Being an internet Rabbi does not
exempt me from getting questions. This week I got one here in Israel – Where
can I hear the Megillah in Sunnyside Queens NY. I had to give the person
addresses of Schuls and Subway Stops. Last week, I got phone calls and the
final version of the Blogspot had some gaps where I planned to comment in a few
places and just skipped over them. I left out details towards the end of the
Parsha too.
Due to Daylight Savings time, the
Blogspot is out an hour plus later for those in the USA.
Parsha Tzav
Parsha Tzav starts similar to
Parsha Vayikra. They both start with a burnt offering. The difference is that
in Vayikra, the Korban is the important thing such as which animal or fine
flower is used. In our case, the placement on the altar and the firewood are
important.
6:1 And the LORD spoke unto
Moses, saying: 2 Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law
of the burnt-offering: it is that which goes up on its firewood upon the altar
all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning
thereby.
The burnt offering is all night
long until dawn.
3 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his
linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes
whereto the fire hath consumed the burnt-offering on the altar, and he shall
put them beside the altar. 4 And he shall put off his garments, and
put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean
place.
As with all Korbanos, the ordinary
Cohain uses linen garments and the ashes are placed in a clean space.
5 And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning thereby,
it shall not go out; and the priest shall kindle wood on it every morning; and
he shall lay the burnt-offering in order upon it, and shall make smoke thereon
the fat of the peace-offerings. 6 Fire shall be kept burning upon the
altar continually; it shall not go out.
The Mizbayach shall have an eternal
flame. (But due to the sins of Am Yisrael in the past and delaying the Moshiach
in present, the Mikdash has been destroyed.)
7 And this is the law of the meal-offering: the sons of Aaron
shall offer it before the LORD, in front of the altar. 8 And he shall
take up therefrom his handful, of the fine flour of the meal-offering, and of
the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meal-offering, and
shall make the memorial-part thereof smoke upon the altar for a sweet savor
unto the LORD. 9 And that which is left thereof shall Aaron and his
sons eat; it shall be eaten without leaven in a holy place; in the court of the
tent of meeting they shall eat it.
Every Korban has wine and a meal
offering. The meal is Tahor and only eaten in a holy Place by a Cohanim.
10 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as
their portion of My offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as the
sin-offering, and as the guilt-offering. 11 Every male among the
children of Aaron may eat of it, as a due for ever throughout your generations,
from the offerings of the LORD made by fire; whatsoever touches them shall be
holy.
The sons of Aaron, the Cohanim, can
eat it but not another person.
12 And the LORD spoke unto
Moses, saying: 13 This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons,
which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed: the tenth
part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering perpetually, half of it in
the morning, and half thereof in the evening.
With the daily (Korban Tamid) there
was wine and a meal offering.
14 On a griddle it shall be
made with oil; when it is soaked, thou shalt bring it in; in broken pieces
shalt thou offer the meal-offering for a sweet savor unto the LORD.
Unlike the grilled Korban, this
Korban is made with the purest Olive Oil on the griddle aka frying pan type.
15 And the anointed priest
that shall be in his stead from among his sons shall offer it, it is a due for
ever; it shall be wholly made to smoke unto the LORD. 16 And every
meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly made to smoke; it shall not be
eaten.
This is the meal portion of the
burnt offering.
17 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 18 Speak
unto Aaron and to his sons, saying: This is the law of the sin-offering: in the
place where the burnt-offering is slaughtered shall the sin-offering be slaughtered
before the LORD; it is most holy. 19 The
priest that offers it for sin shall eat it; in a holy place shall it be eaten,
in the court of the tent of meeting. 20 Whatsoever
shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled of the
blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled
in a holy place. 21 But the earthen vessel wherein it
is sodden shall be broken; and if it be sodden in a brazen vessel, it shall be
scoured, and rinsed in water.
A number of points here first of
all the Cohain has to be in the 4th degree of purity to work with
the Korban Chatas. Secondly, blood is a fluid that can conduct Tuma and the
earthen vessels pick such Tuma and have to be broken while a brass or metal
vessel it is enough to cleanse and boil water to purify it.
22 Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it is most
holy.
This is not like a gift given to a
Cohain from other Korbanos such as the cheek, stomach, etc. Rather the Sin Offering
is for all the Cohanim and not a specific Cohain or family.
23 And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood is brought
into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten;
it shall be burnt with fire. 7:1And this is the law of the guilt-offering:
it is most holy. 2 In the place where they slaughter
the burnt-offering shall they slaughter
the guilt-offering: and the blood thereof shall be dashed against
the altar round about. 3 And he shall offer of it all the fat
thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the inwards, 4 and the
two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the lobe
above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys. 5 And the
priest shall make them smoke upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto
the LORD; it is a guilt-offering.
Certain parts are burnt on the
altar and the dashing is done in a specific order.
6 Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it shall be
eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. 7 As is the sin-offering, so
is the guilt-offering; there is one law for them; the priest that makes atonement
therewith, he shall have it.
Every Cohain can eat on a first
come first serve basis vs. a Peace - Shlomim where the Cohain who slaughters
and sprinkles the blood gets the cheek, stomach
8 And the priest that offers any man's burnt-offering, even
the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath
offered. 9 And every meal-offering that is baked in the oven, and all
that is dressed in the stewing-pan, and on the griddle, shall be the priest's
that offers it. 10 And every meal-offering, mingled with oil, or dry,
shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as well as another.
So the slaughtering Cohain literally
has skin in the game and gets to eat the fine flour treats.
11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings,
which one may offer unto the LORD. 12 If he offer it for a
thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened
cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes
mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked. 13 With cakes of leavened
bread he shall present his offering with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings
for thanksgiving.
The only Korban that has Chametz is
a Korban Todah.
14 And of it he shall present one out of each offering for a
gift unto the LORD; it shall be the priest's that dashes the blood of the
peace-offerings against the altar. 15 And the flesh of the sacrifice
of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his
offering; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
This type of Korban like the Pesach
is only at night until the break of dawn but to prevent Kares we only do this
until Chatzos (midnight).
16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a
freewill-offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice;
and on the morrow that which remains of it may be eaten. 17 But that
which remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt
with fire.
