From 5776: Regarding inhalers for Shabbos and Yom Kippur I finally got a Psak Din from Rabbi Yona Gewirtz Shlita of the Star K: If one can travel to the Synagogue from his home without needing one he is forbidden to carry or do tricks to carry. If one cannot manage without to cover the distance without an attack or need for the inhaler, then it is like a cane or leg and can be carried for Pekuach Nefesh on Shabbos and Yom Kippur. On Yom Tov it is permitted to carry from one domain aka private to public but on Shabbos and Yom Kippur it is one of the forbidden Melachos. Thus if one needs nitroglycerine pills for the heart one can take what one needs for an emergency but not carry 20 or 30. One also has to think for example in Israel the Synagogues are less than 7 to 10 minutes in the greatest heat away from me for an inhaler while in my place in FL, the Young Israel is a mile away and through a number of blocks and it means at my highest walking speed about 20 minutes on the average day and perhaps 25 plus if I am with my wife and my 10 year old forester son. On Pekuach Nefesh we are strict and liberal on Yom Kippur and Shabbos. That does not give somebody the right to carry other things that are not associated with lifesaving emergency measures as I did carry the minimum when I was on border patrol in Israel.
Shabbos Teshuva
Three short stories on
work ethics or lack thereof.
The first story is
that of my own for this section. It is about things that are not our basic
salary and rights home from work. When I first started working, I was given a
special drawing pen for engineers that I had to sign for and return when I
transferred from the daughter company to the mother company. In the course of
26years, I accumulated tools at work for little repairs such as plyers,
screwdrivers, a hammer, rulers and perhaps more. I did not sign them out and
did not have to return them to company. I had an assortment of pens, pencils,
staplers, staple removers, hole makers, white-out, erasers, writing pads and
more and I could go on and on. With the exception of a few markers that dried
up over the years and some paper I took home for teaching a course everything
remained in the company. I did make some photocopies back in the day that I
took for my general knowledge that helped me a bit at work or for the courses I
took for 400hours of learning for job advancement. With almost no exception
except for paper that was useless for printing but good for a teacher in a
course I returned everything down to the last paper clip or rubber band that I
could account for. Still I might have forgotten something and sometimes called people
on the company dime and wasted time that might be held against me after
120years. Most companies know this and humans are not angels but returning
things that belong to the company and not using what does not belong to us is
important.
What can one do if one
is disturbed via his Yetzer? He has to provoke the Yetzer with Psalms, prayers
and Torah learning, say the Shema and if that does not work think of the day of
his death and the judgement thereafter.
Two true stories I
bring down here of a bad situations at work. The woman is a sister of a Rav
that become one of the major Sephardic Rabbis of recent years. She worked with
me and I was quite friendly with her brothers and her mother sort of treated me
like a son. Most of the married religious Sephardic Women cover their hair very
well. But working with modern engineers and technicians and perhaps a weak in
Torah husband, she went around without her hair being covered. It all started
when one day she died her hair red although she was a dark brunette. I said to
her that she was like a sister to me and the biological sister of such a
distinguished Rav, why didn’t she observe tradition!
I don’t know what
happened or what bull at work started charging at the red hair but a short time
later, I met her as a secretary in a Sephardic Yeshiva with her head covered.
Some time later she returned to work with her head covered.
The other story was a
Frum man who had his marriage on the rocks. His department was assigned a
secretary. He was producing his work and the young married woman was to take his
work and others to the punch-card secretaries and other assignments for the
department. The woman was as skinny as Popeye’s Olive Oil and the man was
married to a shapely woman. In short, she was not his type. Everyday she would
come to him when she had some spare time and talk a bit. Eventually, she asked
if he would go with her to Tel Aviv after work as she was afraid to travel
alone. He said to her don’t you have a husband or brother who could go with
you? But she kept on day after day. She purposely bent over that he could look
down her blouse and since she was so thin was not wearing support. From a man
who had zero desire for this person, he was suddenly bothered by her. Perhaps
if she was not married he might have caved in but such a sin of Kares kept him
straight. The man began saying Psalms each night and in the Shemona Esray at
‘harken unto prayer’ he added a request to be saved from this woman. A short
time later, it was announced that the company had to cut down on waste as it
was going from a profit to a loss. Last persons hired that were not precisely
essential would be fired. So miraculously for him, he was saved by prayer. The
story might not be Potiphar and Yosef but these things happen.
