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"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



4 Jul 2017

Wasted and divisive

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The New York Times had an article titled Israel Faces Uproar Abroad as Netanyahu Yields to Ultra-Orthodox Jews.

At the demonstration on Saturday night, people held placards saying “Bibi, do not divide the Jewish people,” referring to the prime minister by his nickname. Among them, Rabbi Naamah Kelman-Ezrachi, who in the early 1990s became the Reform Movement’s first female rabbi ordained in Israel and who is a descendant of 10 generations of rabbis, said, “American Jewry has finally woken up to fight for pluralism in Israel.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/world/middleeast/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-ultra-orthodox-western-wall.html

I find it ironic that the placards referred not to dividing the Jewish people, years after the Reform and Conservative had no qualms in dividing the Jewish people when they formed their 'new and improved'  movements.

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)

1 comment:

  1. We have to make it clear that Bilaam was considered a 'sorcerer', not a prophet. He was totally evil and had powers but on the dark side (ruach hatumah). His sons were the magicians in Pharoah's palace and also the leaders of the Erev Rav that tagged along with the Jews. We know that H' gave ten measures of black magic to the world and nine were in ancient Egypt.

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