One has more time to eat if he
needs or wants and can bring along a lot of friends or even poor people.
18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his
peace-offerings be at all eaten on the third day, it shall not be accepted,
neither shall it be imputed unto him that offers it; it shall be an abhorred
thing, and the soul that eats of it shall bear his iniquity. 19 And
the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt
with fire. And as for the flesh, every one that is clean may eat thereof.
There is a limit to a time in which
a Korban is eaten and afterwards becomes abhorrent. So the family should give
to the purified people near by or in Yerushalayim to eat.
20 But the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of
peace-offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him,
that soul shall be cut off from his people. 21 And when any one shall
touch any unclean thing, whether it be the uncleanness of man, or an unclean
beast, or any unclean detestable thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice
of peace-offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, that soul shall be cut off
from his people.
The punishment for being impure at
the time of the eating of the Korban was being cut off. Women at the age prior
to menopause had to check themselves for purity before and after eating. Since
we don't have Korbanos today there is no need to get into the Halachos but it
should be learned for the future. As even though the Rambam says there will be
no Korbanos, he is not a Sanhedrin and we could have Korbanos.
22 And the LORD spoke unto
Moses, saying: 23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: Ye shall
eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat. 24 And the fat of that which
dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of beasts, may be used for
any other service; but ye shall in no wise eat of it. 25 For whosoever
eats
the fat of the beast, of which men present an offering made by fire unto the
LORD, even the soul that eats it
shall be cut off from his people. 26 And ye shall eat no manner of
blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. 27 Whosoever
it be that eats
any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people. 28 And the
LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 29 Speak unto the children of Israel,
saying: He that offers
his sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD shall bring his offering unto
the LORD out of his sacrifice of peace-offerings.
This is not ordinary fat but Chelev
that is found on certain organs or Aliya or tail fat. Also blood and Trafe torn
by beasts or Nevaila or dies of itself.
30 His own hands shall bring
the offerings of the LORD made by fire: the fat with the breast shall he bring,
that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before the
LORD. 31 And the priest shall make the fat smoke upon the altar; but
the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. 32 And the
right thigh shall ye give unto the priest for a heave-offering out of your
sacrifices of peace-offerings.
When one item is mentioned in the
singular it is the right ear lobe, right finger, right toe, right thigh. Also
the right side is implied.
33 He among the sons of Aaron,
that offers
the blood of the peace-offerings, and the fat, shall have the right thigh for a
portion. 34 For the breast of waving and the thigh of
heaving have I taken of the children of Israel out of their sacrifices of
peace-offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons as
a due for ever from the children of Israel. 35 This is
the consecrated portion of Aaron, and the consecrated portion of his sons, out
of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, in the day when they were presented
to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office; 36 which
the LORD commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that
they were anointed. It is a due for ever throughout their generations.
As mentioned above Cohanim who perform
the sacrifice receive presents, breast, thigh, etc. Unlike the burnt offering they
become property of the specific Cohain or Cohanim who performed the private
type of ceremony.
37 This is the law of the
burnt-offering, of the meal-offering, and of the sin-offering, and of the
guilt-offering, and of the consecration-offering, and of the sacrifice of
peace-offerings; 38 which the LORD commanded Moses in
mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to present
their offerings unto the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai.
We now finish the laws of the various
sacrifices. Now we start physically learning of the consecration of the Cohanim
and their clothes and Mizbayach.
8:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Take
Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the
bullock of the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened
bread; 3 and assemble thou all the congregation at the door of the
tent of meeting.' 4 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him; and the
congregation was assembled at the door of the tent of meeting. 5 And
Moses said unto the congregation: 'This is the thing which the LORD hath
commanded to be done.'
By the men of the congregation.
6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and
washed them with water. 7 And he put upon him the tunic, and girded
him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him,
and he girded him with the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and bound it
unto him therewith. 8 And he placed the breastplate upon him; and in
the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim. 9 And he set the
mitre upon his head; and upon the mitre, in front, did he set the golden plate,
the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses. 10 And Moses took the
anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and
sanctified them.
I believe based on the Yom Kippur bathing
of the Cohain Gadol that a sheet or curtain was between the Priest and the
people for modesty. They did the Tvilla (immersion) in the Mikveh. They dried,
dressed with Moshe placing them properly on the Cohain for the first time.
Especially the Cohain Gadol aka Aaron = Aharon.
11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar
seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its
base, to sanctify them.
Sprinkling is done with a branch of
Marjoram aka Aysov aka Hyssop dipped into the bowl holding the blood and dashed
on the Mizbayach or Peroches = covering as stated.
12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon
Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. 13 And Moses brought
Aaron's sons, and clothed them with tunics, and girded them with girdles, and
bound head-tires upon them; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Just like a king or priest inherits
the position from David or Aaron respectively this was a one time affair.
14 And the bullock of the sin-offering was
brought; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock
of the sin-offering.
Because it was the first time it had to have
Semicha, the laying of the hands on, by all similar to the Korban Pesach each
year.
15 And when it was slain, Moses took the
blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar roundabout with his finger, and
purified the altar, and poured out the remaining blood at the base of the
altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
Unlike the usual sprinkling this was done with
the finger. (Homework guess which hand right or left?)
16 And he took all the fat that was upon the
inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and
Moses made it smoke upon the altar. 17 But the bullock, and its skin,
and its flesh, and its dung, were burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD
commanded Moses. 18 And the ram of the burnt-offering was presented;
and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the
ram. 19 And when it was slaughtered, Moses dashed the blood against the altar round
about. 20 And when the ram was cut into its pieces, Moses made the
head, and the pieces, and the suet smoke. 21 And when the inwards and
the legs were washed with water, Moses made the whole ram smoke upon the altar;
it was a burnt-offering for a sweet savor; it was an offering made by fire unto
the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Moshe offered the first Korban instructing
the Cohanim.
22 And the other ram was presented, the ram
of consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the
ram. 23 And when it was slain, Moses took of the blood thereof, and
put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand,
and upon the great toe of his right foot. 24 And Aaron's sons were
brought, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon
the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot; and
Moses dashed the blood against the altar round about.
As I mentioned above everything was
the right – thumb, toe, etc.
