The Perils of “Palestine”

TO AIPAC’s CEO - The Perils of “Palestine”

"Palestinian statehood and a secure Israel are mutually exclusive goals. This was always the accepted wisdom in Israel - until the discourse was hijacked by the tyrannical diktats of politically correct dogma."

"After meticulously cataloguing the daunting dangers facing Israel and the nefarious nature of her unscrupulous adversaries—from the Shia “puppet master”, Iran, and its terror proxy Hezbollah in the North to the brutal Sunni Hamas and the assorted Salafi Jihadi renegades in the South—Kohr [AIPAC’s CEO, Howard Kohr] went on to *propose – giving them precisely what they are allegedly clamoring for — at least initially: A self-governing Arab entity in the East, dominating Israel’s densely populated coastal plain, abutting the trans-Israel highway and overlooking Israel’s only international airport.” arutzsheva.



This article by Martin Sherman is fantastic if only for the maps below. Please read the entire article at the above link. I present herewith only the “Map and Photos  of Vulnerability" IF THERE IS AN ENEMY STATE WITHIN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.

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* This [the AIPAC CEO speech] sounds like a politically correct hypocrite of the highest order (a/k/a erev rav). 

WE MUST NOT LET THEM DO THIS. 

WE, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL, MUST LET THEM KNOW, VOCIFEROUSLY, THAT WE DO NOT AGREE

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Vayakhel-Pekudai – The Metamorphosis of the Jewish Nation

BS”D

Parashiot Vayakhel-Pekudai 5778

Rabbi Nachman Kahana

The Metamorphosis of the Jewish Nation

After serving as HaShem’s chosen people for 3500 years, we can say with some degree of accuracy that HaShem relates to the Jewish people through extended periods of passive concealment followed by dramatic spurts of historic change.

After 2000 years of frustrating concealment, permeated with hundreds of millions of prayers and tears, HaShem presented Am Yisrael with His greatest gift since the days of Chanuka – Medinat Yisrael.

The Medina serves a dual purpose:

1- Its immediate function was to raise up the remnant of our people – both the survivors and the Jews who escaped the horrors of the Shoah – who had fallen into deep depression, despair and hopelessness when the awesome unbearable tragedy of the Shoah became known.

How could HaShem have done this to Am Yisrael? Where was HaShem when the Esavs of Europe were destroying His people? Our rabbis could not present any viable answers to these questions, and the nation was on its way to mass assimilation and abandonment of anything Jewish. This was the feeling in 1945 at the end of the Shoah. Why remain Jewish when HaShem has abandoned, relinquished and deserted the covenant He had initiated with our forefathers? Three years later, just a blink in history, Am Yisrael raised the flag of Medinat Yisrael to the absolute disbelief of all humanity.

The Medina did not supply the answers to all our questions, but it did answer the big one: Are we still HaShem’s chosen people – an emphatic YES!

2- The Medina opened the way towards the final geula (redemption) of our people. The miracles we experience are daily reminders that a holy cloud hovers over the State of Israel, enveloping it in a collective bracha (blessing) in all fields of human endeavor. With this said, we who cling to HaShem and await the final stage of our redemption all agree that the Medina, enormous as it is, is not the end game of our hopes and aspirations. It is a stage. A great one but only preparation for the future appearance of HaShem through the Mashiach and the dramatic new world we call Olam Haba.

How will HaShem proceed from here? There are numerous scenarios. Humanity suddenly realizes that we are God’s chosen people and restores to us the borders of the Holy Land. Possible, but quite unlikely.

The foreigners in our land will suddenly leave and all the Jews here will do tshuva (repentance). Possible, but again unlikely. And the speculations continue.

I would like to suggest a possible scenario that is congruent with the Rambam’s description of the future redemption.

Rambam Melachim chapter 11,4:

ואם יעמוד מלך מבית דוד הוגה בתורה ועוסק במצוות כדוד אביו, כפי תורה שבכתב ושבעל פה, ויכוף כל ישראל לילך בה ולחזק בדקה, וילחם מלחמות ה’, הרי זה בחזקת שהוא משיח, אם עשה והצליח ונצח כל האומות שסביביו ובנה מקדש במקומו וקבץ נדחי ישראל הרי זה משיח בודאי.

If a king will arise from the House of David who diligently contemplates the Torah and observes its mitzvot as prescribed by the Written Law and the Oral Law as David, his ancestor, and will compel all of Israel to walk in (the way of the Torah) and rectify the breaches in its observance, and fight the wars of God, we may, with assurance, consider him Mashiach. If he succeeds in the above, builds the Temple in its place, and gathers the dispersed of Israel, he is definitely the Mashiach.

It could happen in the near future, that a vacuum of political leadership will commence, when our parliamentary system will be unable to form a viable government. This coupled with the enemy “at our gates” will create the undesirable necessity for the army to step into the vacuum and declare military rule in the country.

And at some point, the Chief of Staff will be a product of the religious-Zionist yeshiva system and begin the process of redemption as put forth by the Rambam.

This might happen, or any one of the many other scenarios. In any event the Medina will have to exit our present state of religious stagnation in order to metamorphose into the next stage of the Jewish nation’s forward thrust to redemption and restoration of HaShem’s presence in our religious-national life.



How can we be a Kingdom of Kohanim?

