Parsha Hazinu Part 1
Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Ben
Porat HaCohain Shlita points out that this Parsha is called a Shir (Song) and
the Torah has it written is special lines similar to “The Song by the Sea” in Shemos
(Exodus).
This “Song” that Moshe
taught to Am Yisrael is a warning to behave in the future. Moshe knew that when
he died and Yoshua would take over, the people will faulter. It might not be
immediate. Not during the miracles of Yericho or the Sun and the moon standing
still during the battle Erev Shabbos in which more enemies die from meteorites
than in conventional battle. When the battle ends, the people can go home/to
camp and enjoy Shabbos. But wealth can lead to arrogance.
It can be power. Example:
In my former company, a man was brought in to be over my department head, who
had worked 30plus years in the department but was on the level of a high school
or vocational school graduate. Or my academic self with close to 25years
experience but lacking some Hebrew skills. Sort of teach me how to be your boss
– because he spoke and wrote Hebrew and was a technician with connections but
less than 15years experience. He started acting as if his father owned the
government controlled company. This type of arrogance and attitude with the
tribes of Yeshurun waxing fat, Moshe was warning about. They would forget that
it was G-D that blessed Israel (or America or saving the King). Not everybody
is a leader that can keep the people on their toes and following G-D.
Moshe knew that there
would come a time after the last of the generation that knew him died out such
as Pinchas the Cohain and the Elders. Then the people would think it was their
farming or business skills that made them rich and not a blessing or Hashgacha
from HASHEM. The song was there to remind them and saved many but unfortunately
not enough as destruction and exile occurred twice.
The song did help in
that Am Yisrael is Chai and returning to the land.
32:1 Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; and let the earth hear
the words of my mouth.
In Kabbalah, all
inanimate objects like heaven and earth have resonant frequencies from HASHEM.
They shall bear witness.
2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the
dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
The words of HASHEM
shall be small but they shall nourish like a drop of rain or dew slowly and
surely penetrating the heart and soul of each Yid.
3 For I will proclaim the name of the LORD; ascribe ye greatness
unto our God. 4 The Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice; a
God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is He.
The L-RD is perfect,
just and without blemish. He is faithful to those who love him.
5 Is corruption His? No; His children's is the blemish; a
generation crooked and perverse. 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish
people and unwise? is not He thy father that hath gotten thee? hath He not made
thee, and established thee?
HIS children are corrupt
and blemished and must recognize the L-RD.
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations;
ask thy father, and he will declare unto thee, thine elders, and they will tell
thee.
One must remember his
history of the generation and connect with his parents and the elders of the generation.
The Chabad Translation
adds a different dimension to this: 7 Recall the olden days. Contemplate the years of the generation of Enosh and the generation of Noah. Ask your father—i.e., a prophet—and he will tell you about the future; ask your elders and they will recount to you the events of the
past.
When we see the Chabad
translation with the Rashi: https://www.chabad.org/parshah/torahreading.asp?aid=2495834&p=complete&showrashi=true&jewish=Haazinu-Torah-Reading.htm
We see the dividing of
the 70 nations after the flood and where they went to.
8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when He
separated the children of men, He set the borders of the peoples according to
the number of the children of Israel.
When the Supreme One gave the nations their
inheritance. This means: when the Holy One,
blessed be He, gave those who angered Him the portion they deserved. He flooded
them and swept them away. When He divided the
descendants of Adam – i.e., when He scattered the generation of the Dispersion, He could
have justifiably removed them from the world, but He did not do so; instead “He
firmly established the boundaries of the peoples” - i.e., He let them live and did
not destroy them – According to the number of
the descendants of Israel - i.e., for the sake of the number of the descendants of Israel
destined to come from the descendants of Shem, and according to the number of
70 souls of the descendants of Israel who descended to Egypt, He set the
boundaries of the nations as 70 languages.
9 For the portion of the LORD is His people, Jacob the lot of His
inheritance.
G-D placed originally 70
nations on this earth (That there is about 190 nations or more now seems to verify
the prophecy of Daniel 2:31-45 where the feet of the Statue is clay and breaks
into tiny pieces) and Israel is set aside as special.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste, a howling
wilderness; He compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple
of His eye.
Yisrael was raised in
the desert on Mann to eat and oasis of water to drink. There was grazing for
the flocks and the herds and without predators or human attackers, they were
able to learn Torah. 600,000 soldiers plus women and children learning in one
big Yeshiva for 40 years. A group of people that had garments that did not fray
or sandals that fell apart for 40 years with no enemies had much time for Torah
and the Halacha of Oral Torah.
