] in this way: and two of these rings
[shall be] on its one side, [meaning, and two of the four rings mentioned in
the beginning of this verse shall be on one side, etc.]. its…side: Heb. צַלְעוֹ, its side.
13 And thou shalt make staves of acacia-wood, and
overlay them with gold. 14 And
thou shalt put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, wherewith to
bear the ark. 15 The staves
shall be in the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it. 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the
testimony which I shall give thee. 17
And thou shalt make an ark-cover of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be
the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 18 And thou shalt make two cherubim of
gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the ark-cover.
And the Keruvim had faces like
children. We only have one thing more important that building the Beis
HaMikdash according to the Rambam. We do not stop teaching young children Torah
even to build the Beis HaMikdash. In fact the education of your children and
children’s children take a higher place than your own learning. The fact that
you work for and go out and teach your children and grandchildren Torah you are
fulfilling a higher learning purpose by setting an example and continuing the
next generation of Torah Scholars. As soon as I tied in Keruvim and Mishkan I
felt it was time to bring down this Halacha.
19 And make one cherub at the one end, and one
cherub at the other end; of one piece with the ark-cover shall ye make the
cherubim of the two ends thereof. 20
And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, screening the ark-cover
with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the ark-cover shall
the faces of the cherubim be. 21
And thou shalt put the ark-cover above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt
put the testimony that I shall give thee. 22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will speak with thee
from above the ark-cover, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark
of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the
children of Israel.
Casting of gold poses a challenge
as experienced with the casting of the golden Menorah visible today in
Yerushalayim with modern skills, precision and techniques all the more so back
3325 years ago.
23 And thou shalt make a table of acacia-wood:
two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a
cubit and a half the height thereof. 24
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold
round about. 25 And thou shalt
make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shalt make a
golden crown to the border thereof round about. 26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the
rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof. 27 Close by the border shall the rings
be, for places for the staves to bear the table. 28 And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them
with gold, that the table may be borne with them. 29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the pans thereof,
and the jars thereof, and the bowls thereof, wherewith to pour out; of pure
gold shalt thou make them. 30
And thou shalt set upon the table showbread before Me always.
Out of 600,000 men and another
600,000 women there were enough skilled craftsmen to produce the work of the
gold and wood work, casting, sewing and weaving.
31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure
gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made, even its base, and its
shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
5777 standing in Yerushalayim not far from the Kotel today is the
gold Menorah recently built in shatter proof glass. https://www.google.co.il/search?q=temple+institute+menorah+photo&tbm=isch&imgil=HrW-BhOyvJcOlM%253A%253BQjj_YZmkE442cM%253Bhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fuk.pinterest.com%25252Fpin%25252F479140847835479259%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=HrW-BhOyvJcOlM%253A%252CQjj_YZmkE442cM%252C_&usg=__GrOve_vgXdCYhRGNzVhKPr-msoY%3D&biw=1520&bih=783&ved=0ahUKEwiv6tzfjLjSAhXJFywKHbfJAv4QyjcIPQ&ei=WDW4WK_eBMmvsAG3k4vwDw#imgrc=HrW-BhOyvJcOlM:
26:1 Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains:
of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work
of the skillful workman shalt thou make them. 2 The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and
the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains shall have one
measure. 3 Five curtains shall
be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be
coupled one to another. 4 And
thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain that is outmost
in the first set; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that
is outmost in the second set. …
Now to
get an idea of the physical dimension which range from 1.5 feet or 45.72 cm to
50 cm for an Amah or Cubit see below it is like the length of a standard
swimming pool by 10 meter or between 30 and 31 feet wide.
5777 – while the Chazon Ish holds by 50 cm, I tend to
go towards 45 cm and Rabbi Schatz Shlita based on archeological dimensions of
the Temple Mount tends to believe 43 to a maximum of 45 cm. One must remember
that Melech David was about 5 ft. 2 inches or about 1.60 plus according to the
Medrash. The Amah might therefore be smaller than 45 cm which was the standard
cubit. However, large like the Chazon Ish seems unlikely.
This story I posted of the Neo-Nazi
Hungarian and his wife which were so hidden in Judaism that neither knew. My
father too was afraid to reveal that we were Jewish after the Nazis but I knew
at least people were afraid this one as a video too. http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/3600571/jewish/The-Jewish-Neo-Nazi-and-the-Chabad-Rabbi.htm#utm_medium%3Demail&utm_source%3Dchabad.org_magazine&utm_campaign%3Den&utm_content%3Dcontent
On Last Thursday or Friday, I posted
what must have been an old Levy’s Rye Bread commercial with the caption “You
don’t have to be white to be Jewish”. I was of course thinking about Jews from
Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and even those from the Orient. My friend
Yacov wrote me “Don’t be fooled by leftist agenda of ‘Jews of Color’”! To which
I replied that Judaism is color blind. We are a diverse people and the
28,000,000 Bnei Menashe are all Himalayan looking. The other half of Menashe,
Reuven, Gad and Ephraim in the Taliban area are closer in looks to the
Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews it depends on the population as there are light
blondish Jews from Europe too. As I wrote in the past, the Cherokee, Apache and
some other tribes have genetic links to the Jewish Population and even relics.
