Parsha Behalosecha
Due to the ”Brilliant
Idea” of somebody to sound unnecessary alarms at 3AM I am unable to function
today.
I have copy and pasted
what I wrote in 2011=5771
I am
purposely skipping the work of the Cohanim and Leviim in Chapter 8 and the
Golden Menorah and going onwards. Also from chapter 11 into the end of Parsha
Balak, we have all the murmurers, spies, Korach and the immodesty tests of the
people. We saw this in Perkei Avos Chapter 5 Mishnah 4 - With ten tests
our forefathers tested G-d in the desert, as is stated (Numbers 14:22),
"They tested Me these ten times, and did not hearken to My voice."
The
beginning sentence of this Parsha is covered in the Kabbala as bringing down
the light from above to meet the light from below. From this spiritual light
becomes the source of blessings from the Beis HaMikdash (Mishkan in our
Parsha). We are learning here about the pairs of Torah leaders.
9:1 And the LORD spoke
unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year
after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 'Let the children of
Israel keep the passover in its appointed season. 3 In the fourteenth day of
this month, at dusk, ye shall keep it in its appointed season; according to all
the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye keep
it.'
Of all the
3 Regelim, Pessach is the most prominent for it is at the start of our freedom
and the start of the Jewish Calendar. In Shemos 12 This month is the head
of the months. It is not only our main reason for keeping all three Yomim
Tovim but like the Shabbos was a day set aside by HASHEM. For exactly 400 years
to the day that Yitzchak was born was the time of redemption. For if we start
from the time of Adam to Avraham it is a span of 1948 years and Yitzchak was
born when Avraham was 100 or 2048 and the Geula from Galus Mitzrayim (Egyptian
diaspora) ended in 2448. (Interesting enough when one takes the date of
the destruction of the first Temple 3408 and adds the 2300 number mentioned in
Sefer Daniel one gets the year 5708 or 1948 of the common era but that is
knowledge after the fact.)
4 And Moses spoke unto
the children of Israel, that they should keep the Passover. 5 And they kept the
Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at dusk, in
the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did
the children of Israel.
Pesach was
celebrated by all circumcised males and perhaps whole families for all males
were circumcised at this time. However one had to be ritually Tahor if Am
Yisrael was Tahor.
6 But there were
certain men, who were unclean by the dead body of a man, so that they could not
keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on
that day.
Aaron’s
sons died on the 8th day and were buried as soon as possible. The Para
Aduma could only make someone Tahor by sprinkling on the 3rd and
7th day and as dusk fell and the 8th day started, the person would be
Tahor. However, Pesach falls on the night of the 14th and not the 16th.
The men felt left out despite the great Mitzva of burying the dead.
7 And those men said
unto him: 'We are unclean by the dead body of a man; wherefore are we to be
kept back, so as not to bring the offering of the LORD in its appointed season
among the children of Israel?' 8 And Moses said unto them: 'Stay ye, that
I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.'
The time
frame of our Parsha is that of the Parsha Shemini and now in Bamidbar we return
to the finishing of the dedication of the Mishkan. The men here are the same
Leviim that buried the two sons of Aaron.
9 And the LORD spoke
unto Moses, saying: 10 'Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If any man
of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be
in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD; 11 in the
second month on the fourteenth day at dusk they shall keep it; they shall eat
it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
We see that
the bitter herbs is not a custom but a Mitzva in itself.
12 they shall leave
none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof; according to all the
statute of the passover they shall keep it.
Actually we
see that Pesach was eaten until the morning but our Rabbis put a fence around
the Torah that one should not get Kares by eating after the time that they said
until midnight. Since not everybody had the latest most expensive atomic clock
or Swiss watch, it was sufficient to look up at the stars or have a candle that
would burn until approximately midnight to know that the time was up. As Rabban
Gamliel tells his sons in the first Mishna in Shass Brachos 1:1 placing
incense, fats and internal organs for burning on the Mizbayach their Mitzva is
until the morning. If so why did Chachamim [Sages] say until midnight? In order
to keep one from committing a sin!
13 But the man that is
clean, and is not on a journey, and forbears to keep the Passover, that soul
shall be cut off from his people; because he brought not the offering of the
LORD in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin. 14 And if a stranger
shall sojourn among you, and will keep the Passover unto the LORD: according to
the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall
he do; ye shall have one statute, both for the stranger, and for him that is
born in the land.'
On not
observing the Pesach one who can observe the Pessach deserves Kares and this
includes a Ger Tzedek (full convert) to Judaism.
15 And on the day that
the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of
the testimony; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the
appearance of fire, until morning.
A miracle
having the sun shielded in the day and light for millions of people at night on
a daily basis.
16 So it was always:
the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 And whenever the
cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel
journeyed; and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel
encamped. 18 At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel journeyed,
and at the commandment of the LORD they encamped: as long as the cloud abode
upon the tabernacle they remained encamped. 19 And when the cloud tarried upon
the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the
LORD, and journeyed not. 20 And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the
tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they remained encamped,
and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed. 21 And sometimes
the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in
the morning, they journeyed; or if it continued by day and by night, when the
cloud was taken up, they journeyed. 22 Whether it were two days, or a
month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, abiding thereon,
the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was
taken up, they journeyed. 23 At the commandment of the LORD they encamped,
and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed; they kept the charge of the
LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Aaron and
Moshe taught Torah along with the elders when the cloud tarried.
10:1 And the LORD spoke
unto Moses, saying: 2 'Make thee two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shalt
thou make them; and they shall be unto thee for the calling of the
congregation, and for causing the camps to set forward. 3 And when they shall
blow with them, all the congregation shall gather themselves unto thee at the
door of the tent of meeting. 4 And if they blow but with one, then the princes,
the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. 5 And
when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their
journey. 6 And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the
south side shall set forward; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7
But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall
not sound an alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the
trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your
generations. 9 And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that
oppresses you, then ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be
remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed seasons, and in your
new moons, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt-offerings, and over
the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial
before your God: I am the LORD your God.'
