Last week for the first time ever I published the Blogspot late. My cousin got married and here is his picture with his lovely bride. Interesting enough the Rabbi is a 9th generation Israeli who conducted the ceremony mostly in English as both sides of the family speak mainly English among themselves. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3902393616550324&set=a.419663031490084
Parsha Behaalosecha Part 2
This is the end of the section of the dedication of the Mishkan and after this, Am Yisrael will be ready to march in and conquer the land and divide the portions thereof.
15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.
When the Mizbayach was dedicated, fire came down from heaven. The Pillar of fire was with them every night.
16 So it was always: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
When daylight broke, Am Yisrael did not need exterior lighting, the cloud covered the Ohel Moed.
17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed; and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped. 18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they remained encamped. 19 And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not. 20 And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
The army and nation did not have to think for themselves, they had automatic guidance from HASHEM Yisborach.
21 And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed; or if it continued by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
“Oh the POWER the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us it would from many a blunder free us and foolish notion and leave us with an air of devotion.” – Robert Burns. Imagine not planning vacations and trips and doing everything under Hashgacha of HASHEM. I had planned a trip to the States in a week from now but instead G-D had other plans for me when my internal bleeding started I had to change everything. So I can only day dream of going on vacation etc. when the cloud and pillar would guide me in good health.
22 Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed. 23 At the commandment of the LORD they encamped, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed; they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
This is why we see a lot of journeys in the first and last year and some years no journey at all. Check out Parsha Massei where in a very short time about 11 stops occurred and then in the last year the similar movement.
10:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt thou make them; and they shall be unto thee for the calling of the congregation, and for causing the camps to set forward. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the congregation shall gather themselves unto thee at the door of the tent of meeting. 4 And if they blow but with one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. 5 And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their journey.
When I was a boy, there was a TV show Rin-Tin-Tin about a boy who lived with his father in the army and the various bugle calls for wake-up, assembly and night. This is how essentially the calls worked but there was no Taps for evening and the deceased.
6 And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall set forward; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations. 9 And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresses you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Shlomo Melech Yisrael said “Ayn Chadash Tachas HaShemesh” – Escl. There is nothing new under the sun. We may have a loud speaker shout out “Tzeva Edom” (color red) and a siren that follows. The Trumpets had the same effect on the people with the exception that the preparedness did not involve diving for cover in 15 seconds like today or even a few minutes. People did not die running from the shower to the shelter by tripping and falling like today.
10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in your new moons, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.' 11 And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. 12 And the children of Israel set forward by their stages out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
This is their first test as an organized nation in military and family movement.
13 And they took their first journey, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 14 And in the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Nachshon the son of Amminadav. 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar … Zebulun 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, set forward. 18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur. … Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. … Gad. 21 And the Kohathites the bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up against their coming. 22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their hosts; … Manasseh … Benjamin. … 25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, … asher … Naphtali ... 28 Thus were the journeying of the children of Israel according to their hosts.--And they set forward.
So the Torah describes how the tribes moved in formation.
29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: 'We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said: I will give it you; come thou with us, and we will do thee good; for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.' 30 And he said unto him: 'I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.' 31 And he said: 'Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.' 33 And they set forward from the mount of the LORD three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for them. 34 And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set forward from the camp.
Moshe wanted Yisro for his wisdom, guidance and most of all the desert with the wells and paths.
35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said: 'Rise up, O LORD, and let Thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Thee flee before Thee.' 36 And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of the families of Israel.'
A lot has been written on this section with the two inverted nuns. Was this out of place or said Everytime the Teva was moved?
11:1 And the people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of the LORD; and when the LORD heard it, His anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
The Bnei Yisrael are never satisfied with what they have. Always complaining about something.
2 And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto the LORD, and the fire abated. 3 And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. 4 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to eat! 5 We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; 6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; we have nought save this manna to look to.'-- 7 Now the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium. 8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of a cake baked with oil.
It satisfied their hunger and taste needs.
9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.-- 10 And Moses heard the people weeping, family by family, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.
The people were ungrateful even for the Mann as they wanted meat and variety.
11 And Moses said unto the LORD: 'Wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with Thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in Thy sight, that Thou lay the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou should say unto me: Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, unto the land which Thou didst swear unto their fathers? 13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they trouble me with their weeping, saying: Give us flesh, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this people myself alone, because it is too heavy for me.
There demands for meat and other things are too much for me.
15 And if Thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in Thy sight; and let me not look upon my wretchedness.'
Please gather in my soul I have no strength left for them.
16 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather unto Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.
Each Tribe sent six men. 72 lots were given, 70 said elder and two were blank.
