Glenn's Message to Israel

GLENN BECK:

"Let me get this straight... If Mexico fired a missile into El Paso, you know what we would do? If Japan fired a missile into Beijing, you know what China would do? So why does Israel have to hold back?"

G-d Bless Glenn Beck, a true courageous and brave and caring person
Source Arutz Sheva

War and Evil in the Middle East

For All of Us

Rockets Damage and Kill 

Precious Neshomas

"She was modest and gentle," ... "She literally gave her life so that women would learn the laws of family purity."

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A Sample of Soul Searching Reactions:

Another Rosh Chodesh Kislev Tragedy?
Killed on Mumbai Anniversary
They were holy shluchim of the Rebbe. Boruch Dayan Emes!!

Photos

There's a statement in the Gemara that the dead of a tzaddik atones for the generation (Moed Katan 28a). That is, sometimes there is a judgment hanging over the Jewish people, or over particular Jews, and sometimes Hashem in His mercy picks a tzaddik to die instead of allowing a greater amount of death and suffering to happen to other Jews. The shluchim killed on Rosh Chodesh Kislev illustrate that engaging in kiruv is a great act of righteousness that has unlimited merit. We should all find a way to engage in kiruv/shlichus in our own way, whether it is organized, or just by being a kiddush Hashem in every way to our fellow Jews who are not (yet) frum (as well as non-Jews.)

As if to emphasize the importance of achdus and the loftiness of kiruv, Gavriel Sanders, the Jewish boy killed in France last year, was named after R' Gavriel Herzberg, and his parents were (non-Chabad) kiruv professionals!

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A clear message to us!! when it came to saving lives the Rebbe wasn't either politically correct, & made sure ppl knew hoe to stop these TRAGEDIES!! true there are no good explanations wrote: however where the Rebbe specifically said there are things we in NY (& Chutz-Laaretz) can do to prevent blood shed & tragedies like these from re-occurring, we need to take his words seriously!

it's for our own well being that the Rebbe alerted us as to WHAT WE CAN DO to stop such things & instead bring all sorts of blessings to our family & communities:

1. Daily Chitas Rambam (even 5min is better than nothing)
2. Regular du“ch ch”hn to Aseh Lecha Rav (personal mentor)
3. Make time daily to be involved in the chinuch of your kids (30min minimum)
4. Hidur in Taharas Hamishpach & laws of Modesty
5. Give Tzedaka daily,
..... .,.
we know the Rebbe can be trusted as Tachlis HoEmes!

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We Must Do Something Different This Time
Something drastic like never before.
Something so great, so holy, so spark-raising that there will be no other choice but to reach the Geula Shleima. I am calling all Jews wherever you are to reach VERY DEEP in your heart today and remove ALL BASELESS HATRED from its recesses. Instead of that Sinat Chinam - let the Light of Hashem heal the wounds. Let the Light of Hashem heal our collective neshama. Please. We must do this clearing out of the grievances and machlokot. However old they may be.

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We must all do all in power to stop these tragedies!!

although the Rebbe almost always refrained from justifying G-d's actions in tragedy none the less the Rebbeh attributed unexpected calamities in our midst SPECIFICALLY TO lack of Tsnius!!

Yet, as uncharacteristic of the Rebbeh to attribute specific causes to calamity & tragedy, re Tznius the Rebbeh took no chances & MADE THESE CONNECTIONS VERY VERY CLEAR - in the interest of protecting our community from harms-way!!!

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it is hard and difficult to say this. but it must be said.

the Rebbe said numerous times that what happenes "here" reflects on what happnes in eretz hakoidesh.

the fact that many people and schluchim cannot walk safely and freely in 770 including leaders and people who were put by the Rebbe in positions of moisdos, this fact means that we have a lot of work to do on our end.

isnt it odd that after many years of rockets the first time anyone was killed as a direct result of a rocket were members of Anash? And on the yortzeit of holtzberg.

think about it.

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The Rebbe said clearly that being careful with tznius k’halacha brings shmira protection to yidden in Eretz Yisroel. So tehillim (neged tillim and ) tznius.

