Canadians make every May Jewish Heritage Month
The Seder "The Story of Our Past Is the Story of Our Future"
For Passover, These Orthodox Jews Are Cooking On Live TV
Labour’s pockets of anti-Semitism: the evidence
הסגולה של רבי אלימלך בידרמן לליל הסדר
בס׳ד
"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
30 Mar 2018
29 Mar 2018
Awesome
FIGHT RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOL INDOCTRINATION
The Free Thought writes about putting safeguards on your Facebook app over here. - ayin roeh veozen shoma'as.
Professor Posts Anti-Semitic Message on an Official University Site
כך נזכה שיקרע רוע גזר דיננו
The Free Thought writes about putting safeguards on your Facebook app over here. - ayin roeh veozen shoma'as.
Professor Posts Anti-Semitic Message on an Official University Site
כך נזכה שיקרע רוע גזר דיננו
28 Mar 2018
27 Mar 2018
Haggada Insights
TorahAnytime-Haggadah-Print-5778.pdf
The King and the Rabbi
The brutal killing of a Holocaust survivor raises anti-Semitism fears in France - When is there going to be a Jewish Lives Matter march in France?
The King and the Rabbi
The brutal killing of a Holocaust survivor raises anti-Semitism fears in France - When is there going to be a Jewish Lives Matter march in France?
26 Mar 2018
The Salute
Liberals refuse to face the left’s growing anti-Semitism
I Have A Problem With David Hogg’s ‘Salute:’ Here’s Why
Jewish leaders savage Jeremy Corbyn for ‘hostile’ views on Jews
Rebecca Diserio writes, George Clooney was one of the big donors to the “March for Our Lives” event that took place yesterday, and he penned a letter demanding only anti-gun kids should speak on stage, saying, “You make me proud of my country.”
Read more: https://madworldnews.com/clooney-anti-gun-marchers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=madworldnews
How about putting the blame on Hollowood stars who make movies where the hero is the one who uses a gun? What part do Hollywood actors have in a young man purchasing a gun?
I Have A Problem With David Hogg’s ‘Salute:’ Here’s Why
Jewish leaders savage Jeremy Corbyn for ‘hostile’ views on Jews
Rebecca Diserio writes, George Clooney was one of the big donors to the “March for Our Lives” event that took place yesterday, and he penned a letter demanding only anti-gun kids should speak on stage, saying, “You make me proud of my country.”
Read more: https://madworldnews.com/clooney-anti-gun-marchers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=madworldnews
How about putting the blame on Hollowood stars who make movies where the hero is the one who uses a gun? What part do Hollywood actors have in a young man purchasing a gun?
25 Mar 2018
Winning the battle
The Secret of Moshiach's Arrival
Corbyn has won the battle for the left
Holocaust survivor’s body found burnt, stabbed in Paris home
Anti-Semitism watchdog says murder of Holocaust survivor reminiscent of murder of Sarah Halimi. Suspect in custody.
Remember the headline in 2015 - 'I will not let people believe that Jews no longer have a place in Europe': Hollande's fury after Netanyahu makes plea for 'mass emigration' to Israel in wake of anti-Semitic terror attacks
Corbyn has won the battle for the left
Holocaust survivor’s body found burnt, stabbed in Paris home
Anti-Semitism watchdog says murder of Holocaust survivor reminiscent of murder of Sarah Halimi. Suspect in custody.
Remember the headline in 2015 - 'I will not let people believe that Jews no longer have a place in Europe': Hollande's fury after Netanyahu makes plea for 'mass emigration' to Israel in wake of anti-Semitic terror attacks
24 Mar 2018
23 Mar 2018
Hate "Crimes"
Parshas Tzav / Shabbos HaGadol - We Want Hashem Now!
