In the beginning of Parshas VaEirah the Torah tells us the children of Reuven, Shimon, and Levi. With Levi the Torah goes into great detail and then does not continue with the other Shevatim. If the whole purpose was to document Moshe and Aharon's lineage why start with Reuven?
Rav Eliezer HaGadol Ashkenazi in his classic, Maasei Hashem, says that the Torah is teaching us why Levi's descendants played a central role in Yetzias Mitzrayim and not the descendants of his older brothers. He says that Levi foresaw and felt the pain of the upcoming Tzaros and gave his children names hinting towards the galus. Gershon, that they would be strangers in a strange land; Kehos, weak and battered; Mirori, they would lead bitter lives.
This is seen in the wording of the parsha when documenting each family. By Reuven it says, "The heads of the families were..." By Shimon it says, "The children of Shimon..." By Levi it says, "These are the names of the children of Levi." It was the tears shed behind these names that not only helped save his family from being pulled into slavery, but it also made this family the worthy redeemers of the Bnei Yisrael.
It says in the last perek of Yeshaya (66:10) regarding the Binyan Bais HaMikdash, "Sisu Ita Masos Kol Hamisablim Aleha; Rejoice those who mourned over her." Those who cry most in the Galus are the ones who are zocheh to merit rejoicing in the Geula.
http://revach.net/tefila/article.php?id=1591
Glenn Greenwald: Pro-Israel sentiment in the U.S. is at least as bad for freedom of speech as Islamist terrorists murdering cartoonists
No Holds Barred: Are you guilty of feeling hatred for the Paris murderers?
Who bears some culpability for the egregious spelling mistake in the following headline?
Farage says West bares some 'culpability' for Paris massacres because of foreign wars and mass immigration
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2907116/Farage-says-West-bares-culpability-Paris-massacres-foreign-wars-mass-immigration.html#ixzz3OdtYhaRD
UPDATE: Spelling error corrected!!!
Great exchange between journalist and White House Spokesperson in a post titled Fox’s Ed Henry Confronts Earnest: Why Didn’t You Send Someone to Paris?
12 Jan 2015
Inexact language and messages
Dan Margalit opines, "French President Francois Hollande used inexact language to describe the murder of four Jews in the heart of Paris. He called it an "anti-Semitic act," but refrained from using the words "Islamic terrorism." Commentators explained this puzzling phrasing by pointing out Hollande's desire to not anger French Muslims, many of whom voted for him in the last presidential election. Hollande's choice of words represented a distortion of reality."
Read more: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=11185
French prosecutors said Monday they were investigating notorious French comedian Dieudonne for "inciting terrorism" after he posted a Facebook comment that could be interpreted as sympathising with one of last week's attackers in Paris.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/french-comedian-dieudonne-probed-paris-shootings-remark-135503969.html#Q1Td4oc
Sammy Ghozlan, founder of France’s National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, announced he would immigrate to Israel, calling it “a message.”
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.635398
Orthodox Jewish Medics From Monsey, NY Air-Transport Critically Injured US Army Vet For Free
Margaret Sullivan explains why the New York Times executive editor, Dean Baquet, didn't publish cartoons form the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
Ultimately, he decided against it, he said, because he had to consider foremost the sensibilities of Times readers, especially its Muslim readers. ...“We have a standard that is long held and that serves us well: that there is a line between gratuitous insult and satire. Most of these are gratuitous insult.”
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/charlie-hebdo-cartoon-publication-debate/?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Apparently, calling Ultra-Orthodox Jews "leeches" won't offend and is not a gratuitous insult.
The reality is that a majority of Israeli citizens do not serve in the military, including Palestinian citizens of Israel, or the “fifth column,” as they are often branded, and the ultra-Orthodox, or “leeches,” as they’ve been called.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/opinion/why-i-wont-serve-israel.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
Haftorah Parashat Va’eira: The Triumph Over All 10 Nations
Read more: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=11185
French prosecutors said Monday they were investigating notorious French comedian Dieudonne for "inciting terrorism" after he posted a Facebook comment that could be interpreted as sympathising with one of last week's attackers in Paris.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/french-comedian-dieudonne-probed-paris-shootings-remark-135503969.html#Q1Td4oc
Sammy Ghozlan, founder of France’s National Bureau for Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, announced he would immigrate to Israel, calling it “a message.”
