Rabbi Shalom ben Tafucha Malka soul
came to rest see Inyanay Diyoma
As for me, B”H I am better such that
I don’t need a Mishabayach-Tehillim but still weak.
Parsha Re’eh
At this point, the first
‘Mussar’ speech has ended. The review of history and reproof that Moshe gave is
just what the people needed to set them on a straight path to Eretz Yisrael.
Our Parsha starts the second and long speech full of Mitzvos and guidance unto
inheriting the land with Har Eval for the Curses and Har Gerizim or Har Bracha
for the blessings.
11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a
curse: 27 the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of
the LORD your God, which I command you this day; 28 and the curse, if
ye shall not hearken unto the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside
out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye
have not known.
Normal logic will tell
one to take the blessing and avoid the curse. But the nature of the Yetzer
works via our desires. Hunger for food I desire to eat the forbidden fruit in
Gan Eden. I desire to be like G-D to know good and evil. I desire this female
or that female or this hunk of a man or that hunk of man.
29 And it shall come to pass,
when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou go to possess
it, that thou shalt set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon
mount Eval.
Where and when the
blessings and curses will occur.
30 Are they not beyond the
Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the
Canaanites that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the terebinths
of Moreh? 31 For ye are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess
the land which the LORD your God gives you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell
therein. 32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and the
ordinances which I set before you this day.
At this point, Yehoshua
is in Moav opposite Yarden Yericho. Going up the hill south west and then
making a slight course correction around the modern Maalei Adumim one ends up
in Yerushalayim. However, this mountain pass road up the hill is not the only
way westward. There is one by the modern Alon Moreh opposite Schem.
12:1 These are the statutes and the
ordinances, which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD, the God of
thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the
earth. 2 Ye shall surely destroy all the places, wherein the nations
that ye are to dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon
the hills, and under every leafy tree. 3 And ye shall break down
their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with
fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall
destroy their name out of that place. 4 Ye shall not do so unto the
LORD your God.
This is meeting the
command to destroy the places of Avoda Zara.
5 But unto the place which the
LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put His name there, even
unto His habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come; 6 and
thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, and your
tithes, and the offering of your hand, and your vows, and your
freewill-offerings, and the firstlings of your herd and of your
flock; 7 and there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye
shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households,
wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
The Mishkan will be
stationed there and then eventually the Nation shall settle down and highway
system will lead to a Mikdash.
8 Ye shall not do after all that
we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own
eyes; 9 for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the
inheritance, which the LORD your God gives thee. 10 But when ye go
over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God causes you to
inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye
dwell in safety; 11 then it shall come to pass that the place which
the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there, thither shall
ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices,
your tithes, and the offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye
vow unto the LORD. 12 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God,
ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your
maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath
no portion nor inheritance with you.
One must tithe for the
Cohain and Levy with Teruma and Maaser.
13 Take heed to thyself that thou
offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou see; 14 but in
the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt
offer thy burnt-offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command
thee. 15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all
thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of the
LORD thy God which He hath given thee; the unclean and the clean may eat
thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.
16 Only ye shall not eat the
blood; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.
Not only here but blood
found in eggs too. Fish Blood is considered more like juice and fish do not
require slaughter and neither do locusts.
17 Thou mayest not eat within thy
gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thine oil, or the firstlings
of thy herd or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vow, nor thy
freewill-offerings, nor the offering of thy hand; 18 but thou shalt
eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose,
thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant,
and the Levite that is within thy gates; and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD
thy God in all that thou put thy hand unto. 19 Take heed to thyself
that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou live upon thy land.
A repeat of the
implication above as this one is a specific commandment. Before it was a tithe
from the heart and here it is a required quantity.
20 When the LORD thy God shall
enlarge thy border, as He hath promised thee, and thou shalt say: 'I will eat
flesh', because thy soul desires to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all
the desire of thy soul. 21 If the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose to put His name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt slaughter of thy herd and of thy flock, which
the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat within
thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul.
In the wilderness, one
at by the area in front of the door of the Mishkan. Now one can eat in his
home. For it is impossible for everybody to travel to the Mishkan every Erev
Shabbos. One wants to have a local wedding, Shabbos meal etc. It becomes
impossible to get always to Shilo or Yerushalayim. Therefore only three times a
year are males required to be in Yerushalayim.
22 Howbeit as the gazelle and as
the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof; the unclean and the clean may eat
thereof alike.
But as the deer [and the gazelle] are eaten, [so you may eat
them]: You are not admonished to
eat them in a state of ritual purity; if, however, [you will reason:] Just as
the fat of the deer and the gazelle is permitted [as food], so too should the
fat of non-consecrated animals be permitted. Therefore [to counter this]
Scripture says, “but” (אַךְ).
Rashi clears up
something in the Pshat. For a ritual clean and unclean animal may be kosher.
However, a cow and a donkey are spiritually clean and unclean. Therefore, Rashi
comes and tells us that animals are kosher but spiritually unclean by whatever
process.
23 Only be steadfast in not
eating the blood; for the blood is the life; and thou shalt not eat the life
with the flesh. 24 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon
the earth as water. 25 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with
thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right
in the eyes of the LORD. 26 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and
thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall
choose;
Blood is forbidden in any
case and event.
27 and thou shalt offer thy
burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the LORD thy God;
and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out against the altar of the
LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
One does not eat the
blood but dashes it or pours by the altar (Mizbayach).
28 Observe and hear all these
words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee forever, when thou do that which is good and right in the
eyes of the LORD thy God.
What is right in the
eyes of the L-RD your G-D? The following of the statutes, ordinances and laws
commanded in the Torah.
29 When the LORD thy God shall
cut off the nations from before thee, whither thou go in to dispossess them, and
thou dispossesses them, and dwellest in their land; 30 take heed to
thyself that thou be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are destroyed
from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying: 'How used
these nations to serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.'
Bnei Yisrael do not
worship sticks or stones. (Aka the cross or Kaaba in Mecca)
31 Thou shalt not do so unto the
LORD thy God; for every abomination to the LORD, which He hates, have they done
unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the
fire to their gods.
The Pshat is that of the
Canaan gods.
13:1 All
this word which I command you, that shall ye observe to do; thou shalt not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.
We already had the law
of not adding to the Torah or Subtracting from it. However, I did mention about
putting a fence around the Torah or in the case of Yebum (levirate) we do not
have the original family land and the wife of the dead brother might not be
marrying for the right reasons; however, if he made Yebum we do not say
‘leave’.