This Shabbat we will finish reading from the book of Shemot, and at the Mincha service we will commence reading Vayikra, also known as “Torat Kohanim” – the book of laws for Kohanim.
Moshe descended from Mount Sinai with a message from HaShem (Shemot 19,6):

ואתם תהיו לי ממלכת כהנים וגוי קדוש אלה הדברים אשר תדבר אל בני ישראל
You shall be for me, a kingdom of kohanim and a holy nation

How can we be a “kingdom of kohanim” when only about five percent of the Jewish nation are kohanim?

Answer: Kohanim are set apart from the rest of the nation in five spheres: food, clothing, habitation, marriage and tahara (ritual purity).

• A kohen is entitled to eat terumah (the priestly tithe), meat from sin and guilt offerings and the remnants of meal offerings, all of which are forbidden to non-Kohanim.
• The kohen has specific garments which are forbidden to a non-Kohen to wear.
• Kohanim lived in towns earmarked for them, such as Nov and Anatot, while the rest of the nation were entitled to live anywhere in Eretz Yisrael.
• Kohanim are more restricted regarding who they can wed.
• And Kohanim are more restricted regarding matters of tahara (ritual purity).

These very five spheres that characterize kohanim apart from other Jews, are the same five spheres that distinguish the Jewish People from Gentiles.

• We are commanded regarding dietary laws, while a non-Jew is allowed to eat everything except the limb cut from of a living creature.
• We have laws that affect what we wear, such as not mixing wool and linen in our clothing (Vayikra 19:19), and the laws of wearing the ritual fringes (tzitzit — Bamidbar 15:38), which do not apply to gentiles.
• Jews have to live in the Land of Israel, whereas a non-Jew is allowed to live anywhere on the face of the earth.
• Apart from the most serious forbidden sexual liaisons, a non-Jew can marry whomever he wishes, but Jews are limited in their marriages.
• Finally, on the level of ritual purity, there is no tuma to a non-Jew while alive, unlike a Jew, who can become tamai (ritually impure) even during his lifetime.

Hence, we learn that HaShem elevated the status of the Jewish People to that of the “Kehuna” vis-à-vis the rest of the nations.

In HaShem’s relations with Am Yisrael there are no “complimentary gifts”. Every merit bestowed upon us comes with accompanying responsibility and accountability. As a “Kingdom of Kohanim” each individual Jew, like each and every kohen, must serve in Hashem’s holy “precinct” – kohanim in the Bet Hamikdash and Am Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael.

Shabbat Shalom,
Nachman Kahana
Copyright © 5778/2018 Nachman Kahana

Parshas Parah/Vayakhel-Pekudey – One Huge Steak

ONE HUGE STEAK

By Roy S. Neuberger

A prominent rosh yeshiva once remarked to me, “I never ate a steak in my life.” 

This comment stayed with me, because it represents such a deviation from the norm, even among the observant community. We have to understand how subservient we are to a dominant culture whose lifestyle has enveloped us without our understanding what is happening. 

The Para Aduma is one huge steak.

“A steer weighing 1,000 pounds … will average around 430 pounds of retail cuts.” (Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry) “Steers, heifers, and bullocks produce beef of the highest quality.” (The Food School, California)

The Para Aduma represents a life submerged in gashmius, which blocks our ability to connect with Hashem. This is arguably the central problem of mankind. It appears to be identical with what occurred at the primal stage of life in this world, when Chava disobeyed Hashem’s one explicit mitzvah by eating from the Aitz Hadas. It all began with a taiva for food.

“Coronary heart disease is the leading killer of women and men in western civilization. It is predicted to become the number one global disease burden by 2020. It consists of an inflammatory buildup of blockages in arteries to the heart muscle…. 

“Who develops heart disease? Everyone eating the typical western diet …. [In cultures] where there is a virtual absence of coronary artery heart disease … their nutrition is plant based ….” (Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic since 1968 and former president of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons)

At the end of history, “Hashem, your G-d, will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, to love Hashem, your G-d, with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.” (Dvarim 30:6) The physical world reflects the spiritual world. Sickness of the physical heart reflects sickness of the spiritual heart. This is a great problem, because our goal is to “love Hashem, your G-d, with all your heart ….” If the pathway to the heart is blocked, we are in trouble. It would appear that the mitzvah of Parah Aduma represents the cure for the disease which blocks us from dvaikus with Hashem. If our desire is towards gashmius, the prognosis is fatal. 

I feel this problem on a personal level. Most of you who read these words were brought up surrounded by mitzvos and a Torah perspective. But I grew up in that assimilated world in which all that is recognized are material objects and the only power acknowledged is material power, i.e. government, military, police, or the charisma of an influential person. There is no knowledge of a Power Who Rules All, and of the neshoma which can connect to that Ruling Power. 

In such a world, the neshoma feels abandoned, a prisoner within the body. No one remembers that it exists. It is starving, while the body is being luxuriously fed. Even now, after I have discovered Hashem, I am struggling to rise from the condition in which I was raised. I am not saying that I am unique in this regard, but I still feel it strongly.

You may recognize this experience: I am davening Shemoneh Esreh. I am standing in front of the Kisai Hakavod. And what am I thinking about? Practically everything under the sun. Here is a moshel: a man is admiring the display in a store window. Suddenly, someone hits him twice on the chest! Oy! What’s going on!? “Oh! I forgot! I am davening! I just said, ‘chatanu … fashanu!’” (Heard from Rabbi Moshe Grossman in the name of Rabbi Sholom Schwadron  zt”l)

The effort required to focus on Hashem is overwhelming. We are obsessed with the world of gashmius. But we are enjoined to focus on the Source of Life, because all material and spiritual problems are solved by dvaikus with Hashem. If this were not a matter of great concern, why else would Dovid Hamelech say, “Shivisi Hashem l’negdi samid … I have set Hashem before me always. Because He is at my right hand I shall not falter.” (Tehillim 16)

When I say “Shema,” I try to internalize the fact that Hashem encompasses the entire world; there is nothing outside Him. The infinite details and worries of life are subservient to Him; all is in order if we focus upon Him alone. But we are overwhelmed by distractions, which the Satan so cleverly places before us. To focus upon Hashem is a never-ending effort, and that is why Am Yisroel is enjoined to involve ourselves constantly in Torah, “while you sit in your home, while you walk on the way and when you retire and you arise.”

