How to Bind the Lulav Bundle Guide for Sukkot The Ushpizin Holiday Havdalah  Start with laying the poles down 1) Start with laying the poles down An example of the wall. When you have the walls up wrap the walls with 3 rows of rope on the bottom of the walls. An example of the wall. When you have the walls up wrap the walls with 3 rows of rope on the bottom of the walls. Isru Chag-Sukkot Don’t forget to put away all the bags that the Sukkah parts were in. You will need then for Isru Chag-Sukkot. |
 side poles snap into the columns. Don’t forget the center beam. 2) side poles snap into the columns. Don’t forget the center beam. The walls slide into the Top and Bottom Rows. Tie the walls to the frame tightly so that the wall will not move in the wind. 3) The walls slide into the Top and Bottom Rows. Tie the walls to the frame tightly so that the wall will not move in the wind. Next put the Bamboo poles on the top using plastic clips and put the schach on top of the Bamboo poles. 4) Next put the Bamboo poles on the top using plastic clips and put the schach on top of the Bamboo poles. When you have the walls up wrap the walls with 3 rows of rope on the bottom of the walls. 5) When you have the walls up wrap the walls with 3 rows of rope on the bottom of the walls. |
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 The Succah decorations. You can put up lighting and have Tables, chairs, beds ect. |
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 The Succah decorations. You can put up lighting and have Tables, chairs, beds ect.
Safety tips for SukkotUnited Hatzalah emergency medics present safety guidelines for the upcoming Sukkot holiday, to prevent injuries during sukkah-building. The season for building Sukkot has just begun and United Hatzalah volunteers have already treated dozens of injuries that occurred while people were building Sukkot. The Spokesperson’s department has therefore issued a series of basic safety tips for the holiday. When building a Sukkah one should always be careful when standing or climbing in high places. It is recommended to use proper safety gloves so as to avoid injuries to the hands. Make sure that ladders are stable and being held by a second person. It is strongly recommended to work in pairs if not larger groups so that one person can ground the ladder properly and call emergency services should an accident occur. It is imperative to keep all nails, screws and tools away from the reach of small children. When lighting candles for Shabbat or the holidays, be sure to keep them in a safe location, not near flammable materials, out of the wind, and also out of the reach of small children. Keep the candles on a special platform that won’t burn such as a metal or glass tray and keep them away from the walls of the Sukkah or any flammable decorations. Eli Beer, Founder and President of United Hatzalah explained that: “In previous years United Hatzalah volunteers have treated dozens of injuries due to people falling off of ladders during the building and decorating of Sukkahs. Some of these instances, unfortunately, have resulted in fatalities and serious injuries. We ask the public to take extra care this year while building, residing in and taking down their Sukkahs. Our volunteers will be on hand at all times during the holiday to provide care for any and all who need it. We wish you and all of Israel a happy and healthy holiday.” |
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 Torah Tidbits 1291 Sukkot5779 pages 31 guests p1 |
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The UshpizinBy Yanki Tauber https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4485/jewish/The-Ushpizin.htm Who and What Are the Ushpizin“Ushpizin” is Aramaic for “guests,” a reference to the seven supernal guests, “founding fathers” of the Jewish people, who come to visit us in the sukkah (the branch-covered hut in which we eat our meals throughout the festival of Sukkot), one for each of the seven days of the festival:
Translated into English, the word “ushpizin” loses some of its mystery and otherworldliness. Yet these “guests” are indeed quite mysterious (at least until we learn more about them) and otherworldly (at least until we make them part of ours). We use the Aramaic term because our source of information about these mystical guests is from the Zohar, the fundamental Kabbalistic work written in that mystical language. Sukkot GuestsGuests are an important part of the Jewish home all year round—there were even Jews who would never partake of a meal in their own home unless there was at least one guest, preferably a needy wayfarer, with whom to share it—but especially on Shabbat, and even more especially on the Jewish festivals (Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, etc.). On the festivals, there is a special mitzvah (divine commandment),
“You shall rejoice on your festival” (Deuteronomy 16:14), and, our sages explain, the only true joy is shared joy. Indeed, the verse in full reads: “You shall rejoice in your festival—you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, the Levite, the stranger, the orphan and the widow who are within your cities.” In the words of Maimonides (Mishneh Torah, Laws of the Festivals 6:18): “When one eats and drinks, one must also feed the stranger, the orphan, the widow and other unfortunate paupers. But one who locks the doors of his courtyard, and eat and drinks with his children and wife but does not feed the poor and the embittered soul—this is not the joy of a mitzvah, but the joy of his belly . . .”
If guests are integral to festival joy, they are even more so to Sukkot. Sukkot is the festival of Jewish unity; in fact, the Talmud states that “it is fitting that all Jews should sit in one sukkah.”2 If this is logistically difficult to arrange, it should, at the very least, be implemented in principle. We cram as many guests as possible into our sukkah, demonstrating that we fully intend to implement the Jewish communal sukkah to the full extent of our ability, each in our own domain. There is even a story told about a certain chassidic master who, because he lacked a guest, the Patriarch Abraham refused to enter his sukkah (why Abraham was there—more on that later). The Kabbalah of the UshpizinAnd so we come to the ushpizin. As we fill our sukkah with earthly guests, we merit to host seven supernal guests. While all seven ushpizin visit our sukkah on each of the seven nights and days of Sukkot,3 each supernal “guest” is specifically associated with one of the festival’s seven days, and is the “leading” or dominant ushpiza for that night and day.4
The Kabbalists teach that these seven leaders—referred to in our tradition as the “seven shepherds of Israel”—correspond to the seven sefirot, or divine attributes, which categorize G‑d’s relationship with our reality, and which are mirrored in the seven basic components of our character (man having been created “in the image of G‑d”).
As each supernal “guest” graces our sukkah, he empowers us with the particular quality that defines him. This is the deeper reason that they are called the “shepherds of Israel,” for like a shepherd who provides nourishment for his flock, these seven leaders nourish us their spiritual essence: Abraham feeds us love; Isaac, self-discipline; Jacob, harmony and truth; and so on.
And while these seven great souls are our “shepherds” all year round, the seven days of Sukkot are a time when their presence in our lives is more pronounced and revealed. As we enter the “temporary dwelling” of the sukkah, freeing ourselves from the dependence we developed on the material comforts of home and hearth, we are now in a place in which our spiritual self is more revealed and accessible. In this place the ushpizin visit us, empowering us to connect the seven dimensions of our own soul’s “divine image” with its supernal source in the divine sefirot, feeding, nourishing and fortifying our spiritual self for the material year to come. The seven sefirot, or divine energies, we are fed by the ushpizin are:
Chronologically, the order would be: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron and David; in many communities, the ushpizin are welcomed into the sukkah in the order in which they historically lived upon our earth. However, when aligned with the supernal sefirot (divine attributes) which they embody and represent, Joseph, who represents the sefirah of yesod, follows Aaron, who represents hod. Talmud, Sukkah 27b. This can be compared with the fact that each sefirah incorporates within it elements of all seven. In the Jewish calendar, the day begins at nightfall and extends to the following evening. Thus, Shabbat begins Friday evening at sunset and ends at nightfall on Saturday; the same is the case with the festival. Thus, Abraham is the leading ushpiza for the first night of Sukkot and the day that follows, Isaac graces our sukkah on the second evening of the festival and on the following day, and so on. By Yanki Tauber |
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How to Bind the Lulav BundleChabad.org Staff https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1019429/jewish/How-to-Bind-the-Lulav-Bundle.htm
In order to beautify the mitzvah, we fasten together the lulav, hadassim and aravot (palm frond, myrtle branches and willow branches). For those who’ve never done it before, binding the lulav can be a bit tricky. In most cases, your Four Kinds vendor will do this for you.