2 If there arise in the midst of
thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams--and he give thee a sign or a
wonder, 3 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke
unto thee--saying: 'Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and
let us serve them'; 4 thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that
prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God put you to
proof, to know whether ye do love the LORD your God with all your heart and
with all your soul. 5 After the LORD your God shall ye walk, and Him
shall ye fear, and His commandments shall ye keep, and unto His voice shall ye
hearken, and Him shall ye serve, and unto Him shall ye cleave. 6 And
that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath
spoken perversion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of
Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of
the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put
away the evil from the midst of thee.
We remove these false
prophets unless one is obviously crazy. Once upon a time when I was a student
there was a misfortunate person claiming he was G-D talking to the students at
Y.U. in Washington Heights. He told them his proofs and they made fun or gave
the man some attention. But a false prophet here saying things or to follow
some strange worship to Judaism and appears sane, he should be put to death.
7 If thy brother, the son of thy
mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend,
that is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying: 'Let us go and serve
other gods,' which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; 8 of
the gods of the peoples that are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off
from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the
earth; 9 thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him;
neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou
conceal him; 10 but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be
first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the
people. 11 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because
he hath sought to draw thee away from the LORD thy God, who brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
A close family member,
deserves to be like a stranger doing these things.
12 And all Israel shall hear, and
fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is in the midst of thee.
Wickedness inside does
not only have a negative effect on the wicked one but all of Am Yisrael.
Wickedness is like an infection or cancer that can spread throughout the entire
nation. But pick your battles. The Rabbis fighting TV, Smart Phones and other
advances in technology are fighting a losing battle. Instead be smart like the
Lubavitch Movement and use technology in a Torah Way. Otherwise one wastes his
energy fighting windmills.
13 If thou shalt hear tell
concerning one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God gives thee to dwell there,
saying: 14 'Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of thee,
and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying: Let us go and serve
other gods, which ye have not known'; 15 then shalt thou inquire, and
make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing
certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of
thee; 16 thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the
edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the
cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Tractate Sanhedrin qualifies this. It
cannot be a border city like those on the northern or southern border of modern
Israel. For if we destroy Kibbutz X or Y we may find that Mohammed and Fawzi
sneak in and attack a different city. Generally speaking this would be rare but
there are two opinions. The first opinion states that there never was a
village, town or small city that did this. The second opinion states that there
were a few. Most likely during the first Temple period close to the end.
17 And thou shalt gather all the
spoil of it into the midst of the broad place thereof, and shall burn with fire
the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto the LORD thy God; and it
shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again. 18 And there
shall cleave nought of the devoted thing to thy hand, that the LORD may turn
from the fierceness of His anger, and show thee mercy, and have compassion upon
thee, and multiply thee, as He hath sworn unto thy fathers;
Since the people went over to idolatry
they have made into idolatry all their clothing, furniture and jewelry.
19 when thou shalt hearken to the
voice of the LORD thy God, to keep all His commandments which I command thee
this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
Keep [and hearken to all these words that I command you]: This
[term שְׁמֹר, “keep”] refers to the studying of the
Oral Law. [Since it is not written down,] you must “guard” it “in your
innards,” so that it should not be forgotten, as it is said, “For it is
pleasant that you guard them (תִּשְׁמְרָם)
in your innards” (Prov. 22:18).
And if you studied, you may understand and fulfill [the commandments], but one
who is not [immersed] in study, cannot be [immersed] in practice. — [Sifrei]
The KJV revised over 100 years ago
with the when thou harken has a different meaning than keep and harken. This is
a big problem I see all the time with Christians and some Jews depending on the
translation that is poor. In short ingrain into your heart and soul the laws of
the Torah.
14:1 Ye
are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make
any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art a holy
people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be His own
treasure out of all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
Every year in Lebanon on a certain date Shiite Muslims
shave their heads and cut their heads bleeding so this forbidden practice is
very much popular north of Yisrael.
3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
Twice before we have discussed the laws of Kashrus. Not
eating blood in our Parsha, Trafe or Nevaila but also sea urchins, creeping
crawling things, most insects and birds or mammals that are predators.
4 These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox,
the sheep, and the goat, 5 the hart, and the gazelle, and the
roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the
mountain-sheep. 6 And every beast that parts the hoof, and hath the
hoof wholly cloven in two, and chews the cud, among the beasts, that ye may
eat.
This includes the American Bison, Giraffe that has been
identified with the Unicorn and Tachash of the Mishkan.
7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that
only chew the cud, or of them that only have the hoof cloven: the camel, and
the hare, and the rock-badger, because they chew the cud but part not the hoof,
they are unclean unto you; 8 and the swine, because he parts the hoof
but chews not the cud, he is unclean unto you; of their flesh ye shall not eat,
and their carcasses ye shall not touch.
In short among other things if the American Football is
plastic or made of cowhide, it is kosher to play with but if a real pigskin; I
would avoid it.
9 These ye may eat of all that are in the waters:
whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat; 10 and whatsoever hath
not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.
The Rabbis mention fish that give live birth such as
guppies but also whales, sea lions, etc. were to the ancients fish like and
maybe even sea turtles what we classify as reptiles today.
11 Of all clean birds ye may eat.
We have a tradition what these are. Most of the others
minus the ostrich are birds of prey.
12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat:
the great vulture, and the bearded vulture, and the ospray; 13 and
the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kinds; 14 and every
raven after its kinds; 15 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and
the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds; 16 the little owl, and the
great owl, and the horned owl; 17 and the pelican, and the
carrion-vulture, and the cormorant; 18 and the stork, and the heron after
its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat. 19 And all winged swarming
things are unclean unto you; they shall not be eaten. 20 Of all clean
winged things ye may eat. 21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dies
of itself; thou mayest give it unto the stranger that is within thy gates, that
he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner; for thou art a holy
people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's
milk.
Mixtures of milk and
meat are forbidden. Thus, one may not make one even for a dog. One may not cook
or even sell such things. These three prohibits come from the three mentions of
meat and milk in the Torah.
22 Thou shalt surely tithe all the increase of thy
seed, that which is brought forth in the field year by year. 23 And
thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which He shall choose to
cause His name to dwell there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine
oil, and the firstlings of thy herd and of thy flock; that thou mayest learn to
fear the LORD thy God always.
This is the produce,
first born males and in Elul tithe of the 10th animal going through
your shepherd’s crook or cow pen that was born in the past year. Nowadays, we
make a partnership with a Cohain until the Temple will be rebuilt while the
animal is pregnant.
24 And if the way be too long for thee, so that
thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which
the LORD thy God shall choose to set His name there, when the LORD thy God
shall bless thee; 25 then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up
the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose. 26 And thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul
desires, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for
whatsoever thy soul asks of thee; and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy
God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household. 27 And the
Levite that is within thy gates, thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no
portion nor inheritance with thee.
