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Parshas Shemini – Rain and Redemption

RAIN AND REDEMPTION

By Roy S. Neuberger

Next Shabbos the Month of Spring arrives. With the advent of Nissan, hope blooms in our hearts and flowers bloom in the fields and on the trees. During this season we have to remember that Zman Chairusainu can come only after we have been released from slavery. There is no redemption unless there has been danger. That is why redemption is so powerful.

This year is no exception. The world situation seems to be plummeting daily, as Klal Yisroel becomes increasingly isolated. Right now, it seems like a world with no good news.

And yet …. 

I am writing from Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh, the place the entire world covets. Recently, in Yated Ne’eman, I saw an article about Turkish attempts to establish a presence in Israel. They are focusing on the Temple Mount and, interestingly, Kever Shmuel Hanovi. 

Kever Shmuel Hanovi, which is not as popular a Jewish destination as it should be, is one of my beloved spots. One can seek this beacon of hope visually from all over Yerushalayim. Shmuel Hanovi anointed Dovid Hamelech and we are expecting, b’ezras Hashem soon, his descendant to anoint Moshiach ben Dovid. The Moslems are evidently aware of the importance of Shmuel Hanovi. Just as they have been trying for centuries to “occupy” the Temple Mount, clearly they are trying to do the same for Kever Shmuel Hanovi. 

Amidst all this, there is an encouraging siman for Am Yisroel, and that concerns the bracha of geshem, rain in the Holy Land. In America,lehavdil, rain is considered a “downer.” The weather forecaster is always apologetic when he must forecast rain, because rain ruins the plans of the nation which is always running after activities “under the sun” (which is, for Koheles, the phrase evoking mortality in this world).

But for us, geshem is a miracle of life. “Af-bri is designated as the name of the angel of rain, to thicken and to form clouds to empty them and to cause rain …. May it not be withheld!  … In the merit of the faithful Patriarchs, protect the ones who pray for rain.” (Sukkos tefilla)

This year, Af-bri has poured down rain upon the Holy Land, in contrast to recent winters. The Kinneret, although still below ideal levels, has risen about one and one-quarter meters. We have merited to see the blessed rainfall in recent days.

Every day we are reminded, “if you continually hearken to My commandments … then I will provide rain for your land in its proper time….”Conversely, if we abandon Hashem, chas v’Shalom, one sign of His anger is that “He will restrain the heaven so there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce.” (Shema)

We have to look beyond the headlines. Hashem, “the Reviver of the dead, [Who] makes the wind blow and the rain descend,” is watching over us. Soon we will see the full majesty of His blessing with the “flowering of [His] servant, Dovid,” soon in our days! 

Rain Soaked Street in Yerushalayim

Flowers in the Negev

Raindrops

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Roy Neuberger, author and public speaker, can be reached at roy@2020vision.co.il.

© Copyright 2019 by Roy S. Neuberger

Rabbi Winston – Parshat Shemini

Nadav and Avihu, sons of Aharon, took their incense pans and put fire and incense in them, and offered an unauthorized fire before God, which He did not command them to do. A fire went out from before God and burned them up, and they died before God.  

(Vayikra 10:1-2)

THE NATION WAS stunned, horrified. “What just happened?” people asked themselves, and one another, in a state of total disbelief. They had gone from the HIGHEST of heights to the LOWEST of lows faster than the speed of gravity. It would take time for the magnitude of the event to settle in, and even longer to recover from it.

For seven days Moshe Rabbeinu had officiated in the initiation of the Mishkan, while Aharon and his sons only looked on. They only watched and learned for the day they would take over the responsibility, on the eighth day. On the same day Nadav and Avihu assumed their roles as kohanim, they died because of it as well.

Nadav and Avihu were Aharon HaKohen’s eldest sons, the one’s destined to eventually replace their father at the head of the nation as Kohen Gadol. Now they were only destined to be buried before their father even had a chance to retire from his holy position. Their opportunity to shine had come and gone in the blink of an eye.