Rabbi Mendel Kpalan posted on his Facebook page videos of a man throwing a rock at the Thornhill Synagogue alog with the comment, "Yet despite this obviously anti-Semitic and hateful act, replete with the historically ominous imagery of shattered glass — posted hours ago on here on my Facebook wall and shared umpteen times by so many — there has been nothing but deafening silence from the very same moralizing elected officials who flipped out when a young Muslim girl faked an attack on her Hijab."
https://www.facebook.com/rabbikaplan/posts/1580190858746992
Below is reporting from The Star on the two incidents that Rabbi Kaplan wrote about. One has "hate crime" in quotes, while the other doesn't.
York Regional Police are investigating a “hate-motivated crime” after the front doors of a synagogue in Thornhill were smashed in an apparent outburst of anti-Semitic violence caught on camera.
Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/03/21/police-investigating-after-man-caught-on-video-vandalizing-thornhill-synagogue.html
Over the next 10 minutes, she said she was attacked not once, but twice, by a man who is now a suspect in a Toronto police hate crime investigation.
Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2018/01/12/man-cuts-hijab-off-girl-in-scarborough-police-say.html
Prime Minister Trudeau addressed the supposed hijab attack at a news conference which can be seen here.
Rabbi Mendel Kpalan posted on his Facebook page videos of a man throwing a rock at the Thornhill Synagogue alog with the comment, "Yet despite this obviously anti-Semitic and hateful act, replete with the historically ominous imagery of shattered glass — posted hours ago on here on my Facebook wall and shared umpteen times by so many — there has been nothing but deafening silence from the very same moralizing elected officials who flipped out when a young Muslim girl faked an attack on her Hijab."
https://www.facebook.com/rabbikaplan/posts/1580190858746992
Below is reporting from The Star on the two incidents that Rabbi Kaplan wrote about. One has "hate crime" in quotes, while the other doesn't.
York Regional Police are investigating a “hate-motivated crime” after the front doors of a synagogue in Thornhill were smashed in an apparent outburst of anti-Semitic violence caught on camera.
Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/03/21/police-investigating-after-man-caught-on-video-vandalizing-thornhill-synagogue.html
Over the next 10 minutes, she said she was attacked not once, but twice, by a man who is now a suspect in a Toronto police hate crime investigation.
Read more: https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2018/01/12/man-cuts-hijab-off-girl-in-scarborough-police-say.html
Prime Minister Trudeau addressed the supposed hijab attack at a news conference which can be seen here.
22 Mar 2018
21 Mar 2018
20 Mar 2018
19 Mar 2018
18 Mar 2018
Finding home
From Hedge Funds to Jewish Education: A Wall Street Tourist Finds Home
Jerusalem terrorist had Israel entry permit
Below is a video from a few months ago which I happened upon today.
Jerusalem terrorist had Israel entry permit
Below is a video from a few months ago which I happened upon today.
Messages
Alan Dershowitz: Ellison ‘Has to Be Fired Immediately’ From DNC
Final Adar Messages from Meir Yisroel
YouTube censors our video showing “Palestinian child exploitation for the cameras”- I was able to view it so it seems it is back up.
Is Louis Farrakhan Tearing Apart The Women’s March?
'Kicked Out OF Class For Saying There Are 2 GENDERS?!'
Final Adar Messages from Meir Yisroel
YouTube censors our video showing “Palestinian child exploitation for the cameras”- I was able to view it so it seems it is back up.
Is Louis Farrakhan Tearing Apart The Women’s March?
'Kicked Out OF Class For Saying There Are 2 GENDERS?!'
17 Mar 2018
Confessions
Meet the tech evangelist who now fears for our mental health
The Talmud Sotah (32b) explains, that the reason the sin offering (Chatos) and the burnt offering (Olah) were slaughtered in the same place, by the northern part of the Mizbayach, was to save sinners from embarrassment. Anyone witnessing someone bringing a Chatos could assume that it was a Olah, which is brought as a donation and not necessarily as kaparah for an aveira.
