NEW GOOGLE Terms?? of Service??

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS ALL MEANS, "CONTRACT TEXT" IS FOREIGN TO ME, AND WHAT THEIR DEFINITION MEANS IS ALSO CLOUDY:

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What’s changing?

You can review the new Google Terms of Service here. At a glance, here’s what this update covers:

• Generative AI terms. We’re moving our existing Generative AI Additional Terms to our main Terms of Service and adding other AI-related clarifications. For example – we won’t claim ownership over original content generated by our AI-powered services.
• More clarity on abusive activity. We’re providing more examples and details about abuse and interference with our services that isn’t allowed.
• More details on limitations of liability. For users outside the US, we’re adding clarifications to our limitations of liability and indemnity sections to avoid any misunderstandings in light of local laws or customs.
• More clarity on disputes. We’re clarifying that if you violate our terms, our remedies aren’t limited to suspension or termination of your access to the services, but may include other remedies under applicable law. If problems or disputes arise between us about these terms, you’ll have the opportunity to describe the issues and address them.
• Updates to reflect how our services work. We’re adding language about how our services work, and updating certain Google service brand names that have changed over time.
• For users based in the European Economic Area (EEA) only:
  • In addition to the changes described above, we’re adding more explanatory text to help you understand the legal concept of “guarantees” under EU and local law.
  • For more details, please see this summary of key changes to the EEA versions of our Terms.

If you don’t agree to the new terms, you should remove your content and stop using the services. You can also end your relationship with us at any time, without penalty, by closing your Google Account.

Thank you for using Google services!

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Rabbi Weissman – The Mythical Prohibition to Leave Exile Until Moshiach Comes

 The Mythical Prohibition to Leave Exile Until Moshiach Comes

Not surprisingly, many galus Jews who want to stay in exile for materialistic reasons, while pretending it's piety that keeps them there, have taken great umbrage to my recent class. As usual, they've doubled down on a misreading of a single cherry-picked source from Chazal that has become their ironclad Get Out of Israel Free card until Moshiach comes to whisk them away – something they aren't getting up at chatzos every night to tearfully pray for, besides.

Meanwhile, they haven't said a word about the numerous sources from the very same Chazal that clearly contradict their position. All they do is make oblique reference to the Satmar Rebbe (even if they can't tell you anything he ever said about anything else, and can't even read his sefer), and other desperate, mindless appeals to authority.

That's why I referred to them as intellectually dishonest. I've even told some of them that I actually support people like them staying in galus and licking the boots of the goyim until Moshiach comes, because we don't need losers like them in Eretz Yisrael.  I'm not sure all of these people will make it back for the final redemption, either.  After all, 80% of Klal Yisrael was left behind in the plague of darkness, which still afflicts so many today...

I excerpted the portion from last week's shiur in which I shared more clear sources to stack against their lonely picked cherry that doesn't even support their position. It's available at https://rumble.com/v4roii5-the-mythical-prohibition-to-leave-exile-until-moshiach-comes.html.

Share it and annoy some people today, with hope that one of them will actually allow the Torah to shape his views instead of the reverse.

Next week I'll try to get to the "Rebbe is Moshiach" cultists who took umbrage.  Quite a doozy there...

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With one side of the mouth they tell us the terrorists have thousands of precision-guided rockets that can strike anywhere in Israel.  So how come they never strike Caesarea, Herzliya, Ramat Aviv, the banks, the high tech companies, and other “elite” hubs?

With the other side of the mouth they tell us the terrorists can't really control where their rockets go.  So how come they never randomly hit Caesarea, Herzliya, Ramat Aviv, the banks, the high tech companies, and other “elite” hubs?

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Two Presentations by Eliezer Katzoff ........SEE UPDATE

Bomb Shelters in Israel

I've also updated my website to reflect these links ( www.elikatzoff.com).

As has been all over the news, last week Israel was directly attacked by Iran with a barrage of drones and missiles. And once again Israelis spent the night in the various bomb shelters that exist all over the place in the country. But what do all these shelters look like?

 

That's what I explore in the video above.

 

And, in the course of doing this, I sat down for one of the most intriguing interviews I've conducted in Israel with Colonel (Ret.) Miri Eisin.

Mind you, I conducted this interview the very next morning after the Iranian attack and everyone was pretty exhausted. But her observations about the situation here, in the US, and in general are truly insightful. Unfortunately I couldn't fit most of it into the short video above. So I've decided to attach the bulk of the interview here below in long form. Please enjoy and share.

 Full interview with Colonel (Ret.) Miri Eisin, April 14th

I've also updated my website to reflect these links ( www.elikatzoff.com).