Later there would be a debate as to the cause of their deaths. Rabbi Eliezer would later argue, “Aharon’s sons died only because they decided halachah in the presence of Moshe, their teacher,” when they brought their unauthorized fire. Consequently, the same flame that had miraculously descended from Heaven to consume the korbanos offered consumed Nadav and Avihu as well.

Rabbi Yishmael would say: “[They died because] they had entered the sanctuary after having drunk wine. The proof is that after their death, [Torah] admonished the survivors that they may not enter the sanctuary after having drunk wine…Thus [it said], ‘A fire went out from before God and burned them up, and they died before God.’ We would not know why they died, except for His commanding Aharon, ‘Do not drink wine that will lead to intoxication.’ We know from this that they died precisely on account of the wine.”

Then there was their father’s own sin. Back at Har Sinai, while Moshe Rabbeinu was still up on the mountain receiving Torah, the Erev Rav pressed Aharon HaKohen to build them a golden calf. THEY had intended to make it a replacement for Moshe Rabbeinu, whom they had thought died on the mountain. Aharon however had intended it as a stall tactic, to put the people off until Moshe Rabbeinu returned to the camp to restore order.

Even though Aharon had the best of intentions, it was still considered to be a grievous sin, as the Torah later tells us: “God was very furious with Aharon, to destroy him, so I prayed also for Aharon at that time.” Rashi explains: “‘God was very furious with Aharon’…because he listened to you…‘to destroy him’…this refers to the destruction of [his] children’…so I prayed also for Aharon’…And my prayer succeeded to atone for half, and thus two [of his sons] died, and two remained [alive].”

Whatever the reason for the death, they were gone, and in the most dramatic of ways. And, seemingly forever, just like that.

Physically perhaps, but not spiritually. Their physical journeys may have been short, but their spiritual ones outlasted the people they left behind who lived full lives.

“Nadav and Avihu made a drastic mistake that cost them their lives,” the aging Mekubel said with a twinkle in his eye. “But that only meant that they had to complete their tikunim through the lives of other great people.”

The four of them sat inside of a cave in the hills of Tzfas, the rebi and his three students. They met there three times a week, always at the same time. There was no electricity, and they did not even use flashlights. The melted wax all over the stones of the area revealed that candles had always been their source of light. 

They learned there because it cut them off from the world around them. They could have been on the moon, for all they knew, barely hearing even the chirping of the birds just outside the cave entrance. Other than the odd snake or scorpion, they remained free of all distraction, enabling them to focus completely on the material. 

They learned slowly and thoroughly, discussing every point in detail. Currently they were in the middle of Sha’ar HaGilgulim, the Arizal’s teachings about the rules of reincarnation and personal growth. The topic of that time was the deaths of the Nadav and Avihu, and the reincarnation of their souls.

“As we have discussed,” the Mekubel began to explain, “there are basically two types of reincarnation. There is the soul that you are born with, without which you cannot live. When it leaves, so does life.”

They listened intently, even though they had gone over this information before.

“Then there is an ibur. An ibur is a soul, or souls, that can come to a person who had already been alive for years, and when it leaves, the person continues to live. An example of an ibur is the Nefesh of Nadav and Avihu that came to Pinchas, after he killed Zimri when he sinned with the Midianite princess, Cozbi.”

“Was this part of Pinchas’s reward?” one of the students asked.

“Yes, because of what it triggered. Since a person is not born with an ibur soul, it does not naturally join with the host’s original soul. For that, an additional ibur is required, and in the case of Pinchas, that new soul was called, ‘Eliyahu HaTishbi.’ It came in order to connect and join together the Nefesh of Nadav and Avihu with the Nefesh of Pinchas himself.”

“So,” another asked, “Eliyahu was not born like other people, but just started his life inside Pinchas?”

“Right,” their teacher answered, and then continued. “However, Pinchas further required another new soul as well in order to connect and join the new soul called ‘Eliyahu HaTishbi’ with the rest of the old souls, the Nefesh of Pinchas and Nadav and Avihu. Therefore, it was necessary for an additional new soul to come into Pinchas which was also called ‘Eliyahu,’ except that it came from the root of Binyomin.”

