The Implications and Consequences of Expulsion for the Jewish People
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IDF Arrests Thirteen Arab Terror Suspects
Arab Caught in Hevron [at Ma’arat HaMachpela] With Large Knife
Received this email from Mattot Arim today and am urging everyone reading this to contact Shas Minister Eli Yishai and Shas Chavrei Knesset to nix Ehud Barak’s apparent attempt in the coming days to demolish this home in Gush Etzion:
From: mattot.arim@gmail.com :
URGENT: The home of a reserve commando officer who has risked his life for all of us many times, his pregnant wife and their baby daughter Shaked may be destroyed tomorrow, the next day or Wednesday –in Gush Etzion — because the Labor Party Convention is convening Wednesday. It is customary for the head of the party (currently Ehud Barak) to decimate an outpost a day or two before this periodic political event, because some of the Labor Party’s functionaries are radical leftwingers who truly delight in settler-bashing.
Are you seeking a shidduch, praying for a loved one’s recovery from illness, davening for parnossa and job security or for deeper understanding of the depth of Torah and more? Now, whether you are in Israel and can travel to the Kotel daily yourself, or are in Israel but a distance from the Kotel, or live in the Diaspora and need someone to go and say Tefillos on your behalf, you can have Rabbanim and/or Talmudei Chachamim praying simultaneously at the Kotel with you as you pray for whatever it is you seek.
Parsha Eikev is equated in terms of one’s being attentive to the little Mitzvot; the details, the Mitzvot that one tends to overlook, to ignore, to tread one’s heels on in the mad dash, but without which the Jewish people would lack the merit which sets us apart from common man. The little mitzvot, the small details are the ones epitomized by V’Ahavtah L’re’echa Komocha — caring for your fellow Jew as for yourself.
And so, we find Parsha Eikev placed on the heels of the end of Parsha Vaetchanan’s teachings regarding tefillin and mezuzah.
And four years later, we live with the pain of the Korban done by Jew against Jew. Rabbi Gold’s words are poignant. (For those who cannot view the video from this blog, click here. ) Also poignant are the photos and words on the Jew against Jew Expulsion from Gush Katif written by David Morris on his Tzedek, Tzedek blog. MB
To view additional videos related to the Expulsion of our Jewish brthren from Gush Katif, click here
Hat tip to Israel National News.
Gaza Gunmen Fire Mortar Shell at IDF Troops
Police Arrest 21 Illegal Palestinians in the North
IDF Arrests Five Terror Suspects in Yesha
2 Molotov Cocktails Hurled at Israeli Car East of Kalkilya
Palestinians Throw Rocks at Israeli Car Near Ramallah
Israeli Car Traveling Near Bethlehem Pelted by Stones
IDF Arrests Four Terror Suspects [in Jenin, Shechem, and Ramallah Regions]
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IDF Arrests Four Terror Suspects [Near Jenin, Hevron]
Arabs Attack Two Soldiers at Adam Junction [North of Jerusalem]
Firebomb Attack Next to Beit Omer [South of Jerusalem]
Israeli Vehicle Stoned South of Bethlehem
IDF Reservists Arrest Palestinian About to Throw Molotov Cocktail [North of Shechem]
Border Police Arrest 288 Palestinians Illegally in Israel
IDF Arrests Three Terror Suspects near Ramallah
Israeli Car Fired At Near Tapuach Junction [Near Former Hawara Checkpoint Outside Shechem]
Police Recover Bag in Galilee Olive Grove Containing Explosives
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The Haftorah for our Parsha begins, “Nachamu, Nachamu Ami yomar Elokeichem” — “Comfort, comfort my people — says your G’d.” (Yishaiya, 40:1) This sentiment seems to be silent, but yet a theme of Parsha Va’etchanan.
In the beginning of Parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu recalls for the B’nai Yisrael how he entreated Hashem for permission to cross the Jordan River but that his request was denied. Instead, he was consoled by viewing the Land from Mount Pisgah. (L’lmod Ul’Lamed – Parsha Va’etchanan, page 161)
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Shots Fired at Defense Ministry Workers South of Gaza
IDF Arrests Senior [Al-Aksa] Terrorist in Shechem, by Maayana Miskin (Israel National News)
IDF Arrests Two Terror Suspects in Yesha
Illegal Palestinian Worker Arrested for Trying to Steal Tractor
[Arab] Rock Attack Near Huwara
IDF Arrests 14 Arab Terror Suspects
PA Molotov Cocktails [Thrown at Jewish Vehicle Near Kalkilya] and Knives in Yesha