The conclusion from
both these work stories that one has to be diligent not to steal from the
company, and be wary about fatal attractions [fatal in the next world] at work
and how to fight them.
The Potential of a Criminal to Repent
I heard an amazing
lecture by Cyril Domb (author at Feldheim Books) trying to sell one of his
books regarding among other things repentance. He gave an example that
penetrated my soul. He said: “Suppose you have a gangster who murders people
for money and does so often. He is given an assignment to murder so and so but
the person paying him wants him to dismember the body. At this point the
murderer tells the person paying him the following: ‘I am a killer and that is
what I do. I don’t dissect my victims.’. That is the very first sign of a moral
compass. If he makes more and more moral decisions on a proper path he can
truly repent. Of course he is human and there will be ups and downs and he will
slide but if he continues he can really repent.
Our story: https://www.jta.org/archive/police-nab-runaway-murderer-without-firing-a-single-shot
Herzl Avitan was one
of the Israeli Gangsters convicted for murder. He was given two life sentences.
In prison with some inside help from poorly paid jailers, he managed to get a
gun and escape. He broke into a family hope and took them hostages dying his
hair changing clothes. While he was in the home the wife was either wearing a
minidress or shorts. He requested that she cover her legs. He basically made
the choice of Cyril Domb meaning I am a murderer not an adulterer, rapist or
murdering innocent people. He left the home with instructions not to call the
police and he took the father and son hostage. The TV and Radio were full of
his description or picture so the mother/wife kept quiet. After taking the taxi
with his hostages to his planned safe house, the police were waiting for him
there as somehow, they knew of his plan. THE MAIN POINT HERE IS THAT HE MADE A
POSITIVE MORAL DECISION that could lead to Teshuva over time.
This week a bit about
lies and deceit some actions that are weakening the religious community which
is Part A and where you and I should before Yom Kippur Part B.
Some Thoughts
Lies and deceit can
cause one not to do Teshuva. One can be when one believes that he has not
sinned. We beat out breasts “We cannot say Tzadikim Anachnu [we are righteous]
but certainly we and our fathers sinned. On Nov. 22, ’63 I was less than
16.5year old. I had never really fired a rifle except once at a clay pigeon so
whatever you wanted to tell me of a magic bullet. I could almost believe. I
could be told that one great sharp shooter could fire 3 bullets from a window
blocks away in 5.5seconds although nobody in the FBI could duplicate such a
feat. In fact, I saw of picture of Lee Harvey Oswald in the crowd on the Street
when JFK passed by either in Life, Look, or the Daily News of the time. Slowly,
the truth is coming out both by RFK jr. and by a new witness showing up. https://www.aol.com/parts-coastal-england-atlantic-canada-050035907.html
Another story for the
faithful in mostly plant based and a few cells of real meat to produce
synthetic Kosher Meat. https://www.wired.com/story/upside-foods-lab-grown-chicken/
Not everybody is a
naïve 16year old teen and yet we fall for the propaganda of the Yetzer. It
comes to us in this way or that way. When Rav Moshe Feinstein was alive and
declared that modesty required a dress covering the knees and a 3/4ths sleeve
blouse almost all the Frum world followed and both Bnei Akiva and the Beis
Yacov girls in and out of Israel were modest. This went on to and thru the
generation of my children. In the generation of my grandchildren the more Modern
Orthodox are not what their parents were. When I pray outside there are times
when these girls over-twelve years of age walk by close to our Minyan and
Halachically 12years and one day is considered a woman so we have to work on
guarding our eyes even if we have no interest in these children. What happened
to the parents? They are weaker in following the Halacha as they should. All
the more so if women in their desire to be stylish become immodest.
