Revised Healing Prayers list:
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,
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. Channah bas Ora Leah, Sofia Sarah bas Miriam Maya,
I also received this from Neal Z. Please continue to keep Izzy in
your thoughts and in your prayers (Yisroel Alter ben Chava Chana), as the power
of our collective prayers can hopefully continue to penetrate the heavenly
gates of mercy!
Parsha Vayishlach
Out of the frying pan
and into the fire. Yacov escapes Lavan. Perhaps Lavan wanted to take everything
away from Yacov and kill him, but he would not murder his daughters and
grandchildren. However, the wicked Esav might be up to that.
32:4 And Jacob sent messengers before
him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
Rashi says the work
Malachim is used which is messenger or Angel depending upon the use. The
messengers were real Angel from Mahanaim. Showing Esav that he had command of
heavenly matters and not to start up with him.
5 And
he commanded them, saying: 'Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus, saith
thy servant Jacob: I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now.
Yaakov instructs the messengers that he sends to his
brother Eisav to deliver the following message: “Thus says your servant
Yaakov: Im Lavan gartee (I have dwelt with Lavan) and I have tarried
there until now.” (Beresheis 32:5). Rashi cites two interpretations for the
expression “Im Lavan gartee“. Rashi’s second interpretation is that the
word gartee (Gimmel Reish Taf Yud) is numerically equivalent to the number taryag (Taf Reish Yud Gimmel), six hundred and thirteen.
According to this interpretation, the message Yaakov sent to his brother was,
“although I lived with Lavan, I kept the 613 mitzvos of the Torah throughout
that time and was not influenced by his evil ways.” In effect, Yaakov told
Eisav, “Don’t start up with me!”
Many meforshim ask: Given who Eisav was,
why would he care in the least that Yaakov kept the 613 mitzvos and did not learn from
Lavan’s evil ways? It is as if we were speaking to a heretic and we said to him
“You should know, throughout my time with my evil uncle, I kept the laws
of Cholov Yisrael and I kept the laws of Pas Yisrael.” What effect will it have on
Eisav that Yaakov kept the 613 mitzvos in Lavan’s house?
The sefer Ateres Dudaim, written by
Rav Dovid Zucker, the head of the Chicago Kollel, seeks an answer to this
question based on a comment of the Kli Yakar. The pasuk says, “…and Eisav said in
his heart, ‘the time of mourning for my father will soon be here, and I will
then kill my brother Yaakov.'” (Beresheis 27:41) The Kli Yakar writes that
Eisav was waiting for the moment when Yaakov would not be occupying himself
with Torah, and that would be the propitious moment to kill him. Since a
mourner is forbidden to learn Torah, Eisav planned to wait until Yitzchak died
and Yaakov became an avel. At that time, Yaakov’s merit of occupying himself with Torah
would not protect him.
The sefer Ateres Dudaim says that
this helps explain what Yaakov Avinu is trying to tell Eisav here as well.
Yaakov is telling his brother “You know that when I was in my father’s house I
was a ‘tent dweller’ who learned day and night. When I left my home and went to
the Yeshiva of Shem and Ever, I also learned day and night.” Now Yaakov has
returned from his sojourn with Lavan. What has he been doing for the last 22
years? He has been raising cattle. He has been working for a living. Eisav
thinks to himself, “Maybe my brother learned by Shem and Ever and maybe he
learned in my father’s house, but for the last 22 years, he has been in
business. He is in the cattle business and has done very well for himself in
the cattle business. Now is my chance.”
According to the Ateres Dudaim “Taryag mitzvos
shamarti” does not mean I kept the 613 mitzvos. The truth of the
matter is that Yaakov did not keep the 613 mitzvos. He married two sisters.
There are other things he could not fulfill living outside of Eretz Yisrael. The word shamarti is similar to the
expression “V’Aviv shamar es haDavar” (Beresheis 37:11) (and his
father anticipated the fulfillment of the matter, he longed to see
the time when Yosef’s dreams would be fulfilled). Yaakov acknowledged that
while in the house of Lavan he spent time out in the fields, tending to sheep
day and night. But that entire time, I anticipated, I longed for the time that
I could get back to the Beis Medrash. - Rabbi Y Frand @torah.org
6 And
I have oxen, and asses and flocks, and men-servants and maid-servants; and I
have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in thy sight.'
I have no need for
any physical inheritance from our father, Yitzchak it can be all yours.
7 And
the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: 'We came to thy brother Esau, and
moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.'
He does not regard
your spiritual power with Angels and your not wanting any inheritance he hates
you enough to bring a battalion size force to eliminate you.
8 Then
Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. And he divided the people that was
with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two camps.
The deeds of the
fathers is a sign for the children. Yitzchak was born on Pesach even if it did
not exist yet. He gave his blessing on his 123rd birthday. Yacov
flees immediately afterwards. Now 34years later. Yacov returns to Eretz Yisrael.
He fled Lavan at the start of the signs of spring before another year and more
wages. It is now Pesach and it came to my mind the word used for dividing the
camp. וַיַּ֜חַץ And he did what we do on the
night Yom Tov Pesach. V’ Yachatz as we divide the Matzo and in his case divided
the camp.
9 And
he said: 'If Esau come to the one camp, and smite it, then the camp which is
left shall escape.' 10 And Jacob
said: 'O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O LORD, who said
unto me: Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee
good; 11 I am not worthy of all the
mercies, and of all the truth, which Thou hast shown unto Thy servant; for with
my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two camps.
I miraculously crossed
the Yarden (at the area known as the Banos Yacov Bridge). Since you performed a
miracle for me, I may have used up all my Mitzvos for protection.
12 Deliver
me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear
him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.
From the hand of my
brother. Sometimes the Yetzer comes to you in the form of a person who looks
like a Talmud Chacham, a brother, but he is a gangster when it comes to Kashrus
and takes a position like a protection racket on “kosher meat”, “kosher telephones”,
etc. He comes like a bulldozer over his competition. I am afraid of my enemy
Esav who is external but more so of my brother Esav that might lure me into
idol worship or my children into marrying spouses from a culture rotten to the
core.
13 And
Thou said: I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the
sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.'
L-RD remember your
promise to me.
