Prayers for Men: Shalom Charles ben Gracia, Daniel ben Rivka, Ephraim ben Mazel, Zev ben Rachel, Yisrael Ben Dovid ben Drorah Rivka, Meir Melech ben Bracha, Peter Bruce ben Golda Chaya, Natan Chaim ben Emunah,
Women: Karen Neshama bas Esther
Ruth, Chaya Melecha Rachel bas Baila Alta, Tsvia Simcha bas Devorah Yachad,
Miriam bas Irene Taita Malka, Drorah Rivka bas
Chana, Leah bas Sara, Esther Georgette bas Misooda, Mine’ Dulah bas
Maxine, Rachel Izel bas Sara, Devorah Rosa (row sa) bas Freyda Leah, re-added
temp. Miriam Esther bas Golda Chaya, Dina bas
Sara.
Check out this link: https://www.ou.org/tishabav/index.html
Parsha Devarim
This week’s Parsha takes
place 37days before Moshe leaves this world. It starts off with his perspective
of history and a rebuke. It is tied in with the 40 stopping places of last week
but with Mussar.
1:1 These are the words
which Moses spoke unto all Israel beyond the Jordan; in the wilderness, in the
Arabah, over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth,
and Di-zahab. 2 It is eleven days journey from Horeb
unto Kadesh-barnea by the way of mount Seir. 3 And it
came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of
the month, that Moses spoke unto the children of Israel, according unto all
that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them; 4 after
he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the
king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei;
My Op-Ed below explains part of the spirit of Moshe’s rebuke.
5 beyond
the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this law,
saying: 6 The LORD our God spoke unto us in Horeb,
saying: 'Ye have dwelt long enough in this mountain; 7 turn
you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites and unto
all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the
Lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore; the land of the Canaanites,
and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Yoshua was not Moshe and failed to conquer the
land to the Euphrates.
8 Behold,
I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD swore
unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give unto them and to
their seed after them.' 9 And I spoke unto you at that
time, saying: 'I am not able to bear you myself alone; 10 the
LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of
heaven for multitude.-- 11 The LORD, the God of your
fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as He
hath promised you!-
After the people have been humbled with a rebuke,
they now receive a blessing for the Shechina rests on the humble.
- 12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your
burden, and your strife? 13 Get you, from each one of
your tribes, wise men, and understanding, and full of knowledge, and I will
make them heads over you.' 14 And ye answered me, and
said: 'The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.' 15 So
I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and full of knowledge, and made them
heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains
of fifties, and captains of tens, and officers, tribe by tribe.
He is now recounting what happened in Yisrael before Yisro
advised him on appointing Rabbis and Judges.
16 And
I charged your judges at that time, saying: 'Hear the causes between your
brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the stranger
that is with him. 17 Ye shall not respect persons in
judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great alike; ye shall not be afraid
of the face of any man; for the judgment is God's; and the cause that is too
hard for you ye shall bring unto me, and I will hear it.'
Unlike some disgusting things going on in the US today with
fake charges against one’s opponents and letting off the son of the big guy by
the FBI and Dept. of (In)Justice; the Torah wants the Emmes or true justice not
favoring the rich or having to be over compassionate for the poor but fair to
all.
“and the cause that is too hard for you ye shall bring unto
me, and I will hear it.'” – This week I was told by my
Cardiologist certain things regarding Yom Kippur fast about drinking and
how not to eat or should I eat that I have to go to Ruv that deals with medical
problems regarding the fast or not fasting. When one is himself involved, it is
always better to go to somebody else. The questions are not clear cut and
standard. This is when a more learned or specialized Rabbi is needed.
18 And
I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do. 19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that
great and dreadful wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of
the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-Barnea. 20 And I said unto you: 'Ye are come unto the hill-country of
the Amorites, which the LORD our God gives unto us. 21 Behold,
the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee; go up, take possession, as the
LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath spoken unto thee; fear not, neither be
dismayed.' 22 And ye came near unto me every one of
you, and said: 'Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for
us, and bring us back word of the way by which we must go up, and the cities
unto which we shall come.'
Yoshua and Calev searched the land looking for how to attack
and the weakness of the fortifications of the various places that had to be conquered.
The other spies did everything to keep hold of their power. The did not trust
in the help of HASHEM despite all the miracles in Egypt and the splitting of
Yam Suf.
23 And
the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every
tribe; 24 and they turned and went up into the
mountains, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out. 25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and
brought it down unto us, and brought us back word, and said: 'Good is the land
which the LORD our God giveth unto us.'
It pleased Moshe as he thought that they would spy like Calev
but instead they had no faith in HASHEM and feared man instead.
26 Yet
ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your
God; 27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said:
'Because the LORD hated us, He hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt,
to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 28 Whither
are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying: The people is
greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven;
and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.' 29 Then
I said unto you: 'Dread not, neither be afraid of them. 30 The
LORD your God who goes before you, He shall fight for you, according to all
that He did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
Unto this day HE fights for us. Sometimes it looks natural
and sometimes causing the enemy to flee without us having great force but a
matching force or weaker.
31 and
in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bore thee, as
a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this
place. 32 Yet in this thing ye do not believe the LORD
your God, 33 Who went before you in the way, to seek
you out a place to pitch your tents in: in fire by night, to show you by what
way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.'
He was miraculously leading you and you turned into gutless folk
with. A yellow streak running down your backs you’re cowards shaking in your
sandals instead of saying “The beginning of wisdom is
the fear of the L-RD” (Mishlei 9:10) and not man.
