Italian artist sells invisible statue for 15,000 euros

 

Forgedabout the seller .....Can I meet the buyer? 

Genius or scammer? Social networks are divided before a news that, although it seems incredible, has happened in Italy: an artist has sold an invisible statue for 15,000 euros. His name is Salvatore Garau and he has managed to auction his “work” for an amount that many consider crazy. However, he defends his creation tooth and nail.

The artist explained that “the success of the auction confirms an irrefutable fact: the void is nothing more than a space full of energy, even if we empty it and there is nothing left, according to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle that nothing has a weight. It therefore has an energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is to say, into us “. The ‘Io sono’ certificate of authenticity. (Art-Rite Auctions)

The supposed sculpture is titled ‘Io sono’ (‘I am’) and its new owner will be able to demonstrate his new possession by means of a certificate of guarantee, which attests to its authenticity. Afterwards, you can place it where you deem appropriate, although the artist points out that it needs a space free of obstructions to house its dimensions: 150 x 150 centimeters.

alvatore Garau has previously exhibited other intangible works. In February 2021 he placed a piece entitled ‘Buddha in contemplation’ in the Plaza Della Scala, in Milan. As in this case, you couldn’t see anything, since it was another invisible statue, although a marked box appeared on the ground where, apparently, his work of art was placed.

He plans to “place” seven invisible statues in as many cities around the world

The artist assures that “when I decide to ‘exhibit’ an immaterial sculpture in a given space, that place will concentrate a certain quantity and density of thoughts at a precise point, creating a sculpture that from my title will only take the most varied forms. After all, don’t we shape a God we’ve never seen? ”

Garau has more projects for the future, as he explained to the Art-Rite auction house who sold his work: 

“In May, the immaterial sculpture ‘Aphrodite cries’ will be ‘exhibited’ in the heart of New York, in front of Federal Hall (where G. Washington, the first president of the United States was elected) and a few steps from the Stock Exchange. It will be the third of the seven that I will place in as many cities of the world. Seven because it is the spiritual number par excellence and has a special value in all the great religions, Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Buddhist. Spirituality has always fascinated me, although in contemporary art it is a subject that does not seem to have great appeal, but to me, right now, it seems revolutionary “.

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Ohio football coach forces kosher player to eat pork as punishment

 

A member of an Ohio high school football team who keeps kosher was forced to eat pork as a punishment.

The father of a MicKinley Senior High School junior told News 5 Cleveland that his son, who is kosher, was forced by the team’s coach to eat a whole pepperoni pizza in front of the rest of the team as a punishment.

“The coach had a pork pizza as a penalty for this child not showing up for practice,” said the boy’s father’s attorney Edward Gilbert. “What’s interesting is everyone on the team knows this child will not eat pork.”

According to Gilbert the teen had missed the practice after a May 20 injury. When he returned to the team on May 24, the coach forced him to sit in the middle of the gym in a chair and eat a whole pepperoni pizza with the entire team watching. If he did not do so, his teammates would have to run extra drills and he would face the possibility of being kicked off the team.

According to CantonRep.com the player told the coach at least 10 times that he did not eat pork because his family keeps kosher.

The team should have realized that he didn’t eat pork because he participated in previous team meals.

The boy’s father said that the family has not consumed pork since they began to keep kosher in 2013.

News 5 was told by a Canton City School District that the team’s coach Marcus Wattley and seven assistant coaches have been placed on paid administrative leave.

Gilbert said that communications with the school and superintendent did not result in a satisfactory resolution. They plan to file a lawsuit against the district for violating the boy’s first amendment rights, reported CantonRep.com.

The Canton City School District released a statement on Facebook. 

“The incident calls into question whether appropriate team management, discipline, and player accountability infrastructures are in place,” they stated. 

They are nearing the completion of an investigation into the incident, at which point they will provide more information.

