Friday, January 28, 2022

Accidental Shabbos Violation, Parsha Mishpatim, three stories, news

 

Last week, in the Aserah Dibros, we discussed the 39 Melachos of Shabbos. There is a dispute with the Rabbis if turning on and off electricity is a derivative of fire or building. Fire for an electric spark to cross a gap or building a circuit. Since I am used to turning on my radio in the morning, I pulled out the plug and turned it on until any built up electricity was off.

 

The laws of Shogeg (accident) vs. Chayav (done with intent). It turns out that Shogeg can occur from two things. Forgetting that it is Shabbos or forgetting for example sewing, knitting, plowing, etc. are Melachos. Anything other that forgetting or ignorance is most likely with intent and the soul is either cut off from the people or one is subject with proper warning and witnesses to the death penalty. If Shogeg then one has to bring a Korban Chatas or burnt offering.

 

This Shabbos with the timer on, the heat went on. I did not even know that I accidently turned it off until I returned to floss my teeth and found it in the off position. This is a clear case of Shogeg and similar to Rabban Gamliel in Chapter 2 of Shabbos who also did something by accident. So if you do so don't feel that bad as anyone can make an honest mistake we are human not angels.

 

 

Parsha Mishpatim

 

 

To conduct a society, you need more laws than what was given to the Bnei Noach after the flood. Even more than just not coveting, adultery, murder and stealing. You need to have a system of weights and measures, how to deal with damages and injuries, how to handle violence, property and travel laws. In short a Mitzvah rich Parsha.

 

21:1 Now these are the ordinances which thou shalt set before them. 2 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. 

 

Actually, he does not have to be redeemed but he receives some worker compensation so that he can start a new light without stealing.

 

3 If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him. 

 

There are two reasons why a person could become a slave. The first he is so poor that he sells himself into slavery rather than trust only in HASHEM. The second is this slavery or being a servant is either from stealing or owing damages.

 

4 If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. 

 

This female slave has gone to the Mikveh like many non-Jewish Servants also male so that if freed they become Jews. The ben Israel has fallen in love with his wife and children but has no money to redeem them .

 

5 But if the servant shall plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; 6 then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever. 

 

The same ear that heard "You should not have any gods before/besides ME" has to be drilled to the lintel.

 

7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do. 8 If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. 9 And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. 

 

She was sold because the family was of good stock but very poor. She is to be espoused to the owner or his son. Then she shall go out. If not at 12, she goes free and receives some compensation.

 

10 If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her conjugal rights, shall he not diminish. 

 

Once she has become a wife, she receives what is her guaranteed in her Ketubah. She is a full wife not a second class woman in the house.

 

11 And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money. 

 

At the age of 12years she becomes a free woman.

 

12 He that smites a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death. 

 

This is with witnesses and a warning but not an accidental death or with one witness or two witnesses without warning.

 

13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God cause it to come to hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he may flee. 

 

An accidental death caused by something falling from a man descending a later, slipping into his fellow, falling upon him, etc.

 

14 And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from Mine altar, that he may die.

 

Again he needs warning and witnesses. But if a man holds a sniper rifle away from everybody and shoots his enemy, he may be exempt from death by stoning for nobody warned him or witnesses were unavailable then he will die by the hands of heaven the sooner or later.

 

15 And he that smites his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 

 

It is not a matter of arguing, cursing that is forbidden but here beating. It is like the two youths years ago who murdered their grandmother for 600 Israel Lira (less than $200) and we took and educated the sister to become a woman of valor but had to send her off to the States for a Shidduch for no one in Israel wanted to be connected to such a family.

 

16 And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death. 

 

You should not steal dealt with this but no punishment was mentioned now we have the punishment.

 

17 And he that curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death. 

 

Curses with HASHEM's name but a derivative is a plain curse. We are supposed to honor them not curse them.

 

18 And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed; 19 if he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit; only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed. 

 

He pays for damages aka injury, healing, loss of employment, embarrassment and perhaps other damages like a ripped suit, etc. It says in the Hebrew that the doctor will heal meaning HASHEM has given doctors the right to heal.

 

20 And if a man smite his bondman, or his bondwoman, with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall surely be punished. 

 

Punished by what? Hebrew Bondman? Non-Jewish Bondman? THIS LACK OF INFORMATION is one of the examples we find all over that the written Torah is insufficient. The Oral Law was given at Sinai and solves this problem. That is part of the problems with Karites is that they also almost don't accept any Oral Torah.

 

21 Notwithstanding if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished; for he is his money. 

 

For he has hurt himself financially.

 

22 And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow, he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 

 

He has caused a miss abort and sometimes the woman cannot have children after this.

 

23 But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 

 

Again compensation.

 

24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 

 

The Beis Din has to determine the compensation. Anything from an organ loss to disfigurement.

 

26 And if a man smite the eye of his bondman, or the eye of his bondwoman, and destroy it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. 27 And if he smite out his bondman's tooth, or his bondwoman's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. 

 

Although a non-Jewish slave is his property, he must let him go free. A Jewish slave bought because of a theft goes free and he gets compensation.

 

28 And if an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die, the ox shall be surely stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit. 

 

He took a normal precaution to fence in the ox and came an unusual wind, a flood, a tree falling on the fence causing an opening or earthquake that the ox escaped and caused damage wither by trampling crops, eating crops or injuring/killing a human, because the owner acted properly; he suffers none other than monetary compensation.

 

29 But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and warning hath been given to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death. 

 

If an ox gored other oxen three times he must be slaughtered for this type of ox is "Muad" (like Moed or designed to gore other Oxen). In short, once an Ox becomes a Muad to gore; he must die for he is a potential killer. The equivalent is if one has a certain breed of dog known to attack people the same applies that he must be properly chained, fenced with warning notices.

