The obligation to immigrate to Israel

Q: Is every Jew in the world obligated to immigrate to Israel?

A: The mitzvah of Yishuv Ha’Aretz (settling the Land of Israel) is a general mitzvah that obligates the entire nation of Israel to inherit the Land, namely, to apply sovereignty over it, and settle it best in all respects. As it is written (Numbers 33: 53-54): ” You shall dispossess the inhabitants of the Land and dwell in it, for I have given the Land to you to possess it…to inherit the Land…” or as Ramban defined the mitzvah: “We were commanded to take possession of the Land which the Almighty, Blessed Be He, gave to our forefathers, to Avraham, to Yitzhak, and to Yaacov; and to not abandon it to other nations, or to leave it desolate” (Addendum to Sefer Hamitzvot of the Rambam, Positive Commandment 4).

The Mitzvah of the Klal Depends on the Individual

From the mitzvah of Klal Yisrael (the Jewish people as a whole) to settle the Land, stems the mitzvah obligating every individual Jew to live in the country, since it is impossible for Klal Yisrael to fulfill the mitzvah of settling the Land, Yishuv Ha’Aretz, without each individual being fully compliant with the obligation of the mitzvah - that is, unless practically all Jews actually reside in the country.

Also, we learned that from the Torah, the obligation to fulfill the category of mitzvot -dependent-on-the-Land which concern the public, such as challah, tithes - terumot and ma’asrot - depends on the majority of Jews residing in the Land, as it is written (Numbers 15:18): “When you come to the land to which I am bringing you.” Our Sages taught (Ketubot 25a): “‘When you come’ – I have spoken of the coming of all, and not of the coming of a portion of you,” and thus when Israel went up to Eretz Yisrael in the days of Ezra – their obligation in mitzvot was not from the Torah, but only rabbinic, Divrei Chachamim, since only a few came to Eretz Yisrael (Rambam, Hilchot Terumot 1:1-3; 26; Bikurim 5:5; Peninei Halakha: Kashrut 12: 10-11).

In the mitzvot of Shevi’it and Yovel (letting land lie fallow n the seventh year and the jubilee year), it is not enough for the majority of Jews to reside in the Land, but they also need to reside in their inheritances according to their tribes, as it is written (Leviticus 25:10): “Declare emancipation of slaves for the land and all who live on it” – ‘and all who live on it’ – only at the time when its inhabitants are there as where they should be, but not when they are intermingled” (Arachin 32b). The same is said of yovel, and the law of Shevi’it (also called shmitta) depends on the Yovel (Gittin 36a; Peninei Halakha: Shevi’it 5:3; 11:5).

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French Jews Worst Hit By COVID-19 With At Least 1,300 - 2,000 Fatalities

According to the Chevra Kadisha in France, at least 1,300 Jews have passed away from the coronavirus, with some sources saying the figure is as high as 2,000, Makor Rishon reported on Friday.

The number reflects only the Jews who received a Jewish burial since there are no statistics available on the religion of COVID-19 patients who passed away but did not receive a Jewish burial.

Hundreds of Jews who passed away from the coronavirus were flown to Israel for burial, the report said.

French Jewry, with about 500,000 Jews, has been the worst hit in Europe from the coronavirus pandemic.

According to the tally of 1,300 Jewish fatalities, Jews comprise about 5% of Frances’s 25,897 fatalities from the coronavirus, which reflects a death toll six times that of the general population.

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Women from Around the Globe Sing Together but Apart

קול אשה 

מתוך געגועים לחברות שלי נולד הפרויקט הזה שהתחיל בעמק חפר והפך לכפר גלובאלי.
24 מוסיקאיות ישראליות מהארץ ומהעולם - איטליה, ניו יורק, הודו, פריז, אוסטרליה, אנגליה, ניו זילנד... הקליטו את עצמן כל אחת בבית שלה, ודרך עננים וירטואליים, התחברנו ליצירה משותפת.
אני מתרגשת לשלוח אליכם את ״באת לי פתאום״ המחודש שלנו (או כמו שרוני אלטר קראה לזה ״באת לי קורונה״) עם חיבוק גדול מכל קצוות תבל.
זה שאנחנו לא יכולות להיפגש,
לא אומר שאנחנו לא ביחד.