“So Pinchas had five souls in him,” the student recounted, “the Nefesh of Pinchas himself with which he was born, the Nefesh of Nadav and Avihu, the Nefesh called ‘Eliyahu HaTishbi’ from the root of Gad, and the Nefesh called ‘Eliyahu’ from the root of Binyomin?”

“Actually,” the Mekubel corrected, “only FOUR. Nadav and Avinu are considered as two halves of a single soul, as the Zohar says.”

“Did the souls of Nadav and Avihu stay with Pinchas all of his life, until he went up to Heaven as Eliyahu HaNavi?”

“No,” he answered. “For a while the souls of Nadav and Avihu went elsewhere. When the incident of the daughter of Yiftach HaGiladi occurred, Pinchas was punished. Our rabbis, z”l, say that Yiftach was a judge and did not want to go to the house of Eliyahu to annul his vow, and Eliyahu did not want to go to him because he said, ‘Someone who feels the pain goes to the doctor.’ Between the two of them, the daughter of Yiftach remained a victim of her father’s vow, and therefore both of them were punished. Everywhere Yiftach went limbs fell off. Eliyahu was punished by the removal of the Divine Presence from him, because the ibur of Nadav and Avihu, was removed from him. This is the sod of what our rabbis, z”l, say that the Vav of ‘My covenant of peace’ is severed.”

All of them sat quietly for a while, thinking over what had been said. Their teacher felt it would be worthwhile to summarize the entire matter.

“Let’s go over it from start to finish. In the incident with Zimri, Pinchas merited the ibur of Nadav and Avihu. After he killed Zimri and Cozbi, the rest of the Jewish nation wanted to kill HIM, since Zimri had been a prince. When he saw them coming for him, it shocked him to the point that his soul flew away. That’s when the ibur of Nadav and Avihu entered him. When he lost the ibur from the sin—which is what causes an ibur to leave—regarding the daughter of Yiftach, then the Vav of his name was cut, when the Divine Presence and the ibur of Nadav and Avihu were removed from him. After that, nothing remained with Pinchas except his own soul,  other than the spark of the drop from the root of Yosef alone, because the ibur of Nadav and Avihu went to Shmuel as mentioned. Also, the spark of the drop of Yisro was removed from him.”

“Where did Nadav and Avihu go after that?” one of them asked.

“To Shmuel HaNavi. The addition of Nadav and Avihu turns a person into a prophet, because of where their souls come from. As long as Shmuel had their souls in him, which he did until he died, he remained a prophet. As long as Pinchas was without them, he could NOT be a prophet.”

“But we see that Pinchas became Eliyahu again, and dies a prophet?”

“That’s right,” the Mekubel agreed. “That’s because after Shmuel HaNavi died, Nadav and Avihu later returned to Pinchas for the rest of his life, which is why his name was changed from ‘Pinchas’ to ‘Eliyahu HaTishbi’.”

“At that time,” the Mekubel continued, “once prophecy returned to Pinchas, Nadav and Avihu returned to him as an ibur. They became complete in their own rectification during the matter of Har Carmel, when the people fell on their faces and said, ‘Hashem is Elokim.’ Then their sin of the unauthorized incense offering was forgiven.”

“Furthermore,” he continued to explain, “though in the beginning they sinned by looking at the Divine Presence at Mt. Sinai, as it says, ‘They saw the God of Israel, etc.’ they became rectified at that time when they, inside Eliyahu at Har Carmel, fell on their faces and did not look at the fire that came down from Heaven.”

The students absorbed every word. They said nothing. They didn’t have to. Their faces clearly indicated that they were amazed by what they heard. But then again, why should that day be different from anything other…

“Is there more?” one finally asked.

“There always is,” the Mekubel said, smiling. “There was Elisha HaNavi as well. He too was blessed with an ibur of Nadav and Avihu, which greatly enhanced his prophecy. There is a lot more to this as well, but perhaps another day. It is already late, and we should return.”