Using this as a source, the Sages made a regulation that Shmoneh Esreh must be recited quietly, in order not to embarrass people who confess their aveiros during their tefilah.
http://www.thejewisheye.com/rev_ptzav.html
The first Torah reading in orbit, and 5 other soaring facts about Jews in space
Defense in Duma Arson/Murder Trial: State Investigation Consisted Entirely of Threats and Violence
The Talmud Sotah (32b) explains, that the reason the sin offering (Chatos) and the burnt offering (Olah) were slaughtered in the same place, by the northern part of the Mizbayach, was to save sinners from embarrassment. Anyone witnessing someone bringing a Chatos could assume that it was a Olah, which is brought as a donation and not necessarily as kaparah for an aveira.
Using this as a source, the Sages made a regulation that Shmoneh Esreh must be recited quietly, in order not to embarrass people who confess their aveiros during their tefilah.
http://www.thejewisheye.com/rev_ptzav.html
The first Torah reading in orbit, and 5 other soaring facts about Jews in space
Defense in Duma Arson/Murder Trial: State Investigation Consisted Entirely of Threats and Violence
16 Mar 2018
15 Mar 2018
Walkouts and good deeds
CNN Runs Story Comparing ICE Agents To Nazis
This morning I read an article titled Tenn HS Students Brawl, Rip Down American Flag During Walkout Against ‘Gun Violence’ which contained a video of how some students resorted to less than peaceful behavior during a school walkout.
Later in the day I was passing a mall in Central Israel when a young girl stopped me and asked me if I would consent to write about a good deed I had done today on a bulletin board her school had placed in the shopping center. I agreed and saw that the board was titled "70 Good Deeds" which was a reference to Israel celebrating 70 years of independence in approximately a month's time. The girl handed me a candy that was attached to a slip of paper with a short biography of celebrated Israeli author Uri Orbach along with a poem about the Sabbath that he had composed.
I contemplated the contrast between the two school activities and wondered whether the school walkouts in America should have emphasized good deeds and respect for one another. This evening I found this letter addressed to American students. It was written by a retired teacher and is chock full of advice for them.
This morning I read an article titled Tenn HS Students Brawl, Rip Down American Flag During Walkout Against ‘Gun Violence’ which contained a video of how some students resorted to less than peaceful behavior during a school walkout.
Later in the day I was passing a mall in Central Israel when a young girl stopped me and asked me if I would consent to write about a good deed I had done today on a bulletin board her school had placed in the shopping center. I agreed and saw that the board was titled "70 Good Deeds" which was a reference to Israel celebrating 70 years of independence in approximately a month's time. The girl handed me a candy that was attached to a slip of paper with a short biography of celebrated Israeli author Uri Orbach along with a poem about the Sabbath that he had composed.
I contemplated the contrast between the two school activities and wondered whether the school walkouts in America should have emphasized good deeds and respect for one another. This evening I found this letter addressed to American students. It was written by a retired teacher and is chock full of advice for them.
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14 Mar 2018
Superman
A great definition of Superman over here.
Great commentary by Daniel Greenfield over here.
Macedonia adopts definition of anti-Semitism mentioning Israel
Grandmother's Gift Was Priceless
Great commentary by Daniel Greenfield over here.
Macedonia adopts definition of anti-Semitism mentioning Israel
Grandmother's Gift Was Priceless
13 Mar 2018
A Safe Haven
British Historian: Israel Provides a Needed “Safe Haven” for Jews
Arabs planning 'day of rage' on Friday
Is there really life after death?
Our Rebbetzin: A Spiritual Giant
Dayan to Present 'Soul Talk' Course
"This Has NEVER Happened in Human History!!" Tucker Can't Believe New DE School Policy
Arabs planning 'day of rage' on Friday
Is there really life after death?
Our Rebbetzin: A Spiritual Giant
Dayan to Present 'Soul Talk' Course
"This Has NEVER Happened in Human History!!" Tucker Can't Believe New DE School Policy
12 Mar 2018
Revoking Honor
The U.S. Holocaust Museum and Revoking Honor
There's a great cartoon over here.
Conservative Professor’s Book Is #1 At Amazon But NY Times “Bestseller” List Excludes It
What to Tell Children About an Absentee Father?
There's a great cartoon over here.
Conservative Professor’s Book Is #1 At Amazon But NY Times “Bestseller” List Excludes It
What to Tell Children About an Absentee Father?
