I have asked for months to pray for
Peter Bruce ben Golda Chaya unfortunately before Shabbos he returned his soul
to his MAKER.
The good news is that Zahava Bas
Sarah had a successful operation and healing.
Parsha Chayei Sarah
Last week’s Parsha ends
with Akedah Yitzchak. The Satan/Angel of Death wants to take Sarah’s soul. He
comes in disguise and says that Avraham is taking Yitzchak to be slaughtered on
Har HaMoriah. The quickest route to Yerushalayim is via Chevron. Upon reaching
Chevron, she hears that Yitzchak is on the Mizbayach and Avraham has uncovered
his slaughtering knife. At the age of 127 years, Sarah hearing the news of him
being bound for slaughter on the Mizbayach cannot endure it and she dies in
Chevron.
Avraham and Yitzchak
return from the Akedah and find out that Sarah has died in Chevron. The route
is Beer Sheva to Chevron and Chevron to Yerushalayim and the opposite.
23:1 And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty
years; these re the years of the life of Sarah.
Midrash: Up unto
Yitzchak looked like a twin of Avraham, people did not show ageing. When people
were so confused, he prayed for a sign of age and he aged. The standard Drasha
to start the Parsha is: Sarah at the age of 100 was as beautiful as she was 20
and pure as a 7year old child.
And Sarah died in Kiriat Arba--the same is Hebron--in the land of
Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. 3 And Abraham
rose up from before his dead, and spoke unto the children of Heth, saying: 4 'I
am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place
with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.'
Kiriat Arba the town of
four. Four couples are buried there: Chava and Adam, Sarah and Avraham,
Yitzchak and Rivka and Yacov and Leah. The Torah sometimes names places on
their future name.
5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him: 6
'Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us; in the choice of our
sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre,
but that thou mayest bury thy dead.'
Avraham’s righteousness,
hospitality, charity and love of his fellow was well known. Thus his princely
honor was earned though his bravery in the war of the kings and they truly
would be honored if some righteous people like Sara and/or Avraham were buried
among them.
7 And Abraham rose up, and bowed down to the people of the land,
even to the children of Heth. 8 And he spoke with them, saying: 'If it be your
mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to
Ephron the son of Zohar, 9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he
hath, which is in the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to
me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place.'
Avraham was afraid of a
future in which the rich man (substitute Jew) got a free grave from our family
or the Hittite Tribe.
10 Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth; and
Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth,
even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying: 11 'Nay, my lord,
hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee;
in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee; bury thy dead.'
He wants to show off
that he is magnanimous.
12 And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land. 13 And he
spoke unto Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying: 'But if
thou wilt, I pray thee, hear me: I will give the price of the field; take it of
me, and I will bury my dead there.'
Please listen, I am
wealthy enough to afford the burial site. Please sell me at full price.
14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him: 15 'My lord,
hearken unto me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is
that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.'
The land around
Chevron-Kiriat Arba was wide, uncultivated and could be had for free something
like the homesteading of the west in America. He asked a price for the
equivalent to Purchasing a whole city block on Park Avenue NY or a Lot in Mar
Largo Fl. Avraham did not barter as he did for the lives of the wicked of Sodom
but immediately paid the full price.
16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron
the silver, which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four
hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant. 17 So the field of
Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave
which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all
the border thereof round about, were made sure 18 unto Abraham for a possession
in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of
his city. 19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the
field of Machpelah before Mamre--the same is Hebron--in the land of Canaan. 20
And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a
possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth.
I managed to see a
youtube video of the tomb. The cave consists of a main cave with a sub-cave
below. All the Tzadikim are buried deep in the sub-cave. It was closed to the
public for centuries and since the initial exploration after the six day war,
it is closed again. Where we pray in the rooms above is many stories above the
cave and the “well of souls” in Ohel Yitzchak-Rivka goes only as far as
touching the rocks as far as I know.
24:1 And Abraham was old, well stricken in age; and the LORD had
blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder
of his house, that ruled over all that he had: 'Put, I pray thee, thy hand
under my thigh. 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and
the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the
daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. 4 But thou shalt go unto my
country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.'
I am going to dwell Ble
Neder next week on what to look for in a Shidduch. Rav Shach Ztzal used to tell
his students to avoid a woman who is stubborn or self-aggrandizing – R’ Yoseph
Tzvi Ben Porat Shlita. Family background is more important than money as one
wants a woman from a good family with good Middos (internal personality
qualities such a mercy, compassion, charitable, etc. ).
5 And the servant said unto him: 'Peradventure the woman will not
be willing to follow me unto this land; must I needs bring thy son back unto
the land from whence thou came?' 6 And Abraham said unto him: 'Beware thou that
thou bring not my son back thither. 7 The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me
from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke unto
me, and who swore unto me, saying: Unto thy seed will I give this land; He will
send His angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.
8 And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt
be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son back thither.' 9
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore
to him concerning this matter. 10 And the servant took ten camels, of the
camels of his master, and departed; having all goodly things of his master's in
his hand; and he arose, and went to Aram-naharaim, unto the city of Nahor. 11
And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at
the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water. 12 And he said:
'O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray Thee, good speed this
day, and show kindness unto my master Abraham. 13 Behold, I stand by the
fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw
water. 14 So let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say: Let down
thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say: Drink, and I
will give thy camels drink also; let the same be she that Thou hast appointed
for Thy servant, even for Isaac; and thereby shall I know that Thou hast shown
kindness unto my master.' 15 And it came to pass, before he had done speaking,
that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the
wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. 16 And
the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her;
and she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up. 17 And
the servant ran to meet her, and said: 'Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little
water of thy pitcher.' 18 And she said: 'Drink, my lord'; and she hastened, and
let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. 19 And when she had
done giving him drink, she said: 'I will draw for thy camels also, until they
have done drinking.' 20 And she hastened, and emptied her pitcher into the
trough, and ran again unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels. 21
And the man looked stedfastly on her; holding his peace, to know whether the
LORD had made his journey prosperous or not. 22 And it came to pass, as the
camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel
weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; 23 and
said: 'Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy
father's house for us to lodge in?' 24 And she said unto him: 'I am the
daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore unto Nahor.' 25 She said
moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge
in.' 26 And the man bowed his head, and prostrated himself before the LORD. 27
And he said: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not
forsaken His mercy and His truth toward my master; as for me, the LORD hath led
me in the way to the house of my master's brethren.' 28 And the damsel ran, and
told her mother's house according to these words. 29 And Rebekah had a brother,
and his name was Laban; and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the fountain. 30
And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's
hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying: 'Thus spoke
the man unto me,' that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the
camels at the fountain. 31 And he said: 'Come in, thou blessed of the LORD;
wherefore are you standing without? for
I have cleared the house, and made room for the camels.'