Don’t be blinded by
greed and ignore Teruma and Maaser.
28 At the end of every three years, even in the
same year, thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase, and shall
lay it up within thy gates. 29 And the Levite, because he hath no
portion nor inheritance with thee, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and
the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be
satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand
which thou does.
One must put aside crops
for the poor especially in the 3rd, 6th and 7th
year and the forgotten sheath, corners aka Peah and crops that dropped behind
you.
15:1 At
the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. 2 And this is
the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent
unto his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother;
because the LORD'S release hath been proclaimed.
A reminder that Hebrew ‘slaves’
or servants go free every Shmita Year.
3 Of a foreigner non-Israeli
thou mayest exact it; but
whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall
release. 4 Howbeit there shall be no needy among you--for the LORD
will surely bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance to possess it--
A non-Jewish
servant/slave is kept as property but must be treated with certain rights.
5 if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice
of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee
this day. 6 For the LORD thy God will bless thee, as He promised
thee; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and
thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.
This depends on one
condition: THAT THE MITZVOS ARE FOLLOWED DILIGENTLY.
7 If there be among you a needy man, one of thy
brethren, within any of thy gates, in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, thou shalt not harden thy heart, nor shut thy hand from thy needy
brother; 8 but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt
surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wants. 9 Beware
that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying: 'The seventh year, the
year of release, is at hand'; and thine eye be evil against thy needy brother,
and thou give him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin
in thee. 10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be
grieved when thou gives unto him; because that for this thing the LORD thy God
will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou put thy hand unto.
This is a warning.
People who have large sums on the stock can see fluxions of their wealth in
thousands, ten thousands and more of dollars based on one’s worth. So don’t
write off the Shmita laws.
11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land;
therefore, I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt surely open thy hand unto thy
poor and needy brother, in thy land.'
This appears to be like
a law of physics or mathematics. The equation is poor will not cease therefore
open up your heart and wallet.
12 If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew
woman, be sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years; and in the seventh
year thou shalt let him go free from thee. 13 And when thou let him
go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty; 14 thou shalt
furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy threshing-floor, and out
of thy winepress; of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou
shalt give unto him.
He has worked so and so
many years, he gets according to modern Israeli law a month’s salary for each
year minimum. I assume back then a means of sleeping, utensils and food for a
year until he could harvest for himself from his inheritance unless it had been
sold until the Yovel.
15 And thou shalt remember that thou were a bondman
in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee; therefore, I command
thee this thing today. 16 And it shall be, if he say, unto thee: 'I
will not go out from thee'; because he loves thee and thy house, because he
fares well with thee; 17 then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it
through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman forever. And
also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise.
For I assume with worker’s
compensation, he could have bought the bondwoman. The ear that hear “You should
not put any gods before ME” is now taking a master over himself voluntarily.
Let his hear be drilled into the lintel.
18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou let
him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of a hireling hath he
served thee six years; and the LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou
do.
You will be blessed with
extraordinary crops for six years so that you can rest in the seventh.
19 All the firstling males that are born of thy
herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God; thou shalt do
no work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy
flock. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in
the place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household. 21 And
if there be any blemish therein, lameness, or blindness, any ill blemish
whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.
The best animal without
a blemish.
22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates; the unclean
and the clean may eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the
hart. 23 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour
it out upon the ground as water.
Birds and wild animals
require their blood to be covered. Even if one was to grow giraffe, buffalo, deer,
etc. they may be by you domesticated but their blood has to be covered.
16:1
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover unto the LORD thy God;
for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by
night. 2 And thou shalt sacrifice the Passover-offering unto the LORD
thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to
cause His name to dwell there. 3 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread
with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread
of affliction; for in haste didst thou come forth out of the land of Egypt;
that thou mayest remember the day when thou came forth out of the land of Egypt
all the days of thy life. … 8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened
bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God;
thou shalt do no work therein.
Moshe reminds the Bnei
Yisrael of the Shlosha Regelim and the laws thereof.
9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from
the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to
number seven weeks. 10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto
the LORD thy God after the measure of the freewill-offering of thy hand, which
thou shalt give, according as the LORD thy God blesses thee. … 12 And
thou shalt remember that thou were a bondman in Egypt; and thou shalt observe
and do these statutes.
After Pesach comes
Shavuos.
13 Thou
shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered
in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress. 14 And thou shalt
rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant,
and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and
the widow, that are within thy gates. 15 Seven days shalt thou keep a
feast unto the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD shall choose; because
the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of
thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful.
The cycle of reading the
Torah ends on Chol HaMoed Sukkos and that is the third of the three Regelim.
Our Calendar year might begin in Tishrei but our Yomim Tovim begin with Yetzias
Mitzrayim on Pesach.
16 Three
times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place
which He shall choose; on the feast of unleavened bread, and on the feast of
weeks, and on the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the
LORD empty;
Thrice a year, one must
bring a Korban Chagigah.
17 every
man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God
which He hath given thee.
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A matter of
importance by Velvl Greene Story 1
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3399696/jewish/A-Matter-of-Importance.htm
Back in the early
1960s, Rabbi Moshe Feller was
the shaliach, the emissary, who
the Rebbe sent to Minnesota. His job
was to bring Jews closer to Yiddishkeit.
Rabbi Feller had heard about me and wanted to meet with me face to face. At the
time, I was doing research for NASA, as well as for the Army Biological
Laboratory. I worked in a very, very secure laboratory. There was no access for
anybody without high clearance.
He tried to call and
make an appointment, but I told him it was impossible. When I first got a call
from him, I knew, a guy with a black hat comes to Minneapolis—how many guys
with black hats are there in Minneapolis? So I knew he’s a meshulach, he’s
a representative; he’s coming to get money.
So, I told him on the
phone, “You don’t have to come. I’ll send a check.” And he said, “I don’t need
a check.” That’s the first time he said that, and the last time he said it, “I
don’t need a check, I want to see you.” I said, “Rabbi, I’ll give you twice as
much.” I thought, ah, I’m going to give him $36 instead of $18. He said, “I
must speak to you, it’s a matter of extreme importance.”
Believe it or not, I
arranged for him to come.
He came into my
office. This is a little Jew with a black hat, a beard, two big guards on both
sides of him with guns. I saw that and my heart just, you know—I was
sympathetic to him, even though I knew he was there for money or something
else, whatever gig he had.
So, I asked him to sit
down and we talked. I said, “You’re a nice guy, I’m gonna tell you how to be
successful. The first thing you got to do is trim the beard a little bit. Look
like a mensch. Get out of that black suit, you look like an undertaker.” I was
giving him good advice. He was listening.