https://youtu.be/rKyLspnPvts

משתתפות:

קרן פלס (ישראל) - פסנתר, שירה
רוני אלטר (פריז) - קסילופון, שירה
הדס קליינמן (ניו יורק) - צ'לו, שירה
קטלין רייטר (אל איי) - שירה
שירה מיוני (מינכן) - ויולה
אלנה מיוני (איטליה) - כינור
נעמה אור (הודו) - יוקלילי, שירה
דנה רוט (בוסטון) - בס
תום וויט (ניו יורק) - חשמלית, שירה
לי קורן (ישראל) - נבל
עדי גרינמן (שוויץ) - פסנתר, שירה
אמה ברנט (ניו ג'רזי) - כינור
אליה נרקיס (אוסטרליה) - גיטרה, שירה
ענבר פז (ניו יורק) - קונטרה בס
נועה גבע (לונדון) - תופים
קרן בוטרו (אל איי) - שירה
קרן טפרברג (ישראל) - תופים, שירה
מיה אלפרן (אנגליה) - פסנתר, שירה
רחלי ברבי ורותם תשובה (ניו זילנד) - שירה
יעל שפירא (ישראל) - צ׳לו, שירה
נופר מנטין (אל איי) - גיטרה, שירה
ענת קריגר (אל איי) - שירה
אליה אמויאל (ישראל) - גיטרה
מעין הרצמן (צה״ל, מוצב 422) – שירה

בימוי וניהול מוזיקלי: קרן פלס
ניהול פרויקט: תום אבימור
מיקס: עדי רותם
תזמור כלי קשת: יעל שפירא
עריכה: נדב אלוביק

Adam Schiff the Pathological Liar

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Friday that the Russia collusion hoax and even reports of Russia hacking into Democratic National Committee (DNC) computers were “all lies, literally all of it.’

Carlson also noted that every time House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff talked about having “evidence” for then-candidate Donald Trump colluding with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign, “he was lying.”

Referring to the House Intelligence Committee transcripts released this week that prompted the Department of Justice’s recent decision to drop charges against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Carlson told viewers of  “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that the Democrats behind stories of Trump colluding with the Russians fabricated it all.

Citing former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Evelyn Farkas’ claim that “we have very good intelligence on Russia,” Carlson said it was not true. “We knew what we knew, but she didn’t know anything. Farkas was lying, as purely as a liar can lie. Once under oath, behind closed doors, Farkas admitted that, quote: ‘I didn’t know anything,’ she said. It was all lies, literally all of it.”

Referring to the House Intelligence Committee transcripts released this week that prompted the Department of Justice’s recent decision to drop charges against former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Carlson told viewers of  “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that the Democrats behind stories of Trump colluding with the Russians fabricated it all.

Citing former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Evelyn Farkas’ claim that “we have very good intelligence on Russia,” Carlson said it was not true.“We knew what we knew, but she didn’t know anything. Farkas was lying, as purely as a liar can lie. Once under oath, behind closed doors, Farkas admitted that, quote: ‘I didn’t know anything,’ she said. It was all lies, literally all of it.”

After playing clips of Schiff insisting he had “evidence” of Trump colluding with Russia, Carlson noted, “In case you weren’t counting during that montage, Adam Schiff said ‘evidence’ nine times: and every single time, he was lying.”

Schiff has continued to spin the Russian collusion hoax in interviews, recently claiming that the Mueller report backed up his accusations, when in fact it did the opposite.

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New York Times.... "Israel turns to saving lives after killing people"

Israel's US envoy says newspaper 'best known for pioneering ways to libel and demonize the Jewish State'

The New York Times caused an uproar on social media Friday after tweeting an article on Israel's research efforts in tackling COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic with a caption condemned by critics as nothing short of libel.

According to the tweet, the research and development department with Israel's Defense Ministry is

 "best known for pioneering cutting-edge ways to kill people and blow things up."

Now, however, it is turning to "saving lives," the tweet went on to add.

