This is the funniest thing on the internet today
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“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
This is the funniest thing on the internet today
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הכתובת העברית העתיקה ביותר עד כה התגלתה על הר עיבל, ההר שעליו נערך מעמד הקללה התנ"כי - כך טוענים מספר חוקרים מישראל ומחו"ל.
— Carmel Dangor כרמל דנגור (@carmeldangor) March 24, 2022
הכתובת: קללה עם שם ה' המפורש, והמילה ארור שמופיעה 10 פעמים pic.twitter.com/ezTDqbn4MY
A rare archaeological discovery on Mount Eival has shed light on the biblical period and proved a hotly contested fact – that the Jewish nation did in fact speak and write Hebrew 3,200 years ago at the time when they entered the land of Israel. The rare finding, a folded lead panel, contains the earliest known Hebrew writing and remarkably the writing coincides with the biblical description of Mt. Eival as the “Mountain of Curses” at which the Levites pronounce curses on those who do not uphold the Torah’s precepts.
Professor Gershon Galil of Haifa University terms the find a “watershed in Biblical research”. Galil says that before the new finding dated to the 13th century BCE, the oldest known Hebrew writing was from the 10th century BCE. “This was an inscription found at Khirbet Queiyafa near the Elah Valley by Prof. Yossi Garfunkel and I succeeded in deciphering it.”
Professor Galil says that the new find is a “death blow to all Bible deniers: Many biblical critics claimed that in the 13th century BCE the Jews did not know how to read and write and therefore could not have written the bible. Therefore they claimed that the bible was written much later in the Persian or Hellenistic periods.
The panel bears an inscription which says: Curse, Curse,Curse, Cursed to G-d, die cursed, Cursed- he will die, Cursed to G-d, Cursed, Cursed, Cursed.”
Prof. Galil says that this is a sophisticated piece of work: “Whoever knows how to write a text with chiastic structures can write almost anything. At this stage unfortunately we cannot reveal all of the information found since it requires peer review and academic publication but already from what we see today we can say Shehecheyanu on finding Hashem’s name in Hebrew from this period.”
Professor Galil notes the importance of finding these curses on Mt. Eival in accordance with the account in Devarim (Chapter 27) regarding the special ceremony which took place here after the Israelites entered Israel.
Prof. Galil explains that in previous times a legal agreement contained an internal clause which was written on the inner side and when there was a dispute, the sides opened the inner side to see what was written there. This finding also has internal and external text.
In 1980 Prof. Adam Zertal discovered an altar on Mt. Eival and claimed it was that of Yehoshua Bin Nun, based on its unique features and characteristics. Some academics doubted this analysis and thought it was a Canaanite site but the new finding, discovered in earth near the site of the altar, proves that Jews had worshiped here, since the name of Hashem “Yahu” would mean nothing to Canaanites.
The research was led by Dr. Scott Stripling of the Texas-based Associates for Biblical Research which used the successful methods used in sifting the Temple Mount earth to sift the earth near the altar of Yehoshua. Stripling said that he was “amazed” to discover an inscription in Hebrew from the late Bronze Age and Iron Age.
Galil concludes that there is now more and more evidence and findings which support the Biblical account.”
Biden’s ambassador to Israel recently told participants in a pro-BDS group’s webinar that the real problem with the Palestinian Authority funding terrorism is that “it gives the ‘haters’ an excuse not to support the P.A. based on the argument that it is ‘paying for people who killed Jews.’”
He also told the anti-Israel group, whose CEO has described Israel as an “oppressive regime” and which cheered the Ben & Jerry’s boycott, that “your agenda is where my heart is.”
At this rate, Thomas Nides will be hugging and kissing Hamas leaders by the end of the year.
Expectations for Nides were already pretty low when the Biden administration announced that it had picked Obama’s former deputy secretary of state as its ambassador to Israel.
Hillary Clinton was going to make Nides her chief of staff, but once Hillary in the White House became as likely as peace with Hamas and the PLO, Nides had to settle for being Biden’s bully in Jerusalem while his wife, who is a VP at CNN, stays on in Washington D.C.
Nides’s main qualification for the job had been yelling “You don’t want to f***ing defund UNESCO” at a former Israeli ambassador. He had also vocally opposed efforts to defund UNRWA and stop subsidizing the terror refugee industry. He has also served on the board of the International Rescue Committee, which has repeatedly attacked Israel.