The clogged arteries leading to our heart block our desire for pure avoda. Just as our taste buds enjoy the delicious prime rib, so our heart desires the physical pleasure of eating. This is represented by the Parah Adumawhich we are commanded to shecht and burn before we can bring the Korban Pesach. 

Zman Chairusainu is the moment of liberation from this crushing burden. Unless we pulverize and burn this obsession with gashmius, we cannot leave Mitzraim! The proof of this awesome challenge is that at least four fifths of Am Yisroel never in fact did leave Mitzraim! (See Rashi on Shemos 10:22 and 13:18 and other commentators.) 

Perhaps the halachos of Parah Aduma are incomprehensible to us precisely because our spiritual arteries are so clogged. We cannot comprehend the extent of this spiritual blockage which has its roots buried so deeply in our past. When we are cleansed, everything will become crystal clear! 

Please, Hashem, now is the time! Purify us now with the ashes of the Parah Aduma!

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

© Copyright 2018 by Roy S. Neuberger

Parashas Vayakhel-Pekuday / Parah Adumah

Parashas Vayakhel-Pekuday / Parah Adumah

by Rabbi Pinchas Winston Shlit”a

These are the accounts of the Mishkan, the Mishkan of testimony . . . (Shemos 38:21)

REBI AKIVA AND his colleagues were once walking within eyeshot of the Temple Mount when they saw a fox emerge from the place of the Kodesh Kodashim, the Holy of Holies. The colleagues cried. Rebi Akiva laughed, so they asked him:

“Why do you laugh?”

He asked them, “Why do you cry?”

They answered him, “A place about which it says, ‘And the stranger that comes close shall be put to death’ (Bamidbar 1:51), has now become the place of foxes and we shouldn’t cry?”

He answered them, “That is why I laugh! It is written, ‘And I will call to testify for Myself trustworthy witnesses, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Yeverechyahu” (Yeshayahu 8:2). What relevance does Uriah the priest have to Zechariah? Uriah lived during the First Temple while Zechariah lived during the Second Temple! Rather, the verse makes the prophecy of Zechariah dependent upon the prophecy of Uriah. 

Uriah’s prophecy says, 

‘Therefore Tzion, for your sake will be plowed as a field, etc.’ (Michah 3:12), but Zechariah’s says, ‘So said the Lord of Hosts: Old men and women shall yet sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each man with his staff in his hand because of old age’ (Zechariah 8:4). As long as Uriah’s prophecy had yet to be fulfilled, I feared that Zechariah’s prophecy might not be fulfilled. But now that Uriah’s prophecy has been fulfilled, I am certain that Zechariah’s prophecy will also be fulfilled.” (Makkos 24b)

What Rebi Akiva told his colleagues was that the “bad” sign which disturbed them—a fox leaving the Kodesh Kodashim—was really a “good” sign—that the Temple will one day be rebuilt—which lifted his spirits. They accepted his interpretation, and it changed their perspective:

They told him, “Akiva, you have comforted us! Akiva, you have comforted us!”

The question is, how? Uriah’s prophecy about the fox leaving the Kodesh Kodashim predicted the aftermath of the destruction of the FIRST Temple. Zechariah’s prophecy spoke of its reconstruction, that is, of the SECOND Temple. The only problem is that while Rebi Akiva comforted his friends, they stood by the RUINS of the very temple of Zechariah’s prophecy! Yes, Zechariah’s prophecy HAD been fulfilled, but it had also been undone by the Romans, who destroyed the Second Temple in 70 CE! What comfort was there in THAT?

The answer is not obvious, but definitely insightful. To understand it, one has to go back in time, to just after the destruction of the First Temple.

The destructions of the First and Second Temples do not faze us because, living long after and since witnessing the survival and rebuilding of the Jewish people, we have hope for a third and final temple. We’ve even witnessed a Holocaust, and how the Jewish people could survive such devastating destruction and go on to return to their homeland and rebuild a presence. Destruction and recovery have become part of the national consciousness.

This had not been the case after the destruction of the First Temple. Until that time, the Jewish people had not yet experienced recovery from catastrophic destruction. They had not come to know how God could turn His back on them so totally, and yet they could still remain His people:

So says God: 

“Where is your mother’s bill of divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of My creditors have I sold you?” (Yeshayahu 50:1)

The prophet said this because the Jewish people had become confused. They had thought that the destruction of the House of God, which should have been impossible, and their subsequent exile to Babylonia meant that God had divorced His people. If the covenant had ended and the situation was hopeless, they thought that they were no longer obligated in mitzvos. They had pushed God TOO far, past the point of no return.

Yeshayahu was sent to set them straight. Yes, the House of God had been destroyed. Yes, they had been exiled to a foreign land to live under a harsh ruler. Yes, it would be some time before they would see their beloved land once again. BUT, it was not divorce, just separation. The covenant had not ended, and the situation was NOT hopeless.