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.635398
Orthodox Jewish Medics From Monsey, NY Air-Transport Critically Injured US Army Vet For Free
Margaret Sullivan explains why the New York Times executive editor, Dean Baquet, didn't publish cartoons form the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
Ultimately, he decided against it, he said, because he had to consider foremost the sensibilities of Times readers, especially its Muslim readers. ...“We have a standard that is long held and that serves us well: that there is a line between gratuitous insult and satire. Most of these are gratuitous insult.”
http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/charlie-hebdo-cartoon-publication-debate/?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Apparently, calling Ultra-Orthodox Jews "leeches" won't offend and is not a gratuitous insult.
The reality is that a majority of Israeli citizens do not serve in the military, including Palestinian citizens of Israel, or the “fifth column,” as they are often branded, and the ultra-Orthodox, or “leeches,” as they’ve been called.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/opinion/why-i-wont-serve-israel.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
Haftorah Parashat Va’eira: The Triumph Over All 10 Nations
11 Jan 2015
His amazing bitachon
משותק אבל מאמין: "אני לא מסכן. זו זכות עבורי להיות במצב הזה"
For those who understand Hebrew, the article above and related video below are incredible testimonies to a special inspiring individual.
Paris: Grand Mosque Open, Grand Synagogue Closed
BBC Reporter Slammed for Anti-Semitic Comments at Paris March
When initial reports stated that the four victims of the attach at the Paris kosher market were to be buried in Har HaZeisim, I wondered if Israel would guarantee that family members would be able to visit their loved ones without risk of being targets of rock attacks. Now reports claim Paris Victims to be Buried in Har Hamenuhot in Jerusalem.
For those who understand Hebrew, the article above and related video below are incredible testimonies to a special inspiring individual.
Paris: Grand Mosque Open, Grand Synagogue Closed
BBC Reporter Slammed for Anti-Semitic Comments at Paris March
When initial reports stated that the four victims of the attach at the Paris kosher market were to be buried in Har HaZeisim, I wondered if Israel would guarantee that family members would be able to visit their loved ones without risk of being targets of rock attacks. Now reports claim Paris Victims to be Buried in Har Hamenuhot in Jerusalem.
CNN speaks volumes
Yesterday I posted about how I was reading a worthwhile book by Rebbetzin Feldbrand titled Essentials; A Commentary on Derech Hashem by Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzato, published by Israel Bookshop Publications.
Below is a short thought from the book on a verse in this past week's parsha attributed to Divrei Meir.
"Teven ein nisan le'avadecha u'levenim omrim lanu asu...we receive no straw (teven) and are told to make bricks" (Shemos 5:16)
Rrav Meir of Premishlan explains: "Even if we lack understanding (tevunah) to repent, our white hairs (levenim translates as both "bricks" and "white ones") exhort us to do so, for old age has arrived.)
הגר"ח קנייבסקי: על יהודי צרפת לעלות לארץ ישראל
Below are a selection of headlines linking to articles regarding CNN. Just this morning a friend read me an email that is making the rounds in which there is a claim that the terrorist at the supermarket had a destination of a Chabad school in mind when he set off but got into a car accident and changed his plans. I can't vouch for the veracity of the email.
CNN Tries To Convince Viewers Attack On Kosher Market Was Not Anti-Semitic
CNN's silence on Jim Clancy speaks volumes
CNN Reporter in Full Meltdown: Those Who Disagree With Me on Muhammad Cartoons Are Agents for Israel
Anderson Cooper Corrects Cuomo’s Description of French Terrorist as ‘African-American’
Below is a short thought from the book on a verse in this past week's parsha attributed to Divrei Meir.
"Teven ein nisan le'avadecha u'levenim omrim lanu asu...we receive no straw (teven) and are told to make bricks" (Shemos 5:16)
Rrav Meir of Premishlan explains: "Even if we lack understanding (tevunah) to repent, our white hairs (levenim translates as both "bricks" and "white ones") exhort us to do so, for old age has arrived.)
