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Thursday, December 31, 2020
Yeshivah Bochur's Date Falls Down and Bochur Won't Help Her Get Up ... Girl Drops Him
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Israel vaccinates 800,000 people against virus as campaign enters 2nd week
As Israel's coronavirus vaccination campaign set to enter its second week, the Health Ministry reported Thursday that almost 800,000 Israelis have been inoculated against the virus so far.
Keeping with a pace of 150,000 injections a day, the ministry reported that about 33% of the country's over 60 population has received the first of the needed two doses.
Israel still leads the world in vaccinations per capita, with 7.74% of its population inoculated.
"Within 11 days of Operation Latet Katef (Give Shoulder) we vaccinated almost 800,000 civilians," said Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Twitter.
"Thank you to the medical staff for the hard and important work, always provided with a smile! Thanks to the medical staff and the rapid deployment of no less than 257 vaccination stations, Israel has already vaccinated more than 150,000 people a day," he added.
On Wednesday, coronavirus czar Prof. Nachman Ash warned that Israel may face a shortage of COVID-19 vaccines if local authorities ignore Health Ministry regulations and administer the inoculation to those not considered eligible for the first tranche.
Ash told Ynet that there may be a need to slow the pace of vaccinations if additional doses do not arrive in the country in an expedited manner.
With reports that municipalities were planning to administer vaccines to local residents in violation of government rules, Ash said there could be chaos and confusion and a shortage of doses for the more vulnerable members of the population.
Tel Aviv municipality has said it would begin vaccinating teachers this week, ahead of tentative plans for them to be added to the priority list from next week.
"We must act responsibly," Ash said. "I agree that it is a good idea to vaccinate teachers and school staff and we are preparing an inoculation schedule for them. But the more vulnerable in the population – the elderly and those with underlying conditions, must come first."
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At Least 140 Gerer Chassidim in Arad Have Covid
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Satmar Prohibits it's Chassidim from Going to the Kotel But Permits Going Up to "Har HaBayis"
Watch Satmar chusid on Har Habayis making a Mi-Shebeirach for R' Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe, that has Covid...
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The Top Five Most Suppressed News Stories Of 2020
Back in the day, when I was managing editor at the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Mont., I enjoyed the end-of-year ritual of voting in the Associated Press’s poll of the Top 10 news stories.
When I started participating in the year 2000, my list would include many of the same stories that made the final AP list, although often with differences in ranking. But by the time I retired in 2018, my view of the news had sharply diverged from the AP’s consensus view. I’d become something of a gadfly by then, questioning what seemed to be an ever more transparent left-leaning bias in mainstream reporting.
That divergence was probably magnified by the 2016 candidacy of Donald Trump and the bright light he had shined on Fake News, but my disenchantment with my profession had been growing for years, as chronicled in my book “The Media Matrix: What If Everything You Know Is Fake?”
Still, there is no way that even as recently as four years ago I would have predicted just how abysmally irresponsible the media would become by 2020. Major newspapers are winning Pulitzer Prizes for blatantly false reporting on topics such as “Russian collusion.” Meanwhile, Silicon Valley oligarchs have appointed themselves censors — warning the American people not to read or watch anything that hasn’t been “fact-checked” by their hand-picked thought police.
The situation has gotten so bad that it’s no longer worth ranking the top news stories of the year because so little that is covered is news and so much that is news is written off as a “conspiracy theory.” That’s why I’m introducing Heartland Diary USA’s first annual presentation of “Last Chance to Wake Up and Smell the News They Tried to Kill.”
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Once Netanyahu’s Greatest Rival, Israel’s Gantz is Down, if Not Out
Benny Gantz, the former general who came close to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long dominance of Israeli politics, is finding his star is fading fast as a new rival from the right emerges as a challenge in an election set for March.
With his centrist Blue and White party on the verge of demise, Gantz has said he will press on and bring Netanyahu’s more than decade-old reign to an end.
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It's starting: ....REPORTERS GROW FRUSTRATED AS BIDEN TEAM REFUSES QUESTIONS
President-elect Joe Biden's transition team disabled the chat function for reporters on conference Zoom calls, where journalists had been pressing officials to take more questions.
"The Biden transition team appears to have disabled the public chat function on its transition zoom calls, a place where I and others had been routinely complaining to them to take more questions," incoming Politico White House editor Sam Stein tweeted Wednesday.