32 And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels; and
he gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the
feet of the men that were with him. 33 And there was set food before him to
eat; but he said: 'I will not eat, until I have told mine errand.' And he said:
'Speak on.' 34 And he said: 'I am Abraham's servant. 35 And the LORD hath
blessed my master greatly; and he is become great; and He hath given him flocks
and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels
and asses. 36 And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was
old; and unto him hath he given all that he hath. 37 And my master made me
swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the
Canaanites, in whose land I dwell. 38 But thou shalt go unto my father's house,
and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son. 39 And I said
unto my master: Peradventure the woman will not follow me. 40
And he said unto me: The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with
thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred,
and of my father's house; 41 then shalt thou be clear from my
oath, when thou come to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou
shalt be clear from my oath. 42 And I came this day unto the
fountain, and said: O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, if now Thou do
prosper my way which I go: 43 behold, I stand by the
fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth
to draw, to whom I shall say: Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy
pitcher to drink; 44 and she shall say to me: Both drink thou,
and I will also draw for thy camels; let the same be the woman whom the LORD
hath appointed for my master's son. 45 And before I had done
speaking to my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her
shoulder; and she went down unto the fountain, and drew. And I said unto her:
Let me drink, I pray thee. 46 And she made haste, and let down
her pitcher from her shoulder, and said: Drink, and I will give thy camels
drink also. So I drank, and she made the camels drink also. 47
And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? And she said: The daughter
of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore unto him. And I put the ring upon her
nose, and the bracelets upon her hands. 48 And I bowed my head,
and prostrated myself before the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my
master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's
daughter for his son. 49 And now if ye will deal kindly and
truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the
right hand, or to the left.' 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered
and said: 'The thing proceeds from the LORD; we cannot speak unto thee bad or
good. 51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and
let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.' 52
And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed
himself down to the earth unto the LORD. 53 And the servant
brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them
to Rebekah; he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things. 54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him,
and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said: 'Send me
away unto my master.' 55 And her brother and her mother said:
'Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she
shall go.' 56 And he said unto them: 'Delay me not, seeing the
LORD hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.' 57 And they said: 'We will call the damsel, and inquire at her
mouth.' 58 And they called Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Wilt
thou go with this man?' And she said: 'I will go.' 59 And they sent
away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
Her nurse, Devorah, who
remained with her and served Yacov on his journey to and fro from Lavan. We are
not told this into Parsha Vayishlach.
60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her: 'Our sister, be
thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the
gate of those that hate them.'
A lovely blessing for
their sister.
61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the
camels, and followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way. 62 And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in
the land of the South. 63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the
field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there
were camels coming. 64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when
she saw Isaac, she alighted from the camel. 65 And she said unto
the servant: 'What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?' And the
servant said: 'It is my master.' And she took her veil, and covered herself.
It is possible for a
married woman in front of her children and servants to go without her hair and
face covered but now for meeting her husband she wants to show that she is
modest.
66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took
Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted for
his mother.
Unlike the story book
love of Yacov with Rachel, Yitzchak first married and he learned to love her
and be comforted for his mother. We do not see the fairy-tale type of love but
we do see a married partnership with mutual respect and the beginning of a
functionary family..
25:1
nd Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 And she bore him
Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 And
Jokshan begot Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and
Letushim, and Leummim. 4 And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch,
and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah. 5 And Abraham
gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6 But unto the sons of the concubines, that
Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son,
while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. 7 And these are the days
of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen
years. 8 And Abraham expired, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full
of years; and was gathered to his people. 9 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons
buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar
the Hittite, which is before Mamre; 10 the field which Abraham purchased of the
children of Heth; there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. 11 And it came
to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son; and Isaac
dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi. 12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's
son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham. 13 And these
are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their
generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; and Kedar, and Adbeel, and
Mibsam, 14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa; 15 Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish,
and Kedem; 16 these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by
their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their
nations. 17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and
thirty and seven years; and he expired and died; and was gathered unto his
people. 18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur that is before Egypt, as thou
go toward Asshur: over against all his brethren he did settle.
This whole section is only written for the Shidduch of Esav and
helps us with Sefer Iyob (Book of Job).
From the
beaches of La Jolla to Brooklyn and UCLA by R’ Y. Tilles
https://ascentofsafed.com/cgi-bin/ascent.cgi?Name=1457-08
The first
time I [Marcia Greensite] went to Crown Heights, in 1973, it was a disaster. I
had grown up in San Diego, connecting with Chabad as a student at the
University of California San Diego (UCSD), but going from the beaches of La
Jolla to Brooklyn, New York, was just too much for me at the time.
So, I went
back to UCSD, unsure about my Judaism and unsure about my own life. After about
a year, I had a better sense of who I was and what I was looking for, so I
decided to go back to New York. I'm going to go again, and give it another try,
I thought to myself.
My parents
were not supportive of the idea, to say the least. We belonged to a
Conservative synagogue, but our interest and involvement fell away after the
Bar and Bat Mitzvah years.
