This week my granddaughter got married so the news is terse.
Miracle of the week:
The terrorist who blew up with the 8kilogram bomb was close to a Synagogue
filled with 80men and children.
Parsha Vaetchanan Part 2
6:1 Now this is the
commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD your God
commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to
possess it—
The Commandments are
linked to the land. Shmita, Teruma, Maaser, Orlah are linked to the land even
without a Mikdash and Korbanos. Add that and Yovel and Yebum instead of
Hatlitza of the widow of the childless brother. Parcels for inheritance and
cities of refugee for the accidental man slaughterer.
2 that thou might
fear the LORD thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments, which I
command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life;
and that thy days may be prolonged.
So periods in history
people died young and could be happy to see as children and grandchildren and
then periods of greatgrandchildren like Yosef saw. The goal is to spread Torah
and Mitzvos to your son and son’s son. Then your days will be prolonged.
3 Hear therefore,
O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may
increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto
thee--a land flowing with milk and honey.
Observance will yield a
land flowing with milk and honey.
4 Hear, O Israel:
the LORD our God, the LORD is one.
The declaration of the
Unity of G-D with the Ayn of the Shema and the Dalet of the Echud producing Ayd
or witness to the Unity.
5 And thou shalt
love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all
thy might.
Unconditional love for
the CREATOR wholehearted, with your interior and exterior being and all your
money.
6 And these words,
which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart;
24/7 your heart and head
shall be in tune with the L-RD and the Commandments.
7 and thou shalt
teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sit
in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and when thou lie down, and when
thou rise up.
It does not suffice that
you observe Torah for yourself, but it is imperative that you teach the
generation(s) after you the Torah and Mitzvos. Every second of everyday you sit
in your house, go outside, lie down and say the blessings and rise up thanking
G-D for restoring your soul unto yourself.
8 And thou shalt
bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between
thine eyes.
The Tephillin are on
your weaker hand but bound there so you feel them and a place that the Buddhist
call the third or spiritual eye on your forehead. A powerful contact spiritually
to the True World.
9 And thou shalt
write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
So when you go in or our
of your house, HASHEM is before your thoughts.
10 And it shall
be, when the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land which He swore unto
thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee--great and goodly
cities, which thou didst not build, 11 and houses full of all good
things, which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which thou didst not
hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat
and be satisfied--
The uncle of Rabbi Beryl
Wein, my teacher Rabbi Tuvia Wein Ztzal told me that when he came to live in
Eretz Yisrael, he was first sent to an abandon Arab House in Ramla Yisrael.
There was a grape vine that produced close to 1000 kilograms of grapes for
eating and making wine that he did not plant.
12 then beware
lest thou forget the LORD, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out
of the house of bondage. 13 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; and Him
shalt thou serve, and by His name shalt thou swear.
Although it is the
custom today not to swear by the NAME of the L-RD, still one would do so when
required by Halachic Law with great timidation.
14 Ye shall not go
after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about
you; 15 for a jealous God, even the LORD thy God, is in the midst of
thee; lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and He
destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
The human term jealousy
seems to me just a humanization of the L-RD for nothing exists from the sub-atomic
particle to galaxy clusters without the will of the L-RD. So in practical terms,
one cannot get jealous here but rather putting it in our terms like a man or woman
scorned by the spouse.
16 Ye shall not try
the LORD your God, as ye tried Him in Massah. 17 Ye shall diligently
keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and His testimonies, and His
statutes, which He hath commanded thee. 18 And thou shalt do that
which is right and good in the sight of the LORD; that it may be well with
thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD swore
unto thy fathers, 19 to thrust out all thine enemies from before
thee, as the LORD hath spoken.
The L-RD does not have
to prove HIMSELF to you, but you shall do HIS will and it is stated in Avos “Do
HIS will so that HE will cancel out others will before yours.”
20 When thy son
asks thee in time to come, saying: 'What mean the testimonies, and the
statutes, and the ordinances, which the LORD our God hath commanded you?
You shall educate your
children in the ways and laws of G-D.
21 then thou shalt
say unto thy son: 'We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the LORD brought us
out of Egypt with a mighty hand. 22 And the LORD showed signs and
wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house,
before our eyes. 23 And He brought us out from thence, that He might
bring us in, to give us the land which He swore unto our fathers. 24 And
the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for
our good always, that He might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Not only the ways and laws,
but HIS love and keeping us.
25 And it shall be
righteousness unto us, if we observe to do all this commandment before the LORD
our God, as He hath commanded us.
We are the underlings
and if we observe the commandments then we are rewarded.
7:1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into
the land whither thou go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before
thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and
the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and
mightier than thou; 2 and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them up
before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them;
thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;
Although the so-called “Palestinian
People” that did not exist before 1968CE claim it is there land, it is
imperative not to make a covenant with them. (Now tell that to the leftist in
Israel who grew up without really reading and understanding scripture. All the
more so believing.)
3 neither
shalt thou make marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his
son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. 4 For he will
turn away thy son from following Me, that they may serve other gods; so will
the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and He will destroy thee
quickly.
It is not always that
the wicked or the atheist leftist die for their non-belief but rather, G-D
takes one or two righteous to save the lives of hundreds born under
mal-education.
5 But
thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in
pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images
with fire.
Therefore anything from
the nations or idolatry must be destroyed.
6 For
thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee
to be His own treasure, out of all peoples that are upon the face of the
earth. 7 The LORD did not set His love upon you, nor choose you,
because ye were more in number than any people--for ye were the fewest of all
peoples--
You are not quantity but
quality.
8 but
because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore
unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and
redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt.
He promised Avraham,
Yitzchak and Yacov and kept his promise.
9 Know
therefore that the LORD thy God, He is God; the faithful God, who keeps
covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a
thousand generations;
The wicked cause
suffering for a few generations but the righteous trigger love for over 1000
generations.
