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28 March 2024
27 March 2024
Parshas Tzav: Learning About Korbonos Is Like You Brought Them.....Only if You Pray
Rabbi Glatstein Parshas Tzav — Korbonos
The Rabbi and Yehonatan (4)
Jonathan Pollard on the Palestinian Authority
War on U S small farmers – Coming to Homesteading soon
OREGON URGENTLY SHUTS DOWN SMALL FARMS EN MASSE “To Protect The People"
Guest post by Leo Hohmann
War on food is spreading in U.S. through land-use restrictions, geoengineering and waves of propaganda
Remember, it really is all about depopulation
- The World Economic Forum warned us several years ago that its ultimate goal was to destroy the middle class. How else would you explain their slogan: “You will own nothing and learn to like it“?m
- This mantra is playing out in real time in the state of Oregon, and other states, in various forms which we will get into in this article.
- Small farmers are under attack in the Beaver State, which has begun shutting down family farms throughout the state under the guise of water conservation and groundwater protection.
- The owner of Yanasa Ama Ranch shared a 20-minute video explaining what is going on in Oregon as bureaucrats erroneously classify small family farms and homesteads as “concentrated animal feeding operations,” or CAFOs, in order to shut them down. Any feeding area that has a concrete, rock or gravel floor falls into this category, which would include most small dairy or egg farms.
- If you have two or three milking cows, the rancher explains, you are now targeted by the state for closure.
- The rancher further explains in the video:
- “The state of Oregon has effectively shut down small farms and market gardens on a large scale, and they’re actually sending out cease-and-desist letters to farms and they’re using satellite technology to find their victims and send them these letters that say you can’t operate.”
26 March 2024
Haredi Birrur: New Haredi Draft Bill
Can Israel survive on only the frum Zionist religious boys being the ones to go to the army. Yo cannot put someone else is child in jail for not serving, while leaving other free. It would never work and Israel will become a volunteer army.
In a certain way this is a greater danger to Israel then Gaza.
AGAIN Time To Call Out American Democrats as AntiSemites!!
Arab Sharpshooter Who Killed 1, Wounded 6 in Binyamin Was US Trained
According to Wiki, in 2007, the United States Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC) began training PA Security Forces including the Palestinian National Security Forces, and the Presidential Guard, to establish 10 highly trained PA battalions by the end of 2010. Since then, US security assistance to the PA has expanded and received high praise.
25 March 2024
Kiddush - Dovy Meisels, Moshe Kraus, Yiddish Nachas קידושא רבא - דובי מייזעלס, משה קרויס, אידיש נחת
Yoitza Gevain - Based on a true story | יוצא געווען
ALL Yeshivos and Kollelim Should Do What They Did in Sura and Naharda’eh
(see note at conclusion)
Create Dignity and Greater Respect From Am Yisrael
The Pageant In The Mesivta
You know that in Bavel there were great Mesivtos, great yeshivos
where the chachomim gathered to study and to teach. There was a Mesivta
in Sura where Rav was, and there was another Mesivta in Naharda’eh
where Shmuel lived; two big Mesivtos that were the center of the Am
Yisroel. And there were other Mesivtos too that functioned in Bavel.
But the Mesivta wasn’t a place where you just learned Torah and
heard shiurim. It was a very interesting experience, the Mesivta.
Everything was done with a procedure. They used to march into the beis
medrash at the beginning of the session; the chachomim marched in first,
and then the talmidim marched in behind them, and everyone took his
place; each one of the chachomim had his particular place. And there
were designated people who would make the announcement, “The
chachomim are coming in now; they’re entering into the Mesivta.” It was
mamish like a pageant; that’s how they opened up the Mesivta.
Babylonian State Of The Union
And not only in the beginning of the zman; every day was like that. It
was done with a certain panoply, like in a royal tribunal, with certain
procedures, formalities and announcements. Like in the Congress l’havdil
or in a king’s palace; it was done with the greatest kind of ceremony. And
we should ask ourselves: What was this for? Why all the fanfare?! Why
couldn’t they just get busy with learning already? Isn’t that what they
came for? It wasn’t the State of the Union address after all; it was a
yeshivah! And they didn’t do this once a year; it was every day!
And the answer is that this pomp and the ceremony was vital for an
understanding of the place of the Torah in the Am Yisroel.
In the midbar, where they all saw the Mishkan, and they all knew that
hidden inside, in the room that Hashem chose to reside in, was the luchos
and the Torah, so the entire nation lived with a tangible understanding
that it was the study of the Torah that was the core function of our people
– everybody was learning in kollel, and there was no question in anyone’s
mind that limud Torah was the function of our people. But in order to
keep that fire of kavod haTorah alive forever and to understand the
centrality of the Torah to our nation, the nation had to see with their own
eyes the glory of Torah. And so the Mesivta functioned with the
prominence it deserved and the Am Yisroel learned that the aristocracy
of our people were the ones who were studying the Toras Hashem in the
beis medrash.
