These two small Parshiyos join together
to form the ending to our Sefer. However, time-wise we shall see that the Torah
continues with the dedication of the Mishkan and the work of the Leviim a few
Parshiyos into Sefer Bamidbar. These Parshiyos finish off the holiness of our
people and Cohanim with the holiness of the land. We also find answers to
unasked questions. We have heard the price of a slave and that of a Hebrew
slave-servant who receives compensation. A few other laws are included such as
the sale of a house in the city or land or an inherited portion of Eretz
Yisrael.
25:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying:
Just as the laws of Shmita come from Har Sinai so all the laws of
the Torah have their roots in Sinai. [It is obvious to us that the laws of the
inheritance of daughters were not physically given at Sinai as we see in Sefer
Bamidbar but since they come via Moshe from HASHEM with the authority as given
on Sinai.]
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye
come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto
the LORD.
The Shabbos of the land does not apply to the six other continents
or the rest of Asia but only Eretz Yisrael.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt
prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof.
The years 1,2,4,5 one gives Ma’aser Sheni and years 3, 6 Ma’aser
Ani (poor man’s tithe) but in the seventh year:
4 But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for
the land, a Sabbath unto the LORD; thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune
thy vineyard.
Just as man rests once a week on Shabbos so the inanimate land has
its Shabbos. Man is called Adam for he was formed out of Adama (earth).
5 That which grows of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap,
and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather; it shall be a year
of solemn rest for the land.
This concept was unheard of among the Nations. However, the
tremendous crop yields during six years have proven themselves.
6 And the Sabbath-produce of the land shall be for food for you:
for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and
for the settler by thy side that sojourn with thee; 7 and for thy cattle, and
for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for
food.
The land was to lie fallow!
8 And thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years unto thee, seven
times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven Sabbaths of
years, even forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou make proclamation with the
blast of the horn on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of
atonement shall ye make proclamation with the horn throughout all your land.
I suspect that the last time there was a Yovel, we heard about
13:30 a great siren rising and falling in the land. For the year before was a
Shmita year and the sixth year had great produce.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee
unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall
return every man unto his family.
This is the Yovel year. Question in which city and which country
is an object that has the engraving on it: “and proclaim liberty throughout the land”?
11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you; ye shall not
sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it
of the undressed vines. 12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; ye
shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 13 In this year of jubilee ye
shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor,
or buy of thy neighbor’s hand, ye shall not wrong one another. 15 According to
the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and
according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.
One could sell his family inheritance to a person or rent it out
until the Yovel at which time it returned to him or his heirs.
16 According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the
price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish
the price of it; for the number of crops does he sell unto thee. 17 And ye
shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the LORD
your God.
The sale of land inherited from the time of Yehoshua Bin Nun had
to return to the original family. The whole story of the five daughters of Zelphad
and their marrying only within their tribe was based on this principle law from
Torah.
18 Wherefore ye shall do My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances and
do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land shall yield
her fruit, and ye shall eat until ye have enough, and dwell therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not
sow, nor gather in our increase'; 21 then I will command My blessing upon you
in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for the three years.
If you follow the Halacha, you will be blessed in the sixth year
with such produce that will last until the crops from the ninth year. What was
the farmer to do in this time? Sharpen his plow, repair his home and learn
Torah-Mishna-Talmud-Medrash-Zohar according to the generation he lived in.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the produce, the
old store; until the ninth year, until her produce come in, ye shall eat the
old store. 23 And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is
Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.
You are entrusted in handling MY Holyland.
24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a
redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and sell some of his
possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem
that which his brother hath sold.
If a brother was poor and rented out crop sharing or sold for a
length of time, his brother or cousin could redeem it.
26 And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and
find sufficient means to redeem it; 27 then let him count the years of the sale
thereof, and restore the excess unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall
return unto his possession. 28 But if he have not sufficient means to get it
back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him
that hath bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go
out, and he shall return unto his possession.
This goes well for a field but in a walled city or a modern
mega-city.
29 And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he
may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he
have the right of redemption. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of
a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in
perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not go
out in the jubilee.