11 Mar 2018
The key to success
Warren Buffett Once Told a 14-Year-Old Kid the Secret to Success in 1 Simple Sentence
שמעו קטע: שירת 'אדון עולם' במטוס לצרפת
Parshas Vayikra: The Belzer Rebbe - Salt The Korban Mincha For A Perfect Mixture
Chazzanus Meets Jazz in “Sheyiboneh” Performance
שמעו קטע: שירת 'אדון עולם' במטוס לצרפת
Parshas Vayikra: The Belzer Rebbe - Salt The Korban Mincha For A Perfect Mixture
Chazzanus Meets Jazz in “Sheyiboneh” Performance
Tweet tweet
A Father Disappointed in His Son
Last month Legal Insurrection tweeted Twitter suspends anti-Semitism watchdog Canary Mission after campaign by anti-Israel activists. Meanwhile Meanwhile, many of the people who Canary Mission exposed for anti-Semitism and terror support remain on Twitter.
In an update, Legal Insurrection posted The Canary Mission Twitter account appears to have been restored.
On March 7, Louis Farrakhan tweeted The FBI has been the worst enemy of Black advancement. The Jews have control over those agencies of government. #Farrakhan
The tweet is still up.
החרדית מהר נוף שניצחה במרתון ירושלים
Last month Legal Insurrection tweeted Twitter suspends anti-Semitism watchdog Canary Mission after campaign by anti-Israel activists. Meanwhile Meanwhile, many of the people who Canary Mission exposed for anti-Semitism and terror support remain on Twitter.
In an update, Legal Insurrection posted The Canary Mission Twitter account appears to have been restored.
On March 7, Louis Farrakhan tweeted The FBI has been the worst enemy of Black advancement. The Jews have control over those agencies of government. #Farrakhan
The tweet is still up.
החרדית מהר נוף שניצחה במרתון ירושלים
10 Mar 2018
The recipe
Parshas Vayikra: The Kemitza, The Secret Recipe To A Great Marriage
Ordinary Germans 'DID know the truth about the Nazis': Wartime diary of lowly party bureaucrat reveals population were aware of Hitler's 'inhuman atrocities' against the Jews
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5485021/Did-German-people-know-Nazis-crimes.html#ixzz59MxCQZqM Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Putin says Jews, Ukrainians, Tatars could be behind U.S. election meddling
UK Labour suspends members over anti-Semitic Facebook page
Meghan McCain Condemns Louis Farrakhan, Clashes With Valerie Jarrett
Pol who warned of bigoted rhetoric justifies ties with Louis Farrakhan, lashes out at Jewish group
Ordinary Germans 'DID know the truth about the Nazis': Wartime diary of lowly party bureaucrat reveals population were aware of Hitler's 'inhuman atrocities' against the Jews
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5485021/Did-German-people-know-Nazis-crimes.html#ixzz59MxCQZqM Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Putin says Jews, Ukrainians, Tatars could be behind U.S. election meddling
UK Labour suspends members over anti-Semitic Facebook page
Meghan McCain Condemns Louis Farrakhan, Clashes With Valerie Jarrett
Pol who warned of bigoted rhetoric justifies ties with Louis Farrakhan, lashes out at Jewish group
9 Mar 2018
The Foundation
Women's March says it loves, but spreads hatred instead
Toronto Airport Agent Takes Apart Jewish Traveler’s Tefillin; ‘These Are Odd’
Parshas VaYakheil/Pekudei - Devoted to HaShem
Parshas VaYakheil/Pekudei - Shabbos is the Foundation
Parashat Vayakhel - Why are we not allowed to work on Shabbat? - Rabbi Alon Anava
When The Kids Take Charge
Toronto Airport Agent Takes Apart Jewish Traveler’s Tefillin; ‘These Are Odd’
Parshas VaYakheil/Pekudei - Devoted to HaShem
Parshas VaYakheil/Pekudei - Shabbos is the Foundation
Parashat Vayakhel - Why are we not allowed to work on Shabbat? - Rabbi Alon Anava
When The Kids Take Charge
8 Mar 2018
The donation
Undercover millionaire donates thousands to homeless charity run by Jewish friends
Parshas VaYakheil/Pekudei - Cupcakes Of Inspiration
Video: How can we Stay Connected to G-d?