 

30 If there be laid on him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatsoever is laid upon him. 31 Whether it have gored a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it be done unto him. 32 If the ox gore a bondman or a bondwoman, he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. 

 

What was compensation at the time of the Torah as gone up and some nowadays is covered by insurance and others not.

 

33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, 34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money unto the owner of them, and the dead beast shall be his. 

 

One must put a guard or guard rail around the pit.

 

35 And if one man's ox hurt another's, so that it dies; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide. 36 Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own. 37 If a man steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

 

We end the compensation on the ox that can apply to his plow, tractor, automobile etc. today. We now go on to thievery. If caught, he is fined double but if he slaughters for food, he pays 4 or 5 times.

 

22:1 If a thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dies, there shall be no blood guiltiness for him. 2 If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood guiltiness for him—he shall make restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. 3 If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep, he shall pay double. 

 

A thief pays double as a deterrent for him to committing the crime again.

 

4 If a man cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution. 

 

I mentioned this above with the ox goring, eating or trampling damage.

 

5 If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the shocks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field are consumed; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.  6 If a man deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double. 7 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods. 8 For every matter of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, whereof one saith: 'This is it,' the cause of both parties shall come before God; he whom God shall condemn shall pay double unto his neighbor. 

 

This is the compensation of the thief to the original owner.

 

9 If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep, and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it; 10 the oath of the LORD shall be between them both, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution. 11 But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof. 12 If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness; he shall not make good that which was torn. 

 

The neighbor was given chattel or property to watch over for a gesture. The thieves either came and overpowered the person or he did what he could to guard but nevertheless the object was stolen.

 

13 And if a man borrow aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution. 14 If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hireling, he loses his hire. 

 

This is the case of a paid guard.

 

15 And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. 16 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 

 

This is not the case of rape but rather a young passionate man and woman in love and too impatient to wait for the wedding.

[A true modern case came before Beit Din – a young man enticed his fiancé to be intimate before the wedding. (This happens many times and in one case it was the Minchag of the bride's family to wait until the wedding and she was under the Chuppah with a very large stomach. Other times nobody is any wiser for it.) In the case that came before Beit Din, she missed her period and took a pregnancy test. The potential husband got cold feet so cold that he headed for France. She became a psychological mess. Since it was before 40 days of conception passed and a possibly suicidal young lady, the Beit Din allowed and abortion. Charedi young man and Charedi young woman. So these things happen to the best and most religious of us in passion. – The moral of the story is a Mensch should stand by his actions and a young lady should guard he heirloom until marriage.]

 

17 Thou shalt not suffer a sorceress to live. 18 Whosoever lies with a beast shall surely be put to death. 19 He that sacrificed unto the gods, save unto the LORD only, shall be utterly destroyed. 

 

These death penalty cases snuck in here.

 

20 And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 21 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. 22 If thou afflict them in any wise—for if they cry at all unto Me, I will surely hear their cry—23 My wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. 

 

Ha you think it is easy to bully an orphan or a widow. Well guess what! HASHEM is on their side and if you don't pay for it in this life time {See Sara Yoheved Rigler story below, you will come back and pay through the nose.}

 

24 If thou lend money to any of My people, even to the poor with thee, thou shalt not be to him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest. 25 If thou at all take thy neighbor's garment to pledge, thou shalt restore it unto him by that the sun goes down; 26 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein shall he sleep? And it shall come to pass, when he cries unto Me, that I will hear; for I am gracious. 

 

If you give a loan be a Mensch.

 

27 Thou shalt not revile God, nor curse a ruler of thy people. 

 

The first don't even think about it and the second nowadays people vote for their rulers. If they got fooled by uncle Joe in his basement or the election was stolen it was between the will of the nation and the will of G-D. So it is not your place to rebel or complain. In a democracy, the next election, things could change. An easy way is through repentance, prayer and charity.

 

28 Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto Me. 29 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep; seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it Me. 30 And ye shall be holy men unto Me; therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

 

The dogs did not whet their tongues when Am Yisrael left Mitzrayim so this is their reward.

 

23:1 Thou shalt not utter a false report; put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. 2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice; 3 neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause. 

 

The theme will be clarified in Sefer Devarim Parsha Shoftim =  Justice; Justice pursue.

 

4 If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. 

 

Jewish enemy not Yasser Arafat, Assad or an Ayatollah.

 

5 If thou see the ass of him that hates thee lying under its burden, thou shalt forbear to pass by him; thou shalt surely release it with him. 6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. 

 

Again a Jewish enemy.

 

7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blinds them that have sight, and perverts the words of the righteous. 9 And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and gather in the increase thereof; 11 but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat; and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy olive yard. 

 

The laws of being just and just behavior towards others.

 

12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed. 

 

Shabbos V'yenafash or restoring-refreshing one's body and soul. So your animals and servants must rest. This was covered in the Aserah Dibros  (ten commandments) 20:9 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; but before was the theory this is now for practical matters.

 

 

13 And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed; and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year. 15 The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep; seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, at the time appointed in the month Abib—for in it thou came out from Egypt; and none shall appear before Me empty; 16 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gather in thy labors out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. 18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of My feast remain all night until the morning. 

 

After the laws of Shabbos comes the reminder of the three Yomim Tovim in the course of a year.

 

19 The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk. 

 

The first part belongs to Yom Tov Shavuos. The second is the first of three prohibitions of milk and meat. Not eating, not making mixtures and not benefiting from such mixtures.

