Parsha Pinchas Part 2
27:1
Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of
Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the
son of Joseph; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and
Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.
They might be orphans
but if each of the girls had a nice parcel of land, they would become
financially attractive for marriage.
2 And
they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes
and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting,
saying: 3 'Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among
the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the
company of Korah, but he died in his own sin; and he had no sons.
The sin is unspecified.
Rabbi Akiva is of the opinion that he was the man gather Mann on Shabbos.
4 Why
should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he
had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.'
39 years ago prior to
the spies, our father was supposed to have a portion in the land. We are is
closest relatives for inheritance.
5 And
Moses brought their cause before the LORD. 6 And the LORD spoke unto
Moses, saying: 7 'The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt
surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren;
and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
Since Machir was a Bechor
and other children had large portions, each of these five women might have a
very large portion in the Tribal Land. This made each one attractive financially
for other men from Menashe claiming their portion to attach themselves with one
of the daughters for an extra-large amount of farm land.
8 And
thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a man die, and have no
son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his
daughter. 9 And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his
inheritance unto his brethren.
In western countries and
Arab Countries, it was often forbidden for a woman to be a land owner and all
the more so to vote until a little over a hundred years ago and here 3300 years
ago women can own land.
10 And
if he have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's
brethren. 11 And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give
his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he
shall possess it. And it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of
judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.'
So the woman can inherit
land and set up a farming business.
12 And
the LORD said unto Moses: 'Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold
the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. 13 And when
thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy
brother was gathered; 14 because ye rebelled against My commandment
in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify Me at
the waters before their eyes.'--These are the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the
wilderness of Zin. 15 And Moses spoke unto the LORD,
saying: 16 'Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a
man over the congregation, 17 who may go out before them, and who may
come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that
the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no
shepherd.' 18 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take thee Joshua the son
of Nun, a man in whom is spirit, and lay thy hand upon him; 19 and
set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give
him a charge in their sight. 20 And thou shalt put of thy honour upon
him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may
hearken. 21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall
inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the LORD; at his word shall
they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children
of Israel with him, even all the congregation.' 22 And Moses did as
the LORD commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the
priest, and before all the congregation. 23 And he laid his hands
upon him, and gave him a charge, as the LORD spoke by the hand of Moses.
This coronation is called Semicha in Hebrew and is used for anointing
Rabbis or Kings from a Rabbi before. The original Semicha of Rabbis after
entering Israel was by placing the hands on the head of the recipient
28:1
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 Command the children of
Israel, and say unto them: My food which is presented unto Me for offerings
made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Me, shall ye observe to offer unto Me in
its due season. 3 And thou shalt say unto them: This is the offering
made by fire which ye shall bring unto the LORD: he-lambs of the first year
without blemish, two day by day, for a continual
burnt-offering. 4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and
the other lamb shalt thou offer at dusk; 5 and the tenth part of an
ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin
of beaten oil. 6 It is a continual burnt-offering, which was offered
in mount Sinai, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto the
LORD. 7 And the drink-offering thereof shall be the fourth part of a
hin for the one lamb; in the holy place shalt thou pour out a drink-offering of
strong drink unto the LORD. 8 And the other lamb shalt thou present
at dusk; as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering
thereof, thou shalt present it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
the LORD.
This section deals with the daily offering followed by Shabbos,
Rosh Chodesh, the three Regelim and the high holidays.
9 And
on the sabbath day two he-lambs of the first year without blemish, and two
tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil,
and the drink-offering thereof. 10 This is the burnt-offering of
every sabbath, beside the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering
thereof.
Although for the ordinary man lighting a fire was forbidden on
Shabbos or taking from a lit flame to burn an offering or cook-bake-fry flour, for
heaven there was an exception in Melacha. It is similar to the use of the king of
Salem aka Yerushalayim priest of the Most High. So here to the offering on
Shabbos, Yom Tov, High Holidays or Rosh Chodesh for THE MOST HIGH.
11 And
in your new moons ye shall present a burnt-offering unto the LORD: two young
bullocks, and one ram, seven he-lambs of the first year without
blemish; 12 and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a
meal-offering, mingled with oil, for each bullock; and two tenth parts of fine
flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, for the one ram; 13 and
a several tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering unto
every lamb; for a burnt-offering of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire
unto the LORD. 14 And their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of
wine for a bullock, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth
part of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt-offering of every new moon
throughout the months of the year. 15 And one he-goat for a
sin-offering unto the LORD; it shall be offered beside the continual
burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof.
Besides Yom Kippur, each month on Rosh Chodesh there was a goat
for a Korban Chatas to make an appointment.
16 And
in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the LORD'S
Passover. 17 And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast;
seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. … 26 Also in the day of
the first-fruits, when ye bring a new meal-offering unto the LORD in your feast
of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no manner of servile
work; …
We continue on for all the holidays and each one is specified.
30:1
And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD commanded
Moses.
Parshiyos Matos-Massei
Literally the Tribes (Matos or staff) travel. Often the Hebrew Sheves
is used for tribe and in plural Shivaism or Shevatim. Sefer Bamidbar (Book of
Numbers) ends this week.
Why is staff interchangeable with tribe? We find this in the story
of Yehuda and Tamar. In Beresheis (Gen. 38) we see when Yehuda is over-come by his
Yetzer for Tamar, she says give me a pledge your ring (seal) and staff. Later
he wants to have her burnt (being a daughter of a priest of the Most High) for
having relations with a man instead of Yehuda’s son; she produces the signet
and the staff. So that is the source of using staff for the tribe. Also a few
weeks ago in Parsha Korah 17:8 Aaron’s staff of Levi produces Almond Buds.
Having left the reality of the act of Pinchas
and Moshe going up the mountain and giving the reigns to Yehoshua Bin Nun we
are going to discuss now the laws of annulling a vow. I can just imagine after
the recent rocket attacks somebody making a Neder to tear each member of Hamas
apart with his bare hands and going to a Rabbi to remove the Neder. A woman is
even more emotional than a man and therefore her husband or father was given
the power to remove the Neder which a daughter under the age of 12 made or one’s
wife.