And then he looked out
the window—this is important—he looked out the window, and he looked at me. He
said, “Excuse me, I’ve got to do something.” I said, “Well, the bathroom is
over there.” No. He got up, he took a cord from his pocket, he tied it around
his waist, and he started to shake like this.
What is he doing? It’s
not Rosh Hashanah, and it’s not Yom Kippur. Is he praying? It’s the middle of the
afternoon and there is no one telling him what page to be on. After all, this
was my job as a Reform rabbi [although not ordained, Greene was appointed rabbi
of a 60-family congregation] to tell you what page you’re on. There was no one
telling him what page to be on. And most of all, I was no longer in control.
He’s in my office, he asked for an appointment, and he’s
ignoring me. He’s facing the window and he’s shaking.
When he was finished,
he sat down again. I said, “Rabbi Feller, the interview is over; you’ve
insulted me. You came for an appointment with me, and all of a sudden you’re
doing some mumbo-jumbo.” And then he said the key words. He said, “What I came
for was very, very important, but what I had to do now was even more
important.”
If you want to know
what changed, if you want to talk about the word epiphany, that
happened there. Now I know he was davening Mincha, the afternoon prayer, and he had to do it
before the sun went down—and that was more important than even what he came
for.
Now that is
dedication, and that impressed me.
A former Fulbright scholar and pioneer in
exobiology, Professor Velvl Greene spent years working for NASA searching for
life on Mars. He continued to lecture right up until his passing in 2011. Read
more about Professor Greene’s life, scientific research, and relationship to
the Lubavitcher Rebbe here. This story is
adapted from Curiosity and the
Desire for Truth (Arthur Kurzweil Publishers, October 2015).
The
Professor and the Hot Dog Story 2 by Yossi Lew
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2332780/jewish/The-Professor-and-the-Hot-Dog.htm
This story was adopted
by Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles Yossi is the nephew of R. Feller
This is a story of a
professor who got entangled with a hot dog. The hot dog lost. The professor
won. Forever.
Dr. Velvl Greene was a
professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Minnesota.
This was around 1960. Professor Greene was involved in the NASA program to find
life on Mars. No, the hot dog was not from Mars. Hang in there.
My uncle Rabbi Moshe Feller had recently arrived in Minnesota,
and was heavily on Dr. Greene’s case. They talked a lot.
Rabbi Feller called
Dr. Greene and said, “Velvl, I know you’re traveling somewhere by plane. Before
you take this trip, please do me a favor. Call the airline and order a kosher meal.”
Velvl replied, “What?
You know I don’t keep kosher. If I don’t keep kosher in my house,
why do I need a kosher meal on the plane?”
Rabbi Feller responded
that when the other Jewish passengers hear that Professor Velvl Greene had
asked for his kosher meal, it could inspire them as well. Why should they lose
out just because he’s not there yet?
Velvl responded,
“Look, I’m not so sure about all this, but if it is going to make you happy,
I’ll do you the favor.”
Dr. Greene ordered the
kosher meal, and boarded the plane the next day. But when the flight attendant
came by, she handed him a regular, non-kosher meal. Dr. Greene was ready for
this too. Clearing his throat, he declared for everybody to hear, “No, ma’am, I
ordered a kosher meal!”
“Your name, please?”
“Professor Velvl Greene.”
All heads turned.
Professor Greene had ordered a kosher meal! The attendant said, “Okay, I’ll be
right back.”
While fellow
passengers were feasting on chicken parmesan or steak, even wiping the gravy
with bread, the flight attendant was nowhere to be found. The professor was
hungry; his mouth was starting to really salivate. The aromas were stabbing
his kishkes! He pushed the little button, and when the lady
returned he said, “My kosher meal?”
She replied, “We’re
still checking.”
After a few minutes,
and after everyone on the plane had been served, the flight attendant came to
his seat and said, “Um, Dr. Greene, there must have been a mistake. We don’t
seem to have your meal on the plane.”
Dr. Greene was about
to blurt out, “Fine, give me another meal.” After all, this wasn’t his idea. He
ate all sorts of food at home. Problem was, how could he ask for that meal
after he had just made such a big deal on the plane for everyone to know that
Professor Velvl Greene had ordered a kosher meal? How would it look if he
suddenly said, “Fine, give me a regular meal”?
But Greene was angry.
He was very angry. He was angry at the airline. He was angry at himself for
listening to this nonsense. He was angry at G‑d,
because the least G‑d could do was arrange for his
meal to be on this darn plane, especially after Greene had done something nice
for G‑d! But he was most angry, fuming at Rabbi Feller for convincing him to do
this. And Greene decided that he would show him yet.
He landed at Chicago’s
O’Hare airport at midnight for a one-hour stopover. He arrived at the terminal,
and there was still one store open: a non-kosher hot dog stand. The hot dogs
looked and smelled good, plump and juicy. There was even hot sauerkraut
available. Velvl Greene was very hungry, but he was even more angry than
hungry. He therefore headed first to the phone booth and called the
rabbi—collect. A collect call in the middle of the night was sure to invite
panic. And indeed, Rabbi Feller was deeply concerned that something terrible
had happened.
“There is a hot dog stand 20 feet away
from me. I just wanted to wake you up to tell you that I’m going to eat one,
with mustard, onions, relish and kraut.”
“This is a very upset
and hungry Professor Greene calling from O’Hare airport in Chicago,” he said.
“I’ll have you know that they did not have my kosher meal on the plane, and I’m
starving. I also want you to know that there is a hot dog stand 20 feet away
from me. Before I go ahead and buy one and eat it, I just wanted to wake you up
to tell you that I’m going to eat it. I’m going to have it with mustard,
onions, relish and kraut. After I finish the first one, I’m going to have a
second one!”
The rabbi was quiet
for a minute, and then he said, “Velvl, on many occasions you have asked me
about the essence of Judaism, what it all comes down to, what it calls forth
from within us. Tonight, right now, in this telephone conversation, I’m going
to tell you the essence of Judaism. It’s about passing the hot dog stand and
not buying one. It’s about being able to get on your connecting flight without
having eaten the hot dog. That’s all of Judaism; the rest is commentary.”
The professor says,
“Feller, you’re nuts. I always thought you were nuts; now I know you’re nuts. This
is all of Judaism? Feller, as every bite of this hot dog goes down my throat,
I’m going to be thinking of you and saying your name. I am going to eat this in
your honor.”
And he hung up the
phone.
He headed straight for
the stand, stood in line and waited for his turn. He was about to place his
order, when something very strange happened. He tried to say, “Can I have a hot
dog?” He wanted it, he was hungry, he was angry, and gosh, those hot dogs
looked better and better with each rotation of the grill.
But he couldn’t.