 

20 Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Take heed of him, and hearken unto his voice; be not rebellious against him; for he will not pardon your transgression; for My name is in him. … 25 And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. 26 None shall miscarry, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days I will fulfil. 27 I will send My terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. 28 And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. 31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land—lest they make thee sin against Me, for thou wilt serve their gods—for they will be a snare unto thee. 

 

Do not allow non-Ger Toshavim to live in Israel for they will be thorns in your side.

 

24:1 And unto Moses He said: 'Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off; 2 and Moses alone shall come near unto the LORD; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.' 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said: 'All the words which the LORD hath spoken will we do.' 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 And he sent the young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the LORD. 6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he dashed against the altar. 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the hearing of the people; and they said: 'All that the LORD hath spoken will we do, and obey.' … 12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Come up to Me into the mount and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.' 13 And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister; and Moses went up into the mount of God. 14 And unto the elders he said: 'Tarry ye here for us, until we come back unto you; and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whosoever hath a cause, let him come near unto them.' 15 And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount. 16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and the seventh day He called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. 17 And the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount; and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

 

 

My personal reconciling the holocaust and a loving G-D.

By Sara Yoheved  Rigler

https://www.aish.com/sp/so/My-Personal-Struggle-Reconciling-the-Holocaust-with-a-Loving-God.html

 

 

A basic principle of Judaism is that God loves us. How do we reconcile that with the suffering and horrors of the Holocaust?

 

I spent decades of my life struggling with this question. On the one hand, I grew up basking in blessing: a solidly middle-class second-generation American Jewish home in suburban New Jersey, with loving, virtuous parents, a close-knit extended family, and a community around our Conservative synagogue that provided social interaction and social action causes. This was the 1950s and early 60s, a period of political and financial stability.

 

Yet, I also lived in a parallel universe, obsessed and haunted by the Holocaust. Within me seethed a volcano of boiling hatred and anger toward everything German. I refused to take a ride in a Volkswagen, buy a German product, or let my father take my picture with his new German camera. In those days there were no Holocaust movies, and only one Holocaust book I knew of: Commandant of Auschwitz, which I borrowed over and over again from my friend.

 

As a freshman in high school, with all my friends choosing to learn French or Spanish, I shocked them by choosing German. “Know thine enemy,” I explained with steely eyes. “I want to read Mein Kampf in the original.” After one week of classes, one night I woke up confounded. I had been dreaming in fluent German.

 

Who was I, an American girl with the emotions of a Holocaust victim? Who was God, who could be so good and yet permit such evil?

 

I went to Brandeis University, where I was among a small cadre of students who ate on the kosher line and attended Shabbat services at the campus Hillel. In that post-Holocaust era, Brandeis was 80% Jewish. But most of my fellow students ignored God, while my psychology professors either fired the Jewish God, replacing him with a humanistic concept of God, or gravitated to the spirituality of India.

 

For my junior year, I went to India on a college-year program. There I discovered an entire population who loved God. From my professors to the servants in my dormitory, everyone had a comfortable relationship with their ishta, their chosen aspect of God. Their God issued no commandments and made no demands. They on their part had no expectations and harbored no complaints. When suffering befell them, it was the result of their own karma, their own bad actions, in this lifetime or a previous incarnation. No one blamed God for their adversity.

 

How different this was from my own relationship with God! We Jews had a Covenant with God. God promised justice, reward for doing good, punishment for doing bad. And He promised that He would intervene in our lives, and never, ever abandon us. A covenantal relationship is an uncomfortable relationship. It goads and challenges and demands reciprocity. Expectations fly back and forth like dishes in a marital quarrel. Living in India was a respite for my battered soul.

 

Yet in India I learned a lesson that changed my life and ultimately would reconcile me with the Jewish God. I had thought of myself as consisting of two elements: a mind and a body. As an over-achiever, my goal – the quintessential Jewish goal – was to develop my mind with education, more and more academic degrees. In India I learned of a new element to my identity, more important than either mind or body: the soul.

 

In nine years of after-school Jewish education, I had never heard of an afterlife. In India, learning that my essential identity is as a soul changed everything.

 

The soul? This spiritual entity had never been mentioned in Hebrew school. A soul is immortal; it does not die when the body dies. In Hebrew school I had learned that Christianity is a “pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die” religion, but Judaism is a this-world religion. In nine years of after-school Jewish education, I had never heard of an afterlife. In India, learning that my essential identity is as a soul changed everything. My life goal became to develop not my mind, but my soul. And if the soul is immortal – what came before and what comes after this lifetime?

 

At the end of that year, winding my way back to America, I had a 7-hour layover in Vienna. (I had refused a shorter layover in Frankfurt because I adamantly refused to go to Germany.) Walking in an antebellum Viennese residential neighborhood, I had a frightening flashback. A flashback is unlike a memory. A memory is inside your head. In a flashback, you are inside the memory, reliving it. The flashback confirmed what I had begun to suspect. That although I was born this time in 1948, in a previous life my soul had lived – and died – in the Holocaust. Reincarnation made the puzzle pieces of my parallel universes fit together.

 

Many years later I would learn that reincarnation – called gilgul neshamos – is a Jewish concept that stretches back millennia in Kabbalah and is explicit in Judaism since the 16th century.

 

I did not speak of my belief in reincarnation for decades, lest it shatter my carefully constructed intellectual persona. After all, in the West reincarnation is a subject of jokes. But about ten years ago, when I did reveal to a few friends my secret belief that I am a reincarnated Holocaust soul, I discovered that every one of them also had a secret sense that they had died in the Holocaust. None of them was a child of survivors or had ever heard of the Holocaust as a young child. Yet each one had a unique childhood experience, usually a recurring dream, that made no sense except as a traumatic memory from a past life.