25 And he took the fat, and the fat tail,
and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the
two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh. 26 And out of the
basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened
cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat,
and upon the right thigh.
With the exception of the Korban
Olah (Burnt) the wafers or Matzos were eating by the Cohanim and this tells us
that they were burned too.
27 And he put the whole upon the hands of
Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and waved them for a wave-offering
before the LORD. 28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and
made them smoke on the altar upon the burnt-offering; they were a
consecration-offering for a sweet savor; it was an offering made by fire unto
the LORD. 29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave-offering
before the LORD; it was Moses' portion of the ram of consecration; as the LORD
commanded Moses. 30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the
blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his
garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons' garments with him, and
sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with
him.
Also the regular Cohanim had to
have their garments sprinkled.
31 And Moses said unto Aaron and to his
sons: 'Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of meeting; and there eat it and
the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I commanded, saying: Aaron
and his sons shall eat it. 32 And that which remains of the flesh and
of the bread shall ye burn with fire. 33 And ye shall not go out from
the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration
be fulfilled; for He shall consecrate you seven days.
Most of the Korbanos the meat is
roasted but during the first week until fully consecrated, the meat was boiled.
34 As hath been done this day, so
the LORD hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you. 35 And at
the door of the tent of meeting shall ye abide day and night seven days, and
keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not; for so I am
commanded. 36 And Aaron and his sons did all the things which the
LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
Precisely as Moshe Commanded.
After Purim comes Pesach
30 days before Pesach the Rabbis
start their Drushos. After a disastrous non-planning for Pesach in 1973 aka
5733 I started really planning ahead. My oldest son, Chaim, learned from me. We
had a conversation and he said that he already finished cleaning three
bedrooms. My daughter started too. Since the passing of my mother-in-law my
wife has started spring cleaning for make-up of years of nursing her mother. I
am embarrassed to say that I am getting long in the tooth and not as sprite and
peppy in my cleaning like others. Still even a tortoise can win a race if he
plans his steps methodically.
What I could do at the age of 20,
40, 60 becomes next to impossible in speed and strength as I approach my
mid-seventies. I no longer crawl on the floor covering every inch of the house
searching for Chametz. I look to see if there are shadows on the floor, don't
bring Chametz into bedrooms during the year unless one is very ill. Low and
behold the search becomes easier and probably less time than at 20. Proper
planning all year around helps.
Even if somebody was in isolation
and ate in one bedroom, the rest of the house is Chametz Free.
Now comes the planning of purchases
for Passover. Some People want to make life easy go to parents or children and
to hotels. That is good for some or for the Seder but the vast majority of
people have Pesach in their homes.
The decision has to be made or
certain customs. Does one use Rav Moshe Feinstein's and Rav Aharon Kolter's
Hetair for American Jewry of all plant oils. Thus Corn Oil and Corn Oil
Margarine, Safflower Oil, Cotton Seed Oil, Peanut Oil, Peanuts and Peanut
Butter can be used. Most Rabbis Today allow even in Israel Canola Oil.
I am personally against the use of
Canola Oil all year around. It is Glatt Kosher for Pesach but there are effects
on the human body of genetically engineered foods. This includes non-genetic
Corn Oil Margarine that I used to use in 1970 and it was Glatt then.
My personal opinion is that an
American can use and eat Corn aka Maize. Corn is the stable grain of the United
States as Rice was to Rav Yohanan Ben Nuri Gemara Brachos 36 or 37 and Pesachim
36 or 37 (I always confuse the Daf so easy enough to check). If one is a Baal
Teshuva and his family for generations did not observe properly Pesach, I would
tend to ease restrictions. One who is a Baal Teshuva must remember or ask what
the extended family on his father's side does like Matzo Balls or non-mixing of
water with Matzos. A Baal Teshuva, in my opinion, should take on an easier
customs. The wisdom of being a Rabbi is not to always place fences around every
Mitzvah but to make life easier for the poor, unlearned and others especially
today according to the older statistics we have 16% inflation in the USA.
According to the manipulated newer statistics it is only 7.9% inflation. WHY BE
DIFFICULT WITH A LITTLE MORE CHUMRA HERE AND THERE YOU COULD MAKE LIFE
COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE.
So if certain foods are considered
Kitniyos for you don't eat them or plan to purchase them. That is why special
Chocolate has to be purchased for Pesach by most Ashkenazim and the Sephardim
and Yemenites can eat them.
This year try to buy the cleaning
materials that you need and no more. On the other hand if pickles and ketchup
are used all year around, if you have enough money, one can buy spare. I would
not waste money on too many special and more expensive items for the holiday.
As one grows older, one gains experience how much one uses so that one should
not go on for example and purchase many chopped walnuts when one or two
packages are sufficient for the whole holiday.
As we say, "The end of the
deed is the initial though".
Stalin's Plan to remove the Jews
a modern Purim Story. https://aish.com/the-death-of-stalin-the-untold-purim-story/
Lower the Divorce Rate – Marry Young without living
together. By Emuna Braverman
https://aish.com/lower-divorce-rate-marry-young-without-living-together/
The familiar adage about how to get
to Carnegie Hall doesn’t apply to every area of life. Practice, in fact, does
not always make perfect. When it comes to marriage we may have to write a
different story.
A recent piece in the Wall Street Journal suggests something that runs
contrary to popular belief. To quote psychologist Galena Rhoades of the
University of Denver, “We generally think that having more experience is
better…. But what we find for relationships is just the opposite. Having more
experience is related to having a less happy marriage later on.” While in most
cases, marriages are more successful if entered into in our late twenties or
early thirties, there is one significant exception. The research shows that
couples who marry in their twenties have a high rate of success if they have
not previously cohabited.
Living together before marriage (the
aforementioned Carnegie Hall strategy) actually seems to diminish the chances
of a successful committed relationship. In fact, women who cohabit before
marriage are 15% more likely to divorce, and if their partner was not their
future spouse, that rate rises dramatically to more than 50%.
The authors of the piece (Brad
Wilcox of the National Marriage Project in Denver and Lyman Stone from the
Institute for Family Studies) speculate as to the reasons (no solid research)
and we can speculate right along with them. One theory is that there is too
much opportunity for comparison. So-and-so did more housework. So-and-so always
brought me flowers. You know how this game goes, and how destructive it is.
