tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39773328223036945932024-03-05T04:41:50.442+00:00A Girl, A Blog & Life In-between!!!Princess Panahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11772116818990715919noreply@blogger.comBlogger295125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977332822303694593.post-87874635742547780572013-01-02T06:59:00.000+00:002013-01-02T07:20:43.916+00:00New Year's ... Sylvester Same'ach??<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you thought the <i>Sylvester</i> in my title was a cat you would be wrong<span style="font-size: small;"> .....</span> <i>Sylvester</i> is the Germanic name for the Goyische Holiday of <b>New Year's Eve</b>!!! Why is it thus called? </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Who was Sylvester??</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><i>S<span style="font-size: small;">y</span>lvester</i></b> is the German name for <i><b>New Year's Eve </b></i>owing to the fourth
century <span style="font-size: small;">roman p</span>ope <i>Sylvester I</i><span style="font-size: small;">, </span> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">who arranged for the passage of a host of viciously anti-Semitic legislation<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">during the <i>Council of Nicaea</i> (325 CE)<span style="font-size: small;">, and who convince<span style="font-size: small;">d <i>Constantine</i> to prohibit Je<span style="font-size: small;">ws from living in Jerusalem<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Sylvester </i>was <span style="font-size: small;">p</span>ope from January 31st, 314 CE to December 31st, 335 CE. He was made a saint by the <span style="font-size: small;">c</span>atholic <span style="font-size: small;">c</span>hurch for his anti semitic activities <span style="font-size: small;">and<span style="font-size: small;"> h</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">is <i>"Saint’s Day"</i> is the day he was buried<span style="font-size: small;">,</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> December 31st<span style="font-size: small;">, </span> <b>Saint Sylvester
Day</b><span style="font-size: small;">!</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All <span style="font-size: small;">c</span>atholic <i>“Saints” </i>are awarded a day on which <span style="font-size: small;">c</span>hr<span style="font-size: small;">st</span>ians celebrate
and pay tribute to that <span style="font-size: small;">s</span>aint’s memory. And, <span style="font-size: small;">t</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span>he civil new year is <span style="font-size: small;">ushered in </span>on <i><b>“Sylvester Nacht”</b></i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>hence chrsti<span style="font-size: small;">an<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>celebrations on the night of December 31st are dedicated to
Sylvester’s memory. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <b><span style="font-size: small;">A</span> 'feast' night of </b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>drinking, making merry and killing Jews. </b> But, why do<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">es Israel </span>also term NYE as <i>Sylvester's Night</i>???</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A couple of years ago I listened to <b>Rabbi </b><b>Lawrence Kelemen's </b>research Shuir on this issue. It is incisive & will blow you away ..... <b><a href="http://www.torahanytime.com/scripts/media.php?file=media/Rabbi/Lawrence_Kelemen/2009-12-31/The_Real_Story_of_XMas_and_New_Years/Rabbi__Lawrence_Kelemen__The_Real_Story_of_XMas_and_New_Years__2009-12-31.mp3">The Real Story of Xmas & New Years!!!!</a></b><b> </b>I'm reproducing a few of his major points below ~ it will blow you away<span style="font-size: small;">!!!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In 46 B.C.E. the <i>Roman emperor Julius Caesar</i> first established January 1st as New Year’s day. Janus
was the Roman gd of doors and gates, and had two faces, one looking
forward and one back. Caesar felt that the month named after this gd
(<i>“January”</i>) would be the appropriate <i>“door”</i> to the year. Caesar
celebrated the first <b>January 1st New Year </b>by ordering the violent routing
of revolutionary Jewish forces in the Galilee. Eyewitnesses say blood
flowed in the streets. In later years, Roman pagans observed the <b><i>New
Year</i></b> by engaging in drunken orgies ~ a ritual they believed constituted a
personal re-enacting of the chaotic world that existed before the cosmos
was ordered by the gds. As xtianity spread, pagan holidays were either incorporated into
the xtian calendar or abandoned altogether. By the early medieval
period most of 'Holy' chrstian Europe regarded Annunciation Day (March 25th) as
the beginning of the year. (According to catholic tradition,
Annunciation Day commemorates the Malakh Gavriel’s announcement to <i>'Mary'</i>
that she would be impregnated by G*d ~ a purely pagan notion ~ and conceive a son to be called <i>jsus</i>.)</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <br /><br />After <b>William the Conqueror</b> (AKA <i>“William the Bastard</i>” and
<i>“William of Normandy”</i>) became King of England on December 25th, 1066, he
decreed that the English return to the date established by the Roman
pagans, January 1st as the proper New Year date. This move ensured that the commemoration of jsus’
birthday (December 25th) would align with <i>William’s </i>coronation, and the
commemoration of jsus’ circumcision supposedly done on January 1st. It would start the new
year - thus rooting the English and xstian calendars and his own
Coronation!!!! William’s innovation was eventually rejected after his death, and England
rejoined the rest of the xtian world and returned to celebrating New
Years Day on March 25th for a period.<br /><br /></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <b>A</b>bout five hundred years later, in 1582CE, <b>pope
Gregory XIII</b> (AKA <i>“Ugo Boncompagni”</i>, 1502-1585) abandoned the
traditional Julian calendar. By the Julian reckoning, the solar year
comprised 365.25 days, and the intercalation of a “leap day” every four
years was intended to maintain correspondence between the calendar and
the seasons. Really, however there was a slight inaccuracy in the
Julian measurement (the solar year is actually 365 days, 5 hours, 48
minutes and 46 seconds = 365.2422 days). This slight inaccuracy caused
the Julian calendar to slip behind the seasons about one day per
century. Although this regression had amounted to 14 days by <i>pope
Gregory’s</i> time, he based his reform on restoration of the vernal
equinox, then falling on March 11th, to the date had 1,257 years earlier
when <i>Council of Nicaea</i> was convened (March 21st 325 CE.). <i>pope Gregory</i>
made the correction by advancing the calendar 10 days. The change was
made the day after October 4th, 1582, and that following day was
established as October 15, 1582. <b>The Gregorian calendar</b> differs from
the Julian in three ways ~ (1) No century year is a leap year unless it
is exactly divisible by 400 (e.g., 1600, 2000, etc.); (2) Years
divisible by 4000 are common (not leap) years; and (3) once again the
New Year would begin with the date set by the early pagans, the first
day of the month of Janus ~ January 1st.<br /><br /><br />I have previously blogged the Hebrew Lunar Calendar here ..... <b><a href="http://princesspana.blogspot.ie/2011/02/measured-by-moon.html">Measured by the Moon!!!! </a></b><a href="http://princesspana.blogspot.ie/2011/02/measured-by-moon.html"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>The goy world operates the gregorian calendar. <br /></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <br /> On <b>New Years Day</b> 1577 <i>pope Gregory XIII </i>decreed
that all Roman Jews, under pain of death, must listen attentively to
the compulsory catholic conversion sermon given in Roman synagogues
after Friday night services. On New Years Day 1578 <i>Gregory </i>signed into
law a tax forcing Jews to pay for the support of a <i>“House of Conversion”</i>
to convert Jews to xtianity. On New Years 1581 <i>Gregory</i> ordered his
troops to confiscate all sacred literature from the Roman Jewish
community. Thousands of Jews were murdered in the campaign as they refused to surrender the precious <i><b><span class="st">Sifrei Torah</span>. <br /></b></i></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <br /> Throughout the medieval and post-medieval periods, January 1st,
supposedly the day on which jsus’ circumcision initiated the reign of chrstianity and the death of Judaism, was reserved for anti-Jewish
activities ..... synagogue and book burnings, public tortures, rape, <span style="font-size: small;">and</span>
murder. The heretical non testament, the greek book of xtianity instructs this of xtians. So <span style="font-size: small;">Sylvester means Slaughter the <span style="font-size: small;">Jews Day. </span></span>Nice xtian history, huh<span style="font-size: small;">??<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><br />"</i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto
them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will
do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of
his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." </i> john 8.44<br /><br /><i>"Bring my enemies, who didn't want me to be their king. Kill them in front of me.'"</i> luke 19.27<br /><br /><b>So, we're Sons o<span style="font-size: small;">f Satan to be Slaughtered!!!!!!</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />And today, we yet again have reason to fear those<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>pogrom nights
by <span style="font-size: small;">x</span>tian Jew haters, with th<span style="font-size: small;">eir calls of <i>"Juden Raus"</i></span><i>.</i> This has been augmented by a constant drip <span style="font-size: small;">of</span> <span style="font-size: small;">x</span>tian supposed Jew-lovers who for lack of respect for our right to our
Torah unmauled by them, seek ways of eliminating our tenets of Torah in
indirect devious ways as they explain clearly on their sites to their
believers and hangers on. It is disgusting<span style="font-size: small;">!! </span><br /><br /><br />Although this day should be a time of bitter remembrance ~ we have a
duty of Zakhor ~ it is not a time of celebration for Jews. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Any celebration or acknowledg<span style="font-size: small;">ment of this day </span>gives homage to the Goyyim who massacred <span style="font-size: small;">and mistreated</span> us for millenia. Neither is it New Years. Today is 19th of Teves, 5773. This Is Our Calendar. Our Only Calendar, G<span style="font-size: small;">*</span>d's Only Calendar and the one for all Jews. As <b>Rosh Ha'Shana </b>is the Jewish New Year and this occurs Every Tishrei. It is not today. Today is simply <i>Sylvester's Day!</i></span></span><br />
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Princess Panahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11772116818990715919noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977332822303694593.post-63237265174460490332013-01-02T06:46:00.000+00:002013-01-03T13:31:18.622+00:00Chanukkah Chutzpah!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is my very favourite Chanukkah photograph. I think it truly shows '<i><b>Chutzpah' </b></i>and total <b><span style="font-size: small;">D</span>efiance</b> in the face of Nazi Aggression. The photograph features a Chanukkah Menorah from Kiel, Germany and it belonged to the <b>Posner family</b>. The Posner family left Germany in 1933 and arrived in Eretz Yisrael in 1934. The Menorah still belongs to the Posner family and is lit every year at Chanukkah, B"H. Both the Menorah and the photograph are displayed in <i><b>Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum.</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We celebrate Chanukah by kindling the Menorah for eight days, adding a
new light each night, bringing increasing Kedoshah into our lives and our communities. This concept of <i>Ma'alim
B'Kodesh</i> to grow spiritually and to continuously add more mitzvos,
more Torah and holiness to our lives is the essence of our faith
symbolized by the manner in which we light our Menorahs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><br />Man's Soul is the Candle of Ha'Shem .. which searches out the innermost parts <b><br />~ Mishlei 20.27 ~</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Chanukkah is NOT a holiday that celebrates religious freedom but rather redemption of Jewish identity. And this is sooooooo epitomised by the above photograph, I think!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also, I haven't posted in about three weeks, since the Chag of Chanukkah. I wanted a break and a <i>'bridge' </i>post to link to today. This special p<span style="font-size: small;">h<span style="font-size: small;">otograph</span></span> is it!!!!<br /><br /><i>Credits<span style="font-size: small;"> ~ </span>Posner Family Estate, courtesy of Shulamit Mansbach, Haifa, Israel<br />Photographer<span style="font-size: small;"> ~</span> Rachel Posner.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I Adore Acappella .... specifically, I adore the <b>Maccabeats</b>, the <b>Yeshiva University </b>acappella group. The <b>Maccabeats</b>, have gained legions of fans and millions of <i>YouTube</i> views for their catchy acappella parodies and covers of other artists’ songs. Millions
have heard and seen their catchy creations online. The result has been
dozens of feature stories in print, dozens of stories broadcast on local
radio and TV, a live performance on national television, and even a
dinner at the <i><b>White House</b></i>. A Cappella is a long tradition at
universities. It reflects a love of Music, shared fun and the ability to
create and concoct harmonies. And the Maccabeats obviously LOVE what they do
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Okay, so now you all know I have had a several years-long obsession with the Yeshiva University
<b>Maccabeats.</b> An all male acappella group who went viral and sort of changed the face of
Modern Orthodoxy and how the goyim and some Jews view Orthodoxy. They sang for
President Obama, they <b><a class="external" href="http://www.cafepress.com/maccabeatscandlelight">sell T-shirts</a>
</b> (I own several and a hoodie, yet to be autographed, cough, cough, cough .......). Every Jewish kid knows who they are (and
most moms too!!!). Actually, it was at<b> Chanukkah </b>two years ago that <b>Maccabeats </b>came to prominence for the first time & I have blogged before my love for them, I have introduced the <b>Maccabeats</b> here .... <b><a href="http://princesspana.blogspot.ie/2012/09/awesome.html">Awesome!!!!! </a></b> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They’re wonderful and talented and sweet. And, their first <b>'hit'</b> two years ago at <b>Chanukkah</b>, where they were termed <i>'Youtube Sensations' </i>as they burst on the <i>webscene</i> with the timely legendary Torah tale of the Maccabees was <i><b>Candlelight </b></i>.... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />More than a Million views were captured, singing engagements followed and busy became a business. The following year, last year 5772, saw them engage with Jewish Reggae Star</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <b>Matisyahu</b> and a cover, an approved re-release of his hit<b> 'Miracle' </b><span style="font-size: small;">for the next Chanukkah Chag</span>. Matisyahu wrote the song. <br /><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><br />His rendition is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-7WdpB72o"><b>HERE </b></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> But that wasn't all ..... This single release headlined a campaign <b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maccabeats.com%2Fmiraclematch&session_token=pZLuQUJLpK1k8NPb0Hck-DaLcU98MTM1NTE2NTIyNEAxMzU1MDc4ODI0">Miracle Match!! </a></b> This campaign linked with the <b>Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation</b> which helps children and adults suffering
from leukemia, lymphoma, and other cancers and genetic disorders find
matching donors for blood and marrow transplants. It is life saving and life transforming. A cause close to my own heart. Every year, more than 10,000 patients in the United States alone need a
transplant, and about half of them do not find a matching donor. They
rely on <b>Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation</b> and other registries to save
their lives by finding their <b>Miracle Matches</b>. And <b>Chanukkah,</b> based itself on a <b>Miracle</b> of Ha'Shem is all about <b>Miracles</b>. Since last <b>Chaunkkah</b> over $80,000 has been raised to benefit <b><a class="external" href="http://www.giftoflife.org/default.aspx">The Gift of Life</a></b>
and their efforts to register bone marrow donors and save lives. To
date, the Miracle Match Campaign has led to 24 matches and seven
transplants requested, B"H!!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />This Tzedaka still continues with <b>Maccabeats </b>Support ....... <b><a href="http://www.makesomemiracles.com/">HERE!!!!</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And this Chanukkah, <b>Maccabeats</b> have <i><b>'upped their game'</b></i> yet again, and have taken things to the next level as they release their
newest song/video <i><b>"Shine"</b></i> , their very first original song. Self penned. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">A</span></span>nd now, this <b>Chanukkah </b>the lads have unveil<span style="font-size: small;">ed</span> their first original song, <b><i>"Shine."</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Same <b>Maccabeats </b>quality, professionalism and where appropriate, humour,
all wrapped up in a new, catchy song not heard nor performed
before. I particularly love the use of continuity with "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHwyTxxQHmQ">Miracle</a>" and the reappearance of the Greeks from "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSJCSR4MuhU">Candlelight</a>." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Their own website introduces it thus .....<i> "In honor of Hanukkah 2012, we are proud to debut our first original song, “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shine-single/id584892385?ls=1" target="_blank">Shine.</a>”
Shine is a song about Hanukkah and so much more, and we hope that the
song and video inspire all of our fans to keep the flame of Hanukkah
burning well beyond the Festival of Lights. Since we love our fans, we’ll be honest with you. We need your help.