17 And I will come down and speak with thee there; and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
Both Eldad and Medad drew an Elder but as not to take glory they put themselves down so not as to embarrass other elders. They got prophecy and they got mentioned in the Torah.
18 And say thou unto the people: Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying: Would that we were given flesh to eat! for it was well with us in Egypt; therefore, the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days; 20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the LORD who is among you, and have troubled Him with weeping, saying: Why, now, came we forth out of Egypt?'
The food will arrive tonight and for the next month.
21 And Moses said: 'The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and yet Thou hast said: I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month! 22 If flocks and herds be slain for them, will they suffice them? or if all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, will they suffice them?'
Where am I going to get food for 600,000men for 1 day and I don’t know about women and children that were in the came out of Egypt and that is for one day
23 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.'
HASHEM is capable of doing this but ordinary man like Moshe could not fathom this.
24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent. 25 And the LORD came down in the cloud, and spoke unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders; and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
Their prophesy was a onetime event. Moshe and Aaron had many times.
26 But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad; and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were recorded, but had not gone out unto the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said: 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.'
Eldad and Medad did not have written next to their names a onetime event. From here I am deducing that because they humbled themselves to give others the position they deserved, they were honored by prophesy time after time.
28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses from his youth up, answered and said: 'My lord Moses, shut them in.' 29 And Moses said unto him: 'Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all the LORD'S people were prophets, that the LORD would put His spirit upon them!'
Joshua was jealous for Moshe as they prophesized that Moshe would not enter the land.
30 And Moses withdrew into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. 31 And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought across quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth. 32 And the people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails; he that gathered least gathered ten heaps; and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. 33 While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
The people that were gluttons perhaps did not slaughter the birds properly but they ate them raw. Today we know that when quail fly, they produce toxins from the energy burnt from flapping their wing muscles. By waiting a little, preparing the food and thoroughly cooking, the toxins would come out and one would not die.
34 And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people that lusted. 35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed unto Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
Enough of the population died of the gluttony that the place was called the gatherings of the gluttons.
12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
She did not talk about the sister-in-law because of her black skin color but her blackened life. For Tzipporah was black, beautiful and with personality. She spoke of Tzipporah of having a life blackened in that Moshe was on constant call that he gave up having marital relations with her so as not to waste time running to a Mikva so that she had no pleasure from being married as women deserve.
2 And they said: 'Hath the LORD indeed spoken only with Moses? hath He not spoken also with us?' And the LORD heard it.-- 3 Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth.--
Miriam’s argument was that since she and Aaron had prophecy too, why shouldn’t Moshe live a normal married life and supply Tzipporah with her monthly right written in the modern Ketuvah.
4 And the LORD spoke suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam: 'Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting.' And they three came out. 5 And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth. 6 And He said: 'Hear now My words: if there be a prophet among you, I the LORD do make Myself known unto him in a vision, I do speak with him in a dream. 7 My servant Moses is not so; he is trusted in all My house; 8 with him do I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD doth he behold; wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against My servant, against Moses?'
As perhaps pure as Miriam’s motives were for Tzipporah, Lashon HaRa against Moshe is grievous Lashon HaRa even if true, known and not out of hate. IF SHE IS GETTING PUNISHED FOR LASHON HARA because of love all the more so Lashon HaRa from hate.
9 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and He departed.
Aaron should have gotten punished for listening to Lashon HaRa but because he was Cohain Gadol and more passive, he only received a rebuke.
10 And when the cloud was removed from over the Tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow; and Aaron looked upon Miriam; and, behold, she was leprous. 11 And Aaron said unto Moses: 'Oh my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned. 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.' 13 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'Heal her now, O God, I beseech Thee.'
This is the shortest prayer in the Torah and is answered that even the forgiving and loving Moshe has to have Miriam get punished. But because she waited in the bulrushes for Moshe, so Am Yisrael waited for her.
14 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'If her father had but spit in her face, should she not hide in shame seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.' 15 And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days; and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. 16 And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness of Paran.
Parsha Shelach Lecha
13:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Send thou men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel; of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, everyone a prince among them.'
Paran is somewhere between Sde Boker and Beer Sheva in the south and the nation is on the verge of entering Eretz Yisrael. This area is part of Modern Israel.
3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of the LORD; all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel. 4 And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur. 5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori. 6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. 7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph. 8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun. 9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu. 10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi. 11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi. 12 Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli. 13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael. 14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi. 15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi. 16 These are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
What these men did not have is how to be a member of the Mossad Course to go in secret like in Chapter 2 of Sefer Yoshua, our Haftarah of the Shavua.
17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them: 'Get you up here into the South, and go up into the mountains; 18 and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;
You report and I decide. But not the people decide.
