Wednesday Thru Shabbos, Sunday War News: Arab Rock and Molotov Attacks on Jewish Autos, Border Guard Unit; IDF Nabs Arabs With Knives, Molotovs; IDF Nabs 25 Terrorists, Attempted Arab Tractor Attack in Shvut Ami, 75 Arabs Nabbed in Uprisings

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Parsha Breish’t 5770: New Beginnings; The Never-Ending Torah

by, Moshe Burt

Somehow, not being rabbinic or a Talmud Chacham, it has always seemed difficult to put a true and deep meaning of Hashem’s creation to words and so a similar theme is struck with the end and the beginning of Torah.

In Hashem’s expression of creation; “Breish’t, Bora, Kelokim.” (“In the beginning, Hashem created the heavens and the earth”, (Sefer Breish’t, Perek 1, posuk 1) Torah surely wasn’t referring to that parody of Major League Baseball; you know the one, ‘In the big inning.’ read more

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A Prayer on Hoshana Rabbah for Jonathan Pollard

We learn that on Hoshana Rabbah, Hashem’s decrees upon all individuals, upon the Jewish people, and indeed on everyone in the entire world are finalized, as Rabbi Artscroll puts it, ‘delivered’ (Succot Machzor, page 645). Many Kehillot stay up all of Hoshana Rabbah night praying, saying Tehillim, learning in hopes that the finalized, ‘delivered’ decree upon us individually and upon Am Yehudi collectively, be for Tov in all things in the coming year.

At such an auspicious time, may all of us have our brother Jonathan Pollard — Yehonatan Ben Malka prominently in our hearts, thoughts, prayers and in mind in our actions — that Hashem see to his release and return to his brethren in this year — soon than later. read more

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The Little Booth Which Survives Tyrants of Every Generation

This Jerusalem Post feature piece by Yehuda Avner is outstanding in that it makes a statement reaching far beyond the story’s placement in 1936, reaching today and today’s issues, tyrants and blood libels — both internally as well as externally amongst our enemies, in essence, The Little Booth, the Jewish people which cleaves to Hashem and survives the tyrants of every generation:

Succot, 1936. The newly appointed German consul-general to Jerusalem, Herr Walter Doehl, stood at his office window hung with an extravagantly tasseled swastika banner, and gazed with curiosity at the sight of clusters of bearded Jews, all draped in prayer shawls and resplendent in the styles and furs of late-medieval Poland, entering and exiting a ramshackle foliage-thatched booth on the other side of the Street of the Prophets where his legation was situated, each clutching what seemed to him to be a lemon and a palm frond. read more

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Sunday Thru Tuesday War News: Gaza Arab Terrorists Fire At Israelis Near Border, IDF Responds, Gaza Arab Nabbed Attempting Infiltration; Arabs Riot, Stab, Throw Rocks in Jerusalem as Cache of Rocks Found, Arabs Stone Vehicles Near Kalkilya, IDF Nabs 4 Arab Terrorists

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Thursday Thru Shabbos Succot War News: Kassam Attacks, Continued Kidnap Incitement, IAF Hits Weapons Storage Building, Smuggling Tunnels; Arabs Riot After Temple Mount Closed, IDF Nabs 18 Islamic Terrorists

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Yom Kippur Thru Wednesday War News: Gaza Arab Rocket, Mortar Attacks Become Regular — Again, IAF Retaliates; 14 Terrorists Nabbed, Border Police and “Israeli Arabs” Nabbed Smuggling Illegals, Riots, Rock and Molotov Attacks on Jews in Yesha, Jerusalem

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Succot 5770: Moshiach, Redemption — Are We Programmed for Success or Failure?

by Moshe Burt

Having emerged from Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur and, hopefully we have all been inscribed and sealed for a happy, healthy, successful and meaningful year and years ahead, we find ourselves in the midst of Succot.

During Succot, the B’nai Yisrael, as an Am Segula (a nation apart and unique from the other nations), as Hashem’s special, chosen people, visit, bond, and celebrate our special and unique relationship with HaKodosh Borchu.

Prominent in our thoughts during Succot are the Haftorahs which the prophecy of the War of Gog and Magog, Moshiach, the Ge’ula Shlaima (the Redemption) and the rebuilding of the Beit HaMikdash are pronounced. Or, as the expression goes among baseball fans each springtime — right down to the fans of the most hapless MLB team; “Hope springs eternal.” read more

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Thursday, Friday War News: Kassam Fired From Gaza, Infiltrators From Gaza Nabbed, Gaza “Pals(sic)” Fire on IDF; Faulty Bomb Foils Arab Sinai Terror Attack, Rocks and Firebombs Thrown at IDF, Civilians Near Hevron, Bethelehem, Kalkilya, Gush Etzion, Beitar, IDF Nabs 9 Terrorists, 2 Arab Youths Nabbed for Terror Attacks

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Monday Through Wednesday War News: Gaza Arab Terrorists Attacks on IDF, Israeli Arab Killed Attempting Run-Over of Chayal at Checkpoint, Arabs Attack JNF Workers in Negev, Arabs Attack Police Station, Arab Car Jacker Nabbed, 5 Terrorists Nabbed, Molotov and Rock Attacks

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