We’re very proud of Shine, but it isn’t a parody of a wildly popular
radio hit that everyone is already humming. If you want to help “shed
the light in each direction” you’ll have to share and play the song for
all your friends, just like we played it for you. We’re really excited
to have you with us on this next stage of our fantastic journey. You can
also grab the song on <a href="http://maccabeats.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f5e11a13e153beac08625f8f2&id=34ed55c219&e=b2dcd4036a" target="_blank">iTunes</a>.</i></span></span><br />
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Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation for our <b>Miracle Match Campaign.</b> This campaign raises much-needed
funds to process tissue samples from potential donors. Miracle Match has
saved lives, and could save so many more with your help. To learn more
about the campaign, visit<b><a href="http://maccabeats.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f5e11a13e153beac08625f8f2&id=0b6ec978f0&e=b2dcd4036a" target="_blank"> www.makesomemiracles.com</a>."</b></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Whoooo hoooo ...... But that's not all!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">I oftentimes wondered what would happen to the Maccabeats when they all graduated from YU. Would they dissappear?? Would they break up and be no more?? How terrible that would be! It has happened & on viewing the comments on <b>'Shine'</b> it appears that a certain Astronaut (<b><i>Noah</i></b>) has been so sorely missed. Not to worry. It has been taken care of. Graduated and unable to utilize the <b>Maccabeats </b>name, certain members (with an obvious obsessional fan following !?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!) have formed </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the <i>"break off"</i> group <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAbTDHblxFM">StandFour</a>,</b>
these four former <b>Maccabeats</b> now have real lives that are too busy to allow
them to travel across the country as readily as their
fellow singers still students. However, even though they won't be touring, they still
want to produce quality, engaging Jewish music and videos, hence
<b>StandFour</b> was born. Also, an Acappella group and also Jewish and great. And also with an original single this <b>Chanukkah</b>. I love the modern music choices. I love them in
hoodies looking all casual and hip-like. It’s beautiful acapella. It's beautiful singing. It's official. I'm obsessed & I adore them too. <b>Nobody erases who we are ever!!!! </b> So,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>What else do they <b>StandFour</b>? </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ha'She</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>m.</b> <b>Torah.</b> All that <span style="font-size: small;">is good in our world. I love them already!!! </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Total Jewish Awesomeness!!!! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Through the <span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Eight </b></i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Ni</b></i><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>ghts</b></i> of <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chanukkah </b>and beyond .... <b>Chag Chanukkah Samea</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ch!!!!</b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<i>"We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank G<span style="font-size: small;">*</span>d we are efficient"</i><b> <i> <br />~ Golda Meir ~ </i></b><br /><br />I've tarried way, way too long in posting this particular promis<span style="font-size: small;">ed </span>blog. I couldn't decide what video should accompany these images, I have many, many videos of Rockets slamming into Israel from Gaza, and crying children and adults. So, I decided instead to post the one below, HaTikvah ... this is Israel!!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm posting Images along with the captions I originally posted. A Vignette of War. Israel has been subjected to many days of war, just to survive. More than any other nation. And is still hated and branded the agressor by all other nations. Just because we are Jews. This is the Truth. Eretz Yisrael Chai!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The picture above is perhaps my favourite image from this war. It's caption when I posted was <i>"This awesome photo from the Israeli army deployment area near the Gaza border shows IDF Command as they prepare for a potential ground operation in the coastal enclave of gaza shows the true strength of the IDF. This soldier's right hand connects him to his commander in the field, his left to his Creator, Ha'Shem. <b>The</b> Commander in Chief!!!!!"</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Israel's armies have always thus marched to victory .... with Torah Scholars at the helm. Learning & davening for success. When we put our trust in Ha'Shem ..... Wonders Abound!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>"Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will make mention of the name of Ha'shem, our G*d."</i> <i><b><br />~ Tehillim 20.8 ~ </b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Life in a Bomb Shelter in Israel. How long would YOU be prepared to live like this family? 12,000 Rockets worth?? 4 years worth??? 12 years worth??? Should children remember childhood like this????? This is everyday life in Southern Israel And yet we are accused of genocide in gaza???? This is a defensive war ... a Justified War. We just need to see it through to the end and make an end of Gaza!!!!!!!!!!! </span></span> <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt63GfhArE74SrKiJF2r2wQ2fBqo2UX_-jP_FPe2zc9SQZAt9powfiL_2fqYNQSNTjyIIl2Ag7btYmflN_4daxdq_U1JCfjD7FqQa0n4RTp8dMzP4I2VV6AGqCIL1_b2NHgv0lSJ4UAUw/s1600/Why+Arab+Children+die.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />We Shield our Children Well. We Cherish our Children. We Cherish Life, B"H. Why then do so many arab children die?? ...... Well, apart from obvious lies such as pretending Syrian children (arab violence) belong to this conflict ~ which I will blog in the next week, I'Y"H ~ they are used as shields in the hope that the IAF won't target. A hope which is more often than not realized to our own detriment. The IDF are truly the most moral fighting force, not only in the modern day world, but in the history of warfare itself. That is why arab rockets are launched from schools and apartment blocks, they are useful as propoganda tools. Alive .... as photo fodder for international anti semitic media to ask why is Israel firing on them, or as dead as an exceptional propoganda tool. We have more respect for our children, our citizenry and life in general. We are above animal <span style="font-size: small;">l</span>eve<span style="font-size: small;">l </span>existence.</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Arabs apparently are not!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On hearing a siren citizens in Israel are instructed to lie down and cover their head with hands. A Mother Shields her Child in the Street in Ofakim. How long must this go on??? Would you continue to live like this without retaliating? Labelled as 'Illegal' for being a Jew. Without Justice? Without Defence?? <br /><b><br />This is why Pillar of Defence!!</b></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Melody for Monday. Where did Movie and/or Music Mondays go to?? Music Monday <span style="font-size: small;">or<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>Film Friday<span style="font-size: small;">?</span> Life got in the way and all my posts merged ~ their importance to everyday life, of life around as opposed to life within me grew. I've always posted 'organically' on my blog here. Or so I thought. It grew with me, alongside me, my opinions opined .... and changed. And critical times demanded crucial issues be attended to. And events sucked me in and spit me out. Anti Semitism cried out. And had to be heard. Urgently. Jewish life ~ <b>Yiddishkeit</b> ~ intervened and so my original intentions are abandoned. Long ago now. It is our times which temper my posts. But, even so, I suppose I can say I've officially been neglecting my blog .... a<span style="font-size: small;">nd </span>I Apologise. I'm very, very sorry. I didn't mean for it to happen. I have been posting twitter updates and stuff. Just not here .... Social Media is just so Multifarious now. I've been MIA and avoiding involvment, sort of. Blogs are involved. And Involving .... and I have been trying to deal with overwhelming things .. I think it's called <b>LIFE!</b> My Life. And my posts have suffered alongside me!!! Anyways ...... I did<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>promise & have prepared an <i>'Israel, Images of War' </i>blog. Also a <i>'War Wounded' </i>blog, but neither are quite ready to post publically just yet. Apologies. Really. I also want to post on the ongoing imprisonment of <b>Jonathan Pollard </b>in the US. And of Mainstream Media Anti Semitism in the recent Gaza War. And then, this Motsi Shabbos it is holiday time. <span style="font-size: small;">T</span>he Chag of <b>CHANUKKAH!!!! </b><br /><br />I don't know if I will have time to complete all pre Chag .... but I will try to post all I have mentioned, perhaps even more than one post a day. We will see. Catch up week to Chanukkah, IY"H!!!!<br /><br />And for today, at least, a return to Music Monday. My listening fare this Morning. It started with the picture above being in my inbox when I woke. It woke a memory for me. Inside me. Nacescent within. Perhaps the Inscription. I remembered something. Something long ago & far away and I recalled a lyric. Then I listened to this track from whence it came. <b><i>Take it where you find it </i></b>by fellow Irishman <b>Van Morrison</b>. It touched me inside. You might have to be Irish too for it to touch you. I'm not sure .... but I did promise poetry and song. And Laughter. Okay, sparse laughter, but it is poetry and song. And feeling. And a return to posting for me. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Self Indulgence.</span></span> On Monday.<br /><br /><br /><i>Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea<br />They thought great thoughts about liberty<br />Poets wrote down words that did fit<br />Writers wrote books, thinkers thought about it<br /><br />Take it where you find it, can't leave it alone<br />You will find a purpose to carry it on<br />Mainly, when you find it, your heart will be strong about it<br /><br />Many's the road I have walked upon<br />Many's the hour between dusk and dawn<br />Many's the time, many's the mile<br />I see it all now through the eyes of a child<br /><br />Take it where you find it, can't leave it alone<br />You will find a purpose to carry it on<br />Mainly, when you find it, your heart will be strong about it<br /><br />Lost dreams and found dreams<br />In America, in America, in America<br />Lost dreams and found dreams<br />In America, in America, in America<br /><br />So and close your eyes, leave it all for a while<br />Leave the world and your worries behind<br />You will build on whatever is real<br />And wake up each day to a new waking dream<br /><br />Take it where you find it, can't leave it alone<br />You will find a purpose to carry it on<br />Mainly, when you find it, your heart will be strong about it<br /><br />Lost dreams and found dreams<br />In America, in America, in America<br />Lost dreams and found dreams<br />In America, in America, in America<br /><br />Change, change, come over, change, come over<br />Talkin' about a change, change, change<br />Change, come over, now<br />Change, change, change come over<br /><br />I'm gonna walk down the street<br />Until I see my shining light<br />I'm gonna walk down the street<br />Until I see my shining light<br /><br />I'm gonna walk down the street<br />Until I see my shining light<br />I'm gonna walk down the street<br />Until I see my shining light<br /><br />I see my light, see my light<br />See my shining light<br />I see my light, see my light<br />See my shining light<br /><br />Lost dreams and found dreams<br />In America, in America, in America<br />Lost dreams and found dreams<br />In America, in America, in America<br /><br />Lost dreams and found dreams<br />In America, in America, in America<br />Lost dreams and found dreams<br />In America, in America, in America .....</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>"Then the angel of HaShem, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s
army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from
in front and stood behind them, coming between the armies of Egypt and
Israel". <b> ~ Bamidbar 14.19+20 ~</b></i></span></span><br />
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[the Egyptians] shot arrows and catapult stones at them, but the angel
and cloud caught them. For a campaign intended to halt the barrage of
rockets rained down on Southern Israel in the last week, “Pillar of
Cloud” is thus a particularly apt title. Just as the cloud protected
B'nei Yisrael from Egyptian projectiles, so to does the IDF protect
Israel’s citizens from the Rockets of the </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">p</span>hilishti</span></span>. However, a literal translation of עמוד ענן ~
<i><b>“Pillar of Cloud”</b></i> ~ fails to convey fully the meaning of the allusion with
total clarity to an audience not well versed in Torah. As such, the IDF
chose <b>“Pillar of Defence”</b> as the campaign’s English designation, a
conceptual translation which makes clear the intended meaning of the
Hebrew. And we KNOW in our hearts as Jews that it is HaShem who is our
protection today, as always, B"H!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">"And Ha'Shem went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them
the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that
they might go by day and by night ...." <br /><b>~ Shemot 13.21 ~ </b></span></i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">During this week of war I actually posted a great deal, mostly posters & pictures with brief comments just not here on my blog which I have somewhat neglected. For that I apologise & I aim to rectify this weekend with an amalgam of those postings in this as a start to a series of blogs portraying Israel's Week at War!
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<br /><br />On November 14th, in response to incessant rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, the IDF launched <b>Operation </b><b><i>Pillar of Defense. </i></b>The operation opened when the IDF surgically targeted <b>Ahmed Jabri</b>, the head of <b>Hamas</b>' military wing, in the
Gaza Strip. <i>Jabri </i>was a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper
echelon of the Hamas' command and was directly responsible for executing
terror attacks against Israel in the past, most notable perhaps being commanding the operation to Kidnap & detain <b>Sgt. Gilad Shalit</b> in a Gaza dungeon for five years. It was successful as you can see in the footage below, B"H!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />Since Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip in 2007, the terrorist group
has turned the coastal area into a forward base for showering the South of Israel with Rocket Fire. But the Missiles didn't start then ..... In
fact, Hamas has been targeting the Israeli Home Front since 2001, and
firing rockets on a near-daily basis for years. The number of rocket attacks coming from the Gaza Strip, since 2001, has
been put at 7,882, with an estimated 4,890 mortar attacks, for a total
of 12,791 attacks. The rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip are
responsible for approximately 60 Israeli deaths and 1,650 Israelis
injured in that time. The media has failed to show the seriousness of what living under such bombardment means. How <span style="font-size: small;">terrifying and traumatising it actually i<span style="font-size: small;">s!!! </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><br />I have blogged it before .... <b><a href="http://princesspana.blogspot.ie/2012/11/tzeva-adom-israel-under-fire.html">Tzeva Adom .... Israel Under Fire!!!</a> </b> and <b> <a href="http://princesspana.blogspot.ie/2012/10/rocket-rain-requires-retribution.html">Rocket Rain Requires Retribution!!!</a> </b> and <b><a href="http://princesspana.blogspot.ie/2012/09/a-september-sunday-in-sderot.html">A September Sunday in Sderot!!!</a> </b> and in many more blogs over the past two years. <br /><br />Would you live like this</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> and then be branded as the Agressor?????? <br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">For no matter what Israel does, nor how moral or defensive her actions, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">harsh international condemnation persists unabated. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">The IAF & the IDF are the Most Moral Fighting Force in the History
of Warfare itself .... Calling Off Airstrikes when
Civilians are seen near Target areas, Mass leafletting of warning of impending airstrikes in the area and advising civilians on how best to stay safe</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">. Thousands of telephone calls and Text messages were made to civilians. A far cry from considering civilians and children as the 'Human Shields' Hamas considers them to be. Yet, Biased Broadcasting, Hostility and Outright Lies have persisted throughout this defensive operation in a disgraceful show of anti semitism. </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>"This is not a relaxation, it's an
Israeli agreement to the rearming of Hamas. What are we getting for
this?" <b><br />~ </b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Bibi on Olmert's 2008 <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>easefire ~ </span></span></i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></b><br />And yet Israel agrees to a Ceasefire in the same day as a
bus is bombed in Tel Aviv? What was the American threat or bribe,
Bibi? What caused you to sign up to such a sell out?<br /><br /><br />I would so love if you would answer my questions, Mr Prime Minister.<br /><br /><br />We
had a chance three years ago to destroy Hamas in <b>Operation Cast Lead.</b> Instead we cowed to
international pressure. We had a chance now to destroy Hamas. This time
with less international pressure and the supposed support of Obama. At
least that is what he has spoken to his media. Instead of continuing our
assault and removing Hamas for good, we've <span style="font-size: small;">R</span>etreated. We needed
to keep going, to Crush hamas, Flatten gaza and re-establish the land as
part of Israel, populate the land with Jews and rebuild the cities as
peaceful areas for Jews and any arabs willing to accept the sovereignity
of the Jewish State. This strategy would secure the South from Rocket
Rain but also be the best guarantee of arab lives too, which are
squandered by hamas. The citizens of the South wanted this, the IDF
wanted to <i><b>'finish the job'</b>. </i><b>Why didn't we?</b><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fox News</i> has said that as
part of the Ceasefire deal Israel agreed to open all border crossings
with Gaza, including between Gaza and Egypt. What has Egypt got to do with anything and why was this deal brokered there? Why were such Jew haters even included? It obviously wasn't for Israel's good. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Israel also agreed to ease
the sea blockade. Could we really have agreed to this? And for what ....
