Below are two headlines regarding the stabbing attack in Germany. Which one gives more of a clue as to the identity of the perpetrator? Which one is the CNN headline? With stabbing attacks in Germany and in Israel, what is next? Outlawing knives and scissors?
Knifeman screaming 'Allahu Akbar' kills one person and leaves three more fighting for life after random attack on passengers at train station in Germany
1 dead, 3 injured in knife attack in German train station
Terrorist stabs two elderly women in Jerusalem
I tried to comment on an article about former President Bill Clinton's "doodles on White House stationary" by sharing a link to a post explaining when to use the word "stationary" and when to use "stationery." My comment wasn't posted and the word "stationary" remains in the article.
Last week, I was asking myself the same question as the person who asked the question below. Note- this week the parsha in Israel is Emor while the parsha in the diaspora is Kedoshim.
10 May 2016
9 May 2016
Family members
This morning I came across a Facebook posting that a young man who lost his mother shared. It was a photo taken at a beach with the words, "I miss my mother" etched in the sand. It got me thinking. When I wished my mother a "Happy Mother's Day" yesterday, did I stop to appreciate that I have a mother in my life?
Thank you, Hashem, for my mother.
A Daughter’s Death Motivates a Mother to Become a Doctor Late in Life
What to Look for in a President
Thank you, Hashem, for my mother.
A Daughter’s Death Motivates a Mother to Become a Doctor Late in Life
What to Look for in a President
8 May 2016
Your friend's success
Terror victim's husband slams outgoing UN chief Ban Ki-moon
In the video below, the speaker talks about the verse, "You shall love your fellow as yourself" which is found in this week's portion of Parshat Kedoshim, which is read in the diaspora. In Israel, the week's Torah poriton is Emor.
One of the most famous phrases in this week’s Torah reading is (Vayikra 19:18), “You shall love your fellow as yourself.” R’ Moshe ben Nachman z”l (Ramban; Spain and Eretz Yisrael; 1194-1270) writes about this mitzvah:
What the Torah is expressing is the ideal, but a person’s heart is not capable of loving another person as it loves itself. Moreover, Rabbi Akiva taught (Bava Metzia 62a) that saving one’s own life takes precedence over saving another person’s life. [Rabbi Akiva spoke of two people traveling in a desert, one of whom has water and the other doesn’t. If there is only enough water for one to survive, he is not permitted to share, which would not be the case if he had to love the other as much as he loves himself].
Rather, Ramban writes, the mitzvah is to desire your friend’s success as you desire your own.
Continue reading: http://torah.org/torah-portion/hamaayan-5775-achareimos/
Some of you may have purchased tickets for this week's powerball lottery; When you began reading an article about how one person had purchased the winning tocket, your thought might have been, "Well, I don't have to bother checking the numbers because I didn't purchase a ticket." Another person might have said, "I know I didn't win because I checked the numbers but let me see if I conceivably could have picked the winning numbers." I didn't buy a ticket but I did check if I could have come up with those numbers and felt relieved that I wouldn't have picked those numbers.
As more details came out, I read that the winning ticket was purchased in New Jersey. Since I know a number of people living in New Jersey, I thoought that perhaps a Jewish person living in Lakewood had won. What was my initiial reaction when I thought about the possible success of a fellow brother or sister? Would I have been happier if the winning ticket had been purchased in Alaska?
"The mitzvah is to desire your friend’s success as you desire your own."
Did I desire my friend's success as I desire my own?
Rosh Chodesh Iyar - a new month - a new beginning to practice "veahavta lereacha kamocha." It's time to give people the benefit of the doubt, to stop the petty arguments about the yerusha, to contact someone with whom you've had a falling out.
I will try to take concrete steps to fulfill the mitzva, iy"h.
In the video below, the speaker talks about the verse, "You shall love your fellow as yourself" which is found in this week's portion of Parshat Kedoshim, which is read in the diaspora. In Israel, the week's Torah poriton is Emor.