The other suggestion is that the
novelty is gone. There really is something to the newness of it all, to the
sharing of even the mundane tasks of building a home together. It’s exciting
the first time, a little less so the second and a dull, tedious chore by the
third.
Building a relationship is a lot of
work. It requires commitment (already lacking to some degree in those who are
cohabiting instead of marrying) and it requires shared efforts to build a home
and relationship, to grow together. Conversations had while washing and drying
dishes may actually be opportunities for real connection. Deciding where to put
the furniture provides a chance to test your ability to work as a team
(actually maybe don’t start with that). Figuring out the likes and dislikes of
your partner, settling on how to spend your leisure time, what to cook, where
to vacation, what newspaper to subscribe to can all be the building blocks of a
marriage. And I’m not even addressing the more profound issues. Long night
conversations by the fire or the beach or wherever those conversations take
place help deepen and cement our relationships. They’re just not as exciting,
and perhaps not as meaningful, if you’ve been down this road multiple times
before.
Another possible factor, not
discussed in the piece, is the difference between a real commitment and a lack
thereof. Real commitments are more serious – and therefore more complicated.
Real commitments make greater demands. Real commitments require more giving,
more sharing, greater vulnerability and greater effort. Real commitments are
just not the same as cohabiting, whether you subscribe to the practice (noun,
not verb!) or not.
It used to be a revolutionary step
for people to cohabit prior to marriage. Now it would be a revolutionary step
to do otherwise. But it’s possible. And now there’s some evidence that suggests
it’s also in your self-interest.
Israeli rescues
grandchildren of woman who saved her family by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
During the Holocaust, Mariya Blyshchik and her family risked
their lives to save Jews in Ukraine. Last week, the granddaughter of Fanya
Bass, one of the Jews they saved, helped rescue Mariya Blyshchik’s
grandchildren, bringing them to safety in Israel. “We Jews, we say that if you
do something good, like their grandparents did, it will come back to
you,” explained Sharon Bass, whose grandmother Fanya was sheltered by Mariya Blyshchik’s
family. “I feel like it is my obligation to be there for them and close the
debt we owed them.”
Sharon, a 46-year-old Israeli living near Tel Aviv, grew up
hearing stories about her grandmother Fanya’s wartime experiences and the way
Mariya Blyschchik’s family saved her life. She’s always kept in touch with the
Blyschik family. After Russia invaded Ukraine, bombing cities and sending over
two and a half million refugees fleeing, Sharon knew she had to act.
“We talked, they were very stressed and scared and they wanted
to come here to be safe,” Sharon told Israeli television last week. “There were
sirens all the time. The electricity was on and off. They heard the bombing in
the distance…. I can relate to this situation because of what has happened here
in Israel. But it is still very different. So, we said we will do everything to
help you.”
Sharon got in touch with Israel’s Interior Ministry to ask for
emergency visas for Alona Chugai, 47, and Lasia Orshoko, 36, Mariya Blyshchik’s
granddaughters. On Sunday, March 6, Alona and Lasia flew to Israel. Sharon and
her relatives greeted them at the airport.
“We were very happy and excited when we finally saw them at the
airport,” Sharon described. “We cried, we laughed, but also the tension was
there. Our thoughts were with the family that stayed behind. We had mixed
emotions… The situation in Ukraine is so difficult right now. This family that
we have been in contact with for all these years were so sad and felt that the
best thing is to come here to be safe.”
When World War II broke out, the small western Ukrainian town of
Rafalowka was home to about 600 Jews, a third of the town’s population. With
the outbreak of war, Soviet forces occupied Rafalowka and for a time, the Jews
of the town were relatively safe. Jews fled to Rafalowka from Nazi-occupied
areas in nearby Poland, swelling the Jewish population.
In July 1941, Nazi forces took control of Rafalowka. They set up
a Jewish ghetto in the town several months later, forcing Jews from Rafalowka and from neighboring towns to live in the ghetto’s
cramped, unsanitary conditions. About 2,500 Jews were interred in the Rafalowka
ghetto.
Nazis emptied out the ghetto on August 29, 1942. The Jews were
forced to march away from the town and were shot to death, their bodies thrown
into mass graves. Dozens of Jews managed to escape into the surrounding woods.
Some joined Soviet partisan fighting groups. Only about 30 Jews from Rafalowka
survived.
Their fates mirrored that of Jews across the entire country of
Ukraine. In 1939, when World War II broke out, Ukraine had the largest
population of Jews anywhere in the world. One and a half million Jews were
murdered in Ukraine during the Holocaust. Most were killed by special Nazi
units called Einsatzgruppen, which recruited local collaborators to
help murder civilians who were seen to be enemies of the Nazi regime.
One of the survivors of the liquidation of the Rafalowka Ghetto
was a brilliant 20-year-old Jewish women named Fanya Rozenfeld. She was the
only member of her entire family to survive. Fanya wandered in the thickly
wooded countryside, going from village to village trying to evade detection and
forage for food, until she was taken in by Filip and Teklya Konyukh, a deeply
religious couple living in the Ukrainian village of Mulczyce, who offered her a
place to stay for one night.
The next morning, Fanya told her hosts that she’d had a vivid
dream the night before of reading from the Book of Isaiah in front of a
congregation. The Konyukhs, like most of the residents in their village, were
Baptists, and were moved by Fanya’s dream.
They took Fanya to their weekly Baptist meeting, where she met
Konon Kaluta, a local Baptist preacher. The entire community was impressed with
Fanya’s extensive knowledge of the Bible and affectionately dubbed her “Saint
Feodosiya.” She lived with the Konyukhs for a time, and was soon joined by two
other Jews, Shlomo Appleboim and his son Sender, who’d escaped from the Jewish
ghetto in the town of Wlodzimierzec. Filip Konyukh told the three Jews he
sheltered, “God sent you to me and I consider it an honor to save Jews.”
Within a few months, it became too dangers to stay with the
Konyukhs. The Appleboims moved in with another non-Jewish family, and Fanya
moved in with the preacher Konon Kaluta, his wife Anna, their four children,
and two of Konon’s daughters from a previous marriage, Anna and Mariya. Kalutas
too saw saving Jews as a moral duty and taught that message to his Baptist
flock.