Reporters on the call had to use a "raise hand" function to register they wanted to ask a question.
Stein and other reporters expressed frustration on the chat on Dec. 18 after one Zoom call where the transition team took only five questions.
"Hey guys, there [are] tons of folks looking to ask questions and since this is being done once a week, could we PLEASE go longer or at least hold more frequent briefings," Stein wrote on the chat.
"Any chance you can take a few more questions? There are a lot of folks here with questions," Zeke Miller from The Associated Press added.
"Is there a point in saying we want to ask questions if you only call on the same small group every week?" said White House reporter Andrew Feinberg.
Biden's transition team did not respond to a request for comment.
Biden campaign press secretary T.J. Ducklo told CNN last month that Biden believed "transparency is incredibly important" regarding his relationship with the press.
"He also believes, though, that it's the media's job to hold him accountable," he said. "He's there to do the people's work and he welcomes that relationship. He welcomes their role, the media's role in our democracy and I think it will be, frankly, the polar opposite of what we've seen over the last four years... I think you'll see a huge change in the culture in the way this White House treats the media."
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Watch: Haredi man stabbed in Lakewood
A haredi man was wounded in a stabbing incident in Lakewood, New Jersey Tuesday.
The incident occurred in a parking lot near Ashley and Cedarbridge avenues Tuesday morning (local time), when a woman waiting near the parking lot ambushed a haredi man outside of his car, stabbing him as he loaded his vehicle.
The victim, a 36-year-old Lakewood man, had been loading pastries into his car when the assailant attacked him with a 12-inch knife.
The man was wounded but did not suffer life-threatening injuries, and was able to chase his attacker after the stabbing.
Police identified that stabber as 38-year-old Erika Cruz.
Cruz was later taken into custody and charged with aggravated assault, illegal weapon possession, and possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes.
Investigators say there is no evidence currently that the attack was a hate crime, saying that it seems to have been a random assault.
"The investigation is still active and we are trying to piece together the reason for the attack," Lakewood Police spokesman Capt. Gregory Staffordsmith said. "At this time there isn’t any evidence to suggest that it was biased or racially motivated.
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US: We won't allow Daniel Pearl's killer to evade justice
The US warned on Wednesday that it would not allow a Pakistani man who was convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl to evade justice after a provincial court in Pakistan ordered his release, The Associated Press reported.
The Sindh High Court in Pakistan’s south last week overturned a government detention order that Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the key suspect in Pearl’s slaying, should remain in custody.
Sheikh was convicted for his role in helping lure Pearl in January 2002 to a meeting in the city of Karachi, during which he was kidnapped. Pearl, 38, was killed the next month.
Sheikh, who was on death row for 18 years, was acquitted earlier this year of murdering the Wall Street Journal reporter but had been held while Pearl’s family appeals.
In a statement on Wednesday, acting US Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said, “We understand that Pakistani authorities are taking steps to ensure that Omar Sheikh remains in custody while the Supreme Court appeal seeking to reinstate his conviction continues. The separate judicial rulings reversing his conviction and ordering his release are an affront to terrorism victims everywhere.”
Rosen praised Pakistan for appealing the rulings to ensure that Sheikh and his co-defendants are held accountable. “If, however, those efforts do not succeed, the United States stands ready to take custody of Omar Sheikh to stand trial here,” he stated.
The US, he stressed, “cannot allow (Sheikh) to evade justice for his role in Daniel Pearl’s abduction and murder.”
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Goodbye to 2020, the year when so much and so many were so wrong
Hey, coulda been worse, right? In 1918, the year Joe Biden won his letterman’s sweater in leather-helmet football, the number of deaths in America was up 46 percent over the previous year thanks to the pandemic and the Great War. This year: only 15 percent. Huzzah! If you have the urge to punch 2020 in the nads, be aware that in 1349, a third of the population of Europe died.
2020 was a mild setback compared to 536 (“the worst year to be alive,” mainly because Amazon Prime deliveries took like six months because of a glitch in mastodon operations) and 1816, when volcanic ash from an eruption coated the atmosphere and nothing would grow in the “year without a summer,” causing mass starvation. There hasn’t been a gnaw-on-your-dead-grandpa year since, though maybe we’ll have one a couple of years from now, when Bill Gates wants to pull the cool-the-atmosphere-with-ash trick again, this time intentionally. Hey, go for it, experts! Sure, Bill is an expert in writing intermittently functional software, not in climate engineering, but why should that stop him from appointing himself to smother out the sun?