He surrounded them. There, He surrounded and encircled them with the
Clouds of Glory, He surrounded them with the tribal banners in the four directions, and He surrounded
them underneath the mountain at
the Giving of the Torah,
by suspending it over them like an overturned barrel. He
instructed them - there in the Torah and in understanding. He protected them - from snakes, vipers, scorpions, and from the
nations. Like the pupil of His eye. This is the dark part of the eye, source of the power
of sight. “He provided all their needs in the desert,” taking יִמְצָאֵהוּ as
meaning
the same as וּמָצָא
לָהֶם “would it suffice for them,” and לֹא יִמָּצֵא לָנוּ הָהָר “the hill country will not suffice for us.” יְסֹבְבֶנְהוּ – אַשְׁרִנּוּן
סְחוֹר סְחוֹר לִשְׁכִינְתֵּהּ “He encamped them around His Divine Presence”; i.e., the Tent of Meeting in the middle and the four
divisions on the four sides.
11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, hovers over her young,
spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her pinions--
As an eagle awakens its nest. God led them with mercy and compassion, like the eagle,
who is merciful toward its young and does not enter the nest suddenly, but
first flaps and beats its wings above them between one tree and the next and
between one branch and the next, so that its young can wake and have the
strength to receive it. Hovering
over its young. It does not bear its weight upon them but hovers over them, not quite touching them. So, too, the Holy One,
blessed be He, acted
in this way, as it says:
“We do not find the Almighty exercising excessive power.” When He came to give
the Torah to
the Israelites,
He did not manifest Himself to them from only one direction, but from all four directions, as it says: “God came from Sinai;
He shone forth to them from Seir; He appeared from Mount Paran; He came from these three directions with some of the holy myriads of angels,” and “God came from the south” is the fourth direction.
I condensed the Rashi
but the way the eagle treats its children with love and protection is the theme
of HASHEM protecting Am Yisrael.
12 The LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with
Him.
Yisrael chooses only
HASHEM straight talk to the CREATOR no nonsensical stuff like wind, lightning,
thunder like the nations at that time. No intermediaries only Our Father, Our
King, Or Master of the World/Universe or calling HASHEM All Merciful/All Powerful in our prayers
whether we need help in one way or the other or even Healer of All it is HASHEM
whom Yisrael calls upon. As we find in our thrice daily standing prayer
(Amidah) … “Heals the sick, releases prisoners, (is next to those) who sleep in
the dust”…
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, and he did eat
the fruitage of the field; and He made him to suck honey out of the crag, and
oil out of the flinty rock;
This is the period in
which Yisrael thrives.
14 Curd of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of
the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, with the kidney-fat of wheat; and of the
blood of the grape thou drank foaming wine.
Similar to the many fold
blessing Yitzchak had with his grain planting Yisrael will thrive under the
Mitzvos.
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked--thou didst wax fat, thou
didst grow thick, thou didst become gross--and he forsook God who made him, and
contemned the Rock of his salvation.
As I mentioned in the
introduction, the people will become arrogant as their wealth increases and
forget the source of their blessing. They will abandon the Torah of their
fathers and lax in observance and thanks for the goodness (HaKaras HaTov) to
HASHEM.
16 They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations
did they provoke Him. 17 They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they
knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.
A number of years ago a
son of a religious billionaire died of substance abuse in the arms of woman of
ill repute. This is how to look at boredom of the wealthy generation forgetting
the history in this warning song and going astray after strange and nonsensical
gods, or other sins.
18 Of the Rock that begot thee thou were unmindful, and didst
forget God that bore thee.
One thing is losing concentration
and focus in an elder compared to a youth with a clear mind. Other thing is a
generation of people forgetting their history, the warnings and Halachos of
Torah. One we pray that when we age and are weak, that G-D will not abandon us
and the other is people abandoning G-D and that is the warning here.
19 And the LORD saw, and spurned, because of the provoking of His
sons and His daughters. 20 And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will
see what their end shall be; for they are a very froward generation, children
in whom is no faithfulness.
Even when Miracles occur
today, it is hidden by G-D for the thinker and seer to see but not outright.
(Examples the number of terrorists who ‘accidently’ blow themselves up, the gun
of the terrorist jams, the rocks/missiles/bullets miss by millimeters, or the
man turns his head as the sniper fires.) The righteous will see, but the wicked
will say ‘accidental happening’. They will not see the probability of such an
even happening.
21 They have roused Me to jealousy with a no-god; they have
provoked Me with their vanities; and I will rouse them to jealousy with a
no-people; I will provoke them with a vile nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in
My nostril, and burns unto the depths of the nether-world, and devours the
earth with her produce, and sets ablaze the foundations of the mountains.
Not only will G-D hide
himself from us, but he will be angry and bitter at us.