10 and
repays them that hate Him to their face, to destroy them; He will not be slack
to him that hates Him, He will repay him to his face.
Measure for measure Meda
Knegged Meda.
11 Thou
shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances,
which I command thee this day, to do them.
The
Parsha concludes with following the Mitzvos and observing them.
Parsha Eikev
Last week I did not mention the six
cities of Refuge that Moshe set aside. Three of which were on the other of the
Yarden one in the Golan and one a bit below the Kinneret and one closer to the
area of the Dead Sea. This land belongs to us but in the meantime the little
king in Yarden has control of it. At this point in history and current events
it is even good for us that he rules and opposes ISIS and Hamas except for some
lip service to the later for internal consumption. But in the future, we will
inherit all of Syria and the area over the Yarden if not the whole country the
lands closer to the Jordan River Valley almost down to Akaka. Up into the
second paragraph of the Shema in this week’s Parsha we are receiving a pep talk
to the fighting men of Israel about not being afraid to go into battle to
conquer the land. I took my friend’s Seth letter to his friends and the
soldiers in his family where his son as a Rabbi gave pep-talks to soldiers
going into Gaza. I wrote about the fact in my news updates but a very large
amount of soldiers asked for army undershirts with Tzitzis which repel
perspiration made out of material where the cloth will not get bacteria to need
changing or smell from the lack of bathing during a conflict. The young men get
a Mitzvah and feel that the Tzitzis, Tephillin, Tehillim and Mezuzos are
guarding over them. The amount of at least war observant Jews has climbed
amazingly to proportions of the fighting men that we have not seen since the
days of Bar Kochba which ended in 136 CE.
7:12 And it shall come to pass,
because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep, and do them, that the LORD
thy God shall keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which He swore unto thy
fathers, 13 and He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; He will
also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land, thy corn and thy
wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in
the land which He swore unto thy fathers to give thee.
HASHEM has love for you and wants
to bless you but you have to behave. Only follow the Mitzvos, do good deeds and
love your fellow man is it that hard?
14 Thou shalt be blessed above
all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your
cattle.
A person is not complete without a
husband or wife and a marriage is not complete without children. I do not want
to get into the maddest in today’s society of the abomination (HASHEM calls the
act that way among males Lev. 18:22 & Lev. 20:13 plus once more in Deut.)
of same sex couples. The joy and blessing of a child and teaching and producing
more offspring cannot be measured in money. The worst tragedy in the world is
losing a child.
15 And the LORD will take away
from thee all sickness; and He will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt,
which thou know, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
The condition is based on
observance level of the Nation. Some might be well and some might be ill if the
Mitzvos are not followed. However, if everybody follows the Mitzvos.
16 And thou shalt consume all the
peoples that the LORD thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity
them; neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
The left here and in the world are
shouting pity the poor Palestinians. DO NOT PITY A CRUEL NATION WHO STOLE YOUR
LAND! Pity the compassionate. If my internal feeling in my Neshama is correct,
it will not be long before the repercussions upon those who criticized Yisrael
will rebound upon them and their places of worship by the cruel nation turned
loose in their own countries. G-D will not pity them on YOM HAHU! (Zechariah,
Yeshayahu)
17 If thou shalt say in thy
heart: 'These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?' 18 thou
shalt not be afraid of them; thou shalt well remember what the LORD thy God did
unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt: 19 the great trials which thine eyes saw, and
the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm,
whereby the LORD thy God brought thee out; so shall the LORD thy God do unto
all the peoples of whom thou art afraid.
Based on my meager knowledge of the
Prophets and Writings, we shall see these signs, wonders and miracles in the
future. What we saw in the War of Independence, Six Day War, Yom Kippur War
etc. up to these last weeks are nothing compared to the Nissim and Niflaos that
we shall see when the final redemption of Yisrael and mankind come about. The
righteous of nations and those of us righteous or with a potential of
righteousness in Yisrael will witness this if not today or tomorrow very soon.
20 Moreover the LORD thy God will
send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide
themselves, perish from before thee. 21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them;
for the LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, a God great and awful.
We shall see what happens to the
most power and even our munitions will run low the percentage that survives
will see Nissim and Niflaos (miracles and wonders) that have not been seen
since the days of Moshe and Yehoshua. If you think that this cannot happen see
the battle of “The Valley of Tears” in the Yom Kippur War with Avigdor
Kahalani.
22 And the LORD thy God will cast
out those nations before thee by little and little; thou may not consume them
quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
When I first came to my Yishuv
there were plenty of wild animals, snakes and scorpions. After years I saw a
weasel this week near the fence of our Yishuv and from time to time a turtle
but most have gone into the woods. When the Moshiach comes we will be able to
walk or drive into Lebanon unto the Turkish Border and we will have a treaty with
the Kurds allowing us water from the Euphrates and them to live in peace. I do
not know how this will work but we will get our land that HASHEM promised us.
Already in Syria and Lebanon there is infighting that will pave the way in the
future for us to enter and live in these places.
23 But the LORD thy God shall
deliver them up before thee, and shall discomfit them with a great
discomfiture, until they be destroyed.
We see ISIS from Iraq fighting the
Syrians and Hezballah and cleaning up the world from each of them before us
today even though Moshe originally was talking about the Nations of Canaan. For
“Maaseh Avos Siman Le Banim” (the deeds of the fathers are a sign for the
children) – from our Sages.
24 And He shall deliver their
kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under
heaven; there shall no man be able to stand against thee, until thou have
destroyed them. 25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire;
thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto
thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the LORD thy
God. 26 And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and be accursed
like unto it; thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it;
for it is a devoted thing.
We have seen with our own eyes how
the Middle-East has changed radically in a few years and there is more to come.