What has happened in
the modern society is the complete abandonment of Halacha. It takes one or two
women to walk or run in shorts around a religious Yishuv/Neighbor to start a
fad. Fortunately, those brought up on modesty keep it that way. Originally, the
members of my area wanted to have a sports arena, muscle workout training area
and a swimming pool. The Rav at the time stopped it for most wanted a men’s
swimming time and a women’s swimming time but a large enough portion of people
wanted a mixed ‘family’ swimming time. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out
that coming close to a neighbor in a bathing suit time after time is not the
healthiest condition for preventing adultery.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky
published a small booklet on the Halacha of prohibiting Tattoos. Although most
of the Frum (religious world) does not get caught up in this fad some do.
Once one gets a tattoo
the consensus is not to have it erased unless one is bothered by it but not to
start new ones.
A man does not own his
wife and vice versa. Rather, they are partners. So, what happens if we see
Avraham’s wife Sarah running around in training shorts and she says “Hi”? We
have a dilemma. One we should not according to the Torah be looking at the
close neighbor in short-shorts and all the more so talking to her dressed like
that whether in privacy or not. The Sages say to put a fence around the Torah
to protect one’s self. In my case, I can say I am old enough to be the woman’s
father/grandfather and with a walker but still it makes me uneasy all the more
so a man closer to her age and if his marriage is on the rocks or not married
that is the problems.
Parsha Hazinu
Moshe as
just blessed Yehoshua and warned the people that sometime after he is gone,
they will serve Avoda Zara. Now he is teaching the song. The first 14 Pasukim
this week are praises of the good from HASHEM and the rest of the song is
warning what will happen when burning anger will issue from HASHEM’s nostrils.
32:1 Give ear, ye heavens, and I will
speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
Only with two witnesses can a judgement be
passed. In the afterlife the walls of one’s house, television, telephone and
other inanimate object will testify for or against a man. Things are not that
simple neither in this world or the next. Everything has a vibrating atom or
spark from HASHEM so don’t say that you are in the privacy of your house and
you can eat that cheeseburger or bacon. Know that there is a table, chair,
wall, refrigerator that can testify against you.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my
speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as
the showers upon the herb.
Whether or not a leaf falls or when is
determined by HASHEM. Once the students of the Baal Shem Tov were touring the
woods with him and he told them everything has a purpose. They were told even
that leaf falling you will see. On their return to the Yeshiva one of the
students turned over the leaf and found a worm underneath. I once saw a dog
crossing the street in the States before Yom Kippur. The dog was heading
straight towards and on-coming car which was about to go over the hill and hit
him. Suddenly some sound went out and the dog turned its head. The wheel missed
the dog by millimeters. These two examples are of HASHEM’s Chashgacha.
3 For I will proclaim the name of the
LORD; ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
This is what Moshe is doing and what we are
supposed to do.
4 The Rock, His work is perfect; for all
His ways are justice; a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and
right is He.
Once a Rosh Yeshiva had a good Talmid who was
dying. He made the Talmid promise to ask HASHEM why he was taken so young.
After the Talmid passed on, he came to his Rosh Yeshiva in a dream. The Rosh
Yeshiva asked “So did you ask and find out why?” The Talmid replied “I got to
heaven and saw everything straight, just and true that I was too embarrassed to
ask such a question.”
5 Is corruption His? No; His children's is
the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.
I cannot talk about the morals of the previous
generation during World War II for I in the present incarnation was not around.