We enter into a new section here with the war on
the Midian Tribe that seduced Am Yisrael and the conditions of captivity and
spoils. I assume that out of the girls under the age of 3 that were captured
and converted we all have Midian Genes in our blood today. This section is
followed by the laws of ritual purification of vessels.
30:2 And Moses spoke unto the heads of the
tribes of the children of Israel, saying: This is the thing which the LORD hath
commanded. 3 When a man vows a vow unto the LORD, or swears an oath to bind his
soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all
that proceeds out of his mouth. 4 Also when a woman vows a vow unto the LORD,
and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth, 5 and
her father hears her vow, or her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and
her father holds his peace at her, then all her vows shall stand, and every
bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 6 But if her father
disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds
wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her,
because her father disallowed her. 7 And if she be married to a husband, while
her vows are upon her, or the clear utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath
bound her soul; 8 and her husband hear it, whatsoever day it be that he hears
it, and hold his peace at her; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds
wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. 9 But if her husband disallow
her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon
her, and the clear utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul;
and the LORD will forgive her. 10 But the vow of a widow, or of her that is
divorced, even everything wherewith she has bound her soul, shall stand against
her. 11 And if a woman vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a
bond with an oath, 12 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and
disallowed her not, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she
bound her soul shall stand. 13 But if her husband make them null and void in
the day that he hears them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips, whether
it were her vows, or the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath
made them void; and the LORD will forgive her. 14 Every vow, and every binding
oath to afflict the soul, her husband may let it stand, or her husband may make
it void.
Both the daughter and wife have to listen to the
authority. Usually, the husband handles the purse strings. But even still, she
might want to vow no more relations with the husband or have anything to do
with his mother or sister he can null her vow.
…17 These are the statutes, which the LORD
commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter,
being in her youth, in her father's house.
31:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2
'Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites; afterward shall you be
gathered unto thy people.'
If you and I heard that this would happen unto
us what would be our natural thought? We would take our time. The joke is that
Russia asked a few men what they would like for their last request. One said I
want a liter of vodka. They gave him the same and executed him another a great
meal. The third asked to be buried next to Putin. They said, “But he is alive.”
He replied, “I can wait!”
3 And Moses spoke unto the people, saying:
'Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to
execute the LORD'S vengeance on Midian.
Midian is a small nation yet Moshe calls upon
all 600,000 men to be ready even if he does not need all for the battle.
4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all
the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.' 5 So there were delivered, out
of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed
for war.
Out of the 600,000 soldiers only 12000 were
needed to 2/100ths of the people or 1 in 50 soldiers would be taken for war.
6 And Moses sent them, a thousand of every
tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war,
with the holy vessels and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
Them along with Phinehas:
This shows that Phinehas equaled them all (Sifrei Mattoth 34). Why did Phinehas
go, and Eleazar did not go? The Holy One, blessed is He, said, “The one who
began the mitzvah by killing Cozbi the daughter of Zur, should finish it” (Mid.
Tanchuma Mattoth 3). Another interpretation: He sought the vengeance of Joseph,
his maternal grandfather, for it says, “And the Medanites sold him” (Gen.
37:36) (Sifrei Mattoth 34, Sotah 43a). How do we know that the Phinehas’s
mother was [descended] from Joseph? Because it says,“[Eleazar the son of Aaron
took himself one] of the daughters of Putiel (פּוּטִיאֵל)”
(Exod. 6:25) [meaning] of the descendants of Jethro, who fattened (פִּטֵּם) calves for idolatry, and from the
descendants of Joseph, who made light of (פִּטְפֵּט)
his passion and prevailed over it [when he was tempted by Potiphar’s wife].
Another interpretation: He was [the kohen] anointed for war. — [Sotah 43a] The
sacred utensils: The holy Ark (Sifrei Mattoth 34, Num. Rabbah 22:4) and the
golden showplate (Mid. Aggadah), since Balaam was with them and through sorcery
was able to make the Midianite kings fly, and he flew along with them, he
[Phinehas] showed them the showplate on which God’s Name was engraved, and they
fell down [to earth]. For this reason it says, concerning the Midianite kings,
“upon their slain” (verse 8), for they fell from the air on top of those slain.
Likewise, it says in the book of Joshua (13:22) in connection with Balaam,
“upon (sic) their slain.” - [Mid. Tanchuma Mattoth 4] In his possession:
Heb. בְּיָדוֹ, lit. in his hand,
[here] in his possession. Similarly, “taking all his land from his possession (מִיָּדוֹ) ” (Num. 21: 26). - [Sifrei Mattoth 37]
We have a tradition that
12,000 others were used to transport supplies and another 12,000 sat and
learned Torah so that we would have a victory.
7 And they warred against Midian, as the LORD
commanded Moses; and they slew every male.
I do not know about every Arab but certainly
every Hamas Person is behaving like Amalek and if we destroy all the males
there will be no more war from them for a long-long time.
8 And they slew the kings of Midian with the
rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings
of Midian; Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
The five kings of
Midian: Do I not see that the verse lists five [kings]? Why was it necessary
[for Scripture] to say “five”? But it is to teach you that they were all
equally involved in the conspiracy, and they all received the same punishment.
Balaam went there [to Midian] to receive his reward for the twenty-four
thousand that had fallen from Israel as a result of his advice, and now he left
Midian to meet the Israelites, and he offered them harmful advice. He said to
them, “If, when you were six hundred thousand, you could not overcome them, and
now with twelve thousand, you come to fight?” They gave him his just deserts-in
full, without depriving him in the least. — [Sifrei Mattoth 40] With the sword:
He came against Israel and exchanged his craft for theirs. For they are
victorious only with their mouths, through prayer and supplication, and he came
and adopted their craft to curse them with his mouth. So they too came against
him by exchanging their craft for the craft of the nations, who come with the
sword, as it says [concerning Esau],“And you shall live by your sword” (Gen.
27:40). - [See Mid. Tanchuma Balak 8]
These kings seem to be sheiks of small tribes
that lived in each place or perhaps what we would call mayors of a town or
village.
9 And the children of Israel took captive the
women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their
flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
As was the custom in wars during those days.
However, Yisrael died in the plague do to their women and so we have an
exception here.
