Sunday, August 20, 2023

My Published letter in the Jerusalem Post-There are some things in life that can not be compromised-Judaism is one of them and we put up our lives for it and Amid protesters’ boos and blocked streets, Netanyahu launches Tel Aviv light rail and In northern Israel, massive 3,800-year-old monument stuns and stumps archaeologists and Israeli father and son gunned down and killed in terror shooting at Huwara carwash


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Israeli father and son gunned down and killed in terror shooting at Huwara carwash

Medics declare Shay Silas Nigrekar, 60, and Aviad Nir, 28, dead at the scene in northern West Bank town; IDF launches manhunt, prepares for potential settler revenge attacks

By EMANUEL FABIAN

Israeli father and son gunned down and killed in terror shooting at Huwara carwash | The Times of Israel

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.

My published letter in the Jerusalem Post-There are some things in life that can not be compromised-Judaism is one of them and we put up our lives for it

Compromise is normally good. It is a word that means that both sides give in and are unhappy with part of the result, but neither side is cut out completely.
The word however, can be used as a sword when it comes to some things that can not be compromised. We are willing to compromise, and you are not, so you must be wrong.
The Jerusalem Post is constantly crying for compromise on the trains running on Shabbat. One article denouncing the trains running on Shabbat compared us to a third world country for not running the trains, never mentioning the fact that we run the trains on Sunday and we don't run the trains not because we can't but because it is Shabbat.
Sunday's editorial on "A Shabbat compromise" is just more of the same. There is no mention of the Status Quo that for 75 years we have made Shabbat a special day in Israel, the only Jewish country in the world. This fact should be celebrated yet our primary English newspaper pretends this fact doesn't exist and people are "suffering" and those that can't afford the more expensive options are stuck at home. We are "depriving these people of public transportation." One is either pregnant or not. There is no compromise. One either respects Shabbat by not running buses and trains or not. The trains can not run without the buses, they feed each other. Whether it goes through Bnei Brak or not, either we recognize that Israel is a Jewish country that makes it special or not.
The compromise means an end to that recognition as it is not a compromise as the sword is used, but as an end to the idea that we are special because we are a Jewish country. Let us not throw the baby out with the bath water. The current controversies over judicial reform are primarily set down party lines. Please stop inflaming the flames with your constant attacks and demands that a compromise can and must be found! There is no compromise on whether we recognize Shabbat or not on a larger scale. Small compromises can be made as the new free Jerusalem bus that your paper carries the story about today, but a larger compromise means an end to our 75 year status quo and ignores the fact that Shabbat is the sign we are a Jewish country.

In northern Israel, massive 3,800-year-old monument stuns and stumps archaeologists

The size of an Olympic swimming pool, with vaulted ceilings that raise the topographical height of Tel Shimron by 5 meters, the delicate mud brick structure was likely barely used

By MELANIE LIDMAN

In northern Israel, massive 3,800-year-old monument stuns and stumps archaeologists | The Times of Israel

Amid protesters' boos and blocked streets, Netanyahu launches Tel Aviv light rail

M snips ribbon during opening ceremony at Red Line terminus in Petah Tikva, as hundreds rally outside; Tel Aviv mayor boycotts event
Amid protesters' boos and road closures, Netanyahu launches Tel Aviv light rail | The Times of Israel