23 I will heap evils upon them; I will spend Mine arrows upon them;
24 The wasting of hunger, and the devouring of the fiery bolt, and bitter
destruction; and the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, with the venom of
crawling things of the dust.
One of the cities with
mixed population is Haifa and is a port city with all that it implies. Wild
Boars began roaming the city. The religious population there was ignored by the
local political “leaders” and it did not take much for this to happen. The lack
of respect for HASHEM most likely was the cause.
25 Without shall the sword bereave, and in the chambers terror;
slaying both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.
Once the Gezaira comes
it only takes a few Hamas or whatever to kill kindergarten children or rip a
baby from a womb, rape the mother as the baby is placed in the oven and then
shoot her or old men or take them captive only to die. The same men that drove
the Arab Leaders to the hospital for treatment, where those who were among the
captured and later died in captivity. “Peace Now! Became their own body pieces.
They were far from Kashrus, Shabbos, Belief and other Mitzvos.
Due to both Yom Kippur
and a Bris today, I will hopefully continue and Conclude the Torah next Shabbos
and in two weeks scientifically, with the help of HASHEM I will take
about the first three minutes of Creation and condense 13,500,000,000 years into
one 24 hour day with 11 Dimensions some above normal time and space. I also
hope to show HASHEM’s signature in DNA based on Genesis and Genes by Yoram
Bogacz.
This week stories of two heroes came out.
There was a brief
interview with a soldier who lost a leg that just did the iron man run, ride a
bicycle and swim. He succeeded! He is not the only injured person missing a
limb or two that is working out and succeeding.
The story in the news
paper on Shabbos was that of a police sapper, Yair Vizner, assigned to the
Super Nova Festival that came home on Friday night to his religious Kibbutz in
the Hevel Shalom area of evacuated folks from 2005 Gaza. His replacement sapper
fought the terrorist bravely but did not survive the assault.
They were 400 meters
or 4 US Football Fields from the Gaza Border. He was on Kita (Class) Alert for
his Kibbutz. His friend an Israeli Major was murdered defending his shelter and
family. Yair left his wife and children locked in his shelter for 24hours until
the army freed the area.
He fought bravely and
defended and saved his friend who had lost a brother to terror. He was hit
partially in the head and both arms. He requested from the local pediatrician
to put a bullet in his head to end his misery. The Pediatrician gave him a
sedative and dealt with his wounds and he lay in an induced coma for three
days.
Yair woke up three
days later. His parents were next to him. He was bandaged and with plaster on
both arms. His father put Tephillin on him and his mother or wife feed him as
if he was six months to a year old. Slowly, he worked on repairing his arms.
Today, Yair can put on
Tallis and Tephillin because his hands are not fully functional, he can never
return to the bomb squad. He still has a long way to go and will never fully
recover.
The Prayer of a
barren Tree by R’ Yerachmiel Tilles
https://ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=1451-02
Great joy filled the
Jewish community of the small Polish town of Piltz, Poland, upon the
appointment of their new rabbi-Rabbi Yechiel Danziger, who would later become
widely known as the first Rebbe of Alexander.[1] Rabbi Yechiel relocated
from the town of Groitz (Gritza), where he had served as rabbi and spiritual
guide, following in the footsteps of his father, Rabbi Shraga-Feivel.
The members of the
community welcomed their new rabbi with great honor and high hopes. As his
appointment came just a few weeks before the High Holidays, they eagerly
awaited his inaugural sermon, anticipating that the new rabbi would deliver
strong words of inspiration.
However, the first
Shabbat came and went, yet Rabbi Yechiel refrained from preaching publicly. The
many worshippers who had packed the synagogue left puzzled, and a little
disappointed. This soon gave way to hope that on Shabbat Selichot, the
last Shabbat before Rosh Hashana, the rabbi would surely offer stirring words.
But, again, their
hopes were dashed; their new spiritual leader maintained his silence.
The community's
thirst only grew as Rosh Hashana approached. Everyone was convinced that before
the sounding of the shofar, the rabbi would finally provide long-awaited words
of needed inspiration and guidance.
But the two days of
Rosh Hashana passed with nary a word, and Shabbat Shuvah as well. The
congregation began to accept the reality that their rabbi was choosing
silence-for undecipherable reasons of his own.
Yom Kippur night
arrived. A spirit of elevation and purity filled the shul. Worshippers
gathered, solemn expressions on their faces, burying themselves in their prayer
books, preparing for the stirring Kol Nidrei opening prayer.
Suddenly, the rabbi
entered, wrapped in his tallit, which draped from his head down over his
face and upper body. Wordlessly, he strode to the Ark. In a sudden motion, he
flung open the curtain, threw wide the doors-and broke into sobs, a weeping
that lasted for a long time.