The students looked at one another, the face of each showing disappointment that their session was already over. But they had learned a tremendous amount, even in the short time, and windows previously closed had been opened for them.

“It is too bad,” one said as they rose to leave, “that so few people know anything about what happened to Nadav and Avihu after they died. From the Torah, it looks as if they lived briefly without contributing too much to history, except in a negative way.”

“Yes,” said another student, “and when Moshe Rabbeinu told Aharon that the deaths of Nadav and Avihu showed how they were greater than the two of them, it sounds only like consolation. From Sod, it is clear that they WERE great people!”

The Mekubel just smiled, pleased to have such students, and the opportunity to teach them.  Then he too got up, and gathering his belongings, led the small group back to a world that barely had an inkling of the deep truths they had discussed.

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How It Might Play Out: How Current Events Could Lead to the Messianic Era

PART OF MY job, I feel, is to connect people to the concept of redemption. After all, one of the six questions the Talmud says people will be asked on their final day of judgment will be “Did you anticipate redemption?” Sadly, many people will have to answer “no.”

It’s worse than that. NOT anticipating redemption slows it down, literally. Yes, the Final Redemption MUST come at a certain point, but it can also come earlier. Although that may not sound like much of a reason to anticipate redemption from where we stand, because we ALREADY have it so good, not anticipating redemption could become the very reason to make everything even worse.

Redemption is not only about being able to walk around freely and to safely live a Torah lifestyle. It’s actually about much more than that, like returning the entire nation to its borders in all of Israel, everyone accepting Torah as from God, and perhaps most important of all, the return of the Temple with the Divine Presence in it. Until that time God “suffers,” and for that reason WE should too.

The truth is that as good as we have it, we have NO idea what we are missing. It’s a little like someone who thinks Saturday is the best day of the week until he discovers Shabbat. Then he wonders how he could ever have thought he was happy without it.

But try to tell that to someone who has never known Shabbat, the REAL Shabbat. More people become Torah observant because of Shabbat than for any other reason, but until they discover its great joy for themselves, it’s hard for them to believe it. Until then, Shabbat just seems to restrict pleasure and fulfillment, not enhance them. 

It also works like that with respect to redemption. When things are going well for the Jews, they think they’re already living it. They don’t believe that life can get any better, and they’re not convinced just by someone saying that it will, at least not enough to motivate them to anticipate and expedite it. 

That’s one of the main reasons we’ve never really been ready for the end of an exile. It usually catches most Jews off guard, even the ones who pray for redemption three times a day. They just don’t see it coming because they didn’t see how current events could and would evolve into end-of-exile events—until they actually did. And they STILL can’t see it today.

To try to do something about that, I started a weekly essay called “Connecting the Dots.” The goal was to paint current events in messianic terms, in order to get people thinking that way. More than likely it only worked for the people who already thought that way, or at least wanted to, and not for those who didn’t.

For a few months in 2015 I went from the essay format to a novel format. I decided to portray the End-of-Days once again. I had already written two novels about this, called “Not Just Another Scenario, 1 and 2. I called the new novel “How It Might Play Out,” showing how the events of that time could lead to an End-of-Days’ scenario to stimulate the imagination of my readers.

I have no idea how many people read it or liked it. I do know that my mailing list increased more during those months than at other times. People love a good story, and some people like a messianic story even more. 

A short while later I  finished the novel. I felt the story had ended, and that it was time to go back to the essay format, which I did. “How It Might Play Out” was archived, and I forgot about it.

Several years later it occurred to me to give the material a second look. Perhaps it was still relevant. Maybe it was even publishable. I decided that it was, and here it is, published. At the very least, it may help those willing to think about Mashiach to do so, and thus be able to answer on their day of judgment, “Yes, I DID anticipate redemption.”

After all, we’re certainly living in the Messianic Era, probably towards the end of it. SURPRISE! So we might as well get with the program before the program moves along without us. That’s never worked well for us in the past.

The Softcover and Kindle versions are available through Amazon, and the PDF, through the thirtysix.org online store.

