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 Return, more 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.
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