It would take getting used to at first, but in 52 years, once Koresh became the king of Persia, they would witness the stirrings of redemption. In 370 CE, they would be allowed to return to Eretz Yisroel and commence rebuilding the destroyed First Temple. It would not be finished until Herod’s time, hundreds of years later, but it was a taste of redemption nonetheless. There is life for the Jewish people after devastating destruction and long and difficult exile.

This was the comfort Rebi Akiva gave to his mourning colleagues. He had told them that just as Zechariah’s prophecy about the Second Temple came true after the destruction of the first one, likewise would the Second Temple be rebuilt as the Third and Final Temple.

The hopeless situation of Babylonian Jewry, Rebi Akiva reminded them, was turned over, beginning with Koresh and ending with Mordechai and Esther. Our situation likewise will go from hopelessness to hopefulness. That is the pattern. We only have to maintain our emunah and wait, and take comfort in that fact of Jewish history.

In truth, the Talmud tells us, it is a historical fact because God ALWAYS creates the “medicine” before the “illness.” Destruction of ANYTHING Jewish cannot occur until the recovery has been set in motion. It may not be clear at the time, and usually is not, but it is an immutable rule in Jewish history.

This, ultimately, was Rebi Akiva’s comfort for those witnessing ANY Jewish destruction, personal or national. He was teaching us how to look at the destruction and see the seeds of redemption, just as God told Moshe Rabbeinu to do when he complained about the increased slavery of the Jewish people in Egypt. It is what people mean when they say that the State of Israel was founded on the ashes of the Holocaust.

In fact, the GR”A says, when the Jewish people are unworthy of a miraculous redemption, it will always come through suffering at first. And, the suffering will be the worst just prior to the redemption, just as the night is the darkest before the dawn. It was this way in Egypt in 1312 BCE, as well as in the time of the Holocaust in 1942.

Therefore, when the Torah says:

These are the accounts of the Mishkan, the Mishkan of testimony . . . (Shemos 38:21)

and Rashi explains:

The word “Mishkan” is mentioned here twice in allusion to the Temple that was taken as a pledge— mashkon—being destroyed twice because of the sins of the Jewish people 
(Midrash Tanchuma, Pekuday 5).

A Jew has to know and realize that, even when the Temples have yet to be built, and their destruction is being prophesied, there is hope, REDEMPTION hope.

In fact, the predicted destruction IS the hope, created long before the “illness” has even had a chance to do its damage. The Torah is telling us that by being given the opportunity to build a Temple, we ourselves will have helped to create our future “cure” to our future “sickness.” Something will exist in the world that will counterbalance the Jewish people, and will be destroyed instead because of their sins. This way the Jewish nation will be able to continue even if their temples do not.

“Akiva, you have comforted us! Akiva, you have comforted us!”

Another Pieces Plan no Different From All The Other Cutting-Board Deals

This is a huge insult. If what is reported (leaked) is true, this is one big double-cross by Israel’s best friend! If true, America is in for a disaster. Let us HOPE to HASHEM that if true, it will blow up in their faces.

A PALESTINIAN STATE IN ISRAEL’S BACKYARD, INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OVER JERUSALEM’S OLD CITY AND THE MASS EXPULSION OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JEW FROM JUDEA AND SAMARIA”: 
Is this the “price” [long- negotiated dynamic-duo negotiators with Saudi input] that President Donald Trump recently hinted Israel would have to pay? [or is this a reverse Purim Shpiel?]

THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF THE AFTERMATH FROM AMERICA’S PIECES PLAN:  

AGAIN:  Terrorists Burn Shul in Karmei Tzur Neighborhood of Givat Sorek. The terrorists came from “Halhul has become an infamous breeding ground for terrorists who have committed attacks on Israelis in and around the Gush Etzion area. On Tuesday afternoon, just two years after terrorists from Halhul burnt Sifrei Kodesh in a shul in Givat Sorek, they returned to finish the job and set fire to the entire Shul, which burned together with all of the Sifrei Kodesh inside.

WHAT WILL THEY CHOKE US WITH (some variations):

*Stephen Flatow: Price for Trumps Peace Plan is Too High:

The United States should not be treating Israel and the Palestinian Authority as if they are morally equivalent. Israel is America’s democratic ally. The PA is a terror-sponsoring, America-hating totalitarian regime.

Israel has spent 70 years surrendering territory, tearing down Jewish communities, releasing dangerous terrorists and stopping military operations prematurely. It should not be expected to make any more concessions.

American Jewish leaders need to make it clear to the Trump administration that any international control over any part of Jerusalem is unacceptable; that the mass expulsion of Jews from their homes is immoral; and that the creation of a Palestinian state in Israel’s backyard would pose a mortal threat to the Jewish state.

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*As viewed on Algemeiner original source from jns.org

HOPE

HOPE

One can get really upset when discovering a parking ticket on their windshield, right? I suppose we have all had that unpleasant experience.

Well, just the other day a young Arab- Israeli man drove his jeep into town (Acco) where he took his eight-month pregnant wife to be examined in the clinic there. When he came out he found a ticket on his car. He was not happy to see this so he decided the right response was to kill as many Jews as possible in multiple places, especially those in uniform. He hit a number of his targets before he himself was wounded. He is now in the care of kind Jewish doctors

His family claims it was a just an unfortunate traffic accident.

How does one wrap one's head around this?

Here we have an Israeli Arab, enjoying the abundant and generous fruit of the Jewish state that has given him and his family a life of freedom and security. He abandons his pregnant wife to kill Jews; the same Jews that built and defend the only place in the Mid - East that ensures him and his family basic human rights and opportunity.