Soon, the Kalutas took in two more Jewish girls. Rivka Bass was
13; her father Yaakov and brother David hid in the thick forest nearby. They
also took in 11-year-old Masha Dreizen-Wolfstal, who was also from Rafalowka.
Fanya found her lying on the ground in the forest, exhausted and without food
or protection
Masha later wrote an entry titled “Fanya, My Angel” in a
memorial book for Rafalowka describing the moment Fanya found her in the
forest. “Someone resembling an angel dressed in beautiful warm clothes like a
non-Jew bowed down and spoke with a soft and pleasant voice…. I believed that
Fanya was perhaps an angel. She was so beautiful and good.” Fanya picked up the
exhausted girls and carried her to the Kaluta’s home.
Fanya moved again in 1943, when gangs of antisemitic Ukrainian
partisans entered the area. She was sheltered in the nearby village of Sudcze
by another Baptist preacher, Andrey Kuyava, along with his wife Yarina and son
Nikolay. She was liberated by the Soviet army in early 1944 and no longer had
to live in hiding.
After the Holocaust, Fanya married Yaakov Bass, whose daughter
Rivka hid with her in the Kulatas’ home. She became stepmother to Rivka and
David, and the entire family moved to Israel. There, they got involved with
many charities, trying to extend the same love and helping hand to other people
in need that they had experienced in Ukraine during the Holocaust.
Through the years they kept in touch with the Kulata family in
Ukraine. Kolon Kulata’s daughter Mariya married and became Mariya Blyshchik.
Mariya’s granddaughters Alona and Lasia remained in touch with Fanya’s
grandchildren.
Alona and Lasia grew up intensely aware of their family’s
wartime heroism. In 1995, their grandmother Mariya Blyshchik, her sister Anna
Chugay, and her parents Konon and Anna Kaluta, were all named Righteous Among
the Nations by Yad Vashem. (Filip and Teklya Konyukh, their sons Aleksander and
Andrey Konyukh, and Andrey and Yarina Kuyava and their son Nikolay Kuyava, were
also named Righteous Among the Nations. The title denotes a non-Jewish hero who
risked his or her life to save Jews during the Holocaust.)
Alona and Lasia even lived in Israel for five years as part of a
program that brings the descendants of those who saved Jews to live and work in
the Jewish state.
As Russian soldiers encircled cities and towns in Ukraine,
Sharon Bass – Fanya Bass’s granddaughter – knew she had to help. Alona and
Lasia were terrified of remaining in Ukraine. Their home town of Rovno, in
Ukraine’s west, has come under shelling and there are fears that the town could
be destroyed.
Sharon started a campaign in Israel to get the women emergency
entry permits. “Eventually, we got a permit for them to come,” Sharon explained
to Israel’s Channel 13. “Now we are trying to get them permission to stay in
Israel because I don’t know if they will have anything to go back to.”
Lasia Orshoko moved in with Sharon and her family near Tel Aviv;
Alona Chugai is living with Sharon’s parents in the nearby town of Petah Tikva.
“They let her into the house and treated her (Fanya) like a
daughter while the whole family was in danger of death,” Sharon explained. “If
the Nazis had found out that they had been giving refuge they would have killed
the whole family…”
“What I am doing now is like giving back, just a little bit, of
what my grandparents gave to other and the righteous family in Ukraine gave to them. I
feel that because of them I am here.”
The Moral: What goes around comes around. Mida Kneged Mida.
Harrowing Escape from
the Ukraine by Sara Yocheved Rigler
https://aish.com/harrowing-escape-from-ukraine/
Rabbi Yonatan Benyamin Markovitch’s escape from Kyiv is a
combination Hollywood adventure movie and Hasidic tale. A high-speed drive in
the dead of night through roadless fields, past ax and knife wielding Ukrainian
volunteer soldiers, attended by miracles, and led by an “angel” – this is the
true story that unfolded this past week.
Yonatan was born in Uzhorod, a town in the western Ukraine, in
1967. His grandfather, the rabbi of a synagogue there, lost his wife and three
daughters in the Holocaust. Returning from Auschwitz, he rebuilt his life,
remarried, and had a daughter, Yonatan’s mother.
At the age of five, Yonatan and his family moved to Israel.
Yonatan studied in Hasidic yeshivahs, got rabbinic ordination, and joined the
Israeli Air Force. At the age of 22, he married 20-year-old Elka Inna, who had
been born in Leningrad and had moved to Israel as a young child. The
Lubavitcher Rebbe encouraged Yonatan to stay in the Air Force. He excelled and
became a career officer.
Rabbi Yonatan and Inna
Markovitch
In 1998, after 12 years in the Air Force, Yonatan joined a group
that was visiting the graves of holy rabbis in the Ukraine. He decided to
detour to visit his grandfather’s synagogue in Uzhorod. There he had an
epiphany about his life’s mission. He returned to Israel and told his wife that
he wanted to go to work at reviving Jewish life in the Ukraine.
Pregnant with their fourth child, Inna replied, “Fine. Every
summer you can volunteer there for two weeks.”
“No,” Yonatan insisted, “I want to move there.” Then he played
his ace card. Inna was a teacher of Jewish studies and English. For years she
had dreamed of starting her own school where she could implement her ideals of
education through love rather than discipline. “In Ukraine,” Yonatan promised,
“you can start your own school.”
Yonatan was privy to too many military secrets to emigrate
immediately. He retired from the Air Force, and after a mandatory two-year
period, in 2000, he and Inna and their five children moved to Kyiv. (Inna would
give birth to two more children in Kyiv.) Yonatan had grown up speaking
Yiddish, and Inna, Hebrew. Their first job was to learn Russian and Ukrainian.
In Kyiv Yonatan and Inna “planted a tree.” Trees grow slowly,
and take years to produce fruit. Rabbi Yonatan’s vision was to unite the Jews
of Kyiv into a community. The logo he designed for the Jewish Community Center
was a menorah resembling a tree, with roots – their Jewish roots.
They started with a kindergarten. It had six pupils, four of
them the Markovitches’ own children. Gradually, it became an elementary school
and a middle school. By 2022, the school had 115 children.