However, I missed out on being at Woodstock as I was starting to become Frum
but I could have gone. My generation had high morals with the idea of most
girls and even boys that a woman would be a virgin until married. I speak from
the standpoint of a non-religious Jew. When I saw some girls a bit younger than
I or my brother’s age which is five more years of playboy propaganda and
Woodstock myths, I noticed already a lower moral standard was lower than that
of the older sisters and love and marriage no longer went together like a horse
and carriage. I have seen stuff on Dr. Phil with the current generation that
makes Woodstock look like an innocent children’s game. So Moshe saw the decline
and weakening of the generations. [Don’t get me wrong the very Orthodox that do
not hold hands until married keep the tradition but I saw things from my
non-religious education and what is going on in the States today.]
6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish
people and unwise? Is not HE thy father that hath gotten thee? Has HE not made
thee, and established thee?
Is this
how you repay the Lord: This should be read as a question: “[Why] are you doing
such saddening things before God? He has the power to punish you,
[nevertheless] He has bestowed all these favors upon you. [Is this the way you
repay Him for those favors?]”- [Sifrei 32:6] You disgraceful… people: who have
forgotten all that has been done for them. Unwise: [because you do not]
understand the outcome, since it is in God’s power to do them good or evil
[according to their actions]. — [Sifrei 32:6] Is He not your father, your
Master?: [The word קָּנֶךָ means:] Who acquired (קָנָה) you;
[alternatively it means:] Who nested you (קִנְּנֶךָ)
in a nest (קַן) of rocks and in
a strong land; [alternatively it means:] Who has rectified you (תִּקְּנֶךָ) with every type
of reparation (תַּקָּנָה). He made you: A
[special] nation among nations, And established you: After [making you a
special nation, God established you] upon every kind of firm base and
foundation (כַּן) [i.e., made you
self-contained]: your kohanim are from among yourselves; your prophets are from
among yourselves, and your kings are from among yourselves. [Indeed, you are
like] a city from which all [resources] are [drawn]. — [Sifrei 32:6]
7 Remember the days of old, consider the
years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee, thine
elders, and they will tell thee.
Remember
the days of old: what God did to past generations who provoked Him to anger.
Reflect upon the years of [other] generations: [I.e.,] the generation of Enosh,
whom [God] inundated with the waters of the ocean, and the generation of the
Flood, whom [God] washed away. Another explanation is: [If] you have not set
your attention to the past, then “reflect upon the years of generations,” i.e.,
to recognize the future, that He has the power to bestow good upon you and to
give you as an inheritance the days of the Messiah and the world-to-come. —
[Sifrei 32:6] Ask your father: These are the prophets, who are called
“fathers,” as Scripture states regarding [Elisha’s crying out to] Elijah, “My
father, my father, the chariot of Israel!” (II Kings 2:12). Your
elders: These are the Sages. — [Sifrei 32:7] And they will inform you: the
events of the former times.
A wise person will guide his children and
grandchildren on Torah behavior.
8 When the Most High gave to the nations
their inheritance, when He separated the children of men, He set the borders of
the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
When the
Most High gave nations their lot: When the Holy One, Blessed is He, gave those
who provoked Him to anger their portion, He flooded them and drowned them
[i.e., that was their lot]. When He separated the sons of man: When [God]
scattered the Generation of the Dispersion [which built the tower of Babel], He
had the power to remove them from the world [altogether], but He did not do so.
Rather, “He set up the boundaries of peoples,” [i.e.,] He let them remain in
existence and did not destroy them. According to the number of the children of
Israel: [God let man remain in existence] for the sake of a [small] number of
the children of Israel who were destined to descend from the children of Shem,
and [the sake of] the number of the seventy souls of the children of Israel who
went down to Egypt, He “set up the boundaries of peoples,” [i.e., He separated
man into seventy nations with] seventy languages.
Technically
speaking it was the merit of Avraham Avinu who lived at the time of Migdal
Bavel and the 70 members that entered Mitzrayim that the Nations continued
to exist.
9 For the portion of the LORD is His
people, Jacob the lot of His inheritance.