another failed cycle of 'ceasefires'?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is not a <b><i>'win'.</i></b> It is
a sell out of our Torah & our people. It's time to speak out. It's
time we let our government know we will only support it when it truly
protects its citizens. And this it has failed to do. It is time to for
this government to remember that elections are in the offing & if
they don't represent our interests then we will look to elect those who
will actually Lead Am Yisrael. To those who will secure our land,
destroy our enemies and raise our profile & pride as Jews to the
anti semtic world in which we live.</span></span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /></b></span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the Land from before you,
then those whom you leave over will be as spikes in your eyes and
thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you
settle". </span></span></i><b><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><b>~ Ba'midbar 33.55 ~</b></span></span></i></b></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So, it's back to the Sound of the South, the Soundtrack of Southern Israel - </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">פסקול החיים בארץ</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My thoughts today are with the families of the four people who were killed in a rocket attack on Kiryat Malachi this week and the six injured, including this Israeli baby girl. With those struck today, a direct hit on a car in the Negev town of Ofakim injured four Jews, one seriously. A Missile struck an Ashkelon Apartment block with again one seriously injured and five others less so. My thoughts and prayers are there too. With the million men, women and children who spent Shabbat in shelters. With the brave soldiers who are putting their life on the line. With all who defend Eretz Yisrael in this War .... Yasher Koach!!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />It's faintly familiar. A war that began a few weeks after Barack Obama’s presidential election. Hamas in Gaza had been raining hundreds of Qassam rockets onto southern Israeli towns and cities, along with long-range missiles supplied by the Mad Mullahs of Iran. With just 15 seconds to run to a shelter before impact, the rockets rained in streets and schools. And into homes. This was the situation four years ago and this is the situation today in Eretz Yisrael. Four years on ..... Four years of intermittent yet intense Rocket Fire from terrorist controlled Gaza. For Four years the warning Sirens have announced Tzeva Adom. Colour Red. The twenty second warning to Run for Shelter. For Four years. Would you live like this??</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Four years ago, Israel launched <b>Operation Cast lead</b> to stop the rockets from Gaza. Now four years and 12,000 rockets later, we go again to war, this time with <b>Operation Pillar of Defense </b>(Amud Anan). Little has changed. On the heels of another U.S. presidential election, nearly 500 rockets have struck Israel from Gaza in the last week. One million Israelis are living in bomb shelters and Iranian-made Fajir missiles have put Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and 50 percent of Israel’s population within striking range. Rocket Range has increased.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system has successfully intercepted another 150 rockets this week. Yet the system is not fool-proof. Some dozen Israelis have been injured and three civilians were killed when a Hamas rocket hit their home in the town of Kiryat Malachi. And over Shabbat, neither Shalom nor Safety prevailed despite Israel and the IDF shielding it's citizenry from this continued terror. Israel has decimated over 100 rocket production and launching facilities in Gaza, Baruch Ha'Shem. Israel eliminated arch-terrorist Ahmed Jabari, the commander-in-chief of Hamas terror activity who directed a decade of rockets, bombings, and the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit. The brave & brilliant IDF perseveres with it's protection, B"H, may they stay safe & finish the job properly this time. May Ha'Shem guide them until Hamas is History & Gaza is Ours. Gush Katif returned to rightful ownership & <span style="font-size: small;">re</span>populated by Jews to bloom once again as Ha'Shem has promised. And Safety Secured for Am Yisrael. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Seriously, would YOU live with this Terror and then be branded as the Agressor by an anti semitic media?? Over One Million Israelis do daily. Tzeva Adom. Colour Red. How would YOU Cope ..... 20 Seconds to Shelter?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Armistice that ended <b>"The Great War"</b>
(World War I) was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th
month ~ November 11th, 1918. Europeans commemorate this day as <b><i>"Armistice Day"</i></b>, Americans as <i>"<b>Veterans Day"</b></i>, and citizens of the UK <span style="font-size: small;">& it's </span>Commonwealth as <i><b>"Remembrance Day"</b></i>. That is this day. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Poppies grow in profusion in Belgium, in the disturbed earth of the <span style="font-size: small;">B</span>attlefields and cemeteries where many many of the war dead lie. And the P<span style="font-size: small;">oppy is the symobl of <span style="font-size: small;">Soldierly Sacrifice. </span></span>
<span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show">The most famous bloom of poppies in the war was in '<i>Ypres'</i>, a town in <i>Flanders, Northern Belgium</i>,
which was crucial to the Allied defence. There were three battles
there, but it was the second, which was calamitous to the allies since
it heralded the first use of the new chlorine gas the Germans were
experimenting with, which brought forth the poppies in greatest
abundance.<br /><br /><br />But, this day <span style="font-size: small;">not only recalls the horrors of the<i> </i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>'Great'</i> war f<span style="font-size: small;">or no<span style="font-size: small;"> war is g<span style="font-size: small;">reat<span style="font-size: small;">, and the <i>'war to end </i><span style="font-size: small;"><i>all wars</i>' didn't'<span style="font-size: small;">!</span> <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:<br />Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.<br />At the going down of the sun and in the morning<br />We will remember them<span style="font-size: small;">".</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b> ~ Laurence Binyon ... For the Fallen, written in September 1914 ~ </b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">And finally, I want to add two selections which move me personally ..... </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We owe a responsibility not only to those who are in Israel but also to
those generations that are no more, to those millions who have died
within our lifetime, to Jews all over the world, and to generations of
Jews to come. We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice
when a new kind of cotton is grown, and <b>when strawberries bloom in
Israel.</b> </i></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show">~ Golda Meir ~<br /></span></span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /></span></span></b><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ha'</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>tikva. The </b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hope</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>. </b> <span style="font-size: small;">If there can be h<span style="font-size: small;">ope here<span style="font-size: small;">, then we h<span style="font-size: small;">ave no right to desp<span style="font-size: small;">air. <span style="font-size: small;">(that's b<span style="font-size: small;">y me<span style="font-size: small;">, lol!).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>“They watched the Jews come down the road like a catalogue of colours. That wasn’t how the book thief described them, but I can tell you that that’s exactly what they were, for many of them would die. They would each greet me like their last true friend, with bones like smoke, and their souls trailing behind.” </i><br /><br />Last<span style="font-size: small;"> Night, <span style="font-size: small;">the Night</span> of </span>November 9/10th, mark<span style="font-size: small;">ed</span> the 7<span style="font-size: small;">4th</span> <span style="font-size: small;">A</span>nniversary of <b> 'Kristallnacht'</b><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>~ </b></span> <b><i>the Night of Broken Glass</i></b>, a National Pogrom which began in Germany against Jews and is widely considered to be the Start of the Shoah, the first step in the planned extermination of the Jewish people leading to the eventual murder of six million in the Nazi programme of genocide. The well-oiled machine made-up of German youths known as the Hitler-Jugend dispersed into Germany’s Jewish neighbourhoods. (These kids 7,000+ strong, were White christian Nationalists armed & assisted by <span style="font-size: small;">assorted Nazi thugs</span>) and their mission was to break all the Jewish glass, Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. But it is not just about broken glass, but broken lives ..... 30,000 men were gathered up and taken to Camps. And Jewish Life in Germany Changed forever. Kristallnacht <span style="font-size: small;">wa</span>s Not a Night of Broken Glass. It <span style="font-size: small;">was </span>a Night of Broken Lives. Singed. Shattered. The Shoah begun!!<br /><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
On the night of November 9/10th, 1938, gangs of Nazi youth, with the unofficial but clear encouragement of Nazi leaders in a carefully orchestrated outbreak of government sponsored violence, committed attrocities in Jewish neighbourhoods throughout Germany, Austria and the Sudetenlands of Czechoslovakia. They smashed Jewish storefronts and homes, destroyed and burned over 1,600 synagogues, and vandalized over 175,000 Jewish stores and businesses. Close to 2,500 Jews were killed, and 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps. This nationwide anti-Jewish pogrom took place <b>during peacetime</b> across the entire territory of the Third Reich.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Instigated by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, this murderous onslaught against German Jewry, cynically described as the "<b><i>Night of Broken Glass</i></b>", was a major turning point on the road to the <i><b>"Final solution"</b></i> of the so-called <b>"Jewish question."</b> It signified that the Nazi regime had crossed a Rubicon and would no longer be deterred by Western public opinion in its <i><b>"War against the Jews."</b></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The economic expropriation of German Jewry, its complete social ostracism and public humiliation swiftly followed. Jews were banned from public transport, from frequenting concerts, theatres, cinemas, commercial centres or beaches, from using public benches. Only a fortnight after <b><i>"Crystal Night,"</i></b> the SS journal, <i>Das Schwarze Korps</i>, chillingly prophesied the final end of German Jewry through <i>"Fire and sword"</i> and its imminent complete annihilation. For that reason it is certainly proper to commemorate this harbinger of horror, the infamous date that marks the onset of this spiral of unimaginable hatred unloosed among a supposedly civilized people. What is unfathomable to me, though, is the name by which this commemoration continues to be known.<br />
<br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Last N</span>ight, Jewish communities throughout the world gathered <span style="font-size: small;">in Shul to celebrate Shabbat &</span> to recall </span><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kristallnacht</b> ~ and will unwittingly allow themselves, in some measure, to verbally embrace the very heresy that abetted the Holocaust. <i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">'Kristallnacht</i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">' ..... </span><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">'Crystal Night'</i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> .... conjures mental pictures of something pleasant. Like the effect of the Cool Crystal Clear Waters of a lake on a Summer's day, perhaps. I have Crystal's hanging in my bedroom window. They are beautiful, reflecting the light & magically producing Rainbows, a thing of beauty, a joy to possess. Kristallnacht does not come close to being any of those things. Only the <span style="font-size: small;">A</span>nti-<span style="font-size: small;">S</span>emitism <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>hines Clear as <span style="font-size: small;">C</span>rystal.<br /><br /><br />
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And, 7<span style="font-size: small;">4</span> years after the horrible events of 1938 should have given us by now sufficient perspective to expose the lie of a horrible term that is designed to deceive, to promote something that is it quite clearly not .... a deceptively descriptive term that epitomizes the key to the most powerful methodology for murder perfected by the Nazis. How, after all, were the Nazis able to commit their crimes under the veneer of civilized respectability? Upon analysis, the answer is obvious. They glorified the principle of murder by euphemism.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Let's look at the language of the Nazi perpetrators .... <i>Sonderbehandlung</i> (<b><i>"special treatment"</i></b>) was the way to describe gassing victims. <i>Euthanasia</i> was the "<b>polite</b>" way to speak of the mass murder of retarded or physically handicapped patients. <b>Arbeit Macht Frei </b>("<i>Work Makes you Free"</i>) were the words that greeted new arrivals at the entrance to the death camp of Auschwitz. When the Nazis launched their plan to annihilate the remaining Jews in Poland in the autumn of 1943, they called it "<b>Erntefest</b>" or <i>Harvest Festival</i>! And perhaps most cynical of all was the use of the term, "<i>Endloesung der Judenfrage</i>" ~ in English <b>"The Final Solution"</b> ~ to express the concept for which civilized language as yet had no term. (The word ‘<b>genocide</b>' was introduced in 1944 by <i>Raphael Lemkin</i>, who had escaped from German-occupied Poland to the US.)</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Euphemisms, as Quentin Crisp so aptly quipped, are <i>"unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne."</i> On the simplest level the name <b>Kristallnacht</b> suggests that the only terrible thing that happened was breakage of a tremendous amount of glass that would have to be replaced ~ a financial loss caused by wasteful vandalism that the government subsequently dealt with by taxing the Jewish community to pay for the damages inflicted upon them. </span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Kristallnacht </b>was the German euphemism for a time of sanctioned killing. The word takes into account only the loss of <i>'Crystal'</i>, not humans, and is one reason why its continued usage is so appalling to me. I'm a lover of language, the beauties of it's usage, the correct application of it's grammar & perhaps that is why this is so abhorrent to me. We need to reclaim that beauty from the Nazis & not allow further horror to be wrought from the holocaust.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But there is much more than even that ..... </span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dr. Walter H. Pehle, a historian specializing in modern Germany, has already pointed out that Kristallnacht's original intent was cynically propagandizing the violence into something metaphorically holding <b><i>"sparkle and gleam"</i></b> for Germany & the Globe. It is that very connection that played no small role in Goebbel's choice of descriptive for a moment that the German Minister of Propaganda wanted to immortalize as a sparkling and glowing portend of a future rid of its <i>"Jewish parasites.</i>"</span></span> <br />
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Today, shocking to relate, the spectre of such apocalyptic anti-Semitism has returned to haunt Europe and other continents, while assuming radically new forms. In the Middle East, it has taken on a particularly dangerous, toxic and potentially genocidal aura of hatred, closely linked to the <i><b>"mission"</b></i> of holy war or <i><b>"jihad"</b></i> against the Jews. There is nothing <b><i>'holy'</i></b> about Jihad!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Islamist anti-Semitism is thoroughly soaked in many of the most inflammatory themes that initially made possible the attrocities of <b><i>"Crystal Night"</i></b> and its horrific aftermath during the Holocaust. To the grotesque inventions of the Nazi era one must add such up-to-date libels as Holocaust denial, which has become a state-sponsored project in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran and is increasingly pervasive in Europe & the Arab world. Equally fashionable (and increasingly popular in Europe) is the slanderous identification of Israel with Nazism or the <i>"ethnic cleansing"</i> of the supposed palestinians. Americans 'occupy' so many streets shouting slogans of Jewish expulsion, This modernized version of inverted anti-Semitism which sails under the mask of <i><b>"anti-Zionism"</b></i> is today a global phenomenon, but it has special resonance in the Middle East as a result of the fraudulent <i>"Palestinian question."</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Yesterday, 7th November, was the Yahrzeit of <b>Hannah Szenes</b>, one of my childhood heroines. On November 7th, 1944 in Hungary, <b> Hannah </b>came up before a tribunal for trial, and with no legal assistance elegantly pleaded her own cause but was convicted as a <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>py,<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>sentenced to death and shot, aged only 22. Parachutist, Poetess & a Jew Girl!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Hannah Szenes</b> was born in Budapest on July 17th, 1921, to a wealthy, distinguished, and assimilated Hungarian Jewish family. Her father, <b>Bela Szenes</b> (1874-1929), an esteemed Hungarian playwright died when she was just six years old .... she grew up in his shadow to become one of Israel's most esteemed poetesses. Her works have been read throughout Israel and have inspired many to continue in the Zionist tradition of Aliyah, of building the Jewish State and eventually giving their lives for their Judaism. Hannah is no exception here. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Her mother, <b>Katharine</b>, a lady of culture and an elegant homemaker, raised her and her brother, <b>Giora,</b> who was one year older than Hannah, in relative affluence and comfort in Hungary. Little was heard about Judaism in their house. Although their family never denied their Jewishness, they paid no importance to Torah learning of doing Mitzvoh on a daily basis. Her father had in fact believed in Humanism and encouraged it, both in action and in speech. At an early age, Hannah stood out as an exemplary student. She was enrolled in a Prestigious Protestant girls' school and was quickly seen by her teachers and fellow students as being an exceptional student. In addition to her academic standing, she had a charming personality and admirable speaking abilities that made her friends among the staff and student body. She was elected to the school's Literary society as her grade representative and most excited about this. Unfortunately, the school rules barred a Jew from holding an office in the society. This was a very severe blow to Hannah. <br /><br />So, Hannah, having been given a modern Hungarian education, wasn't expecting the antisemitism she was exposed to during her high school years, but this propelled her to began an exploration of what it meant to be a Jew and return to her Jewish origins. At the age of seventeen, she discovered the Zionist movement, and increasingly came to feel<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>that there was no room in the Hungarian world for Jews. <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>he join<span style="font-size: small;">ed</span> a Zionist youth movement and began learning Hebrew in preparation for Aliyah to Eretz Ha'Kodesh. <br /><br />At the same time, Nazism was on the upturn and Europe was witnessing major Nazi aggression. In 1937, the question of <i><b>Anschluss</b></i>, the political unification of Germany and Austria was debated in Europe. Germany demanded the resignation of the Austrian Chancellor, <i>Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg</i>. Suddenly Germany invaded Austria compelling them to submit and Schuschnigg left Austria. These events caused tension to build indescribably in Hungary. It became the main topic of discussion. Shortly afterwards in 1938, the Hungarian parliament began a debate on the <b><i>"Jewish Law".</i></b> This became the Jewish Bill which reduced the ratio of Jewish representation in the various fields to a specific percentage. It also stated that the <i>"expansion of the Jews is detrimental to the nation and dangerous".<br /><br /></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />With this came the <i><b>'Arrow-Crossers'</b></i>, the young Hungarian Nazis who began to proliferate in the schools and streets. Although at this point they were not threatened, yet it was a sign of the Nazi influence in the daily life in Hungary. Again in 1938, the Nazi threat began to encroach on life in Europe as Hilter made his demand on Czechoslovakian Sudetenlands. British <i>Lord Chamberlain</i> entered into negotiations with him<span style="font-size: small;">, and</span> with the s<span style="font-size: small;">e</span>ccession of the Sudeten to Germany, Hungary began its own mobilization. As the second Jewish Law was announced in 1939, the numbers of Jews in all walks of Hungarian life were to be reduced even further. No Jew was allowed to be a member of the Parliament, a Judge, a lawyer, teacher ... the list goes on & on!! On February 1939, a bomb was thrown into the largest synagogue in Budapest during the Friday evening service resulting in deaths and many injuries. War was advancing in the world's most Cultured & Civilised Continent!