The society they faced in Ukraine was radically different than
the family-oriented society they had known in Israel. “Before we showed them
what a Jewish family was,” Inna reminisces, “we had to show them what a family
was.” The local family structure was grandmother, mother, and child living in
one apartment. One boy who came to the Markovitches for a Shabbat dinner wrote
in his diary that it was the first time he had ever seen a father and mother
and children living together.
The Ukraine, a country of 40 million people, had not a single
school for autistic children. In 2012, Inna and Inna Sergiyenko opened a
kindergarten with five children suffering from autism. They called it, “Child
with a Future.” Ten years later, the school had 32 children and a long waiting
list.
Meanwhile, Rabbi Yonatan had become the Chief Rabbi of Kyiv. He
built a synagogue and community center. Together with his oldest son, he ran
programs for young people, from computer lessons to Jewish singles events. They
hosted Shabbos meals where people were free to skip the synagogue services and
just enjoy the comradery and the Shabbos fare. In the last few months, they
held four chuppahs – Jewish couples who met and married under their auspices.
In Ukraine, the average pension for an elderly person is less
than $100 per month. The Markovitches fed hot meals to 40 senior citizens daily
at the community center, and delivered food parcels to 800 seniors, including
Holocaust survivors, monthly.
By the time the Russians invaded, the Kyiv Chabad Jewish
Community Center was servicing some 2500 Jews. The tree was producing
prodigious fruits.
As the Russian army massed 100,000 troops on the borders of
Ukraine, the American and Israeli embassies warned the Markovitches that an
invasion was imminent. Like most Ukrainians, the Markovitches didn’t believe
it. “I must admit,” confesses Inna, “that a Russian invasion looked to me like
a very low probability.”
As fear and uncertainty started to grip the population, Rabbi
Markovitch, by now a well-known public personality, appeared on Ukrainian
television and radio projecting an air of positivity. All over Kyiv he mounted
lit-up signs of the Lubavitcher Rebbe with the quote in Ukrainian, “Think good
and it will be good.”
In the Ukraine there are no bomb shelters. The government
announced that in the event of an attack, people were to seek shelter in the
underground metro. But the nearest metro station to the Jewish Community Center
was 20 minutes away. The Markovitches prepared for the worse by stocking six tons
of food, 50 mattresses, water, and fuel in the basement of the community
center.
In the early hours of Thursday, February 24, the Markovitches
were awakened by the sounds of bombs exploding. Chaos ensued. Wealthy members
of the community, who had sponsored the projects of the JCC, fled. The Israeli
embassy barraged the Markovitches with messages, “Leave urgently.” Indeed,
those with the physical and financial ability to do so, left. But the
Markovitches faced a dilemma. How could they desert their community? “We were
left with scared people,” Inna explains, “many of them in dire need.”
They decided to move to the JCC and protect the community in the
basement there. Sixty frightened Jews joined them, plus some non-Jewish
neighbors. “There’s no bomb shelter here,” Rabbi Moskovitch told the press,
“but at least we can be together.” His wife added: “We spent a lot of effort to
quell the panic.”
Friday, just before Shabbat, a television crew from ABC news
filmed Jews in the JCC synagogue preparing to celebrate Shabbat. Was the
congregants’ calm demeanor a mask?
The Markovitches
realized that the only way to protect their community was to leave, but they
were determined to take as many Jews as they could.
At 3 AM Friday night, Kyiv was targeted with massive bombing. No
one in the JCC could sleep. Toward morning, a person from the Ukrainian Special
Services appeared. He disclosed to the Markovitches that Putin, frustrated with
the slow progress of the invasion, was bringing in fierce warriors from
Chechnya. These, he warned, were Muslim extremists who hated Jews and would
likely target the famous Rabbi Markovitch. “You want to protect your people,”
he told them ominously. “But by staying here, you are drawing a target on their
backs.”
The Markovitches reluctantly realized that the only way to
protect their community was to leave, but they were determined to take as many
Jews as they could with them. By this time the government had prohibited all
Ukrainian men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country. As
Israeli citizens, Rabbi Markovitch and his sons could evacuate, but most of the
men in the Jewish community were trapped, and their mothers, wives, or sisters
refused to abandon them. Others were afraid to leave everything behind and face
the dangers of the road, as Russian bombs, missiles, and rockets kept falling.
In the end, only 13 people joined Rabbi Yonatan and Inna. Their
22-year-old son plus a young couple with their two daughters would ride in the
Markovitch 7-seater. The Markvitch’s oldest son, his French wife, and three
daughters would ride in another car, donated by a man in the community. The
third car would carry a just-married couple with Israeli citizenship, the
husband’s terrified mother, whose apartment building had been bombed while she was
out food shopping, and a 21-year-old student.
The convoy would be led by the man from the Special Services. As
soon as Shabbat was over, he told them they had ten minutes before leaving.
They would be driving at top-speed, and could not be weighed down by suitcases.
Inna ran home and grabbed their documents. She left all their possessions
behind – including her Shabbat candlesticks.
It was already dark, and a curfew was in effect. How could they
travel? The man from the Special Services, whom they soon started calling, “the
angel,” assured them that he would get them through. As to which border they
would head towards, text messages from the nearest border, with Poland, told of
a 70-hour wait. “The angel told us he would monitor the situation as we travelled,”
says Inna, “so we followed his car, not knowing where we were going.”
The highway out of Kyiv was jammed with a solid line of barely
moving cars. “The angel” sailed his convoy down the oncoming traffic lane,
apparently immune to censure.
At every stop, our
hearts stopped. The soldiers and volunteers were nervous, and we were afraid
that someone accidently would shoot.
Every few kilometers, they were stopped at checkpoints manned by
both Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers wielding axes, knives, and sticks. “The
angel” had instructed them to open their car windows (in the freezing cold) so
they could be clearly seen as he produced documentation that eventually got
them waved through. “At every stop, our hearts stopped,” Inna remembers. “The
soldiers and volunteers were nervous, and we were afraid that someone
accidently would shoot.” Indeed, one Israeli man trying to reach the border was
accidently killed in just such an incident.