19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
Let me know if it is well fortified or has weakness. A non-fortified city may mean fierce warriors and a fortified city may mean weak bunker mentality. Let me with the help of HASHEM decide how to deal with the city. I am not looking for the commentary of Gaddi ben Susi but the facts only.
20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.'--Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.--
Can the land support the nation and growth in population? Also is there enough wood to make battering rams.
21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, at the entrance to Hamath. 22 And they went up into the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there.--Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.-- 23 And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a pole between two; they took also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.--
24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.-- 25 And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days. 26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all theWcongregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 And they told him, and said: 'We came unto the land whither thou sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. 28 Howbeit the people that dwell in the land are fierce, and the cities are fortified, and very great; and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
At first all the spies reported that the land was good but it was occupied by giants. This all should have been said to Moshe in private.
29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South; and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.'
Even though the Bnei Yisrael defeated Amalek, they had tasted a bloody surprise attack from them;
30 And Caleb stilled the people toward Moses, and said: 'We should go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.' 31 But the men that went up with him said: 'We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.'
We are a major fighting force an army of 603,000 men. We can easily defeat all the enemy.
32 And they spread an evil report of the land which they had spied out unto the children of Israel, saying: 'The land, through which we have passed to spy it out, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.'
Such an exaggeration from where did it come? Politics! One of the commentaries state that they wanted to stay in the desert. Calev was on a high level like Nachshon. Put him into his tribe and make they have him working the soil like the rest of his tribe. Joshua was with Moshe but the rest were somebody in the desert and nothing as farm worker.
14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.
The night was Tisha B’Av and they cried for no reason at all. HASHEM has ways of making them cry for a reason. Each Tisha B’Av 15,000 of the generation would die until the last year. As far as the spies went, instead of being somebody, they would die that day.
2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them: 'Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would we had died in this wilderness! 3 And wherefore doth the LORD bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey; were it not better for us to return into Egypt?' 4 And they said one to another: 'Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.'
Instead of a map for conquest and a plan, Moshe was faced with a rebellion.
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Yephunneh, who were of them that spied out the land, rent their clothes.
These spies are ruining our future in the land.
7 And they spoke unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: 'The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land. 8 If the LORD delight in us, then He will bring us into this land, and give it unto us--a land which flows with milk and honey.
Whitish sap from dates and honey from dates.
9 Only rebel not against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us; their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us; fear them not.'
When we came their leaders died of a plague and they had no defenses against that. They will be a push over to conquer.
10 But all the congregation bade stone them with stones, when the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting unto all the children of Israel.
Only the awesomeness of the Shechina was able to quiet down the rebellion.
11 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'How long will this people despise Me? and how long will they not believe in Me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.'
I will annihilate this rebellious nation and make thee greater than them.
13 And Moses said unto the LORD: 'When the Egyptians shall hear--for Thou brought up this people in Thy might from among them-- 14 they will say to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that Thou LORD art in the midst of this people; inasmuch as Thou LORD art seen face to face, and Thy cloud stands over them, and Thou goes before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;
L-RD if you kill them, you will make a Chillul HASHEM for the following reasons.
15 now if Thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of Thee will speak, saying: 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore unto them, therefore He hath slain them in the wilderness. 17 And now, I pray Thee, let the power of the LORD be great, according as Thou hast spoken, saying:
HASHEM please think twice after all:
18 The LORD is slow to anger, and plenteous in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
You have generations in which to extract iniquities of the people.
19 Pardon, I pray Thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of Thy lovingkindness, and according as Thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.' 20 And the LORD said: 'I have pardoned according to thy word.
At the time of Kol Nidre each year we say three times these words “Solachti Ki Devarechah” three times meaning “'I have pardoned according to thy word.’
21 But in very deed, as I live--and all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD-- 22 surely all those men that have seen My glory, and My signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to proof these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice; 23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised Me see it. 24 But My servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed Me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. 25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the Vale; tomorrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.' 26 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:
Your generation is finished from my standpoint some will die now some next year until you are all gone so about face you might as well get used to living 38 more years on Mann.
27 'How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that keep murmuring against Me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they keep murmuring against Me. 28 Say unto them: As I live, says the LORD, surely as ye have spoken in Mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness, and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, ye that have murmured against Me; 30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I lifted up My hand that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
You do not deserve to see any good land but the desert.
31 But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. 32 But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your strayings, until your carcasses be consumed in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know My displeasure. 35 I the LORD have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against Me; in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.' 36 And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who, when they returned, made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land, 37 even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before the LORD.
So much for their political ambitions to continue leading they died on the spot! On the other hand, Yehoshua became the king and conquered the land and Calev ben Yephunneh was one of the leaders of Yehuda and close to the future kingdom.