Sometimes it is just a matter of geography.
“Participants without a high school degree who sleep for more than 9 hours each night had six times the risk of developing dementia in 10 years as compared to participants who slept for less," said Dr. Sudha Seshadri, corresponding study author, and professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Center (BUSM) and Framingham Heart Study (FSH) senior investigator, in a statement. http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/healthtrending/sleeping-this-many-hours-may-predict-dementia-risk/ar-AAnyVdo?li=AA5LBhu&ocid=spartanntp This seems to explain also that the age of 100 or more many Roshei Yeshivos are still sharp.
From 5764: When I
first was being Shomer Shabbos from a completely ignorant Reform Jew, the only
prohibitions that I knew for Shabbos was not traveling, buying &
selling and working. So I carried from my house through the street my
keys, handkerchief etc. I used to turn on and off lights and type term papers.
As I learned more, I stopped using electricity on Shabbos and eventually
carrying, cooking and other forms of the 39 Melachos. At first Shabbos
seemed to be a Yoke of all the negative things that I could not do. Eventually,
I settled down and saw the positive things of resting and relaxing and
reading once a week.
Thanks to Seth: It once happened in the ELTA Company that a project
leader was under pressure to complete a project by a certain date for a foreign
client. He worked close to 128 hours a week. The first month he was fine
working 7 days a week. The second month a little more tired etc. After a
few months on the Job, he did not show up for work on Shabbos as usual.
Not only Shabbos, but Sunday and Monday. The members of the project needed
him so they called up his house and went looking for him. They found him
in a hospital specializing with people who had mental breakdowns. Maybe it
sounds a bit crazy to the modern person to have a day when one does absolutely
no work. No news, no radio, no TV, no internet, etc. but perhaps
that is what actually keeps us Shomer Shabbos people sane as the
pressures of the modern world comes upon us.
HASHEM
HELPS US IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
Philip Harrison subconsciously probably wanted to get away from
his domineering Jewish Mother. He was going to College and putting out a
monthly magazine called Skycom (Sky Communication) with Astronomy and
Astronautics for amateurs. To avoid being drafted in those days, one needed to
take 12 College credits. Phil took something like only 10 credits in night
College as he went to work for Aviation
Week and Space Technology Magazine (if my memory serves me).
Sometime between '65 & '66, he was drafted into the army. Eventually he was
sent like most soldiers to Viet Nam.
One very hot night in Nam, he was told to be on the alert in his
jeep. The heat was terrific so as the perspiration dripped from him and his
fellow soldier in the jeep, they decided to put down the bullet proof glass on
the windshield for some air. However, the silence only interrupted by distant
gun fire began to make him nervous. He realized that he was a sitting target
just ripe for the Viet Cong to pick off. He pulled back the bullet proof
windshield shut as he told his friend that it is better to be safe than sorry.
Just then a round of gunfire broke the silence. His windshield was hit right at
eye level by Viet Cong fire.
HASHEM had greater plans for Philip than just getting killed in
Viet Nam.
Lamed Shevat was the Yahrzeit of
Emma Lazarus who wrote the famed poem on the Statute of Liberty.
From Joe S. This was
written by Rosemary LaBonte to the editors of a California newspaper in
response to an article written by Ernie Lujan who suggests we should tear down
the Statue of Liberty because the immigrants of today aren't being treated the
same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry. The
paper never printed this response, so her husband sent it out via internet.
Maybe we should turn
to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's
American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back
in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United
States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and
be documented.
Some would even get down
on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the
laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning
English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed
their names to blend in with their new home.
They had waved goodbye
to their birthplace to give their children a new life and did everything in
their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was
handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All
they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade
for a future of prosperity.
Most of their children
came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought alongside men whose
parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France and Japan . None
of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country
their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and
the Emperor of Japan . They were defending the United States of America as one
people.
When we liberated
France, no one in those villages were looking for the French American, the
German American or the Irish American. The people of France saw only Americans.
And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those
immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and
waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their
parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what
it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white
and blue bowl.
And here we are with a
new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want
to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the
entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country.
I'm sorry, that's not
what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed
on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that for all the toil,
hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has
become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they
would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving
foreign country flags.
And for that
suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it happens to mean a lot to
the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking
about dismantling the United States just yet.