As soon as they left the vicinity of Kyiv, “the angel” bypassed
the congested highways of fleeing refugees. He sped up to 160 km per hour (100
mph) and started driving on dirt roads and through bumpy fields where no road
existed. Inna was terrified that their tires would be punctured in the rough
terrain, and that their escape would end, helpless, in the dark remote
countryside. But somehow, for 14 hours, their convoy barreled through.
“Every ten minutes with me,” he later told them, “you saved
three hours.”
Only twice did “the angel” allow them ten-minute bathroom stops.
They did have to stop to refuel. When they did, they encountered a problem. The
Markovitch car took only diesel, and with the start of the war, diesel was
prohibited to be sold to non-military vehicles. Again, “the angel” produced a
document and the gas station attendant duly filled the Markovitch car with
diesel and even sold them some to take with them.
Their tires held out until they reached the Rumanian border;
then, at the point of safety, they got two flat tires. They waited at the
crowded border for ten hours. When it was their turn to pass, they were stopped
due to document problems with two of the vehicles. The insurance on the
Markovitch car had expired, and the car their son was driving was registered to
a different owner. They explained that the owner had given them his car, and on
the phone he testified to that effect.
The Ukrainian border guard, however, was unmoved. He insisted
that those two cars could not leave Ukraine. He demanded that they abandon the
cars at the border and march 13 kilometers in the rain (with young children) to
the nearest Rumanian bus stop. Rabbi Markowitz prevailed on him, “Please, we’re
exhausted, hungry, and dirty.”
“You Jews are always dirty,” the border guard retorted.
“Shame on you!” Rabbi Markovitch, the former IDF officer,
shouted. “How dare you show such antisemitism! I’m the Chief Rabbi of Kyiv.”
Hearing the tumult, a higher-ranking border guard came running
to the scene. Perhaps he recognized the rabbi from numerous TV broadcasts. Full
of apologies, he told Rabbi Markovitch, “We’re very sorry. Please just go. Go
in peace. Goodbye.” And he gestured all four vehicles through the border.
In 22 years in
Ukraine, we encountered antisemitism not more than two or three times. But at
that crucial moment we faced antisemitism, and miraculously it saved us!
Inna would later relate, “In 22 years in Ukraine, we encountered
antisemitism not more than two or three times. But at that crucial moment, we
faced antisemitism, and miraculously it saved us!”
Once over the border, they were able to repair their two flat
tires. “The angel” checked them into a hotel in the first Rumanian town, and
the next morning took his leave. Was he Elijah the Prophet, known in Jewish
lore to appear periodically for miraculous salvation? “I don’t know,” says Inna,
smiling.
The Markovitches were safe, but their community was still in
lethal danger as the Russian invasion intensified. The rabbi spent the next
three days tirelessly organizing busses to evacuate more Jews from Kyiv. As of
this writing, five buses, each carrying 50 people, have reached the border
safely.
On Thursday, March 3, the Markovitch family and their companions
crossed into Hungary and boarded an El Al plane to Israel. When they landed on
Thursday night, they were greeted by 200 people waving Israeli flags, as well
as numerous TV crews thrusting microphones toward their mouths.
Asked how she felt reaching Israel, Inna said, “I’m happy I’m a
Jew. I want to praise and thank all the thousands of people who called us in
Kyiv to ask how they can help. This is the greatness of the Jewish heart. This
is the real Jewish essence.”
Rabbi Markovitch is on
his way back to the Ukrainian border to conduct further rescue efforts.
Since reaching Israel, Rabbi and Rebbetzin Markovitch have not
stopped their unflagging efforts for the Jews of Kyiv. “We left in body, but
we’re still there,” Inna remarked. As you read this, Rabbi Markovitch is on his
way back to the Ukrainian border to conduct further rescue efforts.
The tree that the Markovitches planted 22 years ago has been
chopped down by the invading Russian army, and its fruits scattered. The intact
community has exploded like a Russian bomb. But there are still individual Jews
whose lives must be saved. As Rabbi Markovitch declared upon landing in Israel:
“The Lubavitcher Rebbe said, ‘Always be happy, but never be satisfied.’”
To help Rabbi and Rebbetzin Markovitch rescue the
Jews of Kyiv, please donate to: https://www.charidy.com/helpjewsofkyiv.
Milestone: Inge Deutschkron,
a Holocaust survivor who hid in Berlin during the Nazi era and went on to
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Milestone: William Hurt, 71, academy award
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Milestone: Justice Eliezer Goldberg, 91,
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Inyanay Diyoma
Kyiv will soon be attacked. https://www.debka.com/russian-forces-splinter-long-column-revise-tactics-for-seizing-kyiv/
Naftali Bennett on Tuesday spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky, telling him in a phone call that he suggests surrender. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323789
31 big pots of a
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haggard Ukrainians.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323786
Amnesty Intl. Israel has no right to
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US State Dept. to fund anti-Israel NGO's
$1million. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323783
IDF COS meets Qatari Chief. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323781
Family wins case against Ottawa School Board on
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Chief Rabbi Lau accompanies 150 refugees back
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Teacher Shortage pay is low nobody wants to
work free. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323746
Iran planning revenge for northern border
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Will Biden appear weak? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323806
Bennett did not offer surrender as an option. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bksujbj115
Russia is behaving like Hamas. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323815
Ed-Op Biden and Zelensky delusional. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323797
K-rations in Russian Tanks expired years ago
and soldiers abandoning them. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323742
Sierra Club to skip bird migrations in Israel
due to lies. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323803
Once Ukrainians come on temporary visas they do
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Ukrainian Ambassador sue Interior Minister over
refugees. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323798
Likud: This government will fall. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323811
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Another 500 Euros in military for Ukraine. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/eu-proposes-extra-500-million-euros-in-military-aid-for-ukraine/
Turkey gives ancient Hebrew Archeological Fact
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First Israeli Paralympian on slopes. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-first-ever-winter-paralympian-hits-the-slopes-at-beijing-games/
Chabad Couple with 11 in tow make it to safety.
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Ludmila, 85, a Jewish Holocaust survivor who is
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Lapid – Abdullah discuss west bank tensions. https://www.timesofisrael.com/lapid-meets-abdullah-in-effort-to-lower-tensions-with-palestinians-as-holidays-near/
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Russia using old Mazlat Technology against
Ukraine. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ukraine-photos-claim-to-show-downed-russian-drone-with-israeli-origin/ This technology was used
49 years ago 1973 in the Yom Kippur and then Shalom HaGalil 1982 Wars.