"You
know what, Mom," I suggested, "come along with me and see what it's
all about."
My mother
was from New York and always missed the city, but she was horrified at the
idea. Still, I managed to convince her to come with me for the weekend of the
"Encounter with Chabad," when we would have an opportunity to meet
the Rebbe.
My mother
was very impressed with our hosts and felt very warm towards the other people
we met over that Shabbat. But she wasn't comfortable with the whole religious
scene. When we had to wait for hours to meet the Rebbe, she was not happy. But
she was a real trouper and she joined me.
We were
told to prepare a little note with our names so we could hand it to the Rebbe.
My mother's name is Carol, but her Hebrew name is Chaya. She was always very
proud of it - it means "life."
Eventually,
we were allowed into the Rebbe's office and my mother handed her note to him.
He read through it, and then looked up at her. "You have another name,
don't you?"
My mother
started to stammer, "Uhm… yeah."
What? Now I
was looking at her.
"My
full name is Chaya Yenta," she explained, "but I hate the name Yenta,
so I never tell anybody about it." We were astounded. She had never
written to the Rebbe before, and didn't know anyone in the community, so it was
quite mind boggling.
I had
brought my mother along as my sidekick, but she ended up getting most of the
attention. The Rebbe spoke to her, and she talked about my father and my
brothers. Eventually the conversation came around to me. In my note, I asked
for a blessing that my stay in Crown Heights be successful this time. The Rebbe
asked what I had been doing until now."
I was in
UCSD," I replied.
"What
were you majoring in?" he inquired.
"Philosophy,
but I think my real interest would be psychology."
The Rebbe
looked at me and said, "You should think about going back to
college."
For an
entire year, people had been telling me that I should quit college, since it
wasn't the right place for a religious Jewish girl: You don't need to be in
college, it is nothing like the real world anyway, they would say. And here was
the Rebbe, telling me to think about going back to college. All I could do was
look back at him with complete disbelief.
My mother,
a typical Jewish mother, interjected, "Well, what about getting
married?"
Embarrassed,
I gave her a look: Maaa!
"Don't
worry," the Rebbe assured her. "That will come too."
Coming out
of the meeting, while I was still stunned by what the Rebbe had said, my mother
chirped, "You know, the Rebbe really liked me." She talked about that
visit to the Rebbe until her last days.
The next
day at my desk, where I was supposed to be working as a secretary, was a
catalogue for classes at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). It
belonged to one of the other girls in the office, but it had always been my
dream to study in UCLA's psychology department, so I started leafing through
and saw some interesting courses.
Then, I
sent a note to the Rebbe asking whether I should leave Crown Heights, transfer
to LA, and major in psychology.
The Rebbe
gave his blessing, which is how I ended up studying psychology at UCLA, and
eventually earning my master's as well.
The
marriage part came years later, but thank G-d it did come.
After
finishing my undergraduate degree, I had a great job as a research assistant
studying autism at the UCLA neuropsychiatric institute, and I was very involved
in the local Chabad House run by Rabbi Shlomo Cunin. That was really my main
passion in life. I had an apartment where I hosted any girl on campus
interested in coming to Chabad for Shabbat. I felt that was what I was meant to
do.
I was also
dating, and making frequent trips to New York to do so, but by this time I was
in my late twenties, and nothing was working out. I started to get depressed:
Girls I had brought close to Judaism were already married with children. What
exactly was happening with me?
It was time
to really get it all out in a letter to the Rebbe. I needed his advice.
I began by
writing who I was, how old I was and what I was doing. "My secular
job," I wrote the Rebbe, was at UCLA, and then I went on to say that I
considered my activities at the Chabad House to be my "real work."
Since I was a Lubavitcher by then myself, I requested a blessing to find a nice
Lubavitcher boy to marry, and asked whether I should move to New York or stay
in Los Angeles.
Where I had
written "my secular job," the Rebbe crossed out "secular,"
and added in the margin, "- the purpose of which is the emotional
wellbeing and healing of children." Clearly, he saw it as more than a
mundane occupation, but as a divine mission. In time, working with children
became my life's work, so this message from the Rebbe means a lot to me.
Responding
to my statement that I was looking for a nice Lubavitcher boy, he wrote:
"No one can foretell a person's destiny. Perhaps it will be your privilege
to marry a G-d-fearing person of fine character [who is not a Lubavitcher, but]
who - specifically through your influence - will learn of [the beauty of the
chasidic way of life] and become a Chabad chasid."
Finally,
the Rebbe told me to stay in Los Angeles. There was no need for me to move in
order to get married.
A few
months later, a matchmaker put me and my husband together. His father was a
Bobover chasid, his mother from Satmar, and he was living in Los Angeles. On
our second date, we could see that we liked one another, but he was curious
about something. "How can you be dating me seriously if I'm not a
Lubavitcher?"
"Funny
you should mention that," I replied, and I told him what the Rebbe had
said about looking outside of Lubavitch for someone who is "G-d-fearing
and of fine character."
He turned
white. "I have to tell you something, too….
"When
Reb Moshe Feinstein signed my certificate of rabbinic ordination, he added a
few extra words at the end: 'I would like to mention, for this person in
particular, that he is of fine character and is G-d-fearing.'"
So we knew it was destined
to be. It was bashert.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Source: Slightly modified by Yerachmiel Tilles from a weekly email of
"Here's My Story," a part of JEM's superlative "My Encounter
with the Rebbe" project.
When Marcia Greensite was interviewed in Los Angeles in 2011, she was the
executive director of a behavior therapy agency that serves over 100 children
with special needs and is a family therapist specializing in treating
teenagers. .
Why This Week? Matchmaking is a main topic in this week's
Torah reading, Chayei Sarah, and this story features a very surprising
matchmaker with a very interesting suggestion.
