WANT PEACE? EXPEL THE ENEMY!!! and Most Of The World's Dairy Comes From This Country and Reinvigorating Israel Advocacy With Zionism By Rabbi Uri Pilichowski and the history of that unique Israeli produce - Skedei marak. and John Lennon's upsetting final words to Yoko Ono came moments before death 42 years ago today Dec 8, 1980 Story by Callum Crumlish and Pearl Harbor bombing was 81 years ago yesterday

View in browser Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement. Love Yehuda Lave Join my blog by sending me an email to YehudaLave@gmail.com John Lennon's upsetting final words to Yoko Ono came moments before death 42 years ago today Dec 8, 1980 Story by Callum Crumlish https://www.msn.com/en-us/news... National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day https://www.nps.gov/perl/learn... The Three Musketeers at the Kotel The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember. The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave. WANT PEACE? EXPEL THE ENEMY!!! "He will drive the enemy before you and He will proclaim, 'Destroy!' Israel will then dwell securely alone" (Deuteronomy 33: 27-28). On these verses, the Ohr HaChaim comments: " 'Israel will then dwell securely': When? When they are alone. The words 'Israel will then dwell' are a continuation of what precedes them, 'He will proclaim, "Destroy!" ' for G-d commanded Israel to annihilate every single one of the inhabitants in the Land of Canaan. By doing so 'Israel will then dwell securely alone.'" The plain truth lies here before us. The Torah commands us not to hesitate about annihilating the nations in the land lest they hate and seek revenge against us for taking land they view as their own. Not in vain are the words yerushah (inheritance) and horashah (driving out) so similar in Hebrew. G-d is telling us that unless we drive out the nations of the land, we will not inherit it. As the Sforno writes, "When you shall eliminate the inhabitants of the land, then you shall be privileged to inherit the land and pass it down to your children. But if you do not eliminate them, even though you will conquer the land, you will not be privileged to hand it down to you children." The Jewish Idea Shabbat Shalom Reinvigorating Israel Advocacy With Zionism By Rabbi Uri Pilichowski In 25 years of teaching about Zionism, Israel, and Israel advocacy I've learned a few things I never considered before starting in this profession. The Jewish people are worried about attrition of the next generation's connection to Israel. This has spurred the birth of multiple organizations and programs aimed at capturing our teens and bringing them back into the Israel fold. I've come to realize there isn't one solution to Jewish teenagers moving away from Judaism and Israel. Each teen is different and will react differently to the messages they hear. Some messages will resonate, others will not. One proposal frequently suggested to bringing the Jewish teen community back into the fold is to change the narrative that Israel's opponents frequently spread. If the Jewish community marks success as changing the narrative, they're setting themselves up for failure and will never succeed. They'll never change the global narrative because there are no metrics for the narrative. They don't know which narrative is being spread at any one time and which new narrative spread will be effective. They're just repeatedly shooting in the dark. I've seen activists and advocates criticizing establishment organizations for their efforts, claiming they aren't effective. Criticizing other Israel advocacy and educational organizations isn't helpful to the cause. There isn't a teenager in the world who will become a stronger Zionist and draw closer to Judaism by hearing a chorus of infighting within the Jewish community. Zionists are in the "battle" together, each takes a different direction, and each covers a different segment of the population. Different messages resonate with different teens. A lazy accusation is that "wokism" has infected Jewish teenagers with a distorted set of values. It's too easy to claim all teens share the same woke and progressive values, and it's those values leading them away from a connection to Israel – but it's not true. Teens don't all see the world the same way and aren't all woke progressives. While many progressives take anti-Zionist positions, there is nothing mutually exclusive about progressive and Zionist values. There are many Zionist progressives. Indicting all progressives as anti-Zionist is not only unhelpful, it's dishonest. Addressing all teenagers the same way instead of offering differentiated learning, assures turning off a large percentage of teenagers to Israel and Judaism. It risks whatever lesson that was going to be taught to them becoming irrelevant to the teenagers. When an Israel educator makes this mistake, they risk turning the teenager off from Israel – the opposite result they're trying to achieve. Lessons must be individualized and differentiated to be successful. There's a tendency to simplify world conflicts, but the Syrian civil war, the Ukrainian-Russia war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can't be simplified. To teach these conflicts and for students to understand them, nuance must be employed. All too often in an attempt to make things easy to understand for students, teachers paint complicated issues as black and white, when they're anything but clear cut. Teachers need to have confidence in their teenage students and trust they can understand the complexities of Zionism. In an effort to simplify the complex, win the narrative and engage Jewish teens, some advocate for abandoning core values in the hopes that a new approach will win the day. New approaches that lack a foundation of values fall empty. Zionism is the core value when