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9/1/13
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Emergency Campaign For the Sake of Judea and Samaria
I, Gershon Mesika, the Governor of the Samaria Regional Council, am leading the worldwide campaign against the disinformation that the European Union, the Arab/Muslim world, international media and press as well as elements within the USA Congress and Executive Branch are waging against the bold pioneers in Judea and Samaria.
We have made several trips to European Union member nations as well as leading numerous visits of parliamentarians and religious leaders on tours of Samaria. There is no better way to fight disinformation than seeing for oneself the reality on the ground. I was the first settler representative to speak in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.
We recently attended the CUFI (Christians United for Israel) national convention in Washington D.C. During our visit, we had 25 meetings with Senators and House Representatives.
We met with Congressman John Fleming (R-LA), Congresswoman
Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Congressman Mike McCaul (R-TX), Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX), Congressman Jim
Jordan (R-OH), Congressman Steve King (R-IA), Congressman Doug
Lamborn (R-CO), Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ),
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Congresswoman
Cynthia Lumis (R-WY), Congressman Leonard Lance (R-NJ),
Congressman Eliot Engel (R-NY), Congressman Mike Pompeo
(R-KS), Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA), Senator Ted Cruz
(R-TX), Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Senator Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Their expression of support was an inspiration!
Please click to view a short video clip of our visit to the USA Congress
http://www.blessingisrael.com/stop-delegitimization-of-settlements/
I, Gershon Mesika, the Governor of the Samaria Regional Council, am leading the worldwide campaign against the disinformation that the European Union, the Arab/Muslim world, international media and press as well as elements within the USA Congress and Executive Branch are waging against the bold pioneers in Judea and Samaria.
We have made several trips to European Union member nations as well as leading numerous visits of parliamentarians and religious leaders on tours of Samaria. There is no better way to fight disinformation than seeing for oneself the reality on the ground. I was the first settler representative to speak in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.
We recently attended the CUFI (Christians United for Israel) national convention in Washington D.C. During our visit, we had 25 meetings with Senators and House Representatives.
We met with Congressman John Fleming (R-LA), Congresswoman
Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Congressman Mike McCaul (R-TX), Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX), Congressman Jim
Jordan (R-OH), Congressman Steve King (R-IA), Congressman Doug
Lamborn (R-CO), Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ),
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Congresswoman
Cynthia Lumis (R-WY), Congressman Leonard Lance (R-NJ),
Congressman Eliot Engel (R-NY), Congressman Mike Pompeo
(R-KS), Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA), Senator Ted Cruz
(R-TX), Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Senator Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Their expression of support was an inspiration!
Please click to view a short video clip of our visit to the USA Congress
http://www.blessingisrael.com/stop-delegitimization-of-settlements/
8/31/13
Adon haselichot
Adon haselichot
bochen levavot
goleh amukot
dover tzedakot
Chatanu lefaneicha
rachem aleinu.
(x2)
Hadur benifla'ot
vatik benechamot
zocher b'rit amo
choker kelayot
Chatanu lefaneicha
rachem aleinu.
(x2)
Male zakiyut
nora tehino
tzone'ach avonot
oneh be'etzavot
Chatanu lefaneicha
rachem aleinu.
bochen levavot
goleh amukot
dover tzedakot
Chatanu lefaneicha
rachem aleinu.
(x2)
Hadur benifla'ot
vatik benechamot
zocher b'rit amo
choker kelayot
Chatanu lefaneicha
rachem aleinu.
(x2)
Male zakiyut
nora tehino
tzone'ach avonot
oneh be'etzavot
Chatanu lefaneicha
rachem aleinu.
Kisufim Trio sings Selichot
SHAVUA TOV!
Tell people how much G-d loves them NOT how He will punish them!
8/30/13
our Jewish little place: parashah vayelech
our Jewish little place: parashah vayelech: Moshè entrusts the leadership of Israel to Yeoshua. He puts the Torah into writing. Hebrew letters forming the name of Yeoshua handpainted...
6/28/13
Shababth Shalom
The true greatness of Pinchas lay in that he acted in complete
opposition to his nature, transcending his inborn instincts to bring
peace between G-d and Israel.
