Israel and The Sin of Expulsion
The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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Kassam Rocket Lands Near Sufa Crossing in Southern Gaza
Arabs Attack IDF Patrol [Near Gaza Fence]
Kassams Hit Building Near Kibbutz Nahal Oz
IAF Strikes Kassam Rocket-Launching Cell; No Word on Casualties
Two Kassam Rockets Strike Open Areas Near Sderot; None Wounded
Two Kassams Hit Western Negev; No Wounded or Damage
IDF Arrests 23 Wanted Terrorists [Including 14 in Shechem]
Rocks Hit Israeli Car in Samaria [Between Klkiya and Shechem]
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“I say, We’ve been punked”
Commentary;
No, Phillies pitcher Kyle Kendrick is not the only one getting “punked.” Rav Ovadia and all of the Jews are getting “punked” daily .
It looks as if Israel National News has picked up on this blog’s assertion that Shas has now totally sacked it’s solemn promise “to quit if talks begin regarding Jerusalem.” Apparently, Yishai and his politicians have overruled their Torah Leader and their Torah Sages.
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Commentary;
Eli Yishai and the Shas party are looking more foolish, inept and incapable by the day.
Yishai has repeatedly promised to topple Olmert and his coalition the moment that they begin trying to bargain away Yerushalayim. R’ Ovadia Yoseph has mandated this promise.
Despite all of Ehud Olmert’s deceit and broken promises, Shas continues to remain in the Olmert government.
Now we find Yishai making a grievously ridiculous statement;
“…If negotiations on Jerusalem continue, Shas will immediately leave the government.”
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Five Rockets at Israel, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Negev Roulette: Rocket Strikes near Ashkelon Coast
Kassam Rocket Lands Near Sderot; None Wounded
Chicken Coop Damaged as Kassam Rocket Lands Near Ashkelon
IDF Troops Kill Palestinian Gunman Who Approached Gaza Fence
Seven Rocket Attacks, One Injured in Sderot Attack
Excerpt;
“A woman was lightly injured, apparently after tripping as she ran for cover. Eleven people were treated for shock.”
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Commentary;
Is R’ Ovadia hearing all the facts about the magnitude, gravity and danger inherent in Olmert and Livni’s secret talks with Abbas and Qurei? Or are they hiding, distorting or misrepresenting the facts? MB
Leading Sephardic Rabbi to Shas: Tell Your Leader the Truth! by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
“We hear daily… from reliable sources that construction in Jerusalem has been stopped, and that [the government] has already (secretly) sold to the enemy many communities around Jerusalem.”
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Commentary;
Will a Gaza conflict be a replay of Olmert’s 2006 summer Lebanon conflict? Has Israel’s military strategy of winning a war and vanquishing an enemy sworn to our destruction, so degraded in recent years to the point of fighting a conflict with the goal being introduction of international forces with their record impairing and further degrading Israel’s military capability as well as degrading Jewish national sovereignty? MB
IDF Exit Plan: Gaza Invasion Will Bring Multinational Force, by Yaakov Katz (Jerusalem Post)
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Soldiers Arrested 80 Terrorists in Gaza
Three More Kassams Fired from North Gaza
Five Kassam Rockets Land in Israel, Gaza, Causing No Casualties or Damage
Kassam Hits Near Sderot Preschool
Terrorist Rocket Lands in Merchavim
Related report; Kassam Hits New Area; Residents
‘Unprepared’
Gazans Fire Two Kassams, No One Hurt
IDF Arrests 16 Wanted Terrorists
Galilee Arabs Pelt Bus with Rocks
Arabs Attack Cars in Shomron, None Wounded
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For many years, since 1991 when Parsha Ki Tisa marked my son Philip’s Bar Mitzvah, I have spoken or written about a posuk in our Parsha which alludes to an event which took place 40 year later, in a subsequent Parsha.
The posuk being referred to (Sh’mos, Perek 30, posuk 30)says that while Moshe Rabbeinu was on Har Sinai being given Torah, Hashem said, “You shall anoint Aaron and his sons and sanctify them to minister (to serve) me.”
This seemingly obscure posuk which pops up in a couple of slightly different forms in both Parsha Tetzaveh and in our Parsha raises a challenging question which cuts to the chase of what we are facing today. The question is; what about that Pinchas Ben Elazar? Why was he not anointed as a Kohen with his brothers?
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Commentary;
Is there a Divine message in the large hole opened on the Temple Mount by Friday’s earthquake? MB
Israel Earthquake Damages Only Temple Mount and Shechem, by Ezra HaLevi (Israel National News)
Excerpts;
An earthquake shook Israel at 12:37 PM Friday. The only damage reported in Israel was on the Temple Mount and near Shechem (Nablus).
The earthquake measured 5.3 on the Richter scale; its epicenter was located in northeastern Lebanon. Earlier last week a quake measuring 4.1 was felt in northern Israel, also originating from Lebanon, near its northern city of Tyre.