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its not just the Rebbeh who links specifically Tznius to Protection

many mefarshim on the Pasuk "VeHayu Machanecha Kadosh" explain it the same way that Hashem doesn't punish but rather REMOVES his protection from a group that has in it's midst the opposite of Modesty

What next ...

There is a addenda to Voter Machine Rigging here at Why there won't be a presidential recount  even though 62,700 petitioned the Administration ... and you can read the nice long article that explains it all here.

WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:

Recount the election!

It has become blatantly obvious the voter fraud that was committed during the 2012 Presidential elections. In one county alone in Ohio, which was a battleground state, President Obama received 106,258 votes...but there were only 98,213 eligible voters. It's not humanly possible to get 108% of the vote!

If ID laws had been enforced (which the administration is completely against because that meant they would lose) then this wouldn't be an issue.

Rabbi Melamed ...

Spiritual and Religious Struggle with Hamas

Rabbi Zalman Melamed* strengthens the IDF soldiers who are defending Israel against Hamas’ ongoing rocket attacks.

“May you succeed in defeating the enemy and silence it and make sure there are no more dangers and no more missiles and the like coming from Gaza into Israel,” he told the soldiers.

“We should know that we are in the midst of a spiritual and religious struggle between us and Hamas and all the other religious movements in the region,” said the rabbi. “They are all fighting against our existence and there’s no possibility of finding any solution for true peace between us and them, unless we manage to convince them about the truth of our way and the truth of our faith and our real right to the land of Israel. So the only way is to cause such a deterrence that they won’t try to hurt us. They’ll see they can’t move forward by using war and they will stop hurting us in terrorist attacks, in wars and in all the other ways.

“We need to know that we came to the land of Israel in order to build our faith here, striving for full redemption and to build complete lives for the entire people of Israel in the entire land of Israel, build the Temple and be a light unto the nations. We will continue.”


Seen on Arutz Sheva's Pillar of Defense coverage
*Rabbi of Beit El and Founding Head of Beit El Yeshiva

What Does One Do If You Hear Code RED ?

Here's what to do, according to the Home Front Command:

How much time do you have?: The amount of time you have to get to a shelter from the moment the sirens go off depends on how far you are from where the rocket is launched. The Israeli military has provided the map at right to indicate the window of time throughout the country for rockets coming from Gaza: Sderot – 15 seconds, Ashkelon – 30 seconds, Ashdod – 45 seconds, Be'er Sheva – one minute, and the cities of Rishon Letzion, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem – one and a half minutes.

And what if?

If the rockets are NOT coming from Gaza

But rockets are flying from East Jerusalem?

Or from Be'er Sheva?

Or from Ramallah?

There is not enough time to run anywhere!

And the Government is even considering accommodating a 2 state 'solution'.

We know all about the Nations' idea 

of a "solution to the Jews"

I say Annexation ... And let those who don't want to stay in Israel leave ... The sooner the better!

Hamas Aggression ...

Hundreds and hundreds of rockets that kill and destroy being lobbed at Jews living in Southern Israel and the enemy is insulted and furious when we defend ourselves .... !

This is Perpetual WAR

and Israel needs 'permission' from the US to defend ...

270 since yesterday

(Photos from Getty, on The Blaze)

Come Home Wayward Children

Rabbi Lazer Brody Shlit"a is now in the States delivering his awe-inspiring shiurim, trying to reach the Neshomas of the rest of our family of Am Yisrael and inspire them to return home, to Eretz Yisrael. However, he wrote on his facebook pg:

"With Obama in term for another four years, this should be a clear sign that America is no longer the friend of the Jews it used to be...it's time to come home."

Reb Dov Bar Leib has been writing much lately, as a result of the elections, the decimation of much of NE Coastal American Jewry by 'Sandy', also in hopes of also reaching the rest of our family of Am Yisrael to return home to Eretz Yisrael.

You can read the spirited conversations on:

YeranenYaakov and Years of Awe, Dov's own blog. Be sure to scroll down and read his other postings.

And  LemonLimeMoon has been keeping us apprised of some unreported coastal happenings:

Nuclear Fuel gets Hot at Oyster Creek NJ
Oyster Creek NJ Nuke Reactor
Oyster Creek Continuing Nuke Worries
Regulationville

More at Fukushima

Prepare for the Fiscal Cliff Crisis:

The Blaze

Shock and Awe

Maybe there is something to this Russian Professor's prediction that the US will break up after economic crisis?

