Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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The concept of promoting learning all night on Shavu’ot L’Zechut Jonathan Pollard came about as an enlargement of this author’s concept of devoting one Thursday night Mishmar per month L’Zechut Jonathan, and out of a recognition that the long-established policy of current and successive previous Israeli governments of forsaking Jonathan is impervious to earthly efforts to affect pressure on his behalf to bring about change in this now long-standing policy.
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Commentary:
Jonathan Pollard, as a Jew and employed by the Defense dept. in the early 1980s, became aware that the US was in violation of treaty agreements with Israel which bound the US to supply Israel with vital intelligence. Although knowing that he could be prosecuted and imprisoned, he felt compelled as a Jew, l’Shem Shamayim, to provide Israel with this important intelligence.
Let me emphasize that Jonathan provided Israel with this vital information without remuneration, out of love for his fellow Jew and for the Jewish people.
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Gaza-Trained Terrorists Arrested in Egypt
Call to Barak: Destroy Illegal Arab Structures
IDF Arrests Five Terror Suspects in Yesha [Near Tulkarm, in Shechem, Near Ramallah, in Hevron]
Israeli Injured by Arab Rock Throwing Near Hevron
IDF Fires on Terrorists in Samaria [Near Shavei Shomron]
Report: One Wounded in Shavei Shomron Incident [Attackers Threw Molotovs at Israeli Motorists]
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Please Note: The author of the Israel and the Sin of Expulsion Blog has set up a special group on Facebook called: Bring Jonathan Pollard Home and urges everyone on this Parsha HaShevua list to join the group. Further, this author urges all of you to dedicate your Shavu’ot night learning L’Zechut Jonathan Pollard — Yehonatan Ben Malka.
With Shavu’ot always being during the week of Shabbos Parsha Naso, and this year with Shavu’ot coming on the night of yom shi’shi and Shabbos following directly after, there are various common threads between Shabbos Parsha Naso and Chag HaShavu’ot. There is the thread of national unity projected by the Kohanim as expressed in the Birchat Kohanim, the thread of diversity and unique expression within the 12 repetitions of the same offering brought by the Sh’vatim at the inauguration of the Mishkan and the thread regarding the importance of caring for the Ger Tzeddik.
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Palestinians Fire Mortar Shell at Southern Israel [Sha’ar Hanegev Region]
Excerpt:
“Gunfight took place near one of the border crossings where Israel allows… humanitarian aid into the territory.”
Egypt Catches 14 Infiltrators at Israeli Border
Rock Attacks on Jewish Vehicles Near Hevron
IDF Arrested Six Terror Suspects in Yesha [Near Ramallah, Near Bethlehem, Near Hevton]
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Kassam Rocket Hits Storeroom in Backyard of Sderot Home
Israeli Vehicle Damaged in Stoning South of Hebron
IDF Arrests 9 Terror Suspects [in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hevron]
Egypt Holds Suspect in Schalit Kidnapping
Samarian Rock Attacks [Between Arab town of Funduk and Kedumim]
Rock Attack [by Bedouins on Freight Train] in Nevatim [in Negev]
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Terrorists Fire on Soldiers Near Gaza Border
Palestinian Killed [in Work Accident] as Smuggling Tunnel Collapses
Arabs Set Off Explosives [Near Fence at Beit Hanoun] in Northern Gaza
Israeli Bus Pelted by Stones While Traveling Near Hebron
Alleged Lebanese Spies [for Israel] Flee to Israel, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)
Jerusalem Police Nab 11 [Arab] Minors Suspected of Vandalizing Jewish Graves
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As has been this author’s norm of late, the Parsha HaShevua for the next Shabbos is prepared on the previous Motsei Shabbos. And so, when preparing the Parsha HaShevua for last week’s parshiyot Behar and Bechukotai, this author did not have the benefit of a vort written by Moshe Feiglin entitled “The Easy Way to Heaven on Earth”, easily the most concise and to-the-point vort I’ve seen on on the Blessings and Curses enunciated in parsha Bechukotai.
Feiglin’s words seem in accord with a vort Rav Malinowitz spoke last year on Shabbos Bechukotai regarding the Tochocha, the rebuke about the perils of complacency, i.e. such things as always bringing something new; a new perspective, a new understanding regarding how the commentators and commentaries view any given point of Torah. And thet seem, as well, in accord with a vort this past Shabbos by Rav Malinowitz where he speaks of always learning, always growing and reaching beyond the bare minimum of doing mitzvot.
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Commentary:
IMRA’s (Independent Media Review Analysis) Dr. Aaron Lerner cites this MEMRI report in which Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki is cited; If Israel leaves Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria it will collapse. The full direct quote from Zaki states:
“With the two-state solution, in my opinion, Israel will collapse, because if they get out of Jerusalem, what will become of all the talk about the Promised Land and the Chosen People? What will become of all the sacrifices they made – just to be told to leave? They consider Jerusalem to have a spiritual status. The Jews consider Judea and Samaria to be their historic dream. If the Jews leave those places, the Zionist idea will begin to collapse. It will regress of its own accord. Then we will move forward.”