הגר"ח קנייבסקי: על יהודי צרפת לעלות לארץ ישראל
Below are a selection of headlines linking to articles regarding CNN. Just this morning a friend read me an email that is making the rounds in which there is a claim that the terrorist at the supermarket had a destination of a Chabad school in mind when he set off but got into a car accident and changed his plans. I can't vouch for the veracity of the email.
CNN Tries To Convince Viewers Attack On Kosher Market Was Not Anti-Semitic
CNN's silence on Jim Clancy speaks volumes
CNN Reporter in Full Meltdown: Those Who Disagree With Me on Muhammad Cartoons Are Agents for Israel
Anderson Cooper Corrects Cuomo’s Description of French Terrorist as ‘African-American’
10 Jan 2015
The safety of the community
I have been reading a book by Rebbetzin Feldbrand titled Essentials; A Commentary on Derech Hashem by Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzato which contains many inspirational thoughts and stories. I must say that I have been inspired.
The DailyMail reports 'Every single French Jew I know has left Paris': Editor of Britain's Jewish Chronicle claims people are fleeing terror-hit French capital.
The New York Times asks After Days of Terror, French Muslims Wonder: What Now?
Jewish quarters across the country are on high alert after a hostage siege Friday at a kosher market that President François Hollande described as a “terrifying act of anti-Semitism.” This has only increased the sense of competing communities pitted against each other. The police said the suspect, Amedy Coulibaly, an associate of Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, the brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo attack, declared he had wanted to defend Palestinians and target Jews.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/world/europe/french-muslims-worry-about-backlash-after-charlie-hebdo-attack.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Shouldn't the New York Times ask French Jews wonder, what now?
I guess they don't have any need to worry because in September 2014, EJP reported that French Prime Minister Manuel Valls spoke at the Great Synagogue of rue de la Victoire in Paris where he stated, ‘’the government closely monitors that the safety of the community is guaranteed everywhere, all the time.’’
http://ejpress.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50462&catid=2
Before the weekend, I posted the sentence ending a Time magazine article titled Where Do France's Jews Belong?
Unlike Sharon, I can't accept that fighting anti-Semitism in France is futile, because I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses to live.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,671180,00.html
INN reports that "Plans are underway for all four of Friday's victims to be buried in a state ceremony in Israel."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189744#.VLFl-JVATIU
Perhaps the last sentence can be amended to "I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses to die and the place where he or she chooses to be buried."
The DailyMail reports 'Every single French Jew I know has left Paris': Editor of Britain's Jewish Chronicle claims people are fleeing terror-hit French capital.
The New York Times asks After Days of Terror, French Muslims Wonder: What Now?
Jewish quarters across the country are on high alert after a hostage siege Friday at a kosher market that President François Hollande described as a “terrifying act of anti-Semitism.” This has only increased the sense of competing communities pitted against each other. The police said the suspect, Amedy Coulibaly, an associate of Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, the brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo attack, declared he had wanted to defend Palestinians and target Jews.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/world/europe/french-muslims-worry-about-backlash-after-charlie-hebdo-attack.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
Shouldn't the New York Times ask French Jews wonder, what now?
I guess they don't have any need to worry because in September 2014, EJP reported that French Prime Minister Manuel Valls spoke at the Great Synagogue of rue de la Victoire in Paris where he stated, ‘’the government closely monitors that the safety of the community is guaranteed everywhere, all the time.’’
http://ejpress.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50462&catid=2
Before the weekend, I posted the sentence ending a Time magazine article titled Where Do France's Jews Belong?
Unlike Sharon, I can't accept that fighting anti-Semitism in France is futile, because I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses to live.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,671180,00.html
INN reports that "Plans are underway for all four of Friday's victims to be buried in a state ceremony in Israel."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/189744#.VLFl-JVATIU
Perhaps the last sentence can be amended to "I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses to die and the place where he or she chooses to be buried."