“Dissatisfaction is growing, and it is only being held back at the moment by the elections, and the hope” that President- elect Barack Obama “can work miracles,” he said. “But when spring comes, it will be clear that there are no miracles.”

30 STATES PETITION FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SECEDE AFTER ELECTION

list of all the states with petitions to secede on WhiteHouse.gov:

Delaware

California

Ohio

Nevada

Pennsylvania

Arizona

Oklahoma

Arkansas

South Carolina

Georgia

Missouri

Tennessee

Michigan

New York

Colorado

Oregon

New Jersey

North Dakota

Montana

Indiana

Mississippi

Kentucky

Florida

North Carolina

Alabama

Texas

Louisiana

Read the story at The Blaze  



See also: Voter Machine Rigging and Zero Votes in 59 Precincts   ...?

Little Change in Venue

About Voter Machine Rigging

FOR CONVERSATION PURPOSES:

Zerohedge: George Washington's blog -

Battering the East Coast ... again

ACCUWEATHER REPORT:

While a powerful nor'easter lashes the coast in already Sandy-ravaged communities, snow will fall over a narrow swath of the interior Northeast Wednesday into Thursday

Colder air across the interior Northeast will allow snow to mix in or fall alone by Wednesday afternoon. A narrow band of accumulating snow will develop on the backside of the storm from eastern Pennsylvania to southern New York state and central New Jersey.

The heaviest snow, with the potential for a half a foot of accumulation, is forecast to develop over northeastern Pennsylvania to part of southeastern New York and into northwestern New Jersey.

A wintry mix and snow will reach over portions of Delaware, southern New Jersey, southeastern New York and central New England Wednesday into Wednesday night.

Enough snow can fall to make some roads slippery and dangerous over interior, hilly areas.

The weight of snow, sleet and ice may be enough to down some tree branches onto power lines. Scattered power outages are not out of the question.

CBS:

Jews Are in Danger ...

The following is appearing on many blogs, and very worth reading:

BS”D
Discussion with Moishe’la (with his family-3)
A handicapped child
Chof Cheshvan 5773 (Nov 4’12)

Jews all over the world are in big danger

I just want to say that the world is falling apart and the United Stated of America no longer exists. I’m not a prophet and I can’t say for sure, but I believe wholeheartedly, that Barak Obama will be president once again. And I also believe that American Jewry is in big danger. I also believe that European Jewry is in big danger, and probably Jews all over the world are in big danger. But even though we went through the Nazis and suffered so much; so many Yidden were killed in very gruesome and sadistic ways, so many homes abandoned, so many lives destroyed, so many people suffering just because they were Jews.

Soon the Jews will be targeted again, and this time it will be even worse, because it will be the Jews all over the world and there will be no place to run. And when every Yid (that can get there) has arrived in Eretz Yisroel, at that point or near that point all the nations of the world will come against Eretz Yisroel. And that’s when Hashem will show His might. He will show that He is the Ribbono Shel Olam, the Creator and the Ruler of the world forever. Until then I beg my fellow Jews, I beg you come close to HaKodosh Boruch Hu. It’s the only way to save yourself. Do it with all your heart and soul and try, try very hard to leave the countries that you have been guests in for two thousand years and come back to your home, come back to Eretz Yisroel the land that Hashem gave to Avrohom Avenu and to his descendants.

The time is coming very soon! If you don’t make a move soon then it will be infinitely harder afterwards. True, Hashem will save all true Jews but it will be so much harder. The Yid that now picks himself up when he still has some gashmius left, and rejects it, and comes to Eretz Yisroel, has an enormous Zechus and Hashem will never abandon him. If he cries out to Hashem and puts himself in danger by coming to Eretz Yisroel, Hashem will never abandon him.

This Hurricane Sandy was a great warning, but the warning is only beginning. Within the next week or two there will be very shocking things happening. Hopefully more Yidden will wake up. Hopefully we won’t have to wait too long for the Geula. I Daven every day and every night that our Yiddishe Folk will see the truth and will prepare themselves, really prepare themselves for the coming of Moshiach.