This long form (full interview) with Colonel (Ret.) Miri Eisin conducted on April 14th directly after the Iran attack on Israel explores topics ranging from shelters in Israel to payloads of the ballistic capabilities of Iran and others in the region. It is an almost uncut information heavy interview with a true expert in the field.

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This blog IY"H will resume daily/weekly after Pesach

Reb Ginsbourg – Counting the days - the freedom of our time

 

Follow in the ways of Avraham Avinu - make sure that every day of our sefira, is truly ‘ours’ - that we have given it content, by serving Hashem.

Our Rabbis, in the tefillot of our Chag, and in its kiddush, added the words זמן חרותינו: ‘The Time of our Freedom’.

These additional words allude to the wondrous delivery of Bnei Israel, from slavery to freedom - מעבדות לחירות.

This, as we read, was the glad tidings that Hashem commanded Moshe to foretell to Bnei Israel:( Vayera 6:6 ):’Therefore, say to Bnei Israel: I am the Lord and I shall take you out from under the burden of the Egyptians, and I will save you from their labor.’

As the time of the slave belongs totally to his master, the direct result of the release from slavery, was that the time of Bnei Israel became THEIR time.

Let us suggest that a different addition of words, to the name of our Chag, may also be apt.

Our starting point is the comment of the Tur, that the three regalim allude to the three Avot, Pesach alluding to Avraham Avinu, as the Torah relates: ( Vayera 18:6 ):’.And Avraham hastened to the tent of Sarah, and he said: ‘Hasten three seah of meal (and) fine flour, and make cakes’.

Our Sages comment, that this was because it was Pesach, and add ( Yoma 28: ), that Avraham observed all of the Torah before it was given at Sinai to Bnei Israel.

We find a more direct teaching in the Midrash, that we received the Chag of Pesach in the merit of Avraham.

The Midrash Tanchuma ( Parashat Vayera ), states:’In the merit of the three acts of hastening of Avraham, Hashem repaid Bnei Israel by giving them the Mitzvot of Pesach’.

The three acts of hastening - the Midrash relates - are:(18:2)’And he saw and he ran towards them’; (18:7)’And to the cattle did Avraham run’; and:(18:7)’And he hastened to prepare.

The Midrash makes clear that this reward was not merely because of the hospitality, hachnasat orchim, of Avraham Avinu, but because of the alacrity with which Avraham acted.

Indeed , this attribute is alluded to in the name of Avraham: אברהם in reverse order of its letters, reads: מהר בא: ‘came quickly’.

We learn from this speed with which Avraham treated his guests, how precious the mitzvot - especially helping others, gmilut chasadim - was to his soul: despite the great pain of his recent circumcision, and the heat of the day, he ran at every stage, to attend to the wayfarers.

The Be’er Mayim Chaim derives a beautiful lesson from this episode.

He expounds:’There is a fundamental difference between one who merits the exalted title of ‘an איש חסד׳: a ‘man of chessed’, AND one who merits to be called איש רחמים: ‘a compassionate man’.

‘The former runs after those that may need his chessed, as he has a need to do good in this world; his first prayer when he wakes up each morning, is that he merit to find someone whom he can help, so strong is this need to his very being.

‘The Zohar Hakadosh states that he merited each day of his life, to perform acts of hachnasat orchim and other acts of chessed.

‘One who may be called ‘a compassionate man’, on the other hand, when someone in need comes before him, he will come to his aid; but should no opportunity to do chessed come before him, he will not go out to seek it, nor will he feel any lack in his soul, that he did not perform an act of chessed, that day.’

We can readily understand why Avraham Avinu merited the singular praise: ( Isiah 41:8 ) : אברהם אוהבי: Avraham who loves me - AND why Hashem fulfilled the need of Avraham to do chessed each and every day.

We find an allusion to this, in the Pasuk: ( Chayei Sarah24:1 ):’And Avraham was aged, בא בימים: of venerable age, and Hashem blessed him in everything.’

The hassidic masters expound the words בא בימים, homiletically, as:’came with all his days’ - that he merited to make each and every day ‘his’, because Hashem blessed him by fulfilling the need of his soul, enabling him every day to do chessed - as the Zohar Hakadosh we brought, teaches.

If we have established a special link between Avraham Avinu and Pesach, we can proceed to expound our suggestion - which arises from this - that Pesach is also ‘the time of the freedom of our time.’

Let Rav Gedalia Scharr elucidate:’As a result of the deliverance from servitude, Bnei Israel became masters of their time, as clearly a slave’s time is not ‘his’, but belongs to his master.

‘Indeed, by the very first Mitzvah that we received in Egypt - sanctification of the new month - Bnei Israel were elevated to a new level: they were given ‘control’ over time, through the power of determining when the moadim would be - a determination that bound even the heavenly hordes.