Oops some photos of the Democratic Convention at
Madison Square Garden in 1924 that Al Sharpton, Corey Booker and Jesse Jackson
don’t want their supporters to see. http://thetruthdivision.com/2017/01/liberals-arent-liking-photo-1924-democrat-convention/
Inyanay Diyoma
ELTA’s drone guard: http://osnetdaily.com/2017/02/us-air-force-buys-mysterious-israeli-weapon-kill-isis-drones/
Iraq attacks ISIS with the help of Russia. http://debka.com/article/25942/Iraq-hits-ISIS-in-Syria---with-Russia-without-US
Building Border War ahead of schedule: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/25/trump-administration-makes-first-tangible-step-to-building-border-wall.html
Obama-Holder in super PAC to fight Trump and the
Republicans. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/25/obama-democratic-super-group-unite-to-end-gerrymandering-win-state-races-reclaim-majorities.html
IDF disperses Lebanese protest on the border: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4927272,00.html
Montana has perhaps 700 to 1000 Jews but they are
doing something against the Boycott of Israel: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4927581,00.html
Swastikas painted on cars, buildings in Buffalo
NY. The culprits may have been captured on surveillance: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225641
Drunk plows car into crowd but not terror
related: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225642
Modern Orthodox who serve in the IDF furious at
the Chief of Staff: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225691
18 terrorist captured in Yehuda and the Shomron: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225729
More anti-Semitism this time a copycat
over-turning of grave stones in Phila. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/02/26/dozens-headstones-toppled-at-philadelphia-jewish-cemetery.html
Hamas still has at least 15 tunnels into Israel. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4928049,00.html
From Barry Shaw: Jewish Voice of Peace hosts
terrorist murderer. http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jewish-Voice-for-Peace-to-host-terrorist-at-panel-482679
Man who assaulted Jew flees probation to Turkey: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225791
Attorney General takes threats to Jews seriously:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225787
Next war northern tunnels and drones: http://debka.com/article/25943/The-next-war-Hizballah-tunnels-pocket-drones
Stephanie sent me Snopes article on Geert Wilders
entitled America the last man Standing. This one is with Caroline Glick: http://covenantzone.blogspot.co.il/2009/01/caroline-glick-on-geert-wilders-europes.html
Netanyahu-Yaalon were unprepared for Protective
Edge. Bennett showed leadership: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225852
Are the anti-Semitic attacks sponsored by the
left to embarrass Trump similar to the Reichstag fire?: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4929047,00.html
President condemns anti-Semitism in no uncertain
terms on prime time: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/225866
Analysis: The government under the same “leader”
is about to fall into the same trap as Protective Edge: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4928792,00.html
Where is the Democratic Party heading? Jews wake
up to reality: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-World-Perez-Ellison-and-the-meaning-of-antisemitism-482767
Gaza Tunnels – no cooperation between the Defense
Dept. and the Shin Bet. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4929403,00.html
Immigrant from the former Soviet Union meets
Muslim girl, converts and marries and is now caught with ISIS intent. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4929506,00.html
In the Arab World who has the power is boss: http://debka.com/article/25944/The-Arab-Summit-may-bury-hatchet-with-Assad
There was another rocket from Gaza over-night. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4929692,00.html
One of the possible signs before Moshiach. Israel
has the driest winter in 70 years: http://www.timesofisrael.com/so-far-israel-experiencing-driest-winter-in-70-years/
If the West had possessed the foresight to bomb Adolph Hitler and his Generals at the earliest possible time, think of how many lives would have been saved. (Over 50 million!) Opportunities presented themselves when they gathered together, which always occurred on important occasions. Granted, at the time, few believed that Hitler would successfully invade and take over Europe to start his self-proclaimed plans to commit Genocide of all the European Jews. In the late 1930s and early 1940s we did not yet have long range missile and nuclear weapons. If we did, one nuclear bomb would have saved Europe and the 50 million people killed in Hitler’s World War 2. That experience is behind us and, hopefully, the lessons learned.
We now face a budding Hitler in Iran who has plainly threatened
Israel with elimination. But, President Mahmoud Ahmanidejad and the Ayatollahs
know it cannot stop there. His threat spreads as a ripple in a global pond
which can reach America and Europe with their long range missiles, soon to be
capped with nuclear warheads. (Iran is expected to test a nuclear weapon as
soon as 2006.) Note! Many analysts believe Iran purchased nuclear warheads on
the black market in East Germany when the Soviet Union collapsed. With the head
long rush to achieve nuclear capability there is always the possibility of a
nuclear accident as happened in Chernobyl. Only then would the U.N.’s Security
Council accelerate their foot-dragging and try to implement sanctions.
Don’t say that we were not warned
this appeared in a good number of newspapers.
Shooting at soldiers from Gaza: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4929917,00.html
Good Shabbos all and despite that I
have house painting 2 Purim Parties, 2 Weddings, I hope to be able to get the
Drasha out next week with more new ideas as I usually produce and I have a lot
of material.
Rachamim Pauli