I’m very sad. In this last storm Jewish lives where lost and also homes where lost. People are destitute. People have gotten a very big shock, and I feel bad for the Yidden who suffer, but they just aren’t listening! They don’t listen to Hashem. They are not being what they are supposed to be. Many have gone so far afield, that their Yiddishkeit is almost unrecognizable except for the fact that they still wear Tefillin put on Tzitzis Talisim and so on.........

Mother: I heard about long gas lines. Why aren’t they giving out the gasoline in the areas affected by the storm?
Moishe’la: They want the suffering to be great. They want riots to begin. They want everyone to be unsettled. They want everyone to be miserable, and then they can take over.

Father: How come the Rabbonim don’t tell the people to come to Eretz Yisroel?
Moishe’la: I don’t know, the Rabbonim are interesting in America. Most of them are just as much in the Gashmius as anyone else. Don’t forget the Divrei Chaim z”l said clearly that at the end of time most of the Yidden and even the Rabbonim will be Erev Rav.
^^^see part 2^^^

Tue Nov 06, 12:31:00 PM 2012
Anonymous said...
^^^^part 2^^^^

Father: How come the Rabbonim don’t tell the people to come to Eretz Yisroel?
Moishe’la: I don’t know, the Rabbonim are interesting in America. Most of them are just as much in the Gashmius as anyone else. Don’t forget the Divrei Chaim z”l said clearly that at the end of time most of the Yidden and even the Rabbonim will be Erev Rav.

I want to tell you that the tragedies have not ended. I want you to understand that America has become an ugly place. The United States has lost its beauty. It’s lost it’s freedom and it has become a dangerous place, especially for people who believe in Hashem. But not only are the Jews in danger but believers of all kinds that believe in G-D are in danger Christians, Muslims, Jews. But as in every society where Amalek and Edom rule, there is a special enjoyment and feeling of elation from persecuting Jews and this is soon going to be in the United states as well.

The camps are ready. All that has to happen is Martial law, and from that moment the real suffering begins. And don’t think that if you are in Israel the long arm of the “New World Order” the American-style New World Order, won’t try to persecute the Jews in Israel. They will probably start with American Jews for all kinds of reasons.

I want to explain that wherever we are in the world we are in danger, however I want to reiterate that the only place now for a Jew, is in Eretz Yisroel. Because here Hashem will protect all those who cry out to Him for help, and sacrifice to be Yidden. Those people who believe very much and trust HaKodosh Boruch Hu will come to Eretz Yisroel and they will get much credit for coming because it’s not easy. There are those who live here already, but don’t trust Hashem. If they start to trust Hashem, they will also be given special treatment from Shomayim. All those who believe and trust in Hashem, all those who cry out to Hashem for help, and live in Eretz Yisroel, will have special treatment.

I also want to say that the Erev Rav which have taken control Kivyachol of our communities, of our cities, of the government of the Zionists, of the Knesset, those people even if they cry out to Hashem will not be helped. They are not really crying out to Hashem because they are not really believers in Hashem .The minute that things settle down, The Erev Rav will go back to their treachery so they are lost! But the true Jew whose Neshama was at Har Sinai will always be Hashem’s special son or daughter, always be closer to Hashem than any other people of the world.

BEWARE ...

A vote for Obama is a vote for a Palestinian State in Eretz Yisrael

Aaron Klein, WND's senior staff reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief. He also hosts "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on New York's WABC Radio.

OBAMA SPIES MONITOR JEWISH GROWTH IN JERUSALEM

(quote) Yesterday, a senior Palestinian Authority negotiator told WND that Obama quietly pledged to the Palestinians a campaign at the United Nations to renew U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for a Palestinian state to be established in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern Jerusalem.

The PA negotiator said the White House had asked the Palestinians to slow their drive for the unilateral declaration of a state at the U.N. General Assembly.

The negotiator further said Obama had promised the PA that the establishment of a Palestinian state will be one of the main priorities for a second term.

“We were told that the negotiations for a Palestinian state will be a main goal for Obama,” said the negotiator.

“Netanyahu will be declared the main person responsible for the collapse of the peace process.” (end quote)

A Rainbow Appeared ...

