Author: moshe

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Commentary;

MK Rabbi Avraham Ravitz and Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yonah Metzger have both spoken out against legalized sale of Hametz anywhere in Israel during Pesach. Rabbi Metzger went so far as to connect successive regimes’-sponsored decline [or disintegration] of Jewish values with decline in performance of reserve duty which the generals and commanders attribute to erosion of reservists’ value system.

Are the so-called “religious” parties, and their Rabbis, able to connect all the dots between legalized Hametz sale during pesach and the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif, the division of Jerusalem going on as we speak, attempts to evict the residents of Shalom House in Hevron and the contemplated eviction of 100,000 more Jews of Yesha disguised as bogus “peace” Talks? read more

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Kassam Lands Close to Greenhouse Near Ashkelon Beach; No Casualties

Report: Israel Proposes Gaza Ceasefire [Is Olmert Regime Begging Gaza Islamics for Hudna Like a Vanquished?]

Palestinians Throw Rocks at Israeli Car Near Bethlehem; No Wounded

IDF Arrests Three Wanted Terrorists [in Tulkarem]

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Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Commander Escapes IAF Strike; Seven Wounded

3 Hamas Terrorists Dead in Jabalya [Gaza Work Accident]

4 Mortar Shells Fired at Western Negev Kibbutz; None Wounded

IDF Convoy Comes Under Mortar Shell Fire [OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant’s Convoy Came Under Fire in fields of Kibbutz Nir Oz in the Western Negev], by Yaakov Katz, Amir Mizroch (Jerusalem Post)

Related report; IDF General Unhurt as Shell Lands Aside Him [20 Meters Away in Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha], by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News) read more

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by Moshe Burt

This year will mark thirteen years, and my tenth Pesach in Eretz Yisrael, in which I have emailed, as it has become tradition with me from prior to my Aliyah, the rendition of Dayenu quoted from the book “Dear Brothers.” In each year, Dayenu holds a unique perspective, unlike the perspective of any previous year.

And so, the lessons of Dayenu are vital now, just as they were in the first year that I emailed this vort out or, for that matter, as vital as they were when it was quoted in Segal’s compilation of the book in its copyright year 1988. read more