A system
was devised for warning when Shabbos or Yom Tov candle lighting was, if Israel
was under attack or if it was time for a Torah symposium. The Trumpets even
offered a greater variety than our Shofar system today. One might think that by
having various trumpets of shapes and sizes that one could make notes and play
tunes like the US Army Bugles therefore Talmud says two. (Not the Talmud but
the Torah but in Hebrew we say Talmud Lomar)
The guardian
Angels and their positions over the tribes that I had given last year are
different from the Zohar HaKodesh in this week’s Parsha therefore I give them
according the Zohar here. It could have been an error on my part, a dispute
between one piece of oral Torah in a previous Medrash or Zohar or two different
Rabbis with two different traditions. For our intent and purpose we will accept
the direct, tribes and angels as given here and I will have to relearn again
what I had written in previous years and check my sources.
11 And it came to pass
in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month,
that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony. 12 And
the children of Israel set forward by their stages out of the wilderness of
Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.-- 13 And they took their
first journey, according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
14 And in the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set
forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Nahshon the son of
Amminadab. 15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was
Nethanel the son of Zuar. 16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon. 17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and
the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bore the tabernacle, set
forward.
The people
had seen the Divine Chariot at the Sea which Yechezkel described in Chapter
1. The Standard or Flag of Yehuda was that of a Lion. Amos 3:8 The
lion hath roared, who will not fear? The guardian Angel over this section of
the camp was Michael. They were encamped in the east. (Writing on my own the
reason that Yehuda got the Lion because he had the courage to stand up and
admit to Tamar before all that he had made her pregnant and not only this but
he fought light a Lion in Schem as described in Sefer Yashar and he was willing
to stand up for Benyamin before Pharaoh’s Prime Minister at the risk of his own
life.)
18 And the standard of
the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts; and over his host was
Elizur the son of Shedeur. 19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of
Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 20 And over the host of the tribe
of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 21 And the Kohathites the
bearers of the sanctuary set forward, that the tabernacle might be set up
against their coming.
The
Standard or Flag of Reuven was that of an Eagle. They were located in the south
and their guardian angel was Uriel. (Writing on my own for even though Reuven
failed to save Yosef from being sold he watched over his brothers like an Eagle
over his nest.)
22 And the standard of
the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their hosts; and
over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud. 23 And over the host of the
tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 24 And
over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of
Gideoni.
The
Standard or Flag of Ephraim was that of a Man. They were located in the west
and their guardian angel was Rafael. (Writing on my own for Yosef withstood the
temptation of Potiphar’s lusty wife and for that he was a true man.)
25 And the standard of
the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set
forward according to their hosts; and over his host was Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai. 26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher
was Pagiel the son of Ochran. 27 And over the host of the tribe of the
children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.
The
Standard or Flag of Dan was that of an Ox. They were located in the south and
their guardian angel was Gavriel. (Writing on my own for Shimshon from Dan was
to destroy the Plishtim as an Ox that gores.)
28 Thus were the
journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts.--And they set
forward. 29 And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite,
Moses' father-in-law: 'We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said:
I will give it you; come you with us, and we will do thee good; for the LORD
hath spoken good concerning Israel.' 30 And he said unto him: 'I will not
go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.'
This
journey took place immediately after the leaving of Mitzrayim. We return to the
first weeks after Pessach at this point and before the giving of the Torah. In
fact we return to Parshas Yisro time wise. Yisro did not become a Ger Tzeddek
but a Ger Toshav aka a Ben Noach. He returned to his people and is the father
of the Druze in Israel, Lebanon and Syria. The problem with the Druze is that
they are loyal to the power over the area and thus the ones in the Galil are
willing to give their lives for Yisrael but the ones on the top of the Golan at
Majdal Sharms threw stones on their brethren in the police and army and Jewish
troops on the Golan.
31 And he said: 'Leave
us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou know how we are to encamp in the
wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes. 32 And it shall be,
if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever the LORD shall do
unto us, the same will we do unto thee.'
Yisro was a
holy man and a Prophet and had made a great name with his piety.
33 And they set forward
from the mount of the LORD three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of
the LORD went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-place for
them. 34 And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they set
forward from the camp.
Yisro did
not go with them so they moved in the desert a three day journey from Rephidim
in the midst of the southern third of the Sinai Desert to Har Sinai. The next
verse is covered in the brackets by two upside down Nuns – the Hebrew letter
Nun.
35 And it came to pass,
when the ark set forward, that Moses said: 'Rise up, O LORD, and let Your
enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Thee flee before Thee.' 36
And when it rested, he said: 'Return, O LORD, unto the ten thousands of the
families of Israel.'
We say this
every time we open the Aharon HaKodesh.
11:1 And the people
were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of the LORD; and when the LORD
heard it, His anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and
devoured in the uttermost part of the camp. 2 And the people cried unto Moses;
and Moses prayed unto the LORD, and the fire abated. 3 And the name of that
place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD burnt among them. 4 And
the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting;
It
was not really a lusting for meat which was the excuse but a lusting for
Consanguineous relationships that existed in Egypt contrary even to the laws of
the Bnei Noach. Cleopatra and Ptolemy are the epitome of what was rampant in
Egypt for centuries.
and the children of
Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to
eat! 5 We remember the fish, which we were wont to eat in Egypt for naught; the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic; 6 but
now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all; we have naught save this
manna to look to.'
For those
of you who have not made Aliyah to Yisrael let me describe my first months in
Israel almost 55 years ago. I was 23 and I came here after giving up a job that
supplied me with a sufficient salary to make ends meet and save a little. I had
a sailboat, sled, ice skates and other things that I had to give up upon
Aliyah. The place, the climate, language and customs were strange to me. I did
not miss the anti-Semites or the problems with Kashrus but I did miss the
physical luxuries that I had to give up. I could not afford too much chicken,
fish and even certain cheeses that I was used to due to the low salary and high
cost of living. Everything from the not so creamy cream cheese to the peanut
butter tasted different. So even though we look down upon these people in the
view of our Sages, we must also see where they are coming from.