Come to think of it, maybe it’s experts, not 2020, that should be absorbing a baseball bat to their collective crotch. Thanks to experts, leaders and authorities, 2020 was the Year of Wrong. Every day, the high and mighty calmly assured us that “facts” and “science” and “data” were telling us stuff that was completely, horrifically, catastrophically wrong.
When the Wuhan Flu broke out of whatever Chinese bat-brunch spot it came from, authorities told us it was no big deal. Donald Trump’s wrongness, as usual, got the most attention: “We have it totally under control. . . . It’s going to be just fine,” he said on Jan. 21. Trump had lots of company in being wrong: “Get on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus,” Mayor Bill de Blasio urged New Yorkers on March 2, the day after the first confirmed case hit town.
“In this situation, the facts defeat fear because the reality is reassuring,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, also on March 2. “We should relax because that’s what is dictated by the reality of the situation.” Cuomo added this was “not our first rodeo.”
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
29-year-old Frum Man Hit By Car While Roller Blading in Boro Park in Critical Condition
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Alec Baldwin Who Called Trump a "Fake and a Fraud" Is Actually Married to One!
How you say . . . scam artist?
Hilaria Baldwin, the epically thirsty, self-identified Spanish wife of actor Alec,has been outed as a basic white woman from Massachusetts, real name Hillary Hayward-Thomas.
Escandalo!
The cringiest piece of evidence is a clip from the “Today” show, in which Hilaria, speaking in a Spanish accent while cosplaying as some kind of culinary expert, says, “We have very few ingredients. We have tomatoes, we have, um, how you say in Eng — cucumbers.”
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Gideon Sa'ar: We will include Arabs and Muslims
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The chairman of the New Hope party, former MK Gideon Sa’ar, made clear on Tuesday evening that he is interested in including Arabs and Muslims on his Knesset slate.
"I have another five weeks until the lists are submitted, but we will include minorities on our list for the Knesset. This is important to me," he said in an interview with the Arabic language Hala TV.
When asked by the interviewer if he also means Muslims, Sa’ar replied, "Why not? The question is a question of a path.”
So far, a number of Knesset members have joined Sa’ar and his party, most of them from the Likud movement, some of whom have subsequently resigned from the Knesset.
Among those who have joined are MK Yifat Shasha Biton, former Minister Ze’ev Elkin and former MKs Michal Shir and Sharren Haskel.
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The NYT’s obscene drive to destroy a teen’s life
Jimmy Galligan is an 18-year-old college freshman from Leesburg, Va. — and cancel culture’s Count of Monte Cristo.
Some months ago, Galligan, who is biracial, posted a three-second video of a white, female classmate using a racial slur. Galligan had sat on the video for years, waiting for the moment it would do the most damage. After the girl, a cheerleader named Mimi Groves, was accepted to the University of Tennessee, the time had come.
“I wanted to get her where she would understand the severity of that word,” said Galligan. He said he was proud of himself: “You taught someone a lesson.”
The video showed Groves, 15 at the time and having just obtained her learner’s permit, boasting “I can drive, [slur].” The remark wasn’t directed at anyone in particular. The brief clip circulated on Snapchat until it was obtained and saved by Galligan, who had grown furious at how often he heard his white classmates using the N-word.
Galligan shared it publicly in June. In response, Groves lost her spot on UT’s cheerleading squad. Then the university pressured her to withdraw from the school entirely. The admissions office had apparently received hundreds of messages from irate alumni demanding blood. Groves is now attending a community college.
This story is a powerful example of several social phenomena: the militant streak in social-justice activism, the naivety of today’s teens, mob justice on social media and high-schoolers’ capacity for elaborate cruelty. But the wildest thing about this incident is that most people will learn about it by reading The New York Times.
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| Mimi Groves and the little two-timing bastard Jimmy Galligan |
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Charged with murder, stabbing? In NYC, you’re free to go
Criminal-justice “reform” in New York has turned our courts into a merry-go-round, with violent offenders free to jump off at will.
The latest outrage took place in The Bronx, where 16-year-old Jordon Benjamin allegedly stabbed Amya Hicks in mid-December. Arrested a few days later, he was charged with felony assault and assorted lesser charges. Amya Hicks needed surgery and spent several days in the hospital. Benjamin was less inconvenienced: He only spent a few hours in a holding cell before being released on his recognizance, without having to post bail.