At that moment, he got
it. It wasn’t that he was stronger than the hot dog. Or than the craving hunger
in his gut. It was that G‑d was stronger than that hot dog. And he had to
listen to G‑d. Not out of fear, not out of guilt, but out of love. And that was
Judaism. All of it.
Professor Greene never
bought that hot dog, not then, not ever again. That trip changed his life. One
small “no” for a hot dog, one great step for a man.
Scientist Advocated for Public Hygiene and Jewish
Truths.
By Dovid Zaklikowski Story 3
https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1686290/jewish/Professor-Velvl-Greene-83.htm
Professor Velvl Greene, former chair of epidemiology
and public health at Ben-Gurion University, professor emeritus there, and
director of its Lord Jakobovits Center for Jewish Medical Ethics, passed away
at the age of 83. A pioneer in the field of hygiene and the development of sanitary
standards used in hospitals, he maintained at the height of his career a
scientific and religious dialogue with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. He became a highly regarded
lecturer on Torah and its
compatibility with science, and also contributed to NASA’s search for
extraterrestrial life.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1928, Greene was
raised in a secular, but strongly Zionist, home. His love of the Holy Land led
him to study agriculture at the University of Manitoba, a decision he explained
in interviews as rooted in an intention to “go to Israel to work the land.”
He later served in the Canadian army, and pursued a
doctorate in food science at the University of Minnesota.
In Minnesota, he met his wife Gail, and the couple
remained in Minneapolis until 1956, when events surrounding the civil rights
movement led him to take a teaching position at the Southwestern Louisiana Institute
in Lafayette. One of many professors to arrive throughout the South after
academics resigned their positions in protest of a U.S. Supreme Court decision
banning segregation, Greene taught bacteriology while in Lafayette.
When a staphylococcus outbreak struck the southern
United States, Greene was called upon to assist the authorities in how to
curtail the epidemic.
“Staph infections were almost a thing of the past,”
recalled Greene. “After the development of penicillin, most infections could be
wiped out with an injection. But then, the bacteria began to be resistant to
penicillin. Infectious diseases of all kinds were taking a toll; babies [and]
surgical patients were dying.”
Greene pushed for the re-adoption of classic hygienic
practices, a view regarded as groundbreaking at the time. He published a paper
on his findings, and returned north to follow the epidemic, joining the
University of Minnesota to continue his work.
“I wasn’t a physician, but they asked for help,” he
said, “so I advocated a return to the old protocols of Semmelweis and
Nightingale: Wash your hands, wear gowns, [and] isolate patients.”
After the epidemics subsided, Greene created the
first university course in environmental microbiology. It attracted the
attention of NASA officials, who were concerned about the possibility of
spacecraft becoming contaminated by extraterrestrial microbes and infecting
populations on earth. In 1960 he joined the agency’s Planetary Quarantine
Division, where from a lab in Minneapolis he contributed to NASA’s search for
life on Mars.
Over a career spanning decades, Greene contributed to
the fields of environmental sanitation, surgical sterility and asepsis,
disinfection, and hospital-acquired infections. He published more than 90
scientific papers and monographs, and lectured at universities, hospitals,
government agencies and healthcare corporations all over the world.
But he also earned a reputation as a popular
professor, with more than 30,000 students completing his courses in personal
and community health, and tens of thousands more tuning into his early morning
show on public television. In 1983 he won a Bush Foundation fellowship, and the
Council for International Exchange of Scholars appointed him as a Senior
Fulbright Lecturer.
Three years later, he moved to Israel, where he held faculty positions
until two years ago, when he resigned to further lecture and work on his
autobiography.
Greene liked to say that he was raised, and later
built his life as, the “characteristic paradox of the modern secular Jew:
interested in Jewish things but basically ignorant; active in Jewish circles
but limited in choice; committed to community, family, profession and the
Jewish people, but quite unaware of the foundation that informs this
commitment.”
He identified the early 1960s as the time when he
realized there was more to life than just being famous. He made an appearance
on a North Dakota talk show, where the host quizzed Greene on issues he knew
nothing about. That didn’t stop the professor from answering as if he was
knowledgeable about the subjects.
“I found myself talking about juvenile delinquency
and farm subsidies,” he recalled. “I didn’t know a thing about either one of
them. But I had no problem giving lengthy answers to the questions.”
Watching himself on television later that night was
“the first and last time [he’d] been really humbled.”
“It made me look buffoonish,” he said. “I resolved to
live a more spiritual existence.”
That opportunity came knocking in the person of Rabbi
Moshe Feller, regional director of Chabad-Lubavitch
activities in Minnesota. Greene described his
first meeting with the young, newly married rabbi as “a comedy,” but Feller,
who at the time just wanted to meet one of Minneapolis’s most famous scientists
and ask him to support his new center’s activities, was impressed by the
professor’s Jewish sensibilities.
“He always used his Jewish name, Velvl,” Feller
commented late Monday as he journeyed to Israel for Greene’s funeral. “I felt
immediately that he took pride in his being Jewish.”
But Greene originally didn’t even want to meet the
rabbi, and only after some prodding granted Feller 10 minutes.
“What did a black hat and beard have to do with me? I
was a space scientist,” he once told an interviewer.
In the middle of their conversation, according to a 1972
account in Time magazine, Feller “suddenly looked out the window at the setting
sun. [He] realized that it was time for prayer, and, asking Greene’s pardon,
abruptly stopped the conversation. He turned to the window to pray.”
“I had never seen this before in my life,” Greene
recalled. “Here he came into my office, wasted my time and stood there
embarrassing me.
“I didn’t know what he was doing or why,” he
continued. “I didn’t know Jews prayed outside a synagogue. I didn’t know they
prayed in the afternoon. I didn’t know they prayed on weekdays. And I didn’t
know how anyone could pray without someone announcing the page!”
After finishing his prayer, Feller apologized,
telling him that “if [he] hadn’t prayed then and there, the opportunity would
have been lost forever.”
Greene told the rabbi that he was a Jewish agnostic,
but Feller the rabbi told him that he was just ignorant in Jewish teachings,
“just as I am ignorant in microbiology.”
At the end of the meeting, Greene was “impressed by
his sincerity and intrigued by his dedication.”
He later recalled that the exchange was “the first
time [he] heard a rabbi mention the word ‘G‑d’
seriously.”
Greene and his wife invited Feller to speak at their
Jewish book club, and were similarly affected by the rabbi’s authenticity and
wholeheartedness. Greene and Feller began studying together, and over the
years, the Greenes became more religiously observant.
“We became family,” said Feller.
As Time summed it up, Greene “gradually became a
fully observant Lubavitcher.”
Greene, however, had a different take.