Rabbi Kahana – Parshat Shemini and Parah Adumah

BS”D 

Parashat Shemini and Parah  5779

Rabbi Nachman Kahana

An Event of Heroic Proportions

After 3500 years of serving as HaShem’s chosen people with a history unlike any other nation – neither in suffering nor in accomplishments – the time has come for us to ask if the Jewish nation is a success story or a failure.

We are the only ancient people that is still alive – success. However, the majority of Jews today are not conscious Torah observers – failure. So, at the end of the day, is HaShem “happy” or “disappointed” with us?

I submit:

It is human to revere and respect people who endanger their own lives for the sake of others.

We are filled with admiration for the Japanese workers who enter the radioactive area of the damaged nuclear reactors in order to prevent a national catastrophe. They are being bombarded with amounts of radiation which may eventually cost them their lives. All this self-sacrifice for the sake of their nation that is composed of millions of people whom these workers do not know and never will.

There are stories of individual soldiers, from many nations, who single-handedly stormed an enemy position or fell on a hand grenade in order to save their fellow soldiers, as did Roi Klein in the Second Lebanese war.

We find in our parasha that Nadav and Avihu, sons of Aharon the Kohen Gadol, lost their lives while participating in the ceremony to effectuate the sanctification of the Mishkan. When mortal man enters the holy precincts of the Almighty, he can never be certain of the outcome.

Queen Esther took her life in her hands when she presented herself before the eccentric, capricious king.

Yehonatan, son of King Shaul, and his shield bearer were not far from being suicidal when they attacked the entire Philistine army in order to save the Jewish nation, and the two men succeeded.

All the above acts of admirable bravery have a common feature. They were all one-time events, although some were over an extended period.

But we have in our history an event of heroic proportions that extended for over 1200 years, when the Kohen Gadol would enter the Kodesh Kodashim (Holy of Holies) on Yom Kippur in order to attain forgiveness for Am Yisrael. The Kohen Gadol knew how he would enter but never knew how he would leave.

As admirable as the Kohen Gadol’s self-sacrifice was, there is the ultimate act of altruism that began 3500 years ago and is still being played out on a day-by-day, minute-by-minute scale.

Thirty-five hundred years ago, HaShem appeared to Avraham Aveinu with an offer to enter into an accord called Brit ben HaBetarim – The Covenant of the Severed Pieces (Beraishiet chapter 15).

Avraham would enter into the treaty in the name of all his future offspring, and HaShem would guarantee His part of the treaty by His everlasting name for all time.

The treaty obligates the Jewish nation to be a “light unto the nations.”

What does this obligation encompass? In the “big picture,” all that is in this world and all the other worlds ranging from the absolute spiritual – the Holy One Blessed Be He of Whom we have no conception – and emanating from Him beyond time and space to all of creation, down to the furthest and absolute opposite of the Creator, the physical, material world of which we are a part.

In Kabbalistic terms, our physical universe can be compared to the bottom of a foot that supports everything above it.

In this lowly world, the name of HaShem must be ever present. If for one minute His presence would not be recognized, then the whole of creation would cease to exist.

The task that was placed upon Avraham and his future descendants in this covenant was, and is, as difficult as it is essential – to guarantee that the presence of HaShem will forever be recognized by humanity.

Without the Jewish nation, the concept of a monotheistic God would have quickly been replaced with beliefs defined as avoda zara (idol worship). Christianity with its trinity, Islam that uses God as a tool to control and subjugate others, Buddhism and all the other faiths developed by the gentiles would not be capable of maintaining the belief in a Creator that cannot be seen or heard.

Within a generation or two, paganism would replace belief in a monotheistic God – just as it happened in pre-Noach time by Enosh who originated and disseminated the initial ideas of idolatry.

In the covenant between HaShem and Avraham, the father of the Jewish nation, Avraham was warned that the task would be dangerous, even life-threatening, with millions of Avraham’s descendants destined to die in the effort to perpetuate and preserve the presence of HaShem against the pagan instincts of humanity.