14 And
he lodged there that night; and took of that which he had with him a present
for Esau his brother: 15 two hundred
she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 16 thirty milch camels and their colts, forty kine and
ten bulls, twenty she-asses and ten foals. 17 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants,
every drove by itself; and said unto his servants: 'Pass over before me, and
put a space betwixt drove and drove.' 18 And
he commanded the foremost, saying: 'When Esau my brother meets thee, and asks
thee, saying: Whose art thou? and whither go thou? and whose are these before
thee? 19 then thou shalt say: They
are thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord, even unto Esau;
and, behold, he also is behind us.'
He has approached
Esav humbly, through prayer to HASHEM, now though gifts and if all that fails
through a physical war.
20 And
he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves,
saying: 'In this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him; 21 and ye shall say: Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob
is behind us.' For he said: 'I will appease him with the present that goes
before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept
me.'
He spaced out the presents
with love. Esav was full of hate but each gift through love began to weaken the
hate and turn it around towards love.
22 So
the present passed over before him; and he himself lodged that night in the
camp. 23 And he rose up that night,
and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven children, and
passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
Yacov was not willing
to lose any of his children, but it was far better to lose the children of the
handmaids than those of triple A lineage.
24 And
he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he
had. 25 And Jacob was left alone;
and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 26 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he
touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained,
as he wrestled with him. 27 And he
said: 'Let me go, for the day breaks.' And he said: 'I will not let thee go,
except thou bless me.'
Yacov was very rich
but there is a Torah law that he learned from Shem about the stealing of less
than a Peruta that occurred before the flood related to thievery. That the law
or Din of a Peruta is the same as 100 Perutos. Unlike California, the stealing
of a penny is like that of stealing a dollar. Therefore, Yacov went back to
recover some trinkets left behind. It was there that Yacov physically wrestles
with the Angel of Esav.
28 And
he said unto him: 'What is thy name?' And he said: 'Jacob.' 29 And he said: 'Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,
but Israel; for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast
prevailed.'
The Angels are
required like a military inspection to appear and pray at the dawn (Netz as the
sun arises). He had to go but Yacov would not let Esav’s Angel go without a
blessing.
30 And
Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said:
'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he blessed him
there. 31 And Jacob called the name
of the place Peniel: 'for I have seen God face to face, and my life is
preserved.'
He
prevailed over the guardian Angel of Esav.
32 And
the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his
thigh. 33 Therefore the children of
Israel eat not the sinew of the thigh-vein which is upon the hollow of the
thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, even in
the sinew of the thigh-vein.
So even though he
prevailed, Esav’s Angel did manage to hurt physically Yacov.
33:1 And Jacob lifted up his
eyes and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he
divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two
handmaids. 2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost,
and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3 And he himself passed over before them, and bowed
himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Yacov was 63 when he
left Esav with probably black to gray hair. With 14 years of study and 20 years
with Lavan, he is now 97 probably with white hair, wrinkled with age and
limping. He is not the same man who left Esav.
4 And
Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him;
and they wept.
Esav sees his
brother’s condition, he realizes two things. One it is his twin and that he too
is no spring chicken or Don Juan anymore. He sees that his ‘enemy’ has been
sending gifts to him and is alone and relatively helpless. He is basically at the
mercy of Esav for good or for bad.
5 And
he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said: 'Who are
these with thee?' And he said: 'The children whom God hath graciously given thy
servant.'
Unlike Esav, who
married young, (and his son Eliphaz tried to murder Yacov but had been defeated
– Midrash not mentioned this year), Yacov married at the age of 84 and his
oldest son was only 12years old. They were not capable of being soldiers (from
20 to 60). In short, Esav physically had the power to rule of them. Yacov was
not a physical threat to Esav. Spiritually, it was a different story.
6 Then
the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed down.
If Esav wanted to
murder them, perhaps the others could flee.
7 And
Leah also and her children came near, and bowed down; and after came Joseph
near and Rachel, and they bowed down.
But Benyamin did not
and in the days of Mordechai and Esther, that would mean a lot.
8 And
he said: 'What meanest thou by all this camp which I met?' And he said: 'To
find favor in the sight of my lord.' 9 And
Esau said: 'I have enough; my brother, let that which thou hast be
thine.'
Please take this gift
of love and the love will melt your hate.
10 And
Jacob said: 'Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then
receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one sees
the face of God, and thou were pleased with me. 11 Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee;
because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.' And he
urged him, and he took it.
Esav took the gifts
that made him and his children happy. It paid for his hired army.
12 And
he said: 'Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before
thee.' 13 And he said unto him: 'My
lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds giving
suck are a care to me; and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will
die. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee,
pass over before his servant; and I will journey on gently, according to the
pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the
children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.'
In the days of Moshe,
they came close but went around. When the Moshiach comes Seir will be judged.
15 And
Esau said: 'Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.' And
he said: 'What needs it? let me find favor in the sight of my lord.' 16 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a
house, and made booths for his cattle. Therefore, the name of the place is
called Succoth. 18 And Jacob came in
peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from
Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city. 19 And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had
spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a
hundred pieces of money. 20 And he
erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
As he survived he built
a Mizbayach unto G-D.
34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah,
whom she had borne unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And Shechem the
son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; and he took her, and
lay with her, and humbled her.
It seems to be sort
of seduction that turned into a rape.
3 And
his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel,
and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel. 4 And
Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to
wife.'
Unlike the hatred rapes
of Hamas, Shechem loved Dina for her fair complexion and intelligence he wanted
her as his like the old cave men cartoons of carrying off a wife.
5 Now
Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his
cattle in the field; and Jacob held his peace until they came. 6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob
to speak with him. 7 And the sons of
Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and
they were very wroth, because he had wrought a vile deed in Israel in lying
with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Yacov was very angry about
Dina being raped and gathered his sons for strength.
8 And
Hamor spoke with them, saying 'The soul of my son Shechem longs for your
daughter. I pray you give her unto him to wife. 9 And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters
unto us, and take our daughters unto you. 10 And ye shall dwell with us; and the land shall be before you;
dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.'
Hamor proposes that
Shechem marry Dina and that the peoples join together.