34 And
the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and swore, saying: 35 'Surely there shall not one of these men, even this evil
generation, see the good land, which I swore to give unto your fathers, 36 save Caleb the son of Yephunneh, he shall see it; and to
him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children;
because he hath wholly followed the LORD.' 37 Also the
LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying: Thou also shalt not go in
thither; 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before
thee, he shall go in thither; encourage thou him, for he shall cause Israel to
inherit it. 39 Moreover your little ones, that ye said
should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or
evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall
possess it. 40 But as for you, turn you, and take your
journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.'
You should have accepted your punishment and perhaps did
Teshuva.
41 Then
ye answered and said unto me: 'We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up
and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us.' And ye girded
on every man his weapons of war, and deemed it a light thing to go up into the
hill-country. 42 And the LORD said unto me: 'Say unto
them: Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten
before your enemies.'
First the people rebelled by being gutless now they rebelled
by not listening that they could not go up to fight so you got slaughter. For
their military training and numbers without the help from HASHEM you are outnumbered
and without good enough swords, shields and arrows.
43 So
I spoke unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment
of the LORD, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country. 44 And the Amorites, that dwell in that hill-country, came out
against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even unto
Hormah. 45 And ye returned and wept before the LORD;
but the LORD hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you. 46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days
that ye abode there.
Close to 38years with
very little wandering about.
2:1 Then we turned,
and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as the LORD
spoke unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days. 2 And the LORD
spoke unto me, saying: 3 'Ye have compassed this mountain long
enough; turn you northward. 4 And command thou the people, saying: Ye
are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that
dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; take ye good heed unto yourselves
therefore; 5 contend not with them; for I will not give you of their
land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have
given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6 Ye shall purchase food
of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for
money, that ye may drink. 7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in
all the work of thy hand; He hath known thy walking through this great
wilderness; these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast
lacked nothing.' 8 So we passed by from our brethren the children of
Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from
Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of
Moab. 9 And the LORD said unto me: 'Be not at enmity with Moab,
neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a
possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.—
If Balak, king of Moav had only tried to make peace or a
neutral relationship, he might have learned this and it would have saved a lot lives.
10 The
Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the
Anakim; 11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the
Moabites call them Emim. 12 And in Seir dwelt the Horites aforetime,
but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before
them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession,
which the LORD gave unto them.-- 13 Now rise up, and get you over the
brook Zered.' And we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the days in
which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were
thirty and eight years; until all the generation, even the men of war, were
consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore unto
them. 15 Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to discomfit
them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed. 16 So it
came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the
people, 17 that the LORD spoke unto me saying: 18 'Thou art
this day to pass over the border of Moab, even Ar; 19 and when thou
come nigh over against the children of Ammon, harass them not, nor contend with
them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a
possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.—
So they shall be left alone.
…
24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of Arnon;
behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his
land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle. 25 This
day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples
that are under the whole heaven, who, when they hear the report of thee, shall
tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.' 26 And I sent messengers
out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of
peace, saying: 27 'Let me pass through thy land; I will go along by
the highway, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the
left. 28 Thou shalt sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give
me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on my
feet; 29 as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites
that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land
which the LORD our God giveth us.' 30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would
not let us pass by him; for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his
heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into thy hand, as appears this
day.
Og and Sihon protected Eretz Yisrael from invasion. Had they
let the Bnei Yisrael pass through they would have still kept their kingdoms and
cities.
31 And
the LORD said unto me: 'Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land
before thee; begin to possess his land.' 32 Then Sihon came out
against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. 33 And the
LORD our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and
all his people. 34 And we took all his cities at that time, and
utterly destroyed every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones; we
left none remaining; 35 only the cattle we took for a prey unto
ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 36 From
Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and from the city that is
in the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too high for us: the LORD
our God delivered up all before us. 37 Only to the land of the
children of Ammon thou came not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the
cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever the LORD our God forbade us.
So we basically conquered
the lower Golan Heights and NW Yarden.
3:1 Then we
turned, and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out
against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Edrei. 2 And the LORD said unto me: 'Fear him not; for I have
delivered him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt
do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at
Heshbon.'
He might he a giant but the bigger they are the harder they
fall and so it was with Og.
3 So the LORD our God delivered into our hand Og also,
the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to
him remaining. 4 And we took all his
cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them;
threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 5 All these were fortified cities, with high walls,
gates, and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many. 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon
king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the
little ones. 7 But all the cattle,
and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey unto ourselves. 8 And we took the land at that time out of the hand of
the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of
Arnon unto mount Hermon-- 9 which
Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir-
Some modern places are given these names but might me miles
or many kilometers from the places mentioned here.
10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all
Bashan, unto Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
NE Yarden today.
11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of
the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah
of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits
the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
He was tremendous in size but bed usually have lengths for
the arms and legs to stretch up, down and sideways in comfort. So he may be a
meter or more less than the bed in length and width.
12 And this land we took in possession at that time;
from Aroer, which is by the valley of Arnon, and half the hill-country of
Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the
Gadites; 13 and the rest of Gilead,
and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half-tribe of Manasseh; all
the region of Argob--all that Bashan is called the land of Rephaim. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of
Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them,
even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day.-- 15 And I gave Gilead unto Machir. 16 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave
from Gilead even unto the valley of Arnon, the middle of the valley for a
border; even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of
Ammon; 17 the Arabah also, the
Jordan being the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the
Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. 18 And I commanded you at that time, saying: 'The LORD
your God hath given you this land to possess it; ye shall pass over armed
before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
As you promised, you shall go with the other troops at head
of the columns.
19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your
cattle--I know that ye have much cattle--shall abide in your cities which I
have given you; 20 until the LORD
give rest unto your brethren, as unto you, and they also possess the land which
the LORD your God gives them beyond the Jordan; then shall ye return every man
unto his possession, which I have given you.