Avraham was aware of the future role of Am Yisrael, as seen by his reactions.

The Torah states (ibid):

יב) ויהי השמש לבוא ותרדמה נפלה על אברם והנה אימה חשכה גדלה נפלת עליו:

יג) ויאמר לאברם ידע תדע כי גר יהיה זרעך בארץ לא להם ועבדום וענו אתם ארבע מאות שנה:

יד) וגם את הגוי אשר יעבדו דן אנכי ואחרי כן יצאו ברכש גדול:

טו) ואתה תבוא אל אבתיך בשלום תקבר בשיבה טובה:

טז) ודור רביעי ישובו הנה כי לא שלם עון האמרי עד הנה:

12. As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him.
13. Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years, your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
14. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

Avraham “fell into a deep sleep and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him” when he is told that his descendants would be slaves in a foreign land, with all that that implies. This experience was necessary in order to prepare the Jewish people to keep the faith with HaShem in the direst situations, no less heinous than slavery itself.

And the Torah continues:

יז) ויהי השמש באה ועלטה היה והנה תנור עשן ולפיד אש אשר עבר בין הגזרים האלה:

יח) ביום ההוא כרת ה’ את אברם ברית לאמר לזרעך נתתי את הארץ הזאת מנהר מצרים עד הנהר הגדל נהר פרת:

17. When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking furnace with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces.

18. On that day, the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt (the Nile) to the great river, the Euphrates”.

Avraham saw that in the fulfillment of guarding and protecting HaShem’s presence in the world, his children would have to undergo days of darkness with “smoking furnaces with a blazing torch” in the galut; with its inquisitions, Christian crusades, pogroms, forced conversions, concentration camps, terrorists, international ridicule and denigration.

Now after 3500 years of serving and sacrificing, Hashem has thrown open the gates of His Holy Land for His people, and the authentic Jews whose families have survived the onslaughts of the gentiles in the galut have returned to rebuild the Holy Land. Now we can take a deep breath and declare before HaShem, “We have succeeded. Your Holy Name was not forgotten even for one day since the Covenant of the Severed Pieces.”

And HaShem replies, “My children in Eretz Yisrael, you are the masterpiece of My creations. You are the remnants of those few families who have experienced the worst that man can deal out to his fellow man and survived. You protected and kept My Name alive while all others were violating you for doing so. Now the time is quickly approaching for the rewards I promised. You will soon be masters over all the Holy Land, from the entire River Prat (Euphrates from Turkey to the Gulf) to the great river of Egypt (the Nile).”

Am Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael IS history’s greatest success story.

We are quickly approaching the closing of the historical circle that began with our father Avraham and mother Sarah. The final links will be the return of all Jews to the Torah’s boundaries of Eretz Yisrael, the restoration of the Kohanic and Davidic dynasties and the rebuilding of the Bet Hamikdash on the Temple Mount.

May it occur speedily in our time.

Shabbat Shalom,

Nachman Kahana

Copyright © 5779/2019 Nachman Kahana

The Haters of G–d

Rabbi Mizrachi spends the first hour on current event, the next hour on the korbonot, and the third hour was exceptional. 

The Haters of G–D

Every Very Modern Jewish Family’s Nightmare

This is only a film. The subject has caused much grief to the Jewish Nation. It is a reminder of accusations concerning the genealogy of some holocaust survivors. This is a “hot” topic, one that will shatter many a well-meaning person.

NY Jewish family learns its beloved bubbe is really a Nazi nurse, in new film
“The Last”

In the new film “The Last,” the 92-year-old matriarch of a New York Jewish family reveals a secret that shakes its members to their core. Claire, suffering from terminal brain cancer, decides to tell her grandchildren and great-grandchildren the truth — that she is a Gentile German woman who has been posing as a Jew since World War II. Moreover, she was a proud Nazi party member who worked as a nurse, assisting murderous doctors at Auschwitz.