“Let us be clear, the Canton City School District holds all staff to the highest professional and ethical standards. Anything short of these standards is unacceptable,” they said. “As educators, we are united in the pursuit of creating an inclusive and safe learning environment for our students in the classroom and beyond.”

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Massive Fire at Iran's Oil Refinery

 

 A massive fire broke out Wednesday night at the oil refinery serving Iran’s capital, sending thick plumes of black smoke over Tehran. It wasn’t immediately clear if there were injuries.

The fire struck the state-owned Tondgooyan Petrochemical Co. to the south of Tehran, said Mansour Darajati, the director-general of the capital’s crisis management team.

Firefighters believe it struck a pipeline for liquefied petroleum gas at the facility, Darajati told Iranian state television. He did not elaborate.

Associated Press journalists in central Tehran, some 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) away, could see the black smoke rise in the distance. Another AP journalist saw flames shooting into the sky from the site.

Mojtaba Khaledi, the spokesman for Iran’s emergency department, told the semiofficial ISNA news agency that 10 ambulances and other equipment had been deployed at the scene of the fire. Hospitals in the area are on standby as well, he said.

It wasn’t immediately clear what started the blaze. Temperatures in Tehran reached nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday. Hot summer weather in Iran has caused fires in the past.

The blaze came the same day a fire struck the largest warship in the Iranian navy, which later sank in the Gulf of Oman.

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America is over. I’m moving to Israel

 

by Rea Bochner

Last week, I watched John Oliver, one of America’s best-known comedy news hosts, take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I’ve watched him many times before (the Joe Exotic episode is a favorite) and I’m a fan. But his maligning of Israel as a perpetrator of war crimes or his distortion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict horrified me.

Because that was when I realized that everything I’d learned about Jewish History was true. 

I’m no expert on the subject, but after 15 years of self-study, I’ve drawn a few conclusions:

The 3,000-plus-year existence of the Jewish people is essentially a stretch of pogroms, expulsions, rapes, mutilations, public burnings, forced conversions, vandalization of property, demonization in the press, kangaroo courts, and the largest systematized genocide in the history of mankind. Sure, we’ve had our peaceful stretches, but they were commercial breaks, not the regularly scheduled program

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Did Gantz Sell Out Israel? Ganz made Deal with Biden for settlement freeze'

A senior settlement leader has accused Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz of cutting a deal with the Biden administration to block Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria.

In a statement released Wednesday morning, Gush Etzion Regional Council head Shlomo Ne’eman said Gantz had already begun to impose the de facto building freeze in Judea and Samaria.

“Benny Gantz has made a deal with the Biden administration to freeze construction in Judea and Samaria and is already implementing the move in practice," said Ne'eman.

“This move crosses one of the strongest red lines amongst the national camp.”

For the past five months the Council of Higher Planning has not met to discuss construction plans in Judea and Samaria. It is Defense Minister Benny Gantz who is preventing the committee from meeting.

“Over the past several weeks the authorities in Judea and Samaria along with the Yesha Council made a humble appeal to Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Gantz to hold a “small” committee meeting, not for major planning but in order to deal with small changes to existing master plans. However our request was completely rejected by Benny Gantz."

“The same Benny Gantz who frequently accuses Netanyahu of deceitful politics is pursuing an independent policy without the prime minister’s knowledge. It turns out that Gantz agreed to a construction freeze with the Biden Administration, even though the new government hasn’t even been formed.”

Ne’eman urged Yamina chief Naftali Bennett and New Hope chairman Gideon Sa’ar not to form a unity government, which Ne'eman argued would empower Gantz to pursue the settlement freeze.

“Naftali Bennett and Gideon Sa'ar, did you think you would run the country? You promised to adhere to ideological red lines of the national camp in the government that is currently being formed. Just know that your defense minister thinks differently and is acting differently. Benny Gantz claims - behind closed doors that he, and only he will be at the head of the political echelons when it comes to what happens in Judea and Samaria. Gantz has already made a deal with the administration in Washington behind the back of the prime minister to implement an Obama-style freeze, which at the time was unprecedented.”

“Neither Bennett nor anyone else will be the liaison with the Americans on construction in Judea and Samaria, only I will decide on policy there.”

“These are his words, and this is how Gantz has been acting for the last several months. To the parties on the right and to the New Hope Party you should know that this move crosses one of the strongest red lines amongst the national camp. You are forming a government that is slated to abuse the Judea and Samaria enterprise, including half a million Israelis living there! You were wrong! But it’s not too late to fix it. Stand at the head of your camp, the national camp. Stand by your principles for the next four and a half years. It is completely in your hands, if you still believe in those principles of course.”

Earlier on Wednesday, the Blue and White party signed a coalition deal with Yesh Atid.

Under the agreement, Benny Gantz will retain the Defense Ministry in the new government.

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How Bennett Flip Flops every Single Day

 You don't have to understand Hebrew to get it 

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Isaac Herzog elected as 11th President of Israel

 Isaac Herzog, the chairman of the Jewish Agency and former chief of Israel's Labor Party, was elected President of Israel Wednesday.

Israel's parliament voted in a secret ballot Wednesday, beginning at 11:00 a.m. and ending just after noon.

Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin formally opened the special session Wednesday morning, as the candidates made their way to the Knesset plenum.

Israel Prize laureate, bereaved mother, and educator Miriam Peretz faced off against Herzog, the son of Israel’s Sixth President, Chaim Herzog.

After the secret ballots are cast by the Knesset’s 120 MKs, Knesset officials counted the votes, while the plenum session reconvened.

Herzog bested Peretz by a wide margin, receiving 87 votes to Peretz's 26, the Knesset announced Wednesday afternoon. Six MKs abstained from the vote.

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) congratulated Herzog in a statement shortly after the results were released.

"I congratulate my friend, Isaac 'Bougie' Herzog on his election as President of the State of Israel. A worthy and wonderful man who is always focused on the good of the country and the Jewish people. Good luck Mr. President!"

"I also congratulate Miriam Peretz, she will forever be president of the hearts of our people."

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Teenage girl fights off bear to rescue dogs

 

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US antisemitism far worse than reported, says Malcolm Hoenlein

 

Antisemitism in the United States is even more pervasive than it appears, Malcolm Hoenlein, vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said Monday.

“It’s worse because the majority of incidents are not reported,” Hoenlein told The Times of Israel at a meeting with staff in Jerusalem alongside the Conference’s chair Dianne Lob and CEO William Daroff.

“We get reports all the time of it. I see it not only in my own community but from rabbis who call me and others. And often the police will not classify it as a hate crime because then the FBI has to come in, and the FBI doesn’t necessarily want to because it’s a lot of paperwork et cetera… But they’re encountering more hostility and the vast majority of incidents don’t go reported even though the number of reports is increasing sharply.”

There has been a drastic spike in antisemitism across the US surrounding the recent conflict in Israel and Gaza.

In New York City, amid dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies earlier in May, Jews were assaulted in the street. In the days following, Jews across New York posted on social media about being threatened, harassed or otherwise attacked for being Jewish. Synagogues in Florida, Illinois and Arizona were targeted. Two antisemitic incidents were caught on video in Los Angeles.

The antisemitic incidents have led some to refrain from wearing Jewish symbols publicly out of fear of being attacked.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is the umbrella body on international and national issues for 52 US Jewish organizations.

“Antisemitism has really shaken up our community,” Hoenlein emphasized. “The sense of insecurity is pretty widespread, even among sectors that felt that they were not vulnerable to what Orthodox Jews were subject to, in terms of attacks on them because they were visible. Now we’ve seen it everywhere, people being stopped and asked, ‘Are you a Jew?’”

Calling it “pervasive across the country,” Hoenlein said that he is seeing the effects of antisemitism and hatred of Israel in academia, in politics, and in the media.

“We have Jewish members of faculties who are finding themselves and their jobs being put in danger because of being identified as pro-Israel, or not joining the anti-Israel onslaught,” he said.

In the political realm, Hoenlein pointed to New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, who tweeted in support of Israel and condemned Hamas.

Under pressure from local pro-Palestinian activists and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Yang issued a retraction, saying that “my tweet was overly simplistic in my treatment of a conflict that has a long and complex history full of tragedies.” He added that he “failed to acknowledge the pain and suffering of both sides.”

Tamar Zandberg comes under attack after article claims she wants to imprison Chabad members who offer Tefillin to minors

 

Meretz MK Tamar Zandberg took her family out of their home Tuesday following a string of threats against her and her baby daughter, in the wake of false information published about her proposed legislation to restrict the proselytizing of minors.

The threats came amid protests outside Zandberg’s Tel Aviv home and as other politicians set to become ministers in the so-called change government to be headed by Yamina head Naftali Bennett have been targeted by right-wing activists.

Zandberg, who has been tapped to be environmental protection minister in the prospective coalition, which has yet to be finalized, came under attack after an article on the right-wing news bulletin 0404 site claimed that her bill called for imprisoning Chabad members who offer children to tefillin (phylacteries) to don.

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Largest ship in Iranian navy catches fire and sinks

One of the largest ships in the Iranian Navy, Kharg, sinks after catching fire. https://t.co/msVxIcP7Sn

— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) June 2, 2021

 The largest ship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial news agencies reported.

The Fars and Tasnim news agencies said efforts failed to save the support ship Kharg, named after the island that serves as the main oil terminal for Iran.

The blaze began around 2:25 a.m. and firefighters tried to contain it, Fars said. The vessel sank near the Iranian port of Jask, some 1,270 kilometers (790 miles) southeast of Tehran on the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf.

Photos circulated on Iranian social media of sailors wearing life jackets evacuating the vessel as a fire burned behind them. State TV and semiofficial news agencies referred to the Kharg as a “training ship.” Fars published video of thick, black smoke rising from the ship early Wednesday morning.

Satellite photos from Planet Labs Inc. analyzed by The Associated Press showed the Kharg off to the west of Jask on Tuesday. Satellites from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that track fires from space detected a blaze at the site of the Jask that started just before the time of the fire reported by Fars.

The Kharg serves as one of a few vessels in the Iranian navy capable of providing replenishment at sea for its other ships. It also can lift heavy cargo and serve as a launch point for helicopters. The ship, built in Britain and launched in 1977, entered the Iranian navy in 1984 after lengthy negotiations that followed Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Iranian officials offered no cause for the fire aboard the Kharg. However, it comes after a series of mysterious explosions that began in 2019 targeting ships in the Gulf of Oman. The US Navy later accused Iran of targeting the ships with limpet mines, timed explosives typically attached by divers to a vessel’s hull.

Iran denied targeting the vessels, though US Navy footage showed members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing one unexploded limpet mine from a vessel. The incidents came amid heightened tensions between the US and Iran after then-president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers.

The sinking of the Kharg marks the latest naval disaster for Iran. In 2020 during an Iranian military training exercise, a missile mistakenly struck a naval vessel near the port of Jask, killing19 sailors and wounding 15. Also in 2018, an Iranian navy destroyer sank in the Caspian Sea.

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Irony of Ironies ... The Arab Abbas Won't Join Coalition if there are any PRO-LGBT Support

 

I have to laugh, when the Chareidie parties were negotiating to be part of the coalition, never was there any discussion about LGBT issues ... they could care less as long as the moisdois were getting the shekels, even though you would think that Chareidim care about Chillul Shabbos, Giyus and LGBT issues ... it wasn't on the agenda and never came up in discussions ...

 it looks like it takes an Arab to push "religious" issues...

United Arab List (Ra'am) Chairman MK Mansour Abbas has stated his demands insisted that the new government not include in its basic principles any laws which support the LGBT community.

The proposed government would be comprised of seven parties: Yesh Atid, Yamina, Yisrael Beytenu, Labor, Meretz, Blue and White, and New Hope. However, since it would only number 57 MKs, it would require outside support, which Yesh Atid has requested that the United Arab List, with its four seats, provide.

Abbas' demands will require that several of the center-left parties significantly compromise on the LGBT issue if they wish to form a government without Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Another of Abbas' demands, which is still under discussion, includes the cancellation of the Kaminetz Law and the normalization of the illegal construction in the Arab sector.

Two other issues which the parties still disagree on are the division of the position of Attorney General, and whether Yesh Atid or New Hope should receive the Communications Ministry.

NY AG James Campaigned on ‘persecuting’ Trump and is Following Thru ....

Watch silly Flatbush Girl giggling like a banshie with AG James promising to get Trump!

This James lady is the darling of  Chareidie askanim and pushed her campaign, even though Trump was the best thing to have happened to the Chareidie communities!

 

There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation in desperate search of a crime. If this isn’t flagrant abuse of political office I don’t know what is! This is banana republic stuff right here and it’s happening in America today. pic.twitter.com/Hlfh4iNXDF

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 19, 2021

Donald Trump Jr. accused New York Attorney General Letitia James Tuesday of leading a “political persecution” against his father, former President Donald Trump, with her office’s investigation of the Trump Organization.

“I think it’s a political persecution, and I know that because she literally campaigned on it,” the 45th president’s eldest son told Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, referring to James’ 2018 campaign to be elected state AG. “She was going to investigate the crimes. The problem is, it wasn’t as though she was a part of this office. She had no idea.

“But in New York, it’s OK to try to persecute your political enemies, to try to target them, to try to hurt them, and they’ve been doing that for over five years,” Trump Jr. added. “So five years, no actual crime. They’re in search of a crime. They’ve been trying to investigate, to create a crime, because that’s what you’re doing in New York. Again, shouldn’t surprise us anymore, but if this was going on in a banana republic, we’d be outraged.”

James’ office revealed on May 15 that its investigation of the Trump Organization was being conducted “in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.”

The state has been investigating the Trump Org since 2019 after the former president’s onetime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, testified to Congress that Trump exaggerated the value of his financial assets in order to help score more favorable terms on loans and insurance policies.

Last week, The Washington Post reported that Vance had convened a grand jury to examine potential criminal charges stemming from his investigation, which is focusing on similar allegations of insurance and bank fraud. 

That report drew an angry response from the elder Trump, who called the New York investigation “a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in American history” and “an affront to the almost 75 million voters who supported me in the Presidential Election.”

“In New York, crime is going through the roof. Taxes are going to go through the roof. Property values are going down, murder rates are skyrocketing,” Trump Jr. said Tuesday. “And yet, rather than using taxpayer dollars to actually go and solve those issues to prevent the degeneration of New York even further, they’re gonna continue to spend those taxpayer dollars targeting their enemies, and that’s pretty disgusting.”

James’ office did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 

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Jewish Group Recite Kaddish For Hamas, Islamic Jihad Terrorists

Interesting, they're mourning quite a few Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades militants. Basem Issa - Gaza Brigade Commander. Sameh Mamlouk - Commander of the Missile Unit Northern Brigade. Abu al-Ata's brother, Mohammad al-Ata. https://t.co/6Op8CoWJYZ

— Joe Truzman (@Jtruzmah) May 28, 2021

 An anti-Israel Self-Hating Jewish American group recited Kaddish for Gazan terrorists killed during Operation Guardian of the Walls at a demonstration in Los Angeles on Thursday, The Jerusalem Post reported.

IfNotNow, a movement founded during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza and “to end the Israeli occupation,” displayed a banner at the demonstration with the names of the Palestinian and Israeli victims of the conflict and recited Kaddish for them.

Joe Truzman, a research analyst for The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), noted that the list of people for whom the group recited Kaddish included a number of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists, including Mohammad al-Ata, the brother of Abu al-Ata, an Islamic Jihad leader who was responsible for a number of attacks against Israel and was eliminated by an Israeli airstrike in November 2019.

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The "Meraglim" Were Holy People!

 

by DIN

The headline is not only to get your attention, it is also 100% true, and because it's true, it' makes "Holy People" very dangerous.....

So dangerous are the "holy" ones that Hashem in this case never forgave them.

I'm jumping ahead of myself..... 

There is a halacha that every bar-mitzvah learns as soon as he turns 13, which is that now that he reached the age of being a bar-mitzva, he can be counted in a minyan. 

How do we know that a "minyan" requires a minimum of 10?

I hope you guys are sitting .....

We learn this halacha from the "meraglim".....

let that sink in for awhile...

Lest you think I made it up, I will give you the sources and you could look it up at your leisure ...

(מגילה כ"ג  ב (הובא בפרש"י עה"פ), ברכות כ"א ב, סנהדרין ע"ד ב) 

Why would the Chazal learn out a major rule from the meraglim? 

It was because they were the "moetzes gedoilei hador" of that generation, as the Torah itself writes in the 3rd verse of this parsha!

"ראשי בני ישראל המה" 

"They were the leaders of the Jewish people"

 According to many Rishonim and the Zohar they spoke "Lashon Hara" on Eretz Yisrael but meant it "lishmah" 

In other words, they remained very "holy people" and weren't evil at all; it was their desire to be close to Hashem and stay in the midbar to cleave to Hashem, to learn his Torah unencumbered with "gashmios" 

What was the result? 

There is a proverb: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" 

just because someone has "good intentions" that doesn't necessarily mean it is the correct thing to do...

When the Jews made a golden calf, an "eigal" in the midbar, it was an outright rebellion and an affront to  Hashem that had just recently taken them  out of Egypt with miracles....they turned their backs on their Saviour and Creator and instead chose a calf, that couldn't  speak, see, hear, or talk and was just born so to speak. 

Yet Hashem forgave them 

Yet with these "tzaddikim" the ones who had good intentions, where Chazal learn that a minyan consists  of 10, Hashem never forgave them and we are still paying a price for this mistake.

Why?

Because they spoke "loshon hara" about Eretz Yisrael and when you bad mouth Eretz Yisrael even if you have the best of intentions, you are never forgiven .... 

You can quote from the greatest of our people, who may have had the best intentions, but if they bad mouthed the Land or bad mouthed even those who built it, then they are meraglim, especially if they live in Chutz Le'aretz..... Hashem will never forgive them

To bolster my point... at the end of Moshe Rabbeinu's life, Moshe, in Sefer Devarim rebukes the Jewish people and reminds them of all the sins they did in the midbar... but in order not to embarrass them, he did not mention the sins explicitly, instead, he only hinted or alluded to them by using veiled references ... so when it came to remind them of the eigal, he said "ודי זהב" ....you actually need a Rashi to understand the hint....

but when it came to remind them about the "meraglim" Moshe was very explicit... no veiled references here...., here he wasn't concerned that they would be embarrassed, Moshe goes into the details to what happened, things  that we didn't even know learning Parshas Shlach .... 

The gemarrah discusses a tuma bird called "r'ah" ראה, that has great eye sight, it could stand in Bavel and see a dead carcass all the way in Eretz Yisrael 

עומד בבבל ורואה נבלה בארץ ישראל 

the Baal Shem asked, if this bird has been gifted with such talent to able to see such great distances then why is it tamei?

Says the Baal Shem, someone living in chutz l'aaretz and focuses on whats bad in Israel can only be someone who is tamei... 

I will add my own pshat .....

why did Chazal choose "Bavel" to illustrate their point? 

Precisely because "Bavel" was the "makom Torah" of those generations and they became very comfortable there and looked down on Eretz Yisrael ... since those living in Eretz Yisrael were Mechallei  Shabbos and were by in large intermarried.........

nevertheless the Babylonians searching for "dead carcasses" in Israel were considered tamei!

You can be from those who authored Talmud Bavli, the oral torah so that it should never be forgotten, but if you dare badmouth the land of Israel or its inhabitants, you risk losing your olam haba!

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2,000-Year-Old Roman Basilica, the Largest in Israel, Discovered in Ashkelon

 

The structure of a basilica discovered in Ashkelon, Israel that was destroyed in an earthquake in 363 CE.

The Israel Antiquities Authority recently unearthed a massive 2,000-year-old Roman basilica (public building), the largest in Israel, during excavations at Tel Ashkelon Park, the Nature and Parks Authority announced on Monday.

The archaeological dig was conducted as part of an extensive redevelopment effort in the national park, led by the Nature and Parks Authority, the Ashkelon municipality, and the Leon Levy Foundation.

The finds, which also include an ancient odeon (theater), were revealed to the public for the first time and will be open to visitors at the southern Israel site soon.

The Israel Antiquities Authority said that the basilica was first discovered in the 1920s by British archaeologist John Garstang, who covered it up. Work on the site did not start again until a few years ago.

According to Dr. Rachel Bar-Natan, Saar Ganor, and Fredrico Kobrin, excavation directors on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “the huge building is covered with a roof and divided into three parts — a central hall and two side halls. The hall was surrounded with rows of marble columns and capitals, which rose to an estimated height of 13 meters and supported the building’s roof. The floor and walls were built of marble.”

The excavation directors said that the basilica was built by Herod the Great, the Roman client king of Judea.

The structure suffered major damage in the earthquake that occurred in Israel in 363 CE.

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Senator Rand Paul provides a CHILLING warning about what might be going inside Wuhan lab RIGHT NOW

 

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) went on air to be interviewed by Jeanine Pirro, and had a disturbing but important message for Americans and the world regarding the Wuhan lab, and regarding gain-of-function research in general. 

Pirro starts by bringing up the subject of gain-of-function research, and Paul responded: "Gain-of-function is basically when you have an animal virus that normally just infects animals, and you somehow mutate it or force it to evolve so it can affect humans. So it's making it more transmissible to humans, and oftentimes making it more dangerous or deadly to humans." 

"I'll give you an example. In 2004, there was a virus, a coronavirus called SARS. It killed a bunch of people; it had a 15 percent mortality." "In the Wuhan lab, they were studying this SARS virus, and they were putting more proteins on it to make it more infectious to humans." "That's gain-of-function. That's dangerous. And that may be how this (COVID-19) virus started. And so, I'm very worried that this stuff's still going on, and that the US government is funding it.

 Pirro then asked Rand why he thinks the Biden administration would "stop the investigation into the origins of the Wuhan virus", considering that China is "not fully open" to letting investigations take place and "initially lied" about the possibility of the virus originating in the Wuhan lab. 

Rand mentioned:

 "I think there's been a sea-change in the last two or three weeks on this. A year ago, anybody who mentioned the possibility that this virus came out of the Wuhan lab were dismissed as crazy right-wing cooks, conspiracy theorists, etc." "But now you have even MSNBC coming around. You have the left starting to wonder about it. When I introduced my amendment to say we should quit funding this research in China, I ended up getting every Democrat on board." "So I think [those in the Biden administration] either know information, or they suspect that this information is gonna get stronger and stronger, that this came from the lab .... we've got a lot of evidence now." 

Asking about gain-of-function itself, Pirro asked Rand point-blank, "Why would we do that?" 

"They say they're doing it so that they can study viruses that jump from animals to humans. The problem is that they are creating something novel; they are creating something that doesn't exist in nature." "....We're creating Frankenstein super-viruses that, if they leak out of the lab, accidentally or on purpose, could devastate the world. The SARS virus is fifteen times more deadly. If that one gets out, and we enhance its ability to be transmitted, 

That could kill 50, 100 million people."

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