It’s bad enough that an alleged knife-wielding thug who slashes neighborhood women got to gallivant out of jail. But the story becomes downright enraging when we learn that Benjamin was already facing manslaughter charges — and the same judge let him out twice.
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Middle East peace deals were Trump’s "mission impossible" made possible
by Michael Goodwin
Donald Trump’s legacy, like the man himself, will be complicated, but the one certainty will be his record of achieving what conventional wisdom said couldn’t be done. His world-shocking victory in the 2016 election is the best example, and commanding the development and approval of COVID-19 vaccines in just nine months is another.
The Abraham Accords are a third stunning achievement. When Trump took office, just two Arab nations, Egypt and Jordan, had treaties with Israel, a situation that had existed without change since 1994. There are now six regional nations with diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.
“We’re making it look easy,” joked Jared Kushner, whose persistent and tireless diplomacy helped secure the historic breakthroughs.
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In Israel, 1 In Every 132 Haredi Orthodox Adults Over Age 65 Has Died From The Coronavirus
In Israel, as in the United States, haredi Orthodox communities have been hard hit by the coronavirus.
Now new data from the Israeli Ministry of Health shows that one in 132 haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, adults in Israel over age 65 has died from the coronavirus, compared with one in 475 adults over 65 among the general population, according to Israel Hayom. That puts the death toll among haredi adults over 65 at 3.6 times that of the general Israeli population.
Haredi families in Israel often live in cramped quarters, with large families in small apartments, allowing the virus to spread easily among family members. The communal nature of the haredi lifestyle has made their communities particularly susceptible to the virus, as has continued resistance to social distancing measures and lockdowns. Even as Israel has gone through several lockdowns, haredim have continued to come together for large weddings, funerals and other gatherings.
As the Israeli government has struggled to have the haredim comply with social distancing measures, haredi Israelis have flocked to get the vaccine.
“The response has been overwhelming,” a medical official familiar with the haredi sector told Israel Hayom, saying the lines to get the vaccine have been especially long in haredi cities.
In the U.S., too, there has been strong interest in the coronavirus vaccine in Orthodox communities, even where compliance with pandemic guidelines has been spotty. ParCare, an Orthodox-owned health clinic with locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Orange County, is currently under investigation by New York state’s attorney general for administering vaccines to the general public while the state’s guidance has specified only specific groups are eligible.
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Israeli Agunah Receives Get From Moroccan Jail After Landmark Ruling
The woman had married her husband in Israel, but he got involved in criminal activities and large debts and escaped to Morocco. There too he joined up with criminals, was caught and sentenced to a significant number of years in jail.
The young wife was left an Agunah (chained woman) and sought to receive a Get. The director of the Agunah department in the rabbinical courts, Rabbi Eliyahu Maimon, succeeded in locating the prison where the husband was serving his sentence in Casablanca, Morocco. In return for leniencies in his prison service, the husband agreed to grant a Get but this required three members of the Casablance Beis Din entering the prison together with a Sofer (scribe) and writing an “agent’s Get” which would enable them to be agents to bring the woman her Get. However the Moroccan authorities initially refused to let the rabbinical judges, scribe and witnesses enter the jail due to coronavirus restrictions.
Rabbi Eliyahu Aberjel, a former head of the Jerusalem Rabbinical court who has close ties with the Moroccan authorities, succeeded in persuading the authorities to allow one judge to enter the jail. He also published a landmark ruling which would allow the husband to make one judge an agent to transfer the Get to his wife. However when the rabbinical judge reached the jail, he was astonished to hear from the Muslim commander of the jail that according to Jewish law three judges are required and not one and therefore he should send for two more members of the rabbinical court in order to perform the Get.
Two more judges were summoned from Casablanca, the husband appointed the Sofer to write the Get and the Get was sent to Jerusalem where the woman received it joyously on Tuesday morning.
The director of the rabbinical courts, Rabbi David Malka praised Rabbi Aberjal and Rabbi Maimon for their efforts to help the Agunah and said that “the rabbinical courts will continue to act with speed, efficiency and determination to enable the release of Agunos and those refused a Get by their husbands wherever they may be.”
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Rosh Yeshivas Mir Rav Eliezer Yehuda Finkel Contracts COVID-19
Rosh Yeshivas Mir and new member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Degel HaTorah HaRav Eliezer Yehudah Finkel received a positive result from a coronavirus test on Monday evening.
