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Last week, while writing the
commentary, I started dozing off. When this happens an error can easily slip
in. Reena F… caught one on Pasuk 3.1: There
was an inadvertent error in the message below. You wrote: "Bilaam was rewarded with Moshe as a son-in-law. " You meant that Yisro was rewarded with Moshe as a
son-in-law. I have corrected it for
the future but the error went out.
Parsha Va'era
Moshe, the humblest man
that ever lived, was kicked to the curb by the majority of his people after
Pharaoh increased their burden. He felt betrayed by the people and abandoned by
the L-RD who had appeared to him on the Mountain.
6:2 And
God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him: 'I am the LORD; 3 and I
appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My
name YHWH I made Me not known to them.
The Avos knew ME by a
few different Names but the 72 letter NAME they did not know ME by. For
miracles that you are about to produce, you will need the 72 letter NAME.
4 And I have also established My covenant with
them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein
they sojourned. 5 And moreover I have heard the groaning of the
children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered
My covenant. 6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel: I am the
LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I
will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched
arm, and with great judgments;
They shall be free but
not by the ways of regular nature but by miracles and wonders.
7 and I will take you to Me for a people, and I
will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, who
brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will
bring you in unto the land, concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am
the LORD.'
Your people will be
freed from Mitzrayim and given the Promised Land.
9 And Moses spoke so unto the children of Israel;
but they hearkened not unto Moses for impatience of spirit, and for cruel
bondage.
It was a lot to bear for
poor Moshe with his speech impediment and the humble man who shepherded sheep
for 40 years.
10 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 11 'Go in, speak unto Pharaoh king
of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his
land.' 12 And Moses spoke before the LORD, saying: 'Behold, the
children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me,
who am of uncircumcised lips?'
He is talking to G-D with
a Cal V' Homar (if the people who believe don't believe me all the more so
Pharaoh).
13 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron,
and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
Moshe was not looking
forward to his mission but since he was chosen, he did what he had to do
setbacks or not.
… 20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's
sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of
Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years. … 23 And Aaron
took him Elisheba, the daughter of Aminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife;
and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 24 And the
sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the
Korahites. 25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters
of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the
fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.
This whole section is
for the introduction to the background of Moshe, Aaron and family.
26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the
LORD said: 'Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according
to their hosts.' 27 These are they that spoke to Pharaoh king of
Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are that Moses and
Aaron. 28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spoke unto
Moses in the land of Egypt,
This is the proof that
all this section is only for the introduction of Moshe and Aaron.
29 that the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 'I am
the LORD; speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak unto
thee.' 30 And Moses said before the LORD: 'Behold, I am of
uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?'
Unlike some power hungry
politicians that pursue leadership today, Moshe sets the standard for one who
is humble not looking for glory but knows how to get the job done. It is not
'me', not 'I' but 'my people', 'my brethren', 'YOUR children'.
7:1 And
the LORD said unto Moses: 'See, I have set thee in God's stead to Pharaoh; and
Aaron thy brother shall be thy a
You will stutter or
mumble in ancient Egypt or Hebrew and Aaron will translate it into flowing
sentences.
2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and
Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of Israel
go out of his land. 3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply
My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 But Pharaoh will not
hearken unto you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring forth My hosts,
My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by great
judgments.
I will end up hardening
his heart and Egypt shall be judged.
5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD,
when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel
from among them.'
Eventually, the Bnei
Yisrael will leave and never return.
6 And Moses and Aaron did so; as the LORD
commanded them, so did they. 7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and
Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
This information shows
us that the first 40 years, Moshe was in Egypt. The next 40 years, he lived
either in Africa or worked for Yisro. The last 40 years he led Am Yisrael first
in Egypt then 39 full years in the desert.
8 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 9 'When Pharaoh
shall speak unto you, saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto
Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a
serpent.' 10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did
so, as the LORD had commanded; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and
before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh also
called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of
Egypt, did in like manner with their secret arts. 12 For they cast
down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up
their rods.
He was used to snake
charmers of real snakes but a rod turning into a snake, swallowing other snakes
and becoming a rod was something new. However, Pharaoh built in his own mind an
excuse. Self-deception was part of Pharaoh's downfall.
13 And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he
hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken. 14 And the LORD said unto
Moses: 'Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he refuses to let the people go.
Right now until the end
of the fifth plague, it is Pharaoh that can do Teshuva. After that time, he
will not be able to repent anymore except under special repentance that Pharaoh
could not muster up.
15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he
goes out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink to meet him;
and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy
hand. 16 And thou shalt say unto him: The LORD, the God of the
Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying: Let My people go, that they may serve
Me in the wilderness; and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened; 17 thus
saith the LORD: In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD--behold, I will
smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river,
and they shall be turned to blood. 18 And the fish that are in the
river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall
loathe to drink water from the river.'
This occurred once
before for like a day after Moshe was taken from the river as a sign to Pharaoh
that the Moshiach of his generation had been in the river. The Midrash says
when he was thrown into the water but since Basya aka Batya was bathing it makes
more sense after she came out. Once the Pharaoh of 80years prior saw this, he
knew that Moshe had been in the river and assumed drowned.
19 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron:
Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their
rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of
water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the
land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of
stone.' 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded and he
lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of
Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the
river were turned to blood. 21 And the fish that were in the river
died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from
the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
Aaron did so as the river
had protected Moshe previously, and from Hakaras HaTov, Moshe did not smite the
water or lift up his rod.
22 And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner
with their secret arts; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not
unto them; as the LORD had spoken. 23 And Pharaoh turned and went
into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.
I could do the same with
hydrochloric acid and penolthallic solution and it is a known chemical reaction.
24 And all the Egyptians dug round about the river
for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the
river. 25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had
smitten the river.
Pharaoh had wine but the
ordinary people were in trouble and had to buy from the Bnei Yisrael water.
26 And the LORD spoke unto Moses: 'Go in unto
Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Let My people go, that they may
serve Me. 27 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite
all thy borders with frogs. 28 And the river shall swarm with frogs,
which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bed-chamber, and upon
thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into
thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs. 29 And the frogs shall
come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.' 8:1 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron: Stretch forth
thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and
cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.' 2 And Aaron stretched
out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the
land of Egypt. 3 And the magicians did in like manner with their
secret arts, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.
Via the Sidra Acher
(Shaydim or demons) they could move frogs.
4 Then Pharaoh called for Moses
and Aaron, and said: 'Entreat the LORD, that He take away the frogs from me,
and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice unto
the LORD.' 5 And Moses said unto Pharaoh: 'Have thou this glory over
me; against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for
thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in
the river only?' 6 And he said: 'Against to-morrow.' And he said: 'Be
it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto
the LORD our God. 7 And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from
thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in
the river only.' 8 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and
Moses cried unto the LORD concerning the frogs, which He had brought upon
Pharaoh. 9 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the
frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the
fields. 10 And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land
stank.
Pharaoh was this close
to Teshuva and yet at the last minute with reprieve did not do Teshuva.