 

I spent the next eight years collecting more testimonies – of Holocaust-related dreams, phobias, flashbacks, and panic attacks from people born after 1945. Over 450 people filled in my online survey and another hundred sent me emails detailing their Holocaust haunted experiences. Less than 10 per cent of them were descendants of survivors or non-survivors. A third of them were born into non-Jewish families where the Holocaust was never discussed.

 

Since the publication of my book I’ve Been Here Before: When Souls of the Holocaust Returnmore than a hundred additional people have filled in my online survey testifying to their Holocaust dreams, etc., and many people have written to me. All of them thought, until reading my book, that they were the only one. All of them were ashamed to speak of their experiences lest they be deemed weird. Every time I have given a zoom lecture on the subject, at least a few members of the audience admit afterwards that they, too, have had such experiences. This is apparently a widespread phenomenon – souls of the Holocaust alive again today.

 

Looking at life through a spiritual lens is like looking at the cosmos through the lens of Einsteinian physics. Just as the laws of Newtonian physics no longer apply on such a massive scale, so the laws of justice, cause-and-effect, and God’s treatment of us take on a radical new meaning from the perspective of myriads of years and many lifetimes.

 

The Holocaust was a horrific chapter ending, but it was not the end of the story for any soul. Just as zooming out on a computer image suddenly makes everything around it visible, so I have come to see the Holocaust in the context not only of the Jewish people’s millennia-long journey toward the destined Final Redemption, but also of the individual victims’ long soul journeys. The six years of horror became, rather than a black circle filling my vision, a thick but short black line, preceded by a much longer timeline stretching back into history and followed by a line extending into the future.

 

For me and most of the hundreds of individuals I have interviewed for my book, the color of what follows that black line is various shades of pastel. We were born to loving families in a period of political and financial stability, and have been blessed with felicitous lives. God’s love, invisible during the Holocaust, is again visible to all who allow themselves to see it. Human beings are never meant to live in the comfort zone. Challenge and the work of inner growth is always before us.

 

Yet the trauma of the Holocaust should not define us nor limit us. Rather, it can be a springboard for our ongoing soul development. The God who loves us continues to lead us through the valleys and mountains of our soul journeys to our own final redemption.

 

This coming Thursday, January 27, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The greatest threat to remembering the Holocaust is “Holocaust Fatigue.” People are weary of hearing of the suffering of the victims and the cruelty of the perpetrators. I have organized a Zoom program for that Thursday night with a different perspective – stories of survivors and returned souls displaying heroic resilience and engaged in the mission of soul rectification. Please join me by clicking here to register.

 

 

Ed-Op by Sarah Frank Rosen posted Jan. 18th - I bring it down for Intl. Holocaust Day

 

In 1994, I was 17 and living in Belgium with my family. For Yom Kippur, we went to a synagogue in Brussels. I remember the prayer books being in Hebrew and French. I remember the elderly rabbi stumbling and falling after 25 hours of fasting. Mostly, though, I remember the snipers on the nearby roofs protecting us. It was shocking to me, an American Jewish teen in the 90s. But, after all, what could you expect from the continent where centuries upon centuries of expulsions and massacres and crusades culminated in the Holocaust?

 

America was different.

 

That was 28 years ago. Since then Tree of Life Congregation. Chabad of Poway. Monsey Chanukah party. JC Kosher Supermarket. An untold number of Jewish men, women and children being kicked and shoved and spat on in NYC.

 

Now we too have serious security in our houses of worship, and our schools, and our community centers. Armed security guards. Locked doors. Security plans. When I walk into a synagogue, I know where the exits are and I know where my children are. I have a plan to escape. I hear a strange noise or see someone I don’t recognize, and I’m on guard.

America isn’t as different as we thought.

 

What I want to say is this: Words matter. Ideas matter. Heroic Rabbi Cytron-Walker, who rescued his congregants and himself, said the perpetrator believed Jews control the world. He truly thought that a powerful rabbi in New York could pick up the phone and have a prisoner in a federal penitentiary released. What could he have been thinking??

 

But. Jews control the media. Jews control the government. Zionists control the world. The “Rothschilds” control global financial institutions. Israel is evil, categorically distinct from every other country in the world with geopolitical disputes and human rights issues. The “neocons” started the War in Iraq to benefit the Jews. Or was it to benefit Israel? The “globalists” control the government and have no allegiance to the US. The “Jewish lobby” determines American foreign policy in the Middle East.

 

These antisemitic conspiracy theories permeate the left and the right; white supremacists and the victims of white supremacy alike; fanatics and everyday people. And sometimes ideas turn into actions and synagogues are attacked and rabbis are taken hostage.

 

We can hire more and more armed guards, even put snipers on the roof. But only decent people doing the hard work to change minds will quell this rise in antisemitism. It is up to all of us to educate ourselves, to examine our biases, and to speak up.

 

 

As promised another Miracle Story from Nes-Li

The Hijacking of El-Al 219 pieced together by Rachamim Pauli

 

 

The Miracle on the plane occurred after a number of terrorist tried to board it. Two were too suspicious and the other two Patrick Arguello and Leila Khaled were rejected from another El Al flight but managed to board this particular flight. They had guns and grenades and tried to storm the cockpit. The terrorist, Patrick Arguello, had a pulled grenade in his hand and was ready to use it.

 

The story was shown in parts during the course of half an hour or more. So I will start from the pilot's story.

https://live-jweekly.alleydev.com/2020/09/16/el-al-pilots-harrowing-tale-of-outmaneuvering-hijacker-invited-to-speak-at-s-f-state/

 

The recent announcement that Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled had been invited to speak at San Francisco State University caught the eye of Uri Bar-Lev, an Israeli retiree just shy of 90.