A hush fell over the
synagogue. All eyes were fixed in reverent awe on the stirring scene. Suddenly,
the rabbi cried out, his voice booming and raw:
"King David
says in Psalms [102:18]: 'He turned to the prayer of the 'ar'ar (barren tree),
and did not despise their prayer.' G-D listens to the prayer of the ar'ar,
the barren, desolate tree! A prayer without beauty, without merit."
His words pierced
the hearts of the worshippers. Many began to cry along with the rabbi. The
silence of weeks had shattered. Thus began the holy day.
* * *
Years later, Rabbi Yehuda-Moshe Tyberg-Danziger, the 3rd Alexander Rebbe, in
his book Emunat Moshe, shares the deeper meaning behind that powerful
moment, based on a story once told by the Baal Shem Tov.
One year, the Baal
Shem Tov greatly prolonged the Yom Kippur evening prayer. His disciples noted
that his prayers were marked by an extraordinary level of spiritual attachment.
At the meal after the fast, his disciples asked him about the reason behind
this.
The Baal Shem Tov told them the following:
In a distant town
lived a Jew who, sadly, had long since turned away from Judaism. Instead, he
chose a sinful life of rebellion, totally abandoning his people, the Torah and
his God. He moved to a non-Jewish area and assimilated entirely into their way
of life. For thirty years, not a single prayer had escaped his lips-not even on
Yom Kippur.
However, on the eve
of Yom Kippur that year, he happened to pass through the Jewish market. At
first, the sights seemed foreign, but memories from his repressed past began to
surface. He watched his fellow Jews scurrying about, immersed in preparations
for the sacred day. The sight struck him deeply. His heart stirred as his soul
began to thaw. The walls of alienation he had built over decades began to
crumble.
There he stood in
the center of the market, overwhelmed by powerful emotions, soaking in the
atmosphere of Yom Kippur Eve that he had long forgotten.
Hours passed. He
remained motionless, gripped by an inner storm. The sun set; the growing
darkness of the empty market awakened him from his thoughts. A spirit of teshuva (repentance)
stirred within him. His legs-almost against his will-carried him to the
synagogue.
He slipped inside
just as Kol Nidrei began. The thunderous voices of the congregation
masked his entrance. He tucked himself into a corner, unnoticed. Without a
prayer book, unable to remember any words of the High Holiday prayers, it was
as if he was invisible.
Only after the last
worshipper had left did he emerge from his corner. With trembling hands, he
took a Yom Kippur prayer book from a shelf and began to read aloud with great
fervor. Page after page he devoured with thirst, crying and beating his chest
[during the "Al Heit" alphabetical confessions] in heartfelt remorse.
During his extended
prayer, he suddenly cried out bitterly: "Master of the Universe! I know
there is no sinner in the world as wicked as I am. My sins outweigh even those
of the greatest evildoer!" He then began confessing his many sins in painful
detail. And so he poured his soul into that night. When dawn broke, he
left-unknown, unseen, but transformed.
At sunrise, the new
penitent left the synagogue and went on his way.
The Baal Shem Tov
continued: "A great commotion arose in the heavens because of this pure
repentance. His prayer was so deeply honest and beloved that it swept upward
with it prayers that had been waiting centuries to ascend to the Throne of
Glory.
"And
that," concluded the Baal Shem Tov, "is why I delayed my own prayer,".
"I wanted to pray alongside that penitent-the ar'ar-whose prayer G-D
specifically turns to."
And that, the Rebbe
of Alexander explained, is why the verse begins in the singular-"the
prayer of the ar'ar"-but ends in the plural-"and He did not
despise their prayer." For thanks to the prayer of that lone ar'ar,
the prayers of all of Israel rose to the heavens.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Source: Heavily revised and then adapted and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles
from a 'GPTchat' basic translation of an article in Sichat HaShavua #1758
based on the book, Emunat Moshe.
Biographical note:
Rabbi Yechiel Danziger [1828 - 14 Shvat 1894], succeeded his father, Rabbi
Shraga-Feivel, as the Rebbe of Gritza. Previously, he had been a leading
disciple of the Vorka and Biala Rebbes. In 1878, after accepting the invitation
to be the chief rabbi of Aleksandrów (near Lodz, Poland), he became the
founding Rebbe of the Alexander dynasty. Under the leadership of his son and
successor, Rabbi Yerachmiel-Yisrael-Yitzchak Danziger, (1853-1910), the number
of Alexzander chasidim increased exponentially. (Translated & adapted from
the album, HaChasidus, by R. Yitzchak Alfasi)
Footnotes:
[1]Alexander [Aleksandrów] is the name of a town near Lodz, Poland.
[2] 1892-1973. The son-in-law of Rebbe Betzalel-Yair [one of Rebbe Yechiel's
sons] and grandfather of the current Alexander Rebbe. He became the 3rd Rebbe
immediately after the Holocaust.