11 But when Pharaoh saw that
there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the
LORD had spoken. 12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Say unto Aaron:
Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the earth, that it may become gnats (Lice) throughout all the land of Egypt.' 13 And they did
so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the
earth, and there were gnats (Lice) upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became
gnats throughout all the land of Egypt. 14 And the magicians did so
with their secret arts to bring forth gnats (Lice), but they could not; and there were gnats upon man, and upon
beast. 15 Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh: 'This is the finger
of God'; and Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as
the LORD had spoken.
The Sidra Acher can only
work on creatures larger than a grain of wheat but not lice. That is why it
must be the finger of G-D.
16 And the LORD said unto Moses:
'Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to
the water; and say unto him: Thus saith the LORD: Let My people go, that they
may serve Me. 17 Else, if thou wilt not let My people go, behold, I
will send swarms of flies (noxious beasts) upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and
into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of
flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
NOT FLIES BUT AROV IS A
MIXTURE - HERE IT IS OF NOXIOUS BEASTS.
18 And I will set apart in that
day the land of Goshen, in which My people dwell, that no swarms of flies (noxious beasts)shall be there; to the end that thou
mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth. 19 And I
will put a division between My people and thy people--by to-morrow shall this
sign be.' 20 And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of
flies (noxious beasts) into the house of Pharaoh, and into
his servants' houses; and in all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by
reason of the swarms of BEASTS. 21 And Pharaoh called for Moses and
for Aaron, and said: 'Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the
land.' 22 And Moses said: 'It is not meet so to do; for we shall
sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God; lo, if we
sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not
stone us? 23 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and
sacrifice to the LORD our God, as He shall command us.' 24 And
Pharaoh said: 'I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in
the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away; entreat for
me.' 25 And Moses said: 'Behold, I go out from thee, and I will
entreat the LORD that the swarms of BEASTS may depart from Pharaoh, from his
servants, and from his people, tomorrow; only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully
any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the
LORD.' 26 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the
LORD. 27 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and He
removed the swarms of flies (noxious beasts) from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there
remained not one. 28 And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also,
and he did not let the people go.
He hardened his heart.
9:1 Then
the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him: Thus saith the
LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve
Me. 2 For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them
still, 3 behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in
the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and
upon the flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain. 4 And the
LORD shall make a division between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of
Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongs to the children of
Israel.' 5 And the LORD appointed a set time, saying: 'Tomorrow the
LORD shall do this thing in the land.' 6 And the LORD did that thing
on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the
children of Israel died not one. 7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold,
there was not so much as one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the
heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.
Now your farm animals
started to die.
8 And
the LORD said unto Moses and unto Aaron: 'Take to you handfuls of soot of the
furnace, and let Moses throw it heavenward in the sight of
Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt,
and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast,
throughout all the land of Egypt.' 10 And they took soot of the
furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it up heavenward; and it
became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon
beast. 11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of
the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
They looked hideous and
were afraid of punishment from Pharaoh for going before him is such a form.
12 And
the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the
LORD had spoken unto Moses. 13 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Rise up
early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him: Thus saith
the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: Let My people go, that they may serve
Me. 14 For I will this time send all My plagues upon thy person, and
upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is
none like Me in all the earth. 15 Surely now I had put forth My hand,
and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou have been cut off
from the earth.
Now the plagues will
start killing men.
16 But
in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee My power,
and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth. 17 As yet
exalt thou thyself against My people, that thou wilt not let them
go? 18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a
very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the day it was founded
even until now. 19 Now therefore send, hasten in thy cattle and all
that thou hast in the field; for every man and beast that shall be found in the
field, and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and
they shall die.'
If you don't want to
lose your animals and servants keep them in a sheltered area.
20 He
that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the houses; 21 and he that regarded
not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field. 22 And
the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch forth thy hand toward heaven, that there may
be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb
of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.' 23 And Moses stretched
forth his rod toward heaven; and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran
down unto the earth; and the LORD caused to hail upon the land of
Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire flashing up amidst the hail,
very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a
nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all
that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the
field, and broke every tree of the field. 26 Only in the land of
Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. 27 And
Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them: 'I have
sinned this time; the LORD is righteous, and I and my people are
wicked. 28 Entreat the LORD, and let there be enough of these mighty
thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no
longer.'
Like before this did not
help.
29 And Moses said unto him:
'As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread forth my hands unto the
LORD; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou
mayest know that the earth is the LORD'S. 30 But as for thee and thy
servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the LORD God.'
Too much idolatry in the city so he
prayed outside.
31 And the flax and the barley
were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in
bloom. 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they
ripen late.-- 33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread
forth his hands unto the LORD; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain
was not poured upon the earth. 34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain
and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his
heart, he and his servants. 35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened,
and he did not let the children of Israel go; as the LORD had spoken by Moses.
Parsha Bo
This week, I wanted to quote Rabbi Pinchas Winston Shlita. Thirty-six.org & Torah.org "We look at Pharaoh as
a meshuganer who was arrogant to the point of destroying
himself and his country. And, of course, God only made it worse by making him
even more stubborn, so that God could perform His signs in Egypt and make it
clear that He is God over everything. I mean, who takes on God?
The Titanic did. Years ago while traveling I came across the book
just out in the Duty Free shop. Naturally I picked it up, and naturally I
turned to the middle section where they put the pictures. I only needed to see
one picture to answer a question I had for years. Lots of ships have hit
icebergs and many have sunken. What was so unique about the Titanic that God
paid such attention to it? There’s even a children’s song about it.
Then I saw the picture. I was stunned. There were about 20 people
on the deck of the ship right before departure holding up a long banner that
read, “A ship that even God can’t sink.” After staring at the
picture for a few moments I closed the book, put it down, and went on my way,
disturbed. I kept thinking to myself, “Why? Why? Why? Why challenge God, even
as a joke? Why take that risk? What else was there to prove? The ship was
seaworthy, it was a beauty, and everyone was excited to sail on it. Wasn’t that
enough to be proud of?”
10:1 And
the LORD said unto Moses: 'Go in unto Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart,
and the heart of his servants, that I might show these My signs in the midst of
them; 2 and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy
son's son, what I have wrought upon Egypt, and My signs which I have done among
them; that ye may know that I am the LORD.'
All these miracles are
for the Bnei Yisrael to educate your generations.
3 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and
said unto him: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: How long wilt thou
refuse to humble thyself before Me? let My people go, that they may serve
Me. 4 Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow
will I bring locusts into thy border; 5 and they shall cover the face
of the earth, that one shall not be able to see the earth; and they shall eat
the residue of that which is escaped, which remains unto you from the hail, and
shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field; 6 and thy
houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of
all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen,
since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day.' And he turned, and
went out from Pharaoh.
This will be the worse
plague of locusts until the time of Yoel.
7 And Pharaoh's servants said unto him: 'How long
shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD
their God, knows thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?' 8 And Moses
and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unto them: 'Go, serve
the LORD your God; but who are they that shall go?' 9 And Moses said:
'We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our
daughters, with our flocks and with our herds we will go; for we must hold a
feast unto the LORD.'
We shall take everything
as we must pray and don't know what is desired of us.
