L’Shana Tova to All Readers and Subscribers;

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I want to take this opportunity to wish all of you a L’Shana Tova;
in the coming year and in all years to come, you should know only happiness, health and success.

This blog will be going into occasional mode through the Chagim, only posting regarding important reports and divrei Torah.

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Rosh Hashana 5768: Unesaneh Tokef: The Role of Greed in Mental Coercion; the Gezeira Rah of Divide and Conquer

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by Moshe Burt

Each Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, we daven the Unesaneh Tokef as part of the Mussaf tefillah.

The story behind the Unesaneh Tokef tefillah (expressing the seriousness of the day): relates the Gezeira Rah (evil decree) faced by R’ Amnon of Mainz and his Kehilla of forced conversion to Christianity dating back about 1,000 years.

R’ Amnon who, with his Kehilla, faced dread coercion as well as mortal, imminent threat of death, gave the perception of consideration of possible compliance with the demand to convert to Christianity and, as a result, became distraught at even having given the impression that he could betray Hashem. read more

Tuesday War News: 69 Chayalim Injured in Islamic Kassam Attack on IDF Base

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Mortars [and Kassams] Hit Gaza Border [Zikim Army Base]; Harsh IDF Response Not Expected

Excerpts:
“A Hamas spokesman praised Tuesday’s rocket attack on an Israeli army base, calling it a ‘victory from God.’ The rocket strike, which wounded 69 IDF soldiers, was followed by a mortar barrage on the Gaza border.”

Related reports:

Dozens of Soldiers Injured in Pre-Dawn Rocket Attack, by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (Israel National News)

IDF Soldiers Wounded by Kassam Attack on Zikim Base (IDF Spokesperson Announcement) read more

How Long Will Successive Regimes Cloak Their Hatred for Jewish Heritage in Bogus Catch-Phrases, Euphemisms and Rationales?

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This author spent this past Shabbos with other members of Shul in Hevron. In what has become an annual trip to Hevron, the city of our roots, the place where our Patriarchs; Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov are buried with their wives; Sarah, Rifka and Leah, we endeavor to put ourselves in the proper mindset in advance of the Yom HaDin — Rosh Hashana. Below are some thoughts to contemplate as the Chagim draw closer.

Before Shabbos and during Shabbos afternoon, we were taken on tours and shown various locales in and around the Jewish section of Hevron where Jewish communities have been or are being established, property having been perfectly legally purchased from previous Arab owners and yet, these purchases agreements are contested by the politically agendized and protexia regime, the leftist, elitist Israeli “justice system” and the leftist, elitist, good-old-boys protexa Israeli bureacracy. read more

Sunday War News: Kassam Rocket, Mortars and Terrorists from Gaza; No Red Cross Visit to Shalit; Syrians Draft Reserves; Attacks on IDF, Drivers in Yesha

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Kassam Rocket Fired into Western Negev; No Casualties

7 Mortar Shells Fired at Israel

Terrorists Attack Sufa Crossing

Hamas: We Won’t Let Red Cross Visit Shalit, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

Excerpt;
Osama Al-Mazini, the Hamas spokesman; “If, as a result of the visit, Israel manages to locate the place where Shalit is being held, ‘Israel is liable to bomb it in order to liquidate Shalit and thus extricate itself from the whole business, just as it did with Nachshon Wachsman.‘” read more

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Shabbos War News: Mortar Shells from Gaza; Kidnapper of Shalit Arrested, Molotovs Thrown at IDF, Drivers

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Mortar Shells Fired From Gaza Land in Negev

IDF Commandos Nab Top Hamas Member

Related report; Report: IDF Undercover Unit Arrests Shalit Kidnapper in Gaza, by Ezra
HaLevi (Israel National News)

Palestinians Throw Molotov Cocktails at Israeli Cars [Near Kalkilya; 2 More Molotovs Found]

Palestinians Hurl Molotov cocktails at Israeli Cars Near Ramallah

2 Explosive Devices Hurled at IDF Troops Near Jenin

Arabs Uproot Jewish Vines Again

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UPDATE: Thursday Night War News; Syria Fires at IAF Planes, More Kassams, Kissufim Kidnap Attempt, Gaza Terrorists Arrested

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Syria Reports Firing at Israeli Planes, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

Excerpt;
“Military tension between Syria and Israel took the form of Syrian attacks against one or more Israeli planes over northern Syria last night. So reports Syria, confirming an event that was earlier recorded by international satellites.”

Related reports:

Syria: ‘We Won’t be Dragged Into a War by the US and Israel’ [Channel Two Quoting Syrian officials], by AP, Yaakov Katz (Jeruslem Post) read more

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Final-Status Principles and The Inevitable Lesser of Two Evils

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Commentary;

The “protexia class”, a term coined by Barak of IRIS, is a definition of Ehud Olmert, Tzipy Livni and their cronies who would sell Eretz Yisrael and the nation’s security to avoid leftist judicial prosecution and conviction for corruption, graft and wrong-doing.

Rather than to do the right thing for the nation, for the Am Yehudi, and to own-up to their wrong-dong Olmert, Livni, Ramon and their gang, as with Sharon and his family before them, have taken protexia (defined by the Oxford English-Hebrew dictionary as “favoritism, influence, pull”) to new levels in penalty and personal liability avoidance for their wrong-doing, mal-feasance and non-feasance. read more

Widening Detachment of World Jewry from Israel Predictable

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Commentary;

There’s no great new revelation here. Rabbis and outreach professionals as well as public opinion professionals have foretold this detachment for decades, for centuries.

And why this increasing detachment? When Israel’s own leaders eat and whittle away Israel’s raison d’etre for existence; the rebirth of a Jewish medina, a Jewish home and nation; it seems only natural that as marginal Jews drift further and further fom their Jewish roots and heritage, the evolving hypocrisy of Israel’s elitist governmental leaders, now in denial of the modern nation’s founding ideals, would inevitably take it’s toll. MB read more

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