Although I don’t recall commentary on this, I assume that
many men turned 60 and were retired from soldiering while the younger ones
reached 20 during the 14years of conquest.
21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying: 'Thine
eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings; so
shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou go over. 22 Ye shall not fear them; for the LORD your God, He it
is that fights for you.
G-D will fight for you.
International Date Line and Halachic
problems and the ending to Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80Days. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374202
Op-Ed on the happenings
today and Moshe’s Rebuke.
The Israeli Right might
no always be correct in handling out left but it is on the scale of an
accidental mishandling rather than going against HASHEM, Am Yisrael and Eretz
Yisrael.
Moshe hints at the
golden calf, the demand for bread, the demand for meat and then the demand for
spies not trusting in HASHEM’s guidance but an excuse not to enter and work the
land or see war.
The incitement to
rebellion and anti-army of Ehud Barak and Dan Halutz or the calling on America
to boycott Netanyahu by Ehud Olmert is a complete case of Sinas Chinom
(baseless hatred) and the type that destroyed the second Mikdash. The hundreds
of millions of Shekels to pay for signs, flags, money scattered on the stock
exchange, water bottles, transportation, tents, clothing and other organized
things shows somebody or somebodies financing the Israeli Protest Movement.
This is not the first
incitement in modern history. A Reform Rabbi, the founder of Hebrew University
and a hall is still named after him, went to the USA in 1948 to convince the
American Administration not to allow money or arms transfer to Yisrael. But he
was dealing with a Bible Belt Haberdasher and a man stubborn in his faith from
MO. He recognized the State of Israel and his opponent, Tom Dewey happened to
own his “Mafia arrest of Lucky Luciano” that led him to rise to power to a
certain Jew named Meyer Lansky (who got Luciano in jail to protect him from
being slain). So Lansky and the man running the ports from his ‘retirement’ in
Sicily, Luciano) helped established the State of Israel despite of the Elites
being against it.
Biden sort of does not
know 100% what is going on and certain false statements are attributed to him.
On the other hand, Netanyahu does have a reputation that puts Pinocchio to
shame. HaNegbi is not know to make up tall tales and backs Netanyahu’s
statement of finishing up with the reasonability clause and then stopping
Reform until (either a Republican gets into the White House or) the other side
stops their groundless hatred. What does the Israeli Religious Courts have to
do with secular court reform, yet the blocked and tried to storm religious
courts.
Why is the
“progressive”, socialist or communist members against Eretz Yisrael? Why is it
that Gaza only sends rockets to small concerts but not to the weekly protest on
Rehov Kaplan in Tel Aviv? – The Yetzer HaRa does not attack the Yetzer HaRa!
And Yes, there are some
real people concerned about democracy who join the protests but the leaders are
wicked megalomania men that are having their elite status stolen from them by
Charedim, Ethiopian, Sephardim, Druze and other minorities. With a country that
has about 55% of the Jews Sephardim, so and so many Ethiopians, Charedim, etc.
I think via all the TV News Programs I maybe saw a handful of these groups
represented with the thousands of the Elite. But top lawyers, doctors, wealthy
high-tech, top real estate owners, pilots you will find in the protests and
ordinary infantry, waiters, workers, mom and pop store owners, etc. sitting out
the protests or opposing it.
Rabbi Yosef Ben Porat Shlita
in his Devarim Drasha mentions a group of people from the days of Moshe like
Dathan and friends who despised normal holiness. The original Zionist learned
in a Charedi Cheder but ended up hating with a passion anything to do with
religion. When the Mizrachi (modern Orthodox) tried to establish Kibbutzim like
Shluchot and Ateret Zvi the leftist Kibbutzim came with sticks, shovels and
pitchforks to throw them out. He ends with: A student who does not learn
everyday Mussar cannot be Yeras Shamayim.
It just seems to me like
with Korach, the spies, the meat seekers, etc. the Bnei Yisrael Elite likes
controlling the masses, whips up some fools with ideology to such an extent
exist today with their hunger for power and hatred of the Orthodox preventing
Moshiach.
STILL THERE IS HOPE WHEN
THE WELL OF HOLY NESHAMAS ARE EXHAUSTED, THE MOSHIAH WILL COME DESPITE THEIR
LOVE OF POWER AND HATRED.
The nine days are
prone to fights and the Talmud says do not physically discipline a child during
these days. A husband says to his wife do you want me to make for you eggs. She
answers in Hebrew: “Lama Lo” meaning why not. But the husband in the
other room only hears the “Lo” meaning no instead of “Ken” meaning yes
that he was expecting. You can imagine what this accident does to Shalom Beis.
This week our stories are about
Tisha B’Av
What happened on the
9th of Av.
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/946703/jewish/What-Happened-on-the-Ninth-of-Av.htm
1 The spies came back with a bad report.
Picture
this: The year is 1313 BCE. The Israelites are
in the desert, recently having experienced the miraculous Exodus, and are now poised to enter the Promised
Land. But first they dispatch a reconnaissance mission to assist in formulating
a prudent battle strategy. The spies return on the eighth day of Av and report that the land is unconquerable.
That night, the 9th of Av,
the people cry. They insist that they'd rather go back to Egypt than be
slaughtered by the Canaanites. G‑d is
highly displeased by this public demonstration of distrust in His power, and
consequently that generation of Israelites never enters the Holy Land. Only
their children have that privilege, after wandering in the desert for another
38 years.
2 Both Temples were Destroyed
The
First Temple was also destroyed on
the 9th of Av (423 BCE). Five centuries later (in 69 CE), as the Romans drew
closer to the Second Temple, ready to torch it, the Jews were shocked to
realize that their Second Temple was destroyed the same day as the first.