J Street, the anti-Israel pressure group, welcomed Nides’s nomination and announced that it “looked forward to working” with him. Other anti-Israel groups, including the Israel Policy Forum and Americans for Peace Now (APN), echoed the sentiment.
It didn’t take long for Nides to justify their faith in his hostility to the Jewish state.
Below is a compilation of the many insane remarks made by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Senate hearings this week.
These comments include: Her inability to define “woman”, claiming that calling President Bush a war criminal was not intended to disparage, refusing to acknowledge there are biological differences between men and women, refusing to say whether a Hispanic can decide that he is really an Asian, refusing to say whether an unborn child can feel pain at 20 weeks during birthing, and refusing to regret sentencing a convicted child pornographer to 3 months in jail.
Further proof that choosing a nominee based on gender and race, rather than merit, does not get the highest caliber.
Asked by Senator @JohnCornyn why she referred to a Republican defense secretary and a Republican president as "war criminals" while she was representing a Taliban terrorist, Ketanji Brown Jackson says she "did not intend to disparage" them. pic.twitter.com/zLS3p9nOH9
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 22, 2022
SEN. BLACKBURN: "Can you provide a definition of the word 'woman'?"
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 23, 2022
JACKSON: "No, I can't"
BLACKBURN: "You can't?"
JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist" pic.twitter.com/i7Rg83z5Y4
Senator @tedcruz: "I think you're the only Supreme Court nominee in history who's been unable to answer the question: what is a woman?" pic.twitter.com/y7MsJLvMU9
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 23, 2022
BLACKBURN: "Do you agree with Justice Ginsburg that there are physical differences between men and women?"
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 23, 2022
Jackson refuses to answer. pic.twitter.com/rCN7H4KjBj
Mrs. Devorah Chana Phillipson of Monsey was 55.
Devorah Chana a”h, was born in Boro Park to Mr. and Mrs. Menachem Mendel Gottlieb.
Mrs. Phillipson’s husband, Rabbi Binyomin Phillipson, is a renowned philanthropist who leads the Yad Elka Foundation, distributing tens of millions of shekels before each yom tov to thousands of needy families in Israel. Additionally, he is a well-known donor to numerous Torah institutions and various tzedakos throughout the world.
Mrs. Phillipson was his partner in all that he does. Her home was known to be open to all, and she was mekarev countless college students who received their first taste of yiddishkeit in the Phillipson home.
She and her husband would visit the Tosher Rebbe before each Yom Kippur, following his advice to a tee and never allowing their own opinions and preferences to guide them. Emunas chachomim and daas torah were the foundation of their home, which was steeped in torah and gemilas chasadim.
The levaya was held at noon in Spring Valley, with the nifteres now being flown to Eretz Yisroel for kevurah.
Iran is Satmar's favorite country because of its anti-Zionist stance vis à vis the State of Israel.
The Satmar Rebbe of Monroe begged his followers to write letters to then president Hussain Obama and Congressmen to back the "Iran Deal" They even sent their "lap-dog" Ezra the "capo" Friedlander out to convince Holocaust survivors living in Boro-Park and Williamsburg that the "Iran Deal" was a "great" thing!
The fact that the Iranian Mullas threatened 5.9 million Jews living in Israel, vowing to wipe them off the map, that didn't faze the Satmar Rebbe!
The latest issue of Der Shturmer, I mean Der Yid, touts the fact that the "Iranian Government sold the tomb of Mordechai & Esther to the Iranian Jews!"
This is on the very front page on the left side, third article from the top.
This was written to give stupid Der Yid readers the impression that the Mullas love Jews but hate Zionists!
But this byline is an absolute lie!
The Murderous Mullas had nothing to do with this sale, it was sold by the Shah to the Jews way back in 1968
SEN. BLACKBURN: "Can you provide a definition of the word 'woman'?"
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) March 23, 2022
JACKSON: "No, I can't"
BLACKBURN: "You can't?"
JACKSON: "I'm not a biologist" pic.twitter.com/i7Rg83z5Y4
The main media narrative during the Russia and Ukraine war has been that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a brave hero who did the proper thing for his nation.
The media, and people in general, love a simple dichotomy of good versus evil and no shades of gray, but that is not always the reality, nor how everyone sees it.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor had another take on what the Ukrainian president could have done to avoid bloodshed. And while many people in the media are likely to portray his comments as being pro-Russia or pro-Putin all he really did was present his opinion on what could have been done to prevent war.