-- 7 Now the manna was
like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium.
8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in
mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was
as the taste of a cake baked with oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in
the night, the manna fell upon it.-- 10 And Moses heard the people weeping,
family by family, every man at the door of his tent; and the anger of the LORD
was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased. 11 And Moses said unto the LORD:
'Wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with Thy servant? and wherefore have I not found
favor in Thy sight, that Thou lay the burden of all this people upon me?
Being a
true servant to HASHEM, Moshe was over whelmed by the complaints against
HASHEM.
12 Have I conceived all
this people? have I brought them forth, that Thou shouldest say unto me: Carry
them in thy bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, unto the land
which Thou didst swear unto their fathers? 13 Whence should I have flesh to
give unto all this people? for they trouble me with their weeping, saying: Give
us flesh, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this people myself
alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 And if Thou deal thus with me, kill
me, I pray Thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in Thy sight; and let me
not look upon my wretchedness.'
Moshe was
in a bad state of depression from his failure to educate and introduce faith
into the people and was spiraling down to a close to a state of hopeless from
being over worked. There HASHEM relieves him with the Sanhedrin to ease his
burden.
16 And the LORD said
unto Moses: 'Gather unto Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou know
to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the
tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee. 17 And I will come down
and speak with thee there; and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee,
and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with
thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
The Sanhedrin
will act in MY NAME before the people and being elders from each tribe will
calm down the people.
18 And say thou unto
the people: Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for
ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying: Would that we were given flesh to
eat! for it was well with us in Egypt; therefore the LORD will give you flesh,
and ye shall eat. 19 Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days,
neither ten days, nor twenty days; 20 but a whole month, until it come out at
your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected the
LORD who is among you, and have troubled Him with weeping, saying: Why, now,
came we forth out of Egypt?' 21 And Moses said: 'The people, among whom I am,
are six hundred thousand men on foot; and yet Thou hast said: I will give them
flesh, that they may eat a whole month! 22 If flocks and herds be slain for
them, will they suffice them? or if all the fish of the sea be gathered
together for them, will they suffice them?'
Everything
will not suffice their Yetzer. For although that Reuven and Gad had a
tremendous amount of sheep and cattle, the meat was not the flesh that they
really yearned for as I mentioned above and Moshe sensed this.
23 And the LORD said
unto Moses: 'Is the LORD'S hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether My word
shall come to pass unto thee or not.' 24 And Moses went out, and told the
people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the
people, and set them round about the Tent. 25 And the LORD came down in the
cloud, and spoke unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it
upon the seventy elders; and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon
them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. 26 But there remained two men
in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad;
and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were recorded, but
had not gone out unto the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. 27 And there ran
a young man, and told Moses, and said: 'Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the
camp.' 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses from his youth up,
answered and said: 'My lord Moses, shut them in.' 29 And Moses said unto him:
'Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all the LORD'S people were prophets,
that the LORD would put His spirit upon them!' 30 And Moses withdrew into the
camp, he and the elders of Israel. 31 And there went forth a wind from the
LORD, and brought across quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp,
about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side,
round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth. 32 And
the people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and
gathered the quails; he that gathered least gathered ten heaps; and they spread
them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. 33 While the flesh was yet
between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled
against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague. 34
And the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they
buried the people that lusted. 35 From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed
unto Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.
12:1 And Miriam and
Aaron spoke against Moses …
Being
Cohain HaGadol, Aaron was not infected even though his behavior in listening to
Lashon Hara was complicit. Miriam instigated it and she is punished.
9 And the anger of the
LORD was kindled against them; and He departed. 10 And when the cloud was
removed from over the Tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow; and
Aaron looked upon Miriam; and, behold, she was leprous. 11 And Aaron said unto
Moses: 'Oh my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done
foolishly, and for that we have sinned. 12 Let her not, I pray, be as one dead,
of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.' 13
And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: 'Heal her now, O God, I beseech Thee.'
This is the
shortest prayer in the Tanach.
14 And the LORD said
unto Moses: 'If her father had but spit in her face, should she not hide in
shame seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after
that she shall be brought in again.' 15 And Miriam was shut up without the camp
seven days; and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again. 16
And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and pitched in the wilderness
of Paran.
I was fired from
Columbia University’s Newspaper for being an Orthodox Jew.
Story by Kylie Ora Lobell
https://aish.com/i-was-fired-from-the-columbia-universitys-newspaper-for-being-an-orthodox-jew/
After
graduating from Columbia this spring, Eliana is now coming forward with her
story.
For two
years, Eliana Goldin wrote for Columbia University’s student newspaper, the
Columbia Daily Spectator. She rose through the ranks to become a senior staff
writer for the university news section and had close relationships with
everyone on the team.
Right
before October 7th, she happened to take a break from writing. When it
occurred, she started advocating for Israel, which took up her time.
In February
of 2024, she was finally ready to get back into writing and was hired for the
Spec as a columnist to discuss the common ground between Israelis and
Palestinians. After her first column came out, the trouble began, as Eliana posted on her X
account this past May 20.
“People dug up my old social media posts to
find something they could use to bully me, and they found a poll I had asked my
Instagram followers months before October 7th,” she wrote. “The poll said,
‘Would you k*ll someone from Amalek?’ Immediately, tons of Columbia students
posted on their social media platforms that I had called for the death of
Palestinians because of that poll. SJP posted it on their Instagram, and it
received 18,000 likes and had a ton of scary death threats asking about my
identity.”
Just a few
days later, the head of the opinion section called Eliana and fired her.
“In the time when I needed support the most,
the Columbia Daily Spectator — people I had once been friends with — left me to
fend for myself,” she wrote. “And the thing is, Amalek has nothing to do with
Palestinians. I explained that the question of Amalek is akin to the Binding of
Isaac — a Jewish thought experiment on whether you would go against your own
personal morality to follow God’s morality — but they didn’t care.”