10 And all their cities in the places wherein
they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire. 11 And they took
all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast. 12 And they brought
the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the
priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp,
unto the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
The soldiers were disciplined and did not take
the spoils for themselves but brought them in an orderly fashion to Moshe.
13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all
the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. 14
And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands
and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war. 15 And
Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive?
Chabad translates this as follows: Did you allow
all the females to live? The meaning is why did you allow. The
reason is that Yisrael is above the standard convention of war. We are under
Chanchaga HASHEM. We do not take orders from men but from HASHEM. [Now draw
your own conclusions about Amalek in Gaza and what the Torah thinks for these
lovelies threw the Fatah People 14 stories to their deaths. A 14 story high
refugee shanty you may ask – draw your own
conclusions.]
16 Behold, these caused the children of
Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to revolt so as to break faith with the
LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the
LORD. 17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every
woman that hath known man by lying with him. 18 But all the women children,
that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
The Pshat here is if the female was a virgin she
shall be kept alive as she could not be a fertility Kedisha. The interpretation
is from 3 years and younger. However, I tend to think more in terms of the
Pshat. It would seem to me that after 33 centuries, we would all have Ketura
genes within us. Look at this our enemies Moav and Midian via David Melech
Yisrael almost all of us have Moav genes within us. Among the Goyim one’s tribe
goes according to the father. Thus if an Amalek woman married a Moav male, her
child would be Moav and vice versa. Today in Judaism, the tribe comes from the
father but the Judaism comes from the mother as she instills it into the
child.
19 And encamp ye without the camp seven days;
whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify
yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives. 20
And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats'
hair, and all things made of wood, ye shall purify.'
Today we do not hold ritual purification at all
but we do not consider a non-Jew who dies Tumay as when he was alive he was not
Tahor and therefore not Para Aduma is needed for purifications. Not so here
they are treated like dead Jews. Is this the exception or has our Halacha
changed 180 degrees with the years?
21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of
war that went to the battle: 'This is the statute of the law which the LORD
hath commanded Moses: 22 Howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron,
the tin, and the lead, 23 everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make to
go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified
with the water of sprinkling; and all that abides not the fire ye shall make to
go through the water. 24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and
ye shall be clean, and afterward ye may come into the camp.'
This is the basis for the laws of koshering
pots, pans, ovens, utensils etc.
25 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 26
'Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and
Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation;
27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that
went out to battle, and all the congregation; 28 and levy a tribute unto the
LORD of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both
of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the flocks;
Today we are not supposed to take spoils of war.
However theoretically we use a neutron bomb and the population is wiped out
should we let the houses and couches inside etc. go to waste? Therefore, we
have the above guide lines.
…53 For the men of war had taken booty, every
man for himself.-- 54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the
captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting,
for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle; and when they saw the
land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for
cattle, 2 the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke unto
Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation,
saying: 3 'Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh,
and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 4 the land which the LORD smote before the
congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.'
There is no rebellion against Moshe or HASHEM
but a request similar to the request of the five daughters regarding their
inheritance.
5 And they said: 'If we have found favor in
thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession; bring us
not over the Jordan.' 6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the
children of Reuben: 'Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit here?
7 And wherefore will ye turn away the heart of the children of Israel from
going over into the land which the LORD hath given them? 8 Thus did your
fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9 For when they
went up unto the valley of Eshkol, and saw the land, they turned away the heart
of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD
had given them. 10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled in that day, and He swore,
saying: 11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years
old and upward, shall see the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and
unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed Me; 12 save Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly
followed the LORD. 13 And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and He
made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the
generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed. 14 And,
behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to
augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. 15 For if ye turn away
from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will
destroy all this people.'
Moshe is talking this way to them because he
fears another rebellion against his leadership and he has been told by HASHEM
that after the war of Midian he is going to be gathered to his forefathers. He
wants to clean this up before Yehoshua takes over.
16 And they came near unto him, and said: 'We
will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones; 17
but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until
we have brought them unto their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the
fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 We will not return
unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his
inheritance.
They make a pledge to help the Bnei Yisrael
conquer the land and settle in it.
19 For we will not inherit with them on the other
side of the Jordan, and forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on
this side of the Jordan eastward.'
20 And Moses said unto them: 'If ye will do
this thing: if ye will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war, 21 and
every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until He hath
driven out His enemies from before Him, 22 and the land be subdued before the
LORD, and ye return afterward; then ye shall be clear before the LORD, and
before Israel, and this land shall be unto you for a possession before the
LORD. 23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD; and
know ye your sin which will find you. 24 Build you cities for your little ones,
and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.'
25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke unto Moses, saying:
'Thy servants will do as my lord commands. 26 Our little ones, our wives, our
flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; 27 but thy
servants will pass over, every man that is armed for war, before the LORD to
battle, as my lord says.' 28 So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar
the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers'
houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.
The request is not out of anger or rebellion but
out of a request for good land for their cattle and sheep.
29 And Moses said unto them: 'If the children
of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man
that is armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before
you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession; 30 but if
they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you
in the land of Canaan.' 31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben
answered, saying: 'As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. 32
We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the
possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.' 33 And
Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben, and unto the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of
Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land,
according to the cities thereof with their borders, even the cities of the land
round about.
So the people of Reuven, Gad and half of Menashe
will inherit the land over the Yarden but will be part of Am Yisrael.
34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and
Ataroth, and Aroer; 35 and Atroth-shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah; 36 and
Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran; fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 37 And the
children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim; 38 and Nebo, and
Baal-meon--their names being changed--and Sibmah; and gave their names unto the
cities which they built. 39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went
to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein. 40 And
Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. 41 And
Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them
Havvoth-jair. 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and
called it Nobah, after his own
name.
Please
bear with me give me the leisure to speculate this once:
I would like you all to look at the Map of the Sinai
Desert: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sinai-peninsula-map.jpg I
usually do not go out on a limb like this but recently I saw a few films and
commentaries on Nuweiba http://www.touregypt.net/nuweiba.htm Where
on the Saudi side there is a column that says at this point Moshe crossed the
sea with the Bnei Yisrael and chariot wheels and other items were found in the
shallow water there. The article and film was first sent to me by my late
friend Elio of blessed memory.