Milestone: Rebbetzin Chaya Sarah Even-Israel Steinzaltz, 82, the widow
of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinzaltz, has passed away at the age of 82. Widow
of Rabbi Steinzaltz passes away | Israel National News
Inyanay Diyoma
Sept. 27th
Swords of Iron Day 722 start of week
104
We are coming up to two solar years.
There were 2 Houthi Missiles last week that I did not report. One fell very
early no alarm and the alarm Thursday night. Last night I made a noise in my
sleep and my wife was almost down to the shelter when she called me and I told
her nothing dear. I also had a dream this afternoon of an alarm without prior
warning. People are on the alert here all the time.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-us-21-point-plan-for-ending-gaza-war-creating-pathway-to-palestinian-state/
New
Details: All hostages in exchange for 100 to 200 life-sentence prisoners |
Israel National News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostage-families-call-for-mass-protests-as-new-trump-plan-gathers-steam/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-netanyahu-meeting-emirati-fm-calls-for-gaza-truce-hostage-release-2-state-solution/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-780000-have-fled-gaza-city-hamas-says-dozens-killed-in-unrelenting-strikes/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-defiant-un-speech-pm-rips-world-leaders-for-turning-backs-on-israel-recognizing-palestine/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-us-demand-to-hand-over-all-enriched-uranium-for-sanctions-relief-unacceptable/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-receive-calls-with-recorded-messages-trying-to-recruit-iranian-agents/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-marks-one-year-since-longtime-terror-leader-nasrallah-was-killed-by-idf/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-syria-talks-said-to-hit-snag-over-israeli-demand-for-humanitarian-corridor-to-druze/
From Stephen E. Hughes: Iran’s & Houthis Evolving Missile and
Drone Attacks
Iran Caused $3 Billion of Damage With
Missile Strikes on Israel
Tehran is incorporating China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS)
into its military capabilities. This system will offer essential support for
the targeting and guidance of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, drones, and
maritime drones.
Israel has estimated the cost of damages incurred during
its 12-day war with Iran at 10 billion shekels ($3 billion), with funds needed
both to repair missile-hit buildings and pay compensation to local businesses.
Friday afternoon: The Ashdod
Municipality announced the closure of all the city's beaches after beachgoers
saw an approximately 5-meter (16 feet)-long shark at the Yud Alef Beach in the
southern Israeli city. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/415455
Naim
Qassem: Hezbollah will not disarm | Israel National News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/naftali-bennett-says-first-move-as-pm-would-be-setting-term-limit-for-the-post/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/cycling-union-head-rejects-calls-to-ban-israel-premier-tech-from-races/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-demolishes-west-bank-home-of-terrorist-who-carried-out-deadly-jerusalem-shooting/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/zelensky-says-israeli-patriot-missile-defense-system-is-operating-in-ukraine/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/witkoffs-son-solicited-billions-from-qatar-as-his-dad-negotiated-ceasefires-report/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-revokes-colombian-leaders-visa-after-he-calls-for-global-army-to-fight-in-gaza/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-send-special-flights-to-romania-for-stranded-pilgrims-who-traveled-to-uman/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-mayor-thanks-netanyahu-for-defending-the-west-as-mamdani-accuses-him-of-genocide/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rep-jerry-nadlers-nyc-synagogue-rebuffs-claims-mamdani-will-attend-yom-kippur-services/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-reopen-west-bank-jordan-crossing-after-holiday-closure-attack/
Sept. 28th
Swords of Iron Day 723
On this day in 1928 the discovery of
penicillin. There are those who did not like the RNA Corona vaccines and I can
understand that but the old proven technology measles vaccine is being
boycotted by sections of the Charedi Community with death number 4 within a
week (see below). The Arab Mafia with their guns has killed another victim 188
or 189. They are smuggling guns over the Egyptian Border with small carrier
drones.