10 And he said unto them: 'So be the LORD with
you, as I will let you go, and your little ones; see ye that evil is before
your face. 11 Not so; go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for
that is what ye desire.' And they were driven out from Pharaoh's
presence.
Now Pharaoh is about to
get the fruits of his abstaining from freeing the Bnei Yisrael.
12 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy
hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the
land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath
left.' 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt,
and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the
night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the
locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and
rested in all the borders of Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there
were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such. 15 For
they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and
they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the
hail had left; and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of
the field, through all the land of Egypt. 16 Then Pharaoh called for
Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said: 'I have sinned against the LORD your
God, and against you.
It was worse than famine
for there were some plants and crops left in the days of Yosef.
17 Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only
this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that He may take away from me this
death only.' 18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated the
LORD. 19 And the LORD turned an exceeding strong west wind, which
took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one
locust in all the border of Egypt. 20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's
heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
As soon as the locusts
were gone G-D hardened Pharaoh's heart.
21 And
the LORD said unto Moses: 'Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may
be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be
felt.' 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there
was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23 they saw
not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days; but all the
children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 24 And Pharaoh called
unto Moses, and said: 'Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your
herds be stayed; let your little ones also go with you.'
The darkness came out of
Gehenna. Pharaoh is slowly caving in but not ready for the flocks and herds
that is the livelihood of the Bnei Yisrael.
25 And
Moses said: 'Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings,
that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God. 26 Our cattle also shall
go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to
serve the LORD our God; and we know not with what we must serve the LORD, until
we come thither.' 27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he
would not let them go.
After each hardening the
punishment and plagues get worse and more frightening.
28 And
Pharaoh said unto him: 'Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no
more; for in the day thou see my face thou shalt die.' 29 And Moses
said: 'Thou hast spoken well; I will see thy face again no more.' 11:1 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Yet one plague more will I
bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when
he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence
altogether. 2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask
every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver,
and jewels of gold.'
Now the Bnei Yisrael are
going to borrow gold and jewels for the up coming festival.
3 And the LORD gave the people
favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in
the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in the sight of the
people.
Take – take only your
G-D should have mercy upon us.
4 And Moses said: 'Thus saith the
LORD: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt; 5 and all
the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh
that sits upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is
behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle. 6 And there shall
be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there hath been none
like it, nor shall be like it any more. 7 But against any of the
children of Israel shall not a dog whet his tongue, against man or beast; that
ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and
Israel. 8 And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow
down unto me, saying: Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee; and
after that I will go out.' And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
This plague is going to
be so bad that Pharaoh will let the Bnei Yisrael go.
9 And the LORD said unto Moses:
'Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; that My wonders may be multiplied in the
land of Egypt.' 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before
Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children
of Israel go out of his land.
A Kiddush HASHEM for all generations and all
peoples.
12:1 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
saying: 2 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it
shall be the first month of the year to you.
The L-RD showed Moshe
and Aaron the new moon via prophecy as they could see physically the new moon
and taught them the Calendar. As Aaron would have to explain to the elders the
secrets of calculating the calendar, observing, witness for the future
Sanhedrin.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel,
saying: In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a
lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a
household; 4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then
shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number
of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the
lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year;
ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats; 6 and ye shall
keep it unto the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of
the congregation of Israel shall kill it at dusk. 7 And they shall
take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the
houses wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in
that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall
eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast
with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards
thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning;
but that which remains of it until the morning ye shall burn with
fire. 11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes
on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste--it is
the LORD'S Passover.
Until the destruction of
the Second Mikdash, it was customary to eat roasted at night of either sheep or
lamb. Since the destruction of the Mikdash it is customary to eat boiled or
fried but not roasted and most people do not eat mutton but fowl or beef.
12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that
night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and
beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the
LORD.
There will not be an
Egyptian god that is not broken or fallen within the land.
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon
the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and
there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of
Egypt. 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall
keep it a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a
feast by an ordinance forever.
As long as people exist.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread;
howbeit the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for
whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that
soul shall be cut off from Israel. 16 And in the first day there
shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation;
no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat,
that only may be done by you. 17 And ye shall observe the feast of
unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the
land of Egypt; therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your generations
by an ordinance forever.
These of the laws of Pesach
for all generations.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of
the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth
day of the month at even. 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven
found in your houses; for whosoever eats that which is leavened, that soul
shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or
one that is born in the land. 20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in
all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.'
These are more of the
laws of Pesach both for the first time and for generations. The exception will
be taking hyssop or the modern Hebrew Arabic 'Zarta' aka Marjoram. In my garden
if left uncut grows to about 1.5 feet or more and a bundle can easily paint the
blood on the Lintel of the Door. The blood was only for Pesach Mitzrayim but
the rest of the laws apply even to this day but since we have no Temple we have
no Korban Pesach.
21 Then
Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them: 'Draw out, and
take you lambs according to your families, and slaughter the
Passover lamb. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in
the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts
with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door
of his house until the morning.
The lamb was one of the
gods of Egypt and imagine the Egyptians seeing the Bnei Yisrael tying up their
god a combination of anger, disgust and their blood sort of freezing cold.
23 For
the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood
upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the LORD will pass over the door,
and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite
you.
Suffer the destroyer. It
can be that the Angel of Death when he comes to a Tzaddik and takes him like
Moshe after 120 years he is happy. But if he takes a first born baby or young
child or somebody before his time maybe he is suffering as Angels have
feelings.
24 And ye shall observe this
thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever. 25 And it
shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you,
according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this
service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say
unto you: What mean ye by this service? 27 that ye shall say: It is
the sacrifice of the LORD'S Passover, for that He passed over the houses of the
children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our
houses.' And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
This will be in the near future and
remembered forever – even in the concentration camps.
28 And the children of Israel
went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. 29 And
it came to pass at midnight, that the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the
first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of
cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his
servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there
was not a house where there was not one dead.
There was a minimum of one dead but
there could be more if a man had two Bechorim from two wives or a women from
two men or animals etc.
31 And he called for Moses and
Aaron by night and said: 'Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye
and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said. 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and
be gone; and bless me also.' 33 And the Egyptians were
urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said:
'We are all dead men.' 34 And the people took their
dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their
clothes upon their shoulders. 35 And the children of
Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment. 36 And
the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let
them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.
What we read before was the command
to ask, now they asked and received.
37 And the children of Israel
journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot,
beside children. 38 And a mixed multitude went up also
with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. 39 And
they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt,
for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not
tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. 40 Now
the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty
years. 41 And it came to pass at the end of four
hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the
host of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It
was a night of watching unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of
Egypt; this same night is a night of watching unto the LORD for all the
children of Israel throughout their generations.
30 years before Yitzchak was born
was the Bris between the pieces. Yitzchak was born the night of Pesach 400
years previously.
43 And the LORD said unto
Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the Passover: there shall no alien
eat thereof; 44 but every man's servant that is bought
for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof. 46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth
aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone
thereof. 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep
it. 48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee,
and will keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and
then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the
land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Non-Jewish circumcised servants and
the Bnei Yisrael after the age of 13 that are circumcised may eat with you a
Korban Pesach.