<br /><br />As all of these tragic events were taking place, Hannah increased her identification with the Zionist movement as the only possible solution to European Jewry's problems. She was so Correct!! She took deep pride in being a Jew and prepared for her life in <i>"Palestine"</i>, as Eretz Israel was called before <span style="font-size: small;">I</span>ndependence. She defined Zionist in the words of Nachum Sokolov, the Zionist leader of that period, as <i>"the movement of the Jewish people for its revival." </i> She began to realize, that the only hope of lessening or ending anti-Semitism is to realize the ideals of Zionism. Only when Jews live in <span style="font-size: small;">their</span> own Jewish State, granted eternally to them by Ha'Shem Himself, with the ingathering of the exiles, could she exist without the cancerous anti-Semitism that she knew too well in Europe. <br /><br />In 1939, after finishing her high school studies, Hannah came to Eretz Yisrael to study at the girls agricultural school in <b>Nahalal</b>, continuing the diary that she had begun in Hungary. She threw herself into her chores & her studies and soon became an exemplary student yet again. Hebrew too soon became an important part of her life and she began to compose her poems in Hebrew. She relates that she only wished that she could find her chosen spouse, but although the boys were in amour of her, she only would maintain a platonic relationship with them, preferring to wait until the "right" person would come her way. She was now inbued with Zionist ideology, studying works of many of the various Zionist and Jewish thinkers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />Having completed a two-year course in <span style="font-size: small;">A</span>griculture, Hannah joined the<b> S<span style="font-size: small;">'</span>dot Yam kibbutz at Caesarea. </b>She worked in the kitchen and in the kibbutz laundry, and the difficulties that she encountered are echoed in her diary. She was given a tent and survived a difficult and freezing winter there. She lists as one of her accomplishments as washing 150 pairs of socks with out going mad. Eventually she was accepted as a member and was elected as the Supply Officer of the kibbutz. Her choice was motivated by the preference of maintaining an anonymous status, rather than being known as <i>"the daughter of Bela Szenes,"</i> something that would have been likely had she joined one of the kibbutz groups whose members were primarily of Hungarian origin. <br /><br />In 1940 she wrote her first poem in Hebrew<span style="font-size: small;"> .....</span><br /><br /><i>In the fires of war, in the flame, in the flare,<br />In the eye-blinding, searing glare<br />My little lantern I carry high<br />To search, to search for true Man.<br /><br />In the glare, the light of my lantern burns dim,<br />In the fire-glow my eye cannot see;<br />How to look, to see, to discover, to know<br />When he stands there facing me?<br /><br />Set a sign, O Lo-d, set a sign on his brow<br />That in heat, fire and burning I may<br />Know the pure, the eternal spark<br />Of what I seek: true Man.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At this time the war was raging in Europe and her heart was with her mother in Hungary and her brother who was in occupied France. A representative of the <b>Palmach, </b>the armed forces of the Jewish Agency contacted her concerning a mission in Hungary. The purpose of this was to organize and prepare the Jews for escape from the Inferno of Europe. Her answer was that she was ready. After a delay of several months she was accepted but her assignment required special training and enlistment in the British army. For this she was transferred to Egypt. Upon completion of her training she returned to Haifa where she met her brother, <b>Giora,</b> who finally was in Israel. Their reunion lasted for only one day.<br /><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In March of 1944, <b>Hannah </b>and her comrades were parachuted into Yugoslavia in order to aid the anti-Nazi forces until they would be able to commence their true mission and enter Hungary. Hannah was the only woman in a group of infiltrators. According to the reports that were given by her comrades, she was a compelling and reassuring force in the darkness during their hiding. Hiding in the forests with the partisans, she earned their respect and admiration. She was always enthusiastic and warm, radiating energy in the face of death. During this time she wrote one of her most famous poems, entitled </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blessed is the Match ......</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame<br />Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart<br />Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honour's sake<br />Blessed is the match consumed in kindling fame.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Nazi invasion of Hungary in March 1944 postponed their plans, and Szenes only crossed the border to her former motherland in June of that year. Captured within hours of having stepped on to Hungarian soil, she was sent to prison in Budapest where she was tortured by Hungarian authorities in the hope of receiving information regarding Allied wireless codes. Within days of entering Hungary, her two co-parachutists were also captured, unaware of Hannah's whereabouts. Only one of them-<b>Yoel Palgi</b>-was to survive the war. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When the Hungarian authorities realized that Hannah would not be broken, they arrested her mother and the two women came face to face with each other for the first time in almost five years. <b>Katherine Szenes</b> had no idea that her daughter had left Palestine-not to speak of the fact that she was now in Hungary. Initially shocked as they brought in the young woman with bruised eyes and who had lost a front tooth in the torture process, she rapidly regained her composure, and both mother and daughter refused to give the authorities the performance that would lead to the information they had sought. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For three months the two women were near yet far, sharing the same prison walls but unable to catch more than short glimpses of each other. In September 1944, after <b>Katharine Szenes</b> was suddenly released, she spent most of her waking hours seeking legal assistance for her daughter, who-being a Hungarian national-was to be tried as a spy. On November 7th, 1944 in Hungary, Hannah came up before a tribunal for trial, and with no legal assistance elegantly pleaded her own cause but was convicted as a Spy, sentenced to death and shot. Hannah went to her death at age twenty-two in a snow-covered Budapest courtyard, refusing a blindfold in order to face her murderers in the moments before her death. Her body was buried by unknown persons in the Jewish graveyard at Budapest. <br /><br />(<i>Katharine Szenes</i> who escaped from the infamous <i><b>Budapest "Death March,"</b></i> hid in that city until its liberation by the Soviet forces in January 1945. She made Aliyah to EY where she joined her surviving child, <b>Gior<span style="font-size: small;">a</span>,</b> she became an instrumental part of the Hannah Szenes legend, based on her daughter's courageous life. She brought to public knowledge by fifteen editions of her daughters diary, poetry, and plays, that have since been published in Hebrew. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In 1950 <b>Hannah Szenes' </b>remains were brought to Israel where they were buried in the <i>"Parachutists' section" </i>in the Military Cemetery on <b>Mt. Herzl </b>in Jerusalem. In the same year a Kibbutz was founded and called <b>Yad Hannah</b> in her memory.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>To Die ....<br /><br />To die… so young to die… no, no, not I.<br />I love the warm sunny skies,<br />Light, songs, shining eyes,<br />I want no war, no battle cry –<br />No, no…not I.<br />But if it must be that I live today<br />With blood and death on every hand,<br />Praised be He for the grace, I’ll say<br />To live, if I should die this day…<br />Upon your soil, my home, my land.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From Sundown, this Shabbat, 18th Cheshvan will be the 22nd Yahrzeit of <b>Rabbi Meir Kehane,</b> HY”D, Inspirational writer & founder of the <b><i>Jewish Defence League</i></b> and Israel’s <b><i>Kach Party</i></b>. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">With the motto of <b><i>"Never Again," </i></b>the stated goal of the <b>Jewish Defence League </b>was
to protect Jews from anti-Semitism in all its forms everywhere. In
1971, he moved his family to Israel, founding the <b>Kach <span style="font-size: small;">P</span>olitical <span style="font-size: small;">P</span>arty</b>,
and he was elected to the Knesset in 1984. In 1986, Kach was inexplicibly and treasonably declared to be a <i>"racist"</i> party by the Israeli government
and banned from the Knesset, and, in 1994, the movement was outlawed
completely. Kahane’s Knesset career was ended by section <i>7a of Basic
Law: The Knesset (1958): “Prevention of Participation of Candidates
List.” </i> <b>Unjust and Unbelievable!!<br /></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In 1990, following a speech in Manhattan Meir
Kahane was Murdered. The prime suspect, <i>El Sayyid Nosair,</i> was traitorously acquitted of murder but convicted on gun possession
charges<span style="font-size: small;">, of which he was </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">later convicted only as a result of his participation in the 1993 World Trade Cent<span style="font-size: small;">re</span> bombing. Kehane is buried in Jerusalem, where Memorial events will be held this coming Sunday in his Merit. May his Neshama receive an Aliyah!<br /><br />His very last speech, delivered on the night of November 5th, 1990 ~ Cheshvan, 18th, 5751, at the New York Marriott hotel, although more than 20 years old rings even more true today than then, and reads like words of Prophecy. I reproduce here in his honour .....<br /><br /><br /><i>"I was born in this country, and I can’t recall ever, in my life, as much
open and vicious Jew-hatred as I have seen in our time right now, in
this country. I travel around from city to city, and in every city Jews
tell me it is unbearable. Attacks upon synagogues, attacks upon Jews,
all of which are of course buried. Because the synagogue doesn’t want
it to be know. The ADL wants to report “there were 55 incidents this
year in the United States”, when actually, there were 55 incidents in
one hour in the United States. On radio programs which I am on – the
telephone calls – open, open (anti-Semitism).<br /><br /><b>Two Reasons for Increased Anti-Semitism</b></i>
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What has happened? What has happened in natural terms? Of course, in
divine terms, the Almighty is ending it for us. But what is happening
in natural terms? Two basic changes have taken place in this country
over the last twenty years. It began slowly, now it is reaching its
crescendo. We have seen the death of what I call the “Auschwitz
syndrome”. What is the “Auschwitz syndrome”? After World War II, it
was hard to be an anti-Semite, even for an anti-Semite. It was just
difficult. And then the years passed – ten years, twenty years,
twenty-five years, thirty years, and a generation arose which was not
born at that time. And the “Auschwitz syndrome” began to fade away, and
the guilt began to fade away. No matter how many Holocaust programs
were shown on television, every year they had less and less impact.
Indeed, they reach a point whereby they encourage anti-Semitism,
whereupon the anti-Semite says: “ Hey, you know, I know Jews, and the
Nazis, and they were probably right.” That’s what happens today. It
fades away. And to help things along, there was the rise of a strong
Israel. Suddenly, Israel was winning. And that allowed the anti-Semite
to cut the albatross. Now it was OK. You see, the Jew are Nazis, and
they persecute the Palestinians, and now it was OK. So the “Auschwitz
syndrome” faded, and it’s gone for all practical purposes. And you hear
people speak about the holocaust that the Israelis are perpetrating
upon the Palestinians. A Holocaust…So all the Israelis and all the Jews
who ever called me a Nazi and didn’t realize that when you call a Jew a
Nazi, you cheapen the Holocaust. And you cheapen the concept of Nazi,
which is a very unique thing. And by you calling a second Jew a Nazi,
what you are telling the world is” Jews can also be Nazis. Foolish
people and tiny dwarfs and pygmies, grasshoppers. </i>
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So the “Auschwitz syndrome” is gone. And another thing has happened.
After World War II, and until perhaps ten years ago, the American people
lived in an economic luxury such as we have not seen ever in world
history. No Roman emperor lived as well as the average American did
from World War II on, until fairly recently. Life was good. And when
life is good, the anti-Semite hates Jews quietly. It’s not a big deal
to him. He hates Jews, but he’s too interested in the Monday night
football game. I myself am amazed that so many people are here tonight
that don’t want to see the Giants massacre the Colts…<br /><br /><b>The Economic Crises</b></i>
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So when times are good and he has his job, he has his beer and he has
his TV set, he has everything – he hates Jews, but it’s not that
important to him. But as the economic sands of time begin to run out,
and as things get bad and they get worse and suddenly there is a chill,
there is a fear. I can sense a fear in this country – people are afraid
of what is going to happen, and they have every right to fear it. This
is a country which is on the verge of economic horror, horror. In two
years they expect the national debt to go from 3.7 trillion to 5
trillion dollars, so they work for months and months – this fiasco
between Congress and this administration – and they say, “we are going
to cut 500 million dollars in five years”. Five years! It is a joke –
It’s a drop in the bucket. This is a country which is dying because the
thing that was saving it was the fact that the Japanese are buying
Rockefeller Center, Rockefeller Plaza – don’t be angry. If they stopped
buying it, no one is going to cover the national debt. And they are
stopping. </i>
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The dollar is a weak dollar today. Can you imagine: The Israeli shekel
has held its own against the dollar now for a year. Don’t clap! It
doesn’t mean that the Israeli shekel is strong. The shekel is weak; the
dollar is just as weak. The Japanese don’t want dollars anymore, they
want German marks. And they’re investing now in South Korea, Thailand,
Singapore. The banks here are shaking, they’re tottering. In their
greed, in the 1960’s and 70’s, they gave loans to anybody. The Congo
came – you want money, take the money. Mexico came – take 100 million
dollars – take, take it, take. Suddenly, the Congo couldn’t pay back.
If that’s what a banker is…did he expect the Congo to ever pay back in
total? So hundreds of millions of bad loans are being held by major
banks: Chase Manhattan, Citicorp – and they are in deep, deep trouble
today. And on top of that, suddenly the real estate market has
collapsed and they are now holding several more hundred million dollars
of bad mortgages. That’s the tragedy. That’s why suddenly, there’s a
hurry talk bout Chase merging with City. </i>
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There’s a myth that your money is insured for $100,000. If the FDIC had
60 cents for every hundred dollars that you have, I’ll swim back to
Israel. There is a myth that they are going to bail out the Savings
& Loan with 40 billion dollars. If they can make it with less than
half a trillion, it will be a miracle.<br /><br />
So for years, the new economists said, “Don’t worry about deficits, it
doesn’t matter. Deficits don’t matter? I know that when my bank
account is in deficit, it matters to me. The bank calls me up and says,
“Rav Kahane, we have a little problem. Would you like to come and
cover it?” A city can go a little deeper into debt than I can, and a
state deeper yet, and a country can go a little deeper yet; but, in the
end you have to pay the piper. So, America has lived beyond its means –
extra credit, credit cards – and give anybody credit, give kids credit
cards – anybody. Now it’s time to pay the piper, there is no money,
there is no money. And should the economic collapse come it is the Jew
who will be blamed. It is the Jew. You can hear it already. You can
small it in the air. </i>
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The Racial tension – In all Colors<br /><br />
I was on a radio program in Chicago. Every single caller blamed the
Gulf oil crisis on the Jews. Every single call. What you have now is
the getting together of all these crises – the economic crisis, the
racial crisis – and there is a serious racial crisis in the country.
It’s a serious one. It is a dangerous one. Whites hate Blacks and
Blacks hate Whites and they both hate Jews. It is a terrible, terrible
thing. It’s not just Whites and Blacks. Now in the West, it’s the
Hispanics and the Anglos – tremendous crises, which only proves all the
more the myth of the melting pot. Uh nechtiga tag –what melting pot? A
melting pot is fine until there is a terrible crisis and then two
“objects’ occupy the same job at the same time. That’s a law of
physics, which I’ve changed a bit…</i>
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So it’s not an accident that Jesse Helms is now putting on TV ads
talking about the unfairness of quotas. Quotas are unfair. Of course,
that is his trump card. People are angry about quotas and affirmative
action, etc. And Blacks are angry. You think that Blacks have no
argument? You think they are all bad? – that everything the Blacks do
is wrong? You think that Bob Grant is your kind of guy? G-d forbid!
This Jew-hating fascist type. That he says something good many, many
times –you’re right. You think that bad people don’t often say correct
things? Of course they do – but watch him, watch him and be careful of
such people! People who are anti-Black will always be anti-Jewish too.
One doesn’t have to love Farrakhan or Jesse Jackson to realize that he
should be careful of racism of all kinds – White and Black – be careful,
because we get stuck in the middle. Because the Whites and Blacks hate
us both.</i>
<i><br /><br /><b>The Pre-War Depression: Not a Criteria</b><br /><br />
We have a serious problem – the economic crisis cannot be averted. There
is no way. This country is in for terrible, terrible times. People
tell me in the depression it was also bad. It’s true. But first of
all, who knows what would have happened in this country if World War II
had not ended the depression? If you think that Roosevelt ended it, you
don’t know history. World War II ended it. It gave jobs finally, but
more to the point, it was a different era back then. The American
people at that time were a much stronger people in character. Today,
after 40-50 years of good life and soft life, and the materialistic
life, people are into themselves. Unbelievable ego. Everything is me,
me – my life, my body, my-me, my-mine. People are incapable today of
making sacrifices and that’s the great, great difference between today
and what happened in the depression. The person who is fairly poor and
gets poorer – not so terrible. The person who has it and lost it becomes
a wild animal, a raging animal. He’ll not accept it and will look for a
scapegoat. He’ll look for some target to blame. We Jews are the most
visible, the most highly visible in terms of power, in terms of money.
Of course, Wasps have more money than Jews have. Certainly, Jews are
not into U.S. Steel and banking and so on, and the real, real money is
not Jewish money, but that doesn’t matter because Jews are in those
professions that are most visible.</i>
<i><br /><br /><b>How to Gauge anti-Semitism: Go to a Bar</b></i>
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So in the bars, it sits the jealousy and the envy of the Jews which
leads to hate. The tragedy as I’ve said a million times is that the
average Jewish leader in this country has no idea what people say ago
about Jews in bars, because the average Jew doesn’t go into a bar – and
he should; he should be compelled to go into a bar. Every rabbi before
getting “smicha”, before being ordained, should be compelled to go into a
bar and find out what the real world is like. It isn’t a joke. I’m
serious. To hide in some little ghetto, you never know what the world
is. They hate us with a passion out there, with a virulence which is
frightening to see and to hear. On every radio program I go on, I hear,
“why should we give you guys three billion dollars a year”? Anytime
some fellow from the Israeli consulate is asked that question, he comes
up with the answer, “well, we help you too, etc.” Baloney! The only
way to get rid of that question is to answer as I do, “I don’t want the
money! I want Israel to be a free enterprise state and allow private
enterprise to flourish and then we don’t want your money, I don’t want
your charity.” So, that of course gets rid of the question, but it
doesn’t get rid of the anti-Semite. He’ll go home mutter in his beer
and pretzels. He’s still there. He’s still there.</i>
<i><br /><br /><b>Role of the Prophet – To See It and say It</b></i>
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The rabbis tell us that G-d told Moses and Aaron. “I’ll make you Jewish
leaders on one condition that if they throw stones at you, you’ll
accept it.” Rather to be pelted with stones and not with dollars.