 

He has crossed paths with Khaled before.

 

Fifty years ago this month, Bar-Lev was the El Al pilot who foiled Khaled and an accomplice during a violent midair hijacking attempt on a flight from Amsterdam to New York. According to the Times of Israel, he is the only pilot ever to do so.

 

Khaled is set to join a Sept. 23 online panel discussion hosted by S.F. State’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies program (AMED). The Anti-Defamation League, San Francisco Hillel and the S.F.-based Jewish Community Relations Council have condemned the decision to allow the member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, to participate in a university-sanctioned event.

 

Today, an uncontrite Khaled, 76, sits on the Palestinian National Council. Described in AMED’s event promotion as a “Palestinian feminist, militant and leader,” she frequently does speaking engagements, such as the one at S.F. State.

 

Bar-Lev isn’t having it.

 

“In America, if you want Leila Khaled to speak, [then] you forgot the awful pain you had in 9/11 by terror,” he said from his home in Israel. He believes she is unrepentant for her actions.

 

In a 2014 interview with Mondoweiss, Khaled said, “We cannot say that nonviolent resistance alone will achieve our rights.” And as recently as 2016, she told +972 magazine that she did not see her actions as terrorism. “I am a victim of oppression and occupation,” Khaled said. “We, as a people, have the right to resist by all means.”

 

Bar-Lev is among the dwindling number of Israelis who have lived through the entire span of modern Israeli history. Born in 1932 on a moshav, Bar-Lev fought during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948 when he was just 16. He later joined the Israel Air Force, flying his last military mission during the 1956 Arab-Israeli Sinai War. Soon after he became a pilot for El Al, Israel’s national airline.

 

Starting in the late 1960s, pro-Palestinian militants began committing terrorist acts, including hijacking Israeli commercial airliners and planes traveling to or from Israel, bombing a Jerusalem supermarket in 1969, and slaying Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.

 

On Aug. 29, 1969, the Haifa-born Khaled was one of two PFLP members to hijack TWA Flight 840 from Rome to Tel Aviv. She commandeered the plane to Amman, Jordan, where it was blown up. No hostages were killed.

 

Eleven months later, on Sept. 6, 1970, Khaled and a male accomplice, a Nicaraguan American named Patrick Arguello, boarded El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam to New York. Soon after takeoff, Bar-Lev and his co-pilot got word that two terrorists were hijacking the plane. They had shot and gravely wounded an El Al flight attendant and had put a gun to the head of another, demanding to be let into the cockpit, which Bar-Lev had immediately locked.

 

The next 2½ minutes were the most momentous of Bar-Lev’s life.

 

“There was no training in Israel against hijacking,” he told J. last week from his home on Moshav Avichayil, north of Netanya. “No method on how to prevent it. You can’t teach it, so nobody taught me, but I was an [Air Force] pilot.”

 

From the cockpit, he heard the distress from the cabin. “I thought, What can I do? How can I save her?” he recalled, fearing for the flight attendant. “I knew what they would do to me and the crew and the Jewish passengers if we were taken.”

 

Bar-Lev flashed back to his earliest flight training. In the Air Force, he practiced on a highly maneuverable vintage prop plane, conducting climbing, diving and banking exercises. Some 20 years later, he was in Seattle with El Al colleagues to train on the new Boeing 707 passenger aircraft. He wondered whether the 707 was as nimble as the prop plane.

 

“I asked [the Boeing trainer], ‘Can you do these [maneuvers] for this plane?” Bar-Lev recalled. “He said yes, if you don’t go over negative-2 G.”

 

“G” refers to G (or gravity) forces, used to describe the rapid acceleration of an object relative to Earth’s gravity. G-forces can be induced by such movements as a high-speed aerial dive, akin to an express elevator dropping suddenly.

 

Back on board Flight 219, according to Bar-Lev, Khaled had pulled the pins on two hand grenades. With moments to spare, Bar-Lev put the plane in a steep dive. The aircraft plummeted 10,000 feet in under 60 seconds. He knew his passengers, all seated and strapped in, would be safe. The terrorists were another matter. Arguello and Khaled were thrown to the floor. Khaled passed out, dropping her grenades; they failed to go off.

 

Once the plane leveled out, one of the two on-board Shin Bet sky marshals shot Arguello dead. Khaled was physically subdued.

 

Bar-Lev was instructed by his superiors in Israel to fly to Tel Aviv (little did he know, multiple coordinated hijackings were taking place simultaneously). But with his crew member gravely wounded, Bar-Lev knew he had to land quickly. He disobeyed orders and instead requested an emergency landing at London’s Heathrow Airport. The wounded crew member was rushed to the hospital and survived. The decision to save the security guard cost Israel the capture of Leila but he who saves one life saves the world.

 

Though his quick action was heroic enough, today Bar-Lev says “the best thing I did in my life” was saving the Shin Bet air marshals, who might have been charged with Arguello’s death by British authorities. Thanks to some crafty coordination with another El Al flight on the tarmac, the two marshals slipped out of Bar-Lev’s plane undetected and onto the other Israel-bound flight.

 

Bar-Lev retired as a pilot in 1974 and lives with his wife, Yona, on their moshav, where he enjoys gardening and spending time with his children and grandchildren. As for Khaled’s San Francisco State invite, he said he believes in free speech, but feels she represents a line not to be crossed.

 

“There is a limit,” he said.

 

Bar-Lev has refused offers to meet with Khaled in a public dialogue. He said he might be willing on the condition that he be allowed to ask her one question: What would you say if your children were on a bus targeted by terrorists?