Over-night in Egypt arose the Muslim Brotherhood and over-night it was
overthrown. So too the “redemption of HASHEM is like a blink of the eye” –
Talmud Bavli Eruvin.
… 8:6 And thou
shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to
fear Him.
This is not the
first time Moshe has mentioned this but it is good for us lest we forget.
7 For the LORD thy God brings thee into a
good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, springing forth
in valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and
pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
The olive trees
are also for pure oil and the honey is from dates. These are the 7 species that
require a special blessing after eating an oil’s bulk.
9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without
scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron,
and out of whose hills thou may dig brass. 10 And thou shalt eat and be
satisfied, and bless the LORD thy God for the good land which He hath given
thee.
This indicates
mineral wealth as the Moshiach gets closer we have discovered gas and soon
there are good chances that oil will be discovered. As the Torah Observance
increases so does the wealth it is part of HASHEM’s equation of life for the
Bnei Yisrael.
11 Beware lest thou forget the LORD thy God,
in not keeping His commandments, and His ordinances, and His statutes, which I
command thee this day; 12 lest when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast
built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; 13 and when thy herds and thy flocks
multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is
multiplied; 14 then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God,
who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
15 who led thee through the great and dreadful wilderness, wherein were
serpents, fiery serpents, and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water;
who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 who fed thee in the
wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that He might afflict thee,
and that He might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end; 17 and thou
say in thy heart: 'My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this
wealth.' 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God, for it is He that gives
you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore unto
thy fathers, as it is this day.
We must always
remember it is not our brains, strength or inheritance that gives us wealth and
food but from HASHEM. The owner of Hadar Crackers got a disease which was
killing him. He could not eat. He said, “I have enough grain to feed
Yerushalayim for months, but cannot enjoy it.” He recognized the power of
HASHEM.
19 And it shall be, if thou shalt forget the
LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I
forewarn you this day that ye shall surely perish. 20 As the nations that the
LORD makes to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not
hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God.
Externally many of
the people who died in the Shoah were more religious than most of us. Were they
sacrifices to spare us or was it only external. Every once in a while my friend
Jack Kamplansky asks, “I had righteous parents, brothers and sisters and how
come I survived and they not as they were more religious than I?” Nobody has
the answer only HASHEM Yisborach. The questions are there did they get caught
in the Holocaust as a Gezaira and miraculously a few like Yisrael Meir and
Naphtali Lau survived to rebuild Eretz Yisrael and Judaism from the ashes. We
do not know but something causes the miracles to happen to us in Eretz Yisrael
and something caused 30% of the Jews to be wiped out in the last generation and
only HASHEM knows why.
We are now told
not to fear our enemies and they will use every dirty trick in the book to try
to slaughter us in every cruel way like the mutilation of the bodies of the
three boys which I refused to describe. It is bad enough to murder but there is
a sickness to mutilate a body.
9:1 Hear, O Israel: thou art to
pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and
mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, 2 a people
great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom thou know, and of whom thou hast
heard say: 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?' 3 Know therefore this day,
that the LORD thy God is He who goes over before thee as a devouring fire; He
will destroy them, and He will bring them down before thee; so shalt thou drive
them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the LORD hath spoken unto thee.
There is nothing to fear but HASHEM
for HASHEM will fight your battles and bring them down. Moshe then describes
the rebelliousness of the nation and that HASHEM wanted to destroy them.
Perhaps herein lies the answer to Jack’s question because the righteous ones
were caught with the wicked as the Gezaira went down for we did not have a
Moshe, servant of G-D, to pray for us.
… 25 So I fell down before the
LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had
said He would destroy you. 26 And I prayed unto the LORD, and said: 'O Lord
GOD, destroy not Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou hast redeemed
through Thy greatness, that Thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty
hand. 27 Remember Thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the
stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin; 28 lest
the land whence Thou broughtest us out say: Because the LORD was not able to
bring them into the land which He promised unto them, and because He hated
them, He hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness. 29 Yet they are
Thy people and Thine inheritance, that Thou didst bring out by Thy great power
and by Thy outstretched arm.
Moshe then goes on to describe what
HASHEM told him through the death of Aaron.
…10:12 And now, Israel, what does the LORD thy God require of
thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him,
and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul;
And
now, O Israel: Even though you did all this, His mercy and His affection are
still upon you, and with all that you have sinned against Him, He demands
nothing of you, except only to fear [the Lord, your God,…] Only to fear [the
Lord your God,…]: Our Rabbis derived from this verse [“And now… what does… God
demand of you”] that everything is in the hands of Heaven except the fear of
Heaven (Ber. 33b).
13 to keep for thy good the commandments of
the LORD, and His statutes, which I command thee this day?
12 – 13 Don’t ask
what HASHEM can do for you but to do what HASHEM wants and then HE will bless
you.
To
keep the commandments of the Lord: and this too, is not for nothing, but-for
your good-that you should receive a reward.
14 Behold, unto the LORD thy God belongs the
heaven, and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that therein is.
To the average
person this understanding was equivalent in Moshe’s day as to saying from the
smallest sub-atomic particle to the vast universe around us HASHEM is all
encompassing to our understanding today. Rashi interprets this to mean how
desired Yisrael is of everything in the universe.
Behold,
to the Lord your God belong: everything, and even so-“Only your forefathers the
Lord desired”-out of everything [i.e., the whole universe].
15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers
to love them, and He chose their seed after them, even you, above all peoples,
as it is this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be
no more stiffnecked.
The
foreskin of your heart: Heb. עָרְלַת לְבַבְכֶם,
the blockage and covering of your heart.
It is as if you
have Orlah on your heart and you need to cut away the blemish so that the pure
blood from the pure heart will make your body ready for the days of Moshiach.