9 Jan 2015
Empathy
Parshas Shemos - Derech Eretz Kadma L'torah -To Be A Mensch
This week's parsha speaks about the miraculous story of how Moshe Rabeinu came into this world and how he developed and matured to become the savior of the Jewish people.Moshe Rabeinu spent his formative years in Pharoah's household leading us to ask,why was this the most appropriate place for Moshe to be raised?
Read more: http://baltimorejewishlife.com/torah/parsha-detail.php?SECTION_ID=45&ARTICLE_ID=56088
Shooting at Kosher market in eastern Paris
Below are a few sentences from a 2004 Time article.
Ariel Sharon's belief that the Jews of France belong in Israel and ought to get there as soon as possible lest they fall victim to anti-Semitism gone wild has opened a major diplomatic row between France and Israel.
... Unlike Sharon, I can't accept that fighting anti-Semitism in France is futile, because I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses to live.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,671180,00.html
Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis has printed a letter from a reader who finds herself unmarried at age 29. The Rebbetzin has yet to respond, but let's hope the letter writer finds her bashert soon.
INN writes, Paris Massacre Terrorists Were on US 'No Fly' List 'For Years'
British Cleric to NewsmaxTV Host: ‘Are You Jewish?’
This week's parsha speaks about the miraculous story of how Moshe Rabeinu came into this world and how he developed and matured to become the savior of the Jewish people.Moshe Rabeinu spent his formative years in Pharoah's household leading us to ask,why was this the most appropriate place for Moshe to be raised?
Read more: http://baltimorejewishlife.com/torah/parsha-detail.php?SECTION_ID=45&ARTICLE_ID=56088
Shooting at Kosher market in eastern Paris
Below are a few sentences from a 2004 Time article.
Ariel Sharon's belief that the Jews of France belong in Israel and ought to get there as soon as possible lest they fall victim to anti-Semitism gone wild has opened a major diplomatic row between France and Israel.
... Unlike Sharon, I can't accept that fighting anti-Semitism in France is futile, because I believe that a Jew's place is anywhere he or she chooses to live.
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,671180,00.html
Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis has printed a letter from a reader who finds herself unmarried at age 29. The Rebbetzin has yet to respond, but let's hope the letter writer finds her bashert soon.
INN writes, Paris Massacre Terrorists Were on US 'No Fly' List 'For Years'
British Cleric to NewsmaxTV Host: ‘Are You Jewish?’
30 Dec 2014
17 years
Fasting on New Year's? - Insights Into Halacha: The Many Facets of Asarah B'Teves
שו"ת וידאו: האם יש חובה הלכתית להצביע בבחירות
"Yaakov lived in Mitzrayim for 17 years; and the days of Yaakov, the years of his life were 147 years". We know from Parshas VaYigash (47:9) that Yaakov was 130 years old when he came to Mitzrayim. Once the pasuk informs us that he lived the remainder of his life in Mitzrayim, it is not necessary to state that he remained in Mitzrayim for 17 years. Obviously, if he lived until the age of 147, he had to be in Mitzrayim for 17 years? Daas Zekainim MiBaalei HaTosfos answer, the pasuk is stressing that Yosef repaid the kindness which Yaakov had bestowed upon him in his youth. Yosef lived by his father for 17 years until he was sold. During those years Yaakov took care of Yosef and fed him. Midah KiNeged Midah, Yosef supported his father for the last 17 years of his life. It is for this reason that the Torah stresses that Yaakov lived in Mitzrayim for 17 years - the years that Yosef was Mikayem the Midah KiNeged Midah.
http://revach.net/tefila/article.php?id=1533
Having been taught about how we strive to go uphill in our goals of attaining higher spritual heights, I found it ironic to read the following headline today.
Another U.S. downhill winner in Italy
How can you be a winner if you're going downhill?
Great reporting at a Jordanian news agency about Jewish extremists storming the Al Aqsa Mosque compound.