‘Whilst they were enslaved, their time was also ‘in bondage’, as the Egyptians believed that all was predetermined by the laws of nature, without room for renewal or change.

‘When Moshe Rabbeinu proclaimed to Bnei Israel:’This month is for you’, he infused into their souls a new wind, at the heart of which lay the power to control time - it was given ‘to them’, for their use and benefit, including the powers of renewal and change.

Rav Avigdor Nebenzahl adds:’The main freedom that Bnei Israel received, was that, from then on, time was theirs.

‘Here we ask: Was it only when we left our enslavement in Egypt, that our time became ‘ours’?

‘We said that we received control over time on the preceding Rosh Chodesh, when we when we received the Mitzvah of sanctifying the new moon, and were told that ‘time was ours’!

‘The answer is that, whilst our time was indeed ours - in the sense that it no longer ‘belonged’ to masters, as the servitude had ceased some months earlier.

‘However, ‘time’ in itself had no meaning, until it was utilized for the purpose for which it was given: the purpose for which we were redeemed from slavery in Egypt - as Hashem declared:’To be for you a G-d.’

‘At that point we had not been given any Mitzvot, and therefore time being ‘ours’, had no meaning, no substance.

‘Only when we were given the Mizvot of Pesach, could it be truly said that time was meaningfully ‘ours’- when it could be used for the purpose for which it was given to us, by Hashem.

‘We can now understand that Hashem took us out of slavery in Egypt, for the objective that time should be ‘ours’, to serve Him, and not to waste it in meaningless pursuits.’

We can now also connect our Chag to the ways of Avraham Avinu, who - as we brought - used every day of the gift of time, to serve Hashem by acts of chessed, thereby making each day truly ‘his’.

This, may we suggest, is the reason that, immediately from the first day of Pesach, we are commanded with the Mutzvah of Sefirat Ha’omer

Haktav veHakabala expounds that the word ‘omer’ alludes to ‘servitude’, and that the Mitzvah is to each and every day, ascend in our service of Hashem, till we reach the pinnacle on the last day: to merit to receive the Torah.

This requires us to- following in the ways of Avraham Avinu - to make sure that every day of our sefira, is truly ‘ours’ - that we have given it content, by serving Hashem.

Therefore, if we have failed to do so on any day, we can symbolically no longer continue to count with a bracha.

May we merit that our counting shall be תמימה: complete, and to have truly made time ‘ours’

Yoram ETTINGER – Passover Guide for the Perplexed 2024

 Passover Guide for the Perplexed 2024 [especially in America]

1. Passover (April 22-30, 2024) is a Jewish national liberation holiday, highlighting the Exodus, the Parting of the Sea, the Ten Commandments, the 40-year-wandering in the desert, and the reentry to the Land of Israel 3,600 years ago.

2. The Abolitionist and human rights movements were spurred by the Passover Exodus. For example,  in 1850, Harriet Tubman, who was one of the leaders of the “Underground Railroad” – an Exodus of Afro-American slaves to freedom – was known as “Mama Moses.” 

Moreover, on December 11, 1964, upon accepting the Nobel Prize, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “The Bible tells the thrilling story of how Moses stood in Pharaoh’s court centuries ago and cried, ‘Let my people go!’” Furthermore, Paul Robeson and Louis Armstrong leveraged the liberty theme of Passover through the lyrics: “When Israel was in Egypt’s land, let my people go! Oppressed so hard they could not stand, let my people go! Go down Moses, way down in Egypt’s land; tell old Pharaoh to let my people go….!” 

3. The US Founding Fathers were inspired by the Exodus, in particular, and the Mosaic legacy, in general, shaping the Federalist system, including the concepts of (anti-monarchy) limited government, separation of powers among three co-equal branches of government, featuring Congress, as the most powerful legislature in the world. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense – “the cement of the 1776 Revolution” – referred to King George III as “the hardened, sullen-tempered Pharaoh of England.” And, the Early Pilgrims considered their 10-week-sail in the Atlantic ocean as “the modern day Parting of the Sea,” and their destination as “the modern day Promised Land” and “the New Israel.”  

4. The US Founding Fathers deemed it appropriate to engrave the essence of the Biblical role model of liberty (the Passover-related Jubilee) on the Liberty Bell: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof (Leviticus, 25:10).”    The Jubilee is commemorated every 50 years, and the Liberty Bell was installed in 1751 upon the 50th anniversary of William Penn’s Charter of Privileges.  