Ah you say that the Moshiach hasn’t come yet! If so, perhaps we still have to
purify ourselves to truly do the Mitzvos Le Shem Shamayim.
17 For the LORD your God, He is God of gods,
and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awful, who regards not
persons, nor takes reward. 18 He doth execute justice for the fatherless and
widow, and loves the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
Try to remember
the orphan and widow and be nice to the Ger. What happens if the Ger becomes
poor due to bad circumstances and he has no family? – Then give him food and
raiment!
19 Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.
You should not
regard a person because he or she is blond or black and in your youth you were
bullied or attacked by one of these groups of people but remember that the
blood or black is now your fellow Jew and just as you love an Ashkenazi,
Yemenite or Sephardi so too shall you love the Ger or Giyores. Remember Boaz
did not refrain from marriage with Ruth and the Moshiach came out of it.
20 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; Him
shalt thou serve; and to Him shalt thou cleave, and by His name shalt thou swear.
21 He is thy glory, and He is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and
tremendous things, which thine eyes have seen. 22 Thy fathers went down into
Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee
as the stars of heaven for multitude.
11:1 Therefore thou shalt love
the LORD thy God, and keep His charge, and His statutes, and His ordinances,
and His commandments, always. … 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandment
which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the
land, whither ye go over to possess it; 9 and that ye may prolong your days
upon the land, which the LORD swore unto your fathers to give unto them and to
their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
As one should not be afraid of the
Anak one should also go and possess the land promise to Avraham, Yitzchak and
Yacov and with the Mitzvos you will find a land flowing with milk from almonds
plus your flocks and herds and the honey from the dates dripping from the
trees.
10 For the land, whither thou go
in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where
thou didst sow thy seed, and didst water it with thy foot, as a garden of
herbs; 11 but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills
and valleys, and drinks water as the rain of heaven comes down; 12 a land which
the LORD thy God cares for; the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it,
from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
Remember that in Parsha Bechukosai
that this is a condition that we must observe the Mitzvos.
Now we learn the second paragraph of the Shema.
13
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto My commandments
which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Him with
all your heart and with all your soul, 14 that I will give the rain of your
land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest
gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. 15 And I will give grass in
thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied. 16 Take heed to
yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other
gods, and worship them; 17 and the anger of the LORD be kindled against you,
and He shut up the heaven, so that there shall be no rain, and the ground shall
not yield her fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which the
LORD gives you. 18 Therefore shall ye lay up these My words in your heart and
in your soul; and ye shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall
be for frontlets between your eyes. 19 And ye shall teach them your children,
talking of them, when thou sit in thy house, and when thou walk by the way, and
when thou lie down, and when thou rise up. 20 And thou shalt write them upon
the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates; 21 that your days may be
multiplied, and the days of your children, upon the land which the LORD swore
unto your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
Since it is sworn, HE will keep HIS
oath.
22 For if ye shall diligently
keep all this commandment which I command you, to do it, to love the LORD your
God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave unto Him, 23 then will the LORD
drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations
greater and mightier than yourselves. 24 Every place where ever the sole of
your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from
the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.
All you have to do is follow the
Mitzvos and walk there.
25 There shall no man be able to
stand against you: the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of
you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as He hath spoken unto you.
When it is the time to
conquer the land, the L-RD will put fear of you upon the people of the land. As Rachav told to Yehoshua that the men have become timid and you
can conquer.
The Dvir Family saved by miracles.
On Wednesday this
week, 50 rockets were aimed at Katzrin on the Golan. Most were brought down by
Iron Dome. However, with such a quantity, Iron dome was not built for such an
attack.
Mr. Dvir between the
age of 50 and 60 was at work. Mrs. Dvir went to the public shelter earlier in
the morning when she got a What’s App from the local authorities. Their son was
home with the dog.
Suddenly, the siren
went off with no time to run 300meters/yards to the shelter. He made the
decision to be in the strongest part of the house, the corridor between rooms,
He was saved as the roof and plaster caved in on him from the direct hit by the
supporting walls. But his leg was broken, full of scratches and bruises. He pried
himself out of window, but his faithful dog was scared and afraid to move. He
hobbled back in and got the dog.
He was not an officer
but a corporal on Oct. 7th. His older brothers are religious. One in
the Tank Corp and the other Golani 13. He is a paratrooper one of 9 children
but could not learn in a Hesder Yeshiva ADHD. In fact, he was almost rejected
for army service. But when he found male and female soldiers cowering in a
shelter he organized those with weapons to guard. Then he found more soldiers
that needed water and he obtained it. He showed leadership and deserves to be
an officer.
“It was the hardest
run I’d ever done”: 2nd Lt. Avichail Reuven tells his heroic, which
Netanyahu briefly shared with Congress last month to a standing ovation in a TV
interview.
When Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu addressed the US Congress at the end of July, he named four Israeli
soldiers who he said had been heroes since Hamas’s October 7 massacre. The
first of the troops was young Israel Defense Forces officer 2nd Lt. Avichail
Reuven, who ran 12 kilometers (8 miles) to the Gaza border on that Saturday to
help fight off the terrorists.
Reuven was at his parents’ home
in the southern city of Kiriat Malachi on October 7 when he was awakened by
sirens. He was still in the midst of officer training at the time, but after
hearing the news of a massive terrorist infiltration into the Gaza border
communities in Israel, he decided he to go and help even though he had not been
called up.
“I told my brother and friend that I was
heading to the border. I said that if anything happened, I would just kill [the
terrorists]. I felt like the guys were laughing at me a little,” he told
Channel 12 News in an interview aired Friday evening.
When Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu addressed the US Congress at the end of July, he named four Israeli
soldiers who he said had been heroes since Hamas’s October 7 massacre. The
first of the troops was young Israel Defense Forces officer 2nd Lt. Avichail
Reuven, who ran 12 kilometers (8 miles) to the Gaza border on that Saturday to
help fight off the terrorists.