“When people ask me how I became an observant Jew, I
tell them that I’ll drop them a line when I become one,” he remarked. “I’m
still a work in progress.”
But while Greene grew in his Jewish knowledge and observance,
he had serious questions about reconciling Jewish teachings and science.
“You people are still stuck in the Dark Ages,” he
once told Feller. “It amazes me that you still take the story of a six-day
creation literally. The theory of evolution is accepted by virtually every
serious scientist alive.”
Feller told him that he wasn’t well versed on the
subject, and suggested taking the matter up with the Rebbe. After reading a widely published 1962 letter
the Rebbe wrote on evolution, he did.
Greene did not mince words, and bluntly told the
Rebbe what he thought about what he and other scientists believed was the correct
theory.
In his reply, the Rebbe stated that his position came
not from his belief, but rather from a foundation in science.
“My said letter does not appeal to ‘belief’; its
premises are scientific based on my years of scientific study, first at the University of Berlin, and later at Paris,” the Rebbe wrote. “I upheld the
permissibility of the Creation account in [the Book of Genesis] on scientific grounds.”
The Rebbe responded to each of the comments made by
Greene, stressing that “from the viewpoint of modern science, [his own view]
could be as valid as the opposite theory.”
On the contrary, the Rebbe continued, evolution could
be relegated to the realm of belief. He offered up the example of one scientist
with whom he spoke, who subscribed to a particular scientific theory because if
he didn’t, “he would lose his standing in the academic world, since he would be
at variance with the prevalent legacy from the 19th century.”
Greene would later write about such “blind
acceptance,” as he called it, of scientific conjecture: To many Jews, “science
and technology were not mortal enemies of Torah Judaism; they were its natural
successors. In their eyes, science and technology represented progress, promise
and the New World . . . The generation opted for culture and
freedom [replacing] the old world.”
Greene finally came to the realization that “the
mistakes in science (or the misunderstandings of Torah) are the stumbling
blocks in [the Torah and Science] dialogue. The
self-serving hypotheses that masqueraded as science and the ‘scientific’ dogma
that have been generated over the last century cloud an honest examination of
the issues.”
Greene would explain that science is limited to what
can be verified. With hypotheses, you can never prove that something is the
case; you can only prove that something is not the case.
“Everything else is extrapolation,” he explained.
“The perceived incompatibility between science and religion springs from the mistake
of having too much confidence in science’s extrapolations. We seem to have a
lot of trouble admitting that we don’t really know.”
He once told a reporter: “Listen, I’ve got nothing
against dinosaurs, y’know, but fossilized bones don’t have any flesh, emotions
or internal organs. Many of the bones are actually missing. And yet somehow,
museums see fit to build whole skeletons and add musculature. That’s serious
interpolation.”
In one article, he noted that science could even make
a person religious: “If we knew what goes on in our very own lives, if we knew
what goes on in the birth of a baby, we would get on our knees and thank G‑d forever.
“All of the vast scientific studies that have been
made over the past hundred years keep pointing to the concept of order and
sequence, and therefore, in my opinion, a creator.”
By the time Greene met with the Rebbe in 1963, he had
grown very close to Chabad-Lubavitch in his city. The two had also
already corresponded with each other.
“The Rebbe was so warm and welcoming,” he recalled of
that first meeting. “He seemed more like a loving uncle than the spiritual
leader of the Jewish world [that he was].”
They discussed the concept of Divine Providence, that “everything
that a person sees or hears is designed by G‑d to bring us closer to Him.” The
Rebbe told Greene that as a professor in a medical school and as a frequent
traveler, he probably saw and heard things most people don’t experience.
“Why don’t you keep a journal, just a few notes at
the end of the day, and see if you can find the divine message?” the Rebbe
suggested. If he needed help finding the meaning, they could discuss it
together.
Greene was amazed at the conversation.
At one point, Greene
brought up NASA’s search for life on Mars.
“Is this right?” he
asked. “Can I really do this? Other religions say you shouldn’t search. And the
Torah doesn’t say there’s life on Mars.”
“Professor Greene,”
the Rebbe replied, “you should look for life on Mars. And if you don’t find it
there, you should look elsewhere. And if you don’t find it there, you should
look elsewhere. Because for you to sit here and say that G‑d didn’t create life
elsewhere is to put limits on G‑d, and no one can do that.”
In time, with the Rebbe’s encouragement, Greene began
to lecture on Judaism and science in many Jewish communities in the United
States.
“When a Jewish audience can be gathered together,”
the Rebbe advised, “the opportunity should not be wasted on empty platitudes,
but should be made use of to the utmost to provide them with a lasting
inspiration which should be expressed in daily life.”
Once when Greene wasn’t feeling well, the Rebbe wrote
a letter to uplift his spirits, offering a blessing that he “should be able to
continue [his] good work for a better and happier environment, in good health
and with joy and gladness of heart.”
At another time, the Rebbe requested that Greene
forward him all of his scientific papers. The Rebbe would comment on them, at
times pointing out contradictions between several papers.
And while Greene had wanted to move to Israel for
many years prior to finally leaving the United States in 1986, the Rebbe
originally advised him to stay.
“It is surely unnecessary to emphasize to you again
that the only reason for my opinion that you ought to continue in the U.S.A. is
that American Jewry, and especially the younger generation, have a priority
claim on your services to help permeate them with [Judaism], especially after
you have had such considerable [success] in this area,” the Rebbe wrote in
1978.
Greene recounted that the Rebbe told him in his first
meeting: “Remember, whatever you do, you must always do more next time. If you
give charity, give more the next time. If you study 10 pages of Talmud, then next time, set the goal at 100. That’s a
principle of Chabad:
You must always move upward.” Not only a Chabad
Principle but of Yeshiva Judaism to add and expand one’s knowledge. I also
brought down a Saadia Gaon Story where he was rolling on the floor asking for
forgiveness from G-D for yesterday only understanding G-D at a weaker more
primitive level.
Greene treasured all of the letters he received from the Rebbe, and prior to his passing, started lecturing on their content
to audiences in Israel.
To Greene, the realm of science informed and
invigorated his commitment to Judaism.
“At my age, when I look at my grandchildren, I think,
‘Look at the miracles.’ This is what science does for you,” he said recently.
“Whenever I have a problem with the learning of the Talmud, I call my grandchildren for
help. It’s quite ironic: me, an academic trained in critical analysis, seeking
help from my grandchildren! But they were born into the rich heritage that I
had to find on my own after years of searching.”
According to Feller, when Greene heard the Rebbe talk
about how the biblical Joseph stood
proud and strong even as he was imprisoned among lowlifes, he “decided the
Rebbe was talking to him, and took upon himself to openly wear a yarmulke.”