This case is just another of a dizzying number of similar ones in which comfortable, educated, employed Israeli - Arabs find their ultimate fulfillment in killing fellow Israelis - Jews.
This phenomenon of comfortable, free Israeli Arabs using whatever comes to hand to kill Jews has increased rapidly in recent years. As opposed to the very rare case of when a Jew kills an Arab, and all the Jews from the president on down voice outrage and shame; the Arab killers of Jews are considered heroes.

It is clear that the Arabs in Israel know that they have it very good indeed. If they felt otherwise they would leave. No one is kept by force. Not one has left for the Palestinian Authority where they will not have to see the hated Israeli flag. There, they can be subject to their own beloved PLO flag that they so passionately wave as proud Palestinian students in Israeli universities. Of course, when offered the possibility to stay in their present homes and just be ruled by the PA, they shriek in horror.

They know why.

This is a classic psychologically frustrating situation. Israeli Arabs cannot accept the fact that the lowly, despised Jews beat them in 1948. They will always hate us for that humiliation, and for other more traditional reasons. But they love the good life we created for them.
Problem.

The increasing number of Israeli Arabs in higher education, government, academia, the courts..has no impact on their resentment; It seems to only stoke the fires of their frustration.

I understand their predicament.

What I find far more difficult to understand is the continuing delusion of many Jews about this situation.

Just this week I had a conversation with a very nice and intelligent colleague of mine. I know that she is not stupid or ignorant of the facts. I was surprised therefore to hear that she was one of those still stuck in the "we should try harder" mode.

I thought this type of illusion lost its spell after decades of horrible post - Oslo tragedies. She insisted that it all can be good if "we only talked to them". "Dialogue." "There is a better way.."Teach them.."

I was really shocked. I think it comes down to this: Some people just can not accept that there are no comfortable solutions. Some people just absolutely need to believe in "hope eternal”.

I clearly remember a radio interview a few years ago with Dr. Yossi Beilin, one of the chief architects of the Oslo disaster and its staunch defender to this very day. He was asked," What do you think now about Oslo after we have seen that it has not turned out the way you envisioned and assured us? He said, "it is true that there are problems but, I just can not live in a world in a world without hope"

In every generation, such people arise. Neville Chamberlin too could not live without "hope" he told us. Beilin cannot and it seems my colleague can not either.

If only the nice young man in Acco was not given a ticket. We should think about alternatives if it upsets them so. There simply must be a better way.

Never give up on hope.

Shalom Pollack
Shalom Pollack Tours
Tuesday, March 13, an amazing tour of our beloved blossoming land. Leaving Yerushalayim, we will travel through the Judean desert and Samaria mountains, glorious with spring flowers.

What is Going on Here??

WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?

I read the following at ISRAEL RISING and I am somewhat shocked. ISRAEL RISING does some very interesting and penetrating articles, but something is amiss here:

YEHUDA GLICK: “We are witnessing Biblical Prophecy being fulfilled!”  I had the opportunity today to sit with MK Rabbi Yehuda Glick in the Knesset for a discussion on his views of Redemption, Peace, and Jerusalem. Glick is perhaps the most recognized leader of the movement to allow freedom of worship on the Temple Mount. He is both determined and completely optimistic regarding Israel and global peace. [. . .] he is a peace advocate that supports a One State Solution that will give the Palestinian Arabs full human rights. His initiative Jerusalem of Peace, makes Jerusalem the key to world peace. [. . .] and 
a sign from G-D to help bring global redemption through freedom of worship on the Temple Mount [. . .]

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This just doesn’t make sense to me. And it didn’t make sense to TomerDevorah when she wrote  "A House of Prayer for All Nations”. 

Jews should not be singing to “ALLAH” or singing in a Church, especially at an inter-faith gathering. Consider the following two videos:




I think we need some explanation about this video:

Yehudah Glick and Tommy Waller at Church

Parshat Vayakhel-Pekudei Message of Nir ben Artzi 4/3/18 – ENGLISH

BS"D

Message from Nir Ben Artzi
Parshat Vayakhel-Pekudei
Sunday, 17 Adar 5778 | 4/3/18 | 8:30

The Holy One, Blessed is He, King of the Universe, leads the world and created the world in His glory alone. He will do his Will - it will be good for everyone. Whoever will do the Will of the Creator of the world will be good for him. If he does not do the Will of the Creator of the world, the Creator of the world will interfere with him all the days of his life until he does teshuva. The Holy One, Blessed be He, chose the Jews and did not err. Until this moment, the Jews are fighting for the sanctification of the Lord, the Holy Land, and the complete Holy Land of Israel .

Jews abroad, listen carefully: anti-Semitism in Europe is intensifying and growing horribly, even in Africa, the United States and Asia. There are Jews abroad who are connected to money and material and do not care about going up to the Holy Land, and there are those who want to immigrate to the Holy Land.

Esther the Queen sacrificed herself for the people of Israel. Esther the Queen redeemed and saved the people of Israel. Queen Esther received a briefing from above, directed and instructed her what to say to redeem the Jewish people, no one could convince her. Mordecai the Jew was her escort and did not know that they were speaking to her from heaven. Mordechai did not know that she had the Holy Spirit, that angels spoke and directed her to save the people of Israel.