11 And
Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren: 'Let me find favor in your
eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give. 12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give
according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.' 13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his
father with guile, and spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister, 14 and said unto them: 'We cannot do this thing, to give
our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto
us. 15 Only on this condition will
we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be
circumcised;
The deal seemed good to
Yacov but Shimon and Levi were hot heads and wanted revenge. They devised a
plan to take care of the rape.
16 then
will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and
we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be
circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.' 18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's
son. 19 And the young man deferred
not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter. And he was
honored above all the house of his father. 20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of
their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying:
The deal sounded
good. It was great financially as the fathers in Canaan would get very wealthy
sons-in-law and their daughters would we well taken care of. Children could
help them in their grandparents at old age.
21 'These
men are peaceable with us; therefore, let them dwell in the land, and trade
therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their
daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters. 22 Only on this condition will the men consent unto us
to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised,
as they are circumcised. 23 Shall
not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us
consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.'
They all agreed as
they saw wealth coming their way.,
24 And
unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of
his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his
city. 25 And it came to pass on the
third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and
Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city
unawares, and slew all the males. 26 And
they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah
out of Shechem's house, and went forth. 27 The
sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had
defiled their sister. 28 They took
their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the city
and that which was in the field; 29 and
all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive
and spoiled, even all that was in the house.
Yacov had made a trendy
and his sons violated the agreement.
30 And
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: 'Ye have troubled me, to make me odious unto the
inhabitants of the land, even unto the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and, I
being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite
me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.' 31 And they said: 'Should one deal with our sister as
with a harlot?'
They were out only for
the honor of their sister.
35:1 And God said unto Jacob: 'Arise, go up to Beth-el,
and dwell there; and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when
thou didst flee from the face of Esau thy brother.'
Yacov has to flee Shechem
as the Bnei Canaan are out to make war with him and the battles are described in
Sefer HaYashar.
2 Then Jacob said unto his
household, and to all that were with him: 'Put away the strange gods that are
among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;
We are now going up
to the place of the future Beis HaMikdash so purify yourself and remove any
semblance of idol worship.
3 and let us arise, and go
up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the
day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.'
He had told his sons
about the House of G-D and the gateway to the heavens and now he was going
there.
4 And they gave unto Jacob
all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in
their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by
Shechem. 5 And they journeyed; and a terror of God was upon the
cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of
Jacob.
Where did the sons of
Yacov get these idols? They might have had it from presents given to them by
grandpa Lavan but more likely from the woman they captured from the people of Shechem
that they conquered along with all sorts of jewelry that we might call today
saint Anthony, crucifixes, crescents with stars, etc. that are strange worship for
us.
6 So Jacob came to Luz,
which is in the land of Canaan--the same is Beth-el--he and all the people that
were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place
El-Beth-el, because there God was revealed unto him, when he fled from the face
of his brother.
As he vowed, he has
returned to the same spot of his dream to worship G-D.
8 And Deborah Rebekah's nurse
died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak; and the name of it was
called Allon-bacuth.
The pine tree of crying
where Devorah died on the way.
9 And God appeared unto
Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. 10 And
God said unto him: 'Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more
Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name'; and He called his name Israel.
The Angel has given
Yacov the name Yisrael but now the L-RD bestows upon him the title.
11 And God said unto him: 'I
am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations
shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; 12 and the
land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy
seed after thee will I give the land.'
The blessing given to
Avraham and Yitzchak has been earned also by Yacov.
13 And God went up from him
in the place where He spoke with him. 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in
the place where He spoke with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a
drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon. 15 And Jacob called
the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.
The prophecy has come
to Yacov on Har HaBeis.
16 And they journeyed from
Beth-el; and there was still some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed,
and she had hard labor. 17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard
labor, that the mid-wife said unto her: 'Fear not; for this also is a son for
thee.' 18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing--for she
died--that she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him
Benjamin.
Even though Beit
Lechem is not that far from Chevron and the Machpelah, Yacov has the prophecy of
the Babylonian Exile and the prayers at the grave of mother Rachel.
19 And Rachel died, and was
buried in the way to Ephrath--the same is Bethlehem. 20 And Jacob set
up a pillar upon her grave; the same is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this
day. 21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond
Migdal-eder. 22 And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land,
that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine; and Israel heard
of it.
The Drash is that he took his father’s bed from Bilhah’s
tent and moved it into Leah’s tent. The Pshat is as is written but since the
sons of Yacov are twelve makes the Drash preferable.
Now the sons of Jacob were
twelve: 23 the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon,
and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun; 24 the sons of
Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin; 25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid:
Dan and Naphtali; 26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and
Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.
These are the twelve
sons.
27 And Jacob came unto Isaac
his father to Mamre, to Kiriatharba--the same is Hebron--where Abraham and
Isaac sojourned. 28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and
fourscore years. 29 And Isaac expired, and died, and was gathered unto his
people, old and full of days; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
Yitzchak was 123years
old when Yacov left and 159years old when he returned. They lived together for the
remaining 21years of Yitzchak’s life.
36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau--the same is
Edom. 2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the
daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter
of Zibeon the Hivite, 3 and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of
Nebaioth. 4 And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore
Reuel; 5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. These are
the sons of Esau, that were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
These children were
born when he lived with Yitzchak.
6 And Esau took his wives,
and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his
cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in
the land of Canaan; and went into a land away from his brother
Jacob. 7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell
together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of
their cattle.
Now both the cattle,
sheep, goats and camels of Yitzchak and what Esav got by stealing or from Yacov
and that of Yacov were too much for the land in that area to support.
8 And Esau dwelt in the
mountain-land of Seir--Esau is Edom. 9 And these are the generations
of Esau the father of the Edomites in the mountain-land of
Seir. 10 These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah
the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau. 11 And
the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and
Kenaz. 12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bore
to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah Esau's wife.
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13 And these are the sons of
Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath
Esau's wife. 14 And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of
Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife; and she bore to Esau Jeush, and
Jalam, and Korah. 15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the
sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: the chief of Teman, the chief of Omar,
the chief of Zepho, the chief of Kenaz, 16 the chief of Korah, the
chief of Gatam, the chief of Amalek.