Because
the Lord’s portion is His people: And why did God go to all this effort [to
save mankind]? “Because the Lord’s portion” was hidden within them [i.e.,
mankind] and was destined to come forth. And who is God’s portion? “His
people.” And who is His people? “Jacob, the lot of His inheritance” - and he is
the third among the Patriarchs. He is endowed with a threefold [parcel] of
merits: The merit of his grandfather, the merit of his father, and his own
merit-thus, totaling three, like a rope (חֶבֶל)
composed of three strands [twined together for added strength (Sifrei 32:9)].
Thus, it was [only] Jacob and his sons who became God’s inheritance, not
Ishmael, the son of Abraham, and not Esau, the son of Isaac.
Am Yisrael
is part and parcel with HASHEM but we need to act his way.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in
the waste, a howling wilderness; He compassed him about, He cared for him, He
kept him as the apple of His eye.
He found
them in a desert land: God found them [i.e., Jacob’s sons] faithful to Him in a
desert land, for they accepted His Torah, His sovereignty, and His yoke upon
themselves-something that Ishmael and Esau did not do, as Scripture states, “The
Lord… shone forth from Seir to them, and appeared from Mount Paran” (Deut.
33:2). [The Sages (Sifrei Deut. 33:2, Tanchuma Beracha 4) explain this to mean:
God first went to the children of Esau (Seir) and offered them the Torah, but
they refused to accept it; then He went and offered it to the children of
Ishmael (Paran), and they also refused. See Rashi on that verse.] And in a
desolate, howling wasteland: An arid, desolate land, a place of howling (יְלֵל) jackals and
ostriches. Yet even there, Israel followed their faith. They did not say to
Moses, “How can we go out into the deserts, a place of drought and desolation?”
The verse attests to this: “When you went after Me in the desert” (Jer. 2: 2).
He encompassed them: There [in the desert], [God] encompassed [Israel],
surrounding them by [protective] clouds; He surrounded them with divisions in
four directions, and He surrounded them with the underside of the mountain
[Sinai], which He overturned [i.e., suspending it] over them like a tub [see
Rashi on Exod. 19:17]. — [Sifrei 32:10] And bestowed understanding upon them:
There [God bestowed upon them] Torah and understanding. He protected them: from
snakes, serpents, and scorpions, and from [hostile] nations. As the pupil of
his eye: This refers to the black part of the eye, from which the light is
reflected outward. Now, Onkelos renders
יִמְצָאֵהוּ as: “He provided their
needs,” that is, God provided Israel with all their needs in the desert. [The
use of the word מָצָא is] similar to [its use in the verses],“[Will
flock and cattle be slaughtered for them] to provide (וּמָצָא)
them?” (Num. 11:22), and“ The mountain is not enough (יִמָּצֵא)
for us” (Josh. 17:16). He encompassed them: [Rendered by Onkelos :] “He made
them encamp round about His Divine Presence”-the Tent of Meeting [where the
Divine Presence rested] was in the middle [of the camp] and the four divisions
[i.e., the tribal camps, surrounded it] from all four directions.
11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest,
hovering over her young, spreads abroad her wings, taketh them, bears them on
her pinions—
HASHEM watches over Am Yisrael with the
Shechina hovering above like an eagle on her nest. In a similar vein, HASHEM
cannot be attacked and protected his nation when they observed the Mitzvos. All
other birds are afraid of attacks from the eagle who flies higher than them but
the eagle flies the eaglets on her back as no predator to attack her.
12 The LORD alone did lead him, and there
was no strange god with Him.
HASHEM
guided Am Yisrael for there was not strange god. However, this song is a
warning for the future.