 

“What will you say now?” he mused. “I didn’t get a reply, and we never met. It was a cynical question.”

 

The security guard(s) who escaped to another El Al plane by jumping to the ground and running in to the other plane.

 

The guard ran up through the plane after the first shot. He managed to shoot the male terrorist in an exchange of gun fire and kill him. The steward or shot guard would not be charged with killing Patrick as he was so badly wounded it was easy enough to have a court appointed lawyer claim self-defense.

 

From Wikipedia: Terrorist on an El Al Plane- grenade Patricio José Argüello Ryan (March 30, 1943 – September 6, 1970), known as Patrick Argüello, was a Nicaraguan American, member of the Sandinistas who was shot and killed while attempting to hijack El Al Flight 219 in September 1970, as part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's Dawson's Field hijackings. The Sandinistas had agreed to support the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's hijacking in exchange for guerrilla warfare training. When two of their Palestinian co-conspirators were unable to board the targeted El Al Boeing 707 at Amsterdam on September 6, 1970,[5] Argüello was left with only Leila Khaled, whom he had met only a week before and knew as Shadiah, to help him hijack the plane. Posing as a married couple, they boarded the plane using Honduran passports—having passed through a security check of their luggage—seated in the second row of tourist-class. Just before they began their hijacking, Khaled told Argüello her actual identity, which impressed him. Thirty minutes into the flight, they drew their guns and approached the cockpit, demanding entrance.

The well-dressed Argüello reportedly threw his sole grenade down the airliner aisle, but it failed to explode, and he was hit over the head with a bottle of whiskey by a passenger after he drew his pistol. As the pilot threw the plane into a nosedive, throwing the hijackers off balance, Arguello fired his gun 3–5 times, wounding steward Shlomo Vider.

Khaled was also unsuccessful; unable to reach her own grenades concealed within her brassiere, she was beaten by the security and passengers, while the plane made an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport.

According to the passengers and sky marshals, Argüello was shot four times during this struggle, and died later of his wounds. Argüello was dead by the time he and Khaled were in the ambulance en route to Hillingdon Hospital, after pilot Uri Bar-Lev refused orders to return to Israel due to his concern for the wounded steward. His hijacking accomplice Khaled, who herself survived after being subdued by the passengers and security personnel, has at various times claimed he was shot after they failed to hijack the plane. 

 

 

How I got the name Rachamim

 

 

Shortly before the High Holidays of 5728, I went to Rabbi Clayman of the Ave O Synagogue in Brooklyn. Mrs. Dyckoff who had been working on me for over a year to have a Bar Mitzvah. I planned to have it on my 21st Birthday. I was already learning to read and right in Hebrew. Rabbi Clayman guided me to buying a Soncino Chumash and a few Tanach Books, The Code of Jewish Law and Tephillin. He lent me a book "How Strange was my path" by Rabbi Avraham Carmel and other stories that I read at our Bungalow on Yom Kippur. He also in the course of the year on our rare meetings if I had a Hebrew Name other than Richard Julian. My grandfather who named me at the Reform Synagogue on 149th Street in Manhattan later to become part of my Yeshiva Haichel HaTorah had passed away before I was 10 and my mother did not know my Hebrew Name.

 

Also a non-Jewish MD had circumcised me so I had to go through blood letting later. There was a terrorist incident that was thwarted by a security guard at El Al. It was late 1967 or early 1968 long before the attack in Feb. 1969 in Zurich. In that attack, the security guard who killed one and injured three terrorists was named Mordechai Rachamim. He had made enough of a name for himself in 1968 considering he was an Israeli hero and my desire to move there after my College Degree that Rabbi Clayman said take the Rachamim as it is close enough to Richard. My great uncle Julian, a dough boy in World War I and my great uncle Julius who died for the Kaiser Franz Joseph in Romania would not be in my new Hebrew Name.

 

 

Milestone: Rabbi Shmuel Krauss, 85, Agunos and women's rights. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320997

 

Milestone: Greta Weinfeld Ferusic, 97, Auschwitz & Sarajevo survivor. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sytf0patt

 

Milestone: David Bannett, 100, inventor of Shabbos Elevator, Kohanim entering hospitals. Patent without money for helping others. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321241

 

 

Inyanay Diyoma

 

 

US begins evacuation of Embassy Employees supplying anti-tank weapons to Ukraine. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320927

 

Austrian Artist under fire for star of David on syringes. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320924

 

Russia proposes an interim deal on Iran. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjdijoftf

 

Need wages to counter inflation. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/bku119q4at

 

Two Israelis force plane to return to JFK now in the cooler. https://www.timesofisrael.com/flight-from-ny-to-tel-aviv-turns-back-after-unruly-israelis-grab-business-seats/

 

MIA-LHR flight turned back for a passenger who refused to wear a mask. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320895

 

After tapes released of F the Jews by terrorist the political FBI wakes up. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-security-officials-texas-hostage-taking-a-terrorist-attack-on-jewish-community/

 

AG wants deal fearing Netanyahu might over-ride Justice System. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ag-wants-plea-deal-for-fear-netanyahu-could-regain-power-subvert-democracy-report/

 

Woman who harassed 8 year old arrested. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320925

 

Turkish Leader gets advice from Israeli heart specialist. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjvrugv6y

 

It took him 98 years to get his HS Diploma. A 73year old son of a Jewish woman from Germany got his Bar Mitzvah his son is a non-Jew. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/texas-wwii-veteran-high-school-diploma

 

Linsey Graham warns Russia of Trump. https://www.foxnews.com/media/lindsey-graham-donald-trump-biden-russia-invasion-of-ukraine