Muslim worshippers inside the mosque gathered to repel the incursions of settlers and prevent them from performing their Talmudic rituals and prayers inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque. http://petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=177884&CatID=13&Type=Home>ype=1
שו"ת וידאו: האם יש חובה הלכתית להצביע בבחירות
"Yaakov lived in Mitzrayim for 17 years; and the days of Yaakov, the years of his life were 147 years". We know from Parshas VaYigash (47:9) that Yaakov was 130 years old when he came to Mitzrayim. Once the pasuk informs us that he lived the remainder of his life in Mitzrayim, it is not necessary to state that he remained in Mitzrayim for 17 years. Obviously, if he lived until the age of 147, he had to be in Mitzrayim for 17 years? Daas Zekainim MiBaalei HaTosfos answer, the pasuk is stressing that Yosef repaid the kindness which Yaakov had bestowed upon him in his youth. Yosef lived by his father for 17 years until he was sold. During those years Yaakov took care of Yosef and fed him. Midah KiNeged Midah, Yosef supported his father for the last 17 years of his life. It is for this reason that the Torah stresses that Yaakov lived in Mitzrayim for 17 years - the years that Yosef was Mikayem the Midah KiNeged Midah.
http://revach.net/tefila/article.php?id=1533
Having been taught about how we strive to go uphill in our goals of attaining higher spritual heights, I found it ironic to read the following headline today.
Another U.S. downhill winner in Italy
How can you be a winner if you're going downhill?
Great reporting at a Jordanian news agency about Jewish extremists storming the Al Aqsa Mosque compound.
Muslim worshippers inside the mosque gathered to repel the incursions of settlers and prevent them from performing their Talmudic rituals and prayers inside the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque. http://petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Site_Id=1&lang=2&NewsID=177884&CatID=13&Type=Home>ype=1
29 Dec 2014
Visiting a senior center
Collive documents a visit by Yeshiva Bochurim to a nonagenarian in a senior center in the first video below.
Did it ever happen that you learned a word for the first time and then the word kept popping up in books you read in the ensuing weeks?
Yesterday I took out a book from the library by Rabbi Yissocher Frand titled "Were All in This Together." Last night I came across a video uploaded to YouTube over a year ago in which Rabbi Frand speaks inspiringly about the efficacy of tefillah. Well worth listening to.
I was debating whether to link to this article but you might as well be aware as to whom PressTV turns to for opinions about the U.S. President, none other than David Duke.
Did it ever happen that you learned a word for the first time and then the word kept popping up in books you read in the ensuing weeks?
Yesterday I took out a book from the library by Rabbi Yissocher Frand titled "Were All in This Together." Last night I came across a video uploaded to YouTube over a year ago in which Rabbi Frand speaks inspiringly about the efficacy of tefillah. Well worth listening to.
I was debating whether to link to this article but you might as well be aware as to whom PressTV turns to for opinions about the U.S. President, none other than David Duke.
28 Dec 2014
No break
Unlike every other Parsha, there is no break between the end of Parshas Vayigash and the beginning of Parshas Vayechi. The Medrash brings several reasons for this. Rav Shamshon Rephael Hirsh offers his own explanation for this as well.
Parshas Vayechi starts with Yaakov settling in Mitzrayim. These were the best and only peaceful years in Yaakov's strife filled life. He watched his family grow and learned Torah with his children and grandchildren. Surely, this deserves a Parsha by itself. "However," says Rav Hirsch, "the opposite is true."
All of Yaakov's troubles laid the foundation for the building of Bnei Yisrael. Every tragedy he suffered was another building block in the future of Klal Yisrael. His time in Mitzrayim may have been enjoyable, but did not add to the future legacy of the nation. These years were a reward for his lifetime of avodah in the face of the turmoil.
"This is why," says Rav Hirsch, "Parshas Vayechi is not a separate parsha. It is merely the epilogue of Yaakov's life and is attached to the parsha before, and the conclusion of his life. We are not here on this world to coast," says Rav Hirsch. "It is only through our suffering that we can accomplish anything."
http://revach.net/parshas-hashavua/quick-vort/Parshas-VaYechi-Rav-Shlomo-Zalman-Zelaznik-Why-Did-Yaakov-Go-Blind/5179
Open Season on Jews for Palestinians
IRS Says it ‘Mistakenly’ Penalized GOP Candidate Christine O’Donnell For a Second Time
Parshas Vayechi starts with Yaakov settling in Mitzrayim. These were the best and only peaceful years in Yaakov's strife filled life. He watched his family grow and learned Torah with his children and grandchildren. Surely, this deserves a Parsha by itself. "However," says Rav Hirsch, "the opposite is true."