Nuweiba, which means "bubbling
springs" in Arabic, is a 7-km long town stretched along the Aqaba coast of
the Sinai Red Sea. It would be an ideal spot to rest and drink for people and
animals because of the springs.
If we go back 3323 years the ice caps from the last Ice Age were
much thicker and the oceans many meters lower. Off the coast of Haifa a town
was found to have existed in what is now about 25 meters of water of course
this is before Moshe according to the people who discovered the town.
It is not customary for a Rabbi to open up his Drasha based on
archeological and scientific facts as in Torah we usually require tradition or
proofs from the Tanach with other than the cross of the Sea of Reeds which
would make the gulf of Eilat at Nuweiba so shallow at the onset that sea weed
or regular reeds would be growing in that area.
I do not try to find out where exactly Ramses was. However, it
most likely was either on the 4th branch of the Nile River seen
by NASA photos of the Nile or near the Red Sea coast. Suez could even have been
part of Goshen as during the Yom Kippur War the Israeli Army occupied Suez if I
am not mistaken and it is part of or close to Goshen. From the first map above
and the scale it would not be impossible to see a path at the rate of travel of
20 to 25 miles per day for a people to go and still have the animals graze and
move. There is a limit how much flocks can move but there are also miracles
occurring. Beresheis 33:12 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. A
good excuse for Yacov and yet I have seen Buffalo who just calved take their
calves on a trip for a mile or two in a short time.
So with the whole distance involved about 100 plus to 120 it would
be feasible at 20 miles a day in six days to cover the distance. Some people
would be riding on donkeys like the children and the elderly but most, being
slaves would have the muscles and physical strength to endure a daily 20 mile
walk and even more or perhaps less. On the evening of the 6th day
they are stuck in Nuweiba. I have still one problem here as the beach or
entrance is basically flat. However, looking at the topographic map on top we
do see a mountain pass beforehand and Pharaoh may be held there by HASHEM.
The crossing of the Sea would have been a real Sea in the gulf of
Eilat and not a lake between Egypt and Sinai as most of the speculation by
scholars have been through the years and no archeological proof has ever been
found.
So given the leeway to speculate let us see how it works out with
our Pasukim.
33:1 These
are the stages of the children of Israel, by which they went forth out of the
land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And
Moses wrote their goings forth, stage by stage, by the commandment of the LORD;
and these are their stages at their goings forth. 3 And
they journeyed from Ramses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the
first month; on the morrow after the Passover the children of Israel went out
with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians, 4 while
the Egyptians were burying them that the LORD had smitten among them, even all
their first-born; upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments. 5 And
the children of Israel journeyed from Ramses, and pitched in Succoth.
One day’s journey and Succoth was
in the wilderness (but where).
6 And
they journeyed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the
wilderness.
These would be stops going down the
coast of the southern Sinai Peninsula until one cuts through the mountains.
7 And
they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pihahiroth,
One of the roads that cross the
Sinai there.
which is before Baal-zephon;
This is somewhere in the mountain
pass around Nuweiba. It might have been an awe inspiring mountain site that
would make it have the name Baal-zephon or have an area for viewing the star
Polaris from a certain area on the mountain top as the Egyptians learned
Astronomy from Avraham Avinu when he passed through.
and they pitched before Migdol. 8 And
they journeyed from Penehahiroth, and passed through the midst of the
sea into the wilderness; and they went three days' journey in the
wilderness of Etham,
This implies being on the Saudi
side if I am correct. It would be about a 3 day trip to Aquba. They then return
to Sinai or they crossed back after the Egyptians died by another miracle.
and pitched in Marah. 9 And
they journeyed from Marah, and came unto Elim; and in Elim were twelve springs
of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees; and they pitched there. 10 And
they journeyed from Elim, and pitched by the Red Sea. 11 And
they journeyed from the Red Sea, and pitched in the wilderness of Sin. 12 And
they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin,
This Sin is spelled Samech Yod Nun
as we spell the country of China in Hebrew and is not the Tzade Nun written
later on which is near the modern Sde Boker in the Negev south of Beer Sheva
and Dimona and closer to Maaleh Akravim.
and pitched in Dophkah. 13 And
they journeyed from Dophkah, and pitched in Alush. 14 And
they journeyed from Alush, and pitched in Rephidim, where was no water for the
people to drink. 15 And they journeyed from Rephidim, and pitched in the
wilderness of Sinai. 16 And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and
pitched in Kibroth-hattaavah. 17 And
they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and pitched in Hazeroth. …
36 And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and pitched in the
wilderness of Zin--the same is Kadesh.
This area is reasonably close to
Arab so as to send an alert to the king and cause the war mentioned earlier in
the Sefer.
37 And
they journeyed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land
of Edom.-- 38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the
commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on
the first day of the month. 39 And Aaron was a hundred and twenty and three years old
when he died in mount Hor.
As I wrote in the past 14 of the
stops were made in the first year and more than half of them before receiving
the Torah. Very few stops are mentioned in the next 38 years until the last
year we suddenly see a lot of journeying again.
40 And
the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan,
heard of the coming of the children of Israel.-- 50 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,
saying: 51 'Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them:
When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 then
ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy
all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all
their high places.
Moshe Dayan’s mistakes in the Six
Day War included getting bold headed which would lead to the Yom Kippur War,
not letting the Arabs of Yehuda and Shomron flee to Jordan on their own, to
give the keys to the Temple Mount to the Arabs there and perhaps not to put on
trial the murders of the 1929 Chevron Pogrom. Since the Mosques are not
idolatry we would not have had to break them down.
53 And
ye shall drive out the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein; for unto you
have I given the land to possess it. 54 And
ye shall inherit the land by lot according to your families--to the more ye
shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less
inheritance; wheresoever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according
to the tribes of your fathers shall ye inherit.
A man who is born from one tribe
shall live in the designated family area. There technically could arise over
the centuries conflict of interests when a man from let us say Dan inherits
from his mother who is from Benyamin property. Even though I have never read or
don’t remember a Halacha on this; I would think that Beis Din would pressure
him to sell the land in Yehuda and he could buy a house in the City or land in
his own tribal area with the money. It might also be allowed to have a rental
deal.