38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Yephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land. 39 And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel; and the people mourned greatly. 40 And they rose up early in the morning, and got them up to the top of the mountain, saying: 'Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised; for we have sinned.'
There were some from the tribe of Ephraim who rose up and wanted to show like Yosef that they could conquer the land.
41 And Moses said: 'Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD, seeing it shall not prosper? 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies. 43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; forasmuch as ye are turned back from following the LORD, and the LORD will not be with you.' 44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain; nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp. 45 Then the Amalekite and the Canaanite, who dwelt in that hill-country, came down, and smote them and beat them down, even unto Hormah.
They were defeated left unburied and turned into dry bones in the valley.
15:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye are come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, 3 and will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt-offering, or a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or as a freewill-offering, or in your appointed seasons, to make a sweet savor unto the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock; 4 then shall he that brings his offering present unto the LORD a meal-offering of a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil; 5 and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shalt thou prepare with the burnt-offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb. 6 Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil; 7 and for the drink-offering thou shalt present the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor unto the LORD. … 13 All that are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in presenting an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD. 14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you, throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
These are sacrifices that you and the Gerei Tzeddek can off before HASHEM.
…17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 18 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land whither I bring you, 19 then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall set apart a portion for a gift unto the LORD. 20 Of the first of your dough ye shall set apart a cake for a gift; as that which is set apart of the threshing-floor, so shall ye set it apart. 21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a portion for a gift throughout your generations.
This is the separation of Challah.
22 And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, 23 even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations; 24 then it shall be, if it be done in error by the congregation, it being hid from their eyes, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet savor unto the LORD--with the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof, according to the ordinance--and one he-goat for a sin-offering.
This is for errors that people make but not for willing violations of Torah.
25 And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin-offering before the LORD, for their error. 26 And all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourns among them; for in respect of all the people it was done in error.
This is not a private error but a congregational error example thinking forbidden fat as regular fat or the whole people getting lost in time and space and erring when Shabbos was.
27 And if one person sin through error, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering. 28 And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that errs when he sins through error, before the LORD, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven,
All errors have atonement but not willful violations.
29 both he that is home-born among the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourns among them: ye shall have one law for him that doeth aught in error. 30 But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a stranger, the same blasphemed the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
The blasphemer is a person who is in willing rebellion and will fight because he believes not in an invisible G-D or lack of belief in miracles and the parting of the sea etc.
31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken His commandment; that soul shall utterly be cut off, his iniquity shall be upon him.
Completely cut off both in this world and the next unless he was born like a Goy and brainwashed.
32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the Sabbath day. 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. 34 And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
He continued gathering after being warned of Shabbos, Kares and Death Penalty.
35 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'The man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.' 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Moshe and the tribes inhabited what would become of the man and were told to stone him for he purposely ignored the warns of the punishment for violating Shabbos.
37 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 38 'Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them throughout their generations fringes in the corners of their garments, and that they put with the fringe of each corner a thread of blue.
This is Parsha of Tzitzis and having a sky blue Techelles thread. It had to be wound a certain way and made specially to produce the dye.
39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go astray;
Similar to a thread around the finger of child to remember that mommy or daddy are not far away in our case an adult and Mitzvos with rewards and punishments.
40 that ye may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy unto your God.
You will see, observe and remember to behave in holiness.
41 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God.'
Never forget I am HASHEM your G-D.
Next week’s story ble neder. Miraculous hijacking. The grenade that did not explode.
Trapped in a Hezballah Mine Field by Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles
http://ascentofsafed.com/Stories/Stories/5781/1225-37.html
During the Seven Days of Mourning after the passing of the former chief rabbi of Israel, HaRav Mordechai Eliyahu, in 2010, former IDF general and Knesset member Mr. Effi Eitam came to Jerusalem to fulfill the mitzvah of comforting mourners. While there in the rabbi's home, he told the grieved family the following story, in which he was personally involved.
In the mid and late 1990's, he was the commanding officer of a brigade within "Utzvat HaGalil" - the Israel Defense Forces division that is responsible for the ongoing security in the western sector of the border between Israel and Lebanon. One time, a squad of fifteen soldiers from his brigade entered Lebanon in the middle of the night on a secret mission. As they were crossing a certain low area between hills, the officer in charge suddenly signaled them urgently to halt. In a fear-filled whisper he informed them that they were within a life threatening mine field.
The mine fields in Lebanon were a clever plot by Iran's militant terrorist force, called Hizbollah, to kill and maim Israeli soldiers. They would surround an area with a large number of powerful bombs, which they painted and camouflaged to look like ordinary big stones. They would place these bombs among the natural stones of the area, and wait for IDF forces to enter the "mine field" and be encircled by the bombs.