 A lulav-leaf holder Though technically one can bind them together with any material, the custom is to use lulav leaves—thus no foreign substance will separate between the Four Kinds and the hands of the person fulfilling the mitzvah. There is no single universally followed way of tying the lulav. Different methods are employed in different communities.  aravot-willow In most communities, the three kinds are bound together by way of a special holder woven of lulav leaves, which slides up the bottom of the lulav and has pockets for the hadassim and aravot. This holder is then securely tied to the lulav with a strip of lulav leaf. The hadassim should be placed in the pocket to the right of the person holding the lulav (as he will be shaking it on Sukkot), and the aravot to the left. The thickish green exterior of the lulav’s spine should be facing the person. |
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 Lulav-leaf rings  Hadassim-myrtle It is customary to have three lulav-leaf ring ties around the lulav, symbolizing our three Patriarchs. As such, in addition to the ring with which the holder is fastened, (at least) another two rings are fastened around the lulav’s midsection. Chabad CustomChabad custom is to bind the lulav on the day prior to the holiday, while in the sukkah.
In addition, Chabad custom is not to use the woven holders, but rather to tie the hadassim and aravot directly to the bottom of the lulav using three lulav-leaf strips (all bound within the span of one handbreadth): |
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 A lulav bound according to Chabad tradition A lulav bound according to Chabad tradition. One aravah (willow branch) is placed on the right of the lulav (meaning, to the right of the person holding the lulav, as above) and one on the left. Then, one hadas (myrtle) is placed on the right of the lulav and one on the left (somewhat covering the aravot), and a third hadas is placed in middle—a bit towards the right side. Once these are all in place, they are all bound together with the three lulav strips.
(Many have the custom of using more than three hadassim. In 1991, the Rebbe suggested that everyone use at least six hadassim. The extra hadassim are just added to the mix.)
Then, in addition to the three lulav ties that hold together the three species, another two ties are fastened higher up, around the midsection of the lulav itself—with the lower one covered, at least partially, by the hadassim and aravot.
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Guide for Sukkot“You shall dwell in booths for a seven-day period so that your generations will know that I caused the Children of Israel to dwell in booths when I took them.”Breslev Israel staff | Posted on 05September2023 https://breslev.com/259022/ “You shall dwell in booths for a seven-day period…So that your generations will know that I caused the Children of Israel to dwell in booths when I took them from the land of Egypt.” Overview of the HolidayOne of the three pilgrimage festivals that the Jewish people were commanded to celebrate each year is Sukkot – the Festival of Booths, which lasts a week from the 15th to the 21st of Tishrei (and in the Diaspora until the 22nd). The first day is a Yom Tov, and the rest of the 7 days are known as the Intermediate Days of the Festival. (A separate Festival –Shemini Atzeret or Simchat Torah – immediately follows Sukkot on the 8th day, the 22nd of Tishrei in Israel and on the 23rd in the Diaspora).
The source in the Torah is in Vayikra (23:34-35,41): “On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Booths, a seven day period for Hashem. On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work…You shall celebrate it as a festival for Hashem, a seven-day period in the year, and eternal decree for your generations; in the seventh month shall you celebrate it.”
Dwelling in the sukkah (booth) is an integral part of the Festival. During the week we spend more time in the sukkah than in our house. It is an uplifting spiritual experience to live in the sukkah, and a quality family time as well.
The Sefer Chinuch (the Book of Education, which explains the 613 Mitzvot (Commandments) according to their Biblical source) writes concerning the mitzvah of dwelling in the sukkah: “One of the roots of the mitzvah is explicit in the Torah: In order that we should remember the great miracles that G-d made for our forefathers in the desert during the Exodus from Egypt. He surrounded them with the Clouds of Glory so the sun wouldn’t harm them in the day and the frost at night. Some explain that we commemorate the actual booths that the Children of Israel made in the desert.”
Even though the Exodus was in the month of Nissan, we weren’t commanded to make the sukkot in Nissan, because in the balmy days of Nissan farmers are accustomed to leave their homes and enjoy themselves in the shade of booths outdoors. It wouldn’t be so obvious that we are making the sukkah as a mitzvah of Hashem. During Tishrei, however, when the nights are cold and the rainy season is about to begin, farmers return to their homes. When we do the opposite, leaving our homes and dwelling in a sukkah, we are demonstrating that the purpose of the sukkah is the mitzvah of Hashem.
Sukkot falls in the harvest season, a time of plenty, when the farmer brings his produce into his silo. A man naturally feels haughty when he is wealthy, and thinks: “My strength and the might of my hand have made this wealth.” To counteract our tendency to arrogance the Torah commands us to leave our houses filled with the abundance of wealth in the harvest-time and to dwell in a sukkah. All a man needs for happiness is G-d’s protection symbolized by the sechach (the leafy covering over his head in the sukkah); even in the flimsy, temporary booth he can be full of joy in appreciation of what G-d has given him.
The Midrash says: “Why do we build the sukkah after Yom Kippur? Because on Rosh Hashanah G-d judges the entire world, and on Yom Kippur the judgment is sealed. Perhaps the Jewish people are obligated to go into exile? Therefore they make a sukkah and exile themselves from their homes to the sukkah.” Living in the SukkahThe sukkah should be made as beautiful as possible. Our Sages said: “Glorify Him with the mitzvot. Make a beautiful sukkah, beautiful lulav, etc. As it says: ‘This is my G-d and I will glorify Him…’” It’s a mitzvah for a person to attend to building the sukkah himself.
The Torah instructs us to live in the sukkah the way one would live in his home. The sukkah becomes his place of residence for the seven days of Sukkot. He should eat all his meals and entertain guests there. One should sleep in the sukkah even if he only needs to nap. Building the SukkahThe walls of the sukkah can be built from any material: wood, plastic, metal or stone; it must be sturdy enough to be immovable in an ordinary wind. For this reason, walls made of fabric are problematic and might render the entire sukkah as unkosher. The Dimensions of a SukkahA sukkah has at least three walls. The walls may not be elevated off the ground more than 3 tephachim (24 cm.) so that a small animal can’t crawl inside. The height must be more than 10 tephachim (80 cm.) but less than 20 ama (9.60 meters). The width of the walls must be at least seven tephachim (56 cm.). Sechach (Leafy “Roof”)After setting up the walls, one places the sechach (the leafy covering that provides shade) as the roof, using thin, narrow boards, placed horizontally on top of the walls to support it. Many people use tree branches, palm fronds, or bamboo; specially prepared bamboo mats are available. The principal explained in the Oral Law is that the sechach must be something which has the following characteristics:
A sukkah may not be built under tree branches that make shade over the sukkah. The amount of sechach should be enough that the shade provided by the sechach in the sukkah is more than the sunlight that passes through, but not so much that no stars can be seen at night through the sechach, or that rain could not penetrate The Four Species (“Arba Minim”)The Torah states (Vayikra 23): “You shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of a citron tree, the branches of date palms, twigs of a plaited tree, and brook willows; and you shall rejoice before Hashem your G-d seven days.”