Rabbi Shimon Bar
Yochai said “A well known Halacha (law) that Esav hates Yacov.” And Amalek is
the climax of that hatred. Esav might want to kill Yacov but Amalek will cut a
late term baby out of a mother and cook it in the oven as he rapes her before
murdering her. That is Amalek the lowest of the low of mankind.
… 19 These are the sons of
Esau, and these are their chiefs; the same is Edom. 20 These are the
sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and
Zibeon and Anah, 21 and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan. These are the
chiefs that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of
Edom. … 40 And these are the names of the chiefs that came of Esau,
according to their families, after their places, by their names: the chief of
Timna, the chief of Alvah, the chief of Jetheth; 41 the chief of
Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon; 42 the chief of
Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar; 43 the chief of
Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their
habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau the father of the
Edomites.
All these people were
relevant until Sancheriv came and mixed up the nations by sending various
peoples in Gallus of other people that replace them from their original abode.
Moshe A & M by Rabbi Yerachmiel
Tilles
http://ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=1354-11
Once a
Chasid travelled with a dire problem to Rabbi Dovber, the second Rebbe of
Chabad Lubavitch known as the Mitteler Rebbe. He was renting an inn from the
local poretz (landowner), and was about to be evicted because he was unable to
pay his debts. The poretz was unwilling to wait any longer, and the Jew was in
danger not only of losing his livelihood, but also his home.
The Chasid entered the Rebbe's room for a private audience
and told him the predicament. He requested that the Rebbe write a letter for
him to a wealthy businessman named Moshe A. This man was a personal friend of
the poretz and therefore a good potential intermediary.
The Rebbe agreed and wrote the letter. The Chasid left,
letter in hand, sure that his situation would shortly change. However, when he
looked at the letter, he had a shock, for the letter was addressed to the wrong
person. Instead of being addressed to the wealthy Moshe A., the letter was
addressed to Moshe M., who was as poor as he himself.
The Rebbe must have made a mistake, thought the Chasid, for
what could Moshe M. possibly do for him?
The Chasid turned around and went right back to the Rebbe's
residence and said to the Rebbe's attendant, "I must go back in to speak
with the Rebbe. He gave me the letter, but he made a mistake in it, and I need
it changed."
"I'm sorry," replied the gabbai. "You cannot
see the Rebbe again so soon. There are many others waiting to be
received."
"But, you don't understand," the Chasid
protested. "This is a matter of the greatest importance, and it can't
wait, even a day. I won't take much of his time. The Rebbe just has to change a
few words. You see, he addressed it to the wrong person."
The conversation was overheard by the Rebbe's son, Rabbi
Nachum, who turned and commented, "A Rebbe doesn't make mistakes."
The Chasid turned and left, meditating on the words he had just heard, "A
Rebbe doesn't make mistakes." He took this to heart and resolved to go the
next day to see Moshe M. and present him with the Rebbe's letter.
When he arrived at Moshe M.'s humble cottage, he told him
about his audience with the Rebbe and showed him the letter. Moshe M. was
confounded by the request that he intercede. "I would be very glad to help
you, but what can I possibly do? I have nothing whatsoever to do with the
poretz."
But the Chasid, who had become convinced that the Rebbe
must have had something in mind, was persistent. Finally, Moshe M. agreed,
although of course, one couldn't say that he knew what he was agreeing to.
In the middle of the night there was a pounding on the
door. Moshe M. roused himself and went to the door. "Who's there?" he
asked.
"Open, please. It is I, the Count," came the
reply.
Moshe M. opened the door, and to his astonishment, there
stood the poretz, the very man he planned to visit the following day, soaked
and shivering with cold.
"Please, come in, Your Honor," he said. and
within an hour he provided the poretz with dry clothing, food, vodka and tea.
The poretz explained that that evening he was deep in the
forest when he had been caught in an unexpected storm. This house had been the
first one he had encountered when he left the forest, and that is how he came
to be the guest of Moshe M.
At once Moshe M. saw the Divine Providence in the unusual
situation, and when they all went to bed for the night, he retired in a state
of high anticipation as to how events would play themselves out.
The next morning the poretz arose fit as before, and
readied himself to go home. Turning to his host, he said, "I am very
grateful for everything you have done for me, and I would like to repay your
kindness. What can I do for you?"
Moshe M. answered, "Please, Sir, just having had the
honor of helping you is all the payment I need."
The poretz wouldn't take no for an answer, and repeated his
request to repay the Jew. When the offer was made a third time, Moshe spoke up:
"Sir, I have a brother who rents one of the inns on
your Honor's property. Due to financial hardships of the past few years, he has
been unable to pay his rent, and he is due to lose his lease on the inn. Might
I ask Your Honor to reconsider his case?"
The poretz was immediately receptive to the request.
"My friend, you are such a good fellow, I am sure that your brother is
just like you. I will not only renew his lease, but I will also forgive his
past rent.
"And you know, it is very lucky that you are speaking
to me about it today. Why, I was planning to give the lease to the relative of
a good friend of mine. My friend Moshe A. spoke to me recently about his
relative that needed a position, and tomorrow I was planning to take care of
the matter."
Later, when the two Chasidim met, they discussed the
workings of Divine Providence as foreseen by the Mitteler Rebbe. For had the
letter been addressed to the "right" rather than the
"wrong" Moshe, the situation would have come to a very different and
unhappy end for the Chasid. They saw that indeed, "A Rebbe doesn't make a
mistake."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Source: Expanded and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles from
LChaim Weekly #1597, with permission.
Biographical note:
Rabbi DovBer Shneuri [9 Kislev 1773 - 9 Kislev 1827] was the eldest son and
successor to Rabbi Shneur Zalman, founder of the Chabad movement. The author of
numerous deep, mystical texts, he is known in Lubavitch circles as "the
Mitteler (Middle) Rebbe."
Connection: Tet [9th] Kislev (Wednesday) is the birthdate
and the yahrzeit date of the Mittler Rebbe, while Yud [10th] Kislev the
anniversary of his release from interrogation and false arrest.
The following stories come from:
https://www.dirshu.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Toldot.pdf
The Baal Shem Tov and the errant son-in-law by Rabbi
Shalom Dover Avtzon.