Jewish GOP group calls for resignation of 7 Democrats over 'ties' to Farrakhan
Parshas VaYakheil/Pekudei - Cupcakes Of Inspiration
Video: How can we Stay Connected to G-d?
Jewish GOP group calls for resignation of 7 Democrats over 'ties' to Farrakhan
7 Mar 2018
6 Mar 2018
Kindness Presentation
Ezer Mizion kindness presented at AIPAC 2018
Chabad Flies Largest Israel Mission
Video: Picky Package Thief Gets Pinched
2 Children Dragged, Killed When Car Hits Pedestrians In Park Slope, Brooklyn
הסגולה היומית: כך נגרש את העצבות ותפילתנו תתקבל
Chabad Flies Largest Israel Mission
Video: Picky Package Thief Gets Pinched
2 Children Dragged, Killed When Car Hits Pedestrians In Park Slope, Brooklyn
הסגולה היומית: כך נגרש את העצבות ותפילתנו תתקבל
5 Mar 2018
Stonewalling
How Sainsbury’s helped a woman with advanced Alzheimer’s keep working
Democrats Stonewall Ed Civil Rights Nominee As Anti-Semitism in Schools Rises 94%
Sen. Todd Young: Palestinian Authority-supplied textbooks for UNRWA schools “promote violence and support martyrdom”
The Ultimate Marathoner
Democrats Stonewall Ed Civil Rights Nominee As Anti-Semitism in Schools Rises 94%
Sen. Todd Young: Palestinian Authority-supplied textbooks for UNRWA schools “promote violence and support martyrdom”
The Ultimate Marathoner
On the Occassion of Three Seders and Two ss
Rebbe's Letter Prevented a Suicide
YouTube Sponsoring 9/11 Truther As Part Of Multimillion Dollar Diversity Program
IsraellyCool alerts his readers to Ontario Jews To Host “Liberation Seder for Palestine”
The organization conducting the seder is offering two more seders, one in Hamilton, on the 2nd of April, and one in London, on the 6th of April.
They write about the legacy of Rabbi Akiva, as well as the ritual part of the seder.
Grape juice (fruit of the vine) will be included for the ritual part of the Seder. Unfortunately, the Ontario Government has moved its application system for Special Occassion Permit online.
http://www.jelithin.ca/seder-2018-london.html
I don't believe that ritual traditions and the legacy of Rabbi Akiva includes conducting the seders on the fourth day and the last day of Pesach. I also wonder why the faux spelling of occassion as opposed to thte true spelling, occasion? Is it to draw attention to the faux seder?
Below is a paragraph taken from a letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe which can be viewed in its entirety by clicking the first link of the post.
As for the question, wherein lies the preservation of our people, and what is its historic destiny? - the answer is not difficult to find if we examine the pages of our history throughout the many centuries of our sojourn among the nations of the world. It is neither power, nor country, nor even a common language that preserved us in the past, but our Jewish way of life in accordance with the Torah, Torath Chayyim (the Law of Life) and Mitzvoth, whereby Jews live. Those who sought new ways, or staked the future of our Jewish people on other factors...disappeared without trace. Only the eternal Torah and Mitzvoth, the true Jewish way of life, preserved us in the past, as will preserve us in the future.
YouTube Sponsoring 9/11 Truther As Part Of Multimillion Dollar Diversity Program
IsraellyCool alerts his readers to Ontario Jews To Host “Liberation Seder for Palestine”
The organization conducting the seder is offering two more seders, one in Hamilton, on the 2nd of April, and one in London, on the 6th of April.
They write about the legacy of Rabbi Akiva, as well as the ritual part of the seder.