What makes this type of mine field so especially dangerous is that it is not a matter of an individual touching or stepping upon a single bomb and the hair trigger fuse causes it to explode immediately. Rather, all the bombs were connected together. Not by wire or anything else physical; a hidden laser "arc" surrounded the entire area, and any attempt to cross the perimeter created by the unseen arc would detonate all the bombs simultaneously.
Also, on top of the hill nearest to the 'field' was situated a lookout station of Hizbollah soldiers. If any one of the terrorist watchers noticed Israeli soldiers having entered the area, he could activate the encircling laser arc. The densely packed powerful explosives were capable of killing large numbers of soldiers at once and injuring many more.
The officer leading the mission, who had identified the mine field, having been taught about them in a course, sadly told the squad there was no way to exit the mine field without being killed. Furthermore, he said, the Hizbollah soldiers positioned on the surrounding hills could open fire at any time.
With a trembling
voice he called "Pikud Hatzafon" - the northern Israel IDF
command center, located in Tsfat[1] -- and reported their dire situation. The
brigade commander, Effi Eitam, was immediately informed. He grasped right away
that the lives of 15 of his soldiers was hanging by a thread. But what could he
do to help?
* * *
At 3:00 AM the house phone started ringing in the home of the former "Rishon L'Tzion" (Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu). He was already awake and studying Torah. He picked up the receiver and on the line was Effi Eitam. As concisely as possible he described the deadly situation of his soldiers. He concluded with "Great Rabbi, we need the power of your honor's prayers."
"Wait a few minutes, but stay on the line," was Rav Eliyahu's reply, and he turned away to immerse himself totally in prayer.
After the few minutes he returned to the phone, and said in a gentle tranquil tone: "I'm holding tight…take them out now!"
Eitam, who understood only too well the lethal destructiveness of this type of bombs, of course realized the implications of giving the command to flee. On the other hand, he had complete pure faith in the power of true Torah sages, and he knew Rav Eliyahu well enough to know that he would never dare utter such a demand if he wasn't fully confident that his prayer had been accepted.
He called back the squad leader. "Go! Leave! Right now! This instant! Start running!"
One of the Military Intelligence officers at the Northern Command Center was listening in on the terrorists' communication network. He put his phone on speaker so that everyone nearby could hear the quarreling voices and the screams. The local Hizbollah commander was shouting over and over again that the terrorist on watch duty should activate the laser arc. The latter yelled back, "I'm doing it! I keep pressing the button but it is not working." The commander roared at him that he was a traitor and 'decorated' him with numerous elaborate and eloquent Arabic curses.
Effi Eitam reported back to Rav Eliyahu that right after the last soldier had crossed the perimeter and sufficiently distanced himself, all the bombs began exploding one after the other around the four sides of the mine field. All the stones in the area were now specks and the trees had become sawdust. More importantly, all the Israeli soldiers made it back to their base, healthy and whole and unharmed.
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Footnote: [1] And thus the prime target for rockets fired from Lebanon…and walking distance from my house!
Source: Translated-adapted and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles from the written account of Rabbi Yisrael Abergel in his weekly publication, "Mesilot El Nefesh" (#163), based on a report in the book, Avihem Shel Yisrael l'Yeledim by Rabbi Hanoch Rigel.
Biographic notes:
HaRav Mordechai-Tzemach Eliyahu [of blessed memory: 5689 - 25 Sivan 5770
(1929-2010)], the Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel from 1983 to 1993, was born
in Iraq. A noted sage in all areas of Torah study, as well as a significant
kabbalist, he was considered to be one of the leading authorities on Jewish law
in Israel. His son, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, is currently the popular Chief Rabbi
of Tsfat.
Efraim "Effi" Eitam was an Israeli brigadier general from 1993-1999 and a member of the Knesset between 2002 and 2009, where he also served as a government minister and cabinet member from 2002-2004.
Connection: This Shabbat is the 11th yahrzeit of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu.
From the market stall to the Yeshiva Hall by Rabbi Moshe Edreyi
https://jemcentral.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/438.-Shelach-5781.pdf
I was eleven years old when my family emigrated from Morocco to Israel. My father had passed away three years before, and despite his intense wish to settle in the Holy Land, he did not merit it. We arrived by boat in Haifa, and from there we were sent to a transit camp in Ashkelon.
Shortly after we got there, I went out to help earn money that my family badly needed. I stood in front of the local market with two buckets of ice and fruit syrup, selling drinks. One day, Rabbi Yisroel Leibov, the chairman of the Chabad Youth Organization, came by and saw this boy with a yarmulke working so hard. He felt sorry for me, and he waited until I was done, so he could come home with me to the transit camp.