The Sefer Chinuch (the Book of Education) says:
“One of the roots of this mitzvah is that a man is affected by the actions that he does continuously, his ideas and feelings follow his actions. Because G-d wanted to bring merit to His Chosen People, He gave them many mitzvot so they would be affected beneficially by performing them daily.
“The Festival is a time of joy for the Jewish people, since it’s the harvest season, when they bring the fruits of their labor into the home and people are naturally happy. G-d commanded them to make a Festival at that time, so they will have the merit that their joy and happiness can be dedicated to His Name. Joy may cause a person to be drawn after materialism and forget his fear of Heaven, so the Creator commanded His people to take items in their hands to remind them that all their joy should be dedicated to His Name and His honor. He wanted these reminders to be items that bring joy, just like the time of year, and it is well known that the four species are naturally endowed to bring joy to the heart of man when he gazes upon them.
“Furthermore, the four species resemble precious organs of a human being:
The mitzvah of the four species teaches us that we must seek to bring all the Jewish people closer to their Father in Heaven, no matter how distant they may be. We find in the Midrash that each one of the four species symbolizes a different type of Jew:
What does G-d do with them? To destroy them is unthinkable. Rather G-d says, ‘Bind them together in one bond and they will atone for each other.’”
The Midrash teaches us that even those that have no taste or scent – neither Torah nor good deeds – must not be distanced; rather we are to bind them together with the species that have a scent so they will absorb the good scent. In this way we must reach out to our estranged brothers and bring them close to the Torah scholars, who have both “taste and scent,” and the scholars will have good influence upon them until they come to resemble the Etrog themselves, possessing Torah and good deeds.
The mitzvah of the four species can only be fulfilled if all the four are held together simultaneously. The Jewish people are the same, even though we are so different from one another, we must always be unified. “You Shall Rejoice on Your Festival”On all Holidays we are commanded, “You shall rejoice on your Holiday,” but on Sukkot the joy is doubled and tripled, “And you shall be only joyous.” In our prayers we call the Festival of Sukkot “the time of our rejoicing.” We are enjoined to show our rejoicing by eating meat and drinking wine, wearing fine clothing, dancing, singing and laughter.
On the other Festivals we rejoice because of a specific historical event, such as the Exodus on Pesach or the Giving of the Torah on Shavuot. But on Sukkot, simcha (joy) is the essence of the Festival. Therefore the mitzvah to rejoice on Sukkot is very great. We must rejoice in truth, with all our heart. We rejoice that we have G-d, we’re happy for the connection we have with Him with all our being. We’re happy He cares for us like a father cares for his beloved child. Ushpizim – Exalted GuestsThe Zohar HaKadosh writes: “When the People of Israel leave their homes and enter the sukkah for the sake of G-d’s Name, they merit to welcome the Divine Presence there, and all the seven shepherds descend from Gan Eden and come to the sukkah as their guests.” The seven shepherds include the Patriarchs of the Jewish people who wandered from exile to exile and attained rest only after great toil and travail.
It is customary, upon entering the Sukkah, to invite the ushpizim to enter by reciting the traditional Aramaic formula contained in the prayer book:
Among the Sephardim, it is customary to prepare an ornate chair in the sukkah, which is covered with a fine cloth and upon which holy books are placed. The host declares: “This is the chair of the ushpizim.”
Since the sukkah is a dwelling for the Divine Presence and the exalted guests, it is proper that one also invite guests of flesh and blood, i.e., poor people, to share one’s meals in the sukkah, to please his Heavenly guests.
The sukkah is the dwelling place of the Divine Presence, so one must be careful not to speak meaningless conversation in the sukkah, certainly, even more so, he must avoid slander and gossip. Rather one should focus on words of Torah. One should behave in a very honorable way in the sukkah so as not to drive away the Divine Presence. Names of the FestivalThe Festival has a number of names:
The Pilgrimage to JerusalemSukkot is one of the three Festivals in which the Torah commands the People of Israel to go up to Jerusalem, to the Holy Temple, and to offer special sacrifices. The three Festivals are Pesach (Passover), Shavuot, and Sukkot. Today many are accustomed to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem to commemorate this mitzvah.
The three Pilgrimage Festivals are connected to working the land:
Hoshana RabaThe Hoshana prayers are recited in the Synagogue each day of Sukkot as we circle the bima (lectern) holding the lulav and etrog. These prayers are for redemption, and are referred to as Hoshanot because each stanza of the prayer is accompanied by the word “hoshana” – a combination form of the words “hosha” and “na” – bring us salvation, please. The seventh day of Sukkot is called Hoshana Raba – literally, the great Hoshana, because on this day more Hoshana prayers are recited than any other day in Sukkot.
Hoshana Raba marks the day when the judgment, which begins on Rosh Hashanah, is sealed. At the beginning of the period, on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the entire world passes before G-d in individual judgment. On Sukkot, the world is judged concerning water, fruit, and produce. The seventh day of the Festival, Hoshana Raba, is the day that this judgment is sealed. Because human life depends on water and all depends on the final decision, Hoshana Raba is invested with similarity to Yom Kippur and is marked by intense prayer and repentance.
We find in a Midrash: G-d said to Avraham: “I am one and you are one. I will grant your descendants one single day on which they can atone for their sins – Hoshana Raba.
The Mateh Moshe explains that G-d told Avraham that should Rosh Hashanah be insufficient to atone for their sins, then Yom Kippur will atone. And if Yom Kippur does not, then Hoshana Raba will.
Why was this promise made specifically to Avraham? Avraham’s light began to illuminate the world after twenty-one generations [counting from Adam]. Similarly, even if Israel’s light is late in shining, it will not be delayed for more than twenty-one days after Rosh Hashanah – i.e., on Hoshana Raba.
The custom is to remain awake all night on Hoshana Raba and to read from a special Tikkun. The essential character of the day is prayer and the awakening of Divine mercy at the time of the sealing of judgment and the issuing of “notes of decision” – the verdicts. This is the source of the custom of wishing one another a pitka tava – Aramaic for a “good note.”