According to the Torah Law and not common civil law, a person in a
city has a regret cause for one year and can purchase back his former home.
…55 For unto Me the children of Israel are servants; they are My
servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
The observation of Shmita and Yovel are for the L-RD’s children
whom HE redeemed from Egypt.
A Pillar was set up on the way to honor Mercury the god of travel. It could be a pile of stones. This is quite different from the Pillar that Yacov set up as a foundation stone for Beit El. Yacov was for G-D and not one of the gods.
2 Ye shall keep My Sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the
LORD.
A good comparison. For by observing
Shabbos even without a Mikdash it is as if one was offering a fat juicy
sacrifice within the Mikdash. We do not know the value of Mitzvos but Shabbos
observance is compared to the reverence of the Mikdash. Our story this week, we
see a completely assimilated Jew married to a non-Jew circumcise his son that
saves the baby’s life. So how are we to know the importance of Mitzvos? We see
Shabbos, not worshipping idols, modesty between a man and his wife are themes
that repeat so we should check into following them.
This is an if you do these good deeds then you will get this reward.
8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you; and will establish My covenant with you. 10 And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old from before the new.
You will have a surplus so even if the economy is closed down during Shmita, you will surely not be affected by the lockdown.
11 And I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be My people.
This is the ultimate result of the observance of the commandments and the true reward in this world.
13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
You are now my free willed servants willing to observe Shabbos, Kashrus, Family Purity and your rewards are great.
14 But if ye will not hearken unto Me, and will not do all these
commandments; 15 and if ye shall reject My statutes, and if your soul abhor
Mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but break My
covenant; 16 I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even
consumption and fever, that shall make the eyes to fail, and the soul to
languish; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Rabbi Michael Skobac Shlita
wrote to a non-Jew on this section: Rabbis are in sales, not accounting. They should
believe that God's eternal has not been done away with - but I am not the
gatekeeper and don't know how Hashem will judge them.
As for myself, I too like to
be a Rabbi that is bringing people to Torah and not by fire and brimstone for
violating or abhorring the Mitzvos. The attitude of the Rambam is that one sin
can tip the scales the wrong way on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I can
understand where the Yetzer pulls somebody towards homosexuality or incest but
our job is to be better than our Yetzer and observe and the same goes for the
rest of the violations of the commandments. If anybody thinks that every day I
jump out of bed like a lion to serve my Creator, they are wrong for there are
days in which I want to go back to sleep. Yet I force myself, if I am well, to
pray with the Minyan. All the curses come from loose morals, laziness in either
stealing or lack of observation of Mitzvos. A few are those who want to wage
war with Judaism and HASHEM.
17 And I will set My face against you, and ye shall be smitten
before your enemies; they that hate you shall rule over you; and ye shall flee
when none pursues you. 18 And if ye will not yet for these things hearken unto
Me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. … 24 then will I
also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your
sins. 25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of
the covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities; and I will
send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the
enemy.
All this fire and brimstone work on
some and if they physically occur woke on others. But Atheists and willful
violators appear to violate more and more.
…ught forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight
of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD. 46 These are the
statutes and ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between Him and the
children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
After all the curses what do we find.
Shemos 4:22 Israel my Bechor, my first born son.
27:1 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When a man shall
clearly utter a vow of persons unto the LORD, according to thy valuation,
Let us say that I would want to donate my worth
to the Mikdash. The Cohain would use these standards to measure an elder past
70 and what he or she is worth.
3 then thy valuation shall be for
the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy valuation
shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary. 4 And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be
thirty shekels.
This is go for an agricultural society but does
it work for an agricultural worker vs. a female tax advisor or computer
scientist? On the surface we are all measured as agricultural workers for
donations to the Temple.
… 26 Howbeit the firstling among
beasts, which is born as a firstling to the LORD, no man shall sanctify it;
whether it be ox or sheep, it is the LORD'S. 27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall ransom it according to
thy valuation, and shall add unto it the fifth part thereof; or if it be not
redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy valuation. 28 Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man may
devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, whether of man or beast, or of the
field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most
holy unto the LORD. 29 None devoted, that
may be devoted of men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death. …34 These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded
Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
We started out this week with a commandment at
Sinai and ended the week with a commandment from Sinai.