49 One law shall be to him
that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourns among you.' 50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded
Moses and Aaron, so did they. 51 And it came to pass
the selfsame day that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt by their hosts. 13:1 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Sanctify unto Me all the
first-born, whatsoever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man
and of beast, it is Mine.'
They
were supposed to be both Leviim and Priests but because of the Chet Ha Egel
(sin of the golden calf) they would lose it.
… 5 And
it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and
the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore
unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou
shalt keep this service in this month. 6 Seven days thou shalt eat
unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the
LORD. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days;
and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be
leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders. 8 And thou shalt tell thy
son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me when I
came forth out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon
thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of the LORD may
be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of
Egypt. 10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from
year to year.
It will be in the Tephillin about
the redemption of the Bechor and you will observe the Pesach forever.
11 And it shall be when the
LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as He swore unto thee and
to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, 12 that thou shalt set apart
unto the LORD all that opens the womb; every firstling that is a male, which
thou hast coming of a beast, shall be the LORD'S. 13 And every
firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem
it, then thou shalt break its neck; and all the first-born of man among thy
sons shalt thou redeem. 14 And it shall be when thy son askes thee in
time to come, saying: What is this? that thou shalt say unto him: By strength
of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of
bondage; 15 and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go
that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the first-born
of man, and the first-born of beast; therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that
opens the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I
redeem. 16 And it shall be for a sign upon thy hand, and for
frontlets between thine eyes; for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth
out of Egypt.
Repetition about the redemption of the Bechor in the
Tephillin.
On Tevet 29 5508 aka 1808 - Ezekiel Hart, the first Jew elected
to Canadian Parliament, was denied his seat when he swore the oath of
inauguration on a Jewish Bible. At the time, British laws prohibited Jews and
Roman Catholics from such positions, and Hart was expelled from the assembly.
Hart returned to private life and enjoyed success as a businessman until his
death in 1843.
How an Arab Dr. saved a Jewish Teen
in Nazi Germany by Robert Philpot
https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-an-egyptian-doctor-saved-a-jewish-teen-in-nazi-berlin/
'Anna and Dr. Helmy' by Ronen Steinke tells the true story of an Arab
Physician who resisted German Overtures and helped a girl survive the Holocaust
by parading her in plain sight.
LONDON —
One day in 1943, Mohamed Helmy, an Egyptian doctor who had lived in Germany for
more than two decades, received a terrifying summons. Alongside his niece,
Nadia, he was to report to the Prinz Albrecht Hotel, the notorious Berlin
headquarters of the SS.
When they
arrived, Helmy and Nadia were ushered into a room containing a crowd of several
dozen men. At its center stood Amin al-Husseini, the virulently antisemitic,
pro-Nazi Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who had been the Third Reich’s guest of
honor for the past two years and its most high-profile symbol of Hitler’s
efforts to court the Muslim world. Trusted by the Nazis, Helmy now discovered
the reason for the unexplained summons: he was needed to provide his fellow
Muslims with medical care.
But as
German journalist Ronen Steinke writes in his new book, the encounter was far
from all it seemed — for Helmy was no Nazi sympathizer, and the teenager
accompanying him was neither his niece nor a Muslim, but 17-year-old Anna
Boros, a Jewish girl hunted by the Gestapo who the doctor had been secretly
sheltering for the past year.
“Anna and Dr. Helmy: How an
Arab Doctor Saved a Jewish Girl in Hitler’s Berlin” is the thrilling and, at times, heart-stopping account of a
remarkable but largely unknown story of bravery — and bluffing. The son of an
Egyptian army major, Helmy came to Berlin in 1922 to study medicine. Ten years
later, he was still in the German capital, having become a protégé of the
eminent Jewish consultant Prof. Georg Klemperer under whom he worked at the
city’s prestigious Robert Koch Hospital in Moabit.
Among the
thousands of casualties of the Nazis’ notorious April 1, 1933, anti-Jewish
boycott were many of Moabit’s doctors, two-thirds of whom were Jewish. Driven
out of the hospital by SA stormtroopers and taken to a former army barracks,
they were ferociously beaten overnight, with some succumbing to their injuries.
Helmy,
however, wasn’t targeted in this purge and, capitalizing on the Jews’
misfortune, thrived professionally. Aged just 31, he was thus promoted from
junior doctor to senior consultant. The Nazis “were giving him these privileges
and basically making him an accomplice by sharing the loot with him,” Steinke
explained in an interview with The Times of Israel. “There was a time when this
worked to some degree, when he wasn’t entirely opposed to the regime. He wasn’t
initially a political person. He came from an Egyptian military background,
[which] is not a progressive or humanist background particularly.”
Helmy’s
hospital bosses certainly appeared to view him as, at the very least, not
antagonistic to the Nazis. “Although a foreigner, Dr. Helmy’s conduct
demonstrated a consistently pro-German attitude,” said a 1934 report. Helmy
would later blandly say of his apparent accommodation with Germany’s new
masters: “Vacancies had become available.”
That Helmy
was able to prosper in Nazi Berlin reflected the Third Reich’s wider attempt to
reach out to the Middle East and Arab world — and possibly build alliances
against Britain and France there. Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, for
instance, ordered the press to cease all attacks on Muslims, while the
Nuremberg Laws were drafted so as not to ensnare Arabs. Indeed, in a July 1936
meeting hosted by the Foreign Office it was decided that while Arabs might not
be racially “related” to Aryans, they should be placed on an “equal footing”
with other Europeans. Thus, as early as 1934, Helmy’s supervisor at Moabit
described his appointment at the hospital as “highly desirable in the interests
of Germans abroad, according to statements of the Foreign Office and the
[Egyptian] legation.”
Over time,
however, Helmy became more political and began to turn decisively against the
regime. The source of the doctor’s discontent was his new, Nazi-appointed
medical colleagues who, chosen for their loyalty rather than their expertise,
displayed a startling mixture of callousness and incompetence towards their
patients. As Moabit’s reputation plunged, ambulance drivers would even
recommend patients to avoid the hospital.
Proud of
his own academic qualifications and professionally offended, Helmy did not hold
back in criticizing the inexperienced Nazi doctors. As one senior consultant
angrily put it, Helmy had “no compunction about damaging the reputation of
German doctors in front of patients and nursing staff.” Complaints about the
Egyptian’s “arrogance and dogmatic, uncomradely manner” and his inability “as
an Oriental” to “adapt to the order, discipline, and professional ethos of
German doctors” were recorded. A petition demanding that the “Hamite” — a Nazi
racial term to describe Arabs — not be allowed to treat German women was
circulated. Helmy clung on to his post only by appealing to the German Foreign
Office, which urged the hospital to keep him on “for foreign policy reasons.”
Helmy’s
colleagues were also aware that the consultant was continuing to treat Jewish
patients — even driving out to their homes during work hours. Having been saved
the Nazi ax on the basis that, as a Muslim, he would take their side against
the Jews, writes Steinke, Helmy “subverted their plan.” Now, he was using the
professional privileges the regime had bestowed upon him to assist its worst
enemies.