(The Lubavitcher Rebbe)
Ima Tiri
Singer Amir Benayoun has a new song, “Ima Tiri” (“Mother, look”), about the return to Hevron. Among those who heard it was 85-year-old Shlomo Slonim, whose mother, father and brother were slain in the massacre.
Shlomo, who was a one-year-old baby at the time, survived with serious injuries that affect his life to this day.
When he heard the song, Slonim decided he wanted to meet the men who wrote it. Benayoun and co-writer Moshe Klughept were happy to oblige.
The men met Friday morning in Slonim’s home in Raanana. The home provides silent testimony to Slonim’s personal story: the walls hold pictures of the family that died when he was a baby, and research on the massacre sits on his bookshelves.
Shlomo, who was a one-year-old baby at the time, survived with serious injuries that affect his life to this day.
When he heard the song, Slonim decided he wanted to meet the men who wrote it. Benayoun and co-writer Moshe Klughept were happy to oblige.
The men met Friday morning in Slonim’s home in Raanana. The home provides silent testimony to Slonim’s personal story: the walls hold pictures of the family that died when he was a baby, and research on the massacre sits on his bookshelves.
6/14/13
Shabbath Shalom
In everything that G-d taught Moses, He would tell him both the
manner of contamination and the manner of purification. When G-d came to
the laws concerning one who comes in contact with a dead body, Moses
said to Him: "Master of the universe! If one is thus contaminated, how
may he be purified?" G-d did not answer him. At that moment, the face of
Moses turned pale.
When G-d came to the section of the red heifer, He said to Moses:
"This is its manner of purification." Said Moses to G-d: "Master of the
universe! This is a purification?" Said G-d: "Moses, it is a chok, a decree that I have decreed, and no creature can fully comprehend My decrees."
(Midrash Rabbah)
6/13/13
our Jewish little place: parashah Chukat 2 - parah adumah
our Jewish little place: parashah Chukat 2 - parah adumah: The ritual of the Parah Adumah, the red heifer, is part of one of the most mysterious rituals described in the Torah.
6/12/13
kotel
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson - Lubavitcher Rebbe
Chukat - The lying connection
by Rabbi Mira Raz
What is the connection between the verse in our parasha (Numbers 21:9): “And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.” And the verse in Kings II (18:4) that tells about Hezekiah the son of Ahaz the king of Judah: “He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah; and he broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did offer to it; and it was called Nehushtan.”
The connection is a lie (in Hebrew connection – kesher, lie – sheker) and I will explain:
The People of Israel were fed up with the difficult living conditions in the desert. It was not the hunger, they were not hungry, but the unvaried food, compared with the food in Egypt where they had zucchinis, watermelons, onions and garlic. There is no vision and faith in the way and in its end, there are only complaints and misunderstandings – for what is all this… the result of all this was: “And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.” (Numbers 21:6).
It is as if the Torah wants to tell us that as the snake in Garden of Eden separated between man and God and the natural unity between the spirit and its source was broken, so, every time that the People of Israel will be impatient and will not be ready for the difficulties of the journey to the Promised Land, they will burn themselves and the idea.
If it is so, how will they be nevertheless saved?
First of all, from the understanding that our attitude is wrong, especially in the light of the fact that nothing good came out of constant complaints, there is a feeling of depression and a death of the vision. As a result of this the response of the people was: “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee” and then they add: “pray unto the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us.” (ibid 7). Here we come to the heart of the story.
Tzarich Iyun: The Parah Adumah
Rabbi Dr. Ari Zivotofsky
Misconception:The person who sprinkles the ashes of a parah adumah (“red heifer”) on a tamei (ritually impure) person becomes tamei himself.
Fact: Most of the people involved in preparing the ashes become tamei, but the one who sprinkles the water with the ashes does not.
Background: Among the various types of tumah (ritual impurities) enumerated in the Torah, the kind acquired from direct contact with a human corpse is unique. One who acquires such tumah is considered a “tamei met,” and in addition to the standard ritual immersion required to remove tumah, the Torah mandates that he be sprinkled with ashes of a parah adumah (“parat chatat”) on the third and seventh day after such contact.[1] The cow used must be completely red, [2] older than three years (Parah 1:1), with no physical blemishes.[3] Furthermore, the cow must have been purchased by the beit din with Temple funds for the purpose of preparing the requisite ashes, and have never worked (Shekalim 4:2).