Chazak – Chazak v’ nit Chazak
G-D
finds an estranged Jew in the Peruvian Amazon
By Sara
Yoheved Rigler
While
living in the Peruvian Amazon married to a native woman, an American Jew
experiences a lifesaving miracle that sparks his spiritual quest.
Saul was born in New Jersey in 1980. His family belonged to a Reform temple, which they attended on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, faithfully maintaining their post-services-on-Rosh Hashana tradition of going out for Chinese food. Saul went to Hebrew school one afternoon a week and on Saturday mornings until he was Bar Mitzvah age. “Our family was culturally Jewish,” says Saul. “We read The New York Times, watched Woody Allen movies, and espoused liberal political causes.”
When 9/11 hit, Saul was in college. Suddenly many of the foreign students were warned that unless they had proper visas they would be deported. A campaign ensued for students who were U.S. citizens to marry foreign students just so they could receive resident visas. Saul volunteered to marry a Catholic Peruvian woman. Their nuptials took place at City Hall. Saul’s father was proud of him that he was doing "Tikkun Olam."
Surprisingly, the marriage stuck. When Saul graduated in 2003 with a major in Romance languages, he found it difficult to get a good job. After two years of teaching, Saul and his wife decided to move to her native city of Lima, Peru. For what it cost them to rent for one year in New York City, they could purchase an apartment in Lima. Saul got a job teaching English at the French School.
Lima boasted four shuls and 3,000 Jews, most of them elderly Holocaust survivors. Chabad and the Conservative shul struggled to get a minyan. Saul was an atheist. His Judaism consisted of lighting Hanukah candles, holding a Seder, and refraining from eating on Yom Kippur, although he did drink. And he maintained his family’s “Jewish tradition” of absorption in liberal politics.
After nine years of living in Lima, a metropolis of ten million people with no public transport system and which is enshrouded in fog nine months a year, Saul decided to move to the beautiful Amazon region. He chose Tarapoto, a city of 500,000 people with opportunities for developing a business in legal and technical translations for mining companies. The lack of even a single synagogue in Tarapoto was irrelevant to Saul.
But as Saul and his wife had children, it became important to him to give his offspring a Jewish identity, based on the Reform doctrine of patrilineal descent. Their first son was born while they were visiting Saul’s parents in New Jersey, and he was circumcised by a Conservative Mohel. When their second son was born in Tarapoto, Saul approached a local surgeon and asked him to circumcise the eight-day-old baby. The surgeon refused, saying it was dangerous to circumcise such a young infant.
Three months later, Saul’s family was invited to a wedding in the beach resort of Los Grillos in Zorritos, near the border with Ecuador. Saul’s American friend Eric was marrying a non-Jewish Peruvian woman, and he brought Rabbi Laurie from Florida to conduct the ceremony. Saul still wanted a bris for his second son. While he understood that Rabbi Laurie could not actually circumcise the baby, he asked her to officiate at some kind of bris ceremony the day after the wedding, and she agreed.
At Los Grillos, Saul’s family was staying in a rustic, one-room bungalow with a thatched roof. It contained just a bed for the couple and a smaller bed for the children. Above the bungalow was a platform holding a 1000-liter water tank, accessed by a ladder. The bungalow was so close to the shoreline that they could leave the baby sleeping in the children’s bed while Saul, his wife, and older son frolicked on the beach, still within earshot of the baby’s cries.
The wedding took place on Saturday afternoon, with the dancing going on until late into the night. On Sunday morning, Rabbi Laurie conducted a bris-like ceremony with all of Eric’s and Saul’s friends in attendance. Afterwards, Saul bid Eric goodbye, telling him, “We’re heading back to our bungalow to have a family beach day.” Eric protested that they had just had a bris for his son, a significant Jewish milestone. They should stay and celebrate with the assembled friends. Saul and his wife acquiesced. They spent the whole day eating, drinking, and celebrating both the wedding and the bris.