Greene “was serious about what he did, and once he
felt it was right, he was passionate about it,” Feller surmised. “He was
staunch in his Judaism.”
He was also steadfastly committed to the Rebbe’s
charge to inspire those with whom he came in contact.
“He always prepared notes before he spoke,” recalled
Feller. “It did not make a difference if it was to a small crowd or a large
crowd. He did this because he felt that whoever he was going to speak to, those
people were important. There was no person whom he felt was below his dignity.
He was never condescending, even though he was a famous scientist and professor.”
“Today we’ll bless G‑d for giving us 83 years with
Velvl,” Yocheved Miriam Russo, who was working with Greene on his
autobiography, said just before the funeral. “And then we’ll bless Him again,
for also having given us Velvl’s unique legacy, his ability to inspire, to
encourage, to bring everyone who knew him, or heard him speak, closer to the
True Judge.”
Some of Greene’s greatest pride was reserved for the
work of his son, Rabbi Dovid Greene,
director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Rochester, Minn.
“My son the shliach,”
Greene would say to Feller, beaming with more pride than someone else
commenting on a child who’s a doctor.
Greene once summed up his outlook with a simple
observation: “Science teaches you how the heavens move. The Torah teaches you
how to move the heavens.”
For more on Prof.
Greene: https://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/2254/jewish/Greene-Dr-Velvl.htm
The transformation of my
own prayer. A few weeks ago, I admitted to myself that my 75year old brain was
not thirty or thirty plus and my concentration on the Shema Prayer had
weakened. I suggested to myself and you readers to print what I wrote on
Devarim 6:4 and I did so. Lo and behold that piece of paper in English has done
wonders for my morning and evening Shema.
Chabad also produced
something for men and women to enhance the animal soul towards the Divine Soul
during Shema. https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/5602669/jewish/A-Powerful-Shema-Meditation-Transformation-Through-Love.htm#utm_medium=email&utm_source=1_chabad.org_magazine_en&utm_campaign=en&utm_content=content
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Third country hit was a base Iran,
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became an anti-Zionist Rebbetzin. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/rke00tb9aq PS the Kidnapped boy is known now as Yose Eldar and I
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Israeli Mt. Climber dies in Indonesia.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358466
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Chinese bought Tnuva and rats or
snakes in food doesn’t bother them. https://www.timesofisrael.com/tnuva-under-fire-after-dead-animal-parts-again-found-in-frozen-green-beans/
Hannity warns don't sleep-work. https://www.aol.com/news/polls-show-democrats-could-win-100037584.html
Is Islamic Jihad being targeted in
Syria? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358426
Daughter of “Putin’s Brain” Dugin
killed in car explosion. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358474
Ganz destroys illegal Jewish
buildings. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358481
Amb. Ron Dermer rejects Kushner’s
claim on Yerushalayim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358483
Communications breakdown between
Egypt and Israel. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/19/report-communications-breakdown-between-egypt-israel/
Bronze at hop skip and jump and gold
in gymnastics. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israels-dolgopyat-wins-gold-at-european-artistic-gymnastics-championship/
BDE Rabbi Shalom Cohen, 91, soul
comes to rest. Spiritual Leader of the Shas Party. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358528 funeral
at 2PM traffic closings.
Shin Bet chief visits Egypt re:
Terror arrests. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358530
31 dead in Al Shabab attack in
Somalia. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358531
Miraculously, Yehudit got up shortly before
container fell. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358526
Twice Orthodox Jews attacked in
Williamsburg by teens. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358527
Chinese run Tnuva removed the
Charedi Inspection and snakes, rats, slugs, etc. found. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358512
30year old shot driving on route 2
criminal mistake. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358510
If she was Boris Johnson would it be
OK? https://www.timesofisrael.com/finland-asks-does-a-pm-have-a-right-to-party/
NJ Beth Sawyer says son victim of
antisemitism in Beverly Hills. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358482
Bullet from Haifa Arabs goes through
Ramat Vizhnitz neighborhood no injuries. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358521
Son of Rabbi Chanan Porat to run with
Zionist Spirit. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358517
High Court hunger striker from
Jihad’s release. https://www.timesofisrael.com/high-court-rejects-appeal-to-fully-release-hunger-striking-palestinian/
Weigh and tag your bags yourself at
airport. https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gurion-airport-to-undergo-digital-transformation-in-2023-reducing-wait-times/
Polio spreading in US, UK, Israel
get your oral vaccine. https://www.timesofisrael.com/polio-spread-in-israel-us-uk-highlights-extremely-rare-risk-of-oral-vaccine/
Deputy Arab Mayor assaulted at home.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/deputy-mayor-of-umm-al-fahm-assaulted-at-home-lightly-hurt/
20 explosive laden Nazi Ships
exposed on Danube. https://www.timesofisrael.com/drought-exposes-dozens-of-nazi-ships-sunk-in-danube-river/
Iran is already nuclearized so why
the deal? https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/21/iran-is-already-nuclearized-so-why-do-we-need-a-deal/
Zelensky warns of cruel Russian
action for ind. Day. https://www.timesofisrael.com/zelensky-warns-of-cruel-russian-action-to-ruin-ukraines-independence-day/
Cyprus to buy Iron Dome. https://www.timesofisrael.com/cyprus-set-to-buy-iron-dome-from-israel-report/
Nasrallah ignores Israeli threats. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358597
Iran asks Nasrallah to fight. https://www.debka.com/iran-tells-lebanese-proxy-nasrallah-to-prepare-to-fight-israel-over-mediterranean-gas-fields/
Iran Deal crosses 2015 red lines. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/22/lapid-warns-macron-iran-nuclear-proposal-crosses-red-lines-of-2015-deal/
Ben and Jerry’s loses bid to halt
west bank sales. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/22/ben-jerrys-loses-bid-to-halt-sales-in-west-bank/
Body of hiker found and recovered in
Indonesia. https://www.timesofisrael.com/body-of-israeli-mountaineer-recovered-in-indonesia-3-days-after-fatal-fall/
Senior Iranian Shachid. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358587
Fire in Ben Shemen Forest. https://www.timesofisrael.com/firefighters-battle-blaze-in-ben-shemen-forest/
Canadian anti-racism diversity man
publishes antisemitic tweets. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/22/anti-racism-consultant-hired-by-canadian-government-agency-under-scrutiny-for-antisemitic-tweets/
Yemen restores Jewish Cemetery. https://www.timesofisrael.com/yemen-restores-jewish-cemetery-remainder-of-countrys-once-booming-community/
Interest rate raised by 3/4th
of a percent to 2%. https://www.timesofisrael.com/bank-of-israel-raises-interest-rate-to-2-as-inflation-continues-to-climb/
From M.M.B. in Italy. 1) An
unusual incident in Albania, a NATO member state: the media reports that two
soldiers were injured in a physical confrontation with three Russian citizens
who tried to infiltrate a weapons manufacturing plant in the city of Gramesh.