She kept
trying to explain that she was in no way comparing Palestinians to Amalek, the biblical nation
that was a hereditary arch-enemy of the Israelites. No one would listen.
“Judaism was whatever they wanted it to be,”
she wrote. “Just as it is Islamophobic to define Islam based off of extremists
who take the religion out of pocket and use it for their own racist aims, so
too is it antisemitic to do the very same thing with Judaism. But that’s what
Spec did. They defined my Judaism based on extremists.”
And then,
the editors turned the heat up even more, publishing an op-ed saying a Columbia
student was calling for the deaths of Palestinians. They linked it to her
Instagram poll. She got mean looks on campus, and a peer DMed her, calling her
vile and disgusting.
I went out
of my way to engage in dialogue with people who disagreed with me. And yet when
it came down to it, all people saw was what they wanted to see.
“As a Jewish leader on campus, I spent my
entire tenure trying to make more room for alternative viewpoints within the
Zionist community,” she wrote. “I went out of my way to engage in dialogue with
people who disagreed with me, even when it was uncomfortable. And yet when it
came down to it, all people saw was what they wanted to see: that Orthodox Jews
are racist to their very core because of their religious beliefs, and that
Zionists have no room for Palestinians in their narrative. Antisemites see what
they want to see.”
Eliana
waited until May 20 of this year, after she graduated, to go public with her
story on X. She told Aish she’s not sure where she will go from here, as it’s
been a difficult time.
“It’s taken this huge mental and emotional
toll on me,” she said. “As soon as you speak out against antisemitism, there is
always this huge backlash that occurs. It’s hard to roll with that. It takes a
lot just to begin fighting.”
So far, no
one from Columbia has contacted her about the incident. Her post went live the
same week that the Trump Administration claimed that Columbia
violated Jewish students’ rights and is now in violation of the
standards set by Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which is
Columbia's accreditor.
“Maybe [Columbia is] worried about a lawsuit
and that’s why they haven’t reached out, but it’s really sad that that hasn’t
happened,” Eliana said.
Additionally,
her former colleagues haven’t been in touch either.
“No one on the newspaper staff has reached out
to apologize, which makes me think they are not capable of making requisite
changes that are needed to make in order to combat the antisemitism in their
staff and that’s systemically embedded into the newspaper. That makes me think
a lawsuit might be the only option.”
Though
Eliana had negative experiences at Columbia, including at the newspaper, she
also had positive ones: for the first time in her life, the practicing Jew and
day school graduate went outside of her bubble and felt even more secure in her
identity.
“Being in an environment where not everyone
his like you is how you really clarify your beliefs and values and practice,”
she said. “It’s been really enriching to be an Orthodox Jew at Columbia.”
Eliana
believes that Jewish students should still go to secular universities if they
want to. After all, universities hold tremendous power in society and if we
don’t have a stake, we could be left out entirely.
“Separate but equal is not equal,” she said. “If we retreat and lose our position in Ivy League universities, I imagine it’ll be incredibly difficult to regain. Jews used to not be allowed into many Jewish universities and then theree were Jewish activists who fought to allow them to be able to attend. We can’t back down now.”
What the Enemies of
the Jews don’t want you to know.
By Sara Yocheved
Rigler
https://aish.com/what-israels-enemies-dont-want-you-to-know/
Some 20 years ago I was walking from my home in the Jewish
Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City to pray at the Kotel (the Western Wall),
Judaism’s second holiest site, second only to the Temple Mount itself that
towers above it. On the steps to the Kotel Plaza, I passed an Arab tour guide
speaking in English to a large group of European tourists. Pointing toward the
Golden Dome and the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, he said, “The Jews
claim that their two temples stood on this spot, but there is no proof
whatsoever to that claim.”
I was stunned. No proof? The gigantic, distinctive “Herodian
stones” of the Western Wall itself, the remnant of the retaining wall King
Herod built around the mountain when he enlarged the Second Temple, starting in
20 BCE, were incontrovertible proof. And what about the numerous contemporary
historical descriptions of the Temple, including historian Josephus Flavius’s
eye-witness account of the Temple, written in the first century CE?
Although an inveterate debater, I stood there unable to utter a
word of rebuttal because I was shocked speechless by the boldfaced lie. It was
as if an acknowledged scientist was telling his students that the world is
flat.
Only recently, when reading Doron Spielman’s new book, When the
Stones Speak, did I become aware that that Arab tour guide was just a small
part of a widespread, carefully calculated campaign to deny the Jewish People’s
historical claim to Jerusalem and the land of Israel.
The invective, “Colonialists!” being shouted against the Jewish
State on university campuses and in European capitals is based on the
allegation that European Jews came to Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th
century as foreign occupiers. In the wake of the Holocaust, according to this
view, the United Nations voted for a Jewish state, alongside an Arab state, in
the small piece of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, in
order to assuage their guilt. The implication of “colonialists” is that Jews
have no more rights to that patch of land than the British had to India.
An inconvenient contradiction of that narrative is the Bible,
which chronicles over a thousand years of Jews (then called “Israelites”)
living in that patch of land. “The Bible should be put aside,” claimed
Palestinian archaeologist, Hani Nur el-Din, professor of archaeology at Al-Quds
University. “It’s not a history book.”
This statement, writes Doron Spielman, “was part of the broader,
long-standing trend of denying Jewish history in Jerusalem that had persisted
for decades.” In When the Stones Speak, he provides hair-raising evidence of
this campaign.
(Even the name
“Palestine” was an effort by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, after the Jewish revolt
of 132-135 CE, to sever the historical identification between the Jews and
their land, which had been called “Judea” for centuries. The term “Palestina”
derives from the Philistines, one of the ancient Sea Peoples who had lived
along the coast of Judea and disappeared from history with the Babylonian
conquest seven centuries before the Romans exiled the Jews.)