Toward midnight, as they drove toward their bungalow, the caretaker came running out, screaming, “I’m so glad you guys are okay!” He pointed in the dark to the ruins of what had been their bungalow. That day a drunken driver in an SUV had collided with the ladder, knocking the one-ton water tank off its perch and through the hatched roof. As Saul waded through the sodden remnants of the bungalow, he spied the water tank. It had crashed onto the bed in which their baby would have been sleeping had they not stayed to celebrate the bris. Saul stood there trembling.
“It was very apparent to me,” Saul recalls, “that my son had survived because we had decided to do the ceremony and because we had stayed there to celebrate it properly. I saw the hand of God. I wasn’t ready to admit it to others, but I thought to myself, ‘Well, if there is a God and He just saved my son, I have to do something to thank Him. What can I do?’”
All the way back to Tarapoto, Saul reflected on an appropriate response. He thought about keeping kosher, but other than fruits and vegetables, there was no kosher food available in Tarapoto. Then he considered learning Hebrew, but he concluded that was a weak response to a major miracle. Finally, he decided, “I learned that God is pretty much into Shabbat, so if I make a nice dinner with wine on Friday nights, that would be something.”
Although Tarapoto had no real Jewish community, a decade before an Israeli organization named Shavei Yisrael had sent an emissary to reclaim the great-grandchildren of Moroccan Jewish traders who had come to the Amazon in the late 19th century and had married local women. Shavei Yisrael had started a large-scale conversion program under Orthodox auspices for those descendants of the Jewish traders who wanted to be Jews. They held Shabbat services in private homes. Saul started attending these services on Friday nights and would follow up with a dinner in honor of Shabbat. He continued this practice for two years.
Then Saul and his wife went through a painful break-up. As he remembers, “I really felt very troubled. I felt regretful of a lot of things that had gone on for many years. I went to an indigenous spiritual retreat that a client of mine was running. Before the retreat, the participants had to go on a special diet. We were forbidden to eat pork or shellfish for two weeks. I thought to myself, ‘Anything that my great-grandmother wouldn’t eat and that a shaman in the rainforest wouldn’t eat, there must be something to it.’” During the retreat, Saul “really felt directly the Divine presence.” Afterwards, he started making Kiddush on Shabbat nights.
A couple months later he decided that he was tired of wading in the shallows of Jewish observance. He wanted to dive in. But how? He needed to educate himself, but no Jewish books were available. As he wryly observes, “Amazon doesn’t ship to the Amazon.”
At that point Saul discovered the Jewish internet. Aish.com, especially the “How-to” articles by Lori Palatnik, “Ask the Rabbi,” and Pathways [now Aish Academy] became like tour guides through the dense jungle of Jewish observance. Saul felt like he was maneuvering through the rain forest on clearly marked trails. He also used the websites Mi Yodeya and Sefaria, an online library of classic Jewish texts.
“Once I started, it snowballed,” Saul recollects. “I wanted to learn more and I wanted to do more.” Still, he proceeded slowly. He learned that there are three daily prayers, but when he looked at the Shaharit morning service, he realized, “I’m not ready for this.” Instead, he undertook to say the one-line “Modeh Ani” prayer upon awakening, and Shema Yisrael.
Gradually, Saul took upon himself to observe Shabbat. He needed his cup of fresh coffee on Shabbat morning, but he realized he could grind the coffee beans on Friday before sundown. The Friday night services were held a 45-minute walk from his house, and he wasn’t ready to stop driving on Shabbat. One Friday night he found himself at a gas station and realized he could make sure to fill his car before Shabbat. “I was just focusing on the next step, and I didn’t know where it was going to take me. As I would approach a new mitzvah, sometimes I was excited, and sometime I’d say to myself, ‘That’s stupid. I’m never going to do that.’ Eventually, I would do that mitzvah and afterwards I’d feel uncomfortable not doing it.”