 

Slain NYPD was a Hispanic immigrant. https://www.foxnews.com/us/slain-nypd-officer-rivera-immigrant

 

Mask mandates will end with resistance. https://www.foxnews.com/media/rand-paul-democrats-covid-mandates-business-owners-push-back-ingraham-angle

 

LA train theft going out of hand. https://www.foxnews.com/us/train-robberies-gascon-responds

 

Couple die of CO poisoning. https://www.timesofisrael.com/couple-in-north-dies-of-apparent-co-poisoning-from-grill-used-to-heat-home/

 

More sanctions on Hezballah people. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320921

 

Former Catholic Priest finds his Jewish Roots. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320894

 

Russia has the ability to use tactical nukes. https://www.debka.com/us-embassy-families-ordered-to-leave-ukraine-as-russia-boosts-border/

 

BA2 variant detected in UK. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/ryvwdf9ay

 

Earth shaking events in N. Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320947

 

Later this week, the rain will gradually spread to the northern Negev and snow will begin to fall on the peaks of the northern and central mountains. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320958

 

Prof. Grotto vaccine saved 20,000 Israelis. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320956

 

Ed-Op Glick on FBI WOKE Bureaucrats. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320961

 

Cabinet to vote on Submarine Inquiry. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320951

 

Citizenship Law goes to the Knesset vote. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320962

 

Pfizer CEO we will live along the virus. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320950

 

Second quake 3.5 south of Tiberias after 4.1 north of Beit Shean. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320972

 

Joint Russian – Syrian Airforce flight a warning more to Biden. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyuj7gn6k

 

Study shows 4th jab better for seniors. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/hkjr00mipk

 

Israeli hospitals on the verge of collapse partly from staff illness. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/bkymaqi6y

 

Milestone: Miriam Naor, 74, former Chief Justice, found dead. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1009qz2at

 

Shooting at a German Univ. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321042

 

Don't travel to  Russia. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321004

 

Tourist detained for Nazi Salute at Auschwitz. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321007

 

Anti-vaxxer Zoom Bombs Knesset with porn. https://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-vaxxer-zoom-bombs-knesset-committee-meeting-on-coronavirus-with-porn/

 

Bomb making ship detained by US.  https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-detains-ship-loaded-with-bomb-making-compound-heading-from-iran-to-yemen/

 

WHO Omicron may spell the end to the pandemic. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320988

 

Lapid meets senior PLO Minister. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skpdaxspy

 

Israel preparing to evacuate Jews. https://theworldnews.net/il-news/israel-said-preparing-for-potential-need-to-evacuate-ukrainian-jews-in-case-of-war

 

UAE downs 2 Houthi Missiles. https://www.timesofisrael.com/uae-intercepts-2-ballistic-missiles-over-abu-dhabi-days-after-deadly-strike/

 

Outpost that attacked leftist to be dismantled. https://www.timesofisrael.com/illegal-outpost-gets-demolition-notices-days-after-attack-jewish-extremist-attack/

 

Iranian Terror Rally in Gaza. https://www.timesofisrael.com/terror-group-stages-massive-pro-iran-anti-saudi-rally-in-gaza/

 

Biden thinks inflation is good calls a reporter a name. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321067

 

US sends 5000 troops to E. Europe to counter 175,000 Russian Troops near Ukraine. https://www.debka.com/us-russia-ukraine-tensions-peak-5000-us-troops-for-e-europe-us-mulls-sanctions-to-hit-russian-smartphones/

 

Russia flexes muscles with Syrian Airforce against US and Israel. https://www.debka.com/us-israel-air-operations-over-syria-restricted-by-new-joint-russia-syria-air-patrols/ https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hylix0036f

 

Milestone: Sheldon Silver, 77, NY State Assembly Speaker convicted of graft. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321065

 

Extremist settlers riot. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyyimfh6y#autoplay

 

Probe into top Arab Cop. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjnpjfh6t#autoplay

 

NY Judge strikes down unconstitutional mask mandate. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321070

 

Cameroon soccer stampede leaves 6 dead. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321064

 

Deputy PM escaped his security guards. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321069

 

Congress woman from Colorado insults Jews. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321039

 

Military Coup in Burkina Faso. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321063

 

Ukrainian Jews plan to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukrainian-jews-prepare-to-mark-holocaust-remembrance-day-as-russia-war-jitters-loom/

 

Checking out the local interstellar neighborhood. www.skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/interstellar-probe-proposed-explore-solar-neighborhood/

 

1,000,000 homes in risk of collapse from earthquake. https://www.timesofisrael.com/some-one-million-homes-at-risk-of-collapse-by-earthquake-report/

 

As nuclear negotiations in Vienna get closer to a decision point, the US and Israel held strategic talks on Iran. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321213

 

Unvaccinated nine year old dies of heart failure. It took ambulance 16 minutes to arrive. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321152

 

Jerusalem of gold turns snow white. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321190

 

During my border patrol army service I served as back-up and medical rescue for operations in Syria. Israeli troops made a cross border incursion. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321211

 

Former felon sold gun to terrorists now charged. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/26/us-charges-texas-man-who-sold-gun-to-colleyville-synagogue-terrorist/

 

Italian Police charge teenage girls with assaulting Jewish Boy. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/26/italian-police-apprehend-teenage-girls-behind-brutal-antisemitic-attack-on-12-year-old-jewish-boy/

 

Unilever will also be cutting 1,500 jobs globally as part of the restructuring overhaul, the press release noted. Unilever troubles putting Ben and Jerry's aside. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/26/unilever-to-place-subsidiary-ben-jerrys-into-separate-division-as-part-of-restructuring/