Like Miriam the prophetess who caused her parents to remarry, so that Moshe Rabbeinu would be born. The Holy One, Blessed is He, gave Esther strength to fast for three days. She came into the world on this mission alone, all her life living for this mission, to save the Jewish people from annihilation. This is called - 'Through righteous women Israel was redeemed.' Even now, through righteous women, the wives of the rabbis, Torah sages and Kabbalists, Israel will be saved. They will have the confidence to know from their husbands about the vision, who the Holy One, Blessed be He, chose to be the savior of Israel, the redemption of Israel and Mashiach ben David, the man of God chosen by the Holy One, Blessed be He.

Ariel Sharon, yes, he was the last! Anyone who came after him as prime minister was not a prime minister. All the parties controlled him and he was like a puppet on strings.

All the confusion and disturbances that are revealed to senior officials in the Land of Israel and around the world, everything is done by the Almighty, who purifies and will purify the world and prepare it for the coming of Moshiach. Then all the bribes, lewdness, theft, deceit, and those who live on the backs of others will repent fully, and they will correct their middos, and the Creator of the world will protect and atone for them.

Syria is ruined, destroyed and finished. In Syria many countries are mingling with each other. Many countries train in various planes and missiles, fight and quarrel, in Syria and there will be no rest in order to leave Israel. The Holy One, Blessed be He, is angry at Syria and the Arab States for having mercilessly murdered Jewish soldiers in the Yom Kippur War, the Creator of the world does not forget anyone for good or for bad. King Messiah in public!

Russia, Putin dances on some weddings. He is smart, intelligent and knowledgeable, sells arms and ammunition, and frightens the world with his speech. He loves the people of Israel, the Land of Israel and the Jews in Israel. He wants to be good with everyone and to provide a decent living for Russia.

Nasrallah, like a peacock whose head is between his wings, is Nasrallah. He can not take any step without Iran's instructions. He is feeding on Iran, and Iran is not succeeding in doing Nasrallah's and Hezbollah's will, because the IDF is blowing everything in their faces, and Mashiach will soon come out in public and make order.

Iran is afraid that Israel will blow up its atomic plants, so it does not directly harm Israel. They are afraid to deal directly with Israel, indirectly, yes. There will be a revolution in Iran through women and through the elements. Iran knows the story of Queen Esther, no less than any Jew. Know the history of the whole thing and so they are scared to death.

In the Land of Israel, a moderate Israel Defense Forces does not want wars. Are conducted in the right and proper way.

Gog and Magog and Chaos - outside the Land of Israel.

Egypt, Sisi came to Israel in the occult [secret] and in exile. [revealed]. Quietly doing his work so that the Egyptians would not hurt him. Sisi brings great forces into the desert of Sinai, he knows that the [from] Sinai will come to him evil. On the other hand, Israel is profiting from the fact that Egyptian soldiers are cleaning and purifying the Sinai Desert so that they will not be able to transfer weapons, ammunition and missiles to the Gaza Strip. The Creator warns Egypt and Sisi: If Sisi tries to fight the people of Israel, if he does not go with Israel in the best way, if he goes wrong with the Israeli government and the Israel Defense Forces, the Aswan Dam will burst [on them], its in their hands.

Abu Mazen is in the swing, like a puppet. He has run out of abilities, is working on reserves.

Turkey complicated itself. The Holy One, Blessed be He, is doing everything to make a revolution in Turkey. The Holy One, Blessed be He, does everything and directs a revolution in Turkey. Erdogan is in the mud with his soldiers.

The United States, Trump offers suggestions and knows that they will not agree to them, that all the good wants to be transferred to Israel, and knows that the Palestinians are not prepared to accept what he is proposing: The Holy One, Blessed is He: There will be no Palestinian state, [they] will continue to quarrel with themselves.

In places where there is a concentration of Jews in the world, Islam interferes. There are cities of hundreds of thousands of Muslims, the size of Israel. Little by little they are conquering Europe, and slowly they are multiplying in the US. They attack Jews abroad, at least ten thousand cases a day. In other words, ten thousand Jews are hurt.

Jews who live outside the Land of Israel, [need] to invest in real estate in the Holy Land, to buy houses in Eretz Israel and to be prepared for any problem or scenario, not to happen.

The assimilation of Jewish women makes many problems in the land and in heaven. Many gentiles buy and seduce the daughters of Israel with money and gifts. The Ministry of Social Affairs, educational advisors and school principals - check what happens with the girls, because they need the money they fall, heaven forbid, to assimilate.

In Israel everything is good and abundant and there is a livelihood for everyone. Relative to what is happening in the world - Israel is the best place in the world.

Road accidents are caused by talking on the cell phone and e-mail messages and wattsap. Many people whose time has not come - are killed in road accidents, shorten their lives.

In the Israeli government, the right will not fall, it will not help anyone. They are all in the same boat, one tied to the other and the other is being crushed. They have no order, so they will always have complaints and interrogations. Why is there so much noise in the Israeli Knesset? Because the Left wants to overthrow the Right, they are making every effort to overthrow the Israeli government. No prime minister, since Ariel Sharon, has ruled.

Everything that the Holy One, Blessed be He, does in the Land of Israel refines and purifies and says to the people of Israel: You can not trust any human being, everything is complicated and everything is confused.

Waiting for the salvation of the Holy One, Blessed be He, waiting for the Holy One, Blessed be He, to make the King Mashiach so that He might make order in the Land of Israel so that He would guide the Land of Israel and the whole world. The Holy One, Blessed be He, allows the people of Israel to know, to understand and to see who has chosen the man of God, Mashiach, to the people of Israel.

See all the signs, miraculous miracles the Holy One, Blessed be He, does to the people of Israel. Every day we understand God more, feel Him more, see the miracles and begin to understand that there is a creator of the world that runs the world. Soon he will find Mashiach in public!