Grape juice (fruit of the vine) will be included for the ritual part of the Seder. Unfortunately, the Ontario Government has moved its application system for Special Occassion Permit online.
http://www.jelithin.ca/seder-2018-london.html
I don't believe that ritual traditions and the legacy of Rabbi Akiva includes conducting the seders on the fourth day and the last day of Pesach. I also wonder why the faux spelling of occassion as opposed to thte true spelling, occasion? Is it to draw attention to the faux seder?
Below is a paragraph taken from a letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe which can be viewed in its entirety by clicking the first link of the post.
As for the question, wherein lies the preservation of our people, and what is its historic destiny? - the answer is not difficult to find if we examine the pages of our history throughout the many centuries of our sojourn among the nations of the world. It is neither power, nor country, nor even a common language that preserved us in the past, but our Jewish way of life in accordance with the Torah, Torath Chayyim (the Law of Life) and Mitzvoth, whereby Jews live. Those who sought new ways, or staked the future of our Jewish people on other factors...disappeared without trace. Only the eternal Torah and Mitzvoth, the true Jewish way of life, preserved us in the past, as will preserve us in the future.
4 Mar 2018
3 Mar 2018
The Address
Jewish Group Outraged by BDS Founder’s Address to EU Parliament
צפו: כשהשוטרים הגויים רקדו עם החרדים המחופשים
Latest Palestinian Blood Libel: Bloody Purim Treats
"Kichu Mayitchem";"Take from yourselves a separation as a donation to the Mishkan." What does this peculiar word "Mayitchem" - "from yourselves" come to teach us? Isn't it obvious that the donations are coming from yourselves?
The Kli Yakar answers, many times people give Tzedoka only because of social pressures. They feel that they must give because it would be embarrassing to say "no" to the prominent Rosh Yeshiva who came to his house. Or at an appeal in his Shul, it would be disgraceful for him if he does not announce that he too is giving a substantial sum to this worthy cause, after all his buddies threw around the "big numbers". Such donations are not Mayitchem - from yourselves. It is not you giving the money, rather the social pressure of others. The pasuk is telling us that for the donations of the Mishkan it should be purely yours. Whatever you give should be what you would like to give, not what you would like others to think that you gave!
http://revach.net/parshas-hashavua/quick-vort/Parshas-Vayakhel-Tzedoka-From-Deep-Down/1893
צפו: כשהשוטרים הגויים רקדו עם החרדים המחופשים
Latest Palestinian Blood Libel: Bloody Purim Treats
"Kichu Mayitchem";"Take from yourselves a separation as a donation to the Mishkan." What does this peculiar word "Mayitchem" - "from yourselves" come to teach us? Isn't it obvious that the donations are coming from yourselves?
The Kli Yakar answers, many times people give Tzedoka only because of social pressures. They feel that they must give because it would be embarrassing to say "no" to the prominent Rosh Yeshiva who came to his house. Or at an appeal in his Shul, it would be disgraceful for him if he does not announce that he too is giving a substantial sum to this worthy cause, after all his buddies threw around the "big numbers". Such donations are not Mayitchem - from yourselves. It is not you giving the money, rather the social pressure of others. The pasuk is telling us that for the donations of the Mishkan it should be purely yours. Whatever you give should be what you would like to give, not what you would like others to think that you gave!
http://revach.net/parshas-hashavua/quick-vort/Parshas-Vayakhel-Tzedoka-From-Deep-Down/1893
2 Mar 2018
1 Mar 2018
Coins of fire
Parashat Ki Tissa- Enabling Our Misvot to Ascend
פרשת כי תשא • הגאון רבי דוד לאו עם וורט על הפרשה
Police in France arrested four teenagers who are suspected of beating a Jewish boy with a stick and taking away his kippah outside a synagogue north of Paris.
Read more: https://www.jta.org/2018/03/01/news-opinion/arab-teenagers-arrested-beating-jewish-boy-outside-paris-area-synagogue
The Medrash tells us that in order to explain the mitzva of the Shekalim, Hashem took out a coin of fire from underneath his Kisei HaKavod and showed it to Moshe. Rav Elyashiv asks two questions. First, had Moshe Rabbeinu never seen a coin in his life? Second, what exactly is Hashem doing hiding coins under his Kisei HaKavod?