3 The battle of Betar (also spelled Beitar by some) was lost.
When the
Jews rebelled against Roman rule, they believed that their leader, Simon bar Kochba, would fulfill their messianic
longings. But their hopes were cruelly dashed in 133 CE as the Jewish rebels
were brutally butchered in the final battle at Betar. The date of the massacre?
Of course—the 9th of Av!
4 Romans plowed the Beis HaMikdash
One year
after their conquest of Betar, the Romans plowed over the Temple Mount, our
nation's holiest site.
5 Jews were expelled from England.
The Jews
were expelled from England in 1290 CE on, you guessed it, Tisha B’Av.
6 Jews were expelled from Spain.
In 1492,
the Golden Age of Spain came to a close when Queen Isabella and her husband
Ferdinand ordered that the Jews be banished from the land. The edict of
expulsion was signed on March 31, 1492, and the Jews were given exactly four
months to put their affairs in order and leave the country. The Hebrew date on
which no Jew was allowed any longer to remain in the land where he had enjoyed
welcome and prosperity? Oh, by now you know it—the 9th of Av.
7 World War I which led to World War II started. (Chabad wrote:
Both World Wars Began)
Ready for just one
more? World War II and the Holocaust, historians conclude, was actually the
long-drawn-out conclusion of World War I that began in 1914. And yes, amazingly
enough, Germany declared war on Russia, effectively catapulting the First World
War into motion, on the 9th of Av, Tisha B’Av.
What do you make of
all this? Jews see this as another confirmation of the deeply held conviction
that history isn't haphazard; events – even terrible ones – are part of a
Divine plan and have spiritual meaning. The message of time is that everything
has a rational purpose, even though we don't understand it.
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Kamza and Bar Kamza Talmud Gittin 55 to 57
55B R. Yohanan said: What is illustrative of the verse, Happy
is the man that fears always, but he that hardens his heart shall fall into
mischief?1
The destruction of Jerusalem came through a Kamza and a Bar Kamza;2 the
destruction of Tur Malka3
came through a cock and a hen; the destruction of Betar came through the shaft
of a leather. The destruction of Jerusalem came through a Kamza and a Bar Kamza
in this way. A certain man had a friend Kamza and an enemy Bar Kamza. He once
made a party and said to his servant, Go and bring Kamza. The man went and
brought Bar Kamza. When the man [who gave the party] found him there he said,
See, you tell tales about me; what are you doing here? Get out. Said the other:
Since I am here, let me stay, and I will pay you for whatever I eat and drink.
1. Prov.
XXVIII, 14. What follows illustrates the endless misery and mischief caused by
hardness of heart.
2.
Lit., 'locust and son of
locust'. The meaning is that a very trivial cause set in motion the train of
events which led to the destruction of Jerusalem; and similarly, with the
slaughter which accompanied and followed the war of Bar Kochba.
3.
['The Mountain of the King'.
V. Pseudo-Jonathan, Judges IV, 5, where Mt. Ephraim is rendered by Tur Malka.
According to Horowitz, Palestine, p. 240, it denotes the whole mountainous
region stretching from the Valley of Jezreel to the south of Judah, including
the mountains of Samaria, known also by the Hebrew name Har ha-Melek. (V. also
Buchler, JQR, XVI, pp. 180ff.) There is still some uncertainty whence this name
was derived. Was it perhaps because this region lay within the great conquests
of John Hyrcanus that it was given the name? v. p. 77a n. 3a. The destruction
of Tur Malka is placed by Buchler, op. cit. p. 186ff. during the
war 66-70].
56A He said, I won't. Then
let me give you half the cost of the party. No, said the other. Then let me pay
for the whole party. He still said, No, and he took him by the hand and put him
out. Said the other, Since the Rabbis were sitting there and did not stop him,
this shows that they agreed with him. I will go and inform against then, to the
Government. He went and said to the Emperor, The Jews are rebelling against you.
He said, How can I tell? He said to him: Send them an offering and see whether
they will offer it [on the altar]. So he sent with him a fine calf.1 While on the way he made a blemish on
its upper lip, or as some say on the white of its eye, in a place where we
[Jews] count it a blemish but they do not. The Rabbis were inclined to offer it
in order not to offend the Government. Said R. Zechariah b. Abkulas to them:
People will say that blemished animals are offered on the altar. They then
proposed to kill Bar Kamza so that he should not go and inform against them,
but R. Zechariah b. Abkulas said to them, is one who makes a blemish on
consecrated animals to be put to death? R. Yohanan thereupon remarked: Through
the scrupulousness2 of R. Zechariah b. Abkulas our House
has been destroyed, our Temple burnt and we ourselves exiled from our land.3
He [the Emperor] sent
against them Nero the Caesar.4 As he was coming he shot an arrow
towards the east, and it fell in Jerusalem. He then shot one towards the west,
and it again fell in Jerusalem. He shot towards all four points of the compass,
and each time it fell in Jerusalem. He said to a certain boy: Repeat to me [the
last] verse of Scripture you have learnt. He said: And I will lay my vengeance
upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel.5 He said: The Holy One, blessed be He,
desires to lay waste his House and to lay the blame on me.6 So he ran away and became a proselyte,
and R. Meir was descended from him.7
He then sent against them
Vespasian the Caesar8 who came and besieged Jerusalem for
three years. There were in it three men of great wealth, Nakdimon b. Gorion,
Ben Kalba Shabua' and Ben Zizith Hakeseth. Nakdimon b. Gorion was so called
because the sun continued shining for his sake.9 Ben Kalba Shabua 'was so called because
one would go into his house hungry as a dog [keleb] and come out full [sabea'].