And there
was no alien deity with him: Not one of the deities of the nations had the
power to display its might and to wage war with them [i.e., with Israel]. Our
Rabbis, however, explained [this whole verse] as referring to the future [i.e.,
“(So) the Lord will guide them….”] (Sifrei 32:12), and Onkelos renders [this
verse] likewise. But I say that these are words of reproof. [Moses] called upon
heaven and earth as witnesses, and this song [i.e., parashath Ha’azinu] would
[also] be a witness, that eventually [Israel] would betray [God], and they
would neither remember what God did for them in the past [generations], nor
[would they bear in mind] what He was destined to do to them. Hence, this
[verse] should be understood to refer to both [the past and the future]. And
[therefore] this whole passage is apropos of [the phrase]:“Remember the days of
old; reflect upon the years of [other] generations” (verse 7)-thus [God] did
for them, and thus will He do for them in the future. [The passage is
admonishing Israel:] They should have remembered all this.
13 He made him ride on the high places of
the earth, and he did eat the fruitage of the field; and He made him to suck
honey out of the crag, and oil out of the flinty rock;
Of course, this is talking about Am Yisrael and
a reference to water from a rock but Rashi has a different take on the Pshat.
He let
them suck honey from a rock: It once happened in [a place in Israel called]
Sichni, that a man said to his son, “Bring me pressed figs from that barrel.”
The son went [to the barrel, but instead of finding pressed figs,] he found
honey flowing over its brim. The son retorted, “But this is [a barrel] of honey
[not figs]!” His father responded, “Dig your hand deep into the barrel, and you
will bring up pressed figs from it!” [Pressed figs are as hard as a rock. Thus,
we have an illustration in the Land of Israel of “sucking honey from a rock.”]-
[Sifrei 32:13] And oil from the mighty part of the crag: This refers to the
olives of [the place in Galilee called] Giscala. — [Sifrei 32:13]
14 Curd of kine, and milk of sheep, with
fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, with the
kidney-fat of wheat; and of the blood of the grape thou drank foaming wine.
Up to this point all the blessings heaped on
Yisrael by HASHEM. However sometimes from being too rich one grows fat and lazy
and lax in observance.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and
kicked--thou didst wax fat, thou didst grow thick, thou didst become gross--and
he forsook God who made him, and contemned the Rock of his salvation.
The tribes together are called Yeshurun!
16 They roused Him to jealousy with
strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him. 17 They
sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up
of late, which your fathers dreaded not. 18 Of the Rock that begot thee
you were unmindful, and didst forget God that bore thee. 19 And the
LORD saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His sons and His
daughters. 20 And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see
what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children in
whom is no faithfulness.
When the nation provokes HASHEM with strange
gods and other abominations mentioned in the Torah, the first thing HE does is
hide HIS FACE which is essentially saying let nature and the natural odds like
a few billion Muslims against Israel play out without MY Chashgacha.
21 They have roused Me to jealousy with a
no-god; they have provoked Me with their vanities; and I will rouse them to
jealousy with a no-people; I will provoke them with a vile
nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in My nostril, and burned unto the
depths of the nether-world, and devoured the earth with her produce, and set
ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
Anybody who has crossed the green-line before
the Jews began resettling Yehuda and the Shomron could see an occasional tree
and mostly scrubs and rocks completely barren like a desert. It is only know
with the new Yishuvim that greenery is coming back to the area. As the Frum Yishuvim
grow so does the land.
… 44 And Moses came and spoke all the
words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
He the Yud is missing. Rashi explains why
Yehoshua is called Hoshea:
He and
Hoshea the son of Nun: It was the Sabbath upon which there were two leaders
[because the office was being transferred to Joshua, i.e.,] authority was taken
from one and given to the other. — [Sotah 13b] Moses appointed a meturgeman
[literally, an interpreter, here a spokesman] for Joshua, [to relay to the
public what Joshua said,] so that Joshua could expound [on the Torah] in Moses’
lifetime, so that Israel would not say [to Joshua], “During your teacher’s
lifetime you did not dare to raise your head!” - [Sifrei 31:1] And why does
Scripture here call him Hoshea [for his name had long since been changed to
Joshua (see Numb. 13:16). To imply [lit., to say] that Joshua did not become
haughty, for although he was given high status, he humbled himself as he was at
the beginning [when he was still called Hoshea]. — [Sifrei 32:44]
45 And when Moses made an end of speaking
all these words to all Israel, 46 he said unto them: 'Set your heart
unto all the words wherewith I testify against you this day; that ye may charge
your children therewith to observe to do all the words of this
law. 47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and
through this thing ye shall prolong your days upon the land, whither ye go over
the Jordan to possess it.'