There was a wealthy Jew, whose only daughter was
becoming of marriageable age. While there were many promising young Torah
scholars in his own town, he desired to have an exceptional Torah scholar as a
son-in-law. After much effort, he indeed found one such young man. The couple
were married, settled down and were extremely happy. The young man learned in
the yeshiva study hall and grew in his learning and Torah knowledge. Everything
was going as desired.
Some years passed, and the wealthy father-in-law
began noticing small changes in his son-in-law’s conduct and observance of
mitzvot. At first, he tried to dismiss them as insignificant changes, and
perhaps his learned son-in-law has reasons to conduct himself in this new
manner. After all he knows much more than I do, so who am I to question him!
But as the weeks and months passed, he began noticing
that his son-in-law was taking off much more time from his learning and was
seen in the company of others who were known to be completely non-observant.
This was a situation that he was no longer able to ignore and pretend all is
well.
So, one day, he sat down with his son-in-law and
asked him, “What caused this drastic change. Are you perhaps unhappy about
something or is something or someone bothering you?” The son-in-law replied, “I
am extremely happy and fortunate. Your daughter is an excellent and kind-hearted
person. She is the perfect wife, and you are very gracious to us. A man
couldn’t ask for more.
“But you want to know if everything is perfect, what
caused these changes? I began having some questions about Hashem’s ability to
do certain things that our sages stated had happened. I noticed that some of
the great commentators also wrote that these things are exaggerations. So, I no
longer knew what is real and what is being said as a way of a parable or
metaphor.
“Whoever I asked either replied that those are
dangerous questions, that one is not allowed to ask, or gave me such weak
answers and explanations, that they themselves admitted weren’t complete
answers, they weren’t satisfactory. So now I have my doubts about many things,
such as, does Hashem really care about such minute details, for example, when
you wash your hands for bread, does it have to go until the wrist and a drop
off makes it invalid or it isn’t so important. And therefore, I decided not to
do it all.”
The father-in-law was torn with grief. This is the son-in-law
that he had hand-picked for his wonderful daughter, who is so proper in her
observance of every mitzvah. Is everything lost Heaven forbid?
“No! It can’t be,” he told himself. “I must find a
way to correct this.” Turning to his son-in-law he said, “My dear son-in-law,
you are much more learned than I, and if the great Torah scholars of the town
couldn’t answer your questions satisfactorily, I for sure don’t have the
ability. However, I am asking you one thing, please come with me to a great sage
and allow him to answer and clarify everything.”
Wanting to please his father-in-law, especially as he
always has the ability to say that the answer this sage gave was not a
convincing or even good answer, he agreed. The father-in-law didn’t waste any
time, but immediately set out with his son-in-law to see the Baal Shem Tov.
They arrived in Mezibuzh on a bright sunny day and the father-in-law poured out
his troubled heart to the Baal Shem Tov and pleaded with him that he does
whatever is in his ability to bring the son-in-law back to the ways of Hashem.
The Baal Shem Tov asked them to join him on a small
journey. With the father-in-law sitting on his right and the son-in-law sitting
on his left, they left Mezibuzh. Once they were out of the city and on the road
in the midst of an open field, the Baal Shem Tov turned to the son-in-law and
said, “Young man, can it rain now?”
Looking at the clear blue sky, the young man replied,
“No, there isn’t a cloud in sight.” The Baal Shem Tov said, “And I say it can
rain!”
Looking up once again, the young man peered in all
directions to make sure that he saw correctly and indeed there wasn’t a cloud
in sight.
So, he smugly retorted and said, “It is impossible!
No way in the world can it rain here at this very moment.”
The Baal Shem Tov smiled and said, “And I say it will
rain momentarily!” A few seconds later the skies opened and a deluge of rain
came pouring down. The young man was bewildered at this happening. Not only is
it pouring from a cloudless sky, but the Baal Shem Tov’s wagon is remaining
completely dry. This is truly miraculous and beyond human comprehension. Being
an extremely intelligent person, he realized why the Baal Shem Tov showed him
this and didn’t try to answer his questions verbally. Far be it that the Baal
Shem Tov was merely showing off to him his miraculous powers. It was much more
than that; he had clearly demonstrated that stories of our sages that are
beyond human comprehension, doesn’t mean that they never occurred or are not
real.
There are many happenings that the human intellect
says one way, but in actuality they happened the opposite way – the way he
thought was impossible. Once this question was answered, he realized that all
of his other questions and doubts were based on this premise. And therefore, if
this was resolved they all have nothing to stand on. Full of remorse he turned
to the Baal Shem Tov and beseeched him, to guide him back to the way of Hashem.
During the first year after his passing, the students
of the Baal Shem Tov gathered and many of them said a miraculous story of the
Baal Shem Tov that they were privy to. That night the Baal Shem Tov came to one
of his students in a dream and said, “My greatness is not my ability to do
miracles, it is my awe of Heaven for even the smallest detail of a mitzva.
Sons
of Fatima By Rabbi Yerachmiel Tilles
Although the Patriarchs and Matriarchs are entombed
in Ma'arat HaMachpela (the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron), for 700 hundred
years [1267- 1967], the Muslims did not permit entry to the Jews, claiming that
Avraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov belonged exclusively to them. They gave permission
for Jews to ascend only until the seventh step of the outside Eastern stairway
leading up to the tomb markers, and no further.
When Israeli forces liberated Hebron, Jerusalem, and
other important Jewish sites in the Six-Day War, Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim
sent Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, then aged 38, to visit and inspect the Cave of
the Patriarchs in Hebron, Rachel's Tomb in Beit Lechem (Bethlehem), and the
Kotel HaMa'aravi (Western Wall) in Jerusalem.
When they were at the cave, a large group of soldiers
entered. This was the first time anyone had been inside after the battles.
There were many high-ranking army commanders and numerous soldiers there, among
them Yitzhak Rabin, Haim Bar-Lev, and Uzi Narkiss.
A number of prominent rabbis were also present. Some
of the soldiers were injured, some were hungry, and most of them were exhausted
after days of fighting. The saw the rugs in the cave and lay down, soon falling
asleep. Suddenly, the sheik in charge of the cave, a man named Jibril, came out
and started shouting at the commanders and soldiers. "Get out of this
cave!" he yelled.