If you can’t trust the Bible to legitimate the Jewish people’s
historical claim to the land, then perhaps archeological discoveries in the
City of David, the original Jerusalem which lies to the south of the walled Old
City, can provide proof that Jews lived there in antiquity. When the Stones
Speak is the riveting story of those archeological digs and what they revealed,
as well as the opposition that tried to stop them.
Excavating the City of David faced massive pushback from the
Palestinian leadership and the European NGOs that support them. Sheikh Ikrima
Sabri, the Mufti of the Temple Mount and one of the founders of Al Quds
University, told a reporter for the German Die Welt in 2001, “There is not the
smallest indication of the existence of a Jewish temple on this place in the
past. In the whole city, there is not even a single stone indicating Jewish
history…. It is the art of the Jews to deceive the world.”
Walid Awad, a Palestinian scholar in charge of publications for
the Palestinian Ministry of Information, asserted in 1996: “The fact of the
matter is that almost thirty years of excavations did not reveal anything
Jewish.... Jerusalem is not a Jewish city, despite the biblical myth implanted
in some minds.”
Even as recently as May, 2023, Mahmoud Abbas, the President of
the Palestinian Authority, addressing the United Nations, claimed that there
was no proof whatsoever of Jewish ties to the al-Aqsa compound [the Temple
Mount]. He stated that Israel “dug under al-Aqsa. They dug everywhere and they
could not find anything.”
When the Stones Speak tells of astonishing finds in the City of
David that disprove the Palestinian lies. Dr. Eilat Mazar, a courageous and
independent archeologist, using the Bible as her guide, discovered a monumental
building, with walls 20 feet thick, which she maintained was the palace of King
David and subsequent kings of Judea. She dated pottery she found within the
ruins to the tenth century BCE, the time of King David.
Archeologists from Tel Aviv University, who had made a career of
denying the Bible, jumped on Dr. Mazar and questioned the dating of her pottery
shards. They argued that the massive building, clearly belonging to a ruler,
was from two centuries before King David or three centuries after. In those years,
only organic matter could be conclusively dated. An olive pit found deep in the
structure was sent to the laboratories of Oxford University for Carbon-14
dating. After weeks of tumultuous debate in the media about Dr. Mazar's
discovery, the results came back: the olive pit was from 1000 BCE, the period
of King David.
Even more electrifying was her discovery of a clay seal that
bore the name, written in paleo-Hebrew, of “Yehuchal the son of Shelemiah.” The
Bible relates that the prophet Jeremiah, who lived in the 6th century BCE,
prophesized that the mistreatment of orphans and widows would bring Divine
judgment against the kingdom. Four of King Zedekiah’s officers told the king
that Jeremiah was fomenting panic in Jerusalem. The Bible records the name of
one of those officers: Yehuchal the son of Shelemiah.
Even more gripping is the story of discovering and excavating
“the Pilgrimage Road,” a 700-meter series of expertly chiseled limestone steps
that led from the Siloam Pool, a giant ritual bath discovered at the southern
tip of the City of David, directly to the Temple Mount. As Doron Spielman
writes:
The road we had discovered wasn’t just a Pilgrimage Road; it was
the Hag Pilgrimage Road used by the ancient Israelites who came to Jerusalem
more than sixteen hundred years before Islam was founded.
This historical fact should have posed no challenge to Islam
were it not for the Palestinian leadership. But they had been teaching an
entire generation of their people the falsehood that there never was a Jewish
Temple on the Temple Mount, and that the site was first sanctified by Muhammed…
With the discovery of King David’s Palace and the Pilgrimage
Road, the City of David was transformed from a small backwater excavation into
a leading archaeological site.
And with that transformation came threats of violence against
Israelis in general and against our workers, and even an attempted
assassination.
I never expected a book on archeology to be a page-turner, but
Doron Spielman is a master story-teller. As vice-president of the City of David
for 20 years, he provides an eye-witness account of the drama and suspense of
using archeology to prove that the Jews are the indigenous people of the tract
of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. With a cast of
colorful characters from Elie Wiesel to Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, this is a
must-read story.
As the author writes: “Grab almost any Israeli off the streets
in Israel today and they will likely tell you: ‘We are here. We have always
been here. And we’re not going anywhere else.’”
With the revelations narrated in this book, every Jew in the
world should be able to vouch: The Jews have always been in the land of Israel.
We are the indigenous people between the river and the sea.
Preserving Heavenly
Protection by R’ Yerachmiel Tilles
https://ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=1435-37
The famous Chatam Sofer, Rabbi Moshe Schreiber, related the
following story about Rabbi Shmuel-Eliezer Halevi Edeles, best known as the
Maharsha (an acronym of his name):
In the early 1600's, in the era of the Maharsha, there was a
famous Jew who was known to be a sinner. When this man died, prior to his
burial, one of the disciples of the Maharsha publicly shamed him. That night,
the deceased came to the disciple in a dream and said to him: "I summon
you to a Torah trial before the Heavenly Court, for you shamed me."
The young man woke up very disturbed and related his dream to
his father. His father reassured him, telling him that "dreams are
meaningless" [1] and the like, and the young man calmed down.
The dream, however, repeated itself for three nights and the
young man was so terrified that he became ill from it. The family decided to go
to the Maharsha and ask his advice.
When they arrived, the Maharsha instructed the young man to
remain for the night at his home as a guest. He then gathered his own family
and instructed them that should the young man wake up in terror, which was
likely, to call for him.
This indeed happened. In the middle of the night, the young man
woke up terror-stricken and the family immediately called for the Maharsha to
come.
The Maharsha approached the young man's bed and began talking to
the spirit of the dead man: "What do you want from this person?"
"He shamed me!" answered the dead man.
The Maharsha said to him, "But surely you deserve to be
shamed?!"
The dead man replied, "No, I don't deserve it. I wasn't a
completely evil person. Once I saw a Torah scholar fall into a river and almost
drown. I endangered myself and saved his life. Since then, we became close
friends. We made a Yissachar-Zebulun partnership [2] between us. I supported
him well throughout my life.