Ben Zizith Hakeseth was so called because his fringes [zizith] used to trail on
cushions [keseth]. Others say he derived the name from the fact that his seat
[kise] was among those of the nobility of Rome. One of these said to the people
of Jerusalem, I will keep them in wheat and barley. A second said, I will keep
them in wine, oil and salt. The third said, I will keep them in wood. The
Rabbis considered the offer of wood the most generous,10 since R. Hisda used to hand all his
keys to his servant save that of the wood, for R. Hisda used to say, A
storehouse of wheat requires sixty stores of wood [for fuel]. These men were in
a position to keep the city for twenty-one years.
The biryoni11 were then in the city. The Rabbis said
to them: Let us go out and make peace with them [the Romans]. They would not
let them, but on the contrary said, let us go out and fight them. The Rabbis
said: You will not succeed. They then rose up and burnt the stores of wheat and
barley so that a famine ensued. Martha the daughter of Boethius was one of the
richest women in Jerusalem. She sent her man-servant out saying, Go and bring
me some fine flour. By the time he went it was sold out. He came and told her,
there is no fine flour, but there is white [flour]. She then said to him, Go
and bring me some. By the time he went he found the white flour sold out. He
came and told her, there is no white flour but there is dark flour. She said to
him, Go and bring me some. By the time he went it was sold out. He returned and
said to her, there is no dark flour, but there is barley flour. She said, Go
and bring me some. By the time he went this was also sold out. She had taken
off her shoes, but she said, I will go out and see if I can find anything to
eat. Some dung stuck to her foot and she died.12 Rabban Yohanan b. Zakkai applied to
her the verse, The tender and delicate woman among you which would not
adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground.13 Some report that she ate a fig left by
R. Zadok, and became sick and died. For R. Zadok observed fasts for forty years
in order that Jerusalem might not be destroyed, [and he became so thin that]
when he ate anything the food could be seen [as it passed through his throat.]
When he wanted to restore himself, they used to bring him a fig, and he used to
suck the juice and throw the rest away. When Martha was about to die, she
brought out all her gold and silver and threw it in the street, saying, What is
the good of this to me, thus giving effect to the verse, They shall cast their
silver in the streets.14
Abba Sikra15 the head of the biryoni in Jerusalem
was the son of the sister of Rabban Yohanan b. Zakkai. [The latter] sent to him
saying, come to visit me privately. When he came he said to him, how long are
you going to carry on in this way and kill all the people with starvation? He
replied: What can I do? If I say a word to them, they will kill me. He said:
Devise some plan for me to escape. Perhaps I shall be able to save a little. He
said to him: Pretend to be ill, and let everyone come to inquire about you.
Bring something evil smelling and put it by you so that they will say you are
dead. Let then your disciples get under your bed, but no others, so that they
shall not notice that you are still light, since they know that a living being
is lighter than a corpse. He did so, and R. Eliezer went under the bier from
one side and R. Joshua from the other. When they reached the door, some men
wanted to put a lance through the bier. He said to them: Shall [the Romans]
say. They have pierced their Master? They wanted to give it a push. He said to
them: Shall they say that they pushed their Master? They opened a town gate for
him and he got out.
When he reached the Romans16 he said, Peace to you, O king, peace
to you, O king. He [Vespasian] said: Your life is forfeit on two counts, one
because I am not a king and you call me king, and again, if I am a king, why
did you not come to me before now? He replied: As for your saying that you are
not a king,
1.
Lit., 'a third calf'. (a)
Reached a third of its growth, (b) the third-born, (c) in its third year.
3. [V.
Josephus, Wars, II, 17, 2, who ascribes the beginning of the war to the refusal
to accept the offering of the Emperor in 66 C.E.]
4. Nero
himself never came to Palestine,
7. [This
story may be an echo of the legend that Nero who had committed suicide was
still alive and that he would return to reign (v. JE. IX, 225).]
8. [Who
ultimately was known as the Caesar; v. Halevy, Doroth. I.e. p. 2.]
9. It is
related in Ta'anith, 19b, that this Nakdimon once prayed that the sun might
continue shining (nakad) to enable him to discharge a certain debt he had
incurred on behalf of the people, and his prayer was granted.
11. Perhaps
= palace guards (from biryah). The reference is obviously to the Zealot bands
who defended Jerusalem.
15. [Lit.,
Father of the Sicarii.' His real name was Ben Batiah, Ekah Rab, I. The term
sicarii here is not to he confused with the sicaricon mentioned in the Mishnah,
V. Rosenthal, MGWJ, 1893, p. 58].
56B in truth you are a king,
since if you were not a king Jerusalem would not be delivered into your hand,
as it is written, And Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.1 'Mighty one' [is an epithet] applied
only to a king, as it is written, And their mighty one shall be of themselves2 etc.; and Lebanon refers to the
Sanctuary, as it says, This goodly mountain and Lebanon.3 As for your question, why if you are a
king, I did not come to you till now, the answer is that the biryoni among us
did not let me. He said to him; If there is a jar of honey round which a
serpent is wound, would they not break the jar to get rid of the serpent?4 He could give no answer. R. Joseph, or
as some say R. Akiba, applied to him the verse, [God] turneth wise men backward
and maketh their knowledge foolish.5 He ought to have said to him: We take a
pair of tongs and grip the snake and kill it, and leave the jar intact.6
At this point a messenger
came to him from Rome saying, Up, for the Emperor is dead, and the notables of
Rome have decided to make you head [of the State]. He had just finished putting
on one boot. When he tried to put on the other he could not. He tried to take
off the first but it would not come off. He said: What is the meaning of this?