Moreover, there are 50 States in the United States, whose Hebrew name is “The States of the Covenant” (Artzot Habreet –ארצות הברית ). Also, the Exodus is mentioned 50 times in the Five Books of Moses; Moses received (on Mount Sinai) the Torah – which includes 50 gates of wisdom – 50 days following the Exodus, as celebrated by the Shavou’ot/Pentecost Holiday, 50 days following Passover.

5. According to Heinrich Heine, the 19th century German poet, “Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.”  

6. According to the late Prof. Yehudah Elitzur, one of Israel’s pioneers of Biblical research, the Exodus took place in the second half of the 15th century BCE, during the reign of Egypt’s Amenhotep II. Accordingly, the 40-year-national coalescing of the Jewish people – while wandering in the desert – took place when Egypt was ruled by Thutmose IV. 

Then, Joshua conquered Canaan when Egypt was ruled by Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV, who were preoccupied with domestic affairs to the extent that they refrained from expansionist ventures. 

Moreover, as documented by letters which were discovered in Tel el Amarna, the capital city of ancient Egypt, the 14th century BCE Pharaoh, Amenhotep IV, was informed by the rulers of Jerusalem, Samaria and other parts of Canaan, about a military offensive launched by the “Habirus” (Hebrews and other Semitic tribes), which corresponded to the timing of Joshua’s offensive against the same rulers. Amenhotep IV was a determined reformer, who introduced monotheism, possibly influenced by the ground-breaking and game-changing legacy of Moses and the Exodus.  

7. Passover aims at coalescing the fabrics of the Jewish family and the Jewish people, commemorating and strengthening Jewish roots, and enhancing core values such as faith, humility, education, defiance of odds, can-do mentality, optimism, and patriotism, which are prerequisites to a free and vibrant society.

8. Passover highlights the unique resilience, which has surged the Jewish people to new heights (for the benefit of all of humanity) following a multitude of crises such as: the 722 BCE destruction and exile of the Kingdom of Israel by Assyria, the 586 BCE destruction of the First Temple by Babylon, the 70 AD destruction of the Second Temple by Rome, the 135 crushing of the Bar Kochba’ rebellion against Rome, the 484, 1736 and 1865 pogroms of the Jews in Persia, the 627 massacre of the Jewish tribe of Quraysh by Muhammed, the 873 pogroms by Byzantine, the 1096 First Crusade’s pogroms, the 1141 pogroms in Moslem-ruled Andalusia, the 1147 Second Crusade’s pogroms, the 1189  Third Crusade, the 1198 forced Islamization of Jews in Yemen, the 1248 pogroms in Baghdad, the 1290 expulsion of England’s Jews, the 1306 expulsion of France’s Jews, the 1492 expulsion of Spain’s Jews, the 1496 expulsion of Portugal’s Jews, the 1648 pogroms of Ukraine’s Jews, the 1881 pogroms of Russia’s and Ukraine’s Jews, the 1903 pogroms in Russia, the 1919 pogroms in Ukraine, the 1929 Arab terror in Hebron, the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms in Germany and Austria, the January 20, 1942 Wannsee Nazi Conference which presented “the Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”     

9. Passover highlights the central role of women in Jewish history.  For instance, Yocheved, Moses’ mother, hid Moses and then breastfed him at the palace of Pharaoh, posing as a nursemaid.  Miriam, Moses’ older sister, was her brother’s keeper.  

Batyah, the daughter of Pharaoh, saved and adopted Moses (Numbers 2:1-10).  Shifrah and Pou’ah, two Jewish midwives, risked their lives, sparing the lives of Jewish male babies, in violation of Pharaoh’s command (Numbers 1:15-19).  

Tziporah, a daughter of Jethro and Moses’ wife, saved the life of Moses and set him back on the Jewish course (Numbers, 4:24-27). They followed in the footsteps of Sarah, Rebecca, Leah and Rachel, the Matriarchs (who engineered, in many respects, the roadmap of the Patriarchs), and inspired future leaders such as Deborah (the Prophetess, Judge and military commander), Hannah (Samuel’s mother), Yael (who killed Sisera, the Canaanite General) and Queen Esther, the heroine of Purim and one of the seven Biblical Jewish Prophetesses (Sarah, Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, Huldah and Esther).

10. Passover is the first of the three Jewish pilgrimages to Jerusalem, followed by Shavou’ot (Pentecost), which commemorates the receipt of the Ten Commandments, and Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), which was named after Sukkota – the first stop in the Exodus.

11. Jerusalem is mentioned three times in the annual story of Passover (Haggadah), which is concluded by the vow: “Next Year in the reconstructed Jerusalem!”

United Jerusalem has been the exclusive capital of the Jewish people since King David established it as his capital, 3,000 years ago.