The wording prompted a wave of criticism online, including from the Conference of Presidents of Jewish Organizations, which said "anti-Israel bias expressed in this rhetoric misrepresents the Jewish State’s research & development for the good of all nations."

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Goyty Returns Diamond Bracelet After Many Years With An Apology

A woman in Lakewood, New Jersey, was shocked this week when she found an apology letter in her mailbox – along with diamond bracelet worth thousands of dollars!

According to the letter, a woman working at her home spotted the bracelet laying abandoned in the house and sneaked it out of the home to keep for herself. After five years, pangs of guilt haunted the thief until she felt compelled to return the piece of jewelry.

What prompted these feelings of guilt? According to the letter, a old man with a white beard appeared to the woman in her dreams three nights in a row, exhorting her to return the item.

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Ezra Friedlander and Fat Nadler's Ties with the Russians Exposed....... Pres Trump Just Retweeted This Expose

We already exposed the ties that the "Lisker Ganiv" Ezra Friedlander's has with the Israel hating Qatar. 

How he colluded with Jew back-stabber Fat Nadler  to bury the US and Israel, in his attempt to bring dangerous murderous despots to the US to do business! 

How the "lisker ganev" Ezra  wrote an Op-ed backing the Iran Deal, and asking Holocaust survivors to support Fat Nadler who voted to hand nuclear weapons to a country that vowed to "wipe Israel off the map!" 

How he is organizing a Congressional Medal of Honor for someone responsible for the murder of over 2,000 Jewish Soldiers, Anwar Sadat! 

Now see the video above how he continues to bring the USA down.....with the real "Russia Collusion"

What is it with us Jews that support an uneducated traitor to the Jewish people and kowtow to a guy that constantly looks to take down his host country the United States of America?

Is it because he wears a "langy reckel?" 
Why is this kapo considered an "askan?" 
Why are we putting up with this waste?

See Trump Re-Tweeting this expose 

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Sovereignty Will Make it Harder for Israel's Enemies to Kill Jews. .... Answer to "Daniel Pipes" Nasty Op-ed in NYT

Maalei Adumim 

Daniel Pipes’ has written a fallacy-filled New York Times op-ed opposing Israeli legally valid sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley which sounds like it came from the hostile-to-Israel far left. Instead, it came from Pipes, a well-known pro-Israel rightist who is also a “never-Trumper.”

For starters, 

Pipes’ op-ed uses the left-wing misnomer “annexation” – which implies that Israel is taking lands to which she has no right. 

The accurate description is: “Israel’s exercise of her sovereignty over historic Jewish lands to which Israel is entitled under binding international law,” or “extending Israeli law to Judea and Samaria,” or “exercising her sovereignty.” International agreements, including the British Mandate and San Remo resolution, guaranteed the Jewish people’s rights to resettle and reconstitute the Jewish state on these lands.

Pipes also wrongly writes that “annexation” was a “fringe” idea prior to publication of President Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan in January 2020. 

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Moshe Rabeinu Didn't Step Into Israel ...... but His Likeness is on the Entire Holy Land ...

Documentation of Atrocities of the Lodz Getto Filmed by The Jewish Photographer Henryk Ross

What is remarkable about these photos is that all other photos of the Holocaust were filmed by the Germans themselves ....

These photos were taken by a Jew.... 

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Mom with Coronavirus Saved by Medical-student Son’s Quick Thinking

A Brooklyn woman desperately ill with the coronavirus is breathing easy this Mother’s Day thanks to a novel treatment her medical-student son helped provide.

Josephine Bruzzese, who is 48 and otherwise healthy, woke up on March 22 with a fever, body aches, dry cough and trouble breathing. She lost the ability to smell or taste. Her family rushed her to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in Sunset Park.

“She was so short of breath she couldn’t speak” said her 23-year-old son, James.

The hospital diagnosed the mom of four with pneumonia, but with no coronavirus tests available, it sent her home as a suspected COVID-19 case.

Some symptoms improved when Bruzzese, who works in banking, was given the antibiotic azithromycin and the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine — but she still couldn’t breathe.

“We were very worried because she couldn’t stand up without almost passing out from shortness of breath,” her son said. “Her respiratory symptoms were very severe.”