R. Yohanan said to him: Do not worry: the good news has done it, as it says,
Good tidings make the bone fat.7 What is the remedy? Let someone whom
you dislike come and pass before you, as it is written, A broken spirit dries
up the bones.8 He did so, and the boot went on. He
said to him: Seeing that you are so wise, why did you not come to me till now?
He said: Have I not told you? — He retorted: I too have told you.
He said; I am now going, and
will send someone to take my place. You can, however, make a request of me and
I will grant it. He said to him: Give me Jabneh and its Wise Men,9 and the family chain of Rabban
Gamaliel,10 and physicians to heal R. Zadok. R.
Joseph, or some say R. Akiba, applied to him the verse, '[God] turneth wise men
backward and maketh their knowledge foolish'. He ought to have said to him; Let
them [the Jews] off this time. He, however, thought that so much he would not
grant, and so even a little would not be saved.
How did the physicians heal
R. Zadok? The first day they let him drink water in which bran had been soaked;
on the next day water in which there had been coarse meal;11 on the next day water in which there
had been flour, so that his stomach expanded little by little.
Vespasian sent Titus who
said, Where is their God, the rock in whom they trusted?12 This was the wicked Titus who
blasphemed and insulted Heaven. What did he do? He took a harlot by the hand
and entered the Holy of Holies and spread out a scroll of the Law and committed
a sin on it. He then took a sword and slashed the curtain. Miraculously blood
spurted out, and he thought that he had slain himself,13 as it says, Thine adversaries have
roared in the midst of thine assembly, they have set up their ensigns for
signs.14 Abba Hanan said: Who is a mighty one
like unto thee, O Jah?15 Who is like Thee, mighty in
self-restraint,16 that Thou didst hear the blaspheming
and insults of that wicked man and keep silent? In the school of R. Ishmael it
was taught; Who is like thee among the gods [elim]?17 Who is like thee among the dumb ones
[illemim]. Titus further took the curtain and shaped it like a basket and
brought all the vessels of the Sanctuary and put them in it, and then put them
on board ship to go and triumph with them in his city, as it says, and withal I saw the wicked buried, and they that come to the
grave and they that had
1.
Isa. X, 34.
4. So
you should have broken down the walls to get rid of the biryoni.
6. So
they were waiting for some opportunity to get rid of the biryoni.
9. I.e.,
leave to found a seminary at Jabneh (Jamnia).
10. That
the R. Gamaliel dynasty be spared. R. Johanan was particularly solicitous for
R. Gamaliel and his family, as they were supposed to be of the house of David.
11. Coarse
bran mixed with flour (Rashi).
19. Lit.,
'since it trod, it trod.'
20. V.
A.Z. (Sonc. ed.) p. 55, n. 1.
57A What is your punishment [in the other
world]? He replied: What I decreed for myself. Every day my ashes are collected
and sentence is passed on me and I am burnt and my ashes are scattered over the
seven seas. He then went and raised Balaam by incantations. He asked
him: Who is in repute in the other world? He replied: Israel. What then, he
said, about joining them? He replied: Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days
for ever.1 He then asked: What is your
punishment? He replied: With boiling hot semen.2 He then went and raised by
incantations the sinners of Israel.3 He asked them: Who is in repute
in the other world? They replied: Israel. What about joining them? They
replied: Seek their welfare, seek not their harm. Whoever touches them touches
the apple of his eye. He said: What is your punishment? They
replied: With boiling hot excrement, since a Master has said: Whoever
mocks at the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot
excrement. Observe the difference between the sinners of Israel and the
prophets of the other nations who worship idols. It has been taught: Note from
this incident how serious a thing it is to put a man to shame, for God espoused
the cause of Bar Kamza and destroyed His House and burnt His Temple.
'Through a cock and a hen Tur Malka
was destroyed'. How? — It was the custom that when a bride and bridegroom were
being escorted a cock and a hen were carried before them, as if to say, Be
fruitful and multiply like fowls. One day a band of Roman soldiers passed by
and took the animals from them, so the Jews fell on them and beat them. So they
went and reported to the Emperor that the Jews were rebelling, and he marched
against them. There came against them one Bar Daroma4 who was able to jump a mile, and
slaughtered them. The Emperor took his crown and placed it on the ground,
saying, Sovereign of all the world, may it please thee not to deliver me and my
kingdom into the hands of one man. Bar Daroma was tripped up by his own
utterance, as he said, Hast not thou, O God, cast us off and thou goest not
forth, O God, with our hosts.5 But David also said thus? —
David wondered if it could be so. He went into a privy and a snake came,
and he dropped his gut [from fright] and died. The Emperor said: Since a
miracle has been wrought for me, I will let them off this time. So he left them
alone and went away. They began to dance about and eat and drink and they lit
so many lamps that the impress of a seal could be discerned by their light a mile
away from the place. Said the Emperor; Are the Jews making merry over me? And
he again invaded them. R. Assi said; Three hundred thousand men with drawn
swords went in to Tur Malka, and slaughtered for three days and three nights,
while on the other side dancing and feasting was going on, and one did not know
about the other.
The Lord hath swallowed up all the
habitations of Jacob and hath not pitied.6 When Rabin came he said in the
name of R. Yohanan; These are the sixty thousand myriads of cities which
King Jannai had in the King's Mountain.7 For R. Judah said in the name of
R. Assi: King Jannai had sixty myriads of cities in the King's Mountain, and in
each of them was a population as large as that of the Exodus, save in three of
them which had double as many. These were Kfar Bish,8 Kfar Shihlayim,9 and Kfar Dikraya.10 [The first was called] Kfar
Bish [evil village] because they never gave hospitality to visitors. The second
was called Kfar Shihlayim because they made their living from shihlayim
[watercress]. Kfar Dikraya [village of males] according to R. Yohanan, was so called because women
used to bear males first and finally a girl and then no more. 'Ulla said: I
have seen that place, and it would not hold even sixty myriads of reeds. A
certain Min said to R. Hanina: You tell a lot of lies.11 He replied: Palestine is called
'land of the deer'.12 Just as the skin of the hind
cannot hold its flesh,13 so the Land of Israel when it
is inhabited can find room but when it is not inhabited it contracts.