 

$70million in training Arab Sector in Tech. Jobs. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/26/five-year-70-million-tech-and-innovation-program-for-arab-sector-launched-by-ministry-of-science-innovation-authority/

 

Lapid signs a balanced agreement with China. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/24/israel-and-china-sign-cooperation-accord-on-30th-anniversary-of-diplomatic-ties/

 

Teen punched in Brooklyn. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/24/yeshiva-student-punched-in-face-in-latest-antisemitic-attack-on-brooklyn-streets/

 

Two London Kosher Bakers beat by assailant. https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-ultra-orthodox-jewish-men-assaulted-on-london-street-18-year-old-arrested/

 

Polish Official boycotts Holocaust Hero. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/25/foundation-honoring-holocaust-hero-jan-karski-among-groups-blacklisted-by-controversial-polish-education-official/

 

German Police act against use of Jewish Yellow Stars in Protest. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/25/german-police-to-act-against-use-of-nazi-era-jewish-stars-at-berlin-covid-protests/

 

Ontario Teacher, holocaust denier, has license revoked. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/25/ontario-catholic-school-teachers-license-revoked-for-promoting-holocaust-denial-blaming-9-11-on-israel-in-classroom/

 

Boston Museum returns painting to Jewish owner. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/25/boston-museum-returns-painting-looted-during-world-war-ii-to-heirs-of-former-jewish-owner/

 

Antisemitic flyers in Miami. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/24/antisemitic-flyers-blaming-jews-for-covid-policies-found-in-florida-california-in-latest-series-of-incidents/

 

E. Yerushalayim rocks in snowballs. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321204

 

Monsey attacker unfit to stand trial. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321212

 

Murderer of my cousin Esther says has right to murder Jews. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321158

 

Shooting in ER in NY Hospital. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321153

 

Bennett says no longer isolation for students. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321186

 

Bedouin ramming attempt. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321156

 

N. Korea fires another projectile. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321208

 

Bedouin gunfire injures woman and baby. https://www.timesofisrael.com/month-old-baby-hit-by-gunfire-from-armed-brawl-in-bedouin-village/

 

Riot in Syrian Prison, hostages freed. https://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-kurdish-forces-say-they-have-freed-hostages-in-islamic-state-prison-attack/

 

Second cop succumbs. https://www.timesofisrael.com/incalculable-grief-second-nypd-officer-dies-days-after-harlem-shooting/

 

New Covid Law ends emergency. https://www.timesofisrael.com/mks-pass-covid-law-ending-state-of-emergency-in-place-since-start-of-pandemic/

 

Less corruption in Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-warning-sign-israel-reaches-all-time-low-in-annual-corruption-index/

 

Jordan kills 27 drug smugglers. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jordanian-military-kills-27-in-shootout-with-armed-smugglers-from-syria/

 

Ed-Op Have to be prepared for 6th Covid wave. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjps8g26f

 

Litzman pleads guilty has a plea deal. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/DJ5WHTTB7

 

Knesset Speaker addresses Bundestag and cries. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1nu8ggat

 

Man who tried to murder wife gets 23 years. https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-sentenced-to-23-years-in-prison-for-2020-attempted-murder-of-wife/

 

2 border police injured by friendly fire. https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-border-guards-lightly-hurt-by-friendly-fire-while-trying-to-thwart-drug-smuggling/

 

Biden remembers the holocaust. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321290

 

Russia flexes more muscles against Israel-US. https://www.debka.com/russia-posts-patrols-at-latakia-2nd-impediment-to-israel-air-strikes-over-syria/

 

Biden talks with Ukraine of the high possibility of a Russian Invasion. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321288 and https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-official-says-in-call-with-zelensky-biden-told-him-to-prepare-for-impact/

 

Bennett talks about Netanyahu's threat. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321265

 

Bennett was the first to talk about Omicron Threat. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/s1so8lxck

 

Right wing demonstrators back roads in Yerushalayim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321285

 

Teacher's Union says Minister forget danger to teachers. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321296

 

35 years later, Pollard Affair revisited. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321277

 

Ultra-Orthodox best for stopping climate change. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/rjxmg7e0t

 

30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryiaatppk

 

Outgoing IDF Epidemicist says Omicron not the last of Corona. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/syvncbecf

 

More Covid cases in Jan. than all of 2021. https://www.timesofisrael.com/more-covid-cases-confirmed-in-israel-in-january-than-all-of-2021-data-shows/

 

133x chances of Myocarditis from Covid Vaccines. It is the trade-off. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321238

 

Two Medical Staff who refused injections in serious to critical condition. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/321126

 

Heavy rains on Friday as storm is about to end. https://www.timesofisrael.com/tail-end-of-storm-to-bring-heavy-rain-threats-of-flood-to-south-more-snow-in-north/

 

Int'l. Holocaust Day NY and Europe Remember. https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-york-lights-niagara-falls-other-sites-yellow-for-holocaust-memorial/

 

TN school board removes MAUS book from learning. https://www.timesofisrael.com/tennessee-school-board-removes-iconic-holocaust-novel-maus-from-its-curriculum/

 

Officer who had hidden cameras on female soldiers gets 1.5years. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-officer-sentenced-to-1-5-years-for-secretly-filming-dozens-of-female-soldiers/

 

Belz Chassidim learning for higher education and better jobs. https://www.timesofisrael.com/belz-hasidic-sect-to-begin-teaching-core-curriculum-more-said-to-follow/

 

Coming next week: Home Grown Nazi Plot to over throw the US Government during WWII

 

A peaceful, wonderful and healthy Shabbos,

Rachamim Pauli