That’s what a Jewish leader has to be! Say the bitter truth, even
though they won’t like you. They won’t like you; they’ll attack you,
but tell the Jews the truth if you love them. If you love Jews, tell
them the things which will make them angry, but which can save their
lives. That’s what you have to do! Think carefully about what I’m
saying, and that is why we created this group called ZEERO, Zionist
Emergency Evacuation Rescue Organization. It’s a name that provokes.
And we hope that as we spread this idea it will provoke Jewish leaders
to attack so we can debate the controversy that arises. People will say
he’s right; he’s wrong, and so on. Of course, this is probably the
worst thing you can ever tell any Jewish leader, any Federation leader –
that he should leave here, and go to Israel. What’ill do there? . </i>
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The rabbis say: “Who is wise? He who sees the future”. It’s no big deal to see “today.” A Jewish leader has to see tomorrow. <br /></i><i><br /><b>Living in Israel – Difficult; Living Elsewhere – Impossible!</b></i>
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It is coming here! It is coming here! Friday night I spoke in Brooklyn
in shul, and I had to walk through Bensonhurst, a white neighborhood –
nice people, because they’re white…Watching the people, the kids, you
can smell the violence, you can see the hate, you can see the envy –
frustrated, bored, looking for action. You can see it. Those are the
potential mobs. And G-d forbid, we will see it. So ZEERO is a very
serious project of Kach, and I mean a serious one. And I know how hard
it is to go to Israel – it is really hard. Hard to make a living. My
son goes into the army every single year. It’s dangerous and so on.
All of it is true. Everything that’s all true. That’s all true. It’s
hard to live in Israel, but it will be impossible to live here, and if
we go to Israel, at least there we can change the country. Of course we
can change it and make it better and make it tremendous and make it
safe. Of curse we can do that if we have the power in the government,
but here there is nothing you can do to change it, it’s out of our
hands. We are a minority and we are strangers here. We’re stranger in
this land, no matter how many years we’ve been here.<br /><br />
It’s not an accident that so few German Jews survived the camps. The
Polish Jew did better. Why? Because the Polish Jew wasn’t surprised.
It didn’t shock him that gentiles could behave like this. It didn’t
surprise him, so he wasn’t shattered inside, he wasn’t’ broken. But the
German Jew was psychologically shattered. How could this be? I’m a
German. I’m a German. How could it be? How can you do this to me? The
Pole knew he was a Jew. The German was broken because his whole
illusion was shattered. And that’s how the American Jew lives. “I’m an
American”. It’s the gentile who will teach you so quickly that you’re a
Jew.</i>
<i><br /><br />It’s no just in the bars, in the working class bars the anti-Semitism
that you see. When you see the news media and their attitude towards
Israel; it’s not anti-Israel – it’s anti-Semitism. Do you know why they
hate Jews? Because among intellectuals there is a jealousy of Jews.
When Truman Capote, the famous author, a sickness, a disease who
represents all that is sick about Western culture – when he spoke about
the publishing business being a Jewish mafia – you can see the jealousy.
[He writes] how Jews are over represented in publishing, in broadcast,
in movies, etc. Of course it’s so – they have talent. Untalented
people don’t like to think it is because of talent. They like to think
they run it because their friends, their uncles, their aunts and so on
and so forth. The hate runs across the board. You can see Peter
Jennings’ anti-Semitism. You can see it! And when I hold press
conferences in Israel and I see them sitting around, you can watch them
all – the hatred".</i>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This Shabbat, Saturday, the <b>11th day of Cheshvan</b> in the Hebrew calendar, is traditionally observed as the Yahrzeit of <b>Rachel Immeniu</b>, marking the anniversary of her death some 3,600 years ago. Rachel's husband Yaakov buried her on the side of the road, and according to the prophet Yerimayhu, Rachel later wept as <i><b>"her children"</b></i> were exiled from the land of Israel. Rachel was Ya<span style="font-size: small;">akov</span>'s most beloved wife and was the principal of his household and thus the principal of the entire house of Israel. Thus, Rachel is considered a special figure for Segulot & Davening. <b>'Mama Rochel'</b> is such a special lady that not only do we light a yahrzeit candle in her honour ~ it is a Mitzvah to honour our parents ~ but we commemerate the 11th of Chesvan as Jewish Mothers Day in her honour and we recommit to her guidance in our lives as Jewish <span style="font-size: small;">women.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">From the first day of the year, the 1st day of Tishrei, the 11th day of Cheshvan is the 41st day. 41 is the numerical value of the Hebrew word <i>"eim,"</i> which means <i>"mother,"</i> thus the 11th of Cheshvan is truly the <b>Jewish Mother's Day</b>. Also , it is significant that conception is actualised in Shamayim as a reality on the 40th day from conception. This is the day the soul enters the child and the 'sex' is determined. This is also the day the bashert , or life 'match' or partner ~ of the same neshama ~ is chosen in Shamayim. It is the day the pregnancy ~ <span style="font-size: small;">life is breathed into the e<span style="font-size: small;">mbryo</span> & it becomes a <span style="font-size: small;">fetus</span> ~ </span> is actualised and acknowledged in Judaism. <br /><br />The figure of our matriarch Rachel is the one most associated in Kabbalah with the building of Jewish nature, the inbred character of an individual who walks willingly and naturally in the Ha'Shems Derech. Jewish nature and character, best exemplified by the patriarchs and matriarchs, calls upon an individual to perform G‑d's will out of his or her own accord, a state described by the sages as <i>"acting without dictation [from Above]."</i> Just as our matriarch Ahava, <i>"the mother of all life,"</i> is the mother of human nature, so our matriarch <b>Rachel</b> is the mother of our unique Jewish nature. The month of Cheshvan is thus the time to recommit to our mother's guidance and reconstitute our Jewish nature and character.<br /><br />And so, at least 100,000 Jews ~ mostly women ~ are expected to visit <b>Kever Rachel </b> ~ Rachel's Tomb ~ this weekend. Her burial site, located between Y'rushalayim and Beit l'chem, has been venerated by Jews for centuries. Rachel's tomb is Judaism's third-holiest site, has been the scene of prayer and pilgrimage for more than three thousand years. In 1622, the Ottoman governor of Jerusalem permitted Jews to build walls and a dome over the grave, and they still stand today .... although further fortified and enclosed today. <br /><br />Rachel constantly mourns over the exile of her children, the Jewish people, in fact, Rachel lost her own spiritual luxury ~ She gave up her place next to her husband a second time when, instead of a burial spot in the family plot in Hevron, she accepted a lonely burial, on the side of a deserted road. She did this in order to be there for her children who would live tens of centuries later ....... Rachel is the quintessential Jewish mother, sacrificing for our well-being and security. This feeling of limitless love and motherly concern is what draws people to her tomb to this day. In addition, Rachel herself was childless for many years before she was granted children. Women who are suffering from infertility, in particular, travel to her tomb to pray.<br /><br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Rachel</b>, the beloved wife of the third Patriarch, <b>Ya'acov</b>, actually died in child birth on the way to Hevron returning to his family's home. They set out from <b>Bayt-El,</b> but when they were still some distance from Efrat, Rachel went into childbirth, and she had hard labour. When her labour was at it's hardest, the midwife said to her, <i>"Have no fear, for it's a living child you bear, another boy for you." </i>But as she breathed her last, as she was dying, she named him <i>Ben-Oni,</i> but his father called him <b>Benyamin</b>. So Rachel died. She was buried on the road to <b>Efrat</b> ~ now <b>Beit l'chem.</b> Over her grave Ya'acov set up a pillar, it is the pillar at Rachel's grave to this day. ~ Torah, Parshat Vayishlach ~ Bereshis 35:16-21 ~<br /><br /><br />Ya'acov buried Rachel at this spot, rather than a the family burial plot at the Cave of the Patriarchs in He<span style="font-size: small;">v</span>ron, (which has incidentally also been declared a 'mosque' by the <span style="font-size: small;">UN</span>) because he foresaw that his descendants would pass this site during the the forced exile to Babylon in the year 423 B.C.E. And then Rachel would pray for their safety and ultimate return, as it's written ~ Rachel, weeping for her children, she refuses to be comforted for her children who are gone. Thus said HaShem ~ <i>'Restrain your voice from weeping, your eyes from shedding tears for there is reward for your labour' </i>declares HaShem. <i>'They shall return from the enemy's land and there is hope for the future'</i> declares HaShem 'Your children shall return to their own country' ~ Yiramiyahy 3:15-17 ~<br /><br />So Ya'acov set up a monument over her lonely grave site so that exiled Jews would recognize it and pray and be comforted as they were being led into captivity. Ancient writings describe the grave marker as 12 stones that represented the 12 tribes of Israel with one large stone that symbolized Ya'akov.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> From the Byzantine period until the 1800's Rachel's Tomb consisted of a tiny domed structure. It was Sir Moses Montifeori who renovated the Tomb in 1841 and added on an anteroom and enclosed the dome over the grave marker so that pilgrims could find shelter from the elements. The town of Bethlehem has grown several fold and where once Mother Rachel's Tomb was in an open area on the road side, today it stands in the centre of the town with one of the main streets passing right next to it.<br /><br />Since 1948 Muslims have created their own cemetery surrounding the building on three sides. For political purposes, Muslims claim that Rachel's Tomb is one of their burial plots and that it contains a Muslim notable rather than Mother Rachel. This is absolute hogwash ..... it is a fabrication made up after the Jewish State of Israel was declared & stands alongside that other fiction, the <i>'palestinian' </i>people!!<br /><br /> This land has treasonably been granted to Arafat & the 'palestinian' people. The tomb has been enlarged & encased for it's protection as we see in the modern photograph above. The new Rachel's Tomb consists of the previous structure housed within the expanded and reinforced edifice. New additions include the 2 guard towers in the above picture. This new Rachel's Tomb complex is a modern and stately building that has been designed to protect the tomb and those inside, yet it's interior retains the intimacy and unique serenity that has been characteristic of Rachel's Tomb.<br /><br />Tens of thousands of Jews will today visit Rachel's Tomb to mark the Matriarch's Yartheit The tomb is located within Bethlehem city limits, but remained under Israeli control when the rest of Bethlehem was transferred to Palestinian Authority control. Journalist Nadav Shragai, writing for Yisrael Hayom, noted that Muslims living in the land of Israel have historically referred to Rachel's Tomb as “Kubat Rahel,” the Arabic term for “Rachel's Tomb.”<br /><br />Rachel's Tomb is a living symbol of Ha'Shem's promise to Rachel that her children will return to the Land Of Israel. Jewish life today thrives in Rachel's Tomb. In these days, despite the on-going war of attrition people still go to recite Tehillim, daven and learn Torah. Classes by renowned Jewish speakers are held there. Rachel's Tomb has also become a place of joy as Britot and Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebrations are held within it's walls. The Committee For Rachel's Tomb is sponsoring the Rachel's Tomb Educational Centre which reaches out to the thousands of teenagers visiting Israel and to Israeli students, teaching Jewish heritage through the legacy of the Matriarch Rachel and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.<br /><br />And Ha'Shem answered Rachel's tears .... <b><i>"Restrain your voice from weeping,</i></b> <i>"Hold back your eyes from their tears. For your work has its reward and your children shall return to their border." </i><br />~ Y<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">i</span>rmiayhau</span> 31.16 ~ </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> <i>" I woke up to blasts, held my baby close. We hear sirens and wonder what'll happen ~ this is our reality".</i> </b> ~ Ashkelon business owner staying by shelter for safety ~ </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><br />Since this morning, Hamas, the <i>'palestinian'</i> terrorist Government of the
Gaza Strip has fired 78 missiles into the civilian South of Israel,
injuring 5 people, 2 of them critically. School has been cancelled and 1 million residents have been instructed to remain in sheltered places. A House on Kibbutz Reim suffered a direct hit, and several others have been damaged. Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich of the IDF Spokesman’s unit informs that Two foreign nationals ~ Thai farm
workers from the Kissufim area ~ were critically wounded by rocket fire
and three or four additional civilians are suffering from lighter
injuries. Dozens more, especially children, have been traumatised and are suffering PTSD symptoms. The Home Front Command has ordered all civilians in the region to stay
near their air-raid shelters and safe rooms as, due to their proximity
to the Gaza Strip, they have only 15 seconds in which to find cover. <br /><br /><b>Lt. Col. Leibovich</b> of the IDF stressed that all the targets of today’s rocket fire into Israel were, once again, civilian targets including small agricultural
communities. She also noted that the majority of the rocket fire took
place ~ as is frequently the case ~ during the early morning when
children are on their way to school and adults travelling to work. Property damage was widespread, with at least one home sustaining a
direct hit. The explosion occurred several feet from a man and wife who
were eating breakfast, but the angle of the rocket caused the shrapnel
to fly in the opposite direction, sparing the couple from injuries. All
schools and kindergartens in the area are closed. Traffic is being reported as unusually light in the city. <br /><br /> The Iron Dome missile defence system intercepted seven rockets fired from Gaza this Wednesday morning towards the southern port city of Ashkelon. Thirteen more rockets caused widespread damage locally where they fell. On Wednesday afternoon, the Iron Dome system near Ashkelon intercepted another Grad Katyusha missile, the eighth to be destroyed in less than 24 hours. Gaza terrorists fired a barrage of eight rockets and mortar shells at
the Ashkelon Regional Council district between noon and 1:30 p.m., but
miraculously no one was physically injured in the attack. Numerous
residents, however, were traumatized by th<span style="font-size: small;">is</span> terror, and those
who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from
previous attacks had symptoms triggered by the barrage. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Lt. Col. Leibovich</b> also gave details of the IDF’s responses to the rocket attacks ..... At midnight last night the IDF targeted a rocket-launching squad comprising three Hamas terrorists.
At 5 a.m. this morning the IDF targeted another squad which had just launched a rocket.
At 7 a.m. the IDF targeted a rocket launching site: one of the pits dug
by the terrorists in which the rocket-launcher is placed. And at 8:20 a.m. the IDF targeted a weapons smuggling tunnel and other sites in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF’s retaliatory strikes killed at least one
terrorist, the day after three others were struck down by aerial
bombings.
Throughout the morning, Israeli aircraft again raided northern Gaza,
targeting a "terror tunnel" and other sites, as ground troops fired at
"terror activity sites" in some cases with tank shells. The IDF continues to retaliate, but officers readily admit they cannot
prevent a massive onslaught of rockets, unless the military carries out a
large-scale operation and possibly a ground incursion of Gaza. My only response to this is ....... <b>WHAT ARE THEY WAITING FOR?????? </b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><br /><b>Operation Cast Lead II is Long Overdue........ These Attacks are<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Acts of War. Accordingly, War needs to be declared on these terrorists<span style="font-size: small;">!!</span></span></span></b><br /><br /><br /><b>Defence Minister Ehud Barak</b></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> issued the usual warnings to Hamas that if
it does not cease firing, it will bear the consequences. But, he did not
spell out what measures would be taken, but ground invasions, such as
that in the Operation Cast Lead operation four years ago, have been the
only vehicle to curtail rocket attacks. After each withdrawal, the attacks resume, whether immediately or
several weeks later, as has been the experience since the government
expelled all Jews from Gaza and withdrew all military personnel in the
summer of 2005. And today's attacks and counter–attacks are the largest surge in violence since June. The latest escalation began on Tuesday evening, shortly after the end of
a high-profile visit to Gaza by the emir of Qatar, who was the first
foreign leader to visit Gaza since Hamas ousted Fatah leaders from the
area five years ago.