Helmy’s
motivations were both humanitarian and, believes the author, a “desire to get
even” with the Nazi doctors who were trying to oust him. Nonetheless, when
Helmy’s contract finished at the end of June 1937, he was eased out, forcing
him into private practice. He would, however, eventually find a more dramatic —
if highly dangerous — way to “get even” with the Nazis.
Among the
Jewish patients Helmy had visited while still at Moabit was the wealthy family
of Anna Boros. Anna lived in a townhouse on the Neue Friedrichstrasse with her
mother, Julie — who had come to Berlin from her native Hungary following the
breakup of her marriage to factory owner Ladislaus Boros — and her widowed
grandmother Cecilie. The two women ran the once-thriving grocery business of
Cecilie’s second husband, Moisie “Max” Rudnik, which had been hit by
anti-Jewish laws and import restrictions before being “Aryanized” for a pittance
in June 1939.
Helmy soon
began helping Anna, whose hopes of becoming a pediatric nurse had been
frustrated by the Nazis, teaching her how to analyze blood and urine samples
under a microscope.
When war
came, Helmy and a number of his fellow countrymen were imprisoned by the Nazis
in the hope of using them as leverage with the British, who were holding German
nationals in Egypt, Palestine and South Africa.
Helmy, who,
writes Steinke, had previously taken “astonishing liberties” in his dealings
with the Nazis, now began to adopt a new persona. Henceforth, he would “play
the ideal pro-Nazi Arab envisioned by Goebbels’ propaganda office… an Egyptian
whose homeland had suffered under the detested British.”
From his
cell, Helmy wrote to Hitler (whom he addressed as “Your Excellency”) and other
Nazi leaders, proclaiming his loyalty to the cause. He claimed to have
“campaigned actively” for the Nazis since 1929, been roughed up for his beliefs
in 1931, and to have been a member of the party — “the only Egyptian” on the
books — for a decade. He also suggested that his Jewish bosses at Moabit had
forced him to work without pay until 1933 and prevented him from becoming a
doctor because of his antisemitism. And Helmy even persuaded the Foreign Office
to release him and another prisoner for 30 days so that he could use his
“influence and connections” in Egypt to secure the release of the German
captives in Cairo.
Helmy, of
course, failed in this mission — he had no “influence and connections” back in
Egypt to utilize — and his claims to have been a Nazi member were easily
exposed as a lie. However, says Steinke, the Nazis appear to have “gladly
turned a blind eye to the fabrications of this pro-German zealot, who was
probably just trying too hard.” Indeed, playing along with the regime became
the default setting for many other members of Berlin’s Muslim community.
When he was
finally released in May 1940, Helmy’s charade appears to have been accepted by
the Nazis, who gave him a practice of his own in the upscale district of
Charlottenburg.
But Helmy’s
skill as, in Steinke’s words, “a talented con man” was now to save the life of
Anna and her grandmother. When Cecilie received a letter in March 1942 telling
her to report to a Moabit synagogue where a camp had been established to assist
the deportation of Berlin’s Jews, she turned to the doctor for advice. Helmy
urged her to flee and then arranged a hiding place with a trusted former
patient.
But
Cecilie’s decision terrified Anna’s stepfather, Georg Wehr, who wasn’t Jewish
and believed the family should stick to the rules and avoid attracting the
Nazis’ attention. Wehr threatened to leave, but Helmy calmed him down and
eventually brought him around. As Anna later recalled: “The doctor was now
risking life and limb for everyone. Whether it was treating diseases, seeking
new quarters or getting around the latest regulations, he had to keep on
finding new solutions. My stepfather simply wasn’t capable of doing it
himself.”
Unlike her
mother and grandmother, who had taken on the German citizenship of their second
husbands, Anna, who was born in the city of Arad on the border with Hungary,
continued to hold a Romanian passport. For a time, this shielded her from the
Nazis’ worst excesses. But in March 1942, foreign Jews were ordered out of
Germany and Anna was given three days to return to Romania — which, given the
pro-Axis government’s active participation in the Final Solution, was a likely
death sentence.
Recognizing
her own family’s inability to help her, Anna turned to Helmy. As the Gestapo
was informed that Anna had left the Reich as instructed, “Nadia” — Helmy
suggested the name — began work as the doctor’s receptionist. The young woman,
who found that her headscarf helpfully diverted attention from her face, was,
Helmy informed his state-appointed minders in Charlottenburg, his Muslim niece
from Dresden. Anna, Steinke believes, viewed Helmy as a “substitute father” or
“uncle figure”; Boros had long ago reneged on his pledge to visit his daughter
twice a year.
The
teenager remained with Helmy throughout the day, driving with him to and from
his practice. When the doctor’s car was stopped and their papers demanded, he
affected an arrogant air, complaining loudly that he was a friend of the
Foreign Office who had medical duties to attend to. At the surgery, Helmy would
make a point of addressing Anna in Arabic, which she pretended to understand.
Anna moved
in with Helmy and his fiancé, 26-year-old nurse Emmy Ernst, and helped out in
the kitchen and with household chores. Emmy, indeed, also proved a skilled
supporting member of the loyalty show which the doctor staged for the Gestapo.
“As long as they could keep up the pretense that Helmy was among those Arabs
sympathetic to the regime, he had a chance to save himself and protect Anna,”
writes Steinke.
Despite the
perilous situation in which they found themselves, Helmy and Anna nonetheless
did their best to help others, using medical certificates to assist forced
laborers and Germans threatened with hard physical labor. They also secretly
and illegally treated Jews — an activity which led to visits from the Gestapo.
“Not only must they have been incredibly talented and creative as actors… [but]
they must have been very skilled in defeating their fear,” says Steinke.
“People’s reaction to fear is to freeze. Somehow they were able to overcome
their fear and function in these situations.”
Helmy went
to extraordinary lengths in order to buttress Anna’s cover story. In June 1943,
for instance, he arranged her conversion to Islam and thus helped Nadia acquire
her first official piece of documentation. Incredibly, it was signed by Kamal
el-Din Galal, an old friend of Helmy who, despite working for the Grand Mufti,
was not antisemitic and happy to assist in the deception.
A week
later, Helmy tapped another Egyptian friend, Abdel Aziz Helmy Hammad, who he
had met in prison and trusted as a staunch anti-Nazi, to marry Nadia. To ensure
the marriage was valid under Sharia law, Helmy also arranged for two other
friends to act as witnesses. Helmy’s hope was that the “paper marriage” would
enable Nadia, as Hammad’s wife, to obtain an Egyptian passport, thus allowing
her to leave Germany legally and then travel to Palestine.
Ultimately,
however, the plan fell apart. The local registry office rejected the marriage
application when Helmy submitted it for approval and — suspecting something was
awry — the Gestapo twice searched the doctor’s apartment, repeatedly asking the
building’s caretaker if he knew about a hidden Jewish girl. For a time, Helmy
moved Anna around other locations, before settling her in a garden hut he had
access to on the northern edge of the Pankow district. Anna’s presence at the
garden colony was helped by the chaos of the war’s final months, as thousands
of Berliners fled to cabins away from the city center to escape constant Allied
air raids.