Once when R. Manyumi b. Helkiah
and R. Helkiah b. Tobiah and R. Huna b. Hiyya were sitting together they said:
If anyone knows anything about Kefar Sekania of Egypt,14 let him say. One of them
thereupon said; Once a betrothed couple [from there] were carried off by
heathens who married them to one another. The woman said: I beg of you not to
touch me, as I have no Kethubah15 from you. So he did not touch
her till his dying day. When he died, she said: Mourn for this man who has
kept his passions in check more than Joseph, because Joseph was exposed to temptation
only a short time, but this man every day. Joseph was not in one bed with the
woman but this man was; in Joseph's case she was not his wife, but here she
was. The next then began and said: On one occasion forty bushels [of coin] were
selling for a denar, and the number went down one, and they investigated and
found that a man and his son had had intercourse with a betrothed maiden on the
Day of Atonement, so they brought them to the Beth din and
they stoned them and the original price was restored. The third then began and
said: There was a man who wanted to divorce his wife, but hesitated because she
had a big marriage settlement. He accordingly invited his friends16 and gave them a good feast
and made them drunk and put them all in one bed. He then brought the
white of an egg and scattered it among them and brought witnesses17 and appealed to the Beth din. There
was a certain elder there of the disciples of Shammai the Elder, named Baba b.
Buta, who said: This is what I have been taught by Shammai the Elder, that the
white of an egg contracts when brought near the fire, but semen becomes faint
from the fire. They tested it and found that it was so, and they brought the
man to the Beth din and flogged him and made him pay her Kethubah. Said
Abaye to R. Joseph: Since they were so virtuous, why were they punished? — He
replied: Because they did not mourn for Jerusalem, as it is written; Rejoice ye
with Jerusalem and be glad for her, all ye that love her, rejoice for joy with
her all ye that mourn over her.18
'Through the shaft of a litter Bethar19 was destroyed.' It was the
custom when a boy was born to plant a cedar tree and when a girl was born to
plant a pine tree, and when they married, the tree was cut down and a canopy
made of the branches. One day the daughter of the Emperor was passing when
the shaft of her litter broke, so they lopped some branches off a cedar tree
and brought it to her. The Jews thereupon fell upon them and beat them. They
reported to the Emperor that the Jews were rebelling, and he marched against
them.
He hath cut off in fierce anger
all the horn of Israel.20 R. Zera said in the name of R.
Abbahu who quoted R. Johanan: These are the eighty [thousand]21 battle trumpets which assembled
in the city of Bethar when it was taken and men, women and children were slain
in it until their blood ran into the great sea. Do you think this was near? It
was a whole mil22 away. It has been taught: R.
Eleazar the Great said: There are two streams in the valley of Yadaim,23 one running in one direction
and one in another, and the Sages estimated that [at that time] they ran with
two parts water to one of blood. In a Baraitha it has been taught: For seven years the Gentiles fertilised24 their vineyards with the blood of
Israel without using manure.
1. Deut. XXIII, 7.
2.
Because he
enticed Israel to go astray after the daughters of Moab. V. Sanh.
106a.
8.
[Identified with
Kafarabis in Upper Idumea mentioned in Josephus Wars, IV, 9, 9. V.
Buchler op. cit. p. 191].
9.
[Identified with
Sachlin near Ascalon. Klein, D. ZDPV. 1910, 35.]
10.
[Dikrin, N. of
Beth Gubrin (Eleutheropolis); v. EJ. 9, 1132].
11.
Referring to the
exaggerated statements about the King's Mountain.
12.
E.V. 'glorious',
Jer. III, 19; a play on the word [H], which means either 'glorious' or 'deer'.
13.
Because after
the hind is killed the skin shrinks.
14.
[Klein, S.
Beitrage, p. 20, n. 1. suggests the reading [H] (Nazarenes) instead of [H]
(Egypt). It is thus the Kefar Sekania (Suchnin)
in Galilee (v. A.Z., Sonc. ed. p. 85. n. 1) a place
with Nazarene associations. It was probably to contrast
the erstwhile loyalty of the place to the then prevailing defection that
the incidents that follow were related].
15.
According to
Rabbinic law it is forbidden or a man to live with his wife unless he made out
for her a kethubah.
16.
'Shoshbin' 'best
men', 'Groomsmen'; v. B.B. (Sonc. ed.) p. 618, n. 10.
17.
To prove that
they had abused his wife.
19.
In Southern
Palestine, the centre of the revolt of Bar Cochba.
21.
This word is
bracketed in the text.
22.
[J., reads 'four
mils'. The site of Bethar is still uncertain, v. JE. s.v.].
23.
[Rappaport,
'Erech Millin refers this to the Roman devastation of the Jewish quarter in
Alexandria in the days of Alexander Tiberius. The Valley of Yadayim ('Hands')
is thus the Delta of the Nile. Graetz, Geschichte IV, p. 425 places this in the
Bar Cochba war and identifies the Valley with Beth Rimmon Valley.]
24.
Lit., 'gathered
the vintage from.'
Milestone: Aharon Ariel, 97,
Independence Fighter, Journalist, Scholar. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374383
Inyanay Diyoma
July
16th
When a Rabbi quotes a preacher, things are bad in the USA.
"Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep
for security" ~Norman Vincent Peale
Shooting attack in Gush Etzion. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374211
Arabs attack Israeli Farms in Yehuda
and Shomron. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374128
Shepherd attack by Arabs. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374193
Netanyahu dehydrates gets heart
monitor. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374212
Among well wishers Pence and
McCarthy. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374200
Ben Gvir gets Defense Min. Angry. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374198
Ben Gvir vs. chief of prisons. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374208
Chief Rabbi against Ben Gvir. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374196
Protesting the Shin Bet Rabbi. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374197
6 Arabs tried to stab an Arab
Israeli in Dubai. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374191
Education Minister Yoav Kisch (Likud) addressed
the government's planned judicial reforms this morning (Sunday), and admitted
that with the exception of the reasonableness standard, the coalition has
dropped the majority of the planned reforms.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374210
George Soros, useful idiots, vs.
Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374205
https://www.debka.com/cracks-in-russia-iran-pact-moscow-holds-back-su-35-jets-delivery-to-tehran/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/modiin-man-arrested-in-connection-to-slaying-of-23-year-old-step-son/
Scandal in Borough Park Shomrim. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hk600kbb9n
51years Mossad’s big blunder. https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/ryuooi5y2
July 17th
RFK jr. hypes antisemitism. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374249
Bullet miraculously did not damage
organs. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374241
AI used in warfare. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/r1kngwm53
African relations improving. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374248
Weaponizing volunteer service will
bring on Hezballah war. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rksztm119n#autoplay
Senate wants to know about UFO’s. https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-750119
For breakthrough Ukraine needs
weapons. https://www.jpost.com/international/internationalrussia-ukraine-war/article-749991
Judicial reform protesters
took to Highway 4 in Givat Shmuel on Monday and set up fences
to block the road before handcuffing themselves to the blockade. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-750353
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-u-20-basketball-team-falls-to-france-in-european-final/
Netanyahu & Health Minister had hospital
allowed him to control press releases. https://www.timesofisrael.com/questions-swirl-about-pms-health-after-discharge-from-hospital-with-heart-monitor/
July 18th
Democrats should take care of
member’s antisemitism. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374308
Herzog flies to USA. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374300
Meeting Netanyahu – Biden before the
end of the year. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374299
Biden worried about settlement
growth. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374298
Kidnapping of Yemenite Children
searching.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374287
Policemen get a pay hike. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374234
It took hours for IDF forces in the Northern Command to realize
that surveillance cameras near the Fatma gate close to the northern city of
Metula had been stolen last Wednesday. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374263
Answer to our problems more children
& Torah. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374281
From
Monique B. Trains at risk from cybercrime. http://dlvr.it/SsHn6L or https://i-hls.com/archives/119928
A Jewish Israeli suspect has been arrested on
suspicion of murder in the case of a body that was found last week in the West
Bank. https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-arrested-over-suspected-murder-after-body-found-in-west-bank/
US learns some secrets of captured
Russian Tanks and anti-aircraft. https://news.sky.com/story/uk-picking-apart-russian-army-vehicles-captured-in-ukraine-12922603
July 19th
Arab Israeli. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-arrested-in-uganda-on-suspicion-of-murdering-his-wife/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-predicts-hell-be-indicted-in-investigation-of-january-6-riot/
Op-Ed Dr. Martin Sherman left
promoting Orwell. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374360
Greece to get help firefighting. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374381
Civilian who activated RR emergency
brake may face law suit. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374377
Ashdod woman revived. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374391
Regional Cooperation Minister David (Dudi) Amsalem (Likud)
on Wednesday morning spoke to the Knesset plenum, blasting Attorney General
Gali Baharav-Miara and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374384
Time to ban e-cigarettes. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374380
Herzog to address congress. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374388
July 20/21
Terrorist killed shooting at
worshippers in Yosef’s Tomb. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1by5sucn
Iranians set Swedish Embassy Ablaze
over Quran Burning. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syhabb893
Polish Soldier’s dog tag from WWII
found. https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/skibqruc3
Orthodox Handyman with Semicha
arrested for PLO Banner theft. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-751897
Terror attack. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374461
AOC and Nikki Haley squabble on
Israel. https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-751903
Hezbollah-affiliated cleric Sheikh Sadiq
al-Nabulsi stated that a war with Israel could "deliver" Lebanon from its ongoing
political and economic crisis in an interview with the Lebanese Al-Jadeed TV
earlier this month, according to a translation published by MEMRI. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-751883
N. Korean hackers have successfully
breached a US Cybersecurity Company. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-751829
Trump returns to Israel gifted and
forgotten lamps. https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-751904
US Israel child custody case. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjt30pqqh
Russians open up fake Israeli News
sites. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/rknlzep93
Israeli arrested in USA Ponzi
Scheme. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkteqmvch
Incendiary or perhaps
fair and balanced compared to the Times of Israel.
Arab murders hit 128 yesterday.
Protection demand and cars burn elsewhere.
Netanyahu to visit Turkey, Greece
and Cyprus. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374474
US Visa Waiver Program a big step. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374410
Israel fight climate change. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374412
Wagner group in Belarus on way to
Africa. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374422
On the surface Ganz sounds sincere,
but is he? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374417
Chief Rabbi again says no Temple
Mount visits. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374407
IDF vs. the leftist coup/blackmail
attempt. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374403
Op-Ed Israel and the new America
Glick. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374403
RFK jr. walks back remarks. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374479
BDE female officer dies in accident
on Base. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374448
Groundless hatred lifeguard. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374432
Right makes video of selective
pilots. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/374447
Have a pleasant Shabbos and
a productive fast,
Rachamim Pauli