55 But
if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then
shall those that ye let remain of them be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks
in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell.
The Canaan Liberation Organization
within your borders will come and begin to harass you.
56 And
it shall come to pass, that as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you.
If you don’t drive them out, for
this sin; I, HASHEM, will drive you out.
34:1 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 'Command
the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land of
Canaan, this shall be the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance,
even the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof.
The next Pasukim are the borders of
the land from what appears to be the Dead Sea a
3 Thus
your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin close by the side of Edom,
and your south border shall begin at the end of the Salt Sea eastward; 4 and
your border shall turnabout southward of the ascent of Akravim, and pass along
to Zin; and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it
shall go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon; 5 and
the border shall turnabout from Azmon unto the Brook of Egypt, and the goings
out thereof shall be at the Sea.
Modern Scholars cannot decide if
the brook of Egypt is Nahal El Arish or the 4th part of the
Nile Delta which is now without water.
6 And
for the western border, ye shall have the Great Sea for a border; this shall be
your west border. 7 And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea
ye shall mark out your line unto mount Hor;
This is in Turkey at the
Turkish/Syrian Border. It appears to me that all of modern Lebanon and Syria
would belong to the Bnei Yisrael in the future.
8 from
mount Hor ye shall mark out a line unto the entrance to Hamath;
This the hot springs of Hamat Gader
where the Syrian, Jordanian and Israeli borders meet today and this area is
just below the Golan Heights in Israeli hands.
and the goings out of the border
shall be at Zedad; 9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the
goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your north border. 10 And
ye shall mark out your line for the east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham; 11 and
the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and
the border shall go down, and shall strike upon the slope of the sea of
Chinnereth eastward; 12 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the
goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea; this shall be your land according
to the borders thereof round about.' 13 And
Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: 'This is the land wherein ye
shall receive inheritance by lot, which the LORD hath commanded to give unto
the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; 14 for
the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the
tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received,
and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance; 15 the
two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan
at Jericho eastward, toward the sun-rising.'
Some the instructions are to the
Kinneret but the Golan Heights occupied by Reuven is on the other side of the
Kinneret and the promise to Avraham up until the Euphrates River is not
mentioned at this point as the border but for the future. Therefore only in the
Messianic Days will we see the real boundaries of Eretz Yisrael.
16 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 17 'These
are the names of the men that shall take possession of the land for you:
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun. 18 And
ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to take possession of the land. 19 And
these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of
Yephuneh. … 29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the
inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.'
These men had proven themselves and
the other men are this time on a spiritual and physical level ready for the
conquest of Canaan.
35: 1 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,
saying: 2 'Command the children of Israel, that they give unto
the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and open
land round about the cities shall ye give unto the Levites. …
These too shall provide temporary
sanctuary for the man slaughterer and an escort of Leviim until the city of
refuge.
9 And
the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 10 'Speak
unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye pass over the Jordan
into the land of Canaan, 11 then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge
for you, that the manslayer that kills any person through error may flee
thither.
There are certain situations that
merit this such as chopping wood with an axe where the head might fly off the
handle. However if an animal butted the man that he fell off a height on to
another person and killed him this is taint amount to a complete accident that
the man slaughtered could himself be killed in the misshapen and therefore
innocent and exempt from fleeing.
12 And
the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer
die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment. 13 And
as to the cities which ye shall give, there shall be for you six cities of
refuge. 14 Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three
cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. 15 For
the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the settler among them,
shall these six cities be for refuge, that every one that kills any person
through error may flee thither. 16 But
if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer; the
murderer shall surely be put to death. …
36:6 This
is the thing which the LORD hath commanded concerning the daughters of
Zelophehad, saying: Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the
family of the tribe of their father shall they be married. 7 So
shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for
the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe
of his fathers.
This paves the way for intra-family
and genetic problems.
8And every daughter, that possess
an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one
of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may
possess every man the inheritance of his fathers. 9 So
shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of
the children of Israel shall cleave each one to its own inheritance.'
Tribal areas were not only
politically correct but given the Stamp of Approval by HASHEM.
10 Even
as the LORD commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad. 11 For
Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad,
were married unto their father's brothers' sons. 12 They
were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and
their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
13 These are the commandments and the ordinances, which the
LORD commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains
of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
Chazak – Chazak v’ nit Chazak
Shabbat/August 3. Shabbat Mevorchim Molad for AV:
Will occur (August 5) Monday morning
53 minutes and 11 Chalakim
after 1 O’clock Jerusalem time.
What was, was. Now
Begin from the Beginning. By R. Yerachmiel Tilles
https://ascentofsafed.com/Stories/Stories/5784/1390-47.html
With no worries, goals, or
time limits, Ido was hitchhiking across China. Every morning he awoke in a
different hostel and decided where he was going next. "It was my type of
fun," he recalled.
One day, he decided to
travel to a city some 120 miles away on his own. Much of the route lay on dirt
roads and through dangerous terrain, but Ido was up for a challenge. After
walking for a while, he hitched a ride on a truck that was going that way.
The trip proved too
difficult even for the truck, however, and the driver told Ido he would have to
turn back. Undaunted, 22-year-old Ido continued on foot. Some 20 minutes later,
he found himself alone in a large field. He must have taken a wrong turn, but
he had no idea where, or even if he could retrace his steps.
He put down his backpack
and took out some water. At that moment, he recalled how, when he was a young
boy in Jerusalem, a rabbi from the north of Israel had visited his class and
taught the children a song, which translated roughly as, "What was, was.
The objective now is to begin from the beginning."
The long-forgotten song
seemed to encapsulate his current situation, and alone in the field, Ido began
to sing and dance. "Mah shehaya, hayah…"
Just then a pickup truck
rolled into the field. The driver, a little shocked at the strange apparition
of a white man dancing in the middle of a Chinese nowhere, asked him what he
was doing. Ido explained that he was making his way to Chengdu on foot and had
lost his way.
"Why are you
dancing?"
"This is a Jew's way
of asking G-d for help," the Israeli explained.