A flood of water covered all the land adjacent to the waterways of Manhattan and the New York Metropolitan area, including Coney Island, Long Island, Woodmere and the Rockaways, Staten Island, and including the coastline along the Eastern States of America.

There were days of warnings and ominous reports.

Now that the storm is over, America can say we have witnessed a monstrous storm in real time! This was not in another country, with nameless peoples affected, with America sending disaster relief and personnel, and international offers of rescue aid. This occurred in ... the America of our friends, families, and regular citizens. This occurred in the country that other nations look to for help and rescue when they are in disaster mode.

The areas under greatest hardship had people left without their home, possessions, utilities for personal dignity, transportation, food and water, trying to protect their lives from marauders and looters.

In what seemed a small version of an EMP attack, the lights went out and fear and desperation moved in.

There have been other 'attacks' on America in recent years, killer tornadoes, killer hurricanes, freezing storms, earthquakes, doughts and mid-country flooding, destroying towns, homes, and food supplies and farming crops.

Was there ever another time in history that America experienced such 'natural' onslaughts? Maybe in Biblical times, maybe in Noach's time.

Do you think all this is the capriciousness of "weather"? Man does not control the weather. G-d controls 'nature', nature is an expression of G-d.

A rainbow appeared over Manhattan as the water and clouds were receding after the storm moved northward toward Canada. The rainbow is a sign, a "covenant of the rainbow is between G-d and man and the animal kinds that were with Noah on the Ark: a promise that there would never be such an event again that would destroy all flesh on the land." We have witnessed other local floods since then therefore this is a promise that there would never be another global flood to destroy all flesh.

The world is in such upheavel, Europe in financial decline and social discord; the Middle East experiencing a rolling blackout of death and destruction attacking all the countries surrounding little Israel.

In the midst of the disintegration of mores and values, "the good ole days" of one's memories, and the seeming balance of good and evil that fills our planet earth, something is coming undone. "It" is undeniable now. If one has eyes to see and ears to hear, one cannot deny the demoralization and collapse of national infrastructures.

Nations and Peoples need to be rescued from tyranny, authoritarianism, domination, oppression, coercion. Peoples and nations need inspiration, purpose to their daily life, encouragement to learn how to earn a living independently, return a world back to farming. There is so much land underutilized in depressed areas. Build factories so workers can create supplies for their own people, town and country. Governments are failing to 'enable' (empower, employ) their citizens in meaningful produce and production.

A one world government domination is the epitome of evil.

A recognition of G-d as the Creator of the world, the Jewish People as His Chosen Nation, non-Jews observing the Noahide laws, and the Jewish cultivation of Life in their homeland of Eretz Yisrael.

Peoples of the World need to return to the Noahide laws, provided here via Wikipedia:

In Judaism, the Seven Laws of Noah (Hebrew: שבע מצוות בני נח‎ Sheva mitzvot B'nei Noach) form the major part of the Noachide Laws, or Noahide Code. This code is a set of moral imperatives that, according to the Talmud, were given by God as a binding set of laws for the "children of Noah" – that is, all of humankind.

According to religious Judaism, any non-Jew who adheres to these laws is regarded as a righteous gentile, and is assured of a place in the World to Come (Olam Haba), the final reward of the righteous. Adherents are often called "B'nei Noach" (Children of Noah) or "Noahides".

The seven laws listed by the Tosefta and the Talmud are:

Prohibition of Idolatry
Prohibition of Murder
Prohibition of Theft
Prohibition of Sexual immorality
Prohibition of Blasphemy
Prohibition of eating flesh taken from an animal while it is still alive
Establishment of courts of law

Noahide Laws comprise the six laws which were given to Adam in the Garden of Eden, according to the Talmud's interpretation of Gen 2:16, and a seventh one, which was added after the Flood of Noah. According to rabbinic Judaism, the 613 mitzvot or "commandments" given in the written Torah, as well as their reasonings in the oral Torah, were issued to the Jews only, and are therefore binding only upon them, having inherited the obligation from their ancestors.

Below is a comment made to my post of He Who Sets the Boundaries of the Waters.... Thank you to the concerned Lakewood poster. [I’ve made one editorial addition because much of what was written could be applied to all these communities of our brothers and sisters.] We are all in this together.