All of Yaakov's troubles laid the foundation for the building of Bnei Yisrael. Every tragedy he suffered was another building block in the future of Klal Yisrael. His time in Mitzrayim may have been enjoyable, but did not add to the future legacy of the nation. These years were a reward for his lifetime of avodah in the face of the turmoil.
"This is why," says Rav Hirsch, "Parshas Vayechi is not a separate parsha. It is merely the epilogue of Yaakov's life and is attached to the parsha before, and the conclusion of his life. We are not here on this world to coast," says Rav Hirsch. "It is only through our suffering that we can accomplish anything."
http://revach.net/parshas-hashavua/quick-vort/Parshas-VaYechi-Rav-Shlomo-Zalman-Zelaznik-Why-Did-Yaakov-Go-Blind/5179
Open Season on Jews for Palestinians
IRS Says it ‘Mistakenly’ Penalized GOP Candidate Christine O’Donnell For a Second Time
Weathering the weather
Whether the weather be fine,
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold,
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not!
Author: unknown
I was reminded of the above poem when I read an article at CNN about the missing AirAsia plane.
CNN aviation analyst Mary Schiavo questioned whether weather would have been a factor in what happened to the plane.
"Ordinarily, the pilots would get the updated weather from air traffic control and, of course, their onboard radar," said Schiavo, a former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation. "So whether there was (bad) weather in the area would not be a mystery." http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/airasia-missing-plane/index.html
A rescue operation is under way in high winds in Greek waters for an Italian ferry carrying 466 people that has caught fire, Greek officials said early Sunday.
...The evacuation of the ferry was occurring in difficult conditions, with passengers saying gale-force winds were lashing the vessel.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/fire-italian-ferry-bad-weather-off-greece-forces-070816823.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
An Indonesian man scheduled to travel on the missing Air Asia Indonesia flight with his family has thanked God that chance led him to cancel their tickets just a day before it disappeared.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2889017/We-thankful-god-Man-supposed-travel-missing-AirAsia-flight-wife-three-young-children-cancelled-tickets-YESTERDAY-father-ill.html
We board an airplane or a ship and take it for granted we are going to arrive at our destination some hours later.
A friend of mine told me how she dreamed she had gone on vacation and that her apartment had been robbed. When she woke up and saw that a robbery had not taken place, she was grateful that she still had what she thought had been taken. Let's be grateful for things that we take for granted. And let's say a perek Tehillim for Ayala bat Rut, who faces a long recuperation period.
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold,
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not!
Author: unknown
I was reminded of the above poem when I read an article at CNN about the missing AirAsia plane.
CNN aviation analyst Mary Schiavo questioned whether weather would have been a factor in what happened to the plane.
"Ordinarily, the pilots would get the updated weather from air traffic control and, of course, their onboard radar," said Schiavo, a former inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation. "So whether there was (bad) weather in the area would not be a mystery." http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/27/world/asia/airasia-missing-plane/index.html
A rescue operation is under way in high winds in Greek waters for an Italian ferry carrying 466 people that has caught fire, Greek officials said early Sunday.
...The evacuation of the ferry was occurring in difficult conditions, with passengers saying gale-force winds were lashing the vessel.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/fire-italian-ferry-bad-weather-off-greece-forces-070816823.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
An Indonesian man scheduled to travel on the missing Air Asia Indonesia flight with his family has thanked God that chance led him to cancel their tickets just a day before it disappeared.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2889017/We-thankful-god-Man-supposed-travel-missing-AirAsia-flight-wife-three-young-children-cancelled-tickets-YESTERDAY-father-ill.html
We board an airplane or a ship and take it for granted we are going to arrive at our destination some hours later.
A friend of mine told me how she dreamed she had gone on vacation and that her apartment had been robbed. When she woke up and saw that a robbery had not taken place, she was grateful that she still had what she thought had been taken. Let's be grateful for things that we take for granted. And let's say a perek Tehillim for Ayala bat Rut, who faces a long recuperation period.
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