Bemused, the driver offered
to take him the rest of the way.
The man, a Chengdu
resident, dropped Ido at the only Jewish building he knew of in the city, the
Chengdu Chabad House. "Just go in", he told the backpacker,
"They will help you."
Ido, who had no idea what
day it was, walked in and found himself in the middle of a Shabbat meal.
Standing at the head of the table and addressing the crowd was the rabbi's
grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Grossman, chief rabbi of the northern Israeli city
of Migdal HaEmek.
Ido was shocked to see the
same rabbi who had visited his classroom so many years before and taught him
the song he had been singing in the field. "I saw G-d's hand at work in
China," he exclaimed later.
A few weeks afterward,
Rabbi Dovi Henig, the Chabad representative in Chengdu, received a text message
from Ido, "Can you please tell me what time Shabbat begins this
week?"
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Source: Expanded and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles from collive.com
Why this week? The second half of the doubled Weekly Torah Reading
is all about journeys and stopping places.
Biographical note:
Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman, chief rabbi of Migdal HaEmek since 1969 at
age 23, is a sixth generation Jerusalemite. He is a member of the Chief
Rabbinate Council and a recipient of the Israel Prize and many other
prestigious government awards for his successful efforts to bridge the gap
between the religious and secular populations in Israel (thus his nickname from
50 years ago, the Disco Rabbi). His Migdal Ohr educational
institutions and charitable organizations in Migdal HaEmek service thousands of
underprivileged and at-risk children and teenagers
Every once in a while I
bring down my own army experience as I did earlier in the week. As I wrap up
Sefer Bamidbar (Book of Numbers), on Day 301 what the retired Chief Rabbis are
saying about Shabbos and the war. Since it is the latest news, the story is
there.
Inyanay Diyoma
July 27th
Day 295 start of week 43
This time Hezballah over reacted and
is about to pay a very high price. Earlier in the day 4 Hezballah Members who
took over a house in Cuf-Calla (about 400 meters from Metula) were taken out.
This time they sent a larger rocket with 18kgs of explosives into the large
Druze City at the foot of Mt. Hermon. The rest was 11 children-teens dead on a
soccer field and up to 29 wounded. Helicopters ferried some to Tsfat others to
Rambam Hospital in Haifa. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393690
The TV reported that Netanyahu has
cut his US visit short and Sara her shopping spree. He has given a green light
for an operation in Lebanon despite Blinken and others pressuring him. An Israeli
security source is quoted by Sky News Arabic as saying Israel will respond
forcefully to the deadly Hezbollah rocket strike on Majdal Shams, “but we don’t
intend to spark a war.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-july-27-2024/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393698
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-812117
Friday rockets on the Ashkelon Area.
Response: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393694
The IDF has warned the population in southern
Khan Yunis to evacuate the area prior to additional military activity. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393692
Hamas Command Center in School. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393695
Netanyahu and Trump met. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393681
Shomron terror: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-812098
July 28th
Day 296
Funerals for 11 of the 12 children
killed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393723
One family buried 4 children. Photos
of the 11. The twelfth is hard to ID. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393717
It’s the terrain. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393723
IDF ready to respond to Hezballah. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393735
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit confirmed on Sunday
morning that Staff Sergeant Yonatan Aharon Greenblatt, aged 21, from Beit Shemesh, succumbed to severe injuries he
sustained during combat in the southern Gaza Strip on July 20. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393699
Personal analysis behind
the news. The distance between Cuf Kalia and Metula is about 400 meters. I
remember the area quite well from my border patrol. I think I could walk there
back and forth in ,the sun with my pacemaker and walker at my age where the
four terrorists were taken out.
Majdal Shams is an
unfriendly town. In the early 1980’s it snowed on Yom HaAtzmaut (independence day). I drove with my family
towards the Hermon, but it was closed. So I stopped off in Majdal Shams. I had
on my car a bunch of flags from a gas station in English, Hebrew and Arabic. It
read something like Allah’s blessing for peace, shalom and peace. They did not
take kindly to my vehicle. My children, wife and I were not lynched but were
unwelcome to park our car and play in the snow.
They are afraid of being
returned to Syria resulting in most not receiving Israeli Citizenship. In the
other Druze towns like Bukata and Mas Sadeh where quite a few serve in the
military and local government, Majdal Shams is different.
During the recent Syrian
Civil War. Israel offered humanitarian medical aid to the opposition wounded.
Two wounded were lynched out of an ambulance and murdered in Majdal Shams.
Perhaps this incident
will awaken the Druze. In the Shauf Mountains of Lebanon they expressed their
distain for Hezballah except Jumbalat. In Syria the 600,000 strong community is
anti-Hezballah and anti-Iran.
Kahn Unis: Among the terrorists eliminated were
seven terror cells whose members fired mortars toward IDF troops during combat
in the area. The terror cells were subsequently struck and eliminated by an IDF
aircraft. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393661
They both lost a leg but not their
love: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393663
They forcibly hurt me in captivity. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393726
IDF ready to respond to Hezballah. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393735
Norway says leave Lebanon NOW! https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393733
Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday
visited the soccer field in Majdal Shams where the 12 children were killed by a
Hezbollah rocket strike a day earlier and met with the head of the council,
Dolan Abu Salah. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393734
https://www.timesofisrael.com/three-men-drown-as-warning-issued-over-dangerous-seas/
Hamas has rejected some of Israel's key demands
for a ceasefire-prisoner swap deal, Reuters reported. No
security inspections. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393667
The UK has withdrawn its opposition to an
international arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, removing a significant
obstacle and highlighting the new Labor government's firmer stance towards
Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393678
Visiting the grave of the Rebbe: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393670
One less kilometer of tunnels. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393679
Being a father is more important: https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dodgers-freddie-freeman-returns-california-family-care-ailing-son
July 29th
Day 297
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393757 12th victim of rocket
IDed. Contrary to the initial post based on the report from the TV the rocket
did not contain only 18kg of explosives but 53kg of explosives or 116.7 lbs. of
explosives. A bag of cement is 45kg or 100 lbs.
From Earl F. I heard that a U.S. base in Syria also suffered a rocket
attack by Hezbollah. Look for the US to retaliate. I’m looking but nobody clued in uncle Joe about this.