THE PARSHA FOR CHILDREN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oepK03tPR8
Lise De Baissac the childless heroine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_de_Baissac
From Facebook the story in Wikipedia
is longer:
She rented a room in a Nazi
commander's house—and used it to spy on him. Her name was Lise de Baissac, and
in 1944, while German forces occupied France, she walked into a Wehrmacht
commander's residence in Normandy, asked politely if he had a room to rent, and
moved in. Every morning, she'd bid him good day. Every evening, she'd make
small talk in fluent German. And every night, she'd slip out to deliver
explosives to the French Resistance. But that was near the end of her story. It
began two years earlier, on one of the darkest nights of the war. September 24,
1942. A British Whitley bomber flew low over occupied France, its engines
straining. The back hatch opened, and Lise de Baissac—codename "Odile"—jumped
into the black sky at 37 years old, her parachute snapping open above enemy
territory. She landed hard in a field near Boisrenard, her heart hammering as
she quickly buried her parachute and British jumpsuit. Within minutes, she'd
transformed into "Madame Irene Brisse," a widowed amateur
archaeologist interested in the Loire Valley's Roman ruins. It was the perfect
cover. An archaeologist could travel anywhere, ask questions, sketch
landscapes, and take photographs—all while scouting parachute drop zones for
RAF supply flights and mapping German positions. Lise cycled through the French
countryside, a middle-aged woman on a bicycle with a sketchbook, invisible to
the Nazi patrols that passed her on the roads. But in her saddlebag were coded
messages, maps of German installations, and sometimes, carefully wrapped pieces
of a radio transmitter. She established the Artist network in Poitiers—a web of
French Resistance fighters who would receive weapons, organize sabotage, and
gather intelligence. And with breathtaking audacity, she rented an apartment
just 100 yards from Gestapo headquarters. Why? Because it was the last place
they'd look. Her apartment became a safe house for newly arrived SOE agents.
She briefed them on their missions, taught them how to survive in occupied
France, and sent them out to blow up railway lines and ammunition depots. All
while Gestapo officers walked past her building every single day. For months,
it worked perfectly. Then in June 1943, disaster struck. The Prosper network—one
of SOE's largest operations in France—collapsed. Betrayed to the Gestapo, over
100 agents and resistance fighters were arrested, tortured, and executed. Lise
knew she had minutes, not hours. She burned every document, destroyed her
radio, and contacted London for emergency extraction. On a moonless night in
August 1943, a Lysander aircraft—a tiny plane designed for covert
pickups—landed in a field for exactly three minutes. Lise ran across the grass,
climbed into the cramped rear seat, and the plane took off as German
searchlights swept the horizon. She'd escaped. But France wasn't done with her
yet. Most people would have stayed in England. Lise had done her part, risked
her life, and survived. She could have spent the rest of the war training new
agents from the safety of London. Instead, in April 1944—just eight months
after her narrow escape—Lise parachuted back into France. This time, her
codename was "Marguerite." This time, her brother Claude was already
there, running his own SOE network. And this time, D-Day was coming. Lise
landed in Normandy and immediately began working with the Pimento network. Her
mission: arm the French Resistance so they could disrupt German reinforcements
when the Allied invasion came. Every day, she cycled thirty to forty miles
through occupied Normandy, carrying explosives in her bicycle basket, covered
with vegetables or laundry. She coordinated attacks on German convoys,
delivered weapons to resistance cells, and gathered intelligence on Wehrmacht
movements. And when she needed a place to stay in a heavily garrisoned town?
She rented that room from the German commander. Imagine the nerve required to
knock on that door. To smile at the Nazi officer. To make polite conversation
while mentally noting which units were stationed nearby, how many trucks passed
each morning, where the ammunition depot was located. She lived there for
weeks, sleeping under the same roof as the enemy, listening to their
conversations, watching their routines—and then slipping out at night to help
plan attacks against them. On June 6, 1944, the Allies landed at Normandy. The
German high command immediately ordered reinforcements—including the 2nd SS
Panzer Division Das Reich, one of the most feared armored units in the
Wehrmacht. But they never reached the beaches on time. Why? Because French
Resistance fighters—armed with weapons delivered by people like Lise—ambushed
them at every turn. They destroyed bridges. Derailed trains. Blew up fuel
depots. Blocked roads with felled trees and disabled vehicles. The Das Reich
division, which should have reached Normandy in three days, took seventeen days
to arrive. By then, the Allies had secured the beachhead. Thousands of Allied
lives were saved because those German tanks arrived too late. And Lise de Baissac
had been one of the people who made that possible. In the chaos of the final
days before Normandy was liberated, Lise cycled for three days straight to
reach Resistance headquarters, dodging German patrols and artillery fire,
carrying vital intelligence on German troop movements that helped Allied forces
plan their advance. When France was finally liberated, Lise de Baissac emerged
from the shadows. She'd spent over two years living under constant threat of
torture and execution, never knowing which day would be her last. Britain
awarded her the Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). France gave
her the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur. But the greatest tribute came
from the French Resistance fighters themselves, who said simply: "She was
one of us. "After the war, Lise returned to a quiet life. She married,
moved to the South of France, and rarely spoke about what she'd done. For
decades, her story remained classified, known only to a handful of SOE veterans
and historians. When Lise de Baissac died in 2004 at the age of 98, the world
had finally begun to learn about the women of SOE—the dozens of female agents
who'd parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe, knowing that if they were caught,
they faced torture, concentration camps, and execution. Thirty-nine women
served as SOE agents in France. Thirteen never came home. But Lise survived.