[. . .] As Claire shows her family a cache of old photos, diaries and letters, she tells them that her mother, a pregnant prostitute in danger of losing her baby (Claire) due to illness, sought Clauberg’s help. He was unable to save the mother, but the baby survived. He placed little Claire in a good orphanage in Leipzig and visited her regularly, becoming a father figure and mentor to her. As war approached, Clauberg enrolled 14-year-old Claire in a nursing program, and later brought her with him to Auschwitz.


“It was the safest place I could be,” the unrepentant Claire tells her Modern Orthodox great-grandson Josh and his new wife Olivia.

There is a ‘trailer video’ but it opens with a non tsnius scene. For this subject-matter to have entered the film creators imagination is a testament to the possibility of existence in reality.


timesofisrael

A Farcical “Truce” While Missiles Flying and Rioting Ensues

So much for a farcical “truce” meant for the UN and UNHRC only!

“ACCIDENTAL" MISSILES x 3 – ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
[now is the time to do it! the people want a stronger response! Operation Burning the Chametz! Do it Now!]

PALESTINIANS HOLDING VIOLENT PROTESTS THROUGHOUT WEST BANK

Haredi rabbi: Security situation is 'dangerous'
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein tells followers situation is dangerous, encourages them not to give up hope, and to continue praying. arutzsheva

Israel under intensive rocket-fire amid IAF retaliation - TV7 Israel News


Poll: Israel's response to Gaza attacks was too soft
Majority of Israelis says IDF's response to rocket fire from Gaza wasn't strong enough, with just 3% calling reprisals 'too harsh’. arutzsheva

Gazans Demonstrating Against Hamas – They don’t want war.
(Is this not "Who is the Third Amalek?” that Rabbi Nachman Kahane wrote about? 
Will this be the The Fourth War?



Bennett presents: Operation 'Burning the Chametz'
Minister Bennett outlines program for dealing with Hamas. 'With regard to Gaza, there is something that can be done.’ He outlined the program as follows:

• No soldier need enter Gaza on the ground.
• Maintained aerial attacks on Hamas and the elimination of their rocket capabilities.
• Temporary evacuation of the Jewish communities around the Gaza Strip until the conclusion of the operation.
• Targeted assassination of all Hamas commanders.
• The designation of all civilian infrastructure used for terrorist activity as a legitimate enemy target.
• The goal of the operation is to demilitarize, and preserve the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.

The minister said, “With regard to Gaza, there is something that can be done. I don’t accept this lack of an answer. In Gaza, it is possible to uproot Hamas. I repeat, this is not a '1, 2, 3 and we’re done' solution, this is not a 48 hour job. It is a process which will take a number of months.” arutzsheva



Sources:  JPost

Meir Ettinger – We must wake up from the illusion of elections. Hebrew/English

זה לא משנה מה יהיו תוצאות הבחירות

עלינו להתעורר מאשליית הבחירות. המצב לא ישתנה אלא אם כן העם שבשטח יתעורר ויגרור את ראשי המערכת לעמוד על עקרונותיו של העם היהודי

• מאיר אטינגר י"ט אדר ב תשע"ט - 10:09 
• 26/03/2019

50% מהציבור חושבים שלא משנה מה יהיו תוצאות הבחירות, המדיניות בנושאי שלום הביטחון תהיה זהה פחות או יותר לכל ממשלה שתקום. ככה עולה מסקר שפרסם המכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה.

תקופת הבחירות סוחפת את כולם למערבולת של וויכוחים, להט לשנות ותחושת חשיבות, כל אחד מה מתמודדים בטוח שהוא יציל את העולם, ואנחנו טובעים בסחף של ספינים, הצגות ותוכן בלתי פוסק שנועד לשכנע אותנו שהקול שלנו הוא מה זה חשוב. אבל הוא לא.

לתוצאות הבחירות השפעה מזערית על גורלנו, עשירית ואולי מאית מתדמית החשיבות שכל כך רוצים שנייחס לה. ההבדלים בין המפלגות הגדולות הוא כל כך מינורי, ולא נוגע לשאלות הקיום שלנו, והמפלגות הקטנות גם ככה נאלצות לוותר על רוב רובם של עקרונותיהם כדי להשפיע ולו במקצת ‘מבפנים'.

