What the "Raah" Bird Teaches Us

 

In this week's parsha, Parshas Re'ea, the Torah itemizes and names the non-kosher birds!

כל צפור טהרה תאכלו, וזה אשר לא תאכלו מהם, הנשר והפרס ןהעזניה, והראה ואת האיה והדיה למינה

"You may eat every kosher bird. The birds that you may not eat, are the eagle, the ossifrage, the osprey, the white vulture, the black vulture, the kite, the entire raven family."

Rashi points out that the ראה, איה and the דיה are all from the raven family. 

Rashi asks why is the white vulture called ראה? He answers that this bird can see very far.

The gemarra in Mesachtas Chulin (63b) goes a step further and states:

עומדת בבבל ורואה נבלה בארץ ישראל

"While standing in Bavel it can see a carcass in Eretz Yisrael"

Question: If Hashem gave this bird such a gift to be able to see so far, why didn't Hashem make this bird kosher? Why is it a non-kosher bird?

The Baal Shem Tov ז"ל  answers that any creature that resides in Chutz Le'aaretz and sees a "carcass" in the Holy Land cannot possibly be kosher. 

The Elul lesson for "Chutz Le'arretz'nics" is, that if you focus and see bad things in Eretz Yisrael, search your soul; know that it is not coming from a good place. 

What affidavit tells us about DOJ’s Trump intentions

 

Predictably, it was much nothing about ado.

To what should be the surprise of no one, the Justice Department so thoroughly redacted the affidavit supporting the FBI’s raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate that the exercise was pointless. DOJ has given us nothing about the monumental decision to execute a search warrant at the home of a former American president — unprecedented in US history.

In the absence of information, we are left with speculation. Here are a couple things worth observing:

Interestingly, one of DOJ’s principal arguments against disclosing the FBI’s warrant affidavit, an argument that plainly persuaded Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, was the need to avoid unfair prejudice to uncharged persons. Of course, the uncharged person at issue here is former President Trump.

Texas Keeps Dumping Busloads of Migrants in New York ...Dem Hypocrites Going Berserk as 14 hotels now used for housing

 

A busload packed with nearly 50 migrants arrived in the Big Apple from Texas Saturday amid outrage at Gov. Abbott’s continuing plan to dump border crossers from Mexico and Central America in New York City.

Another busload is expected later in the day, according to reports.

The most recent arrivals are mostly young men and several women, now part of the 1,500 migrants sent to the city by the Texas governor to draw attention to the flood of migrants crossing daily from the southern border — a figure that is expected to surpass two million in this fiscal year.

City officials have long been outraged by Abbott’s actions, which have also seen busloads of migrants sent to Washington, D.C.

“He’s weaponizing asylum seekers,” Manuel Castro, commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, told Fox News. “It is shameful, and it is our moral obligation to condemn the use of human beings for political purposes.”

City Comptroller Brad Lander called Abbott’s strategy “inhumane” and “disgusting.”

The migrants are being housed in 14 Big Apple hotels because the city’s shelter system was overloaded amid the growing crisis at the southern border, The Post revealed Thursday.

“Texas is filling the gaps left in Biden’s absence at our border,” Abbott wrote on Twitter Saturday. “We’ve made over 19,000 arrests, seized over 335.5M lethal fentanyl doses, & sent over 7,400 migrants on buses to DC and over 1,500 to NYC. While Biden ignores the crisis, Texas steps up.”

AOC and her progressive comrades lost big in primaries

 They didn’t get high Marx.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “Squad” of left-wing allies will return to Congress as mere “annoyances” next year, with both their size and clout diminished in the wake of Primary Day, pundits told The Post.

“The policies that The Squad stood for were never popular and the candidates who tried to mirror those policies are finding themselves out of Congress,” said a senior Democratic Capitol Hill insider, who believes the group will become little more than “gadflies” in a Republican-controlled house come November.

The far-left Dems — who cheered defunding the police during the George Floyd riots — suffered blows on multiple fronts.

Rockland Rabbanim Urge Community to Vaccinate for Polio

 

Due to the recent resurgence of the extremely dangerous Polio virus, many influential Rockland County Rabbanim have released a strongly worded statement, urging everyone to get the polio vaccine.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Re'eih

 

Israeli intelligence no longer trusted in Washington?

 

Is Israeli intelligence no longer trusted in the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.?

That would appear to be the case, judging from comments made last week by U.S. State Department Spokesperson Ned Price at a press briefing.

Senior Israeli analysts told JNS that the relationship between the Israeli intelligence community and its American counterpart has worsened since President Joe Biden took office.

“It is going in a bad direction,” said Yonatan Freeman, an international relations expert at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Biden has changed the tune on Israel.”

Last week, Israeli security forces raided the offices of seven NGOs in Ramallah. They reportedly confiscated dozens of documents, printers and computers. The military sealed the office doors and posted notices that declared the groups illegal.

Listen to this clown running for Governor of Florida

 

CLOWN WORLD: FL Gov Dem Candidate Charlie Crist praising Joe Biden on CNN, you can’t make this up

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— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) August 24, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Censored Hunter Biden Laptop Scandal Due to FBI Pressure

 

 In a bombshell interview with Joe Rogan, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that prior to the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, the FBI pressured the company to look out for “Russian disinformation”.

As a result of that warning, Facebook censored the story, which was first broken by the NY Post.

Following the FBI warning, Facebook’s algorithms were specially programmed to limit the sharing and visibility of the story while the company investigated whether the laptop was genuine.

Zuckerberg made it clear that despite having zero evidence that the story was fake, the social media platform censored the story in a “meaningful” way for five to seven precious days.

Although he does not recall whether the FBI specified the Hunter laptop, Zuckerberg insinuated that it was clear the FBI was referencing that scandal.

This is a blockbuster revelation, as it is the first confirmation by a media outlet that they censored the story based on instructions from the FBI.

Virtually every media outlet, including the NY Times and CNN, have confirmed the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop, years after the 2020 election.

Biden Rejects Urgent Phone Call from Israeli PM over Iran: ‘On Vacation’

 

srael Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s request to hold an emergency telephone conversation with U.S. President Joe Biden to discuss the nascent nuclear deal with Iran has been rebuffed with the excuse that the American president “is on vacation,” Israeli media reported on Wednesday.

According to Israel’s Channel 13, Lapid sought to speak with Biden in an attempt to prevent a return to the 2015 JCPOA nuclear pact but U.S. officials denied the request, informing Lapid Biden “is on vacation.”

In another instance of American rejection, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was set to meet with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday but was informed that the latter was “out of Washington,” the report said.

Gantz will meet with National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan alongside his Israeli counterpart, Eyal Hulata.

Channel 13 cited an unnamed Israeli official as saying that “the gaps between [Israel] and the Americans are very large” in the newly drafted deal.

Senior Israeli officials have lamented the new deal is “even worse’ than the one that preceded it, which former president Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018.

On Wednesday, Lapid delivered a rare condemnation of Biden, saying that the latest proposal between Tehran and Western powers crossed even his own “red lines.”

“In our eyes, it does not meet the standards set by President Biden himself: preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear state,” Lapid said.

“We have made it clear to everyone: if a deal is signed, it does not obligate Israel. We will act to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear state,” Lapid said.

A day later, however, Lapid said the pressure tactics against the American administration were working.

“The Americans accepted a large part of the things that we wanted them to include in the drafts,” Lapid said on Thursday. “It is a welcome change, and the dialogue with them is good and we will continue it.”

Biden has already faced criticism for using his vacation time as an excuse to ignore issues at home, this week coming under fire for ignoring the border crisis.