The Great Kiddush Hashem
In Bavel they also established the Yarchei Kallah together with the
Mesivta. Twice a year there was a yarchei kallah, a kiddush Hashem of
remarkable proportions. You know they were almost all farmers in Bavel,
so when the farming season was over, two months a year, tens of
thousands of people came to the Mesivta. The town was overflowing with
Jews. They slept on the streets, on the roofs, and in cellars, and they were
learning all the time. The entire month they were learning Torah. And the
chachmei haTorah were there to test them, to see if they knew it!
Everybody was learning the same thing – it was a scene to behold – they
were all learning the same mesichta and the chachomim farherred them.
And it wasn’t little children we’re talking about; these were adults,
men in their forties and fifties, older than that too, men with families.
From where did this fire of dedication to Torah come? How could a nation
of so many different personalities: workers, wise men, simple folk,
intellectuals, rich and poor alike all humbly submit themselves before the
chachmei haTorah?
And the answer is that it wasn’t something that began in Bavel;
it was already engraved on our souls from the Dor Hamidbar.
The same way the Dor Hamidbar submitted themselves before
Moshe Rabbeinu, the Am Yisroel continued that practice always.
And therefore there was always a tremendous outpouring of
Torah learning, a tremendous demonstration that Torah is
everything for the Am Yisroel. We are always a nation of
Torah learners
Time To Call Out American Democrats as AntiSemites!!
Leave our Settlers alone!
(JNS) —This week, the United States sanctioned another three Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria, accusing them of “undermining peace, security, and stability in the West Bank.”
The new sanctions also apply to the farms owned by two of the three sanctioned men, as the U.S. State Department claims the properties are serving as bases from which the accused are perpetrating “violence against Palestinians.”
The United States has blacklisted a total of seven Israelis pursuant to U.S. President Joe Biden’s Feb. 1 Executive Order 14115, which states that financial sanctions can be applied to individuals in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) who are seen as “undermining stability” and “prospects of peace.”
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem would not confirm the sources or methodology used to determine who falls under the EO. In response to a query by JNS, an embassy spokesperson said: “We gather information from a variety of carefully vetted partners, on-the-ground reports, and other sources of credible information. We cannot comment on all the specific sources of information used to come to these designations.”
However, while the embassy would not comment on its sources, Israeli investigative journalist Elchanan Groner of the Hakol HaYehudi news site recently told Israel’s Channel 14 news that the sanctions are, in fact, based on statistics compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is known to gather an immense amount of data on “settler-related violence.”
OCHA says its information “is collected from a variety of sources, including municipal authorities, Palestinian District Coordination Offices (DCO), U.N. agencies, human rights organizations and media reports.”
Among these so-called “human-rights organizations” are extremist E.U.-funded Israeli anti-settler groups such as B’Tselem, Yesh Din and Physicians for Human Rights.
On Nov. 1, OCHA released an article claiming that “Israeli settler violence has increased significantly, from an already high average of three incidents per day in 2023 to seven a day” since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre. “During this period, OCHA recorded 171 settler attacks against Palestinians,” the report states.
However, a position paper published by the Samaria Regional Council takes OCHA’s research methods to task.
According to the council’s research, “The U.N. falsely generates defamatory ‘settler violence’ content—which mass media and world leaders then mistakenly use as ‘data,’” by:
• Conflating extensive violence against settlers with rare violence by settlers, referring to both together as “settler-related” violence.
• Ignoring the fact that the “vast majority” of Palestinian deaths attributed to “settler violence” were killed by Israeli security forces during counter-terror raids.
• Distributing “settler violence” content without proof—the “handful” of cases in which settlers are accused of killing Palestinians are still under investigation.
OCHA itself actually confirms some of the council’s claims.
In a website section titled “data on casualties” featuring OCHA’s statistics on both Israeli and Palestinian fatalities, the category labeled “Incidents involving Israeli settlers” notes that these include “Palestinians killed or injured during attacks or alleged attacks they perpetrated against Israeli settlers.”
According to OCHA’s figures, from Oct. 7 to Jan. 17, there were nine Palestinian fatalities caused by “settler violence.”
However, according to Naomi Linder-Kahn, director of Israeli NGO Regavim’s International Division, all nine of those deaths occurred in the context of deadly attacks carried out by Arabs against Jews.