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While most people put up sukkahs, police are taking them downTwo sukkahs, at least one of which had engineering permits, dismantled by police in Jerusalem.Arutz Sheva Staff, 19September2021 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/313737 The sukkah in Meah ShearimJerusalem municipality This year, however, police claimed that the sukkah lacked the requisite permits and that it posed a threat to the safety of the public. No objections were raised, and the sukkah was taken apart. The night before, however, an hours-long standoff resulted after over 200 police officers arrived in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem in order to dismantle the sukkah belonging to Rabbi Moshe Bransdorfer. This sukkah, too, has been built in the same fashion for years. It extends from a second-floor apartment and is supported on iron scaffolding, and according to accounts provided to Behadrey Haredim, it had been approved by none less than the Jerusalem Municipality’s own choice of engineer. Nonetheless, several private individuals and a medical clinic situated near the sukkah complained to police, who in turn claimed that the sukkah was a public hazard. “The sukkah was built on high scaffolding and posed a real risk to life and property, while harming passersby and the public using the medical center located there, which even filed a complaint to the municipality,” the police stated. The saga began last Tuesday, when police made their first visit to the sukkah and a spontaneous protest erupted. Eventually, Rabbi Bransdorfer came to an agreement with police and the municipality, according to which the sukkah would be dismantled by his family the next day. Apparently this did not occur, and the municipality then offered an alternative site for the sukkah. The offer was accepted, but then representatives of Rabbi Bransdorfer appealed to the court for a stay of execution of the demolition, which was not granted. The case was due to be heard in court on Sunday, but police decided to take action on the Saturday night preceding, and arrived in huge numbers, prepared for the fierce protests that indeed erupted. Police arrived with trucks and cranes, raided the adjacent building, evacuated everyone from the sukkah and the apartment, and then began to demolish the structure. According to attorney Shreiber, representing Rabbi Bransdorfer’s family, several of the claims made by those demanding the demolition are false, including a claim made by the health clinic that the sukkah blocked access to it, which is blatantly untrue as photographs showed. In addition, the sukkah obtained the approval of two engineers and was built according to the engineers’ instructions, including protective fencing placed around the scaffolding. “Every single year, engineers inspect the sukkah and the same was true this year,” one source told Behadrey Haredim. “The sukkah complied with the most stringent safety measures. But due to pressure from social media, the municipality decided to issue a demolition order regardless.” |
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Holiday HavdalahBy Naftali Silberberg Holiday havdalah can be divided into two categories: 1) Havdalah recited at the conclusion of a holiday. 2) The special havdalah recited on a holiday which falls on Saturday night. Havdalah is made when entering a day of lesser holiness. Since Shabbat is holier than all the holidays, we recite the havdalah when Shabbat leads into a holiday. Following the same logic, havdalah is not recited if a holiday leads into Shabbat. Havdalah at the Conclusion of a Holiday
Havdalah is recited at the conclusion of the following biblical holidays: Rosh Hashanah; Yom Kippur; the first days of Sukkot; Simchat Torah; Passover, both its first and last days; and Shavuot. If the final day of the holiday was Shabbat, then the exact same havdalah procedure as a typical Saturday night is followed. If the holiday ended on another weeknight, the procedure is very similar to the Shabbat havdalah, but with some differences:
Havdalah From Shabbat to a Holiday (“Yaknahaz”)Whether a holiday begins on a Saturday night or if Saturday night ushers in the second day of a holiday, that night’s holiday kiddush incorporates within itself the havdalah for Shabbat as well. The whole text of the kiddush/havdalah can be found in your standard or holiday prayer book. The following is the basic procedure:
Note: There are many activities which are forbidden on Shabbat but permissible on a holiday. All such activities must wait until one verbally “separates” between Shabbat and the holiday. This, however, does not have to wait for kiddush/havdalah, as a special havdalah themed insert, the Vatodi’enu paragraph, is inserted in the Amidah of the night’s prayers. Alternatively, one can say: “Baruch hamavdil bayn kodesh likodesh” — “Blessed is the One who separates between (the) holiness (of Shabbat) and (the) holiness (of the holiday).” Rabbi Naftali Silberberg is a writer, editor and director of the curriculum department at the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. Rabbi Silberberg resides in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Chaya Mushka, and their three children.  Havdalah Blessing for Motzei Shabbat and Yom Tov Click to Enlarge |
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Israel features in 11 categories in the Condé Nast Traveler’s 28th annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Jerusalem, El Al, and select Eilat, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv hotels were chosen as among the world’s best in their different travel groupings.
Jerusalem was named as one of the Best Cities in the World.
“Long a place of religious pilgrimage for Christians, Jews and Muslims, Jerusalem is now drawing a different sort of pilgrim: the global traveler. In addition to its significant sacred and religious sights, the city boasts modern architecture, a cutting-edge light-rail transit network, and a growing number of notable restaurants,” reads the blurb on why Jerusalem ranks 11th in the readers’ survey.
“Head to the Israel Museum for an exploration of the country’s culture, and stop for a bite at Machneyuda for authentic Mediterranean cuisine.”
Jerusalem scored 84.715 out of 100. …
El Al was given an overall rating of 74.030 out of 100….
And Israeli hotels in Eilat, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were honored for their luxury and service. ..
“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
― Golda Meir
Source/Notes: As quoted in: Midstream; a monthly Jewish review, Volume 25 (1979), p. 58
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Jewish women’s group: Time to leave US
Lori Palatnik of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project thinks it is time for Jews to send their kids to live in Israel.
By Gil Ronen 1/28/2016, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207203#.Vrv3zT_ANTA
When do we leave?
Author and Jewish educator Lori Palatnik, Founding Director of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP), has come to the conclusion that Jews living in the United States need to start packing and move to Israel.JWRP’s flagship project is Momentum, an “eight-day transformational experience in Israel.” However, in a video uploaded last week, she seemed to be updating her vision, from one in which US Jews visit Israel, to one in which they relocate there permanently.
She explained that after 9/11, she started reading about “the end of days,” and asked “a very great” rabbi – “when do we leave?”
He said that the time to get out was when “they start killing Jews in the street.”
Unfortunately, she said – this is precisely what is already happening in France and New York. She said that it is time for Jews to start sending their children to Israel before them, if they are not ready to leave themselves.
JWRP was founded in 2008 by eight women in the Washington DC area with the goal of “chang[ing] the world through Jewish women.”
Now partnering with Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, JFRP plans to bring 6,000 women from 20 different countries to the Jewish state in the next two years.
Terror orphan Sarah announces huge wedding
Sarah-Tehiya Litman, who lost her father and brother Friday, invites all of Israel to her wedding.
By Gil Ronen ה׳ כסלו תשע״ו – 2015/11/16 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/203513#.VkvgwIThlTB
Sarah-Tehiya Litman
Sarah-Tehiya Litman, 21, whose father and brother were murdered by terrorists on Friday, and who was supposed to get married to Ariel Bigel on Tuesday, has announced that the wedding will only be postponed by nine days – and that the entire nation of Israel is invited. The wedding will be held at Binyanei Hauma in Jerusalem.
The invitation-announcement is preceded by the phrase – “Do not rejoice over me, my enemy, for I have fallen but I have gotten up” (Michah 7:8).
“This evening, instead of wearing the bridal dress, I will sit on the floor with a torn shirt,” Sarah told the newspaper Yediot Aharonot Tuesday. “But very soon, we will marry in a large and happy wedding. We will go on and be happy as Father and Netanel always were. We will not be crushed.”
“This will be the million-person wedding,” the couple said. “Multitudes will come to make us happy.”
Her groom-to-be Ariel, said Sarah, has become a father for her orphaned siblings before he became a husband. “Now he will fill the space left by my father and brother. My angel in white has a difficult mission.”
Am Yisrael Chai outside of wedding
Wedding hall too crowded? Thousands at wedding of bereaved couple sing and dance anyway.