According to the report, the Russians - two men and a woman - attacked the
soldiers and sprayed their eyes with an unidentified chemical substance . The
Russians were arrested and found in their possession of photographic equipment
and photographs of the factory and claimed to be "tourists". An
investigation was opened by the anti-terrorist unit and the intelligence
service.
2) A daily newspaper in Japan reports that the
government intends to place long-range land-based cruise missiles on the islands
in the south of the country, which will reach the coasts of China and North
Korea, in order to close the gap with China in view of the latest developments
in the Taiwan region, including the fall of Chinese ballistic missiles in
Japan's exclusive economic zone during the maneuvers this month. According to
the report in Yomiuri Shimbun, which is based on government sources, the plan
is to extend the range of Model 12 surface-to-sea missiles, which currently
reach more than a hundred kilometers, to a range of about a thousand
kilometers, and to adapt them to be launched from ships and fighter planes. The
goal is to place the missiles already in 2024, about two years before the
original date.”
NYT can’t figure out why Rushdie
Attack. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rk3yam5cc
Israeli Hi-Tech raises $700 Million
is 48hours. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1rzzusrq
Due to Abbas German Leader’s
popularity declines. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hypx90xys
China may renew flights to Israel. https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/h1dxvswji
Hunger striker in danger. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjyqh811js
US attacks IRGC after they were
targeted on Aug. 15. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358656
Webb Scope shows Jupiter. https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-space-telescope-shows-jupiter-as-never-before-with-auroras-and-tiny-moons/
New type of back surgery. https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-to-israel-back-surgery-via-the-waist-using-advanced-keyhole-method/
Yossi Yehoshua Nasrallah as
threatening as ever. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjhklxfyj
Biden wants to return to Nuclear
Deal. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358653
Biden feels Euro-Pressure. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/as-europeans-pressure-us-to-respond-on-nuclear-deal-iran-attacks-iaea-chief-for-contacts-with-zionist-regime/
Cruz will go to the courts to demand
treaty ratification. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358647
Mishuginas try to kill Michigan Gov.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358643
Their hobby stealing weapons and
munitions. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358605
A person negotiating in good faith
does not prepare court papers against strikers. This means that he has no
intention of compromise. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358650
At least 70 Jews dead in Ukraine. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjh4ksfks
Tensions within the Likud. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358658
Left and fake news. www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/randi-weingarten-admits-to-sharing-fake-list-of-banned-books-my-bad/
Disney and LGBT is worse than
before. https://newstarget.com/2022-08-18-disney-set-to-push-more-lgbtq-propaganda.html
Pundit rants against Israel. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/what-the-hill-guest-pundit-rants-about-pro-israel-media-bias-in-outrageous-interview/
AZ Gov. Candidate rescinds
endorsement over antisemitism. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/arizona-gubernatorial-candidate-rescinds-endorsement-of-antisemite/
Lisa Kudrow speaks about Holocaust. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/actress-lisa-kudrow-talks-about-familys-holocaust-experiences-in-podcast-episode/
Twitter a risk for national
security. https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/famed-hacker-blows-whistle-on-twitter-claims-national-security-risks/
Luxury Negev Villa 1200years ago. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/israeli-archaeologists-discover-luxurious-1200-year-old-mansion-with-underground-vaults-in-negev-desert/
Jesse Eisenberg in Holocaust Movie. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/jesse-eisenberg-to-direct-write-and-star-in-film-about-jewish-roots-family-and-holocaust-history-in-poland/
Italian Wine Com. Will no longer
produce “Hitler Wine”. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358661
Perry will the Jihad arrests ruin
Egypt-Israel relations? https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkqowijki
Canada defunds the antisemitic
project. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/canadian-government-defunds-project-led-by-antisemite/
Brooklyn face slapping. https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/23/ny-cops-investigating-face-slapping-attack-in-brooklyn-as-possible-antisemitic-crime/
Mertz Party Primaries. https://www.timesofisrael.com/galon-clinches-meretz-leadership-race-returning-to-lead-left-wing-party/
Religious Zionist Party. https://www.timesofisrael.com/religious-zionism-primary-keeps-sitting-mks-at-top-of-knesset-slate/
Gaza Child dies in blast with home
full of weapons. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-deadly-gaza-blast-caused-by-improperly-stored-weapons-at-terrorists-home/
Object falls killing construction
worker. https://www.timesofisrael.com/construction-worker-killed-by-falling-object-in-rishon-lezion/
Syria claims day time Israeli Raid. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryq4cmrjs#autoplay
Nuclear Deal defies common sense. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358747
Shiites against Iraqi Parliament. https://www.timesofisrael.com/iraq-shiite-clerics-supporters-demand-assembly-be-dissolved-new-election-called/
Germany absorbs almost 1,000,000
Ukrainians. https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-counts-almost-1-million-ukrainian-refugees-since-russian-invasion/
More silos collapse in Beirut. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-3rd-time-in-a-month-blast-damaged-silos-at-beirut-port-collapse/
14 Terrorist to get free meals and
board. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358664
Ganz willing to have Arabs back him.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358666
Russia will use Iran to sell oil. https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-russia-to-use-iran-to-bypass-sanctions-and-sell-oil-if-nuclear-deal-clinched/
F-35 over flew Iran undetected. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358688
Assad’s murder of 700 Syrians. https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-report-shares-shocking-details-of-2012-massacre-of-700-syrians-by-assad-regime/
More intern doctors resign. https://www.timesofisrael.com/200-medical-residents-to-hand-in-resignations-in-protest-of-26-hour-shifts/
Milestone: Steven Hoffenberg, 77, J.
Epstein’s mentor and Ponzi Schemer. https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-suspect-man-found-dead-was-ponzi-schemer-and-epstein-mentor-hoffenberg/
Ed-Op: Yossi Yehoshua – Nasrallah’s
threats. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjhklxfyj
AG Arab who threw stone at soldier
not a terrorist. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358775
Gov. deadlock after elections. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358771
There are religious who don’t want
Ben Gvir or Smotrich. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358766
CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, appeared on the Joe Rogan show and told his host
that the FBI was behind Facebook's decision to censor stories pertaining to the Hunter Biden laptop. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/358773
Another jealous idiot murders girlfriend. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hks5aq41i
Ed-Op Ron Ben Yishai. This is worse than Obama’s
Deal. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkjgs11zyo
Have a healthy and wonderful
Shabbos, Good Chodesh,
Rachamim Pauli