He brought with him $250 million earmarked for public projects, but
said, <i>“We would be happy if Gaza is built up and produces jobs". </i>It is unthinkable that the emir of Qatar can come and give millions of
dollars and they shoot rockets as a result. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</b>, today toured an Iron Dome battery near Ashkelon. During the tour he made the
following remarks .... <i>"We neither chose nor initiated this escalation but if it
continues we are prepared for much more extensive and deeper action. In
any case, we will continue with preventative operations. Whoever intends to attack Israeli citizens needs to know that he will bear the consequences. Today, I decided to accept a joint recommendation, along with
Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Home Front Defense Minister Avi Dichter,
to complete the protection for residents of the south. As you know, we
are protected up to 4.5 kilometers from the border with the Gaza Strip
and we are protected up to a range of 7 kilometers thanks to Iron Dome
batteries like the one you see here behind me, and we will continue to
add Iron Dome batteries, which are operating very well. On the seam
between 4.5 kilometers of full protection and the 7 kilometers afforded
by Iron Dome, there is an area in which only educational institutions
are protected, and I have decided today – following the staff work that I
received – to adopt protection for this entire area, between 4.5 and 7
kilometers, and thus we will complete the defense of the residents of
the south."</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Why do the IDF continually supply Gaza with Food and every requirement for<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>life ??????</b><br /><br />Different tactics
now need to be tried. Like turning off the electric supply to Gaza. Like
turning off the water supply. It is supplied by Israel. Like enforcing a
total embargo by land and by sea. Nothing goes in, nothing goes out. By
shutting down access to the Temple Mount to Arabs in Israel. By putting the PA hierarchy in
Ramallah under seige. By assassinating the Hamas leadership, one after
the next after the next. Same with convicted Arab prisoners held in
Israeli jails. By returning Israeli's to their surrendered homes in Gush
Katif and other sites in Gaza. And most of all be resuming the "ground operations" it successfully engaged in 2008's <b>'Operation Cast Lead'</b>. It's time for Cast Lead II<span style="font-size: small;"> to commence.</span><br /><br />Why are <i>'palestinian</i>' supplies allowed in to Gaza? Why are <i>"ambulances"</i> allowed out? This happened this afternoon with two Gaza residents attending appointments in Israeli hospitals for treatments. Who knows what they are capable of carrying into Israeli cities. Why allow it??</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><br />And of course the world's media are reporting it under the headline <i><b>"Israel strikes Gaza in response to rockets",</b></i> which gives the impression Israel is the aggressor. What else??? </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">She has such natural beauty, she could pass for a movie star.</span><br />
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smiles, her demeanour relaxed. In normal times, this young woman would
surely have enjoyed a bright and happy future, perhaps with a husband,
children, grandchildren.</span><br />
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These are AMAZING Pictures .... Hitler's photographer <b>Hugo Jaeger </b>took
these photographs in a disused sugar factory turned makeshift <b>Ghetto </b>in the<i> Polish
town of Kutno</i> at various times in 1939 and 1940, although he is usually is
associated with depicting the <i>'glory'</i> of the third reich. This local
ghetto was liquidated in early spring of 1942 and most of the Jews here
pictures were gassed in <b>Auschwitz</b>. Poland's Jewry & Culture are no more today .... So this is a Sad & Special Posting!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Hugo Jaeger</b>'s photographs normally celebrate the glory and triumphalism of the <i>Third Reich </i>yet the remarkable colour images I have reproduced here were
taken by the Führer’s personal photographer, a loyal follower given
unprecedented access to the <b>Third Reich</b>’s elite. <b>Hugo Jaeger</b> was allowed
to travel with Hitler to record his appearances at rallies, intimate
parties and in private moments. More usually he dedicated himself to
lionising his leader and what the Nazis regarded as their most
triumphant moments. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here,
it appears, he seems simply to have been fascinated by faces from a
different faith in a country under siege. He is said not to have shared Hitler’s unqualified hatred of Jews. Hence, whether he intended it or
not, Jaeger’s camera captured an atmosphere rarely seen before horror
and carnage overtook it. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Kutno,</i></b> 75 miles west of <b>Warsaw</b>, had
been bombarded and turned into a ghetto soon after Hitler’s invasion in
September 1939.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">After so many years, it is impossible
to know for certain why so many people in the photographs are smiling.
None appears to have been forced to pose, none seems to display any
fear. Its sugar factory would be surrounded by barbed wire and used to imprison 8,000 Jews, crammed into appalling conditions. Some would die of infection or starvation. Others would not live through the bitter cold of the winter. The ghetto existed until 1942, when most of its surviving inhabitants were sent to death camps. To the best of my knowledge no one in these pictures survived the horrors of the War.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Incredibly, these photographs did. The <b>Kutno</b> ghetto was <i>‘liquidated’</i> as
part of the Final Solution in the spring of 1942. In 1945, as the
Allies advanced into Germany, <b>Jaeger </b>knew he would be arrested and tried
as a war criminal if he was caught with so many intimate photos of the
defeated Führer. So after secreting them, initially in a
leather suitcase, he buried them in airtight glass jars outside Munich,
returning from time to time to check they were safe. Two decades after the war ended, he sold them to <b>Life magazine</b> in 1965. Now, the pictures have gone <i><b>online at
Life.com</b></i>. Despite attempts to identify some of the subjects, no record
was ever found of the smiling young woman or any of the citizens depicted here. Historians said it would be astonishing if she or any had survived. At least the camera immortalised them. These
photos have been released to mark the official establishment of the
Warsaw Ghetto in October 1940 and the entire set are on display at Life.com <a href="http://life.time.com/history/world-war-ii-color-photos-from-nazi-occupied-poland-1939-1940"> HERE!!</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Watch with me ......<span style="font-size: small;"> Eac<span style="font-size: small;">h Photograph is <span style="font-size: small;">indi<span style="font-size: small;">vidually captioned!<br /><b><br /><br />CLICK ON THE IMAGES FOR FULL RESOLUTION & CLARITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An elderly man with a yellow Star ~ denoting Jew fixed to his chest, speaks
with German officers as he and other Jews are Rounded up!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In their tattered rags the two boys smile for the camera, but the man in
the centre, most probably their father, has a look of distrust etched
across his face for the foreign camera</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">These young Jewish girls couldn't possibly have imagined the horrors
that lay ahead as they pose outside their tent in another haunting
photograph taken by the ardent <b>Nazi Hugo Jaeger</b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jewish inhabitants of the <b>Kutno Ghetto</b> stand near a car which has been converted into a makeshift house in early 1940</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">An elderly Jewish woman bends over her stove while a man, his Star badge clearly visible, watches over her in the Kutno Ghetto</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">While most Jaeger's photographs focus on the glory and
triumphalism of the Reich, here he
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women do not, at first glance, appear anything like Jaeger's other subjects. But look closer and
you find their star as on the coat of the girl on the left</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">In 1942, as part of Hitler's 'final solution' the Nazis began Operation
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">No one in the above pictures survived. All perished in Auschwicz. All Statistics ~ Some of Six Million!<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have blogged very regularly about the captivity of <b>Gilad Shalit</b> since I first became aware of his kidnapping & continuing captivity sometime in early 2007, the year after his abduction. I blogged every birthday and the anniversary of his kidnap. Also annually on Pesach (<b><i>Pidyon Shvuyim</i>) </b>because it was always appropriate and on 4th July anniversaries, because it was not only Independance Day in America, but because it was the anniversary of <i><b>Operation Thunderbolt</b></i>, when the IDF rescued more than 100 of our people held hostage at Entebbe Airport in Uganda. It seemed a similar scenario to me and I always likened the two. It makes me Smile today to Salute the first anniversary of his release and return home, B"H!!<br /><b><br />And </b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>S</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>gt </b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gilad Shalit was </b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Released exactly One Year Ago today</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b> ~ 18th October, 2011.</b><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Gilad (19 at the time of his abduction, 25 at the time of his
release) was born on August 28, 1986. The son of <b>Aviva and Noam
Shalit</b>, brother to Yoel and Hadas and both an Israeli and French
citizen. Gilad was kidnapped when his army unit was attached by Hamas
terrorists on June 25th, 2006. Gilad was born in Nahariya but was raised from the age of two in Mitzpe
Hila in the western Galilee. He graduated with distinction from the
science class of Manor Kabri High School and began his military
service about a year before his abduction ~ at the end of July 2005.
Despite a low medical profile, he preferred to serve in a combat unit,
and followed his elder brother Yoel into the Armoured Corps.<br /><br />On June 25th, 2006, Shalit, then a corporal, was captured in a cross border
raid near the Kerem Shalom crossing to the Gaza Strip by palestinian
terrorists and was held hostage by Hamas since that time until this day last year. During
the attack, in which the terrorists dug underneath the border before
emerging and subsequently spraying automatic fire and grenades, two IDF
soldiers (</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pavel Slutsker </b>and <b>Chanan Barak</b>, z'l) were killed and three
other soldier were also wounded. Gilad too was wounded when captured. <br /><br />The IDF released this statement on his capture ..... <i>"At 5:40 AM, a squad of terrorists from the Hamas and Popular Resistance
Committee organizations, infiltrated into Israeli territory in the area
of the Kerem Shalom and Sufa border crossings through a tunnel that was
dug from the area of Rafah. The terrorists, under cover of mortar and
anti-tank missile fire, attacked a number of military targets, among
them a tank. IDF forces immediately responded in force, from which at
least two of the terrorists were killed. This terror attack was perpetrated with help from Hamas generals and
had the go ahead from the Hamas leadership. The IDF subsequently holds
the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas as responsible for this
dastardly attack and for the fate of the kidnapped soldier".</i>
<br /><br />The IDF immediately launched </span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Operation Summer Rains</b></i> in which
infantry units advanced into Gaza in an attempt to secure the release
the immediate release of Shalit. The operation though was unsuccessful
and within a matter of weeks the Hezbollah abduction of soldiers <b>Ehud
Goldwasser</b> and <b>Eldad Regev</b> into Lebanon turned Israel's attention to
their northern flank. Israel initially stated that it would not
negotiate for the release of Shalit, but international intervention from
Egypt, Germany and the European Union resulted in eventual efforts to work out an
exchange deal. <br /><br />On August 28th, 2011, Israel marked Shalit's twenty-fifth birthday, his
sixth in captivity. In anticipation of his birthday, Shalit's
parents ~ who had begun camping outside the Prime Minister's residence
in Jerusalem as a sign of public protest more than a year earlier in
2010 ~ released a letter they hoped would reach Gilad. In the letter, his parents wrote, <i>"You must believe that we do not forget you, we do
not forget the fact that next Sunday you will be 25 years old, that this
is your sixth birthday in captivity, that more than a fifth of your
young life has been spent in a dungeon, a Hamas pit."</i><br /><br />The last sign of life released by Hamas had been in October 2009 when
the terrorist organization released a video of the soldier in which
a gaunt & subdued Shalit could be seen reading a written message that called on Prime
Minister Netanyahu to do everything in his power to free him. Hamas shrank from providing any other
proof that Shalit was still alive despite repeated requests to do so.</span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Finally, on October 11th, 2011, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
announced the signing of an exchange deal to secure
the release of Shalit. Put together with help from German mediators and
the Egyptian government, the deal stipulates that Israel will release
1,027 <span style="font-size: small;">p</span>alestinian prisoners in a staggered move over the following
months. The Government approved the agreement by a large majority in its
Cabinet of 26 ministers in favour and 3 against. So, one Jewish life is worth 1,000 arab lives ..... and it was they who set this perameter. Israel must remember it for the future!<br /><br />During the discussions outlines were heard by the heads of the
security services<span style="font-size: small;">, </span>Director of the Shin Bet Yoram Cohen, Chief of Staff
Benny Gantz, Director of the Mossad Tamir Pardo. and the Prime
Minister's special envoy to the negotiations David Meidan<span style="font-size: small;">, </span>presented the agreement and its various aspects
and expressed their support in it. But, the decision to release mass murderers of Jews & Israeli's who would return to their genocidal goals upon release was a bitter and rancorous one. And, Prime Minister </span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Benyamin Netanyahu</b> acknowledged<i> ..... "This is a difficult
decision to make, but a leadership is examined in moments like these, in
its ability to make difficult decisions. I am bringing Gilad Shalit
home, to his parents Noam and Aviva, his brother Yoel, his sister Hadas,
his grandfather Zvi, and the people of Israel."</i><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">In the early afternoon of October 18th, 2011, One year ago today, Sergeant Gilad Shalit was set
free and returned to Israel and his waiting parents after 1,940 days in
Hamas captivity.
Preliminary medical and psychological exams were performed on Shalit at
an IDF base in the south of the country and he was deemed healthy and
strong enough to meet his parents and travel home. Shalit was promoted to the rank of Sergeant first class, his Freedom purchased. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Gilad is the first captured Israeli soldier to be released alive in 26 years.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />I think the photographs above show the effect of his year at home ..... <b>Shalom Gilad Shalit!!!!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Reviving <b>Music Monday </b>for today (at least!). Music is Special to the Soul ... a language that connects wordlessly ..... Sometimes! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And for today ... A Song & A Story. I've wanted to tell this tale for quite some time now .... I've saved it in my store for someday. That day is today. It is an amazing tale, a true tale, turned to tune by <i><b>Yaakov Shwekey</b></i> (whom I love musically too!). <i><b>Rabbi Lazer Brody</b></i> ran a new video of the song last week & that prompted me to use it and also tell this tale out loud at last ....... it needs telling for sure & not only in a blog. I'm going to try do something too, maybe some travels & a book!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Video below is the most amazing song ~ <b>'Shema Yisroel' by <i>Yaakov Shwekey ~ </i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This legend is attributed to <b>R' Yosef Kahaneman zt'l, the Ponevezhe Rov</b>, (Of Blessed Memory), who saved orphaned Jewish children from catholic orphanages
after the close of World War II. <span style="font-size: small;">It has been told countless times already, and <b>Rav Kahaneman</b> </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">was suddenly brain illuminated knowing full well that the <b>Sh'ma</b> would remain embedded in a Jewish child's mind long after other memories faded. This is how Ha'Shem works in our world ..... touching us, Suddenly!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The <b>Sh'ma</b> is an affirmation of <b>Judaism</b> and a declaration of faith in One G*d. The obligation for each of us to recite the <b>Sh'ma</b> is separate from the obligation to pray and a Jew is obligated to say <b>Sh'ma</b> in the morning and at night (apart from daily davening) and it is the last word to leave our lips before we die. And generally the first words we remember our Ima whisper to our ears as we go to sleep as tiny girls or boys .....boys begin to daily davening including recitation of the Sh'ma at three years old!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">During World War II, countless Jewish
parents gave their children to xtian neighbours or 'friends', or orphanages and
convents in the hopes of saving them. The parents expected that they, or
their relatives, would claim them back if they survived the war, but when Rabbis or relatives finally tracked down the children, the priests and
nuns who had been their caretakers insisted that <i>no children from Jewish homes were in their institutions</i>.
Thus, they were not only stripped of their entire families, they were
also stripped of their real souls. Jewish Neshamot. Their whole identities .... Many remain hidden to this day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The legend tells us that after the Shoah, <b>Rov Yosef Kahaneman</b>, himself a Shoah Survivor,
began searching for the Jewish children who had survived the war.
He learned that many Jewish children had been placed in various monasteries,
so he approached the priest or person in charge of each, and asked that the Jewish
children be released into their care. The priests ALL responded, <i>"You must have documentation".</i>
But the kind of documentation that the priest wanted was unobtainable
at the end of the war. He then asked to see the list of names of
children in the monastery and as they read the list, pointed to names
that belonged to Jewish children. <i>"I'm sorry," </i>the priest said, <i>"Miller
is a German name, and Markovich is a Russian name, and Swersky is a
Polish name. You can't prove that these are Jewish children and if you
can't prove which children are Jewish, and do it very quickly, you will
have to leave".</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><br /></i>You see <b>pope pius XII </b>had issued an edict that children, Jewish children, once <b><i>'baptised'</i></b> to become xtian could no longer be returned or raised by their Jewish families in complete concordance with catholic law. It
is estimated that thousands of Jewish children were left with xtian
monasteries or families by their Jewish parents during the Holocaust,
in the hope that they would thus survive the war. However, many of these
children were never claimed, returned or told of their Jewish
background because of their secret <b><i>'baptism</i></b>'.</span></span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A letter from <b>pope pius XII </b>to his representative in
Paris on November 20th, 1946, shows that he ordered Jewish babies baptized
during the Holocaust not to be returned to their parents. The recipient
of the letter, <b>Angelo Roncalli,</b> who was later to become pope John XXIII,
disagreed with & often disobeyed these instructions. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><br /></i>The <b>Ponevezhe Rov </b>finally asked and was miraculously granted
permission to enter the children's quarters to see them before their
bedtime. That evening the Rabbi entered the dormitory holding row upon
row of little beds where the children ~ many of whom had been in the
monastery since the start of the war in 1939 ~ were going to sleep. He slowly walked through the aisles of beds, calling out, <i><b>"Shema Yisrael--(Hear, Israel), Ha'Shem is our G*d, Ha'Shem is One!"</b></i> <br /><br />One by one, children burst into tears and shrieked, <i>"Mommy!" "Maman!" "Momma!" "Mamushka!"</i> in each of their native tongues, mostly Yiddish.