By Arutz Sheva Staff ט״ו כסלו תשע״ו – 2015/11/27 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/204023#.Vlfz-YTANTA
The wedding of Sarah-Tehiya Litman, whose father and brother were murdered in a drive-by shooting near Hevron, and Ariel Beigel was attended by thousands of people who accepted the couple’s invitation for the general public.
In fact, so many people were in attendance that the hall was too crowded to allow any more people to go in. That, however, didn’t stop the many guests who showed up to break out in song and dance outside the hall.
‘The Jews Will Not be Driven from Jerusalem’
Daniel Luria of Ateret Cohanim calls on Jews around the world to fill the Old City of Jerusalem in response to latest terror wave.
Hezki Baruch 12.10.15 https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/201738
“The Jews will not be driven out of Jerusalem,” Daniel Luria, Executive Director of Ateret Cohanim told Arutz Sheva on Sunday, as he visited a communal tent of mourning for Rabbi Nehemia Lavi, who was murdered by a terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem last week, along with 21-year-old Aharon Banita Bennett.
“The Arab world thinks that they can drive us out, but not violence, not terror will take away one Jew from here,” he declared.
“We are doubling our efforts to make sure there is more Jewish life here,” Luria continued. “We are calling on the Jewish world to walk along these streets. The Jewish world has to understand that Arab terror and incitement will not drive us out of here.”
“Now is the time to actually come to Israel,” he said, calling on Jews “not to be scared of Arab terror because that’s handing them a victory.”
Arab Doctors Suspected of Ignoring Jewish Terror Victims
16october2015 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/201984#.ViCwqqfhlTA
Health Minister Ya’akov Litzman (United Torah Judaism) ordered an investigation on Friday to check suspicions that Arab medical staff at a clinic in Jerusalem’s Old City did not go out to help Jewish victims, who were stabbed right next to the clinic.
The incident in question is the brutal murder of Aharon Banita Bennett (21) and Rabbi Nehemia Lavi (41), which took place on Hagai Street on October 3. Bennett’s wife was seriously wounded and his two-year-old son was lightly wounded in the Arab terrorist >attack.
While Bennett’s wife’s condition has since improved, it is likely that immediate medical treatment could have lessened the seriousness of her wounds and possibly saved the life of her husband and of Rabbi Lavi, who was stabbed as he came to try and save the young couple and their son.
The Arab-run health clinic located adjacent to the stabbing was open at the time of the attack and medical staff was present inside, reports Channel 2.
However, the Arab medical team did not go out to provide treatment to the wounded, despite their occupational obligations to treat the wounded, just as Magen David Adom (MDA) medics treat Arab terrorists at the scenes of attacks.
The Health Ministry is currently checking whether the medical staff could have helped the wounded and chose not to.
Minister Litzman ordered to speed up the process and mete out justice against those responsible if it becomes clear that they indeed ignored wounded Jewish victims in the lethal attack.
The suspected response of Arab medical staff falls in line with the response of Arab residents, who mocked Bennett’s wounded wife as she tried to escape the attacker and seek help. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has asked to shut down the stores belonging to the Arabs who laughed at the terror victim and struck her.
Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance ignored terror victims
Teen wounded in attack near Hevron directed emergency team to the scene; Red Crescent ambulance ignored them.
By Ari Soffer 11/14/2015 ב׳ כסלו תשע״ו – http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/203371#.VkvwBIThlTA
The family members of an Israeli father and son shot dead in front of them as they drove in Hevron were able to direct emergency services to the site of the attack while still under fire.
40-year-old Rabbi Ya’akov Litman and his 18-year-old son Netanel were murdered in the attack, which also left Ya’akov’s wife and several of his children injured.
A car with a Palestinian Authority license plate overtook the family, who were traveling to a pre-wedding celebration, and opened fire. After the victims’ car ground to a halt one terrorist exited his vehicle and fired several more bullets into the prone car, before all the attackers quickly escaped. IDF forces are currently conducting an extensive search for the culprits.
Incredibly, the 16-year-old victim wounded in the attack managed to call emergency services as the attack took place, and informed them of the precise location even while shots were still being fired. Responders say he was lucid throughout
“We are about a kilometer after Otniel – they shot at our car,” he said.
When the operator asked him “in what direction?” he responded: “Heading south. There is a (Palestinian) Red Crescent ambulance here, we have two casualties. There are seven of us in the car.”
The operator then asked him to clarify the condition of the wounded. “One is wounded in the head,” he answered, at which point his attention was distracted and he broke off – apparently due to the fact that the Palestinian ambulance he had spotted sped away instead of attempting to aid the wounded.”There is a Red Crescent ambulance here, but he’s driving away from us – I don’t know why,” the teen said.
“I want you to give me details,” the operator responded. “We are dispatching forces and in the meantime I want to know if they will be enough.”
The teenager then informed the hotline that another ambulance was approaching, as the operator continued to ask him for more details – which he managed to answer without faltering.
His last words to the operator were: “The ambulance driver is coming out.”
Without being academic, the war against the West was dramatically declared back in 1979 when Khomeini, residing in France, returned to Iran with the assistance of Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski, an academic steeed in Multicultural Moral Relativism, as may be seen in a book he co-authored with Harvard University Professor Samuel Huntington, Political Power USA/USSR. This book took academia by storm in 1963. The book went through eleven printings in ten years. Morover, its influence extended to academics in Israel, such as Prof. Y. Harkabi, the mentor of Shimon Peres, the champion of the disastrous Oslo or Israel-PLO Agrement of 1993. This agreement continues to undermine Israel, since the model of Oslo is none other than the policy of detente between the USA and the USSR advocated by Brzezinski, until Ronald Reagan put an end that deadly charade. Needed in America and in Israel is another Reagan to put an end to the serial mendacity operating in both countries, thanks very much to academics tainted by moral relativism.
Without being academic, the war against the West was dramatically declared back in 1979 when Khomeini, residing in France, returned to Iran with the assistance of Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser, Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski, an academic steeed in Multicultural Moral Relativism, as may be seen in a book he co-authored with Harvard University Professor Samuel Huntington, Political Power USA/USSR. This book took academia by storm in 1963. The book went through eleven printings in ten years. Morover, its influence extended to academics in Israel, such as Prof. Y. Harkabi, the mentor of Shimon Peres, the champion of the disastrous Oslo or Israel-PLO Agrement of 1993. This agreement continues to undermine Israel, since the model of Oslo is none other than the policy of detente between the USA and the USSR advocated by Brzezinski, until Ronald Reagan put an end that deadly charade. Needed in America and in Israel is another Reagan to put an end to the serial mendacity operating in both countries, thanks very much to academics tainted by moral relativism.
ISIS and the Denial of Israel as the God-Bearing Nation
Prof Paul Eidelberg
י״ד כסלו תשע״ו – 2015/11/26
Multicultural moral relativism or moral equivalency has ever flourished in Israel’s secular universities. Martin Buber put it quite simply: “There is no scale of values for the [world-historical] function of peoples. One cannot be ranked above another.” (Israel and the World, 223.)The German-educated Buber derived his moral equivalency (or denial of trans-historical truths) from Hegel’s historical relativism.
