In a roadside motel on the way down to Mitzrayim Moshe Rabbeinu was almost killed because he didn't give his son a Bris Milah. He was on his way to do the great mitzva of rescuing the entire Jewish nation. Why didn't this mitzva protect him?
The Meshech Chochma asks how can Moshe do something so seemingly irresponsible like bring his wife and children with him to Mitzrayim? He answers that Moshe was still not confident that the Bnei Yisroel would believe what he was going to tell them. He therefore brought his family to prove that Hashem was taking them all out of Mitzrayim or else he wouldn't dare bring his own family to get stuck there as well.
His family's coming to Mitzrayim was a continuation of his lack of faith in Bnei Yisroel's emunah. If not for this lack of emunah his son would not be on the trip with him in the first place. Therefore the mitzva of redeeming Bnei Yisroel could not save him.
http://www.thejewisheye.com/rev_pshemos.html
10 Jan 2012
Candidates - past and present
Joel Richardson speaks about Ron Paul in an interview at WND.
An activist group whose leaders object to the beliefs of Pat Buchanan, a senior adviser to three American presidents, a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1992 and 1996, and the Reform Party’s presidential candidate in 2000, is announcing victory in its campaign to have the author of multiple best-selling books removed from MSNBC.
Continue reading: http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/critics-claim-msnbc-has-suspended-pat-buchanan/
An activist group whose leaders object to the beliefs of Pat Buchanan, a senior adviser to three American presidents, a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1992 and 1996, and the Reform Party’s presidential candidate in 2000, is announcing victory in its campaign to have the author of multiple best-selling books removed from MSNBC.
Continue reading: http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/critics-claim-msnbc-has-suspended-pat-buchanan/
9 Jan 2012
Shnayim Mikrah Ve'echod Targum
"And these are the names of the Children of Israel" (Shmos 1:1). In conjunction with the public reading of the parsha, our Chachomim require that every individual learn it on his own and be familiar with its basic pshat. To achieve this level of mastery, they instituted a three-tiered review of the parsha: The text itself must be read twice, followed by Onkelos. Shnayim Mikrah Ve'echod Targum, "twice the text and once the translation of Onkelos", is the name of this mitzvah. A G-d fearing man should study Rashi's commentary in addition to Targum.
The Levush writes that it is hinted at (remez) in the first pasuk of this week's Parsha. The Hebrew letters of the pasuk "V'eila Shemos Bnei Yisroel" are an acronym for: V'chayav Adam Likros Haparsha Shnayim Mikra Ve'echod Targum Vze Chayavim Kol Bnei Yisroel".
http://www.thejewisheye.com/rev_pshemos.html
The Levush writes that it is hinted at (remez) in the first pasuk of this week's Parsha. The Hebrew letters of the pasuk "V'eila Shemos Bnei Yisroel" are an acronym for: V'chayav Adam Likros Haparsha Shnayim Mikra Ve'echod Targum Vze Chayavim Kol Bnei Yisroel".
http://www.thejewisheye.com/rev_pshemos.html
A penny for your thoughts
A southern Israeli father of two who donated 1800 shekels ($470) to a synagogue last Yom Kippur was repaid in spades last week with a whopping 18 million shekels ($4.7 million) for a winning “Lotto” lottery ticket, which cost him a grand total of 64 shekels ($16).
“I truly believe I won because I gave money to the synagogue on Yom Kippur,” said the man, who is in his 40s. “I contributed 1,800 shekels to the synagogue and HaShem gave me back 18 million shekels.”
Read full article: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151535
And speaking about money, the following is an excerpt from an article about paying in pennies.
A University of Colorado student wanted to protest his high tuition. He paid his $1,400 tuition payment with 1,400 one-dollar bills. I guess that is somewhat understandable, but when you switch to pennies it gets even worse. Jason West from Utah was arrested after paying his medical bill with pennies. He disputed the bill that the clinic sent him for $25. He went in person to pay his bill and asked if they accepted cash payment. They answered that they did, and he promptly dumped 2,500 pennies on the counter. The clinic called the police and Jason was issued a summons for disorderly conduct. That ticket carries a penalty of up to $140. It was the way he dumped the pennies that got him fined.
A man was upset with the Fulton County tax office. He decided that he was going to pay his fee for renewing his license plates in pennies. Pennies come in boxes of $25 and weigh about 15 pounds. He found a bank willing to supply him with the requisite pennies, and they told him that he was the only person to make a withdrawal using a hand truck! The license fee was $167. He boxed up 15,000 pennies and included a check for the remaining $17. He mailed his pennies to the tax office, which was only a block away. The shipping charge came to $16. The office accepted the payment without comment. Did they legally have to accept the payment? Halachically, does someone have to accept payment in pennies?