One of the most famous phrases in this week’s Torah reading is (Vayikra 19:18), “You shall love your fellow as yourself.” R’ Moshe ben Nachman z”l (Ramban; Spain and Eretz Yisrael; 1194-1270) writes about this mitzvah:
What the Torah is expressing is the ideal, but a person’s heart is not capable of loving another person as it loves itself. Moreover, Rabbi Akiva taught (Bava Metzia 62a) that saving one’s own life takes precedence over saving another person’s life. [Rabbi Akiva spoke of two people traveling in a desert, one of whom has water and the other doesn’t. If there is only enough water for one to survive, he is not permitted to share, which would not be the case if he had to love the other as much as he loves himself].
Rather, Ramban writes, the mitzvah is to desire your friend’s success as you desire your own.
Continue reading: http://torah.org/torah-portion/hamaayan-5775-achareimos/
Some of you may have purchased tickets for this week's powerball lottery; When you began reading an article about how one person had purchased the winning tocket, your thought might have been, "Well, I don't have to bother checking the numbers because I didn't purchase a ticket." Another person might have said, "I know I didn't win because I checked the numbers but let me see if I conceivably could have picked the winning numbers." I didn't buy a ticket but I did check if I could have come up with those numbers and felt relieved that I wouldn't have picked those numbers.
As more details came out, I read that the winning ticket was purchased in New Jersey. Since I know a number of people living in New Jersey, I thoought that perhaps a Jewish person living in Lakewood had won. What was my initiial reaction when I thought about the possible success of a fellow brother or sister? Would I have been happier if the winning ticket had been purchased in Alaska?
"The mitzvah is to desire your friend’s success as you desire your own."
Did I desire my friend's success as I desire my own?
Rosh Chodesh Iyar - a new month - a new beginning to practice "veahavta lereacha kamocha." It's time to give people the benefit of the doubt, to stop the petty arguments about the yerusha, to contact someone with whom you've had a falling out.
I will try to take concrete steps to fulfill the mitzva, iy"h.
7 May 2016
The good Jew
In short, to many on the far left, the only good Jew is a secular left-wing internationalist political activist with no particular interest in the well-being of his fellow Jews.
Read more: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/anti-semitism/obama-jewish-heritage-month/
Pop superstar Katy Perry declared in a recent interview that the whole world needs a weekly day of rest “like Shabbat,” to disconnect from social media.
Read more: http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/05/05/non-jewish-pop-singer-katy-perry-says-she-wishes-there-were-a-weekly-worldwide-shabbat-to-disconnect-from-social-media/# H/T Mr. Cohen
Iyar: A Month of Light
A gutten chodesh.
Read more: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/anti-semitism/obama-jewish-heritage-month/
Pop superstar Katy Perry declared in a recent interview that the whole world needs a weekly day of rest “like Shabbat,” to disconnect from social media.
Read more: http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/05/05/non-jewish-pop-singer-katy-perry-says-she-wishes-there-were-a-weekly-worldwide-shabbat-to-disconnect-from-social-media/# H/T Mr. Cohen
Iyar: A Month of Light
A gutten chodesh.
6 May 2016
Acts of Chessed
Rav Vosner's Handicapped Granddaughter and Her Orphan Chosson Need your Help to Get Married
Master Your Life's Mission (1st Key)
7 Keys to Mastering Your Life's Mission, #2: Gevura
Parshas Acharei Mos - The Two Goats - great story about R’ Elchanan Wasserman zt”l at the end of the article.
Master Your Life's Mission (1st Key)
7 Keys to Mastering Your Life's Mission, #2: Gevura
Parshas Acharei Mos - The Two Goats - great story about R’ Elchanan Wasserman zt”l at the end of the article.