Keeping kosher in the Amazon presented its own problems. There was no kosher meat available in Tarapoto. At first Saul would go to the local butcher and, even though the meat had not been slaughtered according to halacha [Jewish law] he’d buy cuts of chicken and beef (kosher animals) and bring them home, and salt and soak them according to the laws he learned about on the Internet. Eventually he said, “This isn’t really right.” He started to have kosher meat airlifted to him from Lima (18 hours by car from Tarapoto) by paying a taxi driver to pick up meat at Lima’s only kosher restaurant and bring it to the airport.
After a year of such gradual steps, Saul was keeping Shabbat except for smoking, which he felt incapable of giving up. Even there, he took a small step in the direction of the halacha by lighting his cigarettes from an existing flame, as is permitted on the holidays. Half a year later, he decided, “I’m ready to do this,” and he kept his first full Shabbat. It was May 26, 2018. “It was really hard,” he remembers. “But it felt really good to take that step.”
Meanwhile, the erstwhile atheist had developed a relationship with God through his online Jewish studies. “I believed that God created the universe and gave us the Torah, and when you do a mitzvah, you’re getting closer to God by doing what He told you to do.”
Eventually, Saul decided that Tarapoto, Peru, was not the right place to live a Jewish life. The best place to relocate, he realized, was Israel. So in February, 2020, he came for a six-week stay, with the intention of making Aliyah and then going back to Peru to retrieve his two children. Saul and his ex-wife decided he would have custody of the children so they could be raised as Jews and take advantage of the educational opportunities of living in Israel. But then, in March, the coronavirus pandemic hit, and Israel went into lockdown. Marooned in Israel, Saul is happily learning Torah in the Old City of Jerusalem, anxiously waiting to be reunited with his children.
Before the lockdown, Saul ended up at my Shabbos table. Among the other guests was an American couple, Yitzchak and Jenny, who became religious twenty years ago. At some point in the discussion, Yitzchak, with umbrage, said to Saul, “I’ve been learning Torah for twenty years, while you learned everything you know on the internet. And you know more than I do.” The road to Judaism did not pass through the Peruvian Amazon, so Saul had had no choice but to fly, and by winging his way through cyberspace he found a Judaism he didn’t know existed.
No Eruv can we wear a Mask on Shabbos? https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4742365/jewish/May-One-Wear-a-Face-Mask-Outside-on-Shabbat.htm#utm_medium=email&utm_source=1_chabad.org_magazine_en&utm_campaign=en&utm_content=content
BDE another Hollywood Mensch dies of old age. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerry-stiller-was-a-mensch-he-could-act-with-the-best-of-them-too/
Inyanay Diyoma
Secretary of State to meet with new Government. https://www.debka.com/pompeo-visits-israel-on-the-day-its-new-government-is-sworn-in/
Final offer to the religious right. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279925
Syrian attacks Amsterdam Kosher 2nd
time. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279924
Miracle that I made Aliyah on the last of the last
flight out. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279894
No new Corona Cases on Shabbos. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/UGZEUEJMZ
Ed-Op on the PLO and Saudis. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/B1Va1wb5L
Leaked from the Israeli Cabinet that Netanyahu
wanted to hand out K-rations from the army storage because everybody knew the
virus was genetically engineered and might bring about the death of most of the
people. – Heb. From Artuz 2 application N12
Iranian Navy kills 40 Iranian Seamen in drill. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280000
Democratic Senators back down on threat. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280004
Rabbis tell Biden that restoring terror funds are
morally repugnant. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279957
I feel the earth move under my feet. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BJG78PUcL
Death toll rises but only 23 new cases. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/7UDPKR29Z
Health Ministry becomes a prize. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByAKehb5L
Ed-Op Dr. Sherman Judicial Overreach. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279956
NYT condemned by ADL. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280003
Iran finally decides on part lockdown. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279998
Heading to opposition the Hydra w/4 heads. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279959
GOP demands Jordan expedite terrorist. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279991
Special Soldiers: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279975
14.5year old Arab driving jeep. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/279974
Twin Muslim brothers in Golani 13 Unit. https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-muslim-twins-from-east-jerusalem-go-from-delinquents-to-israeli-soldiers/
IDF demolishes house of terrorist. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-demolishes-west-bank-home-of-suspected-killer-of-rina-shnerb/
Holy unto the L-RD as he died for his people and
the land. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280087