He answers with a Tosfos in Chulin (42a) that Moshe couldn't understand how money, the most earthly of all creations, can save someone's neshama (Kofer Nefesh). So Hashem showed him a coin. Which coin? The gemara in Bava Basra (11a) says that during a hunger year Munbaz HaMelech emptied out his treasure chest to feed the poor people. His family became very mad that he was squandering the royal wealth. To this he replied that he is not losing the money, he saving the money up in Shamayim in a place where it will last forever while they squander money down on earth where it will eventually disappear.
Rav Elyashiv says these are the coins that Hashem took out to show Moshe. The coins that are given for tzedoka with Mesiras Nefesh are precious and are saved by Hashem under the Kisei HaKavod. Moshe understood that coins are made of destructive fire. They cause jealousy, cheating, stealing, and murder. Hashem showed him that coins can be made out of productive fire. Coins given for tzedoka can light the world and warm the world with their "Holy fire". On these coins Hashem said "Kazeh Yitnu". If the people give in this fashion then even coins can be Kofer Nefesh and money can redeem your soul.
http://www.thejewisheye.com/rev_pkitisa.html
פרשת כי תשא • הגאון רבי דוד לאו עם וורט על הפרשה
Police in France arrested four teenagers who are suspected of beating a Jewish boy with a stick and taking away his kippah outside a synagogue north of Paris.
Read more: https://www.jta.org/2018/03/01/news-opinion/arab-teenagers-arrested-beating-jewish-boy-outside-paris-area-synagogue
The Medrash tells us that in order to explain the mitzva of the Shekalim, Hashem took out a coin of fire from underneath his Kisei HaKavod and showed it to Moshe. Rav Elyashiv asks two questions. First, had Moshe Rabbeinu never seen a coin in his life? Second, what exactly is Hashem doing hiding coins under his Kisei HaKavod?
He answers with a Tosfos in Chulin (42a) that Moshe couldn't understand how money, the most earthly of all creations, can save someone's neshama (Kofer Nefesh). So Hashem showed him a coin. Which coin? The gemara in Bava Basra (11a) says that during a hunger year Munbaz HaMelech emptied out his treasure chest to feed the poor people. His family became very mad that he was squandering the royal wealth. To this he replied that he is not losing the money, he saving the money up in Shamayim in a place where it will last forever while they squander money down on earth where it will eventually disappear.
Rav Elyashiv says these are the coins that Hashem took out to show Moshe. The coins that are given for tzedoka with Mesiras Nefesh are precious and are saved by Hashem under the Kisei HaKavod. Moshe understood that coins are made of destructive fire. They cause jealousy, cheating, stealing, and murder. Hashem showed him that coins can be made out of productive fire. Coins given for tzedoka can light the world and warm the world with their "Holy fire". On these coins Hashem said "Kazeh Yitnu". If the people give in this fashion then even coins can be Kofer Nefesh and money can redeem your soul.
http://www.thejewisheye.com/rev_pkitisa.html
Happy Purim
The man was a garbage collector. He was walking down the street dumping the garbage bags and fitting empty bags into the small bins that lined the streets of central Israel. When he saw me, he broke into a smile.
"Happy Purim," he greeted me exuberantly. "Chag Purim Sameach. Chag Pesach Sameach."
He blessed me with health and wished that my life would be filled with happy occasions. I broke into a wide grin and told him that he had made my day and had brought a smile to my face. Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to wish him the same that he had wished me.
As I walked away, I reflected on what had just transpired. Most people would judge the man by his profession and how much money he was earning. I thought to myself that, although he was a garbage collector, his net worth was more than any millionaire.
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He blessed me with health and wished that my life would be filled with happy occasions. I broke into a wide grin and told him that he had made my day and had brought a smile to my face. Fortunately, I had the presence of mind to wish him the same that he had wished me.
As I walked away, I reflected on what had just transpired. Most people would judge the man by his profession and how much money he was earning. I thought to myself that, although he was a garbage collector, his net worth was more than any millionaire.
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