He convinced my oldest brother Nissim, who functioned as the head of our family, that I and my other brother Yaakov should be enrolled in a Torah academy in Lod, and this is how my connection with Chabad began.
In 1961, after I had been studying in Lod for six years, Rabbi Mordechai Levin — who was the principal of the vocational school in Kfar Chabad — came there and he recruited me for his school, Beit Sefer Le Melacha. This school, which had been founded by the Rebbe six years prior, had been the target of a terrorist attack in 1956, with one teacher and five students killed and another ten wounded. Since that time, the school had greatly expanded at the Rebbe’s direction, and although I thought at first that my stay in Kfar Chabad would be short — just a few weeks — it proved to be a commitment lasting thirty-five years. In fact, I have dedicated my life to that vocational school, owing largely to the guidance I received from the Rebbe throughout the years.
In 1966, I came to New York for the first time to see the Rebbe along with my former classmates from the Lod yeshiva. They would be staying on for six months to study in New York and I really wanted to join them, but the Rebbe made it clear that I should return to Israel. Clearly, he understood even then that my life’s mission was to work for Beit Sefer Le Melacha, which is what I ended up doing — both as a counselor and as a teacher.
In 1970, I got married. My wife was from England and the wedding took place there but, afterwards, we came to New York and had a private audience with the Rebbe. At that time, my father-in-law, Rabbi Yechezkel Unsdorfer, wrote a long letter to the Rebbe, asking him to instruct me to drop my responsibility as the dorm counselor at the vocational school and to just focus on teaching Torah. When we went in to see the Rebbe, I handed in this letter but, right at the outset, before the Rebbe had even seen the letter, he blessed me by saying, “You will overcome all the obstacles, both internal and external, and continue to educate, and with tremendous success.”
Over the years, I would often write to the Rebbe, reporting on what was happening at the vocational school and about my work with the alumni, and I was privileged to receive many encouraging responses from him.
The school had been founded by the Rebbe early on in his leadership of Chabad — just four years after he assumed his role as the Rebbe —and his unique interest in every detail of this institution is well known, as one can readily discern from reading the many letters concerning Beit Sefer Le Melacha that have been published.
In 1974, I visited the Rebbe and prepared a few questions ahead of time regarding my work, including a question suggested by Rabbi Yeshaya Gopin, who was the principal at the time, how we could best promote the school to recruit top students.
The Rebbe’s answer was that there was no need for any special advertisement, for by employing excellent educators, we would automatically attract excellent students. He said that if we did so, we would double our enrollment. (At that time, we already had over 500 students in the institution.) “So you don’t need to haggle with desirable teachers over their salaries,” he said, “because they will bring in more students, which will automatically increase your funding.”
The Rebbe’s general advice to us was to treat our students the same as those who attend regular Chabad yeshivas. He emphasized that there should be no difference between how educators relate to a student in a vocational school and a student in a yeshiva.
When I asked for his guidance regarding difficult students, the Rebbe responded that one can’t make a blanket rule, as it depends very much on the individual personalities involved. He recommended asking other schools about their strategies and learning from their experiences.
Among other things, I wrote to the Rebbe about the heavy workload that the school counselors have, and I mentioned that a counselor who wants to do his job well and with dedication must be there from morning till night. The Rebbe responded that although hiring more counselors would cost more money, it was a good thing to do since — just like hiring the best teachers — it would increase enrollment.
Additionally, he advised that we divide the responsibilities between two counselors — one who would be present in the morning, and one who would be present at night. “There is no need for one counselor to be responsible for the whole day’s schedule,” he said.
When I reported the Rebbe’s answer to the administration, I was asked how this would work practically — namely, which of the two counselors would be the one in charge? I suggested that the Rebbe’s intention was that both counselors will always be concerned with the students, but that there would be a division of labor similar to the division of labor between a mother and a father, who are obviously always concerned with how their children are doing, although the actual work gets divided up between them at different times.
The administration then wrote to the Rebbe to confirm that this is what he meant, and he did.
I also visited the Rebbe together with my wife. We had two children at the time we came to New York, and in the note that I had written beforehand, I asked the Rebbe for a blessing for the students of the vocational school and also for a blessing for my children.
The Rebbe noticed that I mentioned my students along with my own children, and he said that it was good that I thought of them as my children. He quoted the Talmud which states: “Anyone who teaches Torah to someone else’s child is regarded as if he had given birth to that child.”
Rabbi Moshe Edreyi has served in various positions in the Kfar Chabad Vocational School from 1961 until 1996 and continues to be in touch with many of the alumni of the school. He was interviewed in his home in Kfar Chabad in January of 2016.