"When I passed on and came to Heaven, they received me with
great honor, as if I had been a great Torah scholar. They made no mention of my
sins, for anyone who saves a soul, it is as if he has saved the entire world.
"Furthermore, I have a great portion of the Torah learned
by the scholar and I am thus considered a Torah scholar myself. So, I am
summoning the young man to court, to be charged with shaming a Torah
scholar…."
The Maharsha minced no words in his reply to the dead man:
"The truth is that despite all you have said, you carry a great burden of
sins. However, the reality is that it is impossible to prosecute you; your good
deeds created a strong partition between you and the main prosecuting angel and
all the other heavenly prosecutors.
"But you should know that your transgressions were not
erased. You are only protected from them by your two special good deeds. To
bypass your protection, the prosecuting angel wants to ensnare you by
convincing you to persecute this young man until he dies. Then he will prosecute
you measure for measure.
"While it is true that you saved a Torah scholar, you now
wish to kill a Torah scholar. If you do so, it will remove the partition of
merit that is protecting you. Then you will become vulnerable and be held
liable for all your sins.
"Therefore, I advise you not to take this foolish step and
destroy yourself. Forgive him and all will be good for you as well."
The dead man accepted the Maharsha's advice, and the young man
returned to good health.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Source: Modified and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles, from
"Wonders," a weekly publication of inner.org, the website of the
teachings of the American-born Kabbalist, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg.
Why This Week? In the
final episode in this week's Torah reading, Behalosecha, Miriam speaks words to
shame her younger brother, Moshe (although solely to her older brother Aharon,
not publicly like in the above story.
Biographic note:
Rabbi Shmuel-Eliezer Halevi Edeles (5315 - 5 Kislev 5392 / 1555- Nov.1631)
became especially famous for his explanations of the Talmud, both on Halacha
(the legal element of the Talmud) and Hagadah (the ethical part of the Talmud).
His commentary became so popular, that it is printed in all the standard
editions of the Talmud, and is regarded as a "must" for all Talmud
scholars. His house was always open for the needy; his door was inscribed,
"No stranger shall stay overnight outside; my door is open for every
guest." [based on Chabad.org]
Footnotes:
1] The last chapter in the first tractate of the Talmud, Brachos('Blessings'),
devotes several pages to dream interpretation, including "most dreams are
meaningless" and how to relate to the ones that are not.
2] Yissachar and Zebulun were the 5th and 6th sons of Leah. The tribe of
Yissachar had the most leading Torah scholars of all the tribes, while the
tribe of Zebulun included a large number of successful merchants, including
many that did business overseas. The merchants of Zebulun took upon themselves
to support financially the scholars of Yissachar, and thereby shared in the
merit of the latter's Torah study.
The Jews of India: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/6917661/jewish/16-Facts-About-the-Jews-of-India.htm
Inyanay Diyoma
June 7th
Day 610 the start of week 88 and 20 months have
passed
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-defeats-estonia-3-1-in-2026-world-cup-qualifier/
Lieutenant
Colonel (Res.) Meir Indor, head of the victims’ organization Almagor, has
condemned MK Avigdor Liberman following his remarks about Israel arming various
elements in Gaza to combat Hamas. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409555
4 Soldiers fell in Gaza. Sergeant Major
Chen Gross, aged 33, from Gan Yoshiya, a reserve soldier in the Maglan Unit,
Commando Brigade, fell during combat in the southern Gaza Strip. Staff Sergeant
Yoav Raver, aged 19, from Sde Warburg, a soldier in the Yahalom Unit, Combat
Engineering Corps, fell during combat in the southern Gaza Strip. Sergeant First
Class Tom Rotstein, aged 23 from Ramat Gan, and Sergeant Uri Yonatan Cohen, aged 20, from Neve Yarak, both served as soldiers
in the Yahalom Unit, Combat Engineering Corps, and fell during combat in the
southern Gaza Strip. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409584
Iran
claims seizure of Israeli Nuke Documents. Thousands of documents related to
Israel’s nuclear project were secretly acquired and safely transferred to Iran.
The official statement noted that about three weeks ago, Israel's Shin Bet and
police announced the arrest of two Israeli citizens suspected of collaborating
with Iran — but said the documents had already been delivered by then. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409587
Lufthansa
Group announced on Friday its intention to reinstate flights to and from Tel
Aviv, beginning June 23. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409579
June 8th
Day 611
On Thursday night, I was aghast that the groom
and friends came to pick up Menashe during the middle of an air raid. It turned
out that the south-east over the hill in the direction of Yerushalayim and all
of Modiin there was a siren. But to the east of us and north-east of us where
my grandson and family was physically under a siren there was silence. We were
on the edge of the alert range. So even though we are considered area 181 on
the siren list we were the only part of the area that the siren went off. The
radar is that accurate!
A suspected arson attack was reported early Sunday morning at the
"Or Haviv" synagogue in the Sanhedria neighborhood of Jerusalem,
where former Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef leads prayers. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409608
Colombian presidential candidate and senator Miguel Uribe Turbay was
shot during a campaign rally in Bogotá on Sunday night. He is in critical
condition, and the suspected shooter has been arrested. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409609
700,000,000 NIS. National
Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has called on Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to provide immediate clarification and convene an urgent discussion
regarding the funding of the humanitarian aid mechanism for Gaza. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409607
Daniela
Yakubovich, 67, was murdered Saturday night in a stabbing at a private
residence on Iris Street in Nahariya by her son – 15th woman this
year. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409596
France,
UK walk back PLO State recognition. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409598
Thursday:
The IDF carried out a targeted strike against terrorists from the Islamic Jihad
terrorist organization who were operating under the guise of journalists. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409590
National Religious Party can’t win as is but
under General Winter would get 8 mandates. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409556
A
new report published by The Washington Post on Saturday details a heated
physical altercation between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at
the White House in mid-April, an incident that reportedly ignited the
billionaire's dramatic falling-out with President Donald Trump. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409599
In recent days, the Israel Defense Forces have ramped up their
combat operations in key areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in Jabaliya and
Khan Younis, according to military reporter Nir Dvori. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409610
Proposal to dismiss Attorney General. According to
the proposed change, the Attorney General could be dismissed not only after
consultation with the original selection committee, but also following a
hearing before a special ministerial committee. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409603
June 9th
Day 612
Op-Ed Diane Bederman A blast from the Ukrainian
Past in Toronto – my words.