Read full article: http://www.5tjt.com/local-news/12904-pay-with-pennies-call-the-coppers
“I truly believe I won because I gave money to the synagogue on Yom Kippur,” said the man, who is in his 40s. “I contributed 1,800 shekels to the synagogue and HaShem gave me back 18 million shekels.”
Read full article: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151535
And speaking about money, the following is an excerpt from an article about paying in pennies.
A University of Colorado student wanted to protest his high tuition. He paid his $1,400 tuition payment with 1,400 one-dollar bills. I guess that is somewhat understandable, but when you switch to pennies it gets even worse. Jason West from Utah was arrested after paying his medical bill with pennies. He disputed the bill that the clinic sent him for $25. He went in person to pay his bill and asked if they accepted cash payment. They answered that they did, and he promptly dumped 2,500 pennies on the counter. The clinic called the police and Jason was issued a summons for disorderly conduct. That ticket carries a penalty of up to $140. It was the way he dumped the pennies that got him fined.
A man was upset with the Fulton County tax office. He decided that he was going to pay his fee for renewing his license plates in pennies. Pennies come in boxes of $25 and weigh about 15 pounds. He found a bank willing to supply him with the requisite pennies, and they told him that he was the only person to make a withdrawal using a hand truck! The license fee was $167. He boxed up 15,000 pennies and included a check for the remaining $17. He mailed his pennies to the tax office, which was only a block away. The shipping charge came to $16. The office accepted the payment without comment. Did they legally have to accept the payment? Halachically, does someone have to accept payment in pennies?
Read full article: http://www.5tjt.com/local-news/12904-pay-with-pennies-call-the-coppers
8 Jan 2012
Will we ever learn?
Nearly 100 soldiers are confined to a Seattle base following a report of missing sensitive military equipment, including scopes and night lasers, a spokesman said Sunday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/08/us/washington-missing-base-equipment/index.html
Victor Sharpe has penned an article at American Thinker titled Looming Destruction: Will Jews Ever Learn?
On the eve of the Second World War, Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel's first president, wrote the following about the persecutions taking place in Nazi Germany:
It would require the eloquence of a Jeremiah to picture the horrors, the human anguish, of this new Destruction and of a new book of Lamentations to depict the present plight of Israel among the nations.
Several decades earlier, Max Nordau, one of the most noted European philosophers of the 19th century, and supporter of Theodore Herzl, once told the great Zionist leader and Jewish patriot, Vladimir Jabotinsky, that "the Jew learns not by way of reason, but from catastrophes. He won't buy an umbrella merely because he sees clouds in the sky. He waits until he is drenched and catches pneumonia."
Continue reading full article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/looming_destruction_will_jews_ever_learn.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/08/us/washington-missing-base-equipment/index.html
Victor Sharpe has penned an article at American Thinker titled Looming Destruction: Will Jews Ever Learn?
On the eve of the Second World War, Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel's first president, wrote the following about the persecutions taking place in Nazi Germany:
It would require the eloquence of a Jeremiah to picture the horrors, the human anguish, of this new Destruction and of a new book of Lamentations to depict the present plight of Israel among the nations.
Several decades earlier, Max Nordau, one of the most noted European philosophers of the 19th century, and supporter of Theodore Herzl, once told the great Zionist leader and Jewish patriot, Vladimir Jabotinsky, that "the Jew learns not by way of reason, but from catastrophes. He won't buy an umbrella merely because he sees clouds in the sky. He waits until he is drenched and catches pneumonia."
Continue reading full article: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/looming_destruction_will_jews_ever_learn.html
7 Jan 2012
Subject to revocation
The Muslim Brotherhood denied on Saturday that it had assured Washington it would uphold the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty and the second in command says the MB will not recognize Israel under any circumstances.
Caroline Glick writes about The land-for-peace hoax.
The rise of the forces of jihadist Islam in Egypt places the US and other Western powers in an uncomfortable position. The US is the guarantor of Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. That treaty is based on the proposition of land for peace. Israel gave Egypt Sinai in 1982 and in exchange it received a peace treaty with Egypt. Now that the Islamists are poised to take power, the treaty is effectively null and void.