“The settler-violence narrative has been years in the making, and fell like ripe fruit into the wrong hands as the United States is in the throes of an election cycle that has been hijacked by extremism,” said Linder-Kahn.
“For years, key [George] Soros-funded anti-Israel groups have established bases of operation in illegal Palestinian outposts in Area C [of Judea and Samaria], and continue to use them to launch provocations against Israeli forces and Jewish communities,” she continued. “They turn on the cameras when those under attack defend themselves and frame the incident as ‘settler violence,’ but a careful read of the U.N.’s data leaves no room for doubt: Israelis acting in self-defense against terrorists are included as ‘settler violence.’”
According to Linder-Kahn, “The ultimate goal of this blood libel is to delegitimize not only the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria, but the moral underpinnings of the Israel Defense Forces and by extension of the entire State of Israel.”
According to data collected by Israel, incidents of settler violence in Judea and Samaria have actually dropped significantly compared to last year.
At a meeting of the Knesset Subcommittee for Judea and Samaria last week, Cmdr. Avishai Mualem of the Judea and Samaria District Police said, “Since Oct. 7, there are statistics showing a 50% decrease in Jewish nationalist crime versus last year—270 from the start of the war until today, versus 527 last year.”
Moreover, Mualem added that while there has been an increase in the number of complaints accusing settlers of violence, many of those complaints were fraudulent.
“Since the start of the war there has been an increase in the number of cases and complaints by Palestinians and anarchists; 191 cases were opened, of which 90 proved to be false complaints, in the southern Hebron hills sector,” he said.
“Most of the complaints are deliberate [actions] by radical left-wing organizations situated in Tel Aviv,” he continued. “In the Jordan Valley sector, we are talking about 70 incidents, of which 50% percent proved to be false complaints.”
‘Time to put an end to this lie’
Knesset member Tzvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism Party), who chairs the subcommittee, told JNS that “the far-left extremist organizations spread false accusations against the heroic settlers, and in the United States, unfortunately, they listen to them and impose sanctions on the settlers. … It is time to put an end to this lie.”
According to investigative journalist Groner, citing OCHA data received by Michael Wolfowicz, a criminologist from the Hebrew University’s School of Law, from 2016-2022 there were 5,656 acts of violence carried out by settlers against Palestinians.
“However,” he said, “when you dive into all of the subcategories and details … you see that Arab attacks against Jews are also counted as settler violence.”
Thirty percent of the events documented by OCHA as “settler violence” didn’t even take place in Judea and Samaria, but rather in Jerusalem, and involved no actual violence, according to Groner. For instance, 1,300 incidents of Israeli Jews or tourists visiting the Temple Mount were labeled “settler violence,” he said.
“Newspapers all over the world are claiming a 300% increase in settler violence, but you have to understand this is another U.N. blood libel, because on the other side of this campaign, this same agency [OCHA] studies acts of violence by Palestinians against Israelis, and there they do the opposite, that is, they reduce [the numbers] tremendously.”
According to Groner, between 2016-2022 OCHA claimed that there were only 1,935 attacks by Arabs against Jews in Judea and Samaria, but according to the IDF in just half that period, from 2019-2022, the true figure was 25,257.
He said that breaking down the figures, there were 20 reported incidents of Jewish violence against Arabs, compared to 1,000 attacks by Arabs against Jews over the same period. Furthermore, only about 35% of the reported incidents of Jewish violence actually describe events involving settlers and violence.
“This is just a blood libel,” he reiterated. “They [OCHA] do the same thing when it comes to the IDF, accusing the IDF of killing [Arab] children.”
https://vinnews.com/2024/03/25/us-sanctions-israeli-settlers-but-wont-reveal-its-sources/
A Lechem HaPanim Purim Story
Maud, the secretary of the Chief Rabbi of the Beit HaMikdash knocks furiously on her employer's door.
"Rabbi, sorry to disturb you but it's urgent! We just received this Aleph-mail over the RuachHakodeshNet from our chief spy in Rome. It seems that Titus has really got his tights in a knot this time and he is headed our way with more than a million centurions".
"Oy vey, cancel all my appointments for today and order a Uber-donkey. I need to pay an urgent call on what's their face … I keep forgetting their name … Grima, Gremlin, Groomer … You know who I mean, those guys who make the Lechem HaPanim?"
"You mean Garmu!"
"Yes, that's what I said … the Garmus. Call them by messenger pigeon to say that I am on my way!"
One hour later in the Lishkat Osei Lechem Hapanim …
"Kevod HaRav, what an honor. To what do we owe the pleasure? Was there something wrong with last week's batch? A little too overdone perhaps? Not enough poppy seeds?"