48 And the LORD spoke unto Moses that
selfsame day, saying:
The 7th of
Adar the day he is about to pass away.
49 'Get thee up into this mountain of
Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against
Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of
Israel for a possession; 50 and die in the mount whither thou go up,
and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and
was gathered unto his people.
Moshe will go up the mountain, see the Promised
Land and pass away peacefully in a cave after which probably a mild earthquake
will seal the tomb and change the landscape.
51 Because ye trespassed against ME in the
midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath-kadesh, in the
wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the children of
Israel. 52 For thou shalt see the land afar off; but thou shalt not
go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.'
A normal person is punished for doing something
but here Moshe is punished for not doing something. He did not make a Kiddush
HASHEM. Perhaps it is like the child punished who did not do his/her homework.
G-D’s Intervention in Our Lives some Miracles
To acknowledge a miracle,
one has to realize that something extraordinary occurred.
Take in our leave it.
Except for one extreme rainy-day last winter when he only got 9 people, our
minyan has been functioning. This week there was an event near us which drew
most of our neighbors at our usual hour of prayer. We had only a few people and
grabbed some people on the way to the event to make six. Suddenly, four people
from a Sephardic Outdoor Minyan came to our Minyan and between the both we had
one joint
Ashkenazi-Sephardi
Minyan. This is not the first-time things have happened that we suddenly have a
10th person but of course one should not rely on a miracle.
Tel Avital Yom Kippur 5734 and after
The commanding officer
of Tel Avital called up the chain of command to the head of military
intelligence a few days before Yom Kippur that his Ukrainian-Jewish-Immigrant
had picked up Russian Communications from Syria stating numbers. The Russian at
the other end of the communication did not know what the numbers meant so many
children to be evacuated followed by the women.
The head of military
intelligence received the call but called the probability low. One of the
soldiers was out taking a walk at 1:30 PM on the base when he saw three Migs
with ordinance heading towards him. The were so low that almost touched the
base and one dropped his bomb by the only entrance/exit of the base. IT DID NOT
EXPLODE and for the duration of a few days of attack one had to pass the life
bomb when entering and leaving the base. There was a hero who manned the
antiaircraft gun and he would wait until the Migs unloaded their bombs and turn
their bellies upwards for shooting down a large target he knocked out a few Migs
that way.
In the meantime,
real-time intelligence was being fed to the rear as the base continued to
function. A Lt. Col. of Golani and an evacuation platoon was sent to Tel Avital
to rescue and evacuation the men. But they knew that the Hermon had fallen and
they were the eyes and the ears of Israeli Intelligence and refused to be evacuated.
After this time, the
Syrians sent 4 helicopters with commandos to take the base. The first helicopter
was shot down by a tank. It was the only helicopter shot down by a tank in the
whole war. The second landed on one side of the hill and the third on the
other. The commandos from the third helicopter ran as fast as they could towards
Damascus. The fourth turned around after seeing what happened to one and three
and from the second one commando made it up the hill and was captured. He was
being beaten until the commander said enough and they gave him a cigarette and
treated him like a prisoner should be treated not what was done to our soldiers
in captivity.
Eventually, they saw
the Syrian offensive withdrawing tanks and supplies and they were the ones who
radioed Avigdor Kahalani and soldiers to shoot their last two munitions into
Syrian tanks before dozing off after 72hours without sleep.
Miracles: The shell
did not explode, the commandos fled and the tank force defended the Golan to
their last shell (previous story).