it comes to teaching Israel and its conflicts. To succeed in connecting more Jewish teens to Israel we must reinvigorate our Zionist education and advocacy with Zionism's values. Zionism doesn't stand for changing narratives, creating division among Zionists, demonizing political movements, or simplifying the complex by omitting nuance. Zionism is a movement that stands for the Jewish people's rights. It is a proud movement that doesn't cower from others, need shifting philosophies or attacks to distract from opponents. The best way to bring Jewish teenagers back to Zionism is by reinvigorating their Israel advocacy with Zionism. Most Of The World's Dairy Comes From This Country Read More: https://www.tastingtable.com/1... the history of that unique Israeli produce - Skedei marak. How did a bureaucratic mix-up during Israel's 1950s austerity period lead to one of Israel's most unique culinary innovations? How did an Ashkenazi Jewish Passover recipe end up on the holiday table of every Jewish Israeli, & where does the distinctive yellow color of the soup almond come from? The skedei marak. (What a story?) The Happy Mistake That Gave Us the "Soup Almond" https://blog.nli.org.il/en/hoi_soup_almonds/ Hit the above link for the story with pictures Boys enjoying a bowl of soup in a HaNoar Haoved summer camp. Every year during Independence Day, we are reminded of how we invented drip irrigation, the cherry tomato & the disk-on-key. But there is one Israeli invention that is a special source of national pride & that no holiday table dares be without:- the 'soup almond'. Those crunchy, yellow, crouton-like additions to soup, which miraculously appear just about everywhere during the holiday season in Israel. "Soup almond" is a literal translation of the Hebrew term shedei marak: sometimes used even by English speakers, though others prefer "soup mandels", "soup nuts" or the Yiddish mandlakh. Advertisement for Osem soup almonds. Designer: Otte Wallish. After all, what's the point of soup if it doesn't have a little something extra; chopped vegetables, dumplings, noodles, croutons or whatever. This is how soup becomes a satisfying & heart-warming dish, & this was also the thinking of the Osem company's food engineers. Having soup in the Pardes Hana immigrant camp. What extras did they have for soup in those days? 1948 - the re-birth of the Jewish State: It was the early 1950s, the days of tzena— Israel's national austerity plan. Two years earlier, Osem had come up with another brilliant invention to deal with the rice shortage. They called it petitim, - tiny toasted pasta balls sometimes referred to as "Ben-Gurion rice" (or "Israeli couscous" in later years). The company was now facing another rationing crisis. According to the Osem website, each factory received a monthly allowance of flour. It was probably human error (an accident) but one month the Osem plant did not receive its flour allowance. Boys enjoying a bowl of soup in a HaNoar Haoved summer camp. Practical advice: Everyone is familiar with the saying, "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade". In this case, the lemons were 300 kilograms of oil gifted to the Osem company to compensate for the missing flour. Lemonade was one idea but & Osem wasn't about to pass on the offer. But what to do with so much oil? Thus, company engineers decided to use the oil to fry flour. And lo & behold; - a miracle: this is how the soup almond as we know it was born. The color of fried flour may not be very 'nice', so a bit of turmeric extract turned them a bright yellow. Advertisements for Osem soup almonds and "egg almonds". Osem egg almonds. Advertisements for Osem soup almonds & egg almonds in Hebrew, German, Hungarian and Yiddish. An Ashkenazi custom: Osem's soup almonds didn't appear out of thin air; first there were zup mandlen, Yiddish, which were added to the soup that Ashkenazi Jews ate during Passover. They were made from matzah meal & egg & were apparently much larger, perhaps more similar to the matzah balls (kneidlach) that many know today. But, unlike the matzah ball which is boiled, the homemade soup almonds were either baked or fried, just like today's soup almonds. Passover advertisement for zup mandeln, from the Yiddish Newspaper Forverts, April 4, 1943 Like any product created by accident or under improvised circumstances, the initial appearance of the Osem soup almonds did not resemble what they look like today, & there were also variations in name & use. In the beginning, Israeli soup almonds were made in two forms: one was diamond-shaped & flatter (but larger than today's version), & the other was oval like an egg & was called an "egg almond". The home-made Ashkenazi soup almonds may have been the inspiration, but the company believed that the fried flour morsels might also have other uses. Early newspaper ads & posters preserved in some libraries - recommend adding the egg almonds to cold or hot drinks, & even to a glass of beer. One famous Ad: Osem soup almonds. The product evolved over time. It was adapted to the local market & was given new & sophisticated packaging. The soup almond finally settled on its square & puffy shape, unique yellow color, salty taste, becoming a must-have product on every holiday table, because how can you eat soup without it? Today you can buy shkedei marak in a resealable bag or in a plastic container. And companies besides Osem make them as well. Some even eat them by the handful as a snack; "hold the soup". Advertisement for Osem soup almonds. Translated & shortened by Steve Sattler See you tomorrow bli neder We need Mashiach now! Love Yehuda Lave Yehuda Lave, Spirtual Advisor and Counselor Jerusalem, Jerusalem  Israel 972-585043210 YehudaLave@gmail.com You received this email because you signed up on our website or made a purchase from us. Unsubscribe