Dear Brothers and Sisters of Lakewood 

[Boro Park, Flatbush, Williamsburg, Monsey, Monroe, etc.]



With much of Lakewood NJ still without power for days, I humbly feel that Hashem is trying to send us a message that: "we" are putting out the light the power of the beauty of Lakewood, the largest town in the US of Torah learning. The light of the Kedusha the light of thousands of Torah learners right here in our town of Lakewood is being distinguished by us with our actions 



We have more Yeshivas and Mesiftas than in any other town or city in America BY"H so we have more responsibility to keep Hashem happier with our way of life, get closer to Hashem as to be an example to the world how a Ben Torah is to behave

It's time for all of us to make a Cheshbon Hanefesh and see what could be corrected to bring back the light of the Shechinah to Lakewood the town of Torah and Chessed the town that was build by the big Rosh Yeshiva z"l

If we don't take the message from this storm seriously who knows what other difficult messages Hashem might have to send us in order to wake up and do Teshuva?



Take a moment and think...are we truly living a spiritual life at least similar to our great grandparents, the way they lived when they arrived in America some 60 years ago? or are we indulged in our clothing, i.e. shoes, jewelry, belt, coat, & mink coats, handbags, boots, sun glasses, non-stop shopping, hunting for bargains, living in restaurants, redoing our kitchens every so often, always planning our next vacations, now Leshem Mitzvah we are busy planning our winter vacation, and of course don't forget Motzai Shabbos hot Pizza & fries, eating it in the pizza shops with mixed company, we have turned into a major "planning board" not leaving enough time to see and plan our lives as "how to serve Hashem better”



Lets be honest it's almost impossible to walk the streets and keep our eyes clean, and yes, I am referring to neighborhoods of Bnai Torah and Chassidim, not in Harlem, Miami Beach or Las Vegas etc.



The "Franken-Storm" effect has been felt by many of us, we are all suffering because of it, one way or another, but..... The million dollar question is: are we waking up to Hashems cry?



Now it's our duty to be strong and say to Hashem: 


OK we are ready to change our lives, our materialistic lifestyle that we have lived up to now, will change!!! We’ll start getting ourselves ready for the coming of Moshiach by living a true Torah life. BTW when Moshiach arrives there will be nothing left of all our Gashmius, so get a head start...and get rid of it now. Lets be more careful with all of the Halochos and 613 Mitzovos of our special sweet Torah.



Thank you for giving up your time and reading this note of Chizuk. Please copy and paste in Shuls, schools etc. so others can get Chizuk too.

s.p. It would be nice if everyone takes the Frankenstorm warning from Hashem very seriously to prevent future catastrophes.

Newsflash November 1st, 2012 Jerusalem, Israel

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi, R' Amar announced today that the public should avoid "bug free" lettuce, scallions, and vegetables that are now very popular around Israel.

Due to [allegedly] toxic levels of pesticides found in routine checks of the "bug free' vegetables, R' Amar says its forbidden to eat them, and its far better to buy traditionally grown leafy vegetables, and simply wash them off, as done in the days gone past.

For explanation with good comments, 

read full post at The Muqata

It might be a good idea to buy the "traditionally grown leafy vegetables" and inspect and clean them the old-fashioned way. They look better and healthier anyway.

"He Who sets the boundaries of the waters of the seas"

And G-d said, "Let the water that is beneath the heavens gather into one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.

ט. וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים יִקָּווּ הַמַּיִם מִתַּחַת הַשָּׁמַיִם אֶלמָקוֹם אֶחָד וְתֵרָאֶה הַיַּבָּשָׁה וַיְהִיכֵן:

I am sitting here in the sunshine of Yerushalayim, ever so grateful that HaShem has allowed us to live in the most beautiful city on earth. However, my thoughts are flooded with concern for friends and our Jewish family of Yidden, and all peoples, in America threatened by hurricane Sandy as she roars through several states unleashing the ocean's waters from their boundaries. HaShem gave the waters on the earth on the third day of creation a directive not to go beyond their boundaries, set by the sands of shorelines.