Reuven was at his parents’ home
in the southern city of Kiriat Malachi on October 7 when he was awakened by
sirens. He was still in the midst of officer training at the time, but after
hearing the news of a massive terrorist infiltration into the Gaza border
communities in Israel, he decided he to go and help even though he had not been
called up.
“I told my brother and friend
that I was heading to the border. I said that if anything happened, I would
just kill [the terrorists]. I felt like the guys were laughing at me a little,”
he told Channel 12 News in an interview aired Friday evening.
“They told me ‘You’re crazy to
go, there’s no reason for us to go with you.’ I also looked for friends with a
car to drive there, but I couldn’t find anyone, so I decided that I would go to
the interchange and start trying to catch a ride.”
Reuven put on his uniform, which
was still damp from being laundered, and headed out with his rifle and his red
paratrooper beret.
Not knowing exactly where he was
going, Reuven waited at the main interchange near his home for someone to stop
and give him a ride, but no one did, so he decided to start running.
Twelve kilometers and one hour
later, Reuven found himself back on the highway, hot and thirsty but determined
to keep going.
“It was the hardest run I’d ever
done. It was the longest run I’d ever done in uniform in the heat. A
nightmare,” he said.
After walking a little further
along the highway, Reuven finally caught a ride with a civilian whose child had
been at the Supernova music festival, where Hamas terrorists murdered some 360
people and took over 40 hostages during their rampage through southern Israel.
Reuven told Channel 12 that to
this day he does not know the man’s name, but the driver gave him water and
dropped Reuven off at an interchange outside Ashkelon when he realized that he
couldn’t get to the site of the rave and help his child without a weapon.
At the interchange, Reuven was
able to catch another ride, with a police car, to a checkpoint near Zikim, the
location of an IDF basic training base that was among the sites infiltrated by
terrorists that day.
“I argued a little with the police officers. I told them, ‘I’m
going in. If not with you, I’m going in alone,'” Reuven said, adding that as he
was talking to them, a deputy commander of a search and rescue battalion based
in Zikim, whom he named only as Alexander, arrived and the two entered the base
together.
As
they were in the midst of basic training, many of the soldiers on the Zikim
base were not fully trained, so when the terrorists arrived, the commanders on
base gathered all of the trainees into two bomb shelters and approached the
fence to fight off the terrorists. Six commanders and one soldier in basic
training were killed in the fighting.
Reuven
and the other commander joined the battle as soon as they arrived.
“There
was complete chaos here. Half the base was burned. A lot of shouting and you
could see terrorists running all around the area,” Reuven said.
He
and another commander joined forces to fight off terrorists and reached a bomb
shelter where some 30 female basic training soldiers were waiting, one of whom
was injured. Reuven tended to her wound.
“I said
to them, ‘Listen, I need three strong girls. This is why you enlisted into a
combat unit. Now is your moment to prove you’re fighters.'”
For the next couple of hours, he ran around the base fighting
off terrorists and collecting stretchers and water for the soldiers in the bomb
shelters.
Eventually, Reuven met Col.
(res.) Erez Eshel, who had driven to Zikim from his home in Maaleh Adumim.
“I meet a mission-driven
young soldier, and I don’t understand who he is. I don’t know his name,” Eshel
told Channel 12, adding that he saved Reuven’s phone number under the name
“Saturday, Simchat Torah soldier.”
“He’s completely in it, he can
handle his gun, he’s calm, he’s focused, and he can handle anything. He is a
real super soldier,” Eshel said.
The two stayed a little longer at
Zikim before heading to nearby Yiftah, Kfar Aza, and eventually, Kibbutz Beeri,
a community of around 1,000 residents of whom 101 civilians were killed on
October 7, along with 31 security personnel.
All in all, terrorists murdered some 1,200 people, mostly
civilians, and took 251 hostages during Hamas’s attack on Israel that day. The
IDF spent the next few days fighting the terrorists and gradually arresting or
killing all those who remained in Israel.
“I won’t say he’s the only
soldier I picked up, but he is the only soldier who held up through all the
fighting until early Sunday morning when I connected him with his company,”
Eshel said.
Eshel told the commander of the
IDF’s officers school in southern Israel, known as Bahad 1, about what Reuven
did on October 7, and the commander told Netanyahu.
Reuven completed his officer training with distinction and
accompanied Netanyahu to the US last month, where he got a standing ovation
when the prime minister shared his story during his address to the joint session
of Congress.
“In the early hours of
October 7th, Avichail heard the news of Hamas’s bloody rampage. He put on his
uniform, grabbed his rifle, but he didn’t have a car. So he ran eight miles to
the frontlines of Gaza to defend his people,” Netanyahu told the US
legislators.
“You heard that right. He ran eight miles, came to the
frontlines, killed many terrorists and saved many, many lives. Avichail, we all
honor your remarkable heroism.” According to Channel 12, Reuven is now a
company commander for paratroopers in basic training, and he insists on
including long runs in his soldiers’ training process.
Reuven is the second child of
nine born to Israeli immigrants from Ethiopia. In his teens, he struggled to
finish high school and was classified as an at-risk youth. Because of this, he
was not qualified to be recruited into the IDF as a paratrooper, but Reuven was
determined and fought for his place in the unit.
Reuven told Channel 12 that he
does not intend to retire from the IDF anytime soon.
“I want to continue in the army.
It’s my mission, it’s what I believe in,” he said.
The Bareheaded Driver and the desire for Shabbos by Rabbi
Yerachmiel Tilles
https://ascentofsafed.com/Stories/Stories/5784/1392-49.html
This happened relatively recently in Israel, in 2019.
A bus was on its way to Bnei Brak in the late afternoon before Shabbos.
Unfortunately, there was terrible traffic, and the clock was moving much faster
than the traffic was.
The driver, a man who was not wearing a yarmulke (kipah),
called his wife and said to her, "I'm sorry, there is really bad traffic,
and I will not be able to make it home to Rishon Le Tzion [southeast of Tel
Aviv] for Shabbat. I will need to find a way to spend Shabbat in Bnei Brak [an
'ultra'-religious township bordering Tel Aviv to the northeast]."
His wife was understandably upset with this news. She reacted, "What
do you mean you're not coming home for Shabbat? Everything is all prepared already!
I cooked and cleaned! And now you're not coming home?"
The driver apologized again to his wife, finished the conversation, and
continued driving, not knowing what else to do. A young man who was sitting in
the front seat behind the driver heard this conversation. He leaned over to the
driver and asked him, "Do you have a microphone on this bus?"
The driver said that he did, and the young man asked to make an
announcement. Thanking the driver for the microphone, he addressed the rest of
the passengers.
"Dearest Jews, our bus driver has a problem. He won't be able to make
it back home on time for Shabbos because of the traffic situation. If you all
will agree, I request from everyone, would you please get off at the first stop
in Bnei Brak, so we can help him out?"
Every single one of the passengers agreed to do this, each saying he would
find his way home from the first stop. The driver, however, said, "Thank
you all very much, but you don't have to bother; it won't help me anyway. Even
if you all get off at the first stop, I still won't make it back to Rishon Le Tzion
with this bus before Shabbos."
Right away, one of the passengers went over to the driver, and made him an
offer. He said, "I live right near the first bus stop. Please, come to my
house, park your bus there, and take my car [!] to get to Rishon Le Tzion. That
way, you will be able to make it home on time for Shabbos."
The bus driver was extremely grateful. He accepted the offer.
And that is what happened. When the bus pulled up at the first stop in
Bnei Brak, everyone got off the bus. The driver then parked his bus on the
narrow street where the passenger lived, and took the man's car that was
offered to him, and he made it home just in time for Shabbat in Rishon Le Tzion.
The parked bus on the narrow street became a topic for conversation that
Shabbat, and much more so when the story behind why it was parked there came
out. It was a Kiddush Hashem, a true sanctification of G-D's Name
[and Torah values], and the news of it spread very quickly.
Mi Ki Amcha Yisroel -["G-D:] who is like Your nation, the Jewish people!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Source: Adapted and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles from the Parshas
Yitro 5780 email of "Torah U'Tefilah" as compiled by
Rabbi Yehuda Winzelberg and posted on "Shabbos Stories for the
Parsha."
Why this week?
1) The Torah reading this week contains a review of the Ten
Commandments, of which Shabbat observance is the fourth.
2) Tisha B’Av, the anniversary of the destruction of the Holy
Temples in Jerusalem, fell on Tuesday of this week. The Second Temple was
destroyed, our sages tell us, because of baseless hatred between Jews. In this
story we encounter the recommended antidote: baseless love [and kindness] among
Jews. A whole busload of Jews, each with a kipah or a hat on his head,
inconveniencing themselves for a bareheaded Jew whose name they don't even
know, just to help him solve a Jewish difficulty…and the man who lent his car!
"Master of the Universe. Please take notice. Isn't it time for the Third
and everlasting Temple?
Rabbi S. Jacobson: https://www.meaningfullife.com/mlc-tv/should-we-be-afraid-of-iran/
Milestone: Alain Delon, 88, French
Actor and heart throb. https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/r1rbwmyoc
Milestone: Silvio Santos, 93, https://www.timesofisrael.com/brazilian-jewish-entertainment-legend-silvio-santos-dies-at-93/
Milestone: Bill Pascrell, 87, As a 14-term Democrat in northern New Jersey, US Rep. Bill Pascrell represented the “Little Ramallah” neighborhood of Paterson, one of the largest Palestinian-American communities in the country. And yet he managed to remain a pro-Israel stalwart while winning the support of Arab-Americans. https://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-pascrell-nj-congressman-who-played-balancing-act-on-israel-dies-at-87/
Inyanay Diyoma
Aug. 17th
Day 316 start of week 46
IDF Drone takes out 4 terrorists in
Jenin. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-815129
Logistics Officer dies in Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394751
55 rockets from Lebanon 2 IDF
soldiers injured. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394749
More Hezballah eliminated. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394750
Over the past day, IDF troops expanded
operational activity in the area of Khan Yunis, eliminating armed terrorists
and locating and dismantling dozens of Hamas terrorist infrastructure sites in
the area. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394753
https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkish-lawmakers-draw-blood-in-parliament-brawl/
Hamas’s plan to blackmail UK. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394755
85year old was captured alive. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394756
According to two Israeli officials, during the
talks on a ceasefire-prisoner swap deal in Doha, Qatar, Israel agreed to reduce its right to veto the release of certain highly-dangerous convicted terrorists. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394752
https://www.foxnews.com/us/shooter-fires-jbsa-lackland-air-force-base-prompting-exchange-gunfire
Poll Bennett leads. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-815069
Strike at Iraqi-Syrian oil. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-814970
Iran using Chinese Satellite to spy.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-815074
Aug. 18th
Day 317
Sgt. Maj. Killed by IED. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394760
We did not even attack
infrastructure. Lebanon's national electric company
said in a statement that the last group of production units at the Zahrani
Power Plant, which supplies the country with electricity, went offline after
running out of fuel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394772
So far only 184 tunnels found in the
Philadelphia area. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394773
On the antisemitism in the US, Trump said,
"There has never been a more dangerous time since the Holocaust."
"If you happen to be Jewish in America, there has never been anything like
it.” https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394768
Iran will face a cataclysm if Israel
attacked. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394770
Extremists may bring sanctions on
all. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394798
An Arab attacked an Israeli with a hammer at the Bar-On
industrial area near the town of Kedumim in Samaria on Sunday, stole his gun,
and fled the scene. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394801
Deal: Israel, according to the report, would
have the right to veto the release of up to 100 specific terrorists. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394800
A Hezbollah official revealed new details about
the assassination of the terrorist organization's most senior military
commander and the head of its Strategic Unit, Fuad Shukr, last month, the Wall
Street Journal reported. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394777
Large fire in Samaria: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394799
Mother of five feels ill dies in
accident. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394791
Drone filmed PM’s house. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394786
Extreme Heat due to high humidity
throughout Israel. August heat that soldiers are battling under. It
sparked a widely-followed campaign to send shipments of air-conditioning units
for IDF, with a recent surge in requests from soldiers. One soldier described
the heat as their biggest challenge right now, stating “The sun is absolutely
merciless. The heat drains us so easily.”
Arkia plane returns due to window
crack. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394792
A 77-year-old woman was lightly injured by
gunfire Saturday while sitting in her yard in Moshav Porat in the Sharon area
of Israel. Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics provided her with medical
treatment and evacuated her to Meir Medical Center. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394757
Croc attacks zoo keeper is
tranquilized. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394787
RFK jr. vs. Harris. https://www.jpost.com/us-elections/article-814983?dicbo=v2-A7Pk2Un
Harris and Arabs: The Associated Press revealed on Saturday that top Democrats have spent weeks
meeting with “uncommitted” voters and their allies, including a previously
unreported sit-down between Vice President Kamala Harris and the mayor of
Dearborn, Michigan. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394769
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on
Saturday held a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Ali Bagheri, regarding
the Iranian military operation to retaliate for the death of Hamas leader
Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, and the talks regarding a potential
ceasefire-prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394766
After 20 rockets on Kiriat Shemona, Israeli
Planes hit back. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-august-18-2024/
Aug. 19th
Day 318 Tu B’Av aka Israeli Sadie
Hawkins Day
Ceasefire still possible not giving
up. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394822
A Rabbi has to think was does the
Halacha say on the Phila Route? If somebody had asked me before the
disengagement from Gaza – forbidden to give it up. But now we gave up on it for
years and we don’t want 115 Ron Arad(s) was alive and no body ever recovered.
Therefore, despite my right wing views, Pekuach Nefesh of the hostages out ways
the Phila Route. We can in the future reclaim that. As of now nobody is riving
the dead and there are still live hostages.
In an opinion of mine,
Netanyahu thinks that we are close to capturing or killing Sinwar and he is
obsessed with that even at a cost of a regional war.
Hamas official cuts short CNN
interview. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394820
Man who attacked Israeli Embassy in
Serbia refused to surrender to police and eliminated. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394826
The Palestinian Authority’s leadership has begun
diplomatic activity to prepare the ground for a visit by PA chairman Mahmoud
Abbas to the Gaza Strip. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394819
Three UN peacekeepers on patrol were
"lightly injured" when an explosion occurred near their clearly
marked UN vehicle in the village of Yarine in southern Lebanon on Sunday, UN
Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said, according
to Reuters. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394824
Following intelligence indicating terror
activities and launches toward Israeli territory from the humanitarian area,
forces from the 98th Division expanded their operations over the past day
accompanied by air support which destroyed dozens of terror infrastructure sites
and eliminated terror cells. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394806
Paratrooper severely injured by RPG. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394805
State Attorney Amit Isman recommended to the
Attorney General to open a criminal investigation against famous Israeli singer
Eyal Golan, on suspicion of inciting violence against the residents of Gaza aka last Oct. said Gaza should be erased. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394817
Polio Vaccines over the population of Gaza
distributed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394803
Danger of Nukes. Though significant, connections between Palestinian Arab
statehood and nuclear war remain generally ignored. For Israel, the seemingly
discrete perils of war with Iran and Palestinian Arab statehood are potentially
intertwined and mutually reinforcing. This means that continuing to treat these
issues as separate security problems could represent an especially grievous
policy error. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394788
Aug. 20th
Day 319 Number of missing persons in
Gaza drops. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-recovers-bodies-of-6-hostages-from-gaza-including-one-previously-presumed-alive/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-officer-killed-in-failed-israeli-airstrike-in-gazas-khan-younis/
Chief Warrant Officer dies in north.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394852
https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-says-houthis-have-returned-yemen-rights-office-they-seized/
Scots put pressure on Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394898
A Scottish MSP has been suspended by his party after
stating that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394861
Ganz, avoiding the question, said, "The
Israeli government needs to make the decisions. The Rafah Crossing was
conquered in 45 minutes - we can do that again in the future." Sinwar is a
dead man, we will not allow this to happen again. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394900
Egypt will allow us to occupy our
own border. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394895
A full 300 Border Police officers, accompanied by
Civil Administration inspectors and heavy machinery, raided the Sde Yonatan and
Or Meir homesteads in Binyamin early Tuesday morning, around 4:00 AM, and
destroyed all the buildings there, including residential houses. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394896
Terror school struck. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394899
8year old saying Kaddish. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394862
A two and a half-year-old toddler was forgotten
on a bus by his mother. He was found by a patrol officer sitting alone in the
back seat of the bus. Driver did not see him. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394859
Monday, IDF forces identified a terrorist cell
operating from a Hezbollah military structure in the area of Tayebi in southern
Lebanon. IAF fighter jets struck the structure in which the terrorists were
operating. Many secondary explosions. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394872
Weapons stowage tunnel is blown up. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394858
Op-Ed Dr. Yosef Fanger MD. Iran no
attack. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394857
Sounds like no hostage deal. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394911
Israeli intelligence has ascertained that
powerful Claymore antipersonnel mines have reached the hands of terrorists in
the terrorist organizations in Judea and Samaria after being smuggled into the
area through the border with Jordan. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394909
For the first time in more than two decades, no
graduates of Ramaz, an elite Orthodox Jewish school in Manhattan's Upper East
Side, have enrolled at Columbia University's main liberal arts college,
the New York Post reported.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394855
Main CYA in Israel singers who
voiced opinions 3 days after the carnage are under scrutiny. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394848
British
tech magnate Mike Lynch and five other people were missing after their luxury
superyacht sank during a freak storm off
Sicily
early Monday, authorities said. https://www.foxnews.com/world/yacht-expert-breaks-down-luxury-superyacht-tragedy-after-boat-capsizes-freak-storm-always-limits
45targets hit in Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394844
Major General (res.) Yaakov Amidror, former
National Security Council chief and a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute
for Strategy and Security, has warned that Israel cannot afford to compromise
on its goal of dismantling Hamas in Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394853
The raid was due to allegations of illegal
shooting during the events of October 7. So far, no soldiers have been
arrested. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394860
Aug. 21st
Day 320
All eyes on the north 50 rockets at
once. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394950
https://www.timesofisrael.com/delta-airlines-extends-suspension-of-israel-flights-through-september/
Work accident kills terrorists. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394934
Solved murder of prison employee. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394914
While I am not with the movement to
release hostages at any cost, I am with the movement of the Rabbis overs the
centuries of Pidyon Shevuim (release of captive Jews for ransom). Still
Netanyahu has a following from the far right and parents who lost children on
Oct. 7th or at previous times who are against prisoner exchange. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394951
Missing girl: The teenage girl, Hodia Levy, is 13-years-old, with long hair and
dark eyes. When she disappeared she was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, dark
blue pants, white Nike flip-flops and carried a small denim purse. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394950
Soldier stole a lot of equipment
from the army for what? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394955
Stolen for the Mafia an RPG. A special Israel Police task force
operating in Taibeh and Netanya found an RPG launcher with two rounds of
ammunition that was allegedly used by Hamas in Gaza, a Kalashnikov rifle, a
shotgun, a magazine and ammunition. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394913
Blinken wants flexibility no
occupation. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394930
The Deputy Chief of the General Staff
commented on the IDF's activity in all arenas, praised the soldiers and
commanders for the activity of researching, operating and rescuing the bodies
of the hostages and toured the building where Lieutenant Shahar Ben Nun fell in action earlier this week. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/394961
An oil tanker was reportedly attacked Wednesday
in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade
Operations (UKMTO) reported. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394958
Components from Israel for Tanks and
APCs. Under the terms of
the agreement, Ashot Ashkelon will manufacture and supply critical components
for the Merkava tanks and Namer APCs, including 1,200 and 1,500 horsepower
transmissions, suspensions, and drive systems, at a total cost of over $23
million (NIS 86.4 million). https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394956
IAF fighter jets struck a number of Hezbollah
weapons storage facilities in the area of Beqaa in Lebanon overnight Tuesday,
the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. Additionally, the strikes targeted a compound
that was used by Hezbollah's Aerial Defense system and posed a threat to IAF
aircraft. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394933
Columbia U. Out of the 40 students who were
arrested or disciplined when police were called to the campus on April 18, only
two remain suspended, according to information released by a Republican-led US
congressional panel and cited by Reuters. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394941
Former NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal sent a
heartfelt video message to child survivors of Hamas’ October 7 attacks against
Israel, who are being hosted at Camp Timberlane in Toronto, Canada by the OneFamily
Together organization for victims of
terror. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394940
Nazi Secretary, 99, keeps her
criminality. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394939
Iranian Guards of Sidon struck. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-815681
Hamas threats to loved ones from the
phones of captives. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-815612
9hour surgery for zoo worker. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-815173
Aug. 22nd
Day 321
Yesterday had a story about a check
post of a driver that did not stop was shot at and ended up in the ditch by the
road dead and his female companion seriously injured. Two Arab Youths were
caught on road 85 with Molotov Cocktails. In Katzrin, the Dvir family
miraculously survives (story above).
Sinwar trapped underground but is
hoping for a regional war. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395008
According to the IDF, the weapons storage
facility was used to store rockets and other weapons intended to be used in
attacks against Israeli territory. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395011
Suspect arrested on firebombing of
house of Dov Lior. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395015
AOC pushes Hamas Propaganda. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395004
USS Abraham Lincoln by Israel. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394995
Towns will accept Gov. Memorial
Service. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394988
"Sinwar emphasizes that his life and safety
must be ensured," the official stated, meaning that Israel would have to
pledge not to assassinate the Hamas leader from the moment it signs the deal. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394984
Canada: Bomb threats to many Jewish
Institutions. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394976
Op-Ed Diane Bederman in a few words: This is
shameful: A full 300 Border Police officers, accompanied by Civil
Administration inspectors and heavy machinery, raided the Sde Yonatan and Or
Meir homesteads in Binyamin early Tuesday morning, around 4:00 AM.
Israeli arms manufacturers will be permitted to
bid on a contract to supply drones to the Irish Army, despite Government
“reservations” over previous purchases of military equipment from the country. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394996
New Iranian Foreign Minister. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/394999
Should replace Mossad Chief. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395023
Sde Teiman CYA prosecution
continues. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395022
Tel Aviv bomber IDed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395021
At the beginning of the month, detectives
arrested the suspect (16, originally from northern Israel but currently lives
with his parents in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem) on charges of
joining a terror organization and enlisting others to a terror organization. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395025
600 from North America make Aliyah. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395026
Bodies of dead captives had bullets
inside. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395027
Aug. 23rd
Day 322 end of week 46
Noa speaks in Japan. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395043
Rocket does damage at Meron Base. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395070
3 Polls: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395052
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/395063
Have a wonderful,
healthy and peaceful Shabbos,
Rachamim Pauli