IDF buys Iron Sting Mortars. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393776
This is disgusting and if it was
Muslim a war would break out:
Erdogan had said earlier on Sunday, "We must
be strong so Israel won't be able to do these things to the Palestinians. Just
as we entered Karabakh and Libya, we will do the same to Israel. There's
nothing left to do, we must be strong." – Katz: He will end like Saddam. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393758
Holland: Kick Erdogan out of NATO. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393763
A vehicle sustained an aerial strike while
traveling between Meiss Ej Jabal and Chaqra in southern Lebanon, the
Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen reported Monday morning. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393771
Netanyahu’s four conditions:
1. not allowing armed residents of northern Gaza to
return home, and inspection of those who do return to northern Gaza
2. the IDF continues to secure the Philadelphia
Corridor;
3. guarantees will be provided which will allow
Israel to renew the fighting after
the first stage of the deal, if the sides do not reach the agreements necessary
to proceed to the second stage;
4. Israel will receive, ahead of time, a list of the
names of the living hostages to be released in the deal. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393777
Netanyahu’s goal unachievable. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393768
The following has a yellow streak
running down somebody’s back and it isn’t Gallant. The Prime Minister's Office said on
Sunday night that the members of the Security Cabinet had authorized Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to decide on the
manner and timing of the response against the Hezbollah terrorist organization
in the wake of the massacre in Majdal Shams. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393759
UAV intercepted in North. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393766
During Liora's last months, the Argamani
family was supported by the Haverim Le'Refuah (Friends for Health) nonprofit,
which deals with obtaining and providing medicines to anyone who needs them.
Haverim Le'Refuah obtained expensive medicines for Liora, that are not included
in the Ministry of Health’s approved list of medicines, to treat her brain
cancer and prolong her life. The Argamani family forged a close relationship
with the staff, which has continued to this day. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393768
Algerian judoka Redouane Messaoud Dris
was disqualified from the men's under-73kg judo event at the Paris Olympics on
Sunday, after failing the weigh-in a day before he was scheduled to face
Israel's Tohar Butbul, organizers said, according to Reuters. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393760
860 civilians including 53 minors 688 soldiers
died. Total 1548 war dead. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393739
Yesterday, the police arrested a 38-year-old
Jewish resident of Lod who is suspected of breaking into an IDF base in the
Beit Shemesh area, while wearing an army uniform and pretending to be a
reservist, stealing weapons, and causing damage to military vehicles. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393743
The Hamas terror organization has sent National
Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir videos showing the torture of hostages
demanding that he ease the conditions of security prisoners, the Telegraph reported.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393742
Op-Ed Dr. Joseph Frager MD Kamala
Harris is no Joe Biden. … As one Israeli official said after Prime Minister Netanyahu
and Vice President Harris met, “When our enemies see the U.S. and Israel
aligned, it increases the chances for a hostage deal and decreases the chances
for regional escalation. When there is such daylight it pushes the deal further
away and brings a regional escalation closer.” Vice President Harris has thus
far only made the situation worse. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393724
Ben Hamou says that he must explain to people about the great personal
price he paid in this war and tells them that, “I lost my leg, but I am happy,
because I did a mission for my country. If someone had asked me about the war,
I would tell him that I was prepared to lose two legs, I would lose everything
for my country, because this is my mission. I want to save my family and my
country, because we don't have any country, other than Israel.” https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393745
Over the course of the past decade, the Shaul
family has fought, mostly on its own, to have his body brought back to Israel
for burial. Now, as Israel negotiates for the release of hostages kidnapped on
October 7, Zahava, Shaul's mother, who is sick with cancer, presents her last
request: That Israel bring Oron's body back to home, so that she may say a
final farewell before her own death. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393786
July 30th
Day 298
One man from Kibbutz Goshrim dies. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/393848
According to Mark Lewin, the
shipments being delayed include such things as jet engines, various
aircraft-mounted bombs, ballistic vests, and rifles. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393849
US don’t attack Beirut. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/393820
Op-Ed Ruthie Blum En way to Beirut? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393817
“The incident began when the terrorist, a Hamas
company commander in Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip, tried to seize a taser gun
from one of the soldiers, and only due to the determination of the soldiers did
they succeed in overpowering the terrorist," Honenu stated. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393851
When I was a paramedic, I was told
by another paramedic, who had served in a jail housing terrorists the following
story. “One day an Arab came to me complaining of chapped lips and I gave him
Vaseline. Suddenly, a lot of Arabs had chapped lips. Suddenly, a weaker Arab
complained of a ripped anus. The complaints rose until I handed out small vials
of Benzene for “chapped lips”. – Now this filthy member of Hamas accuses our
holy Jews of buggery!
Diane Sori sent me her Ed-Op in
response to my condemnation of the mocking of the “Last Supper”. It is
barbarism. https://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2024/07/op-ed-statesmans-address-to-congress-by.html
US intelligence believes that Iran is working to
stoke societal discord in the United States and undermine Donald Trump’s bid to
regain the White House — as it tried to do four years ago. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393841
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-complex-rescue-ops-in-gaza-idf-assess-some-
-may-never-be-found/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/pittsburgh-synagogue-vandalized-with-pro-hamas-graffiti/
A senior Hezbollah official told Al Jazeera that
foreign emissaries arriving in Lebanon asked the Shiite terror group not to
respond to Israel's expected retaliation, but Hezbollah refused. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393844
"The civil protest against the terrible
injustice towards the reservists in Sde Teiman is justified and I support it
with all my heart," wrote Minister Smotrich. … "I call on everyone to
obey the law and protect the integrity of the army and the people. Do not break
into bases and do not confront our brethren”. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393816
https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-worker-2-others-charged-with-divulging-state-secrets/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-shifts-western-sahara-stance-seeking-closer-ties-with-morocco/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-children-killed-in-london-knife-attack-uk-police-say/
Iran threatens Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393826
An Israeli strike on Yemen's rebel-held port of
Hudayda has caused at least $20 million in damage, adding to losses due to the
destruction of fuel storage facilities, a port official said on Monday,
according to the AFP news agency.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393822
Hollywood CA Schul attacked again. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393825
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)
seized a foreign oil tanker carrying more than 700,000 liters of smuggled fuel
north of the Persian Gulf, its official news outlet Sepah News reported
on Monday. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393823
Less flights to Beirut. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393790
July 31st
Day 299
Ethics of our Fathers (Perkei Avos)
Chapter 2 Mishnah 6:
(Hillel) also saw a skull floating upon the water. Said he
to it: Because you drowned others, you were drowned; and those who drowned you,
will themselves be drowned.