Climbing higher
INN prefaces an article about the parsha of the week with the following words:
This year the eighth day of Passover, kept only in the Diaspora, fell on the Sabbath, so while Jews in Israel read Parshat Acharei Mot, the Sabbath Torah portion, Jews in the Diaspora were still celebrating Passover and read the Passover holiday reading. The result is that Jews outside Israel are reading Acharei Mot this week, but Jews in Israel are up to the next portion, Parashat Kedoshim. The Jewish people will be literally "on the same page" again once a double parsha reading in the Diaspora balanced by the reading of one parasha in Israel on the same Sabbath lets the Diaspora communities catch up.
Judaism: Parshat Acharei Mot: Israel and morality
Climb a little higher
Survivor and ex-Chief Rabbi Lau gives a powerful talk during the March of the Living ceremony.
This year the eighth day of Passover, kept only in the Diaspora, fell on the Sabbath, so while Jews in Israel read Parshat Acharei Mot, the Sabbath Torah portion, Jews in the Diaspora were still celebrating Passover and read the Passover holiday reading. The result is that Jews outside Israel are reading Acharei Mot this week, but Jews in Israel are up to the next portion, Parashat Kedoshim. The Jewish people will be literally "on the same page" again once a double parsha reading in the Diaspora balanced by the reading of one parasha in Israel on the same Sabbath lets the Diaspora communities catch up.
Judaism: Parshat Acharei Mot: Israel and morality
Climb a little higher
Survivor and ex-Chief Rabbi Lau gives a powerful talk during the March of the Living ceremony.
5 May 2016
The truth
Video - Egyptian-German Scholar Hamed Abdel-Samad: Our Hatred of Jews Has Poisoned Us
After watching a video about one of the Presidential candidates, I found myself searching for a NYT article by William Safire written in 1996 in which he writes about lying, which I found over here.
Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel would say: The world stands on three things: justice, truth, and peace as it says ‘Execute the judgment of truth, justice and peace in your gates’ (Zekharya 8:16).
Continue reading: http://blog.webyeshiva.org/insights-in-pirkei-avot-truth-peace-and-justice/
"פעם אחת שאלתי 'איפה אלוקים?' - וכל חיי התחרטתי על זה"
After watching a video about one of the Presidential candidates, I found myself searching for a NYT article by William Safire written in 1996 in which he writes about lying, which I found over here.
Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel would say: The world stands on three things: justice, truth, and peace as it says ‘Execute the judgment of truth, justice and peace in your gates’ (Zekharya 8:16).
Continue reading: http://blog.webyeshiva.org/insights-in-pirkei-avot-truth-peace-and-justice/
"פעם אחת שאלתי 'איפה אלוקים?' - וכל חיי התחרטתי על זה"
4 May 2016
Four tons
Israeli Authorities Find Four Tons of Rocket-arming Material in Salt Bags Headed to Gaza
Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.717678
Clinton Campaign Made Payments to Hard Drive and Document Destruction Company
שיפור במצבו של פצוע הדקירה אמש - Chadrei Charedim reports that there has been an improvement n the condition of the man who was stabbed yesterday at Jersualem's Lion's Gate. The victim has been assisting people in putting on tefilin and tzitzit at the kotel for the past five years. May Harav Yisrael ben Tirtza merit a complete recovery.
Parshas Acharei Mos: Rav Moshe Feinstein - Life is Not More Important Than Any Mitzva
Below are two headlines reporting on the same incident.
Israeli troops kill Palestinian driver who rammed soldiers in West Bank: army
Three soldiers hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack
Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.717678
Clinton Campaign Made Payments to Hard Drive and Document Destruction Company
שיפור במצבו של פצוע הדקירה אמש - Chadrei Charedim reports that there has been an improvement n the condition of the man who was stabbed yesterday at Jersualem's Lion's Gate. The victim has been assisting people in putting on tefilin and tzitzit at the kotel for the past five years. May Harav Yisrael ben Tirtza merit a complete recovery.
Parshas Acharei Mos: Rav Moshe Feinstein - Life is Not More Important Than Any Mitzva
Below are two headlines reporting on the same incident.
Israeli troops kill Palestinian driver who rammed soldiers in West Bank: army
Three soldiers hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack
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