The worse of Corona is next winter. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280034
NY death toll may be 5,300 higher. https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-city-virus-death-toll-may-be-thousands-higher-than-thought/
US death toll passes 80,000 VP in quarantine. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-death-toll-climbs-above-80000-as-trump-suggests-pence-in-quarantine/
Two arrested for pulling masks off of Jews. https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-arrested-for-ripping-masks-off-jews-in-brooklyn-assault/
Police were not pro-active they let them light the
fires played cat and mouse and no riots. https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-haredim-crowd-jerusalem-streets-to-illegally-mark-lag-bomer/
Schooling neither here or there time for Gov. to
get real. https://www.timesofisrael.com/all-grades-to-return-to-school-sunday-but-not-full-time/
Health Ministry Chief Officer will step down. https://www.timesofisrael.com/health-czar-said-weighing-stepping-down-as-treasury-chief-announces-resignation/
14year old singing and blessing caught in a mafia
war. https://www.timesofisrael.com/popular-child-singer-unwittingly-taunts-top-mob-figure/
Three Gulf States ask Israel for help. https://www.timesofisrael.com/three-of-six-gulf-states-reach-out-to-israel-for-help-with-pandemic/
Young Israel demands NYT retraction. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280076
Israeli taxpayers to loan PLO. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280078
New Israeli Ambassador to US and UN. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/B1bTPGD58
Preparing to write history. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280017
Minister tries to make peace with the right and
Netanyahu. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280017
No new deaths as cases slightly increase. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rJpZnCPc8
Attempted terror attack. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280102
Temperatures to soar. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByC5Gyv9L
Saudi raises taxes suspends cost of living. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/Byg0E08qL
Asked to wear a mask pulls a knife security hunts
him down. He stabs security officer shots Arab dead on the spot not terror? https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ry8YRSFc8
Sec. State top Ministers talk China & Iran. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/HEB2HUFJH
Holocaust Survivor survives Covid19. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByjhPft5I#autoplay
Ultra-Orthodox faction of Charedim defies all. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SJvEB00d9L#autoplay
Wedding halls to reopen June 14th. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BywjIrt9U
IDF closing in on terrorist murderer. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280181
Half of US Covid Plasma donations are Orthodox
Jews. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280172
US warns Israel about Chinese Communication Command
Control. https://www.debka.com/pompeo-in-israel-cooperation-with-china-may-endanger-israelis/
Yesterday Arabs attacked the IDF with rocks,
Molotov Cocktails and bullets now rocks and bricks in their propaganda. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280216
Iran building a new tunnel base in Syria. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280217
Is Netanyahu playing fools of the voters? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280212
Hamas threatens more kidnappings. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280214
Corona is here to stay? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280213
Using a cocktail of antibodies. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280210
Attorney General receives death threats. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/Sy5VvjK98
Israel can now export medical Cannabis. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/HydtUnFcI
Arabs systematically damaging Jewish Heritage
Sites. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/pa-systematically-demolishing-hasmonean-dynasty-fortress-report-627714
Antisemitic Ukrainian Police: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/jewish-community-ukraine-kolomyya-anti-semitism-police-a9510126.html
Iran secretly doing underground Nuclear Tests. https://www.academia.edu/43014297/Is_Iran_Secretly_Conducting_Low_Level_Nuclear_Test_Blasts
Ramming attack soldier seriously injured could not
save one leg. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280241
Corona becomes a disease under control. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280232
First Charedi Woman to become a Minister. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280262
GOP accuse Dem’s of witch hunt. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280262
Corona Vaccine could be early 2021. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280276
The Likud-Right fiasco Ed-Op Rubin. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280255
MO passes an anti-BDS Law. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280280
Senate expand Israel-US Covid cooperation. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280277
Peretz leaves united religious rt. for ministerial seat.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/280270
Have a healthy and peaceful Shabbos, Shavuos
is two weeks from today!
Rachamim Pauli