Helmy
performed what Steinke describes as one “final tour de force” when the Gestapo
discovered Anna’s new whereabouts. Thinking ahead to just such an eventuality,
the doctor had dictated a letter to Anna which he placed in a self-addressed
envelope. Now the moment had arrived to use it.
He tracked
down the Gestapo officers who were searching for Anna and — adopting the act of
a wronged party — told them he was the victim of a terrible deception by the
girl they were seeking. “Nadia,” he said, had disappeared from his home leaving
only a letter. In the letter, which he handed over, Anna confessed to Helmy
that she had “lied to him about her ancestry” and that she was, in fact, not a
Muslim, but Jewish. She also revealed that she was leaving for an aunt’s in
Dessau. Helmy now demanded that the officers find the girl who had so cruelly
deceived him.
It was, as
Steinke writes, an improbable tale but — perhaps thanks to the fog of the war’s
closing days — one that seemed to throw the Gestapo off Anna’s trail for long
enough until the Red Army reached her Pankow hideout.
By pulling
off the audacious, carefully-planned bluff, he almost certainly saved Anna’s
life — and his own.
Steinke
says that, on learning of the story, he was surprised to find that Germany’s
Muslim community, usually perceived as having arrived in the country since the
war, predated the Nazis.
“The old
Arabic Berlin of the Weimar period,” he also discovered, was “cultured,
progressive, and, for the most part, anything but antisemitic,” with Muslims
and Jews enjoying a “close relationship.” Moreover, the story of Anna and Helmy
shows that, contrary to the perceptions of many, some Muslims played a “special
role” in assisting German Jews at their moment of maximum danger.
In 1960, Anna, who emigrated to the United States after the
war, swore an affidavit requesting Berlin’s mayor honor Helmy. He was, she
said, a “wonderful human being” who had never sought gratitude for his wartime
bravery. While Helmy had still not been recognized at the time of his death in
1982, 30 years later, in 2013, Yad Vashem decided to honor the
doctor, making him the first
Arab to join the list of the “Righteous Among the Nations.” Helmy’s relatives
in Cairo, however, refused to accept an award issued by Israel.
When he
visited them, Steinke was warmly received but found the family’s attitude
unchanged. “We would be delighted if another country honored him. Helmy helped
all people, no matter what their religion,” one relative explains. “Now Israel
wants to honor him specifically because he helped Jews. But this doesn’t do
justice to what he did.” Steinke suggests that the family’s reaction appears to
be one of fear in a society where “the word ‘Jew’ is a toxic word.”
Nonetheless,
Steinke believes that Helmy’s story “should be a point of pride.”
“It’s
puzzling why the Arab world doesn’t jump at the opportunity to put this person
on a pedestal; to show that there was this very moral role that some Arabs…
played,” he says.
In New
York, Steinke also met with Anna’s descendants. “If Dr. Helmy hadn’t existed,
this room, filled with 25 people, would simply be empty,” says Anna’s
daughter, Carla Gutman Greenspan.
“It is
almost poetic how similar these families are,” Steinke says of the descendants
of Anna and Helmy. “The apartments, the style of the furniture, the social
status. They’re both pretty well-off, well-to-do families. Big families. They
have so much in common.”
But, he
adds, reflecting the wider Muslim and Jewish communities, “there is suspicion
on both sides and lack of knowledge on both sides… They have strong opinions
about the other side [but] very little contact with the other side.”
However, at
the close of the book, Anna’s daughter reaches out with a simple message
contained in a letter she asks Steinke to deliver to Helmy’s descendants in
Cairo: “All I really want is for you to know that there is a family at the
other end of the world that feels gratitude and love for Dr. Helmy. We will
never cease to be amazed by what he did, and we hope that his heroism will be
an inspiration to others.”
A written conversation I
had:
Hi I have a question as to why
bashing of people's choice for conversion is being tolerated in the group? I
find it shameful it’s happening so much no one should be told their conversions
are worthless for any reason. I thought it was a mitzvah to not hate fellow
Jews? To love the convert? I’m sad that people are being told over and over
their conversions are not worth the time. If I’m missing something as to why
it’s allowed please explain. Thank you and Shabbat Shalom.
Anonymous, Learn the
Torah in the Original Hebrew. Learn "The Code of Jewish Law" by Rabbi
Ganzfried. Observe Shabbos, Kashrus and Purity. Also the history of the Reform
Movement then maybe you will understand. I know that Reform Rabbis don't learn
Mishnah, Talmud and Jewish Law but only how to please a crowd, give eulogies
& other speeches and how to raise money. I don't know how to raise money
but do know Mishnah, Talmud and a lot of Jewish Law. I suggest you read, learn
and understand.
I understand I just don’t get if
this is a group for converts then if the groups not accepting of reform then
state such. I’m not converting reform but I do know the mitzvah says to love
the convert is why I was asking. Just seems counterproductive if these people
have nowhere to go to ask in our group then maybe it should say doesn’t accept
reform or something just seems misleading. For those going reform maybe that’s
their only option at the time. I do understand and was just wondering thank you
If one wants to cheat
and deceive the poor sincere Convert that an ultra-progressive Rabbi is Kosher
isn't it a Mitzvah set the new Ger(im) straight and to tell them what they are
looking at is not Judaism nor in anyway related to what Moshe received on Mt.
Sinai? I grew up 6th generation Reform Jew. My "Rabbi" was
an atheist! He said that no miracles were involved. Was that fair to a young
kid like myself who had no probability and statistics knowledge to know if such
occurrences even if natural at the right place and time were miraculous or not?
As an agnostic physicists it took a debate with an Orthodox Physicist to get me
to do the probabilities involve. Not everybody has the ability to see through
the venomous propaganda.
2021 Milestones many I missed. https://www.timesofisrael.com/18-noteworthy-jews-who-died-in-2021/
Milestone: Betty White, 99, actress
just shy of 100th birthday. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/betty-white-dead
Milestone: Mameve Medwed, 79,
Journalist. https://www.timesofisrael.com/lapid-2022-will-see-intense-effort-to-paint-israel-as-apartheid-state/
Milestone: Litman (Mor) Moravchik,
104, last of Vilna Partisans. https://www.jewis4press.com/news/jewish-news/holocaust/jewish-partisan-litman-mor-moravchik-passes-away-at-104/2022/01/02/
Milestone: Susanne Singer, 86,
mother of fallen soldier magazine editor. https://www.timesofisrael.com/suzanne-singer-writer-who-used-fallen-sons-legacy-to-inspire-others-dies-at-87/
Milestone: Yoram Taharlev, 84, poet
and songwriter. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-691691
Milestone: Sandra Jaffe, 83, New
Orleans night club owner. https://www.timesofisrael.com/sandra-jaffe-new-orleans-celebrated-preservation-hall-jazz-club-owner-dies-at-83/
Milestone: Lawrence M. Brooks, 112
oldest US Veteran of WWII. Sept. 12, 1909 to Jan. 5, 2022. https://www.timesofisrael.com/oldest-us-veteran-of-world-war-ii-lawrence-n-brooks-dies-at-112/
Milestone: Peter Bogdanovich, 82,
film maker mother Jewish. https://www.timesofisrael.com/peter-bogdanovich-lauded-hollywood-filmmaker-and-son-of-an-austrian-jew-dies-at-82/
The following is a public
service announcement to help the many poor families in need of food in Eretz
Yisrael. A letter from Rav Chaim Kaniewski Shlita.