It is in this light that we are to understand why Israel’s most influential Hebrew University professor and his colleague, Dr. Judah Magnes (the university’s first president), favored a bi-national Arab-Jewish state in the land of Israel. Thus, in 1947, they declared in a joint statement:
Notice that Buber and Magnes purvey each of these three theological claims to the Holy Land as self-justifying. This is cultural relativism or egalitatianism They tacitly and dogmatically deny the possibility that the Jewish claim might be more valid than that of Christianity or of Islam.
But surely they knew that in the past 2,500 years, none of the peoples or nations that conquered or occupied the Land of Israel – whether Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Seleucids, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Seljuks, Fatimids, Latin Crusaders, Mamluks, or Turks – ever established a national dominion or functional capital in this unique land. Indeed, if not for this (providential) fact, the Jews could never have returned to Eretz Israel.
Moreover, surely a scholar of Buber’s repute knew that Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Qur’an. Juxtaposing this fact with the paramount significance of Jerusalem in Judaism, and given Buber’s and Magnes’ own admission that “Islam regards Jerusalem as next in holiness to Mecca and Medinah,” one would think they would assert the priority of the Jewish claim over that of Islam and Christianity.
Furthermore, it is a plain fact that no state other than Israel has any legal claim to this land – a claim affirmed by the 1920 San Remo Conference, which incorporated the Balfour Declaration. Yet Buber, speaking also for Magnes, displayed monumental ignorance (or timidity) by saying: “We regard the historical rights of the Jews and the natural rights of the Arabs [based on their presence on the land] as … of equal validity …” (emphasis added) [i]
These scholars were either ignorant of the decisively significant 1920 San Remo Conference, or the decision of that international conference was trumped by their subjective ideological attachment to the cultural relativism and moral equivalency instilled in them by German philosophy (and still discernible in PM Netanyahu’s two state solution!).
Buber conveyed this moral equivalency in his statement that one nation can’t be ranked above another. Evident here is the timid, morally neutral (or “politically correct”) attitude of an academic influenced by the German school of historical relativism. In reality, however, every great nation does indeed rank itself above others, at least until its educators become cultural or historical relativists.
Contrast Dostoevski: “If a great people does not believe that the truth is only to be found in itself alone …; if it does not believe that it alone is fit and destined to raise up and save all the rest by its truth, it would at once sink into being ethnographic material. A really great people can never accept a secondary part in the history of humanity, nor even one of the first, but it will have the first part. A nation that loses this belief ceases to be a nation.”
Buber’s moral equivalency or cultural egalitarianism denies the election of Israel as the “light unto the nations.” This denial permeated the mentality of those who founded the modern State of Israel and its secular universities. They accepted, uncritically and dogmatically, the historical and democratic relativism that has dominated the modern era, in consequence of which they harbored no exalted view of Israel as the truth- or God-bearing nation.
This degraded and weak-willed view of Israel amounts to intellectual and moral bankruptcy, and it has sullied every Israeli Prime Minister since Oslo 1993. I will go even further: Oslo represents a monumental denial of evil, the evil rooted in Islam, whose worshipers have slaughtered tens of millions of non-Muslims since Muhammad.
Today the evil rooted in Islam has been magnified by ISIS. Islam via ISIS is the only significant political force in the Middle East. This dismal fact corresponds to the Oslo legitimization of the barbaric Muslims called the “Palestinians.” It represents the abysmal failure of Israel’s intellectual and political leaders, who failed to represent Israel as the God-bearing nation.
[i] See “Arab-Jewish Unity: Testimony before the Anglo-American Inquiry Commission for the Ihud (Unity) Association by Judah Magnes and Martin Buber (London: Victor Gollancz, 1947), 12-14, 50. See, also, Martin Buber (ed.),Towards Union in Palestine (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972), 7-21.
Ottoman Empire Map 1299 – 1918
Synagogue safety instructions released for Jerusalemites
23october2015 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/202348#.VioqgqfhlTA
The Jerusalem Municipality has published safety instructions for people attending synagogue this Friday/Saturday, following a full month of terror attacks throughout the capital.
Among the guidelines:
Police stressed that the Jerusalem Chief Rabbinate was consulted prior to the guidelines’ release, and that the instructions were published with the Rabbinate’s consent.
Suing Facebook – Disconnecting Terror
http://israellawcenter.org/pr/suing-facebook-disconnecting-terror/
Israeli non-profit – Shurat HaDin – is recruiting the Israeli public to a lawsuit against Facebook for incitement and encouragement of violence against Israelis.
One of the significant characteristics of the current terror wave is the incitement on the social media networks, headed by Facebook.
This is much more than just sharing anti-Israel song lyrics set to Eyal Golan music and anti-Semitic cartoons. This incitement consists of the Facebook pages of many young Palestinians who inflame their friends to embark on terrorist attacks, provocative videos glorifying and encouraging terrorist attacks, instructions for terrorists “How to Carry out a Terrorist Attack” – all on Facebook.
What Starts Online, Doesn’t Stay There
The Court Of Justice Of The European Union Limits Free Speech
Tyler Durden 09November2019 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/court-justice-european-union-limits-free-speech
Authored by Judith Bergman via The Gatestone Institute,
The Court of Justice of the European Union
On October 3, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in a judgment that Facebook can be ordered by national courts of EU member states to remove defamatory material worldwide:
The ruling came after the Austrian politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, chairman of Die Grünen (The Greens) party, sued Facebook Ireland in the Austrian courts. According to the Court of Justice of the European Union:
The judgment has brought concern among free speech organizations. Thomas Hughes, the executive director of ARTICLE 19, a non-profit organization that works on “protecting the right to freedom of expression around the world,” said:
According to ARTICLE 19:
The judgment “undermines the long-standing principle that one country does not have the right to impose its laws on speech on another country,” Facebook commented in a statement.
The ruling “essentially allows one country or region to decide what internet users around the world can say and what information they can access,” said Victoria de Posson, senior manager in Europe at the Computer & Communications Industry Association, an industry group that includes Google and Facebook as members.
The judgment does indeed appear to be opening up a Pandora’s Box for the ever-shrinking space for free speech in Europe and potentially worldwide, although it is still unclear at this point, how the judgment might affect free speech worldwide.
Government efforts in Europe to censor free speech have long been ongoing: in Germany, the controversial censorship law, known as NetzDG, which came into effect on October 1, 2017, requires social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, to censor their users on behalf of the German state. Social media companies are obliged to delete or block any online “criminal offenses” such as libel, slander, defamation or incitement, within 24 hours of receipt of a user complaint. Social media companies receive seven days for more complicated cases. If they fail to do so, the German government can fine them up to 50 million euros for failing to comply with the law.
The new judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union, presumably, could mean that a German court could order what it deems to be illegal content, or its equivalent, under NetzDG to be removed in other EU member states that do not have a similarly draconian censorship law.
France is looking to adopt a similar law to that in Germany: In early July, France’s National Assembly adopted a draft bill designed to curtail online hate speech. The draft bill gives social media platforms 24 hours to remove “hateful content” or risk fines of up to 4% percent of their global revenue. The bill has gone to the French Senate. Again, if the bill becomes law, the judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union could mean that French courts would be able to demand that Facebook remove what the courts consider illegal content or its equivalent under French law.