James, who lives with his parents and three siblings in Bath Beach, is in his second year at the CUNY School of Medicine in a special program that combines a bachelor’s and medical degrees.

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No Deaths from Coronavirus in Israel this Shabbat

No coronavirus patient died in Israel this Shabbat, with only 8 new diagnosed cases. 84 patients were declared recovered from the pandemic. 65 patients are still hooked up to ventilators, with 2 additions on Shabbos.

Health Ministry Deputy Director General Professor Itamar Grotto told Reshet Bet radio on Saturday that the data accumulated since opening the closure are very encouraging, the result of proper public behavior and the warming weather. Grotto estimates that in two weeks, gatherings of 100 people would be permitted in Israel’s public spaces, and in another month and a half, all restrictions of gathering would be lifted.

The Deputy Director General also said that flights outside Israel would first be resumed to countries in the Mediterranean basin and countries with similar low numbers of the spread of the virus. He said flights to the United States would be back at a very late date, due to the high spread rates there.

Saturday saw 11,387 new cases of the coronavirus in the US, bringing the overall number of cases there to 1,333,172. A total of 624 patients died this Saturday, bringing the total number of deaths in the US to about 80,000. 164 people died in New York, 131 in New Jersey, 59 in Pennsylvania, 54 in Maryland, 47 in Florida, 40 in Louisiana.

There are now more than 4 million cases around the planet, with 278,467 deaths and 1,415,396 recoveries.

The worst hit countries after the United States are the UK (31,587 dead), Italy (30,395), Spain (26,478), and France (26,230).

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Obama Responsible for ‘worst corruption scandal in American history’

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton told Breitbart News that General Michael Flynn only got justice because he had lawyers who “insisted upon it” and pushed back “against the entire political class” in Washington, D.C. 

“This FBI, this Justice Department, they would’ve sent Flynn to jail,” said Fitton. “Flynn only got justice because he had a lawyer who insisted upon it.”

Fitton  mentioned that former president Barack Obama should be questioned.

Someone should ask him a question about it. I mean, the media has completely protected this man, and he orchestrated, and was behind, and is ultimately responsible for the worst corruption scandal in American history. He makes Richard Nixon look like a piker.

He not only authorized — and obviously approved — unprecedented spying on the candidate that was seeking to succeed him from the opposite Party. But then after the president was elected, he rushed out and targeted this president with this all hands on deck effort to smear him on this Russia collusion crap, and then continued — in my view — in a seditious way to try to undermine and destroy his presidency on his way out the door.

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The Term 'Chinese virus' Now Considered "hate speech" in San Antonio Texas

I laughed so hard reading this that I had to cry ....just when I thought the leftists are crazy , a story comes along that makes them even crazier ...

Now in San Antonio if you call a virus that came from China .."Chinese virus" you can actually be locked up, while real murderers and rapists in the same city go free! 

Really guys ... it's time to come home ..

The term Chinese virus has been labelled hate speech by San Antonio's city council.

Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who put forward the now-passed resolution, blamed the use of the terms Chinese virus and Kung Fu virus for a rise in hate speech during the course of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Texas city will now ask its citizens to 'report any such antisemitic, discriminatory or racist incidents to the proper authorities for investigation', according to San Antonio's WOAI-TV.

US senator Ted Cruz blasted the decision as 'nuts'. He added that the council were acting like 'a lefty college faculty lounge'.

'If they want to investigate someone, start with NYT & CNN who both repeatedly (and rightly) referred to it as 'the Chinese coronavirus.'  

It comes after US president Donald Trump sparked criticism by referring to Covid-19 as the Chinese virus. Trump responded to complaints by saying he just meant the term geographically and would stop if it bothered Asian-Americans.

'It's not racist at all,' Trump said during one press conference after a reporter asked why he kept using the term. He added: 'It comes from China, that's why.' 

Explaining the decision, Mayor Nirenberg revealed 'there has been a rise in hate speech throughout the course of this pandemic'.

He said: 'Our efforts must meet the indiscriminate nature of COVID-19 with empathy and compassion for all our neighbors.'  

City councilors voted 11-0 in favor of the resolution.