Parshat Vayahkel–Pekudi Message of Nir ben Artzi 4/3/18 – HEBREW

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מסר מפי הרב ניר בן ארצי שליט"א

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נמסר ביום ראשון, י"ז באדר תשע"ח 4.3.18 | 8:30

     הקדוש-ברוך-הוא מלך העולם, מנהיג את העולם וברא את העולם לכבודו בלבד. יעשו רצונו - יהיה טוב לכולם. מי שיעשה רצונו של בורא עולם - יהיה לו טוב, מי שלא יעשה רצונו של בורא עולם, בורא עולם יפריע לו כל ימי חייו, עד שיעשה תשובה. הקדוש-ברוך-הוא בחר ביהודים ולא טעה, עד הרגע הזה היהודים נלחמים על קידוש ה', על אדמת הקודש ועל ארץ ישראל הקדושה והשלֵמה.

       יהודים בחו"ל, תקשיבו טוב: האנטישמיות באירופה מתגברת ומתגברת בצורה מחרידה, גם באפריקה, בארה"ב ובאסיה. יש יהודים בחו"ל שמחוברים לכסף ולחומר ולא אכפת להם מלעלות לארץ הקודש, ויש כאלה שכן רוצים לעלות וליישב את ארץ הקודש. כל יהודי שיעלה לארץ הקודש, מבטיח לו בורא עולם הבטחה - יבורך מפי עליון.

אסתר המלכה הקריבה את עצמה בשביל עם ישראל. אסתר המלכה גאלה והצילה את עם ישראל. אסתר המלכה קיבלה תדרוך מלמעלה, כיוונו והדריכו אותה מה לדבר כדי לגאול את עם ישראל, אף אחד לא יכול היה לשכנע אותה. מרדכי היהודי היה המלווה שלה ולא ידע שמדברים איתה משמיים. מרדכי לא ידע שהיתה לה רוח הקודש, שמלאכים דיברו וכיוונו אותה כדי להציל את עם ישראל. כמו מרים הנביאה שגרמה להוריה להינשא שוב, כדי שיוולד משה רבנו. הקדוש-ברוך-הוא נתן לאסתר כוח לצום שלושה ימים. היא באה לעולם למשימה הזו בלבד, כל ימיה חיה למשימה הזאת, להציל את העם היהודי מכליה. זה נקרא - 'דרך נשים צדקניות נגאלו ישראל'. גם עכשיו, דרך נשים צדקניות, נשות הרבנים, גדולי התורה והמקובלים, יגאלו ישראל. יהיה להן ביטחון לדעת מבעליהן על החיזיון, במי בחר הקדוש-ברוך-הוא להיות מושיען של ישראל, לגאולת ישראל ומשיח בן דוד, איש האלוקים שבחר בו הקדוש-ברוך-הוא.

אריאל שרון, כן היה אחרון! כל מי שעלה אחריו לראשות הממשלה, לא היה ראש ממשלה. כל המפלגות שלטו בו והיה כמו בובה על חוטים.

כל הערבוביה וההפרעות שמגלים על בכירים בארץ ישראל ובעולם, הכל עושה הקדוש-ברוך-הוא, שמזכך ומטהר את העולם ומכין אותו לבואו של משיח. אז שיחזרו בתשובה שלמה כל אנשי השוחד, הזימה, הגניבה, הרמאות ואלה החיים על גב אחרים, ויתקנו את מידותיהם ובורא עולם יגן ויכפר להם.

סוריה נחרבת, נהרסת ונגמרת. בסוריה מתערבבות ורבות ביניהן הרבה מדינות. הרבה מדינות מתאמנות במטוסים וטילים למיניהם, נלחמות ומסכסכות בסוריה ולא תהיה מנוחה, כדי שיעזבו את ישראל. הקדוש-ברוך-הוא כועס על סוריה ועל מדינות ערב, כי רצחו לו באכזריות חיילי צה"ל יהודים במלחמת יום הכיפורים. בורא עולם לא שוכח אף אחד, לטוב ולרע. שחרבם תבוא בליבם וקשתותם תישברנה וימשיכו להסתבך זה בזה, עד שבורא עולם ימליך את מלך המשיח בפרהסיה!

רוסיה, פוטין רוקד על כמה חתונות. הוא חכם, נבון ומלא דעת, מוכר נשק ותחמושת ומפחיד בדיבורו את העולם. את עם ישראל, ארץ ישראל והיהודים בישראל – הוא אוהב בסתר. הוא רוצה להיות טוב עִם כולם ולפרנס בכבוד את רוסיה.

נסראללה כמו טווס שראשו בין כנפיו, זה נסראללה. הוא לא יכול לעשות שום צעד בלי הוראות של איראן. הוא ניזון מאיראן ואיראן לא מצליחה לעשות את רצון נסראללה וחיזבאללה, כי צה"ל מפוצץ להם הכל בפרצוף. משיח בקרוב ייצא בפרהסיה ויעשה להם סדר.

איראן פוחדת שישראל תפוצץ להם את מפעלי האטום, לכן לא פוגעת בישראל ישירות. הם פוחדים להתעסק ישירות עִם ישראל, בדרך עקיפה, כן. תהיה מהפכה באיראן דרך נשים ודרך איתני הטבע. באיראן מכירים את הסיפור של אסתר המלכה, לא פחות מכל יהודי. מכירים את ההיסטוריה של כל העניין ולכן הם פוחדים פחד מוות.