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priest had succeeded in teaching them about the Trinity, the New
Testament, the xtian saviour and how to say Mass, and other abberant things, but the one thing
he could not do was erase the children's memories of their <i>Jewish Mothers</i> ~ now murdered ~ <i>putting them to bed every night with the <b>Sh'ma</b> on their lips.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Former
<b>Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau</b> ~ himself a Child Shoah Survivor of Buchenwald ~ has said that the Holocaust-era Pope pius
XII refused several requests by <b>Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog </b>to meet with
him before and during the war to discuss how the church could either
help save Jewish lives or locate Jewish orphans cared for by catholic
families. It should also be noted that the present pope person Ratzinger has refused to release the names or records of these children to Jewish organisztions even today & Yad L’Achim director <b>Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz</b> comments ..... <i>“Even today, not
returning the children means a continuation of the Holocaust"!!!!</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Jewish Singer <b>Yaakov Shwekey</b> has used the legend to create this beautiful song. Sad!! <br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">(<i>Don't be discouraged by the first 60 seconds which tells the story
of Rabbi Kahaneman in Hebrew, it's gorgeous, and wait till the Song itself, it will blow you away!</i>).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> <i>He raised his hand to wave goodbye<br /> Saw the pain in mother´s eyes<br /> who left her little precious boy of four<br /><br /> In a citadel of ashen stone</i></span><i> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
that preached a faith unlike his own<br /> Perhaps he just may yet survive this war<br /><br /> In the shadow stood a man in black</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> My child he said, you must not look back<br /> Yet one image lingered, the tears on her face<br />
And mother´s words from their last embrace<br /><br /> Shema, Shema Yisroel</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Know that there is but one G-d above<br /> When you feel pain, when you rejoice<br /> know how he longs to hear your voice<br /> Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad<br /><br /> Deep within the iron gate</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Far from the stench of war and hate<br /> he knew not of a world gone insane<br /><br /> You must believe us, he was told</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Our faith alone can save your soul<br /> Please let us heal your wounds and ease your pain<br /><br />He tried not to forget his past, his home</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> But he was so very young and all alone<br /> While visions of his shtetl, once vivid and clear<br /> began to fade, and all but disappeared<br /><br /> Shema, Shema Yisroel</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Know that there is but one G-d above<br />
When you feel pain, when you rejoice<br /> know how he longs to hear your voice<br /> Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad<br /><br /> The winds of war had finally passed</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> one man took on a sacred task<br /> to bring the scattered jewish children home<br /><br /> He travelled far, from place to place</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> A quest to reignite the faith<br /> of those sent into hiding long ago<br /><br /> He entered the fortress grey and cold</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Your kind is not among us, he was told<br /><br /> Hashem above, he whispered, please don´t let me fail</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
As he began to sing<br /> Shema Yisroel<br /><br /> Shema, Shema Yisroel</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Know that there is but one G-d above<br /> When you feel pain, when you rejoice<br /> know how he longs to hear your voice<br /> Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad<br /><br />Shema, Shema Yisroel</span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Know that there is but one G-d above<br /> When you feel pain, when you rejoice<br /> know how he longs to hear your voice<br /> Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad<br /><br /> Shema, Shema Yisroel</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
Know that there is but one G-d above<br /> When you feel pain, when you rejoice<br /> know how he longs to hear your voice<br /> Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad<br /><br /> Please say,</span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /> Shema, Shema Yisroel<br /> Know that there is but, but one G-d above<br />
When you feel pain, when you rejoice<br /> know how he longs to hear our voice<br /> Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad<br /> Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />On October 6th, in 1973, 39 years ago today, Egypt and Syria launched a co-ordinated attack against Israel. It was Yom Kippur ~ Israel's (Judaism's) Holiest day ~ a day of Atonement & Affliction. And it was One affliction Israel did not immediately expect. Israelis were davening in Synagogue, imploring Ha'Shems mercies for the year to come, and forgiveness for the year just past. <b>The Yom Kippur War</b> began with a joint surprise attack by our Arab enemy when Egypt and Syria crossed ceasefire lines to enter Israel in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. The war began with a massive and successful Egyptian attack across the heavily-fortified Suez Canal during the first three days, after which they dug in, settling into a stalemate. In the north, the Syrians attacked the Golan Heights at the same time and initially made threatening gains against the greatly outnumbered defenders, but their momentum waned.<br /><br />Egypt and Syria's coordinated surprise attack against Israel was immense. The equivalent of the total forces of NATO in Europe were mobilized on Israel's borders. On the Golan Heights, approximately 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1,400 Syrian tanks. Along the Suez Canal, 436 Israeli defenders were attacked by 80,000 Egyptians. At least nine Arab states, including four non-Middle Eastern nations, actively aided the Egyptian-Syrian war effort. Thrown onto the defensive during the first two days of fighting, Israel mobilized its reserves and eventually repulsed the invaders and carried the war deep into Syria and Egypt. The Arab states were swiftly resupplied by sea and air from the Soviet Union, which rejected American efforts to work toward an immediate ceasefire. As a result, the United States belatedly began its own airlift to Israel ... typically, way too belated to matter at all!!<br /><br />Within a week, Israel recovered and launched a four-day counter offensive, driving deep into Syria itself. Two weeks later, Egypt was saved from a disastrous defeat by the UN Security Council, which had failed to act while the tide was in the Arabs' favour. The Soviet Union showed no interest in initiating peacemaking efforts while it looked like the Arabs might win. The same was true for Anti Semitic UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. (Waldheim's service with a World War II German army unit guilty of war crimes in the Balkans resulted in his being barred from entering the United States after his election as President of Austria). On October 22nd, the Security Council adopted Resolution 338 calling for <i>"all parties to the present fighting to cease all firing and terminate all military activity immediately." </i>The vote came on the day that Israeli forces cut off and isolated the Egyptian Third Army and were in a position to destroy it. We had turned the situation right around, the Egyptians went back on the offensive, but were decisively defeated ~ the IDF then counterattacked at the seam between two Egyptian armies, crossed the Suez Canal, and advanced southward and westward in over a week of heavy fighting. Victory at hand.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Victory for Israel meant between 2,520 and 2,800 killed in action. An additional 7,250 soldiers were wounded. Some 293 Israelis were captured. Approximately 400 Israeli tanks were destroyed. Another 600 were disabled. The Israeli Air Force lost 102 aircraft & two helicopters were also shot down. But Victory is Victory!!!!<br /><br />Defeat in this war humiliated the Arab world .... let's remember this, & how our Arab enemy issued the "three no's", resolving that there would be "no peace, no recognition and no negotiation with Israel". They haven't changed their minds, just their strategy. Why have we changed ours?? Let's remember our forthrightness under Ha'Shem & our astounding victory in battle this Yom Kippur & may it lead to a decisive change in our Strategy in our present 'peace' negotiations. Appeasment Never Works!!!!<br /><br />What lessons are still to be learned from a war Israel fought 39 years ago today?<br /><br />The current wave of Blatant Anti-Semitism & Anti-Israel demonization in Europe and elsewhere was prefigured then, in the months after the Yom Kippur War. The Arab oil boycott turned Israel into a pariah ~ fewer countries had diplomatic relations with the Jewish state than with the PLO, which didn’t even pretend to seek anything but Israel’s destruction. The UN General Assembly gave a standing ovation to Yasser Arafat, who wore a pistol to the session and preached the destruction of a UN member state, the Jewish State of Israel. This war taught Israel that it must be ever-vigilant in terms of intelligence and that it must rebuild deterrence to avoid enemy countries attacking again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Zionism was supposed to represent Jews’ final strategy for acceptance, ending their status as a ghost people haunting the nations, as Zionist <b>Leo Pinsker</b> put it. But, not only has Zionism failed to win Jews acceptance, Zionism itself has become the pretext for the latest assault on Jewish legitimacy. Why does every attempt to create a normal Jewish relationship with the world seem to fail? Because we are seeking to please International opinion into accepting the Jewish State of Israel on Equal terms. I don't think they will ever do this. Ever, except over our dead bodies. Destruction of Judaism .... that is the world's Desire, this Yom Kippur, as last Yom Kippur, as Yom Kippur 1973!!<br /><br />Yom Kippur, a day of introspection for Jews, also a day of remembrance for our personal dead, will also always be a day of remembrance for those who died keeping Israel safe on its holiest day. Why do the Goyim always pick our Holidays to attack ... No Respect for Ha'Shem, in fact a Hatred for Him and His holy Torah. And the people of His Torah ..... Jews!!<br /><br />Despite the Israel Defence Forces' ultimate success on the battlefield, the war is somehow considered a diplomatic and military failure. The only possible 'fail' I can identify is that Israel SHOULD HAVE GONE ON TO CRUSH THE ARAB STATES AND RECLAIM ALL LAND THAT HAS BEEN BEQUEATHED TO B'NEI YISRAEL BY HASHEM. Leadership 'failed' then ... as now. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>"in military terms Israel would recognize its achievement in the war as having few historic parallels. Reeling from a surprise attack on two fronts with the bulk of its army still unmobilized, and confronted by staggering new battlefield realities, Israel's situation was one that could readily bring strong nations to their knees. Yet, within days, it had regained its footing and in less than two weeks it was threatening both enemy capitals, an achievement having few historical parallels. Israel faced not just the Egyptian and Syrian armies but much of the Arab world, and did so with the arm it had most relied on, the air force, tied behind its back. As a military feat, the IDF’s performance in the Yom Kippur War dwarfed that in the Six Day War. Victory emerged from motivation that came from the deepest layers of the nation’s being and from basic military skills that compensated for the grave errors of leadership"</i> ~ <b>Abraham Rabinovich</b>, 'The Yom Kippur War' p. 498.<br /><br /><i>"The removal of all Arabs who refuse to accept the exclusive, unquestioned Jewish sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael is not only logical and normal for any Jew with a modicum of an instinct for self-preservation; it is also the Jewish halakic obligation. It is important that we know this in order to realize what true “Jewishness” really dictates and in order to instill in ourselves the faith and assurance that if we do this, all the nations in the world will be incapable of harming Israel.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The Jewish people are not merely one more nation. <b>"Though I put an end to all the nations among whom thou art scattered, but I will never put an end to thee" (Yirmayahu 30:11). </b>Israel is indestructible. It is unique, it is holy, it is the Chosen of Ha'Shem, it has a reason for being. Its national uniqueness is built on an idea, on an ideology, that it alone has. The Jew is selected and obligated to be a religio-nation, commanded to obey the laws and follow the path of Torah. The Covenant. The Jewish people took upon itself the yoke of Ha'Shem, acknowledging Him as G*d and observing His laws. The Almighty chose them as His unique people, pledging that they would be indestructible and would live in peace and prosperity in their own land, Eretz Yisrael". </i><br />~ <b>Rabbi Meir Kehane</b>, 'They Must Go' ~</span></span><br />
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<i>A NEW Documentary by Israeli Filmaker <b>Yuval Delshad </b>~ I've only watched this part, which is one of three. </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />Today, was <b>Yom Ha'Kippurim</b>, a day spent in Shul and away from the wider world of the goyim, (and any world news or events!) And tomorrow is in Rembrance of the<i><b> Yom Kippur War </b></i>Dead of 1973, and I shall definitely want to comment on that. So, it seems somehow appropriate to post this tonight ~ I have wanted to acknowledge, or at least mention since last Shabbat that it was musician, poet, author, auteur & Jew, <b>Leonard Cohen</b>'s birthday then. He turned 78.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />And <b>Aryeh Leib Ha'Cohen</b> is Jew of some level of Observance at least. Tainted perhaps by his fame & notriety. Nevertheless, he is a Jew. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In Tel Aviv, Israel, on 24th September, 2009 three days after Cohen's 75th
birthday, at Ramat Gan Stadium, Cohen's
first performance in Israel since 1980, sold out in less than 24
hours. It was announced that the proceeds from the sale of the
47,000 tickets would go into a charitable fund in partnership with
Amnesty International and would be used by Israeli 'Peace'
groups for projects providing health services to children and
families of those killed in the 'conflict'. Not a Strategy I would endorse at all. However, Amnesty International withdrew from any involvement with the concert and its proceeds and boycotted Cohen.
Amnesty International later stated that its withdrawal was not due to such boycott but The palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural
Boycott of Israel (PACBI) led the call for the boycott, claiming that
Cohen was<i> "intent on whitewashing Israel's colonial apartheid regime by
performing in Israel." </i>WTG Sir!!!!!<br /><br /> On 24th September at the Ramat Gan concert,
as a result of this furore, Cohen was highly emotional about the Israeli organisation '<b><i>Bereaved
Families for Peace'</i></b>. Again, not what I would endorse personally, but he demonstrates Ahavat Yisrael for sure. He mentioned the organization twice, saying <i>"It was a
while ago that I first heard of the work of the 'Bereaved Parents for
Peace'. That there was this coalition of palestinian and Israeli
families who had lost so much in the conflict and whose depth of
suffering had compelled them to reach across the border into the houses
of the enemy. Into the houses of those, to locate them who had suffered
as much as they had, and then to stand with them in aching
confraternity, a witness to an understanding that is beyond peace and
that is beyond confrontation. So, this is not about forgiving and
forgetting, this is not about laying down one's arms in a time of war,
this is not even about peace, although, G*d willing, it could be a
beginning. This is about a response to human grief. A radical, unique
and holy, holy, holy response to human suffering. Baruch Ha'Shem, thank G*d, I bow my head in respect to the nobility of this enterprise." </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the end of the show he issued the crowd a Bracha, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">the<i> 'Birkat Kohanim'</i> in fact ...... although 'iffy' to do at his concert. He is supposedly Shomer Shabbos though, and definitely does not play on Yom Kippur! And in fact his maternal grandfather is the noted Talmudic scholar, <b>Rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline</b> of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. His paternal grandfather, whose family had emigrated from Poland, was <b>Lyon Cohen</b>, founding president of the <i><b>Canadian Jewish Congress</b></i>. Not only does he remember his 'roots' and foundation, but his writings (aside from the hippy dippy content in the 60's & 70's) reflect his Judaism, if not his traditional Jewishness. He has written extraordinary poetry, fiction and lyrics ~ he wrote a musical favourite of mine, the now infamous '<i>Halleluiah'</i>, although I admit to <b>Jeff Buckley</b>'s version blowing his right out of the water. Retired and Revamped his career after a management rip off. I have respect for <b>Leonard Cohen</b> and his work right accross the spectrum. Yom Huledat Same'ach!!!!!<br /><br />I could extend this blog muchly ..... but I'm tired. So it's just a comment in passing. Ships in the night, Social impact of his Songs notwithstanding!<br /><br />Sometimes I still waken to the sultry strains of <i>'Suzanne'</i> on Sunday mornings in
the Galus, laziness suppressing a smile as I stretch into the luzury
of a leisurely 'lie in' or sip Lemon tea on a Sunny Sunday. It 's an ipod Staple. And it was written & recorded right at the start of his career ... in 1967. Timeless. Like the Man himself!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>"If it be your will<br />That I speak no more<br />And my voice be still<br />
As it was before<br />I will speak no more<br />I shall abide until<br />I am spoken for<br />If it be your will.</i></span></span><br />
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All your praises they shall ring<br />If it be your will<br />To let me sing ..... "</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Unusually, This is <b>NOT my work</b> ... it is a <b>Yom Kippur</b> Posting I 'stole' from <b>Arutz Sheva</b>, because I thought it was excellent ..... inspirational and instructive! And I don't know how many of you would have seen it otherwise. It says all I want to say & much more, but I shall add an introduction!!!!<br /><br />Today, Erev Yom Ha' Kippurim is phenomonally busy for me ... from <b><i>Kapporos</i></b> before <b><i>Shaccarit</i></b>, two meals and then a meal for after the fast & preparation for Shabbos on Friday. Special Day at Shaccarit too with <i><b>Yahrtzeit</b></i> tefillos & brachot for my parents. I baked some Honey Cake and drank Vodka!! And <b>Apologies</b> I needed to extend personally and by mail. But, mostly that is why I wanted to post here today because I want to say that I know there are probably many things I've said in my blog, people
I may have hurt, and things I could have worded differently. If you
feel that I have wronged you in any way with my writing, I ask sincerely
for your forgiveness. It does not mean that I back away from where I stated what is Emes or Truth per Torah. I do not .... but if I have inadvertently hurt you because of my clumsiness in compiling this blog, then I want to know about it so that I can take responsibility for it and offer
you the deep, sincere and personal apology that you deserve. I care, not just with the motivation of <b>Yom Kippur</b> .... so message me, please.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The
most Solemn, Special day of the year begins Tuesday evening at Sundown. A time to daven, to
think about who we are and where we are going.<b> Chatima Tova!! </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Since
Rosh Hashannah, many of Israel's Egged buses have had the computerized
signs above the driver alternating between the vehicles' destination and
the words <b>"Chatima Tova"</b> ~ <i>"be sealed for a good year".</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Israel radio closes
its broadcasts preceding the <b>Yom Kippur</b> fast with the same words, said
by one announcer to another and to all of Israel. That is one of the special things about Israel. With all its
differences and tensions between the secular and religious, the State of
Israel is essentially closed down on Yom Kippur, with no public
transportation or electronic broadcasts, and practically no open stores
or services. The trains stop at 11, buses several hours later, and the
IDF shuts off Palestinian Arab entrances to Jewish areas. Everyone tells
everyone "chatima tova" as the phone lines jam. Even the airspace is
closed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This day, highest of the High Holidays ~ <b>Yom Kippur</b> ~ is to begin
on Tuesday night, and Jews around the world will fast for 25 hours on
the solemn day that ends the Ten Days of Penitence. <b>Yom Kippur</b>, <b><i>the Day of Atonement,</i></b> is a Divinely-designated day
that the Torah explains <i>“will atone for you [plural] to purify you from
all your sins before G-d.”</i> Such atonement, however, is not automatic and
must be accompanied by teshuvah, a serious process that must include
introspection, admission of sins, remorse, and a commitment not to
repeat them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One must also appease and ask forgiveness from those he has harmed or
insulted over the year. One must also forgive those who are sorry for
hurting us. To err is human and can be forgiven, the refusal to forgive,
however, is not forgivable. Many people visit the graves of their parents on the days before
<b>Yom Kippur</b>, in preparation for the <b>Yizkor</b> service memorializing lost
parents which is said during the fast. The prayers for <b>Yom Kippur</b>, which begin with the <b>Kol Nidre</b> prayer
said at night, then take up most of the day, are replete with the
various concepts of t'shuvah, as well as acknowledgement of G-d’s
goodness in affording mortals this opportunity to exonerate and improve
themselves. One of the dramatic prayers is a review of the High Priest's
preparations and yearly entering the Holy of Holies in the Temple,
during which the each member of the congregation prostrates himself
before G-d. There is also a Piyyut, a liturgical poem, recalling the ten martyrs killed by the Romans, one of whom was <b><i>Rabbi Akiva</i></b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The fast begins just before sundown on Tuesday and ends some 25 hours
later, after the special <b>Ne’ilah</b> (locking, signifying that the gates of
heaven are to be locked at the end of the fast) prayer, said standing.