Inyanay Diyoma
Sept. 15th
Three Israeli Arabs plant explosive
device. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377068
Gang of boys from Petach Tikva
charged. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377070
Not that many refusals. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377062
Gold Star Parents hand out gifts to
soldiers. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377065
https://www.foxnews.com/us/uaw-leader-slams-insulting-general-motors-wage-offer-strike-threat-looms
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-authorities-seize-3-artworks-allegedly-stolen-by-nazis/
Sept. 16-18
Change the Name Yericho but the
Truth will prevail. UNESCO announced on Sunday that one of
the newest entries on the organization's list of global heritage sites is Tel
a-Sultan in Jericho. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377087
An Italian military jet crashed on Sunday while
taking part in an acrobatic exercise in Turin, killing a five-year-old girl. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377089
Saudi authorities in recent days published a new
map of the kingdom and the region, in which Israel is still identified as
“Palestine”. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377084
Antisemitic with public Nazi
Displays arrested. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377085
Protestors make a Chillul HASHEM
before the Goyim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377100
IDF strikes empty Hamas Post. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377080
https://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-riot-on-gaza-border-for-second-time-in-days/
Ed-Op Glick on the major financing
of the protestors. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377099
Ed-Op Hirsch no reason so fear the
ICC. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1yazzcah
https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-killed-in-separate-traffic-accidents-on-rosh-hashanah/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-being-shot-nazareth-mayoral-candidate-drops-out-of-race/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/north-koreas-leader-wraps-up-russia-trip-with-drones-gift/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-palestinians-again-riot-on-gaza-border-5-said-wounded/
Israel’s top court an Elitist
Bastion stronger than the will of the voters. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-759452
Arab was neutralized at check-point
while attacking with knife. Also a shooting at military. Synagogues need people
with weapons. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377127
Hostages leave Iran. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377131
SC looking for F-35 that crashed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377133
Sept. 18-19
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-to-open-top-commando-unit-to-female-recruits-for-first-time/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-shin-bet-to-take-in-haredim-in-new-national-service-program/
Clueless Joe trails in the polls. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377162
Miracle no causalities. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377178
Cyber attack on mental hospital. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377179
Members of the US Congress and Senate, together
with official representatives of the State of New York, toured Samaria during a
visit to Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377173
Update: A car drove up to the
security gate at Chashmonayim Tuesday evening about an hour or two after Chief
Rabbi Lau Shlita anointed their new Rabbi. It was carrying two Arabs. They were
told by the security guard to make a U-turn. Instead they sped into the Yishuv
causing a siren to go off. The Yishuv was placed in lockdown as police and army
units entered. Within a half an hour the car with the two potential thieves was
caught.
Arabs fleeing Islamic Hamas Gaza. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19976/palestinians-fleeing-gaza
IDF soldier Yam Mesika was killed on Wednesday
morning when a train struck her after she apparently fell onto the
tracks as a result of fainting. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377233
Sept. 21-22
A Shachid in Gaza shot across the
border at soldiers. Two Jihadis become Shachidim in Syria.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-tanks-shell-two-syrian-army-structures-encroaching-on-truce-line/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/fox-news-founder-rupert-murdoch-steps-down-as-chairman/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-nabbed-for-stealing-decommissioned-tank-from-idf-base-in-north/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-unexploded-shells-found-during-jerusalem-light-rail-construction/
Terrorist arrested in Shechem. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377349
4 more arrested for good measure. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377350
Terror Suspect arrested at Anu Dis. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377351
Anti-Netanyahu activists are being
paid millions but the pro-Netanyahu is grass-roots. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377339
Op-Ed anti-Israeli Government
Demonstrations cause damage. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377352
Op-Ed Glick on Netanyahu-MBS
agreement. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377323
Penn Hillel vandalized. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377350
Israelis are against protests
abroad. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377341
Abbas detached from reality. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377326
Arab Propaganda includes Israeli Boy
murdered by terrorist. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/377242
Gmar Chatima Tova a good
sealing of health, prosperity and peace in the book of life.
Rachamim Pauli