The judgment from the Court of Justice of the European Union, in other words, appears to give EU member states unprecedented power to determine public discourse online — to determine what citizens can and cannot read. It naturally remains to be seen exactly how the judgment will be interpreted in practice by national courts of the EU member states, but the prospects now look even bleaker for the future of free speech in Europe.
Facebook supports Terrorists
Facebook In Turmoil: Employees In Uproar Over Executive’s Leaked Memo
by Tyler Durden Sat, 03/31/2018 – 08:50 https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-31/facebook-turmoil-employees-uproar-over-executives-leaked-memo
Facebook’s problems are just getting worse, and now investors can add worker morale to the (bucket) list of problems as the New York Times reports that employees furious over a leaked 2016 memo from a top executive seeking to justify the company’s relentless growth and “questionable” data harvesting – even if it led to terrorists attacks organized on the platform.
VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth – one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted executives, wrote that connecting people is the greater good even if it “costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies.
VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth – one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted executives, wrote that connecting people is the greater good even if it “costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies.
“Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”
On Friday, the fallout from Bosworth’s leaked memo – following several weeks of outrage over the company’s data harvesting practices, has Facebook employees in an uproar, according to The Times.
Facebook Someone Dies
One former Facebook employee, Alex Muffett, wrote on Twitter that Bosworth’s memo was a “significant” part of his decision to leave the company. “Between overwork and leadership direction evidenced thusly, I could never stay,” wrote Muffett.
“There are some amazing engineers working at Facebook, folks who care deeply about user privacy, security, and how people will use the code that they write,” Mr. Muffett said later in a message. “Alas this episode may not help” to achieve more transparent internal product discussion, he said.
Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China
[-https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-censorship-tool-china.html]
Meanwhile, Facebook is rapidly becoming radioactive, inside and out.
Jerusalem Cats Comment: If Facebook can develop software to suppress posts from appearing in people’s news feeds in specific geographic areas then it can stop terrorist from using Facebook for Terror.
In 1986, Muslim extremists kidnapped 4 Soviet diplomats in Beirut. Kidnappers demanded Moscow’s support for pro-syrian fighters in Levanon. As expected, Moscow ignored these demands. Kidnapper’s, in order to show that they were not kidding, killed one of the hostages. Moscow replied.. The KGB kidnapped a family member of one of the Hezbollah leaders. He was castrated and killed and the leader himself was sent a package containing body parts and a note saying that his other family members would recieve the same fate. The three remaining diplomats were immediately released.
In 1986, Muslim extremists kidnapped 4 Soviet diplomats in Beirut. Kidnappers demanded Moscow’s support for pro-syrian fighters in Levanon. As expected, Moscow ignored these demands. Kidnapper’s, in order to show that they were not kidding, killed one of the hostages. Moscow replied.. The KGB kidnapped a family member of one of the Hezbollah leaders. He was castrated and killed and the leader himself was sent a package containing body parts and a note saying that his other family members would recieve the same fate. The three remaining diplomats were immediately released.
The Mufti of Jerusalem, Al-Husseini was sought for war crimes but never appeared at the Nuremberg trials.
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We were ordered to close all חלון תריסים (Window Shutters) at night. Arab Snipers?
UNRWA incitement
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) employees are constantly on Facebook inciting the Arabs to kill Jews. Here is just one example. http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2015/10/unrwa-teacher-wants-her-kids-to-die-for.html#.VihIr6fhlTA 20October2015
UNRWA teacher Hiba Yassin’s Facebook page:”The #intifada of Ramadan” (meaning July 2014. Yes, UNRWA teachers were calling for a new intifada last year too,)
This is an ongoing battle with UNRWA and the UN on what they claim to do and the reality.
UNRWA suspends employees after UN Watch exposed incitement to anti-Semitic violence
22october2015 http://www.unwatch.org/unrwa-suspends-employees-after-un-watch-exposed-incitement-to-anti-semitic-violence/
י״ד מרחשון תשע״ו – 2015/10/26 Another disgusting incitement cartoon on @UNRWA teacher page
י״ה מרחשון תשע״ו – 2015/10/27 .@UNRWA uses Hamas human shield victim for fundraising and demonizing Israel
ט״ו מרחשון תשע״ו- 2015/10/28 .@UNRWA teacher posts “Stab the Jews” video
UNRWA teacher Najlaa Nojom lives in Bethlehem.
She recently shared this video, glorifying stabbing Jews, on her Facebook timeline.
ל׳ מרחשון תשע״ו – 2015/11/12 Elder gets results – and @UNRWA teachers are angry that they cannot post incitement and Jew-hatred
…It should be noted that some of the most influential leaders of the Palestinian resistance were teachers in UNRWA schools who were able to perform their work without any restrictions on political freedom, and they are active politically.
Netanyahu accurately describes the Mufti’s role in the Holocaust
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler December 1941
Haj Amin al-Husseini who was, in many ways, as big a Nazi villain as Hitler himself. To understand his influence on the Middle East is to understand the ongoing genocidal program against the Jews of Israel. Al-Husseini was a bridge figure in terms of transporting the Nazi genocide in Europe into the post-war Middle East. As the leader of Arab Palestine during the British Mandate period, al-Husseini introduced violence against moderate Arabs as well as against Jews. Al-Husseini met with Adolf Eichmann in Palestine in 1937 and subsequently went on the Nazi payroll as a Nazi agent. Al-Husseini played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in instigating a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in 1941 as he urged Nazis and pro-Nazi governments in Europe to transport Jews to death camps, trained pro-Nazi Bosnian brigades, and funneled Nazi loot into pro-war Arab countries.
On 20 November1941, al-Husseini met the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and was officially received by Adolf Hitler on 28 November.
Al-Husseini’s own account, as recorded in his diary, states that Hitler expounded his view that the Jews were responsible for World War I, Marxism and its revolutions, and this was why the task of Germans was to persevere in a battle without mercy against the Jews,
According to the official report of the meeting, on November 28, 1941, Adolf Hitler told Husseini that the Afrika Korps would “liberate” Arabs in the Middle East and that “Germany’s only objective there would be the destruction of the Jews.”
“SS leaders and Husseini both claimed that Nazism and Islam had common values as well as common enemies – above all, the Jews,” the report states.
In fall 1943, it says, Husseini went to the Croatia, a German ally, to recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS.
Der Grossmufti von Palästina vom Führer empfangen.
Der Führer empfing in Gegenwart des Reichsministers des Auswärtigen von Ribbentrop den Grossmufti von Palästina, Sayid Amin al Husseini, zu einer herzlichen und für die Zukunft der arabischen Länder bedeutungsvollen Unterredung.
9.12.41 Presse Hoffmann
These flags are flags of the Nazi Youth Organization “Hitler-Jugend”, regional branch of Palestine. The historical context to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini.”