A Fortune Teller told Nasrallah once
“You will die on a Jewish Holiday”. N: “How do you know it?” “Any day you die
will be a Jewish Holiday.” In truth it was Shabbos! https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-chief-resists-call-to-disarm-as-thousands-mark-year-since-nasrallahs-death/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-dead-in-massive-russian-drone-missile-attack-on-kyiv/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/blatant-discrimination-1200-hollywood-stars-slam-industry-call-to-boycott-israel/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-decries-illegal-reimposition-of-un-nuclear-sanctions-urges-countries-not-to-comply/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-leaders-decry-gaza-genocide-urge-palestinian-state-in-impassioned-un-speeches/
Forty-seven
Democratic congressional representatives sent a Friday letter calling for the
United States of America to recognize a Palestinian state to President Donald
Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to a statement issued by
Congressman Ro Khanna. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-868836
US House Speaker Mike Johnson affirmed his position on the West
Bank belonging to Israel following statements from US President Donald Trump
that were opposed to annexing the west bank. Is
Mike Johnson refuting Trumps West Bank statement? | The Jerusalem Post
Two
weeks before: How the Mossad assessed Hamas | Israel National News
Op-Ed D. Honig: Tucker
Carlson is promoting his own version of Mein Kampf | Israel National News
IDF
Chief of Staff: We’re doing everything to defeat Hamas | Israel National News
Death
Penalty for Terrorists Bill approved in first reading | Israel National News
Rehovot:
75-year-old falls to his death while building a sukkah | Israel National News
Watch:
Terrorists who fired anti-tank missiles eliminated in Gaza City | Israel
National News
IDF
eliminates terrorist who killed Yamam commander | Israel National News
Report:
Tony Blair to head Gaza authority under US plan | Israel National News
Anti-Israel
protesters disrupt Kamala Harris book tour over Gaza war | Israel National News
Watch:
Hamas combat compound with stolen humanitarian aid destroyed | Israel National
News
Aryeh
Eldad: Netanyahu doesn't want sovereignty, Trump is his alibi | Israel National
News
Report:
Israel considers immunity for Hamas leaders in Trump-promoted plan | Israel
National News
One-year-old
infant dies of measles in Jerusalem | Israel National News
Ground
operation in Gaza gains force | Israel National News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-defiant-un-speech-pm-rips-world-leaders-for-turning-backs-on-israel-recognizing-palestine/
Sept. 29th
Swords of Iron Day 724
84 years ago outside of Kiev in a
woods name Barbi Yahr on Sept. 29th 1941 the Nazis dug a big trench
and tens of thousands of Jews were lined up and gunned down. A woman who
survived jumped into the pit on first shot and climbed higher and higher on
piles of bodies as she began suffocating from the dirt and sand pushed on top
but still managed to survive to tell the world the truth.
I like to go to bed early at night
for a number of reasons, but the Selichos Prayers albeit early at night keep me
up later than usual. I was in the heaviest part of my sleep and slept through
the early warning that gives me time to wash my hands for spiritual purity when
at 00:58 AM a siren woke up millions of people from Chevron and Yerushalayim
through Rishon Le Tzion to almost Netanya. Some of the morning TV show people
did not get up like the Home Command requires but stayed in bed as they have to
be in the studio at 4 AM or so for the 6 AM show. To top that off, the war is
mostly over and the new Ben Gurion Airport landing route heads almost over my
house so that at 5 AM jet engines are almost straining over my head (sometimes
over the house across the street or one or two houses up the block).
On
the eve of a major assault on one of Hamas’ symbolic strongholds in Gaza City, Israeli forces are preparing for heavy combat in the Shati refugee
camp. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bysskupngx
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-says-gaza-truce-plan-not-finalized-after-trump-claims-everyone-on-board/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-discord-has-netanyahu-scrambling-ahead-of-dc-meet-but-trump-offers-him-way-out/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-seriously-injured-by-gunfire-during-car-ramming-in-northern-west-bank/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-drops-reelection-bid-boosting-pro-israel-cuomo-against-mamdani/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/breaking-ground-without-digging-in-first-archaeologists-x-ray-jerusalems-underground/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-aide-prisons-chief-grilled-in-probe-of-alleged-police-corruption/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-flotilla-sails-again-hoping-to-reach-enclave-later-this-week/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-decries-illegal-reimposition-of-un-nuclear-sanctions-urges-countries-not-to-comply/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-settlers-urge-netanyahu-to-defy-us-and-annex-west-bank-not-end-gaza-war/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/statistics-show-50-of-reservists-spouses-experience-marital-troubles/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/7-arab-men-jailed-for-12-14-years-for-role-in-death-of-jewish-man-in-2021-lod-riots/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/man-who-buried-17-year-old-girl-alive-causing-her-death-is-cleared-of-murder/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hebrew-u-led-research-team-calls-for-global-wildlife-tracking-to-help-curb-pandemics/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/defense-tech-firm-kela-buys-ai-startup-to-bolster-platform-for-modern-battlefield/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-governor-signs-law-trump-backed-congressional-redistricting-map
https://www.foxnews.com/media/conservative-influencer-has-already-been-assaulted-once-she-suspects-wont-last-time
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-air-space/stowaway-found-dead-american-airlines-plane-landing-gear-compartment-charlotte-airport
After two years of war in the Gaza Strip, Hamas still exists,
controls the strip, and holds Israeli hostages. Eyal Ofer, expert on Hamas's economy, spoke about the implications of the war on the
terrorist group's standing on 103Fm Sunday. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-868919
Rabbi David
Yosef,
the Rishon LeTzion Chief Rabbi of Israel and President of the Great Rabbinical
Court, and Rabbi Kalman
Bar,
President of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate, published a public letter on
Sunday evening calling on the public to get vaccinated against the
measles. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-868914
Attack Helicopters to be replaced by
lethal drones. https://www.ynetnews.com/tech-and-digital/article/r17h11ajixl
Haredi
Rabbi compares the government to the Inquisition | Israel National News
Givati
Brigade spots IED trap with a drone | Israel National News
Battalion
rabbi severely injured in Syria | Israel National News
Gaza
City: Terrorist eliminated after firing mortars towards IDF soldiers | Israel
National News
The research, conducted by German historian Jürgen Matthäus, names
the killer as Jakobus Oehnen, a German schoolteacher who turned into an SS
officer who participated in mass executions of Jews in Berdychiv, Ukraine, in
1941. https://www.ynetnews.com/jewish-world/article/ryj2ipinxg
White house on Hamas and Qatar. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/skt3tfwhgl
Baruch HASHEM Menashe and his friend
Yonatan helped finish the Pauli Sukkah.