The question naturally arises: Will the US act in accordance with its role as guarantor of the peace and demand that the new Egyptian government give Sinai back to Israel? Because if the Obama administration or whatever administration is in power when Egypt abrogates the treaty does not issue such a demand, and stand behind it, and if the EU does not support the demand, the entire concept of land-for-peace will be exposed as a hoax.
Indeed the land-for-peace formula will be exposed as a twofold fiction. First, it is based on the false proposition that the peace process is a two-way street. Israel gives land, the Arabs give peace. But the inevitable death of the Egyptian- Israeli peace accord under an Egyptian jihadist regime makes clear that the land-for-peace formula is a one-way street. Israeli land giveaways are permanent. Arab commitments to peace can be revoked at any time.
Read full article: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=252431
Caroline Glick writes about The land-for-peace hoax.
The rise of the forces of jihadist Islam in Egypt places the US and other Western powers in an uncomfortable position. The US is the guarantor of Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. That treaty is based on the proposition of land for peace. Israel gave Egypt Sinai in 1982 and in exchange it received a peace treaty with Egypt. Now that the Islamists are poised to take power, the treaty is effectively null and void.
The question naturally arises: Will the US act in accordance with its role as guarantor of the peace and demand that the new Egyptian government give Sinai back to Israel? Because if the Obama administration or whatever administration is in power when Egypt abrogates the treaty does not issue such a demand, and stand behind it, and if the EU does not support the demand, the entire concept of land-for-peace will be exposed as a hoax.
Indeed the land-for-peace formula will be exposed as a twofold fiction. First, it is based on the false proposition that the peace process is a two-way street. Israel gives land, the Arabs give peace. But the inevitable death of the Egyptian- Israeli peace accord under an Egyptian jihadist regime makes clear that the land-for-peace formula is a one-way street. Israeli land giveaways are permanent. Arab commitments to peace can be revoked at any time.
Read full article: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=252431
6 Jan 2012
Helping the stranger
Below is a video about Eritrean refugees in Israel. If you view the clip on YouTube, you can read the comments posted. Would the comment posted by @TheGreenPastures be considered incitement or would it be viewed as a quote from a religious text?
5 Jan 2012
The rainbow
This afternoon, as we drove through a heavy downpour, the sky suddenly cleared for a couple of minutes and the sun shone through. Suddenly, we saw a rainbow and recited the blessing one pronounces upon seeing that phenomenon.
When I got home, I googled "saying a brocha on a rainbow" and came across an interesting document titled "Halacha of the rainbow" which posed various questions and answers about the subject including:
Question:How is the rainbow connected with the coming of Moshiach?
Answer:Before the coming of Moshiach, a very special rainbow will appear. This rainbow will be so bright that all rainbows that have appeared on earth will seem very dim and weak in comparison.The bright strong colors of this rainbow are a sign that the Redemption is about to come. It is this rainbow, the Zohar tells us, that G-d was speaking about when He said to Noah (Gen. 9:16), "I will look at it to recall the eternal promise."(Zohar 1:72b as quoted in Discover Moshiach)
Click here to read full article.
When I got home, I googled "saying a brocha on a rainbow" and came across an interesting document titled "Halacha of the rainbow" which posed various questions and answers about the subject including:
Question:How is the rainbow connected with the coming of Moshiach?
Answer:Before the coming of Moshiach, a very special rainbow will appear. This rainbow will be so bright that all rainbows that have appeared on earth will seem very dim and weak in comparison.The bright strong colors of this rainbow are a sign that the Redemption is about to come. It is this rainbow, the Zohar tells us, that G-d was speaking about when He said to Noah (Gen. 9:16), "I will look at it to recall the eternal promise."(Zohar 1:72b as quoted in Discover Moshiach)
Click here to read full article.
The fast of the tenth of Tevet
'And it was in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth (day) of the month, that Nebuchadnetzar, King of Babylon came, he and all his hosts, upon Yerushalayim, and he encamped upon it and built forts around it. And the city came under siege till the eleventh year of King Tzidkiyahu. On the ninth of the month famine was intense in the city, the people had no bread, and the city was breached.' (Second Melachim 25).
We see then, that the tenth of Tevet - on which the siege of Yerushalayim began, was the beginning of the whole chain of calamities which finally ended with the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash.
Read full article: http://www.ou.org/chagim/roshchodesh/tevet/fast.htm
We see then, that the tenth of Tevet - on which the siege of Yerushalayim began, was the beginning of the whole chain of calamities which finally ended with the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash.
Read full article: http://www.ou.org/chagim/roshchodesh/tevet/fast.htm
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