יום אחרי הבחירות, אולי שבועיים אחרי החיים יחזרו למסלולם, רק העיתונאים יישארו כדי להתאמץ לייצר סקנדלים ומהומות כדי לשעשע את ההמון, ויתחילו את המירוץ מי יצליח להביא את הבחירות הבאות.

בחיים האמיתיים מי שקובע את המדיניות הוא השטח, הפוליטיקאים לעולם לא מנהיגים הם מונהגים ונגררים אחרי המציאות, פוליטיקאי הימין אישרו את ההתיישבות רק אחרי העליות הבלתי לגאליות של גוש אמונים, וההתנתקות ואוסלו היו רק תוצאה של לחץ בלתי פוסק של ארגוני השמאל, והמציאות שיצרו הערבים בשטח.

לפעמים מספיק טיל אחד מעזה כדי להעיר אותנו מהאשליה המדומה של עונת הבחירות, על השלטון מתמודדים אדריכלי הכישלון המפואר של צוק איתן. וכולם יודעים שאין זה משנה בכלום אם ביבי בנט בוגי או גנץ יהיו שר ביטחון, זה מגמגם וזה מהסס, וכולם פועלים רק לפי הלחץ ברחוב - האמיתי או הווירטואלי.

בחיים האמיתיים אם אנחנו רוצים שינוי, אם נמאס לנו שעם ישראל מקפל את הזנב, אם הלב שלנו כבר מתגעגע לימים שבהם היתה יד ישראל תקיפה, צריך להתעורר מאשליית הבחירות כמה שיותר מהר.

הפוליטיקאים יבטיחו הבטחות על מיטוט חמאס, לכיבוש הרצועה, יתחרו ביניהם למי יש רעיון יותר יצירתי מה 'צריך' לעשות - אבל אם אנחנו רוצים שהם גם יבטיחו לקיים - את זה לא קובעים בקלפי, את זה קובעים בשטח. בהפגנות, בהסברה ובמאבק.

It does not matter what the election results will be

Meir Ettinger – 26/03/2019

We must wake up from the illusion of elections. The situation will not change unless the people in the field wake up and drag the heads of the system to insist on the principles of the Jewish people.

50% of the public thinks that no matter what the outcome of the elections, the policy on peace and security will be more or less identical to any government that will be established. This emerges from a survey published by the Israel Democracy Institute.

The election period engulfs everyone into a whirlwind of arguments, passion for change and a sense of importance. Each of the contestants is certain that he will save the world, and we are drowning in spins, plays and incessant content to convince us that our voice is what is important. But he did not.

The results of the elections have a minimal impact on our fate, a tenth and perhaps one hundredth of the image of the importance we so much desire to be treated. The differences between the big parties are so minor, and do not touch on the questions of our existence, and the small parties are forced to give up the vast majority of their principles in order to influence, at least somewhat, from within.

The day after the elections, maybe two weeks after the life will return to normal, only the journalists will remain to try to create scandals and riots to entertain the masses, and start the race who will succeed in bringing the next elections.

The right-wing politicians approved the settlement only after the illegal immigration of Gush Emunim, and the disengagement and Oslo were only the result of the constant pressure of the leftist organizations, and the reality created by the Arabs in the field .

Sometimes one missile is enough from Gaza to wake us up from the imaginary illusion of the election season. And everyone knows that it does not matter if Bibi Bennett Boogie or Ganz will be defense minister, he stammers and he hesitates, and everyone acts only according to pressure on the street - real or virtual.

In real life if we want change, if we are fed up with the people of Israel folding their tail, if our heart already misses the days when Israel was firm, we must wake up from the illusion of elections as soon as possible.

The politicians will make promises that Hamas will be defeated, the occupation of the Gaza Strip will be fought, who will have a more creative idea of ​​what the 'should' do - but if we want them to ensure that they do, In demonstrations, in public relations and in the struggle.