"No, nothing like that. I want you to pull out the Lechem HaPanim recipe from the computer, the encrypted, secret one and hand it over. I am on a mission from G-d!"
"Is Kevodo referring to THE secret encrypted recipe, the one encoded in "https (Halachic Teshuva Top Priority Shita) protocol? The one that is classified FOEO (for our eyes only)?"
"Yep, that's the one. I need it pronto!"
"But Kevodo, you know that we are forbidden to disclose it to anyone who doesn't have clearance and, we are sorry … but you do not have clearance!"
"Clearance Shmearance, I am the Chief Rabbi of the Beit HaMikdash and I don't have all day! Do you know who is headed our way? Titus, yes TITUS, the one with tinnitus and he is only coming with a million centurions!!!!!!"
"Im kol hakavod to Titus, you may be on a mission from G-d, but we have explicit orders from Moshe Rabbeinu himself not to disclose the secret recipe to anyone!"
The Chief Rabbi's face starts to turn a darker shade of purple.
"Look, you either hand it over this minute, at the very worst … Aleph-mail it to me by attachment by midday, or you are all FIRED!"
"We are truly sorry you feel that way Rabbi (thinking to themselves: It seems it is not only Titus who has his tights in a knot today), but unfortunately we cannot oblige".
"Right, pack your stuff and accompany security to the door. As of now you are all on early pension … without severance pay!"
The Chief Rabbi thinks to himself "What am I going to do now?" Suddenly he has a brainwave "I know!" He sends a carrier pigeon to his secretary with the message "Contact Ahmed el Salim bakery in Alexandria <stop> Tell them to charter the fastest Arabian stallions and hightail it to Jerusalem by week's end <stop>".
Three days later …
"How you doing Ahmed? The reason I summoned you so urgently, is because you guys make the best chocolate eclairs I have ever eaten and we have a situation here … We need you to replace the Grumblers and start reverse engineering the Lechem HaPanim. Failing that, we know you are expert hackers and if anyone can crack the Grummies 'https' password, it's you!"
The following morning, Ahmed et al. rolls up to Lishkat LechHem HaPanim bright and early with all their paraphernalia and set about trying to reverse engineer the famous Showbread.
Later that evening … the Chief Rabbi checks in to gauge their progress.
"Here you go el-Rabi – one perfect loaf of Lechem HaPanim!" Ahmed gushes.
"Lechem Al HaPanim you mean! Look at that deep crack on the left flank. And what is that mould I see forming underneath?"
"OK fellahs. Back to the drawing board", sighs a despondent Ahmed.
After a week, with no progress on the baking front and total failure in cracking the Garmus' https password, the Chief Rabbi is left with no choice.
"Listen guys, it was a good try, but I think you should stick to eclairs. BTW leave me a box before you go. Here are 1000 dinars for your trouble!"
Munching a chocolate éclair …
"Maud, cancel all my appointments for today and order another Uber-donkey. I am headed to Downtown Old-City".
The Chief Rabbi knocks on the Garmu family's door, proffering a box of chocolate eclairs (minus one).
"Kevod HaRav, what an honor. To what do we owe the pleasure? BTW, you have a small chocolate smear on your left cheek".
"Look guys, perhaps I was a little hasty. Please accept this small gift as a token of our appreciation. As it turns out, nobody can bake the Lechem HaPanim as well as you do, so I wanted to know your terms to return to work!"
The Garmu's mull it over for a few minutes …
"OK Kevodo, we agree to return to work, but on two conditions. 1. You double our salary and 2. You tell us where we can get more of these chocolate eclairs".
"No problem", the Chief Rabbi sighs in relief. "But promise me one thing. If you will not divulge the secret, at least print it out and seal it in a time capsule, you know, like in the Nicholas Cage movie, and bury it at these coordinates …"
Two weeks later, as expected, Titus trundles into Jerusalem and makes a beeline for the Heichal. As he enters, the fragrant aroma of freshly baked bread hits him in the face.
"Bread? Who eats bread these days? I was expecting at least chocolate eclairs, like those in the Pompeii Pumpernickel Poulangerie. Oh well guys – ransack the place!"
Meanwhile, the Garmus are just filling in the hole over the time capsule that they buried at coordinates 32.1716° N, 35.0975° E as instructed by the chocolate-éclair-loving Chief Rabbi.
Fast forward 1954 years, Tu Bishvat.
An ex-South African baker, together with his kids, are digging a hole in the backyard to plant a mango tree. Suddenly the shovel strikes something hard, with a metallic sound …
And that is how it really happened.
Purim Sameach
Eliezer Meir Saidel
Machon Lechem Hapanim