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Britain, France and Germany hint Russia using
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China 3,400 Covid Cases new lockdowns.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323816
NY Man stabs 2 female employees at art museum. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323807
Russia open to talks in Yerushalayim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323808
Meta employees lose some benefits. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323795
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600 "Olim" ('coming up' or
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Russia installs new mayor. https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-installs-new-mayor-in-ukrainian-city-after-allegedly-kidnapping-predecessor/
Russia
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Tulsi Gabbard a Democrat states about biolabs
funded by the US including Gain of Function. https://www.tiktok.com/@makessensetome2/video/7074687230975036718
The coldest Israeli Winter in
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Top Rabbis join together in an appeal for the
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Putin purges generals and puts two intelligence
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Iranian Cyberattack downs some government
websites. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323945
New Covid strain found in Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323940
US Jewish Chamber of Commerce creates bus fleet
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Chabad Yeshiva in Kharkov hit by Russian
Missile. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324002
Fox News cameraman Zakrzewski
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2100 civilians killed in Mariupol as convoys
leave. https://www.timesofisrael.com/officials-more-than-2100-killed-in-mariupol-first-evacuation-convoys-leave-city/
Schem 2 terrorists killed 3 arrested. https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-palestinians-killed-in-overnight-west-bank-clashes-3-terror-suspects-arrested/
Justice Ministry to investigate killing of gun
toting Bedouin. https://www.timesofisrael.com/justice-ministry-to-investigate-killing-of-bedouin-man-by-undercover-cops-in-rahat/
Russian woman interrupts live TV show. https://www.timesofisrael.com/russian-activist-stages-protest-against-ukraine-invasion-on-live-tv/
Ukraine hits airbase that Russia took over. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/newly-released-images-show-apparent-ukrainian-strike-on-russia-held-airport/
Russian demands are beginning to get realistic.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/zelensky-says-russian-demands-becoming-more-realistic-as-fighting-nears-kyiv/
CENTCOM Iran has 3000 missiles that can hit
Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324030
29year old Jew dies defending Ukraine. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324034
Lieberman
apologizes over Ukrainian Women Remark. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324026
Attorney General tells Police Min. that he
cannot ban MK's from Har HaBeis during Ramadan. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324022
Clashes at Joseph's Tomb. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324021
Mediation effort helps Bennett in the polls. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324019
Ed-Op Barnea - Russia winning the war may be bad
for Putin. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1galt3bc
With both Russian and Ukrainian immigrants extubate
Israeli Housing crises. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjm6vfpw9#autoplay
Sierra Club reinstates Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/sierra-club-reinstates-israel-trips-after-outcry-over-decision-to-nix-visits/
YU basketball player may be the first Orthodox
Jew in the NBA. https://www.timesofisrael.com/entering-draft-yeshiva-u-basketballer-looks-to-become-first-orthodox-jew-in-nba/
100 Suicide Drones to the Ukraine. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324119
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu calls on Israel to bomb
Iranian Reactor. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324082
Israeli Hospital deals with 3 Ukrainian Women
shot. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324056
Paramedic and mother of 12 dies in gun fight in
the Ukraine. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324130
One in nine test positive for Corona. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324066
Israeli flights to Sinai Egypt continue. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-egypt-expand-direct-flights-with-new-tel-aviv-sharm-el-sheikh-route/
Netanyahu the Iran Deal not only endangers but
also the US. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/323876
Brigade commander begs for release of civilian
security official. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324103
12 disabled IDF vets visit NYC. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324040
Dnipro Ukraine Community celebrates Purim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324091
After escaping Odesa last week Rabbi Wolf
returns. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324006
Russian Cruise missiles hit Lviv and Kyiv. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324202
Will this war turn into Gog V' Magog? https://www.debka.com/ukraine-war-is-veering-fast-towards-a-big-power-conflict/
2 Terrorist arrested after firing on the IDF. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324163
Polio found in anti-vax Charedi Areas. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324149
First time in 5 years west bank open on Purim. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-first-time-in-5-years-idf-doesnt-close-off-west-bank-for-purim/
Famous Actress killed in bombing. https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/ukrainian-actress-oksana-shvets-killed-russian-shelling-kyiv
Selling out to Iran: https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/03/11/the-west-is-selling-out-to-iran-to-lower-gas-prices/
US man killed while waiting on bread line. https://www.aol.com/news/american-man-killed-ukraine-while-235642817.html
Asymmetric warfare. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/03/11/america-hasnt-learned-the-grim-truth-of-asymmetric-warfare/
Christians helping Jews escape Ukraine. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324205
Pregnant mother of 3 dies. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324155
Biolabs in the Ukraine. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324203
AIPAC backs 27 Dems who support the Iran Deal. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324190
Looking for survivors of Mariupol Theater attack.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/search-for-survivors-continues-in-mariupol-theater-dozens-killed-in-russian-strikes/
13 Holocaust Survivors injured in the Ukraine
Crises airlifted to Israel. https://www.timesofisrael.com/13-holocaust-survivors-wounded-ukrainians-rescued-and-airlifted-to-israel/
Cops arrest two Bedouins smuggling guns and
drugs near the Dead Sea. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-police-seize-dozens-of-guns-from-drug-smugglers-near-dead-sea/
Three terrorists with, guns, knives and
flameable liquid come from Gaza. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-troops-nab-3-gaza-infiltrators-armed-with-knives-flammable-liquid/
Ukraine mass graves, hunger and no sacred
places. https://www.timesofisrael.com/mass-graves-hunger-nowhere-safe-besieged-mariupol-descends-into-despair-and-agony/
UN to probe civilian deaths. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-17-2022/
For a few days hope of compromise.
Smallest Bible to go into space. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/r1icmtym5
Mossad's wife's phone hacked by Iranians. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324099
Hostage exchange mayor or Mariupol freed in
exchange for soldiers. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324110
Bennett the primary negotiator. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324104
Media watch – PA money goes to terrorists. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/324101
For those Yerushalaymim still celebrating
enjoy. Others have a beautiful, peaceful, healthy and pleasant Shabbos,
Rachamim Pauli