"You have no respect for it! We Muslims wash our
hands five times when we come here. We take off our shoes and honor this place.
But you show no respect whatsoever! Your soldiers are eating here, sleeping
here, walking on the rugs with their dirty boots. You have no respect for this
place - leave!"
Apparently, he was right. What he said made sense.
Everyone was silent… except one. Rabbi Eliyahu, who understood Arabic, as did
most of the senior commanders, responded, "Listen to me, Sheik. You know
that if a servant comes before the king in soiled clothes, or serves him food
on a filthy tray in front of all the king's ministers and servants, he will
surely be put to death.
"But if the king's son were absent from his
mother and father's home for many years, and his father spent many nights
worrying about him and his mother crying for him, if that son was to return
home after many years, how do you think the king would receive him? What if he
simply wandered in without making an appointment? What if he showed up with
torn, dusty clothes, and interrupted the king's conference with his ministers,
crying, 'Father, I came home?' "What if he approached his mother, the
queen, calling, 'Mother, I'm here'? His mother and father would surely hug him,
loving him, and thanking Hashem with all their heart for his homecoming, even
with his ripped, dirty clothes - because he is their son."
Rabbi Eliyahu looked the sheik in the eyes and said,
"Avraham is our father, Sarah is our mother. We behave here as though in
our own home. You, however, are the 'sons of Fatima,' the children of the
maidservant Hagar. You behave as is appropriate for a servant to behave, and we
behave as is appropriate for children to behave!"
The sheik turned red with shame. Not only did he have
no rejoinder for the rabbi, he had been called a "son of Fatima," son
of the maidservant. He was insulted. He turned on the spot and stormed back
into his room in a great rage.
The senior commanders there immediately turned to
Rabbi Eliyahu, asking in horrified dismay, "Why did you do that? We want
to live in peaceful coexistence with the Arabs. Why did you have to upset him?
You may have ruined everything!"
Rabbi Eliyahu replied firmly, "You have to tell
them the truth. That's the only thing they understand." The argument
continued for a few minutes, until the door of the sheik's room suddenly
opened. The sheik exited his room with his head down, approaching Rabbi Eliyahu
in deference. "Oh, Wise One, oh Master; please forgive me!" he cried
out. Rabbi Eliyahu didn't turn to him or even respond. He simply looked at the
commanders and said, "You see what language they understand? I grew up
among the Arabs from when I was a young child in the Old City of Jerusalem.
Tell the truth and they will understand!"
Miracle stories are
being to almost sound the same. Some people HASHEM decided would like the
soldier girl who took 12 bullets in the army base that the HAMAS sprayed with
bullets. She and another soldier from the shift lived but the rest died on a
Kiddush HASHEM HY”D. It is not for us to understand why. Otherwise most of the
survival stories were either the people ran into the woods to safety or they
just were not killed while others died around them like Psalm 91. IF I DO HEAR
SOMETHING EXTRA ORDINARY, I WILL WRITE DOWN THE STORY.
My own private
miracle. One day I was late for Schul. I made a turn off of Tibor Street into
Barakat Street. It is a blind turn with cars parked up to the corner so I took
it very slowly. A car came out at me. I was surprised and in the early morning
hour, my foot missed the brake and I continued at a slow cruise. I forgot to
pull the hand brake. The other car continued and I missed hitting him by an
inch or so. It taught me that HASHEM was in control of my car and not I.
More miracles
I saw a What’s App story
of a couple who made it to their car on Oct. 7th Waze told them to
drive south but they drove north. They thought they saw soldiers but realized
with the green bandanas on their heads they were Hamas they ducked as the
bullets flied. She called her brother at the festival that the terrorists were
on their way. He did not get into his friend’s car and ran as fast as he could
into the woods. He was later rescued. Of the 5 people who went into the car,
only one miraculously survived.
Miracle in the Sarona Terror Attack by Nes-Li
A number of years ago,
(Aug. 6, ’16 https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4813768,00.html) there was an attack at
the Sarona Market. An eatery was shot up.
A man was eating with his
female companion or wife. She told him take a look that fellow looks
suspicious. As he turned a bullet hit him on the side of the head. The
terrorist shot another to verify that he was dead as he went down.
Both bullets grazed the
brain without any major damage!
Torah Truths revealed and myths
dispelled. By Rabbi Simon Jacobson. 45 minutes.
Inyanay Diyoma
Nov. 25
Friday these abductees were
released. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-774976
Lebanon: Surface to surface missile
downed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380888
Freed hostage boy runs to his
father. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380889
“We are just at the beginning of the
process. We are preparing to continue the implementation of the framework to
release the hostages. The days ahead of us will be complicated, nothing is over
until it’s over. We must be prepared for this. We don’t forget for a moment
that Hamas is a brutal and merciless enemy,” Hagari said. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380887
Hostage return first step. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380883
Iranian attack on Israeli owned ship
in the Indian Ocean. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-775041
Solar farms in dry regions very
important. https://www.jpost.com/science/article-774543
2 take downs in Eilat as I write.
New Dinosaur Species found. https://www.jpost.com/science/article-774865
Nov. 26
IDF hands out water to thirsty
Gazans. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6EjjIcnpo9I
These are the hostages released last
night. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380912
Irish PM: “This is a day of enormous joy and
relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent child who was lost.” https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380916
2 men executed in West Bank for allegedly spying for
Israel, as mob cheers | The Times of Israel
Election poll shows Gantz at 43 seats, Netanyahu's
Likud at 18, Smotrich out | The Times of Israel
It took 3 months to capture
terrorist. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380922
Op-Ed Yossi Yoshua: Sinwar’s ruse is
working. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rjx9xrs4a
Last minute after false waving
good-bye almost lynched. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380910
Netanyahu promised not to kill Hamas
in Qatar. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380931
Overnight, 4 new Shachidim in Schem. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380901
Hamas explains separated families. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380944
Users on X denounced Israeli singer
Aviv Gefen after he mocked Channel 14 News for observing Shabbat. He avoided
the IDF. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380937
9year old releasee invited into
cockpit. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380946
Hamas confirms the deaths of
northern leaders. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380942
Red Cross no prediction on Hostage
Release. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380943
If killed by a woman in battle you can’t be a Shachid. Female IDF tank crews ran down dozens of Hamas
terrorists on October 7 | The Times of Israel
Nov. 27
Somewhere between the age of 7.5 to
8+, my mother brought me to hear a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King in our
Schul. I did not know his cause, but mom explained to me that just as we had
been slaves in Egypt, the forefathers of Dr. King and the Negro Race (not a derogatory
word in the 1950’s Nigger was) in America had suffered slavery and wanted to be
treated equally like whites.