Sept. 30th
Swords of Iron Day 725
Trump:
'Hamas has 3-4 days to respond to peace plan' | Israel National News
Two
wounded in ramming attack south of Jerusalem | Israel National News
Quick
detection by troops: Terrorist hiding under blanket eliminated | Israel
National News
South
African Amb. to France dead after falling from hotel | Israel National News
Yair Golan
pledges to remove David Zini from ISA if elected | Israel National News
Rabbi
Mazuz's grave desecrated in act of mischief | Israel National News
Hamas
documents prove link to Sumud Flotilla | Israel National News
Two
Hezbollah operatives killed in Lebanon | Israel National News
Watch:
Armed terrorists seen entering military structure eliminated | Israel National
News
US
House Republicans Demand Antisemitism Documents From Harvard in Ongoing Probe |
Algemeiner.com
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-two-years-of-war-us-public-backs-palestinians-over-israel-for-first-time-poll/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-rockets-fired-at-israel-from-strip-as-idf-pushes-into-gaza-city/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/shutdown-explained-who-works-who-doesnt-how-much-costs
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/louisiana-governor-requests-1000-national-guard-troops-fight-violent-crime-wave-across-state
https://www.foxnews.com/us/drug-task-force-seizes-record-breaking-1-million-pounds-cocaine-denying-cartels-narco-terrorists-11b
What his former viewers thought of
his crude remarks at assassinated Kirk.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jimmy-kimmel-sheds-64-audience-after-short-lived-ratings-spike-following-suspension
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gazan-women-say-aid-workers-promised-food-money-or-work-in-exchange-for-sexual-acts/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-apologizes-to-qatar-for-strike-on-hamas-leaders-in-call-with-trump/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-unique-diplomacy-offers-netanyahu-a-path-to-goals-in-gaza-and-beyond/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/musk-attacks-adl-calling-it-a-hate-group-that-hates-christians/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/london-music-festival-cancels-israeli-dj-after-outcry-from-ravers-for-palestine-group/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/likely-houthi-attack-on-dutch-ship-wounds-2-forces-crew-to-abandon-vessel/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkey-saves-activists-from-leaky-ship-as-gaza-bound-flotilla-nears-israeli-waters/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gallant-calls-on-likud-to-reject-path-of-ben-gvir-as-party-meets-to-expel-him/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/today-we-burn-jews-argentine-students-chant-on-bus-that-had-jewish-passengers/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-man-killed-in-car-chase-with-idf-amid-apparent-smuggling-attempt-on-egypt-border/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/serbia-arrests-11-citizens-accused-of-stirring-jewish-muslim-hate-in-france-germany/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-secures-key-edits-to-trump-plan-to-slow-and-limit-israels-withdrawal-from-gaza/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-muslim-nations-pledge-to-realize-trumps-gaza-plan-hamas-examining-it-responsibly/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-unique-diplomacy-offers-netanyahu-a-path-to-goals-in-gaza-and-beyond/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-unveils-gaza-peace-plan-hailing-backing-from-israel-arab-and-muslim-states/
Oct 1st
Swords of Iron Day 726
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-flotilla-rebuffs-calls-to-stop-as-israel-readies-for-complex-interception/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-says-hamas-has-three-or-four-days-to-respond-to-gaza-plan-or-pay-in-hell/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/cabinet-unanimously-approves-david-zini-as-new-shin-bet-chief-despite-controversy/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/everyone-in-the-street-is-now-against-hamas-gazan-elites-push-trump-to-end-the-war/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-assails-gaza-deal-but-doesnt-say-hell-try-to-sink-it-as-praise-pours-in/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-matters-now-to-rachel-goldberg-polin-a-deep-hope-for-repair-and-relief/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/nir-am-defenders-staved-off-one-of-hamass-fiercest-october-7-assaults-probe/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-secret-esther-project-doj-filings-reveal-paid-us-influencer-campaign/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/two-teens-injured-in-car-ramming-terror-attack-on-west-bank-highway-near-jerusalem/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/arab-muslim-nations-pledge-to-realize-trumps-gaza-plan-hamas-examining-it-responsibly/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-says-reebok-sought-to-remove-its-logo-from-soccer-team-jerseys-company-denies/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ryanair-wont-resume-israel-flights-this-winter-fed-up-with-treatment-by-airport/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-sentences-chinese-spy-who-informed-beijing-on-german-arms-sent-to-israel/