She survived two years behind enemy lines, survived the collapse of her
network, survived parachute drops and bicycle rides through German checkpoints,
survived living 100 yards from the Gestapo and then living in a Nazi
commander's house. And she did it all while looking like exactly what her cover
claimed she was: a quiet, unassuming middle-aged woman interested in Roman
ruins. The Nazis never suspected that the polite lady on the bicycle was one of
the most effective Allied agents in France. That her "archaeological
surveys" were mapping their positions. That her rented room was being used
to spy on their commander. That she was, quite literally, helping to arm the
forces that would destroy them. Lise de Baissac proved what so many
underestimated: that courage doesn't need to be loud, that the most dangerous
enemies are often the ones you never see coming, and that a woman on a bicycle
can change the course of history. The Gestapo searched for her. The Wehrmacht
never knew she was right under their noses. And the French Resistance knew her
as the woman who always showed up with the weapons when you needed them most.
She parachuted into darkness, cycled through danger, lived among enemies, and
survived to see the liberation she'd fought for. And when it was over, she
simply went home, planted a garden, and let the world forget she'd been a hero.
But we shouldn't forget. Because Lise de Baissac's story reminds us that
ordinary-looking people can do extraordinary things, that the quietest voices
can roar the loudest when it matters, and that sometimes the bravest act is
simply showing up—day after day, mile after mile, mission after mission—even
when you know that one mistake means death. She rented a room from a Nazi
commander and spied on him. And she lived to be 98 years old, knowing she'd
helped win the war.
New Book on the Power of Speech: Reviewing 'The
True Power of Free Speech' by Mendel Kessin | The Jerusalem Post
50 FOOT FALL MIRACLE: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dan-aykroyd-survived-50-foot-fall-credits-divine-intervention-saving-his-life
Milestone: Yacov Brim, 47, Chassidic
Photographer. Popular
hasidic photographer dies at 47 | Israel National News
Inyanay Diyoma
Nov.
8th
Swords of Iron Day 763 and Day 764
start of week 110
Hopefully tonight or tomorrow there
will be closure for “Protective Edge”. Hamas claims they have found the body of
Hadar Goldin after 4117 days in Gaza. Then the 200 or so terrorists perhaps
minus the murderers will get safe passage into Gaza.
Col. Avraham thinks that only the
IAF should deal with Hezballah. He is still 764 days drafted.
One of Israel’s best friends is
running for governor of NY. https://www.foxnews.com/media/stefanik-decries-hochul-worst-governor-america-fiery-2026-campaign-launch
Hamas
claims to have found body of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin | Israel National News
Survey:
Nearly half of Israelis would avoid NYC under Mamdani | Israel National News
IDF
launches wave of strikes on southern Lebanon | Israel National News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/mexico-thwarted-iranian-plot-to-assassinate-israeli-envoy-officials-say/
Time to stop enriching insurance
companies and pay directly. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-urges-senate-republicans-redirect-funds-obamacare-backed-insurers-pay-americans-directly
Erev Shabbos is so short and I
decided to finish the weekly Torah in the rabbipauli.blogspot. If you viewed
it, you saw this if not here is part of Friday’s news with the rest below.
Friday: Breaking the
telephone of the Chief Army Prosecutor has been found.
Citizen who found MAG's phone: 'I tapped the screen and my jaw
dropped' | Israel National News
Now for the rest of the news from
Nov. 7th and Nov. 8th
https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspected-suburb-jihadis-fueled-social-media-assimilation-lapses-homegrown-terror-plot-expert-warns
https://www.timesofisrael.com/qatar-reportedly-paid-intel-firm-to-discredit-woman-accusing-icc-prosecutor-of-abuse/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/kanye-west-after-antisemitic-tirades-meets-prominent-kabbalist-to-make-amends/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/maccabi-tlv-drops-europa-league-soccer-match-its-fans-were-barred-from-attending-in-uk/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/i-was-torn-apart-dying-rom-braslavski-says-captors-sexually-assaulted-tortured-him/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-security-council-scraps-sanctions-on-syrian-president-ahead-of-white-house-visit/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/lapid-rips-up-corrupt-wzo-leadership-deal-opens-door-for-yair-netanyahu-appointment/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/dutch-appeals-court-rejects-pro-palestinian-bid-to-stop-arms-exports-to-israel/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-us-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-wont-seek-reelection-next-year-she-says/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/progressive-backed-candidate-convicted-in-mans-killing-wins-city-council-election
https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-dies-grand-canyon-after-slipping-over-edge-falling-more-than-100-feet-sheriffs-office-says
https://www.outkick.com/culture/alois-brunner-assassination-attempt-cia
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-blocks-lower-court-order-forcing-trump-administration-fully-fund-snap-program
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-justices-show-skepticism-trumps-emergency-tariff-powers-during-oral-arguments
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/survivors-call-americas-stand-persecuted-christians-nigeria
https://www.foxnews.com/us/james-watson-nobel-winning-co-discoverer-dnas-double-helix-structure-dead-97
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-rules-trumps-portland-national-guard-deployment-unconstitutional-permanent-injunction
https://www.timesofisrael.com/body-of-hostage-returned-from-gaza-identified-as-lior-rudaeff/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/masses-set-to-rally-for-deceased-hostages-still-in-gaza-no-victory-until-all-return/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-sidelining-israel-on-decision-making-at-gaza-ceasefire-hq-official-says/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sp-upgrades-israels-credit-rating-outlook-after-gaza-ceasefire/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/eu-calls-on-israel-to-respect-ceasefire-as-idf-steps-up-strikes-in-southern-lebanon/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-millennium-long-monopoly-how-biblical-israel-imported-a-steady-flow-of-african-ivory/
Pope
Leo meets Abbas, calls for Gaza aid and 'two-state solution' | Israel National
News
Channel