בארץ ישראל, צבא-הגנה-לישראל מתון, לא רוצה מלחמות. מתנהלים בדרך הטובה והנכונה.

גוג ומגוג ותוהו ובוהו - מחוץ לארץ ישראל.

מצרים, סיסי בא לקראת ישראל בנסתר ובנגלה. עושה בשקט את עבודתו כדי שלא יפגעו בו המצרים. סיסי מכניס כוחות גדולים למדבר סיני, הוא יודע שמסיני תבוא לו הרעה. מצד שני, ישראל מרוויחה, שחיילי מצרים מנקים ומטהרים את מדבר סיני, כדי שלא יצליחו להעביר נשק, תחמושת וטילים לרצועה עזה. בורא עולם מזהיר את מצרים ואת סיסי: אם סיסי ינסה להילחם בעם ישראל, אם לא ילך עִם ישראל בדרך הטובה, אם ילך עקום עם ממשלת ישראל וצה"ל, סכר אסואן יתפרץ עליהם. זה בידיים שלהם.

אבו מאזן נמצא בנדנדה, כמו בובה. נגמרו לו כל היכולות, פועל על יכולות רזרבה.

תורכיה סיבכה את עצמה. הקדוש-ברוך-הוא עושה הכל כדי שתהיה מהפכה בתורכיה. הקדוש-ברוך-הוא עושה הכל ומכוון מהפכה בתורכיה. ארדואן נמצא בבוץ עם חייליו.

ארה"ב, טראמפ מציע הצעות ויודע שלא יסכימו להן. את כל הטוב רוצה להעביר לישראל. יודע שהפלסטינים לא מוכנים לקבל את מה שהוא מציע. הקדוש-ברוך-הוא: לא תהיה מדינה פלסטינית, לא תהיה חלוקה, חרבם תבוא בליבם וקשתותם תישברנה, ימשיכו להסתכסך עם עצמם. כשמשיח ייצא בפרהסיה - יעשה סדר.

במקומות בהם יש ריכוז של יהודים בעולם – האִסלאם מפריע. יש ערים של מאות אלפי מוסלמים, כגודלה של ישראל. לאט לאט הם כובשים את אירופה, לאט לאט הם מתרבים בארה"ב. פוגעים ביהודים בחו"ל, לפחות עשרת אלפים מִקרים ביום. במילים אחרות: עשרת אלפים יהודים נפגעים מהם.

       

        יהודים שגרים מחוץ לארץ ישראל, להשקיע בנדל"ן בארץ הקודש, לקנות בתים בארץ ישראל ולהיות מוכנים לכל בעיה ותרחיש, שלא יקרה.

התבוללות של יהודיות עושה הרבה בעיות בארץ ובשמיים. הרבה גויים קונים ומפתים את בנות ישראל בכסף ומתנות. משרד הרווחה, יועצים חינוכיים ומנהלי בתי הספר - תבדקו מה קורה עם בנות ישראל, בגלל שהן זקוקות לכסף הן נופלות, חס ושלום, להתבוללות.

בישראל הכל טוב ובשפע ויש פרנסה לכולם. יחסית למה שקורה בעולם - ישראל היא המקום הכי טוב בעולם.

תאונות דרכים נגרמות בגלל דיבור בטלפון הסלולרי והודעות המייל והוואטסאפ. הרבה בני אדם שלא הגיע זמנם - נהרגים בתאונות דרכים, מקצרים את חייהם.

      

        בממשלת ישראל, הימין לא ייפול, לא יעזור לאף אחד. כולם באותה סירה, אחד קשור בשני ואחד מושך את השני. אין להם סדר, לכן יהיו להם תמיד תלונות וחקירות. למה יש הרבה 'רעש' בכנסת ישראל? כי השמאל רוצה להפיל את הימין, הם עושים את כל הניסיונות כדי להפיל את ממשלת ישראל. אף ראש ממשלה, מאז אריאל שרון, לא קבע.

כל מה שעושה הקדוש-ברוך-הוא בארץ ישראל, זה זיכוך וניקיון ואומר לעם ישראל: אי אפשר לסמוך על אף אדם בשר ודם, הכל מסובך והכל מבולבל. מחכים לישועתו של הקדוש-ברוך-הוא, מחכים שהקדוש-ברוך-הוא ימליך את מלך המשיח, כדי שיעשה סדר בארץ ישראל, כדי שיכוון את ארץ ישראל וכל העולם. כשמשיח ייצא בפרהסיה - יפתור את כל הצרות והבעיות בארץ ישראל ובעולם.

הקדוש-ברוך-הוא נותן לעם ישראל לדעת, להבין ולראות במי בחר לאיש האלוקים, משיח לעם ישראל. רואים את כל הסימנים, ניסי ניסים עושה הקדוש-ברוך-הוא לעם ישראל. כל יום ויום מבינים את הקדוש-ברוך-הוא יותר, מרגישים אותו יותר, רואים את הניסים ומתחילים להבין שיש בורא לעולם שמנהל את העולם. בקרוב יגלה את המשיח בפרהסיה!

Southern Temple Wall and City of David

Right next to the Western Wall and the southern wall, there is a spectacular, beautiful archaeological garden, which contains findings, dated to the First and Second Temple period. These findings include the city wall, the stairs that led up to the Temple, the original street, shops, ritual immersion baths, and more.

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Jerusalem Archaeological Park Temple Mount Excavations - West wall Southwest Corner 
(A rocky video follows a sightseer in his walk around the area. Best with "fullscreen view” if you can)





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