This was from the pro-Arab Conference
in the USA. I have not seen it due to the holidays, but I am told it will
awaken you to Islam in America. https://youtube.com/watch?v=NxrLmLmnE0g&si=pk8JfvhUJsRJkvAc
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/government-shuts-down-after-congress-deadlocks-spending-deal
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/worlds-tallest-bridge-cuts-2-hour-mountain-trip-just-2-minutes-see-jaw-dropping-photos
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-mayor-says-unstable-human-being-trump-must-checked-military-use-us-cities
I wonder if these big rig drivers
can read English or know traffic signs?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/oklahomas-interstate-sweep-hauls-120-illegals-under-new-deportation-drive
Two
terrorists arrested in Balata camp and Nablus | Israel National News
Green
Prince's counter-flotilla initiative | Israel National News
Danish
broadcaster opposes ban on Israel in Eurovision | Israel National News
Watch:
Police foil massive smuggling attempt disguised as toilet paper | Israel
National News
Leftists
attack: Daniella Weiss forced to leave studio with police escort | Israel
National News
Terrorist
posed as hostage to lure IDF soldiers | Israel National News
Watch:
Reserve soldiers prevent a disaster in the Zeitoun area of Gaza | Israel
National News
Yair Golan
pledges to remove David Zini from ISA if elected | Israel National News
US
Begins Deporting Hundreds of Iranians After Rare Deal With Tehran |
Algemeiner.com
Op-Ed Ben Dror Yemeni Now the
ball is in Hamas' court
Teheran to Washington DC Missiles. The range
of Iran's missiles will be increased to any point deemed necessary, a senior Revolutionary
Guards commander told the semi-official Fars news agency on
Wednesday, in response to what he said were Western demands to curb Tehran's
missiles. Iranian Cmdr. points to
potential missile range increase | The Jerusalem Post
Lawyer
in NJ says was fired due to Jewish background | The Jerusalem Post
EEOC
accuses Apple of antisemitic discrimination | The Jerusalem Post
OpenAI's
Sora 2 brings AI-generated content to social media | The Jerusalem Post
Spain
blocks American ships carrying weapons for Israel | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.timesofisrael.com/yemens-houthis-say-they-will-target-major-us-oil-exporters-in-nearby-seas/
Oct. 2nd
Swords of Iron Day 727
https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-stabbing-vehicle-attack-injures-4-outside-synagogue-police-say
https://www.foxnews.com/world/israeli-military-arrests-greta-thunberg-flotilla-activists-after-intercepting-dozens-boats
https://www.timesofisrael.com/germany-nabs-3-suspected-hamas-operatives-for-planning-to-attack-jewish-institutions/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-fires-5-rockets-from-gaza-on-yom-kippur-triggering-sirens-in-ashdod-no-injuries/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/fbi-cuts-ties-with-adl-after-row-over-extremist-label-for-charlie-kirks-advocacy-group/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-said-split-on-whether-to-back-trumps-plan-to-end-gaza-war-seeks-amendments/
149 births on Yom Kippur deaths to
Arab Mafia rise to 191. https://www.timesofisrael.com/medics-treat-over-3000-on-yom-kippur-7-injured-running-for-shelter-in-rocket-attack/
IDF
retakes Netzarim Corridor | Israel National News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-justice-department-sues-synagogue-protesters-using-law-meant-to-protect-abortion-clinics/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/mamdani-appearing-on-the-view-earns-applause-for-calling-gaza-war-a-genocide/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/fbi-cuts-ties-with-adl-after-row-over-extremist-label-for-charlie-kirks-advocacy-group/
Oct. 3rd
Swords of Iron Day 728 end of week
104
Shabbat
candle-lighting times | Israel National News
Today’s news will
hopefully appear this afternoon I am off to Bris today.
Have a healthy, happy and
peaceful Shabbos and a good year,
Rachamim Pauli