But what are they witnessing before their visual amazement? The waters are overflowing their boundaries. In all the coverage of Sandy's strange path through the ocean ('hugging the shoreline,' 'veering strategically left,' 'unleashing her might surrounding Manhattan,' and then in a reversed question-mark path' continuing) onto land, I have not heard anyone exclaim that "the Hand of G-d, is G-d angry with us! He has loosened the boundaries of the sea."

This experience should produce introspection, a delving into one's psyche to grasp a message embeded in this mega-storm. An "ultra-shattering" event occuring between the Parsha of Lech Lecha where HaShem instructs Avraham to leave his country and family for the promised land, and the Parsha of Vayera and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Could there be a message here for the "undecided" Jews in America?

• Who will lead the once great Republic away from a atheistic socialistic philosophy toward a restoration of G-dly values?
• Unclear about one's heritage and one's Jewishness? 
• Ambivalent about supporting the holiness of our G-dly inheritance of Eretz Yisrael?
• Antagonistic about returning home and living under the Wings of G-d's message to the world in the fulfillment of ancient prophecies, giving birth to the cities, farms, and Jewish babies on the Land.

How could one remain undecided about who Governs this world and what He wants from us! Who causes the sun to shine, Who loosens the boundaries of the seas upon the sands of the shores.


Midrash Bereshis on the creation of the waters:

"On the third day, the earth was as flat as a plain, and the waters covered the entire surface of the earth. And when out of the mouth of the Almighty there issued the command "Let the waters be gathered together . . . and let the dry land appear" (Genesis 1:9), mountains and hills rising up in different parts of the earth emerged over its entire surface, so that it became pitted with many valleys.

As the core of the earth rose up, the waters rolled down into the valleys [and became seas]. Forthwith, swelling with pride, the waters rose in order to cover the earth as at the beginning.

But then the Holy One rebuked them, subdued them, placed them beneath the soles of His feet, and measured out their extent with His own span, so that they should neither enlarge nor diminish. And as a man makes a hedge for his vineyard, so He made the sand into a hedge for the seas, so that when the waters rise and see the sand before them, they turn back and recede."

America's Swan Song

Time will tell, and we will wait to see if we have witnessed America's 'Swan Song,' after viewing the scope of the disaster inflicted on the commercial and financial hub of America, New York, reminiscent of the 9/11 impact on her psyche and as a 'world power'.

"Swan Song" has become an idiom referring to a final theatrical or dramatic appearance, or any final work or accomplishment. It generally carries the connotation that the performer is aware that this is the last performance of his or her lifetime, and is expending everything in one magnificent final effort. (Wikipedia)

... the day after

Some additional links and text on the devastated NE United States

Hurricane Sandy takes out Major NYC Internet Provider


Nearly the size of the United States, Hurricane Sandy was unstoppable:

(AP Photo)

True scale of damage just coming to light. "The full scale of the destruction caused by the 'superstorm' is coming to light, with row after row of Atlantic vacation homes on the horizon wiped out (pictured top before and below after) by the deadly force of surging waters and winds which reached peaks of 95mph. Deaths were reported in New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Atlantic City's historic boardwalk is in splinters, and this once-bustling New Jersey town is a devastated shadow of its former self." (Daily Mail)





This WSJ graphic gives an overview:

Map of Utility Outage Areas

Mayor Bloomberg: One in four buildings without power.

Darkness hovering over the earth:

Seaside NJ looks eerily like Japan's tsunami:

More here

Battery Park, NY

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Phenomenally sad pictures from and English (British) website:

HERE. It looks like 9/11 destruction spread here and there all over the NY Metropolitan area plus some (NY, NJ, CT, DE, MD, WV, PA, NC, ME & Canada). In Breezy Point NY alone, 80 to 100 homes destroyed by Sandy and uncontrollable fire. That means 80 to 100 families, children, without their home and possessions. Senator Ten Turner from NY is among the bereft.

In this picture, clouds and a rainbow hovering over Manhattan, reminiscent of Parshas Noah

Video Coverage of Massive Hurricane

W I D E S P R E A D flooding and utility outages, will take days

Compilation Video of iReporters' Sandy Images:

Long Island NY, Ocean City MD, Boston MA, NJ and Snow in WV Flooding in NY-NJ tunnels, subways et al Wild weather from Sandy travelled as far west as Pittsburg, Ohio, Detroit and Chicago and Indiana: