In remembrance

THE RETURN OF OUR SOLDIERS

Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser (Ehud Ben Malka Goldwasser)

Eldad Regev of Kiryat Motzkin

May Hashem avenge the blood of Eldad and Ehud, and may their holy martyred souls rest in eternal peace.

MAY THEIR MEMORIES BE FOR A BLESSING AND MAY THEIR FAMILIES BE COMFORTED WITH ALL THE MOURNERS IN ZION AND IN JERUSALEM.

May Hashem bring Shalom to the Goldwasswer and Regev families and heal their broken hearts, and the hearts of all Israel.

O G-d of vengeance, Hashem; O G-d of vengeance, appear! Arise, O Judge of the earth, render recompense to the arrogant. Until when will the evil, O Hashem, until when will the evil exult?…with their own evil, He will strike them down; Hashem our G-d will strike them down!
Psalm 94

A prudent man foresees the evil that is coming!

By Aryeh ben Abraham

The collective perspective on the news, has been occupying my thoughts considerably, and I believe I have a responsibility to pass it on to you, my beloved brethren.

Eretz Yisrael is facing the very likely probability of its most dangerous war yet. And by all counts, it will be sooner rather than later.

And it won’t be just Eretz Yisrael’s problem. It will touch our life in ways we can imagine and in ways we don’t want to imagine, though we live miles and oceans away from the Middle East.

Frankly speaking, we abroad (Diaspora) and those of you in Yisrael – MUST take heed of the biblical warning:

A prudent man foresees the evil that is coming, and prepares himself; but the foolish carry on, and suffer from it.

Proverbs 22:3

Our mounting concern for what we see and feel is coming for Yisrael demands that we prepare, lest we fall into the category of the “foolish” described in the proverb quoted above.

Frankly speaking, Eretz Yisrael needs our support NOW.

Hizbollah’s greatly enlarged arsenal sits on Eretz Yisrael’s northern border. Hamas routinely sends their operatives for training in Iran and Syria and the smuggling of arms and machinery continues despite what you read in certain media.

According to experts in the field, Iran already has access to nuclear warheads, as do other Arab nations.

So therefor beloved brethren, please start praying with “Kavana” in order to soften any harsh decree against Eretz Yisrael.

As our beloved Rabbi Lazer Brody states, it’s not with weapons, latest model jet’s or weapons that we are going to overcome our enemies, but with earnest PRAYER.

Hashem is only requesting that we have Emunah, Pray and let Him take care of the situation.

By no means must/can we put our trust in this anti-Torah, anti_Emunah, Zionist Government, they are absolutely lost and don’t have the faintest idea as to what to do; from the news you can clearly see that they are going from one mistake to another.

Hashem is our One and Only Saviour, so stop looking around and start praying, studying Torah, doing Mitzvots, don’t wait until tomorrow, then it might be to late.

If you want to wake up to another day, see your kids grow up, then please start PRAYING, return to Hashem, the Gates of Forgiveness are wide open for you. Tomorrow, may just be too late.

Government against G_d

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The Pesach-2008 saw a tremendous hypocrisy contest in Israel. A secular court in the holy city of Jerusalem lifted the punishments imposed on several sellers of leavened bread (hametz) the previous Pesach. In effect, the court made it unpunishable and therefore legal to sell leavened bread on Pesach.

The commandment prohibiting leavened bread on Pesach is among the most prominent in Judaism. The commandment is equally binding on Jews and non-Jews alike in the Land of Israel, and its violation is punishable with death. Judaism is neither liberal nor individual; its rules are enforced throughout the Land of Israel.

Israeli state retained the paraphernalia of Judaism, and the Pesach is its national holiday. The state, however, dropped the Pesach’s two major commandments: the Temple service and non-leavened bread. While a modicum of political justification is advanced against rebuilding the Temple, the permission to sell leavened bread on Pesach is entirely voluntary. The state of Israel chose its secular character over the Jewish identity.

Israeli religious parties decried the court’s verdict a bit too late. After the sixty years of atheist brainwashing in Israeli schools, after the government’s ban on Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount, after the announced decisions to abandon Judea and Jerusalem to Arabs, the permission to sell hametz on Pesach is really not unexpected. And it is a relatively minor thing compared to the government’s other offenses against Judaism. But for ultra-Orthodox Jews, symbolism long outweighs the substance. They murder Judaism with a death of a thousand rites; they replace the Jewish life, Jewish wars, Jewish statehood with Shabbat elevators.

There is nothing technically wrong with the Jerusalem court which decided on hametz. The court merely acted upon the laws of the state. If Israel is a liberal democracy, then it cannot enforce religious rules on unwilling subjects. Imagine an outcry if Russia or Greece enforced religious rules concerning the Christian Passover, a forty-day partial fast, for example.

The court was only happy to apply the law straightforwardly in order to further its own anti-Semitism, a time-honored self-hatred of Jews who happily eradicate Jewishness of others. Israeli left applauded the court’s decision not because of liberalism. Israeli leftists are anything but liberal; they are some of the worst totalitarians who keep political opponents, even teenage girls, in jail. The verdict signified the left’s triumph over their main enemies, religious Jews.

There is no way to reconcile a secular and a Jewish state.

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Check This Out!

Check This Out!, reprinted with the kind permission of:

Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily has posted an article that addresses beautifully the issue of dividing the Land of Israel, the subject of present negotiations between Olmert and Abbas.

Entitled “Solomonic Wisdom and Dividing the Land”, Farah makes the case biblically from a perspective I’ve not heard from anyone else about the present struggle over the Land.

Take a look – I think you’ll enjoy the article. It’s not long but gets to the point!

Solomonic Wisdom and the Land

Following are some excerpts of the article written by Joseph Farah, founder, editor and CEO of WND, entitled “Solomonic wisdom and dividing of Israel“, which makes one ponder.

There is a Bible story familiar to practically everyone that relates directly to efforts by the international community to divide Israel for the purpose of creating a Palestinian state.

It can be found in 1 Kings 3.

The young king Solomon dreams of a conversation with the Lord in which he asks for wisdom to judge God’s people. God grants the desires of Solomon’s heart as well as bestowing upon him a long life, great riches and honor.

Immediately after Solomon claims this promise with sacrifices, peace offerings and a feast to all his servants, he gets to judge the most famous case of his life.

Two harlots come before him – each claiming a baby as their own.

That’s the story everyone knows. But is there special meaning for today in these words? Could this story relate directly to the two-state solution being planned by the internationalist busybodies who seek to split Israel in half? Is it possible that this familiar old Bible story actually contains a prophecy yet to be fulfilled?

Please pray for Rabbi Nati!

Rabb Nati, is now under the threat of Administrative detention.

What has Rabbi Nati done, in order for this terrible threat to be pending over him?

As far as I can see and know, Rabbi Nati is wanting the Geulah! Yes, that Moshiach come now.

This, the Israeli Governmant considers, is a revolution in their eyes, dangerous for world or national order.

Just in case you didn’t know, the Israel Internal Security Service, the Shabak, has been interrogating Rabbi Nati nightly, all night, every night, ALL WEEK, on the revolution that Breslov and the Tzaddik of Meah Shearim are setting up. The one called Moshiach and the other Geulah.

It appears that they are in the process of trying to set up the Tzadik HaRav Shalom Arush, shlita and his followers as right wing religious zealots who want turn over the world, or at least the Israeli government.

Now then, what have Rabi Nati and the Tzadik HaRav Shalom Arush, shlita and his followers, been doing for them to be considered by the Isralei Government as a menace to the Israeli Government. As far as I know and everyone in Eretz Yisrael knows, there only doings have been requesting Klal Yisrael to pray, do hisbodedut, tikun chazot and study Torah. And why? Beacause of the impending dangers that Eretz Yisrael is facing, such as the Iranian threat to wipe Eretz Yisrael out of the face of world, the latent menace of Hizballah, the constant attacks of Kassam rockets from Hamas, and the division of our Holy City Jerusalem.

So as you can see, there is absolutely nothing wrong or agaist Torah, or the Israeli Government, in what they are doing.

Well from what we are seeing in the news, it’s more than apparent that this anti-Torah, anti-Emunah government is living its last hours, and as you can see, neither did Rabbi Nati or the Tzadik HaRav Shalom Arush, shlita, have anything whatsoever to do with it.

Brethren let’s all unite in prayer, that Hashem protect Rabbi Nati and the Tzadik HaRav Shalom Arush, shlita and his followers, against those evil forces that want to shut them up and harm them, Heaven forbid.

Aryeh ben Abraham

“That female is our child’s murderer”

Dedicated to the memory of Malka Chana Roth Z”L 1985-2001

Following are excerpts of “That female is our child’s murderer“
by Ted Belman of Israpundit – THERE IS NO DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION

The New York Times carries a review of a film called ‘Hot House’ that goes inside Israeli prisons and examines the lives of Palestinian prisoners. We’re not recommending the film or the review ..But we do want to share our feelings with you about the beaming female face that adorns the article.

That female is our child’s murderer. She was sentenced to sixteen life sentences or 320 years which she is serving in an Israeli jail. Fifteen people were killed and more than a hundred maimed and injured by the actions of this “attractive” person and her associates.

Her name was Malka. Visit her website so that she not be forgotten.

Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day, reprinted with the kind permission of:

Precisely at 10:00 am this morning, sirens blared throughout the entire country of Israel and everyone stopped. Cars on highways and city streets immediately halted, as you see on the right in Jerusalem, drivers stepped out beside their vehicles, lowered their heads and there was absolute silence for two minutes while a nation mourned the loss of six million of its people at the hands of the Nazis in World War II.

During the reading of the names at the Knesset today of those who perished, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres read out the names of family members who were killed in the Holocaust, participating in a Knesset ceremony marking the annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day. President Peres – who recited the names of his grandparents – took a moment to speak of his memory of them: “When we said goodbye in the train station, before I left to come to Israel, they gave me just two words – ‘be Jewish.’”

Cabinet ministers, MKs and survivors of the World War II Nazi genocide also took part in the state ceremony.

Holocaust Memorial Day is an intensely personal day for Israelis as a very large majority of our citizens lost relatives in the camps of eastern Europe. For those who didn’t lose personal family members, the magnitude of the atrocities against our own people staggers the mind and the alarming rise of anti-Semitism across the world at this time gives this day an additional measure of pain and a quiet but very real anxiety.

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March of the Living in Auschwitz

March of the Living in Auschwitz, reprinted with the kind permission of:

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi visited the Warsaw Ghetto and a Jewish cemetery in Poland ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, ahead of leading thousands of Jews from around the world today in the annual March of the Living at the Auschwitz concentration camp. It is the first time that an IDF Chief will lead the march.

Ashkenazi visited the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw, Poland to pay his respects to the Jews who died in the Warsaw Ghetto. Ashkenazi stood silent for a few moments and then said: “The answer to what we see here is us, the State of Israel, the IDF and victory.”

The Chief met with Jews who continue to live in Poland and visited the Nozyk synagogue. He also visited a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, located at the site of the home used as a command center by Mordechai Anielewicz, the local commander of the Jewish uprising against the Nazis.

“In this place Mordechai Anielewicz didn’t just hide from the Nazis,” Ashkenazi noted, “he also fought. It is fitting that the soldiers of the IDF soldiers learn the story of this uprising. That is why we came to admire and salute the heroes who – despite the realities and balance of power, and the fact that they were untrained civilians – got up and took action and fought. Today we call these principles and moral norms.”

“They knew they had no chance of winning, but they fought nevertheless. That is bravery. The importance of victory is a norm for the IDF and a central part of it, alongside remembrance and study of the Holocaust.”

Before today’s March of the Living, each participant was given the following pledge to recite as well as the words to Hatikva (Israel’s national anthemn) and the mourner’s Kadish (prayer for mourners). The pledge reads as follows:

“We pledge to keep alive and honor the legacy of the multitudes of our people who perished in the Holocaust.

We pledge to fight anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, Holocaust denial and all other forms of hatred directed towards the Jewish people and Israel.

We pledge to fight every form of discrimination manifested against any religion, nationality or ethnic group.

We pledge to actively participate in the strengthening of Jewish life in the Diaspora and Israel.

We pledge to increase our knowledge of our Jewish heritage and to pass on a love of Jewish life and learning to the next generation.

We pledge to give tzedaka, to assist in helping the Jewish needy, wherever they may live in the world.

We pledge to involve ourselves in tikkun olam, to build a better world for all members of the human family.

After the Shoah the promise of ‘Never Again’ was proclaimed. We pledge to create a world where ‘Never Again’ will become a reality for the Jewish people and, indeed, for all people.

This is our solemn pledge to the Jewish people, to those who came before us, to those of our generation, and to those who will follow in future generations.”

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A Survivor Among Them

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Noah Kleiger, an Auschwitz survivor who has re-visited Auschwitz several times, writes:

For many years now, every time I arrive at Auschwitz, I get the same feeling. It appears to me that it wasn’t me who was here during this incredibly dark period, but rather, someone else whose story I heard at some point in life.

For many years now I’ve been thinking about those Germans who worked at Auschwitz and at other extermination camps. How could it be that every evening the officers returned to their villas outside the camp, kissed their wife and kids, and sat down for dinner with their family? How did they stroke their cat and play with their dog – as I saw with my own eyes many times when I passed by them on my way to doing more hard labor. In the morning, these officers went back to their job: The extermination of thousands of Jews.

How can that be?

Click below to read this survivor’s story.

I Will Never Understand

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Thou Shalt Not Forget

This article Thou Shalt Not Forget, reprinted with the kind permission of The Lekarev Report.

Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel begins at 7:30 this evening with a ceremony at Yad Vashem to be attended by government leaders, Holocaust survivors and hundreds of Israelis. President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will deliver speeches during the ceremony, and Holocaust survivors will light up six torches, in memory of the six millions murdered in the Shoah.

A ceremony attended by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will be held at 8:00 pm at the Massuah Amphitheater in Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak. Veteran Israelis who arrived to Israel on the ship Exodus will light up the Torch of Revival.

At 10:00 am Thursday a siren will be heard throughout the entire country and Israelis will stand in absolute silence and attention for two minutes. Immediately following the siren, wreaths will be laid at the foot of the memorial for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

The annual ceremony ‘Unto every person a name,’ during which the names of Holocaust victims are read aloud, will begin at 10:30 at Yad Vashem and at the Knesset.

Zanne Farbstein was 16 years old when she was deported with her two younger sisters to Auschwitz. While working as a slave laborer, Zanne found her father’s prayer shawl while sorting through the clothing of the prisoners who had been murdered in the camp. Zanne survived Auschwitz , and moved to Israel with her few surviving family members, where she began a new life. Click below to hear Zanne tell you in her own words about her experience:

A Survivor Remembers

In Jewish homes around the world tonight, a 24 hour memorial candle will be lit in memory of the six million who perished at the hands of the Nazis. You are most welcome to join us.

May they never be forgotten and may their memory be forever blessed.

This article Thou Shalt Not Forget, reprinted with the kind permission of The Lekarev Report.