At the prayer's end, the <b>S'hma Yisrael</b> ~ <i>Hear O Israel Ha'Shem is our G-d, Ha'Shem is One</i> ~ is recited aloud by the entire congregation, followed
by another two verses, including sevenfold loud repetition of the words
<i>"G-d is Ha'Shem"</i>. The end of the fast is signalled by a dramatic, lone shofar-blast and
the immediate singing of <i>"Next year in rebuilt Jerusalem"</i>. In many
Israeli synagogues, this is a signal for joyous dancing as the fast's
end signals a lightening of spirits.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In addition to eating and drinking, also forbidden on this day are
wearing leather shoes, washing up, make-up and perfumes, and marital
relations. The prohibitions notwithstanding, the day is also onsidered a festive
day, in that we celebrate G-d’s beneficence in going against natural
law and allowing us to revoke and nullify our misdeeds. It is also a
<i>“day of friendship and love,"</i> according to the prayer liturgy. <br /><br />The day of the eve of <b>Yom Kippur,</b> the 9th of the Jewish month of
Tishrei, is also considered a special day, and we are required to eat
and drink even more than we normally do. <i>"Whoever eats and drinks on the
9th,”</i> the Talmud states enigmatically, <i>“is as [meritorious as] if he
had fasted on both the 9th and the 10th." </i>The custom of <b>Kaparot</b> is done on the 9th. Bicycling on main roads and city streets has become a popular pastime
on the holy day, to the dismay of many, as there is no motor-vehicle
traffic to be seen. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Even more prevalent on this day are prayer services. Organizations
make arrangements for secular-friendly prayer services around the
country, which have become extremely popular and well-attended in recent
years. The PR Ministry has arranged for tens of thousands of Yom Kippur
prayer books, called <b>Machzorim</b>, to be given free to those attending its
scores of special services for the secular. The <i>Ayelet Hashacha</i>r organization has
arranged scores of services on kibbutzim that are user-friendly to the
secular. <b>Chabad </b>is doing the same in hundreds of spots throughout
Israel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Israelis who are old enough to remember Yom Kippur 1973, recall how
people were shocked to see cars driving down the streets in the early
afternoon. They were rounding up soldiers as the Yom Kippur War had broken out during
the day ~ almost all of the soldiers, religious and secular, were at
their local synagogues and army cars went from synagogue to synagogue
with lists, while sirens wailed shortly afterwards in Jerusalem and
worshipers raced to shelters. Memorial services for the war's fallen soldiers will be held on Thursday, BeZerat Ha'Shem.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One of the most dramatic prayers in the Ashkenazi Machzor on Rosh
Hashannah and Yom Kippur is <i><b>Unetane Tokef</b></i>, written by Rabbi Amnon of
Mayence in the Middle Ages, which includes the words .... <i>"You, the
Almighty, recall everything we have forgotten, and the book You open has
our lives before You...the angels tremble and say 'Today is the Day of
Judgment'.. Who will live and who will die..who by water and who by
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">During the week just past ~ 18th and 22nd of September, (2nd & 6th of Tishrei) respectively, fell both of my Parents' Yahrzeits. (OBM) They passed on within the same week ~ although not in the same year. I lit a yahrzeit candle for both in accordance with Jewish tradition ~ Minhag & Mitzvah. May their Neshamot receive an Aliyah. Both were appropriately remembered on the respective day. It was Rosh Ha'Shanah for my Father's yahrzeit and Shabbos for my Mom's, and the Jewish Day of Davening for Mosiach yesterday, so posting wasn't possible as I have done in previous years per my duty of Zachor. So I am posting this in remembrance today in lieu. Their gravesite was visited, although I was not in a postion to personally do this. I will however pledge to make a Siyum for next year & visit their graves personally for the yahrzeits. And Yizkor shall be recited this coming Yom Kippur.<br /><br />It is also Minhag to ask for and receive lekach (sweet honey cake ~ signifying a sweet year) from my Shul Gabbai erev Yom Kippur, so that if it has been decreed, G-d forbid, that during the year I should need to resort to a handout from others, the decree should be satisfied with this asking for food. The Lubavitcher Rebbe adds a deeper insight to this <i>"asking for lekach"</i> on the eve of Yom Kippur ~ it instills in us the recognition that all of the sustenance that we receive throughout the year, including that which we supposedly <i>"earn"</i> by our own powers and endeavors, is in truth a gift from Ha'Shem, who has inscribed my name in His book of Sustenance for the coming year .... <i>"He who nourishes the entire world with in His goodness, with grace, with benevolence and with compassion."</i> And in memory of my Father I shall pass around a vodka toast & a L'Chaim .... I shall bring both Honey Cake & Vodka for a tikkun in memory and honour of my parents following Shaccarit on erev Yom Kippur, Be'Zerat Ha'Shem. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>O G*d, guard me for I have taken refuge in You.<br />You should say to Ha'Shem "You are my Master; my good is not incumbent upon You.<br />For the holy ones who are in the earth, and the mighty ones in whom is all my delight.<br />May the sorrows of those who hasten after another deity increase; <br />I will not pour their libations of blood, nor will I take their names upon my lips.<br />Ha'Shem is my allotted portion and my cup; <br />You guide my destiny.<br />Portions have fallen to me in pleasant places; even the inheritance pleases me."</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><br />I will bless Ha'Shem, Who counseled me; even at night my conscience instructs me.<br />I have placed Ha'shem before me constantly; because He is at my right hand, I will not falter.<br />Therefore, my heart rejoiced, and my soul was glad; even my flesh shall dwell in safety.<br />For You shall not forsake my soul to the grave; You shall not allow Your pious one to see the pit.<br />You shall let me know the way of life, the fullness of joys in Your presence. </i></span></span><br />
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Israel from the Egyptian armies at the Red Sea.<br /><br />Literally Gaal
means to cover or protect (See Iyov 3:4), which is what Ha'Shem provides for his people, Am Yisrael. <b>Galut</b>, Exile, the opposite of <b>Geulah</b>, comes from the root meaning to uncover. <b>Galut</b> is the uncovering,
or denuding, of the land of Israel of its inhabitants. In direct oppostion to "<span class="co_VerseText"><i>He who dwells in the covert of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of the Almighty ..... <span class="co_VerseNum"></span></i><span class="co_VerseText"><i>With His wing He will cover you, and under His wings you will take refuge" </i>~ Tehilla 91.1 &4 ~ But, Galus does not leave Yisrael without the enitre protection of Ha'Shem. Geulah refers to liberation both from alien masters and from strange gds. A </span></span>Geulah Shleimah, complete redemption, which is what Moshiach shall provide (Talmud Berachot 13a).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Please Tell <b>ALL YOUR JEWISH FRIENDS/FAMILY</b> About This .....<br /><br />For the first time in Jewish History, on Sunday September 23rd, 2012 (Tishrei 7, 5773), three days before Yom Kippur, and <b>AT THE SAME INSTANT ALL OVER THE WORLD</b> (Based on Israel Time 17:00, New York 11:00, Los Angeles 8:00, London 16:00, Paris 17:00, Sydney 1:00 Sept 24)<br /><br />The entire Jewish People are invited to be united through an intense Worldwide Davening to demand Peace in Israel and in the world, through the Redemption announced in our tradition, with the coming of Mashiach. JUST TO BE CLEAR HERE ... <b>MOSHIACH IS NOT j-sus ~ js-us is an IDOL!!!!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>And NON JEWS are NOT invited!!!!!!!!!!!!! <br /><br />Ignorant IDOLATORS DO NOT ADD TO OUR DAVENING, THEY DIMINISH IT. If you are not a JEW, don't do it! You CANNOT CONNECT to our Communal Neshama .... it is ONE with each other & with Ha'Shem!</b><br /><br />With blessings of Rabbonim from all over the world Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Chassidim (in France <b>Chief Rabbi Yossef Haim Sitruk</b>, Rabbi David Pinto... Miami ~ Rabbis Lipskar, Oziel, Galamidi, Koskas...Also <b>Rabbi Lazer Brody</b>). And in Israel (Rabbi Kaniewsky, Rabbi Karelitz).<br /><br />This is such an important occasion. Set your Alarm ..... Please dont let it Slip by! It is the first time since the Diaspora that the nation of Israel will Daven at the same time for Moshiach. The first step to the end of Spiritual Diaspora. Every single <b>JEW</b> needs to participate. The communal Neshamot of the Nation of Yisrael, B'nei Yisrael, children of Ya'acov have great power, Earth Shattering power in the ears of Ha'Shem, the likes of which has not been felt on earth in 3,000 years, until today, B"H!! Not Since Sinai !!!!! Just think about how much power we will have when we are joined with thousands & thousands of Jews (there are 13.5 millions of us in the world) all over the world, all at the same time, during aseret y'mei teshuva in between <b>Rosh Ha'Shana</b> and <b>Yom Kippur</b>! <br /><br />We will to tell Ha'Shem that we are tired of galus, and that we <b>NEED </b>Mashiach THIS YEAR. <b>NOW!!!!</b> Halacha forbids conjecture about when Moshiach will come. But, Halacha also demands that we prepare ourselves for His immediate arrival. We must all do t'shuva before <b>Yom Kippur</b>, so there's no time like today. The Gemara (tractate Sanhedrin 97b) says that the Klal Israel (aka the Jewish People) will be redeemed as soon as they make t'shuva, in other words, return to Hashem and the ways of His Torah. T'shuva, Tefillos & Tzedaka is the route to Moshiach. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />Please take this seriously. YOU could be the impetus for the coming of Moshiach.<br /><br />What to do ..... Everyone is invited to give some tsedaka (one Dollar, Euro or Shekel) before saying the following. Then, At the same instant, everyone will start the short prayer that can be said in any language alone, with family or in a Synagogue .....<br /><i><b><br />"Master of the Universe, We, the children of Israel, ask you to send Mashiach to redeem us, now and with mercy, from exile and all suffering, to reveal your Name in the world and to bring peace."</b></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I adore the <b>Maccabeats</b> ..... that much is entirely obvious, methinks!<br /><br />Yeshiva University's <i>"Spontaenous Youtube Sensation"</i>. This track and all Maccabeats music is recorded <i><b>'A Capella'</b></i>. Millions have heard and seen their catchy creations online. The result has been dozens of feature stories in print, dozens of stories broadcast on local radio and TV, and even a live performance on national television, and a dinner at the White House. A cappella is a long tradition at universities. It reflects a love of music, shared fun and the ability to create and concoct harmonies. And the Maccabeats LOVE what they do ..... Awesome. So appropriate in these Days of Awe!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We are now in what is known in Judaism as the <b>'Days of Awe'</b> .... the ten day period starting with <b>Rosh Ha'Shanah </b>and ending with <b>Yom Kippur</b> are commonly known as the <b>Days of Awe</b> ~ <i><b>Yamim Noraim</b></i>. This is a time for serious introspection, a time to consider the Avoierot of the previous year and turn back to Ha'shem before <b>Yom Kippur</b>. A process known as T'shuva. Ha'Shem has "books" that he writes our names in, decreeing & writing down who will live and who will die, who will have a good life and who will have a bad life, for the next year. These books are written in on <b>Rosh Ha'Shanah</b>, but our actions during the <b>Days of Awe</b> can alter this decree. <b>The actions that change the decree are threefold ~ teshuvah, tefilah and tzedakah.</b> <b>These books are opened on Rosh Ha'Shanah & sealed on Yom Kippur </b>and so become our final decree & destiny for the coming year. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />This track is a parody of <i><b>"Good Life"</b></i> by <i>OneRepublic</i>.<br /><br /><i>"Woke up and realized yesterday<br />Think it's a bummer end of the summer<br />Kinda nervous that we're almost there<br />At the days of awe<br /><br />Prayers in a language that I don't know<br />Standing for hours and hours more<br />I wish that someone would please tell me-e-e-e<br />What it is we're praying for<br /><br />Oh put me in the book of good life<br />I just wanna live the good life<br />This could really be a good life, good life<br /><br />Say oh, we've got feelings that we should fight<br />Make sure that we're choosing right<br />Gotta earn my own place in<br />The book of good life<br /><br />Time for reflection on the past year<br />Time to figure out what we're doing here<br />Replace the guilt with inspiration<br />And everything is clear<br /><br />Life in the present, the here and now<br />Easier than regret and planning out<br />Living in the moment, lasts for a moment<br />Got my future to think about<br /><br />When you're sitting there in shul<br />Wishing it was over<br />You gotta take a beat<br />And let it all sink in<br /><br />Oh put me in the book of good life<br />I just wanna live the good life<br />This could really be a good life, good life<br /><br />Say oh, we've got feelings that we should fight<br />Make sure that we're choosing right<br />Gotta earn my own place in<br />The book of good life<br /><br />Hopefully<br />This year will bring us happiness and peace<br />Hopefully<br />Sensitivity to others will increase<br />Hopefully<br />We'll open our eyes and think more consciously<br />Cuz Hopefully<br />We'll go from where we are to where we want to be<br /><br />Oh put me in the book of good life<br />I just wanna live the good life<br />This could really be a good life, good life<br /><br />Say oh, we've got feelings that we should fight<br />Make sure that we're choosing right<br />Gotta earn my own place in<br />The book of good life<br /><br />Oh yeah<br />Book of Good life<br />Ooh<br /><br />Listen<br />Time for reflection on the past year<br />Time to figure out what we're doing here<br />Replace the guilt with inspiration<br />And everything is clear<br /><br />Life in the present seems more fun<br />Easier than regret, what's done is done<br />Living in the moment, lasts for a moment<br />Shana Tova to everyone".</i><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br />Lyrics by Immanuel Shalev and David Block. The <b>Maccabeat's</b> site is .... </span><a href="http://www.maccabeats.com/">http://www.maccabeats.com/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Avinu malkeinu sh'ma kolenu<br />Avinu malkeinu chatanu l'faneycha<br />Avinu malkeinu chamol aleynu<br />Ve'al olaleynu vetapeinu<br /><br />Avinu malkeinu<br />Kaleh dever<br />vecherev vera'av mealeynu<br />Avinu malkeinu<br />kaleh chol tsar<br />Umastin mealeynu<br /><br />Avinu malkeinu<br />Avinu malkeinu<br />Kat'veinu besefer chayim tovim<br />Avinu malkeinu chadesh aleynu<br />Chadesh aleynu shanah tovah<br /><br />Sh'ma kolenu<br />Sh'ma kolenu<br />Sh'ma kolenu<br /><br />Avinu malkeinu<br /><br />Avinu malkeinu<br />Chadesh aleynu shanah tovah<br /><br />Avinu malkeinu<br />Sh'ma kolenu<br />Sh'ma kolenu<br />Sh'ma kolenu<br />Sh'ma kolenu</i></span></span><br />
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