The Rosh Yeshivah was tested after a family member was diagnosed with the virus. Following the Rosh Yeshivah’s exposure to the family member last week, he canceled a scheduled trip abroad, Kikar H’Shabbos reported.
According to Mir bochurim, the Rosh Yeshivah, 55, is suffering some symptoms of the virus but is feeling relatively well and is resting at home.
The public is asked to daven for the Rosh Yeshivah’s continued good health: Eliezer Yehudah ben Rasha Leah b’soch shaar cholei Yisrael.
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Republican Congressman-Elect Luke Letlow, 41, Dies From COVID-19
Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, 41, passed away this evening due to complications from COVID-19, his campaign manager Andrew Bautsch said.
Letlow, a Republican, was admitted into a Monroe Hospital on December 19 after testing positive for the coronavirus and was transferred to Ochsner-LSU Health on Tuesday, December 22, and placed in intensive care.
Letlow is survived by his wife, Julia Barnhill Letlow, Phd., and two young children.
“The family appreciates the numerous prayers and support over the past days but asks for privacy during this difficult and unexpected time,” Bautsch said.
Letlow had just turned 41 on December 6th. He was scheduled to be sworn in as a congressman in January.
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Welcome Home Jonathan & Esther Pollard
Jonathan and Esther Pollard landed in Israel early Wednesday morning a month after the US Parole Commission lifted restrictions on him and 35 years after he was arrested for spying for Israel.
Due to Esther’s health issues, the Pollards flew to Israel on the private Boeing 737 VIP jet of philanthropist Sheldon Adelson
The Pollards emotionally kissed the ground upon disembarking their plane and stepping on Israeli ground.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met the Pollards at the airport and presented Pollard with his Israeli identity card. “This is an extremely emotional moment,” the prime minister said. “Yonatan and Esther are home.”
“We are ecstatic to be home at last after 35 years,” Pollard responded. “We thank the prime minister and the people of Israel for bringing us home. A profound thank you. No one can be prouder of this country and its leader than we are.”
The Pollards, who are settling in Jerusalem, will quarantine for two weeks, as is required of all travelers arriving in Israel.
Israeli politicians lost no time in welcoming Pollard home
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The "Klei Yakar" and Dubai
Hey DIN ... what does "Dubai" have to do with the Klei Yakar who lived in the late 1500 and early 1600, over 500 years ago?
Did the "seger" the "lockdown" effect your brain?
Not exactly..... I think that the words of the Klei Yakar, a commentary on the Torah is not only connected to Dubai but to the US as well...
You see, lately I have been reading that Jews are not only flocking to Dubai but actually moving there.
In the US ... there is a holy rebbetzin that is luring hundreds of families to Tampa Florida.
Now don't get me wrong, I am all for having peace with the Arab countries... absolutely ...
But moving there? Have we not learned anything from Jewish History? Nothing?
Or have they been brainwashed by the Satmar Yiddish weekly's propaganda .. Der Yid, that keeps touting the lies that Arabs were good to the Jews until 1948..they won't tell you that Arabs took the father of Boba Sali on a nice sunny Shabbos afternoon and shot him out of a cannon .... way before 1948.
Let's see what the Klei Yakar wrote 500 years ago....
In last week's parsha, in Parshas Va"yigash . in the very last verse, the Torah writes the following:
וישב ישראל בארץ מצרים בארץ גשן ויאחזו בה ויפרו וירבו מאד
"Meanwhile, the fledgling nation of Israel lived in Egypt, in the Goshen district. They acquired property there, and were fertile, with their population increasing very rapidly."
English Translation taken without permission from The Living Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan.
Simple pasuk or verse, correct?
Sounds like the Torah is praising this .....
Not so fast ....
I am going to try to loosely translate and explain what the Klei Yakar says about this simple pasuk...
Klei Yakar's words in red
"The entire pasuk blames the Jewish people for settling in Egypt...."
(in other words, the Torah is not praising the Jewish people or even stating a fact, it is chastising the Jewish people)
Why?
"Because Hashem decreed:
כי גר יהיה זרעך ... "your children will be strangers"
but they (the Jewish people) decided to settle in a place that I decreed should be the diaspora"
First the Klei Yakar wants to establish the fact that when the Torah writes the word וישב there can be a negative connotation...to prove that in this pasuk the word וישב also has a negative connotation
" Just like when the Torah wrote in Parshas Va'yeishav
וישב יעקב ...that Yaakov wanted to settle down and relax...
so then Hashem sent him the troubles of the Yosef abduction ... and there the word וישב was meant in a negative connotation, so here too in our pasuk the word וישב takes on a negative connotation."