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Zera Shimshon ... Parshas Emor

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Flynn Free ! ..... "Fat Fresser" Nadler going Bat-Crazy

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday abruptly asked a judge to drop criminal charges against Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn following mounting pressure.

The move drew furious criticism from congressional Democrats and others who accused the department and Attorney General William Barr of politicizing the U.S. criminal justice system by bending to Trump's wishes and improperly protecting his friends and associates in criminal cases.

Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general who served as an adviser to Trump during the 2016 campaign, had been seeking to withdraw his 2017 guilty plea in which he admitted to lying to the FBI about his interactions with Russia's U.S. ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the weeks before Trump took office, after being threatened that they will go after his son.

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FBI ..... "Israelis Are ‘All F***ing Spies,’ ‘Execute Them All’

A declassified transcript published on Tuesday revealed a “confidential human source” (CHS) from the FBI deriding Israelis as “fucking spies” and “fucking cocksuckers” who should be “executed” while surreptitiously surveilling George Papadopoulos two weeks after the 2016 presidential election.

The 206-page transcript captured conversation between Papadopoulos and an unidentified CHS, seemingly across one continuous episode on November 26, 2016. Papadopoulos worked as an assistant on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign

In an attached cover letter addressed to Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Lindsey Graham, (R-SC), and Mark Warner (D-VA), Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd credits Attorney General William Barr with making the determination to declassify the transcript.

Papadopoulos is code-named “Crossfire Typhoon” (CT) throughout the transcript and referred to as such by an unidentified FBI agent at the beginning of the transcribed recording.

The CHS is quoted as saying, “No fucking Russians here that aren’t fucking…same with the Israelis they’re all fucking spies. Those fucking cocksuckers. They should execute them all.”

“I can smell an Israeli from a mile away, dude,” said the CHS in another moment. “I can tell you who is fucking Israeli.”

The CHS joked about being extradited to Israel. “Yeah I’m-I’m saying you probably fucking…you’re probably working out a deal with them [Mossad] motherfuckers on me [to] be fucking extradited to Israel.”

When Papadopoulos said he dated an Israeli girl, the CHS disparaged Russian Jews as “fake Jews.”

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Dani "Fred" Garfunkel of Monsey Succumbs to Corona While in the Shiva of His Father...His Mother died last week

Terrible triple tragedy in one family .... Hashem Yeracheim

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Judge Freier responds to Netflix's 'Unorthodox' ....

Judge Ruchie (Rachel) Freier from Brooklyn New York is a Kings County Civil Court Judge, a volunteer paramedic and director of Ezras Nashim, the all women’s Basic Life Support First Response Agency.

Freier joined a special video online discussion and related to the Netflix "Unorthodox" mini-series, which brings the story of a Hasidic young woman from New York who decides to leave her family, home and way of life.

Judge Freier wrote about the series in an op-ed in the Satmar "Vos Is Neias" website.

"A good friend from the broader Jewish community who saw the movie called me and asked “Are all Hasidic marriages arranged and begin loveless?” Frieier writes, "This propelled me to watch it and determine its accuracy".

Freier noted that the production is fiction, but is based on a memoir written by Deborah Feldman with the same name.

"Perhaps it reflects the experience of one woman", Freier wrote, "and in doing so unwittingly or intentionally depicts Hasidic men as either naïve or shysters and women as subjugated, unloved, uneducated, unhappy and without opportunity".

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Barry Farber Beloved Radio Host Dies at 90

Barry Farber, the beloved radio host , died this evening, at 6:25 pm.

His daughter Celia Ingrid Farber tweeted the following:

"He was home, in bed, and we were all with him. He turned 90 just yesterday. He told me recently that his concept of death was "going somewhere I've never been before, like Finland or Estonia." May God rest his soul."

Barry M. Farber was an American conservative radio talk show host, author, commentator and language-learning enthusiast. In 2002, industry publication Talkers magazine ranked him the 9th greatest radio talk show host of all time. He has also written articles appearing in The New York Times, Reader's Digest, The Washington Post, and the Saturday Review. He is the father of journalist Celia Farber and singer-songwriter Bibi Farber.

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Listen to Barry Farber interview Jean Shepard June 26, 1975