The details of the preparation are outlined in Parashat Chukat (Bamidbar 19). Unlike sacrifices, all of which took place within the Temple precinct, the parah adumah ritual took place outside the Temple precinct. When the Temple stood, the ritual of the parah adumah took place outside of the municipal borders of Jerusalem, on the Mount of Olives (Middot 2:4).[4] Additionally, similar to sacrifices, a non-kohen was qualified to slaughter the parah adumah.
The blood of the parah adumah was then collected by a kohen who sprinkled it seven times in the direction of the Holy of Holies. The entire animal—skin, meat, blood and all—was then burnt and pieces of erez (cedar), ezov (hyssop), and sheni tola’at (scarletdyed wool) were added to the conflagration; the ashes were then collected and stored.
Spring water was collected in a vessel and sanctified as ashes were mixed into it. The water was called “mei niddah” by the Torah and “mei chatat”[5] by Chazal.
This entire process, replete with myriad technical regulations, had one purpose—to purify tamei individuals. All those involved in the process were required to be tahor. Many stringencies applied to those involved in the ritual of the parah adumah—more than applied even to those performing the avodah in the Temple! Nevertheless, an individual involved in the ritual of the parah adumah was permitted to be a tvul yom, i.e., a tamei person who immersed in the mikvah and is only fully tahor after the sun sets. The Tzeddukim (Sadducees) believed, however, that a tvul yom was not permitted to participate in the preparation of the ritual. (Consequently, to reinforce this halachah, the rabbis insisted that after all the stringencies were observed and there was absolutely no doubt that the individual selected to perform the ritual was tahor, he should be then be intentionally defiled so that he could have the status of a tvul yom!)
Misconception:The person who sprinkles the ashes of a parah adumah (“red heifer”) on a tamei (ritually impure) person becomes tamei himself.
Fact: Most of the people involved in preparing the ashes become tamei, but the one who sprinkles the water with the ashes does not.
Background: Among the various types of tumah (ritual impurities) enumerated in the Torah, the kind acquired from direct contact with a human corpse is unique. One who acquires such tumah is considered a “tamei met,” and in addition to the standard ritual immersion required to remove tumah, the Torah mandates that he be sprinkled with ashes of a parah adumah (“parat chatat”) on the third and seventh day after such contact.[1] The cow used must be completely red, [2] older than three years (Parah 1:1), with no physical blemishes.[3] Furthermore, the cow must have been purchased by the beit din with Temple funds for the purpose of preparing the requisite ashes, and have never worked (Shekalim 4:2).
The details of the preparation are outlined in Parashat Chukat (Bamidbar 19). Unlike sacrifices, all of which took place within the Temple precinct, the parah adumah ritual took place outside the Temple precinct. When the Temple stood, the ritual of the parah adumah took place outside of the municipal borders of Jerusalem, on the Mount of Olives (Middot 2:4).[4] Additionally, similar to sacrifices, a non-kohen was qualified to slaughter the parah adumah.
The blood of the parah adumah was then collected by a kohen who sprinkled it seven times in the direction of the Holy of Holies. The entire animal—skin, meat, blood and all—was then burnt and pieces of erez (cedar), ezov (hyssop), and sheni tola’at (scarletdyed wool) were added to the conflagration; the ashes were then collected and stored.
Spring water was collected in a vessel and sanctified as ashes were mixed into it. The water was called “mei niddah” by the Torah and “mei chatat”[5] by Chazal.
This entire process, replete with myriad technical regulations, had one purpose—to purify tamei individuals. All those involved in the process were required to be tahor. Many stringencies applied to those involved in the ritual of the parah adumah—more than applied even to those performing the avodah in the Temple! Nevertheless, an individual involved in the ritual of the parah adumah was permitted to be a tvul yom, i.e., a tamei person who immersed in the mikvah and is only fully tahor after the sun sets. The Tzeddukim (Sadducees) believed, however, that a tvul yom was not permitted to participate in the preparation of the ritual. (Consequently, to reinforce this halachah, the rabbis insisted that after all the stringencies were observed and there was absolutely no doubt that the individual selected to perform the ritual was tahor, he should be then be intentionally defiled so that he could have the status of a tvul yom!)
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