To understand his influence on the Middle East is to understand the ongoing genocidal program against the Jews of Israel. Al-Husseini was a bridge figure in terms of transporting the Nazi genocide in Europe into the post-war Middle East. As the leader of Arab Palestine during the British Mandate period, al-Husseini introduced violence against moderate Arabs as well as against Jews. Al-Husseini met with Adolf Eichmann in Palestine in 1937 and subsequently went on the Nazi payroll as a Nazi agent. Al-Husseini played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in instigating a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in 1941 as he urged Nazis and pro-Nazi governments in Europe to transport Jews to death camps, trained pro-Nazi Bosnian brigades, and funneled Nazi loot into pro-war Arab countries.
On 20 November1941, al-Husseini met the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and was officially received by Adolf Hitler on 28 November.
Al-Husseini’s own account, as recorded in his diary, states that Hitler expounded his view that the Jews were responsible for World War I, Marxism and its revolutions, and this was why the task of Germans was to persevere in a battle without mercy against the Jews,
According to the official report of the meeting, on November 28, 1941, Adolf Hitler told Husseini that the Afrika Korps would “liberate” Arabs in the Middle East and that “Germany’s only objective there would be the destruction of the Jews.”
“SS leaders and Husseini both claimed that Nazism and Islam had common values as well as common enemies – above all, the Jews,” the report states.
In fall 1943, it says, Husseini went to the Croatia, a German ally, to recruit Muslims for the Waffen-SS.
12Octoberל׳ תשרי תשע״ו – 2015 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/201828#.Vh0vPqfhlTA
Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood; two Arab terrorists attempted to hijack a bus, butchering passengers with a large knife and a pistol in one of two near-simultaneous attacks in the capital Tuesday.Two people were murdered in that attack and more than a dozen others wounded, before the attackers were shot by border police, seen rushing to the scene in large numbers.One terrorist was killed and the second wounded and taken into police custody.In a separate attack, a terrorist murdered a 59-year-old rabbi near the Meah Shearim neighborhood. Terrorist Alaa Abu Jamal rammed his car into a bus stop and emerged with a knife, killing Rabbi Yeshiyahu Krishevsky and wound another person before himself being shot dead.Two other stabbing attacks by Arabs in Ra’anana left five people injured as well, in the first such attacks in the central Israeli city since the recent outbreak of Arab violence began.
The reaction:
Palestinian Murder of American-Israeli Poses Challenge to J Street
29October2015 http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/29/palestinian-murder-of-american-israeli-poses-challenge-to-j-street/ by Benyamin Korn”
The death of any Jew at the hands of Palestinian terrorists should make American Jewish organizations sit up and take notice. But the death of US Jewish peace activist Richard Lakin poses a special challenge to left-of-center advocacy groups such as J Street.
Lakin, 76, a retired Connecticut school principal, was a passenger on a bus in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, when two Palestinian Arab terrorists attacked with guns and knives on October 13. He passed away this week, from the injuries suffered in the attack. …
At the time of the attack, Lakin’s nephew, Joshua, told the Courant that his uncle “was active in a number of groups that sought peace between Israelis and Palestinians…’He just loves people, cares about people, and wants everybody to get along.’ ”
A terror victim’s politics shouldn’t matter. Groups that care about Israel should speak out for all terror victims, whether they are liberals or conservatives. But it is a fact of life that we tend to pay more attention when the victim is someone with whom we can personally identify.
Americans for Peace Now co-founder Leonard Fein was not outspoken on the issue of terror victims. But when Joan Davenny, whom he knew personally, was killed in a suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem in 1995, Fein broke his silence.
The Israeli government identified Abd al-Majid Dudin as having trained the suicide bomber who carried out that attack, and Israel asked the Palestinian Authority to hand him over for prosecution (as the Oslo accords require). The PA refused. Fein joined those calling on the Clinton administration to demand that the PA hand Dudin over for prosecution in the United States. The US government must “act firmly and promptly on this matter,” Fein wrote. Sadly, the administration did not his heed his plea. But he did the right thing.
Will the murder of fellow peace activist Richard Lakin spur J Street, Americans for Peace Now, and other left-of-center groups to follow Leonard Fein’s footsteps and speak out?
And not just speak out in general, vague terms — but ask for specific actions…
Armon Hanetziv: Suspicious man seen walking around, when stopped by police, stabbed officer. Shot dead.
Terrorist Rams Car Into Bus Stop On Malchei Yisroel Street In Geula, Then Exits With Ax And Begins Butchering Victims
This video is from a nearby security camera, is graphic, and viewer discretion is advised. Our decision to post this is compelled by the hope these images will travel the globe and the international community will realize what savage, blood-thirsty animals these Islamic terrorists are. – See more at: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/ywn-videos/351366/graphic-video-terrorist-rams-car-into-bus-stop-on-malchei-yisroel-street-in-geula-then-exits-with-ax-and-begins-butchering-victims.html#sthash.6M2sohpk.dpuf
This is what needs to be done to terrorist and their supporters!
look how there is little or no damage next door!
لحظة قصف منزل عائلة نوفل بصاروخ تحذيري يتبعه صاروخا F16 The moment of bombing the house of Nofal family, missile warning followed a rocket fired by a F16 (knock on roof Bombing technique Used by Israel in Gaza)
Journalist Stabs IDF Soldier
Terrorist
Disguised asJournalist Stabs IDF Soldier16October2015 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/202000#.ViECL6fhlTA
VIDEO Terror Journalism: Muslim Terrorist Disguised as a Journalist Stabs Israeli Soldier
By Pamela Geller on October 16, 2015 – See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/10/71835muslim-terrorist-disguised-as-a-journalist.html/#sthash.QQm8w8kg.dpuf
comment: How do we know he was not a reporter!
MSNBC’s Jihad Against the Jews: Airs Vicious Anti-Israel Propaganda
By Pamela Geller on October 17, 2015 – See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/10/msnbcs-jihad-against-the-jews.html/#sthash.MyxPUfbu.dpuf
MSNBC is notorious for its uber-left, sloppy “reportage,” but the Jew-hatred they have brazenly displayed covering the wave of jihad-terror in Israel is shocking.
Just yesterday MSNBC’s reporter in Jerusalem (Ayman Mohyeldin) was caught red-handed portraying a Damascus gate stabbing by a rabid “Palestinian” terrorist as an Israeli execution of an innocent Palestinian. What’s the difference between Ayman and the Muslim terrorist who, disguised as a journalist, stabbed an Israeli soldier? Very little.
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Time magazine’s problematic new Middle East bureau chief
08October2015 http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2015/10/time-magazines-problematic-new-middle.html#.ViEFC6fhlTA
Jared Malsin has just been named Time magazine’s Middle East bureau chief.
Malsin used to be editor at Ma’an, and he was denied entry to Israel after a vacation in 2010. The reasons given were, according to Ma’an:1) Refusal to cooperate, 2) Lying to border officials, 3) Reasons for arriving unclear, 4) Violated visa terms, and 5) Entered Israel by means of lies…
If you think it is safe outside of Israel:
כ״ב מרחשון תשע״ו – 2015/11/04 From Merced California
Knife Jihad at UC Merced: Faisal Mohammad identified as Muslim
כ״א מרחשון תשע״ו – 2015/11/03 From New York
Hatzolah Member Stabbed In Crown Heights On Eastern Parkway
Two People Stabbed In Random Attack On Brooklyn Subway – Suspect Arrested
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