When I was in the 5th
grade, I was one of the taller boys in my class and we had to dance with the
“Sight Conservation Class”. One of the almost blind girls was black and tall
and she chose me for her partner. I thought to myself that the poor thing does
not see that I am white and she is black. I did not spur her because of my
education. [Remember my background was that of an assimilated Reform Jew and
mixed dancing OK.]
It pains me from the race riots in
the 1960’s against among other people a lot of Jews to today that Blacks have
become antisemites. In fact, it was the Arabs who went into Africa and sold
slaves. Now many Blacks are Muslim.
Jamaica Queens is mainly black and
partially Hispanic in nature. Hundreds of students at Hillcrest High School in New York’s
neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens, “rampaged through the halls” of their school
for nearly two hours last week after they discovered that a teacher had
participated in a pro-Israel rally, the US media reported early Sunday
morning. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-775157 Love begets love and hate begets
hate.
Today, Israel received the prisoner
release list and is unhappy so the families were not notified. The eating and
sleeping condition of prisoners was horrible and one 84year old with a heart
condition in the ICU. https://www.aol.com/news/irregular-meals-benches-beds-hostages-230752751.html
Ukrainian War. https://www.aol.com/news/dead-wounded-awol-voices-desperate-054726058.html
Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant on Sunday conducted a
situation assessment in Division 210, near Mount Dov, together with the
Division’s senior commanders. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380960
Released yesterday. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380957
Capture of Thais. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381002
Musk viewed the horrors of Kfar Aza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380999
Defense Min. renovates shelters in
Ashkelon and North. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380992
President of Israel welcomes his son
from Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381005
Gas stationed attacked Oct.7
employees in Fridge. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380968
Tens of thousands of Moroccans
demonstrated Sunday in the country's commercial capital Casablanca. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380982
US Navy rescues ship. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380976
Pro-Palestinians block Manhattan
Bridge. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380978
Health Minister Uriel Busso revealed
on Sunday that 72-year-old Adina Moshe from Kibbutz Nir Oz, who was freed from
Hamas captivity this
past Friday, acted nobly when she tried to persuade Hamas to release another
hostage instead of her. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380980
Fate of 4th hostage release still uncertain amid
disagreements over list | The Times of Israel
Police arrest suspect in shooting of 3 Palestinian
students in Vermont | The Times of Israel
Will hostage release continue? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380973
Nov. 28th
Montreal Jewish Center hit by
firebomb. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381042
Ahed Tamimi to be released. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381038
"It was stuffy, we weren’t
permitted to open the curtains. I just opened a window, so I could have some
air. We slept on chairs, like we were waiting in a hospital, without a
mattress," said Munder, who was freed from Hamas captivity this past Friday. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381043
BBC Hamas practiced for three years.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381033
Male Hostage sends greetings to
family. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381052
Op-Ed Glick: Biden is the primary
obstacle to Israeli victory. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381051
Released on the 4th day. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381030
EU Foreign Ministers split over
Israel. https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/11/27/visits-eu-leaders-israel-highlight-growing-divisions-brussels-war-gaza/
Brain Cancer Research. https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-775427
Dogs were critical in finding the
headquarters in hospital but four died. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-775184
Antisemites target US Synagogues. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-775443
Tanzanian Student murdered Oct. 7th
sent back home for Burial. https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-775372
We accidently shot one shell into
Lebanon this evening.
Declared dead officially today but
died on Oct. 7. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381079
Ceasefire violated and violators
dead. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381073
Send a letter to IDF Soldiers. https://letter2idf.org/
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/mark-levin-biden-blinken-plan-destroy-israel
Children forced to watch horrors of
Oct. 7. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381075
Ravid Katz, whose sister and two
nieces were recently released from Hamas captivity as part of the
prisoner swap, has been missing since the start of the war on October 7, when
Hamas terrorists attacked towns near the Gaza border. On Monday, his family was
informed that his body had been identified, and that he had been murdered on
the morning of October 7, by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israeli
territory. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381069
More bodies found. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380949
During a government meeting, MK Benny
Ganz admitted that the Haredi teachers’ budget is negligible compared to the
war budget, but "it is important that justice be seen", as he put it. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381074
Condition of Elma improves. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381077
Emily’s story in whispers. https://www.aol.com/news/first-cnn-father-describes-young-130922395.html
IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi
Halevi, said this afternoon (Tuesday) that the return of the hostages is a
silver lining and added that the IDF is ready to continue fighting. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381076
Nov. 29
I was speaking to my friend Haim O.
His grandson is a front-line paramedic which has him concerned. I remember the
Bar Mitzvah and the time flew. I told him that I know how hard and dangerous
the job is. With the Help of HASHEM and maybe a few psalms on my part things
will be hi OK.
Israel used to celebrate today as
the UN Resolution on Creating Israel Day but now the UN is not good for Israel.