Dr. Asher Shalom Pauli, Business Administration went to this Kfar Chabad school he had Rabbi Ben Zion Yisraeli as Principal and a mathematics teacher named Arieh Gottlieb that encouraged and inspired him in learning. As far as Melacha goes maybe he has two left hands but the basis of education helped him move on.
5714 - 1954,after Rabbi Chanoch Glitsenstein published the first volumes of Sefer Hatoldot on the lives and times of the Baal Shem Tov, the Magid of Mezritch and the Alter Rebbe, the Rebbe encouraged him to continue to compile such books on the following leaders of Chabad. The Rebbe told him to keep to the style that he used for the first volumes — with the bulk of the material coming from the talks of the Previous Rebbe — and mentioned that more of the Previous Rebbe’s talks were about to be published, revealing additional relevant material.1
29 Sivan 1. Igrot Kodesh vol. 9 page 143
Milestone Danny Karavan 90, sculpturer. https://www.timesofisrael.com/dani-karavan-creator-of-knesset-wall-carving-and-works-around-world-dies-at-90/
Inyanay Diyoma
UAE is building new airbase near Yemen to protect shipping. https://www.debka.com/the-uae-is-building-a-new-airbase-off-yemen-to-control-and-safeguard-red-sea-shipping/
French Policewoman stabbed 2 shot in Nantes. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307081
Danny Fenster, journalist arrested in Myanmar. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307092
Nili Block mixed martial arts Israeli rep. https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/SyMFW4pFO
How Israel IDed the Hamas Metro. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307007
Cable Car Crash Orphan asks about parents. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-boy-orphaned-in-italy-cable-car-crash-starts-to-ask-about-his-parents/
Israel’s weakness invited the war with Gaza. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/By3pv11tFd
Former Health Minister may be indicted. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkfrGETtd
Thursday Ukrainian and Russians evacuated from Gaza. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryNiwzTtu
Israeli Start-ups employing Europeans. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/rJzIseOw00
Social Media the new front with Gaza. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/HyH4cUyc00
Assad wins 95% of the vote in re-election. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307034
Firebombs on Jewish Home. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307038
Antisemitic violence must stop. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307086
Saar rejects triple rotation with Bennett. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307115
Bibi and Sarah have to leave Balfour Street. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SJd00T5e900
Bill Mather defends Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307115
Bennett this is how a gov’t. of Change will look. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307096
Israel moving to recover MIA. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307094
Milestone Gavin MacLeod 90, Capt. Of the Love Boat. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-30/gavin-macleod-love-boat-captain-dies/100176998
Milestone B.J. Thomas 78, singer. https://www.aol.com/entertainment/hooked-feeling-singer-b-j-231120268-010651985.html
Austrian Police did not react properly to antisemitism. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/28/why-were-you-reading-that-vienna-cops-question-to-female-student-viciously-assaulted-on-subway-while-holding-jewish-book/
NYC Police ID attackers on Jew. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/28/nypd-releases-new-photos-of-three-wanted-over-brutal-assault-on-jewish-man-during-pro-palestinian-rally/
Israel’s intercommunal violence in Lod. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307038
Abe Foxman cancels NYT subscription.
Chancellor of Rutgers moves towards terrorists https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/28/rutgers-chancellor-apologizes-for-lack-of-support-for-palestinians-in-prior-statement-denouncing-antisemitism/
UK Nurse subject to antisemitic hate. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307071
Terrorist converting “Airsoft” guns into real weapons. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307118
Egypt plays peacemaker. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/H1xut2lcd
Leading Rabbi ill. Rabbi Yerachmiel Gershon ben Miriam.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307102
Alex Fishman we have a friend in the white house. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ByDWDtoF00
AI helps run the operation. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/SJ2rHS6Y00?prof=3082.ENews-4457.ynetnews.Magazine
Dershowitz vs. CNN lawsuit will continue. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307113
Big Quake overdue in CA. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307120
Terrorist infiltrates from Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307205
Single digit new Covid cases. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307200
Facebook Insider suspended for leaking algorithm. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307189
Google Amazon in Israeli Cloud business. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307189
Ganz on the new coalition. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SJ5aWmf5u
Extra protection for politician. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/S1PQ5lfc00
Lapid’s gamble. https://www.timesofisrael.com/lapids-great-gamble-once-the-government-is-in-place-the-haredim-will-join/
Vaccinations to start for 12+. https://www.timesofisrael.com/vaccination-of-children-aged-12-15-reportedly-expected-to-start-next-week/
Religious Zionism willing to sit with Meretz. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307194