Help the poor. “The merit of
tzedaka given to Vaad HaRabbanim is to sustain thousands of families in Eretz HaKadosh
It should protect them from all
hardships. Their income should be doubled and they should have nachas from all
of their descendants.” All those who donate $970 (about one month of simple
groceries) will receive a shtar as a binding legal contract between you &
the Gadol HaDor that you have fulfilled the Rav’s request and received the
incredible bracha above. Solid proof of your investment in klal Yisroel, and in
your future.
A limited number of shtaros are
available.
UPDATE JANUARY 6: ALL DONORS WILL
NOW ALSO BE PRAYED FOR AT A HISTORIC GATHERING OF MAJOR RABBANIM (Rav Boruch
Mordechai Ezrachi, The Biale Rebbe, Rav Elimelech Biderman, Rav Binyamin
Finkel, Rav Sariel Rozenberg) AT THE KEVER OF RABI YEHUDA BAR ILAI ZT”L
Vaad Harabanim Fund # 5900 by
phone at 1877-722-2646 or by mailing a check to Vaad Harabanim 221 Regent Drive
Lakewood, NJ 08701
I personally work with
Keren Ezra LeYelidim and others plus Kollel Beis Shlomo and Beis Rachamim and
do not take any salary. My cousin works with milk and diapers for babies of
needy families. But none of us are on the level of Rav Chaim.
Inyanay Diyoma
Jihad fires two rockets towards Tel
Aviv, land in sea. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byvfgfpst
Stabbing attack foiled. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319625
$3billion deal to sell 2 tankers, 12
helicopters and a fleet of F-35's to
Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319619
Israel confiscates 2.6million NIS in
Crypto-currency from Hamas. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319627
Ed-Op Israel is heading towards
herd-immunity. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byc7qgjit
Eric Adams replaces the night-mare
socialist and Mayor of NYC. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319655
Asst. Police Chief in Kent WA
suspended for Nazi Symbol. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319653
IDF suspends ability of soldiers to
take weapons off base. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319635
US mulls reopening of PLO offices. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hku4b5kjf
Earthquake in Crete felt in Israel. https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/b1ver9kik
Iran sows havoc with fake social
media accounts. https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-aiming-to-sow-chaos-in-israel-fake-accounts-target-likud-activists-online/ Bennett asks Shin Bet to look into
the fake accounts. https://www.timesofisrael.com/tv-bennett-asks-shin-bet-to-investigate-iran-linked-accounts-targeting-likud/
Man found dead in Yarkon River. https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-found-dead-in-tel-avivs-yarkon-river
Racist based vaccination. https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-race-based-covid-treatment-plan-has-horrible-irony-bruce
No Federal Mandate for Vaccines. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-federal-injunction-biden-vaccine-mandate
Sewerage spills in to Ocean pollutes
CA beaches. https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-beaches-close-sewage-spill
Intel appoints 10 Israelis to
executive positions. https://www.timesofisrael.com/intel-appoints-10-israeli-executives-to-senior-global-positions/
Synagogue vandal of Tucson arrested.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/31/tucson-arizona-cops-arrest-alleged-synagogue-vandal/
Israel teens with special needs in
the IDF. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/31/the-pride-of-the-uniform-israeli-teens-with-special-needs-join-program-for-idf-service/
After getting money and prestige
from Ganz, holocaust denier, Abu Mazen gives Israel a big kick in the rear. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/31/at-fatah-anniversary-event-pas-abbas-accuses-israel-of-organized-terrorism-and-ethnic-cleansing/
After an attack on port, Assad acts
to curb Iranians. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/30/report-assad-cracking-down-on-iranian-activities-in-syria/
French group comes under attack by
BDS. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/29/arab-anti-zionists-attack-prominent-french-institute-for-cooperating-with-israel-in-widely-praised-jews-of-the-orient-exhibition/
Israeli buses attacked by stone
throwers. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/29/two-israeli-buses-attacked-by-stone-throwers-near-jerusalem-glass-flew-in-my-mouth/
Israeli Oral Covid Med. Gets an
order from Vietnam for 10,000,000 doses. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/29/israels-oramed-gets-vietnam-pre-order-for-10-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses/
IAF to use more Lasers in the future
battlefield. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/29/lasers-will-change-the-future-battlefield-says-israeli-air-force-commander/
CAIR a star in antisemitic list. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/27/cair-and-sunrise-movement-included-in-jewish-groups-global-anti-semitism-list/
Winner of antisemite of 2021
announced. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/27/chair-of-ben-jerrys-board-voted-as-2021-antisemite-of-the-year-in-watchdog-poll/
Teen start-up tells farmers how to
manage plants in climate change. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/26/israeli-startup-teaches-farmers-how-to-speak-plant-to-mitigate-impact-of-climate-change/
Israeli Plan to develop the Golan. https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/26/israel-set-to-approve-317-million-golan-heights-development-plan/
Hamas killed the two State Solution.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/12/26/the-hamas-takeover-of-gaza-killed-the-two-state-solution/
Arab Mafia murders 126 in 2021. https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-final-day-of-2021-another-arab-killing-brings-death-toll-to-126/
Israel Bombs Gaza. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjqsdhajk#autoplay
Flu + Corona first case in Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/flurona-israel-records-its-first-case-of-patient-with-covid-and-flu-at-same-time/
Population of Israel: Out of 9.45 million residents, 73.9% are Jewish and 21.1% Arab;
25,000 new immigrants, with 30% of them from Russia, 14.6% from France, 13.9%
from U.S. and 12.4% from Ukraine; 4,870 Israelis have succumbed to
coronavirus-related complications. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1rrjqiit
Spied for Hezballah. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319631
Bedouin who crossed into Lebanon
returned. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319601
Why
booster shots. https://www.timesofisrael.com/vaccine-effect-fades-faster-for-cancer-patients-boosters-restore-it-israeli-study/
Is the IDF Reserves ready for war? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319529
IDF officer dealing with MIA's steps
down. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319457
Both road and rail vehicle. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319258
German student stabbed. https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-student-stabbed-seriously-injured-in-brawl-outside-tel-aviv-nightclub/
80years ago Romanians murdered
40,000 Jews. https://www.timesofisrael.com/romanias-homegrown-holocaust-80-years-since-forgotten-bogdanovka-massacre/
Iraqi man killed by bomb in
Liverpool planned to kill others. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319607
Army vet who burned himself goes
outdoors for first time. https://www.timesofisrael.com/army-vet-who-self-immolated-goes-outdoors-for-first-time-since-hospitalization/
Last '21 bomb attack on fellow Arab
Driver. https://www.timesofisrael.com/car-set-ablaze-on-highway-near-kfar-qasim-in-suspected-bomb-attack/
Netanyahu wanted Edelson to start
Yisrael HaYom paper. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-aide-testifies-netanyahu-enlisted-sheldon-adelson-to-take-down-rival-paper/
Israeli Bill to limit things on
Social Media. https://www.timesofisrael.com/proposed-censorship-bill-more-intrusive-than-in-any-other-democracy-say-researchers/
Orthodox Religious girl our figure
skating hope. https://www.timesofisrael.com/orthodox-new-jersey-teen-is-israels-newest-olympic-skating-hope/
Israel's new Covid Policy. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/b17d9w12k
Israel to reduce travel
restrictions. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/sjewjwj3t
US Sec. of Def. tests positive for
Covid. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319731
Former Military Advisor to PM –
helping Gaza's Economy will not deradicalize Hamas. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjdfo0rof
Maariv and Jerusalem Post hacked by
Iranians. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319730
Special needs woman raped by
Eritrean Infiltrators. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319707
Fifth wave so strong that tests have
to be rationed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319713
CO 1,000 homes destroyed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319706
Ed-Op Glick The Int'l War against
Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319694
Lev Tahor Jewish Taliban type cult
collecting money. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319723
Child abuse in cult. https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-who-escaped-anti-zionist-jewish-cult-returns-to-guatemala-in-search-of-son/
Iranian gas leak knocks out well(s).