The Klei Yakar continues ... and here comes the punchline!
"This pasuk comes to chastise the Jewish people for settling and wanting to own (see Rashi) parts of Egypt in a country that does not belong to them.
and in fact when they initially came to talk to Paro they told him that they only want to be there temporarily לגור בארץ באנו
but they then changed their minds.
Their intentions now were to remain there and in fact they refused to leave Egypt ..Hashem had to remove them from Egypt ביד חזקה with a "Strong Hand" and those that still refused ultimately perished in the 3 days of Makkas Choishach"
So my dear readers .... our grandfather Yaakov went down to Egypt with his entire family ...... with Hashem's blessing ....
and yet the Torah is not happy with the fact that they started buying property in a בארץ לא להם land that does not belong to them .....
B'H we have country, The State of Israel, a miracle, a country established only 70 years ago with full infrastructure, buses, trains, light rail, brand new highways for cars .... electricity, heat, water, schools and Torah institutions... we are no longer a yishuv.... over 5.8 million Jews living here..
And yes ..we have our problems .... but when did Jews in Eretz Yisroel live in complete peace? .... Maybe when Shlomo Hamelech reigned ...how many years was that... that's about it ...
and yet few give this miracle any thought ...
This is not new... when Ezra was begging Jews of Bavel to make Aliyah .... ... few took that initiative.....the leaders ..the tzaddikim ignored him ... even though they had a prophecy that they would only be in exile for 70 years ... the Gedoilei Yisrael ignored the prophecy...
and what else was in that prophecy?
What was included in that prophecy was that they should re-build the Bais Ha'mikdash ...
they ignored him...they didn't care about the Bais Ha'mikdash and certainly didn't care about Eretz Yisrael...and this only months after Haman had scammed too annihilate the entire Jewish people in Chutz Le'aaretz!
What was their excuse?
This will sound familiar .... "oh the Jews there aren't Shomrei Torah Umitzvois" ....few Shoimer Shabbos there... "There are Jews there that are assimilated"
That's what a cousin of mine told me when I asked her why she isn't giving Aliyah any thought...
"oh the Zionists..oh there is Chillul Shabbos in Tel Aviv" The Russians, the Ethiopians aren't really Jews"
So why are Jews running to live in Dubai? Why are Jews in the US establishing new towns? What is it with us?
Yes Hashem sent us in Galus... but he doesn't want us there ... he wants us to make at least an effort to get the hell out of there ...
Reread the Klei Yakar that states that "settling in Egypt" even with Hashem's blessing is not ultimately good for us.....
We as a people must try to establish roots in Eretz Yisrael ..now...
Don't you guys see the handwriting on the wall?
We had a great friend in the White House who even though he is a goy recognised the fact that Yerushalyim is our capital... he recognised our taking back the Golan Heights, he recognised Yehuda and Shomron as a part of Israel and ruled that all products made there are as if it was made in the territories within the green line ...he made peace with Arab countries and Israel....
Hashem looked down and took a poll and saw.. that Jews ...yes even frum Jews, even frum Rabbanim and Roshei Yeshiva .... voted for Biden...He looked down and saw that the majority of the Jewish people over 78% voted for Biden ....
Hashem couldn't believe it ,,,, he checked with all the pollsters saw that they refused to recognise the gift that He gave them ...He saw self righteous rabbis who despised Trump writing articles in the media encouraging Jews to vote for the anti-G-D Democratic Party....placing this gift in the trash.....
Just like they continue to refuse the land that He gave them, even though they don't have to conquer it to get there.. ..
"And so they have no Akaras Hatoiv ... so you know what?"
Says Hashem...
"I'll give them a demented Biden with a VP married to an assimilated Jew whose children call her "mamele" and let her give the Jewish people the Chanuka message ...let Ami Magazine and Mishpacha and Rabbi Avi Shafran pander and slobber over their "Camele" just like they did for Cuomo and DeBlassio who stabbed them in the back and front..
I'll close the borders of my beloved land ... it will be open only for their dead ,,, ....
"Wake up my friends Wake Up From Your Deep Sleep"
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