Nobel Prize winner against Bennett’s decision. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307202
Charedi plans alternative government w/o the left. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307194
Enemy military planning vs Israel. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/military-assessment-israel-hamas-conflict
Lapid succeeds in putting together govt. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307378
Right Wing will dominate the Security Cabinet. https://www.timesofisrael.com/planned-lapid-bennet-security-cabinet-would-have-right-wing-majority/
Shin Bet begins protecting PM designate Bennett. Ynet Arab reporter shot at. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-june-3-2021/
New president of Israel congratulated. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307396
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307387
Saar and Shaked to rotate. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307371
40Deg Heat in Teheran Refinery burns. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307383
Related defund police & defund Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307331
2hrs bodies/more in the streets in N. Korea. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307366
Abbas is the most religious in new gov. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307389
Google diversity head hated Jews. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307358
Trade Israel and Gulf States. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/ry00UzbBq00
Ben Yishai Hamas won’t get all swamp. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rk3iVoQ5d
Yemeni Netanyahu’s throne of lies. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/B1AoZEM5O
Netanyahu’s end was engineered by people he distained. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SJLe3tX900
Edelstein to challenge Netanyahu for leadership. https://www.timesofisrael.com/edelstein-to-challenge-netanyahu-as-likud-leader-if-party-goes-to-opposition/
Ganz seeking $1billion iron dome replacement. https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-expected-to-ask-for-1-billion-iron-dome-restock-during-snap-visit-to-us/
Bi-Partisan House group to work to help Israel. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/02/bipartisan-group-of-55-us-house-members-support-more-funds-for-israels-iron-dome-missile-defense/
Super Termite invasive species. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/02/specimen-of-invasive-super-termite-captured-in-israel-raising-hopes-of-controlling-the-species/
Gaza stabber was not stopped at border due to error. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-gaza-stabber-wasnt-spotted-crossing-border-due-to-human-error/
ADL vs. Facebook oversight. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/02/facebook-oversight-board-excoriated-by-adl-over-refusal-to-remove-blatantly-antisemitic-posts/
UNWRA Director departs Gaza after truth. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/02/unrwas-gaza-director-departs-the-strip-after-backlash-for-saying-israel-did-not-target-civilians-in-strikes-against-hamas/
Asian Country to use Elbit AI System. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/02/israels-elbit-systems-awarded-80-million-contract-for-ai-powered-electrical-optical-systems/
THURSDAY THERE WAS A DRIVE BY SHOOTING NEAR ALON MOREH AND SHOOTER AND RIFLE CAPTURED. TODAY ANOTHER DRIVE BY INCIDENT NEAR CHEVRON.
Instead of publically going against the US President, Ganz sees quiet agreements and quiet disagreements as the way forward with the US Administration on Iran. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-officials-push-immediate-aid-for-gaza-during-meetings-with-visiting-gantz/
Bennett I told my kids that their father will be the most hated man in Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-i-told-my-kids-their-father-will-be-the-most-hated-person-in-israel/
Madoff revealed some secrets before he died. https://www.timesofisrael.com/before-dying-bernie-madoff-lifted-veil-on-the-biggest-ponzi-scheme-in-history/
Promised no settlement freeze. https://www.timesofisrael.com/settler-leader-bennett-and-saar-promised-there-would-be-no-settlement-freeze/
The US divide in support for Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/is-pro-israel-advocacy-in-crisis-how-gaza-war-exposed-political-fault-lines/
NYPD releases pictures of people involved in May 20th assault. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/03/nypd-releases-photos-of-three-more-sought-for-vicious-manhattan-assault-on-jewish-man/
Gen. Toledano, we are ready for Gaza. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/03/head-of-idf-southern-command-were-ready-for-next-stage-of-operation-against-hamas/
Iran thinks Netanyahu, Pompeo, Trump are history. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/03/netanyahu-joins-trump-bolton-pompeo-in-dustbin-of-history-irans-zarif-says/
Singer releases song for disabled IDF. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/03/israeli-pop-singer-eden-ben-zaken-idf-soldiers-with-disabilities-release-new-song-a-letter-to-my-brother/
Israelis arrested in investment fraud. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-and-european-police-arrest-suspects-in-israel-run-investment-fraud/
Jewish Football player forced to eat Trafe. 7 suspended. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-football-student-in-ohio-forced-to-eat-to-pork-after-missing-practice/
Charedim invited to join government. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307471
Dr. Sherman on escalating antisemitism. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/307414
The Historic coalition could help stop divide. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/BkexUbIcO
Israel will remain a main strategic partner. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/Hy7zrKLc00
A healthy, pleasant and peaceful Shabbos rest,
Rachamim Pauli
