Zera Shimshon Parshat Matot Maase

 

Police Pull Over Skverer Rebbe’s Motorcade, Issue 14 Traffic Tickets

 

The Skverer community is abuzz today after New York State Police allegedly stopped the Skverer Rebbe’s motorcade on Route 17 as he was returning home from the airport following a trip to Malibu, California.

According to sources withing the community, troopers pulled over the Rebbe’s entourage while it was traveling along Route 17 and issued a total of 14 traffic tickets to members of the motorcade.

The incident delayed the procession before it was allowed to continue toward New Square.

R' Moshe Wiener "Tuchis-Lekker in Chief" Bows to Mamzarani and wants the Jews that he hates to respect him!

 Rabbi Moshe Wiener, executive director of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, was planning a community gathering in response to a July 4 mass shooting in Coney Island, in which eight members of the same non-Jewish family were wounded, when he heard from City Hall.

 

Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City and a frequent critic of Israel whom many Jewish leaders have decried as an antisemite, wanted to attend.

“He’s still the mayor of the city of New York, and we have to show respect,” Wiener told JNS. “He wants to do the right thing for the city of New York, and whether we agree or disagree with his policies, the best that we can do as a social service agency is try to impress upon and educate him to the greatest extent possible of what works, what’s needed, what unmet needs there are.”

One of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island’s programs that aims to curb violence is Operation H.O.O.D. (Helping Our Own Develop).

“I hope that he’ll agree and support initiatives that will make a positive change in the lives of the residents of the city,” Wiener said of the mayor.

 

Rabbi Moshe Wiener speaks at Operation H.O.O.D. shooting response gathering. Coney Island, N.Y. July 7, 2026. Credit: Courtesy.

“It was really extraordinary that he stayed there for the full hour-and-a-half,” said the rabbi, who is part of the Chabad movement but doesn’t hold an official or leadership role. “He was very, very compassionate. It was very impressive the way that he interacted with them.”

Mamdani even “stayed the extra time” at the end of the event to “talk to them and comfort them and encourage them,” Wiener said, of the shooting victims’ family members.

Wiener used the community gathering to urge the mayor and lawmakers to invest in violence prevention, trauma recovery and vocational training.

“Law enforcement is indispensable,” he said in his public remarks at the gathering. “Violence interruption is indispensable. Families are indispensable. Schools are indispensable. Faith communities are indispensable. Each has a unique responsibility that no one else can fulfill.”

Wiener asked the city to revive plans for a long-delayed vocational training center in Coney Island. Stable employment is one of the strongest long-term prevention tools, he said.

“City-owned property at Surf Avenue and West 28th Street was designated” for the site more than 25 years ago, he said at the gathering. “Then circumstances changed.”

 

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends a stop gun violence event in Coney Island, as Rabbi Moshe Wiener, executive director of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, looks on, July 7, 2026. Credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office.

The rabbi cited frozen land-use approvals and canceled funding and called for funding to be renewed. “That dream should not remain unfinished,” he said at the event.

He also called for permanent funding for H.O.O.D’s trauma recovery center, which relies on annual New York City Council appropriations.

“May the tragic shootings that have brought us together today become more than moments of grief,” he told attendees.

Wiener told JNS that he entered social services work 45 years ago, after seeking a rabbinic position in education.

What began with one contract in an office that “was a large closet in the local Jewish Y” has grown into a citywide organization with nearly 400 employees providing services across New York City’s five boroughs, he said.

Israel Moves to Establish National Center Honoring Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

Israel’s Knesset gave preliminary approval Wednesday to legislation establishing a national center to preserve and promote the legacy of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the influential 18th-century Hasidic leader.

The bill, sponsored by Likud lawmaker Eliyahu Revivo, passed its first reading by a vote of 19-0 and was referred to the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee for further consideration.

Under the proposal, the center would be established as a statutory public corporation responsible for preserving Rabbi Nachman’s teachings and historical legacy. It would include a research institute, archive, scientific and educational committee, and a museum dedicated to his life and work.

The legislation also outlines the creation of a public governing council and provides for state funding of the center. Oversight would fall under Israel’s minister of culture and sports.

Supporters of the bill said Rabbi Nachman’s contributions to Jewish thought and spirituality warrant national recognition similar to memorial institutions established for Israeli prominent rabbis, including Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Rabbi Haim Druckman.

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement and great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in Hasidic Judaism. His teachings continue to attract followers around the world, and tens of thousands of pilgrims travel annually to his burial site in Uman, Ukraine.

Chareidie arrested for waving an Israeli flag. On Har Habayis

Chareidie was arrested today on the Har Habayis for waving an Israeli flag....

Look what happened! Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old woman from New York who became involved in the pro-Palestinian movement

 This is Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old woman from New York who became involved in the pro-Palestinian movement and decided to move to Ireland.

There she met her partner, Ahmad Al-Saqar, a Palestinian refugee from Jordan, and converted to Islam. She frequently posted on social media about their trips together.

It didn’t last long. She was brutally beaten to death by him. Her disfigured body was found by her 13-year-old daughter. The suspect has been on the run since Tuesday.

Western leftist pro-Palestinian women and those willing to convert to Islam need to wake up. Or they could end up like this.