12 News poll: Coalition gains strength | Israel National News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkey-issues-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-other-israeli-leaders-over-genocide-in-gaza/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostage-mom-sylvia-cunio-says-unreal-joy-to-have-her-sons-home-but-wont-return-to-nir-oz/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-omri-haviv-wins-jiu-jitsu-gold-as-kazakh-rival-disqualified-for-illegal-kick/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/protesters-disrupt-israel-philharmonic-concert-in-paris-4-arrested/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-probes-suspected-terror-threat-linked-to-2015-paris-attacker/
Brandeis
Center Seeks Anonymity for Jewish Victim in Antisemitism Lawsuit |
Algemeiner.com
Iranian
Plot to Kill Israel’s Ambassador to Mexico Contained, US Official Says |
Algemeiner.com
Antisemitism
Is Raging on Campuses and in Classrooms This Fall | Algemeiner.com
Palestinian
Authority Admits It Prioritizes Terrorists Over Children’s Education |
Algemeiner.com
https://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-israels-bid-to-shut-it-unrwa-resumes-teaching-in-gaza-as-kids-hit-books-amid-rubble/
Nov. 9th
Swords of Iron Day 765
Hadar Goldin Day 4118
223 Arab Mafia Murders a total of 7
in 48 hours. The police can’t keep up with this pace and one in a public area
in Tel Aviv frequented by many Jews.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/habba-doj-moved-swiftly-decisively-stop-isis-linked-halloween-terror-plot-targeting-jews
https://www.foxnews.com/us/three-landscape-supply-employees-gunned-down-texas-shooting-police
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/darryl-strawberry-thanks-trump-pardon-makes-him-truly-free-clean-from-all-my-past
Austria
Uncovers Hamas-Linked Weapons Cache Amid Surge in Anti-Jewish Incidents |
Algemeiner.com
US
Military to Establish Presence at Damascus Airbase, Sources Say |
Algemeiner.com
Syria
launches major operation to hunt ISIS cells | Israel National News
Ex-military
advocate general taken to hospital after suspected suicide attempt
Israel
says Hamas violated ceasefire by refusing to return body of fallen IDF officer
Another
impressive game from Deni Avdija wasn’t enough for Portland
Prominent
theater scholar Nurit Yaari dies at 77, days after disappearance
Gaza
border communities warn 'return to October 6 policy' | The Jerusalem Post
Fire
at Palestinian home result of electricity failure | The Jerusalem Post
Florida
police shoot Turkish man who threatened synagogue | The Jerusalem Post
Florida
police detain suspect in deadly collision | The Jerusalem Post
Syria
launches major operation to hunt ISIS cells | Israel National News
Barstool
founder targeted with antisemitic slur in Mississippi | Israel National News
Cornell
strikes $250M deal with Trump admin, ends antisemitism investigation | Israel
National News
Houthis
claim CIA-Mossad spy network arrested in Yemen | Israel National News
Bereaved
brother beaten near ousted military advocate's home | Israel National News
Religious
soldiers walked out of ceremony with female singers | Israel National News
Report:
Saudi Arabia to renew dialogue with Israel | Israel National News
Terrorists
approach IDF troops in Gaza despite ceasefire | Israel National News
Belgium
suspected to be hiding October 7th terrorist | Israel National News
IDF
eliminates terrorists in southern Lebanon | Israel National News
Man
dies following Tel Aviv shooting | Israel National News
Holocaust
survivors warn 87 years after Kristallnacht: 'The world is returning to 1938
When Israelis are not involved.
Muslim vs. Muslim. Talks
between Kabul, Islamabad collapse amid ceasefire | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/researchers-say-millions-ditched-bread-no-reason-heres-whats-really-happening
Nov. 10th
Swords of Iron Day 766
The body of Hadar Goldin did come home. No thanks to
Netanyahu who had plenty of opportunities and it did not interest him, Sara or
Yair. No political gains! Dr. Goldin and other Parents spoke yesterday and with
the exception of a few individual Ministers, the rest had no gain why risk the
pain. The funeral is tomorrow at 10AM.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/another-israel-iran-war-increasingly-seen-as-just-a-matter-of-time-new-york-times/
A Holocaust Survivor warns about
what is happening in Europe and now in the States. https://www.foxnews.com/world/101-year-old-kristallnacht-survivor-warns-current-era-equivalent-1938-anniversary-nazi-riot
He died in 2004 but the cold case
killer is found. https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-girls-church-murder-solved-after-family-confession-helps-identify-killer
BBC editing against Israel and
Trump: https://www.foxnews.com/media/bbc-director-general-uk-news-chief-both-resign-over-trump-speech-editing-scandal
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sydney-police-approve-neo-nazi-rally-drawing-sharp-rebuke/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/cabinet-okays-nis-3-25-billion-in-benefits-for-idf-career-soldiers/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-to-begin-restricting-water-use-in-tehran-as-drought-reaches-critical-levels/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/katz-okays-itai-ofir-as-next-idf-legal-chief-despite-netanyahus-reported-objection/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hero-of-israel-after-11-years-in-hamas-captivity-lt-hadar-goldins-body-brought-home/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/another-israel-iran-war-increasingly-seen-as-just-a-matter-of-time-new-york-times/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/syria-foiled-islamic-state-assassination-plots-on-president-sharaa-sources/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-boots-on-the-ground-israel-insistent-no-turkish-soldiers-will-enter-gaza/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-confronts-police-brass-demands-kula-helm-sde-teiman-leak-probe/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tenders-for-record-number-of-west-bank-settlement-housing-units-published-in-2025/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-pardons-giuliani-mark-meadows-sidney-powell-others-involved-2020-election-interference-saga
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-democrats-cave-open-path-reopening-government
'I
never gave into the terrorists,' says Matan Zangauker | Israel National News
Israel
to seize vessels used in Gaza-bound flotilla | Israel National News
Again:
Terrorists threaten IDF troops, violating ceasefire | Israel National News
IDF
announces widescale exercise in Judea and Samaria | Israel National News
Seven-year-old
dies of measles | Israel National News
IDF
demolishes home of terrorist who murdered Tze’ela and her son | Israel National
News
Four
terror tunnels uncovered and dismantled in Gaza | Israel National News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/lebanese-army-rejects-israeli-demands-to-search-homes-for-hezbollah-arms/
Nov. 11th
Swords of Iron Day 767 Veteran’s Day
As I write I am watching/listening
to Hadar Goldin’s Funeral that lasted 105 minutes with about 10 wreaths (not
normally a Jewish thing but having died in action and coming back the IDF
branches, COS, Defense Ministry, City of Kfar Saba, Soldiers Memorial
Association, etc.). The famous actor (tough-guy/singer who barely survived when
7 of his unit fell) befriend Dr, Simcha Goldin and gave a wonderful Chesped
(dirge oratorial) for Hadar and a sad song for lost soldiers (also not usual at
Jewish Funerals). Hadar’s friend sang the prayer for the country and then the
Rabbinute and Congregation “Hatikvah” (National Anthem). Although it would have
been hard for me to make it to a small grave site in Kfar Saba with thousands
of people, I was there in spirit.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/histadrut-chief-bar-davids-detention-extended-until-thursday-in-corruption-probe/
Report:
US to build large military base near Gaza border | Israel National News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-slashes-delegation-for-un-climate-meet-in-brazil-to-just-3-officials/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-charged-over-disruptions-of-israel-philharmonic-concert-in-france/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/french-court-frees-former-president-nicolas-sarkozy-from-jail-pending-appeal/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-kushner-discuss-gaza-plan-amid-standoff-over-trapped-hamas-terrorists/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/i-thought-i-would-die-here-freed-hostage-matan-zangkauer-recounts-beatings-mind-games/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/we-fought-for-you-dad-lior-rudaeff-buried-2-years-after-he-was-killed-on-oct-7/
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-man-fired-from-job-accused-threatening-church-attacks-online-gonna-look-like-genocide
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/train-crash-800-passengers-risk-likely-caused-human-error
https://www.foxnews.com/us/bloody-brawl-breaks-out-agitators-protest-tpusa-event-uc-berkeley-california
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-ends-41-day-government-shutdown-stalemate-sends-bipartisan-deal-house
https://www.timesofisrael.com/roman-roads-spread-way-farther-than-previously-known-study-finds/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/vatican-investigates-swiss-guard-after-alleged-antisemitic-incident-in-st-peters-square/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/external-panel-appointed-by-idf-chief-finds-most-of-armys-oct-7-probes-inadequate/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-fires-his-finance-minister-over-illicit-payments-to-palestinian-prisoners-sources/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/alarmed-by-hezbollah-rearming-israel-presses-beirut-to-act-before-the-idf-has-to/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-landmark-meeting-trump-says-syria-will-be-very-successful-country-under-sharaa/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-advances-bill-mandating-death-penalty-for-terrorists-who-killed-israelis/
Watch:
Ben Gvir and Odeh clash as Knesset ushers intervene | Israel National News
Israeli
Judoka and Olympic Medalist Peter Paltchik Announces Retirement |
Algemeiner.com
What
happened to Bahrain's Ambassador to Israel? | Israel National News
Supreme
Court to rule on MAG case petitions | Israel National News
World
athletes against Iran: Prevent execution of boxing champion | Israel National
News
Iraqis
head to polls in parliamentary vote as discontent grows | Israel National News
New
York: Mamdani received 97% of the Muslim vote | Israel National News
Trump
responds to Marjorie Taylor Greene: She has lost her way | Israel National News
John
Cleese cancels Israel shows, producers claim: He caved to BDS | Israel National
News
Netanyahu
surprised in Knesset by report of coordination with US | Israel National News
IDF
detects drones attempting to smuggle weapons into Gaza | Israel National News
Attempted
terror attack near Hebron | Israel National News
Watch:
Suspects who firebombed Border Police base arrested | Israel National News
Op-Ed Farley Weiss: The
American Jewish left: Will they ever learn? | Israel National News
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-senior-official-says-israel-aims-to-topple-iranian-regime-by-end-of-trumps-term/
Nov. 12th
Swords of Iron Day 768
On this day in 1990 the world wide
web was initiated. Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal to CERN in May 1989, without
giving the system a name.[5] He got a
working system implemented by the end of 1990, including a browser called WorldWideWeb (which became
the name of the project and of the network) and an HTTP server running at
CERN. As part of that development, he defined the first version of the HTTP
protocol, the basic URL syntax, and implicitly made HTML the primary document
format. The technology was released outside CERN to other research institutions
starting in January 1991, and then to the whole Internet on 23 August 1991.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/resigning-as-minister-dermer-says-govt-will-be-remembered-for-both-oct-7-and-its-response/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/high-court-urges-compromise-in-sde-teiman-leak-investigation-for-sake-of-public/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/settlers-launch-major-west-bank-arson-attack-idf-police-arrest-four-suspects/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-one-left-behind-after-11-years-hadar-goldin-laid-to-rest-with-words-of-love-and-reckoning/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/everything-has-a-limit-hezbollah-chief-says-near-daily-idf-strikes-cant-continue/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/comptroller-blames-israels-october-7-failures-on-lack-of-national-security-policy/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-world-first-israel-begins-pumping-desalinated-water-into-depleted-sea-of-galilee/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jfks-jewish-grandson-set-to-announce-bid-for-congress/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/protest-held-outside-austrian-parliament-against-event-honoring-declared-antisemite/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/turkish-military-plane-breaks-up-mid-air-crashes-in-georgia-with-20-onboard/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-panel-told-of-extensive-marital-financial-strain-among-reservists-families/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/yemens-houthis-signal-theyve-stopped-attacks-on-israel-and-red-sea-shipping/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-evictions-resume-in-east-jerusalems-silwan-residents-fear-their-homes-will-be-next/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/john-cleese-cancels-planned-israel-shows-as-his-tone-on-country-sours/