Head of woman’s group ignores rape, murder the breaking of the female pelvis
during the brutality. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1unmexba
Weapons production tries to meet
demands. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-775577
Hamas interested in extending ceasefire
four more days. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381125
10 hostages and a pet freed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381083
Jewish Groups sue Berkley UC for not
curbing antisemitism. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-775592
Italian Rabbi attacked verbally. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381106
According to a Washington
Post report, the negotiators agreed that the five categories
would be: men too old for reserve military duty; female soldiers; male
reservists; active-duty male soldiers; and the bodies of Israelis who died
before or during captivity. The total is well over 100, but the source told the Post that
he could not yet provide a precise number. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381111
Leading Religious Zionist Rabbis met
with Central Command Commander, demanding that he increase security in Judea
and Samaria following criticism of his recent conduct with residents of the
region. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381114
Sinwar is a cold cruel anti-Jewish
murderer. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381122
Op-Ed Avi Gil: Arab leaders
occasionally warn that in the absence of a viable two-state solution, they may
have to revise their demands: no longer an independent Palestinian state
alongside Israel but equal, democratic rights to all, in one state between the
Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h1bmqhgbt
Op-Ed written by an Arab. Whoever believes
that the disaster that befell the State of Israel is the beginning of its end
is mistaken. This disaster marks, in my opinion, the start of a new beginning
and it further strengthens my confidence that the Jewish state will not cease
to prosper. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryqzhqgba
Op-Ed Mann believes that Musk’s
visit was a Charade. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/b10klsqbt#autoplay
Rodney, the dog, survived. https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/b1kcbtqb6#autoplay
Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism in a
House Bill. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381105
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is
selling a majority stake of the franchise to Miriam Adelson and her family for
a valuation in the range of $3.5 billion, The Athletic reported on
Tuesday, citing league sources. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381107
Nov. 30
I woke up this morning wondering if
the ceasefire was about to end today. Hamas tried some tricks and in the end
Israel-Hamas agreed to a one-day extension. Probably tomorrow and maybe
Shabbos. After that lacking an agreement, the IDF is prepared to fight and
negotiate others release. The name of another dead Israeli in Hamas hands
confirmed today. I believe Alon Tzafati who helped people get to safety at the
loss of his own life.
Yesterday there was a violation of
the ceasefire resulting in three more Shachidim. Then before I went to the
later Minyan, I heard of the terror attack in Yerushalayim and as I returned
from the Gym the Ramming Attack in Yarden River Valley. Before I put my fingers
on the Keyboard, there was an infiltration by air from Lebanon that was dealt
with.
3 dead and 8 wounded in a terror
attack in Yerushalayim. A reservist on leave from Gaza to visit a wounded
soldier was on his way back when he saw the attack. He sprung into action
engaged the terrorists along with another. He neutralized both. He was wounded
in his arm and continued fighting. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381179
Three Shachidim of yesterday. Number
of captives rises as more foreign workers identified. IDF Spokesman Rear
Admiral Daniel Hagari delivered a statement to the media this evening (Monday)
on the return of the sixth group of hostages to Israel as well as Hamas' claims
that three members of the Bibas family, including a 10-month-old baby and four-year-old
boy, were killed while being held as hostages in Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381160
Deaths of
the infants may be false. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381143
Since the start of the Swords of Iron
War, hundreds of new olim from Russia and Ukraine have volunteered their
efforts to assist the IDF and civilian Home Front. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381164
This is why we nearly stopped the
ceasefire. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381170
Using a Jew, they murdered as a
Pally victim. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381141
Hostages released on Wednesday. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-775672
Milestone: Dr. Henry Kissinger, 100,
former Secretary of State, still active in advice. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381172
UN “The Secretary-General's words only sharpen the fact that
when it comes to Israeli women, sexual violence that has been proven by state
authorities still needs to be ‘investigated.’ For him, when it comes to Israeli
women, you can doubt the facts and wait 55 days to call an unknown party to
conduct an ‘investigation.’ He does not acknowledge that Hamas committed these
crimes!” said Erdan. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381173
Op-Ed Glick Haliva has to go. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381191
Energy Minister Israel Katz (Likud)
has called for the relatives of two Jerusalem terrorists to be stripped of
their Israeli citizenship. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381190
IDF intercepts suspicious
areo-penetration from Lebanon. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381202
Ramming attack on two soldiers 1
Shachid. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381200
Dec. 1
At 5:44AM Hamas sent to Sderot via
air rocket a message of their ceasefire intentions. Israel waited until 7AM and
then back into the fray.
Another man died from yesterday’s
terror attack. Despite raising his hands and laying down his gun the soldiers
mistook him for Amalek. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381230
All in all, a total of 87 lives were
saved by the ceasefire. There was a positive effect on Tel Aviv business and
other places.
Today’s war has moved from the air
south to Rafiach and Khan Unis.
Arab Israeli children released. Their father Youssef, 53,
and brother Hamza, 23, were taken captive alongside them and are still held
hostage in Gaza. Youssef has 18 total children with his two wives and 20
grandchildren, and is the primary breadwinner. Bilal and Aisha are the first
Arab Israelis to be released since October 7; at least five are believed to
remain in Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381210
Updates to 11AM. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381243
Boys were drugged and branded by
terrorist. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381227
With the Thai hostages freed over
100 saved during the cease fire. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381246
Holocaust Museum turns into a school
for evacuees. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381247
Israel knocked out Houthi Missile
and Drone stowage facility last night (Thursday).
Tons of vegetables lost in the south
and fruit in the north. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381185
Charedim need defensive guns. About 100,000 residents currently live in the Haredi city of
Beitar Illit. Beitar Illit is located in Gush Etzion in front of the hostile
Arab village of Hussan and is surrounded by other Arab villages such as the
village of Nachalin on the other side of the city, from where terrorists have
already infiltrated Beitar Illit several times. Only with the help of G-d did
it end without casualties. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381232
IDF providing information to Gazans where it is
safe. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381250
House Bill to stop the $6 Billion to
Iran. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381241
Must ensure that Gaza will no longer
be a threat. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381245
Blinken’s US Presidential Race Time
Table for the War. Blinken
said to warn war cabinet Israel may not have months to topple Hamas | The Times
of Israel
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/11/30/who-verifies-nprs-reporting-on-the-hamas-war/
George Santos refuses to resign a
day before expulsion vote. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381242
Top
takeaways, real winner of DeSantis, Newsom debate (foxnews.com)
Arab Murders renew Bedouin Family
Honor. Pregnant
woman stabbed to death in front of her kids in Lod; unborn baby also dies | The
Times of Israel
As conclude this more
rocket attacks and the TV showed a burning car. Also buildings damaged. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381254
We cannot have more ceasefires as
there will be traps. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381251
A healthy and peaceful
Shabbos rest,
Rachamim Pauli