https://dianebederman.com/chief-myron-demkiw-and-a-blast-from-the-plast/
Another Nova terrorist eliminated. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409630
The IDF has opened an investigation into an unusual
incident in which Channel 12 reporter Yigal Mosko used a key to open a
locked gate near the village of Deir Dibwan in the Binyamin region and entered
the village with his car. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409633
Tzvi-Hirsh
(Grisha) Zurgazda, 32, a father of two and member of the Jewish community in
Odessa, was killed in combat last Thursday on the front lines near Kherson. He
is the third Jewish soldier to die in Ukraine’s war effort within the past two
weeks. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409632
Israeli
military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai, a recipient of the Israel Prize in the field
of culture and communication and a veteran commentator for Yediot Aharonot, published an op-ed asserting that
Israel's war in the Gaza Strip, initiated in the wake of the October 7
massacre, is “just and, above all, necessary.” https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409613
Celebrity ship seized. They will view atrocity
film. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bknvm11vxxg#autoplay
Luis
von Ahn, founder and CEO of the language-learning app Duolingo, sent an email
in late April to all employees which contained surprising news: the company,
which brands itself as “AI-first,” plans to phase out contract workers whose
jobs can now be done by artificial intelligence. Shopify too. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/skmnluxxlg
A
wave of AI-generated online scams featuring deep fakes of well-known Israeli
public figures has surfaced in recent weeks, targeting users with fake
investment ads on Facebook and Instagram. Among those impersonated are Israel’s Eurovision 2025 contestant Yuval Raphael and model Yael
Shelbia, who appear in fabricated videos promoting suspicious stock purchases. https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/h1pulvjxll#autoplay
I am beginning to see myself as a Don Quixote
fighting an AI Windmill as time progresses. Perhaps HASHEM is about to change
the world such that Iran and maybe China will destroy much of our progress.
There are times when man proposes and HASHEM disposes.
Op-Ed the wedding of Netanyahu’s non-political
son not a place to protest. https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/skwi4jzqxe
An aside note: My daughter and
husband were at the annual teacher’s union weekend at a hotel near Haichel
Shlomo and watched the pre-wedding Torah Aliyah.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-targeted-hamas-member-in-drone-strike-in-southern-syria/
June 10th And June 11th
Day 613 (I personally wish that the 613 Mitzvos
would end this war with the safe release of all 55 hostages.) And Day 614
It happens sometimes that one has a Mitzvah
that outweighs others. Yesterday, Menashe had a medical problem that my wife
and I thought merited back-up even though he is 20 and out of the forester care
program. To desert him would not be proper and Derek Eretz {manners} is before
Torah – not to mention health concerns.
On Monday, the Houthis sent a dud missile.
[Iran ignored quality control for quantity.] Tuesday evening in the repetition
of the late afternoon prayer I heard the alert. It gave me 2 minutes to
speedily walk with my walker down the hill to home. As I reached my door, the
siren started and I was in the shelter before the end of the alert. The missile
was shot down but too close to Israel and parts fell in various places. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-shoots-down-yemen-missile-multiple-interceptors-launched-as-it-breaks-up/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409745
Greta and others refused to view Oct. 7th
footage. Some voluntarily least Israel others face 3 day detention per law
before being kicked out. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409731
Pallywood Productions if we added
the total it would very high. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-troops-fired-at-gazans-who-posed-threat-palestinians-say-20-killed-near-aid-site/
30-Year
Cover-Up: Newly Unearthed Records Confirm FBI Lied about OKC Bomb Footage |
Headline USA
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/marines-deploy-los-angeles-trump-ice-protest-newsom
The Torah Vayikra (Lev) 18:22, 20:13 Forbids
and Devarim (Deut.) 22:5 on cross dressing. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-groups-pull-out-of-san-diego-pride-festival-over-anti-israel-singers-performance/
Since
the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on December 9 of last year, the government
of Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Shara, has been consolidating its rule. The
new regime has gained international recognition, culminating in a meeting
between al-Shara and U.S. President Donald Trump in Riyadh. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409729
FINALLY MIRIAM REGEV SPEAKS OUT AGAINST THIS
AFTER 20% RISE IN APRIL:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409733
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/06/09/new-york-times-peddles-fabricated-stories-gaza-aid/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mark-green-announces-retirement-from-congress-before-end-term
A 38-year-old woman filmed assaulting a police officer in Ashkelon in
an apparent attempt to avoid a traffic citation has a history of criminal
convictions, including theft, threats, and violent offenses, according to a
report by Kan News. She has previously served time in prison. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409735
A 20-year-old Pakistani national living in Canada has been extradited
to the United States in connection with an alleged plan to carry out a mass
shooting at the Chabad Center at 770 Eastern Parkway in New York. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409793
On
June 5, a federal jury convicted Tiron Alexander, 35, of wire fraud and
entering into a secure area of an airport by false pretenses, the US Justice
Department reported Tuesday.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409798
Wednesday,
one year after a 12-year-old Jewish girl was gang-raped
in an antisemitic attack in the suburbs of Paris, the suspects' trial is set to begin. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409795
In a
comprehensive address to the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Michael
"Erik" Kurilla, outgoing Commander of United States Central Command
(CENTCOM), provided an in-depth analysis of the changing security dynamics in
the Middle East. His testimony focused particularly on the growing threats
posed by Iran and its proxy networks, and the crucial role of Israel and
regional partners in maintaining stability.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409761
Anti-immigrant riots due to rape in N. Ireland.
