Friday, May 24, 2024

No Lag B’Omer Celebrations in Meron This Year By Hana Levi Julian -We Jews have imagination. But we have always failed to recognize danger. Story By DR. YIZHAR HESS & Israeli researchers map out timeline of ancient Jerusalem & Archaeologists Find Cemetery Possibly Linked to the Ancient Israelites & Very interesting film...the same western countries (Esau) which are now screaming at Israel claiming we are hurting "innocent civilians" in Gaza had no problems in... davka.. fire bombing German cities in world war 2...to specifically kill civilians.. more than 600.000 & The Portion of BeharIdolatry


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No Lag B'Omer Celebrations in Meron This Year

Israel Defense Forces confirmed to JewishPress.com on Wednesday that it has recommended this year's Lag B'Omer celebrations on Mount Meron be cancelled.

"According to the current operational assessment, the IDF has recommended the relevant authorities that the Lag B'Omer events at Mount Meron expected to take place between May 25-26, 2024 be cancelled," the IDF said in a curt statement. "There are no further changes in the Home Front Command's guidelines."

By Hana Levi Julian -

No Lag B'Omer Celebrations in Meron This Year | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Hana Levi Julian | 24 Nisan 5784 – Wednesday, May 1, 2024 | JewishPress.com

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.

We Jews have imagination. But we have always failed to recognize danger. Story by By DR. YIZHAR HESS •

We Jews have imagination. But we have always failed to recognize danger. (msn.com)

Dr. Yizhar Hess is the Vice Chairman of the World Zionist Organization

Israeli researchers map out timeline of ancient Jerusalem

Despite the reams of writings about Jerusalem, studying its Iron Age has proven challenging in terms of absolute chronology.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

https://www.jpost.com/archaeol...

Archaeologists Find Cemetery Possibly Linked to the Ancient Israelites

The burial ground at Horvat Tevet in the Jezreel Valley is a rare find from the very end of the Canaanite city-states and the birth of the biblical Kingdom of Israel more than 3,000 years ago, archaeologists say

https://www.haaretz.com/archae...

Storage jars placed next to the head and feet of the deceased in Burial E/F10; scale = 5 cmCredit: Omer Sergi

Very interesting film...the same western countries (Esau) which are now screaming at Israel claiming we are hurting "innocent civilians" in Gaza had no problems in... davka.. fire bombing German cities in world war 2...to specifically kill civilians.. more than 600.000

The Portion of Behar Idolatry

The portion of Behar deals with how we are to conduct ourselves in the land of Israel through the observance of the sabbatical and jubilee years and the redemption by close relatives of fields that had been sold to non-Jewish residents.

At the end of the portion the Torah warns against the practice of idolatry. "You shall not make idols for yourselves, nor shall you set up a statue or a monument for yourselves (Leviticus 26;1).

The prohibition against idolatry is one of the most severe prohibitions written in the Torah. Based on the verse in the Song of Songs "Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth" (1.2), we learn that whoever engages in idolatry is considered to have renounced the entire Torah which was given to the Children of Israel as a kiss from the Almighty.

And it is for this reason that the letter "pei" in the word "upesel" (and a statue) is emphzsized, thereby symbolizing the mouth of G-d. (Baal Haturim)

I added a picture which expresses the same idea. The letter "samech" in the word "pesel" (statue) is emphasized in place of the letter "pei" brought down by the Baal Haturim.