The Three Oaths

 

We chewed this over countless times, but I'm reposting because of Pearl, the "The Dangerous Bubbie"

But the truth is that at this point, no matter what position you take, it is completely irrelevant, because the majority of the World's Jewish population now live in Israel and the Navie Amos (9:13) prophesized that we will no longer be uprooted again from EY! 

וּנְטַעְתִּ֖ים עַל־אַדְמָתָ֑ם וְלֹ֨א יִנָּתְשׁ֜וּ ע֗וֹד מֵעַ֤ל אַדְמָתָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר נָתַ֣תִּי לָהֶ֔ם אָמַ֖ר יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃

I will plant them upon their land and they will never again be uprooted from their land that I have given them said Hashem, your God"

And as I said countless times, the 3 oaths are not mentioned in the entire Mishna Torah of the Rambam and not the entire Shulchan Aruch! In addition, there is no evidence that these oaths actually took place, where it took place and who witnessed it! 

by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner

Many people in the Diaspora claim the while an individual who makes Aliyah is doing a praiseworthy deed, there is no mitzvah at this time for the Diaspora community as a whole to make Aliyah. They maintain that Jews in the Diaspora are supposed to remain where they are until Mashiach arrives. They cite what are called the “Three Oaths" in the Gemara to substantiate their claim.

However, this claim has long ago been rejected by all of the early and later Torah Authorities as cited in the Pitchei T’shuva commentary on the Shulchan Aruch (Even HaEzer, 75:6). which states that the mitzvah of Aliyah is a Torah commandment that applies in all generations, as explained by the Ramban (Supplement to the Sefer HaMitzvot of the Rambam, Positive Commandment #4).

The "Three Oaths" state (Ketubot 110b-111a) that:

1. The Jewish People are not to return to the Land of Israel forcefully en masse ("as a wall").

2. They are not to rebel against the nations of the world.

3. That the nations of the world are not to subjugate the Jewish people excessively.

The following is a rundown of the opinions (from the treatise “The Essay on the Three Oaths") rejecting the mistaken insistence that the Three Oaths is the accepted Halakhah:

It is stated in the Gemara, Ketubot (111a), that Rabbi Yosei son of Rabbi Chanina said: Why are there these three oaths? For it is written three times in Song of Songs: "I adjure you...do not arouse the love..." In truth, there is also a fourth time where it says: "I adjure you... if you find my beloved." However, regarding this fourth oath the Gemara does not discuss what some explain as delaying the Redemption, because there it is not speaking about not arousing the love.

Rabbi Zeira adds additional oaths, and holds like Rabbi Levi: Why are there these six oaths?... So that they should not reveal the end (Rashi: the prophets among them.). And that they should not distance the end (Rashi: through their sins.)

Based on this Gemara, the Geonim, as well as the Rishonim and Acharonim, discussed the commandment of inheriting the Land by the People of Israel, dispossessing the nations dwelling there, and even the establishment of a state for the Jewish People in the Land of Israel. As is well known, one of the Hasidic Rebbes, the Satmar Rebbe of blessed memory, wrote two books against the idea of the State of Israel: Vayoel Moshe and Al HaGeulah Ve'al HaTemurah. Among other things, he based his opinion on the Three Oaths.

However, the overwhelming majority of the great Torah Authorities did not identify with all of the points comprising his view. We will present some of arguments explaining why the above-mentioned oaths do not contradict the establishment of the State of Israel (and the subsequent mass Aliyah of Jews to the Jewish Homeland.)

Ger indoctrinates their girls that their Rebbe is a "Malach Elokim"

 That's a homework assignment sheet, but this is not an ordinary sheet it has 4 key Ger beliefs!

1) The rebbe is the one who  spiritual and gashmias to all of Klall Yisrael

2) The rebbe is a malach elokim that walks amongst us

3) The entire world exists because of tzaddikim and it is in the merit of our rebbe that we even exist

4)The rebbe is the light of our generation, he directs us and his eyes can see the distance (future) 

Forgotten Chapters of Humanity

 

One morning in May 1860, Elizabeth Packard kissed her six children goodbye and expected to see them at dinner.

She never came home.

Her husband Theophilus — a minister, a man the community trusted — had a problem. His wife thought for herself. She questioned his theology openly, in public Bible study classes, without apology. She disagreed with him and said so out loud.

So he signed a paper.

Under Illinois law at the time, that single signature from a husband was enough to have a wife committed to a psychiatric asylum. No doctor. No hearing. No evidence of any kind beyond one man's word.

By that afternoon, Elizabeth — forty-three years old, a mother of six, guilty of nothing except having opinions — was locked inside the Jacksonville Insane Asylum.

Israel Launches First Jewish-Led Restoration of Mearas Ha'Macpielah in 2,000 Years

 

For the first time in 2,000 years, Israel is carrying out major conservation work at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, upgrading the ancient holy site with a permanent roof, electricity, air conditioning, drainage, lighting and fire-safety systems.

The project is more than maintenance. It is a historic assertion of Jewish responsibility at one of Judaism’s holiest places, after years of blocked upgrades and international attempts to reframe Hebron’s Jewish identity.