https://www.timesofisrael.com/platform-at-irans-largest-gas-field-out-of-service-after-leak-in-gulf-waters/
Film honoring Betty White to be
screened on her 100th birthday. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319675
Grenade thrown at house of senior Defense
Official. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319672
Shaked criticism of me comes from a
real and painful place. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319676
One dead in Ramle Fire. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319745
Is Israel on to Herd Immunity. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319742
Women of the wall disrupt Kotel
Prayers. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319744
Helicopter crash off Haifa kills a
major and lt. Col. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/P9UDEZ0D7
More shooting from Gaza. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyzz5cgnf
Settler violence I beg your pardon
but: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1q82zvok
NY Jewish Community rallies to help
people with Omicron. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjttzcl3k
Israel Tech passes $26.6 billion in
2021. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/s1jvm6ehy
90,000 Sephardic Jews gain Spanish
or Portuguese Citizenship. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319813
Arab want to paint Israel as an
apartheid State. https://www.timesofisrael.com/lapid-2022-will-see-intense-effort-to-paint-israel-as-apartheid-state/
Is Israel ready for Omicron surge? https://www.debka.com/omicron-will-catch-us-all-how-many-severe-cases-are-expected-and-can-hospitals-cope/
Bederman is it antisemitic to
compare vaccine mandates with Nazis? https://dianebederman.com/is-it-antisemitic-to-compare-the-policies-of-covid-with-the-policies-of-nazi-german/
US presses Israel on technology
trade. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319885
Poway Rabbi gets 14months for tax
fraud. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319883
Quebec shutters houses of worship. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319882
Black Hebrew Israelite football
player forced to eat Pepperoni Pizza by head coach sues school for $4,000,000. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/04/4-million-lawsuit-alleges-hebrew-israelite-high-school-football-player-was-forced-to-eat-pepperoni-pizza/
Israel has a confusing 4th
jab policy. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/skmuohfnt
Omicron could set the stage for more
dangerous variant. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/h1vo83m2k
Sole survivor or Copter Crash broken
disk recalls. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/h1vo83m2k
Terrorist ends hunger strike on
promise of release. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hyljxxfhf
MK's confront each other over
terrorist. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319873
Harry Potter's Goblins at bank
antisemitic. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jon-stewart-says-the-harry-potter-goblin-characters-are-clearly-antisemitic/
Military Censor falls behind social
media again. https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-helicopter-crash-military-censor-again-confronts-social-media-comes-up-short/
Ed-Op Ruth Bloom Mohammed Abbas
plays Benny Ganz for a fool. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/04/mahmoud-abbas-plays-benny-gantz-for-a-fool/
Bennett says 4th jab
works. WHERE IS THE STUDY? https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/04/the-fourth-dose-works-israeli-trial-shows-fivefold-boost-in-antibodies-bennett-says/
Rabbi resigns over BBC antisemitism
after 30years. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/04/british-rabbi-resigns-from-bbc-after-30-years-amid-antisemitism-crisis/
Jewish students fight right wing
Austrian Party. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/01/04/austrian-jewish-students-press-for-legal-action-against-far-right-leader-over-comments-comparing-holocaust-with-covid-19-measures/
Republicans likely to impeach Biden
if they win the house. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319881
Less wives murdered but more mothers
dies. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319887
BDS group fails as they use Israeli
Software. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319878
Dealing with Lupus T Cells. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319884
A Charedi lawmaker spoke out Tuesday about sexual
abuse within the Charedi community, calling for greater awareness on the issue,
will adding that he believes rapists should be “shot at point blank range”. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319844
IDF downs Hezballah drone. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319869
North Korea fires a new missile. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319872
N. CA school disciplines students
over Swastika. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319867
Effects of 4th injection
not good enough. https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/b1qndzqnk
Truth Social to launch on Feb. 21st.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320032
Near Schem - Shoot at us and you're
dead. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-691682
An Israeli equivalent of a Nazi as
people of Homesh called subhuman. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319980
New record number of cases. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319974
Man 81 dies in fire. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319969
Kazakhstan riots as gov't. resigns. https://www.timesofisrael.com/protests-over-fuel-prices-rock-kazakhstan-as-entire-cabinet-resigns/
2 life sentences 1 murder and 2
attempted murders. https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-american-gets-two-life-sentences-for-deadly-west-bank-terror-attack/
Joint Arab list chairman
hospitalized. https://www.timesofisrael.com/joint-list-chief-ayman-odeh-hospitalized-after-reporting-chest-pain/
Survivor or helicopter crash
released, visits mourners. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320000
Mike Pompeo loses 90 lbs. in six mos.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320022
6 hurt by grenade thrown at Mob
Leader's wedding. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320018
Three way split on Iran. https://www.debka.com/israels-leaders-split-three-ways-on-iran-tehran-promises-fresh-ideas-for-vienna-talks/
B'nai Brit of Canada asks for dissolution
of Fed. Corp. after anti-US demonstration. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320035
Ed-Op Melanie Philips on the strain
between Diaspora and Yisrael. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/320034
Arabs murders of 2022 – the first a
4year old. https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-suspects-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-4-year-old-boy-on-playground/
Second in Lod. 4th
suspect on boy murder. https://www.timesofisrael.com/lod-man-shot-dead-in-days-second-arab-community-slaying/
Jerusalem Police Brutality of
Charedim. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-police-filmed-beating-ultra-orthodox-men-blasting-them-with-water-cannons/
State Prosecutor to fill in for
Attorney General. https://www.timesofisrael.com/state-prosecutor-to-fill-in-as-attorney-general-until-mandelblit-replacement-found/
Have a healthy, peaceful
and pleasant Shabbos,
Rachamim Pauli