The Hamas terrorist organization announced on
Wednesday morning that the organization's leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was
eliminated in the Iranian capital of Tehran. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/393879
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari gave a special
statement on Tuesday night following the elimination of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393871
Terror attack on road 60. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393881
Terror cell that planted explosives eliminated.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393893
A federal judge has ordered that UCLA craft a
plan to protect Jewish students, months after pro-Palestinian Arab protests
broke out on campus. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393877
Op-Ed Diane Bederman: Most of us are aware of the corruption
in government.
https://dianebederman.com/oh-canaduh-the-corruption/
Rabbi Pauli says wait until you see
the healthcare price on US Citizens for illegal immigrants. The Israeli
Government is not going according to the Rabbis on expenditures.
The man who tried to assassinate Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears to have
posted violent antisemitic and anti-immigration content online as a teenager, a
senior FBI official told a US Senate hearing on Tuesday. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393870
Antisemitism in France the new norm. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-812678
Hamas
leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran, Hamas claimed on Wednesday morning,
while claiming Israel was behind the attack. Except that the rocket that took
him out in the six story building was fired from Teheran at close range.
Another attack took out Iranian Drones in Iraq
and there was a daylight attack in the Iranian neighborhood in Damascus.
The military court overnight Tuesday released
from custody a second soldier who was arrested at the Sde Teiman base on
suspicion of abusing a Nukhba terrorist. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393869
Nir murdered by rocket to be buried. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393867
Radical Islamist gets life in prison. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393875
Since the beginning of the war, the 98th Division
has dismantled over 100 kilometers of underground tunnel routes, a key part of
Hamas' terrorist infrastructure inside the Gaza Strip. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393853
August 1st
Day 300
NY Times: Haniyeh was killed by a
bomb smuggled into guesthouse a two months before. Nasrallah: The war has
entered into a new phase. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/393969
IDF and health ministry preparing
for war. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-812897
Trump
told his supporters that the US was no longer respected and that the globe was
headed to a third world war, which he proclaimed he would prevent. “I will
restore peace through strength,” he declared. https://www.jpost.com/us-elections/article-812875
New – old Hamas Leader: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-812775
Here’s the deal: https://www.aol.com/russia-agrees-free-evan-gershkovich-122600931.html
Revenge: https://www.aol.com/news/iranian-leader-khamenei-says-duty-101610538.html
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem
reminds U.S. citizens of the continued need for caution and increased personal
security awareness as security incidents often take place without warning. The
security environment remains complex and can change quickly.
On July 31, we updated the
Travel Advisory for Israel, West Bank and Gaza to reflect U.S. government
travel restrictions to northern Israel within 2.5 miles of the Lebanese and
Syrian borders to Level 4: Do Not Travel – the full text of the Travel Advisory
may be found here.
U.S. citizens are encouraged to
read the current Travel Advisory and Country Information Page for
Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, that advises U.S. citizens to be aware of the
continuing risks of travel to Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza due to the
security situation and heightened regional tensions and warns against travel to
Gaza.
One of the soldiers arrested for
abusing Arabs filmed himself. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-indicts-reservist-for-severely-beating-palestinian-detainees-filming-acts/
Proposal Massive Sun Shade. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-scientist-proposes-massive-space-sunshade-to-cut-global-temperatures-by-1-5oc/
Who was Fuad? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393949
Osama Bin Laden of Gaza=Dief gone. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393959
Dead Bodyguard murder 5 IDF
Soldiers. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393966
Aug 2nd
Day 301
As Shabbos is about to
enter we were given instructions by the just retired Chief Rabbis Lau and
Yosef.
One may walk with his
cellphone open on this coming Shabbos. [It should be noted that Home Front
Command sends a siren to smart phones per locality.] We had a couple weeks ago
suspected terrorist infiltration broadcasted to us one weekday. There is in my
opinion another reason for a medical emergency that could be caused by just the
siren going off and a person running and falling.
Radios and/or TV’s can
be put on the silent station. {My shelter is downstairs and isolated from the
rest of the house. I leave it on the second channel and I found it to have a
calming effect if people hear a siren and required to be there.}ds
It was recommended to
pray only in a Schul with a shelter. Elderly and ill people who have trouble
going home or to a shelter should stay home. {I doubt if stubborn ole coots
will listen to this – a Gezaira that the people do not accept. Unless an attack
occurs before Shabbos.}
HOWEVER; IF THE HOMELAND
SECURITY SAYS TO SHELTER IN PLACE, ONE IS TO PRAY BY HIMSELF AND NOT GO TO THE
SYNAGOGUE!
Check that your shelter
is stocked with water (and food). I have a battery powered fan for the shelter
if necessary.
Due to cyberattacks, the
internet may be out for a few days or for lack of electricity.
The Halacha tells us to
attack first the enemy who wants to murder us but our biggest ally and defender
against drones, rockets and missiles has other ideas.
The next Iranian attack could be
larger: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394004
https://www.timesofisrael.com/controversial-commander-barak-hiram-named-next-gaza-division-chief/
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/08/01/us-federal-judge-dismisses-mit-antisemitism-lawsuit/
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/08/01/trump-says-schumer-has-become-proud-member-hamas/
Time to thwart Iranian Nukes. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393997
Israelis take caution when abroad. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393987
Haniyah was the main obstacle to
hostage deal. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393981
He boasted of the safety in Iran.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394006
IDF ramps up defense in Yehuda and
Shomron. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393972
Terrorist-Journalist dies. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393980
Another school another terror
hideout. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393973
Nasrallah threat: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393976
Have a healthy, happy,
peaceful and restful Shabbos and hopefully redemption in Av,
Rachamim Pauli