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-857277
June 12th
Day 615
There are now 53 hostages left after the
recovery of two more bodies. The main news is that Israel is preparing for an
attack on Iran. This might be a Trump negotiating tactic or reality. The
British have warned shipping in the Gulf of Iran. The US have evacuated staff
at a few embassies. They have also evacuated spouses from the Bahrain Base. The
truth is that Trump’s 60 days have passed. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-ready-to-strike-iran-possibly-within-days-even-as-nuke-talks-set-to-resume/ Not before
Tuesday! - RP
US Embassy: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjehxxu7xe
British Embassy: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1j3dsdqlg#autoplay
Draft Law Compromise: According to
the emerging proposal, the law will be enacted as temporary legislation for
three years — with an option to extend — and will include a range of personal
and financial sanctions for those who do not meet its requirements. Under the
plan, a haredi man who neither studies Torah nor enlists in the IDF will face
possible imprisonment. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409852
China’s secret war on the US. https://www.jpost.com/international/article-857432
President
Donald
Trump and Republicans in the House and Senate on Thursday finally
ended California’s outsized authority to dictate national
emissions standards for new cars, trucks, RVs and engines. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ending-californias-epa-power-grab-jump-start-american-auto-rv-manufacturing
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chaos-erupts-ice-protesters-prompt-state-emergency-spokane-washington
Islamic
State (IS) has been attempting just that, according to more than 20 sources,
including security and political officials from Syria, Iraq, the U.S. and
Europe, as well as diplomats in the region. The group has started reactivating
fighters in both countries, identifying targets, distributing weapons and
stepping up recruitment and propaganda efforts, the sources said. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1vuqzdqxl
https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-least-3-killed-10-hurt-in-blast-at-iranian-petrochemical-facility/
Shabbos Candle Lighting: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/shabat
Antisemites to the right of me antisemites to
the left of me. https://www.timesofisrael.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-rashida-tlaib-vote-present-on-item-condemning-antisemitism/
Following intelligence gathered in recent weeks, IDF forces
conducted a targeted overnight operation in Syria and arrested several
terrorists from the Hamas terror organization. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409855
A
Syrian girl received life-saving treatment at Rambam and returned home, a
spokesperson for Haifa's Rambam Health Care Campus revealed Thursday morning. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409854
IDF,
ISA, and Israel Police Samaria and Judea District forces operated in a 30
hour-long counterterrorism operation in Kasbah in Nablus, as part of Operation
"Iron Walls" in northern Samaria. During the operation, two
terrorists were eliminated, over 400 structures were searched, 10 wanted
suspects were apprehended, and dozens of suspects were questioned. Numerous
weapons and equipment that were used to manufacture improvised weapons, were
confiscated. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409847
One of Yemen’s last Jews leaves: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409853
Thursday,
the IDF and ISA struck Hamas terrorists who were operating in a structure in
the Shati area in central Gaza that was being used as a weapons production
facility, a joint statement confirmed. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409871
Rumors
of her death exaggerated: An 88-year-old woman mistakenly declared dead
in Pilsen, in the Czech Republic, opened her eyes as funeral staff were placing
her in a coffin, local media reported last week. https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-857094
On
Wednesday, during IDF operational activity, a terrorist cell fired an anti-tank
missile toward the troops, moderately injuring two soldiers. They were
eliminated: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409863
Opinion Poll: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409845
June 13th
Operation Rising Lion Day 1
Swords of Iron Day 616 end of week 88
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/06/13/israel-strikes-iran-air-raid-sirens-sound-nationwide/
Menashe woke us up at 3AM there was a warning
of the attack in Iran all meetings cancelled such as schools.
We went to the shelter even though we heard
nothing and saw the full evening news staff on TV. Now since 9 AM the
alternative evening news staff.
330 targets were attacked in two waves early
this morning. A third wave is underway now and the IAF and friends are shooting
down drones as I write. The Iranian COS, deputy COS, head of the Air Force and
his general staff especially Missile Offense, Head of the Revolutionary Guards,
Defense of Iran General and others. 6 Atomic Scientists and a secret lab
working on putting together A-Bomb mechanism. Drones, Missiles, Natanz and 5
other atomic sites were hit. More hidden missile bases, radar and anti-aircraft
destroyed.
The destruction of Natanz occurred while the
centrifuges with enriched Uranium were spinning. The parts that were not
destroyed are one big radioactive mess for years. Next to Natanz there is a
stowage facility that may or may not have been hit.
Right now Iran is with almost no Phantom
Aircraft, not much radar or defensive rockets. We can now attack more. The
Supreme Ayatollah has not been attacked.
Right now a good deal of the drones are being
shot down. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-857598
Article on those killed: https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-857580
Moldova Jewish Gravestones attacked. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-857570
Prayers for the State of Israel, IDF and
Captives. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409914
Hamas threatening aid workers. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409881
In
recent days, a tractor stolen in 2001 from Kibbutz Gat in southern Israel was
located, following intelligence received by the Central Unit of Border Police
Central District. The vehicle was found in use in the village of Az-Zawiya, on
the outskirts of Qalqilya.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409857
Magen
David Adom (MDA) is on the highest level of alert, prepared for any scenario
and ready to provide medical assistance as needed, spokesperson Zaki Heller
said.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409906
IAF released picture of blurred face of pilot
with braids in her hair. Female pilots are taking part in the fray. Remember
the war in Gaza has 5 divisions in the Fray.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-embassy-to-boycott-tel-aviv-pride-parade-in-trump-era-reversal/
IDF
reveals that for years, the Iranian regime has been waging a direct and
indirect campaign of terror against the State of Israel by developing a nuclear
weapon, developing advanced long-range missiles and warheads, and funding and
directing terror proxies across the Middle East. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409927
Iran's
Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, responded to the Israeli operation against
Iran and threatened, "The Zionist regime must expect severe
punishment."
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409913
Operation will continue as many days as
necessary. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409904
Statement of COS. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409909
US not involved in attack. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409905
Sec. of Defense:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409899
Airport evacuated: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409908
A healthy, peaceful and restful
Shabbos,
Rachamim Pauli