Iran’s
Water Crisis Worsens as President Warns Tehran May Need to Be Evacuated |
Algemeiner.com
Dutch
Jewish Writer Recounts Being Denied Care by Pro-Palestinian Nurse |
Algemeiner.com
Ritchie
Torres Faces Multiple 2026 Challengers Attacking His Support for Israel |
Algemeiner.com
Israel
Says Hezbollah Trying to Rebuild, Smuggle in Arms From Syria | Algemeiner.com
Israel offers: Hamas
terrorists in Rafah tunnels can surrender and be freed | Israel National News
Report: Iran flooding
Judea and Samaria with advanced weapons | Israel National News
Trump: I have an
obligation to sue the BBC | Israel National News
Sharaa confirms Syria is
in direct talks with Israel | Israel National News
Corbyn declares new
party committed to 'absolute opposition to Zionism' | Israel National News
Chief Rabbi to Argentine
President: We pray for your success | Israel National News
UK police still probing
Glastonbury chants of 'death to the IDF' | Israel National News
Texas man arrested for
antisemitic death threats faces charges | Israel National News
'Captain
Ella' considered for IDF Arabic spokesperson role | Israel National News
Revealed:
Military Censor authorized publication of Sde Teiman video | Israel National
News
Finding
God in quantum and Torah insights | Israel National News
Communism demands fast work and
quotas and messes up on safety. https://www.foxnews.com/world/major-chinese-bridge-collapses-river-just-months-opening-traffic
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bill-end-government-shutdown-survives-key-hurdle-before-house-wide-vote
Nov. 13th
Swords of Iron Day 769
Netanyahu is trying to control the
media. Last week in the Knesset a bill passed first reading that fines Media
Companies for basis news. Now he pressed Min. Katz to close down the Army Radio
Station. He learned from Orban of Hungary. https://www.timesofisrael.com/moving-to-shut-army-radio-katz-declares-war-on-an-unlikely-pillar-of-independent-media/
Small Cumulus clouds are rolling in
and Israel is expecting our first real rain storm of 5786.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rubio-says-theres-some-concern-west-bank-violence-could-undermine-gaza-ceasefire/
Two
earthquakes in Cyprus felt in northern Israel | Israel National News
Toronto
City Hall Announces Plan to Fly Palestinian Flag Next Week | Algemeiner.com
https://www.timesofisrael.com/zini-asks-court-to-reject-petition-against-his-appointment-from-ex-shin-bet-chiefs/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/moving-to-shut-army-radio-katz-declares-war-on-an-unlikely-pillar-of-independent-media/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/sharaa-says-trump-backs-demand-for-israel-to-withdraw-forces-from-syrian-territory/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/democrats-release-email-in-which-epstein-wrote-that-trump-knew-about-the-girls/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-mossad-chief-barnea-to-step-down-next-june-pm-begins-search-for-successor/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/draft-exemption-bill-stuck-as-coalition-faces-internal-dissension-haredi-demands/
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/new-york-new-jersey-lose-hundreds-billions-resident-income-americans-flee-low-tax-states
https://www.foxnews.com/us/doj-launches-investigation-uc-berkeley-unrest-outside-turning-point-usa-event
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/archaeologists-unearth-evidence-biblical-power-struggle-beneath-jerusalem-screamed-excitement
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iraqs-sudani-secures-major-victory-in-election-say-sources-close-to-pm/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-265000-trip-report-discloses-transit-ministers-lavish-travel-budget/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-cop-with-ptsd-dies-two-weeks-after-self-immolating-outside-defense-officials-home/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-finds-shortage-of-us-rabbis-is-more-about-fit-than-numbers/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/kevin-spacey-says-he-chose-israel-over-greece-when-told-to-cancel-tel-aviv-show/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/taiwans-foreign-minister-closer-ties-with-israel-align-with-the-islands-interests/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-says-it-will-help-draft-constitution-for-palestinian-state-as-abbas-visits-paris/
According to the Health Ministry, postmortem sperm
retrieval has been performed on 250 soldiers and security forces personnel,
with 193 at the request of a parent. Sperm was also retrieved from 21
civilians, again with 10 of those requests from parents. https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-vast-demand-for-posthumous-sperm-retrieval-creates-new-life-and-new-questions/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-writes-to-herzog-asking-him-to-pardon-netanyahu-amid-unjustified-trial/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-it-killed-several-gunmen-on-israeli-held-side-of-gazas-yellow-line/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/roman-era-statues-and-other-historic-artifacts-stolen-from-syrias-national-museum/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-grilled-at-un-over-reports-claiming-systematic-and-widespread-torture-of-palestinians/
Checking
Iran’s Enriched Uranium Stock Is ‘Long Overdue,’ IAEA Report Says |
Algemeiner.com
The
Gospel of Grievance — From Father Coughlin to Tucker Carlson | Algemeiner.com
Israeli
officials: Hamas holds information on all four deceased hostages | Israel
National News
Propaganda
war: Iran produces Hebrew-language documentary | Israel National News
IDF
officer who ignored massacre warnings returns to service | Israel National News
Bennett:
Trump plan is Oslo on steroids | Israel National News
IDF
strikes Hezbollah targets hidden in civilian areas in southern Lebanon | Israel
National News
Terror
attacks thwarted, Hamas cell arrested | Israel National News
Secretary
Rubio: Everyone is worried about Chinese nuclear buildup | Israel National News
Chillul HASHEM! Shechem-area
mosque set aflame | Israel National News
For
the first time since October 7: Morocco resumes flights to Israel | Israel
National News
Swedes
suspected of attacking Israeli embassies face trial | The Jerusalem Post
Ohio
Republican becomes first female Orthodox Jewish mayor in US history
Nvidia
set to build major new tech campus near Haifa
Islamic Jihad
and Hamas announce they will hand over a hostage body tonight
Nov. 14th
Swords of Iron Day 770 end of week
110
ISIS
terror cell arrested, preventing imminent attack | Israel National News
Shabbos times. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/shabat
Have a healthy and
wonderful Shabbos and a pleasant Chodesh Kislev,
Rachamim Pauli
