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| | | | | 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. | | | | | | | Khamenei says Israeli leaders must be 'sentenced to death,' arrest warrants 'not enough' | | | | | | The Portion of Toldot A Blessing from Heaven The days of Yitzchak (Isaac) are numbered. He doesn't know when the day of his death will arrive. He decides to bless his eldest son Esau. He asks Esau to go out to the field, hunt and prepare a meal for him just the way he likes it "in order that my soul may bless you" (Genesis 27:4). Esau is commanded to bring food for his elderly father to eat. By doing this act of kindness for his father, it will be Isaac's soul which blesses Esau - not a regular blessing but a blessing of the soul. The blessing did not come from Yitzchak - it emanated from Gd Himself who funneled it through Yitzchak, through his soul. As David wrote in Psalms (104:35) "Bless the Lord my soul". And therefore at the end of the blessing "And it came to pass when Isaac finished blessing Jacob (Genesis 27:30), the letter "lamed" in the word "kila" (finished) is written in the form of a stick from top to bottom, thereby telling us that Yitzchak's blessing came from heaven and passed through Yitzchak on its way to Jacob.
| | | | | | November 29 (Kaf Tet B' November) November 29, 1947On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted in favor of a resolution that adopted the plan for partitioning Eretz Israel. This resolution led, in effect, to the declaration of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948.
The vote in the UN General Assembly was conducted following the recommendation of a majority of the members of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP). UNSCOP was appointed by the UN General Assembly on April 28, 1947, after the British government returned the Mandate for Palestine to the United Nations. The UN committee submitted its recommendations ahead of the UN General Assembly Session scheduled for the fall of that year.
In June 1947, the UNSCOP members, including representatives of 11 states, traveled to Eretz Israel and stayed there for about five weeks. The local Arabs boycotted the committee and its work, and the British also refrained from influencing its hearings, whereas the Jewish Agency representatives brought to bear the full weight of their influence on the committee members. The committee was impressed by the events that took place in Mandatory Palestine at the time, and its members said that they were particularly affected by the deportation of the ma'apilim (illegal immigrants) who came on the Exodus, which was carried out before their eyes in Haifa. At the end of their stay in Eretz Israel, the committee members held brief tours in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. In Lebanon, they met with the representatives of the Arab states in the region, and with representatives of the (Palestinian) Arab Higher Committee. They also visited displaced persons (DP) camps in Europe where concentration camp survivors were located.
On August 31, 1947, UNSCOP issued its recommendations. The committee members recommended unanimously to end the British Mandate for Palestine. A majority of the committee's members proposed to divide Eretz Israel into two independent states, Jewish and Arab, which would be joined in an economic union. According to this proposal, the territory of the Jewish state would include the coastal plain from Ashdod to Akko, the eastern Galilee and the northern valleys, and most of the Negev region extending to Eilat. The Arab state was to include the central Galilee and western Galilee, the southern coastal plain extending to Ashdod, a strip in the western Negev along with the border with Egypt, the eastern part of the Negev – including Be'er Sheva – as well as the central mountain ridge and the Jordan Valley. The Jerusalem and Bethlehem region was slated to be neutral territory, under UN auspices.
The World Zionist Organization and the institutions of the Jewish Yishuv [pre-state Jewish community] in Eretz Israel agreed to accept the partition plan, since it recognized the right of the Jewish people to a state.
The UN General Assembly discussed the committee's recommendations at its fall session in New York. On November 29, 1947, the vote was held at the UN General Assembly: 33 states voted to approve the plan, 13 states voted against it, and 10 states refrained from taking a position. The United States and the Soviet Union were in favor of accepting the recommendations of the majority of the committee members. Based on the committee's report, the UN General Assembly decided that the British Mandate would end by August 1, 1948.
The adoption of the General Assembly's resolution in support of establishing a Jewish state was received by the Jewish Yishuv with great joy. Close to midnight, when the news was broadcast on the radio that the necessary majority had been obtained in the UN General Assembly, masses of people danced in the streets. However, it was clear that the establishment of the state would only be possible after a difficult military and diplomatic struggle, and that the Arab states and the Palestinian Arabs would battle against the implementation of the plan to establish a Jewish state.
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countries voted in favor of the UN partition resolution | 13
countries voted against the partition plan, and 10 countries abstained | 15,000
The UN partition plan allotted roughly 15, 000 square kilometers to the Jewish state | 33%
At the time, Jews constituted only 33% of the population in the Land of Israel (608,000 people) | | | | | | All over the world, the Jewish community erupted with great joy. In Jerusalem, Zippy Porath shares how thousands went out to the streets to celebrate. And planning for implementation began as Chaim Weizman proclaimed "It is now our primary task to establish relations of peace and harmony with our Arab neighbors." Unfortunately, the Arab world did not accept this, nor any prior or subsequent proposal for partition of land or peace. And sadly, November 29 has become a day for increased anti-Zionist and anti-Israel attacks as a part of the continued effort to demonize and incite hatred against the Jewish State. The UN Vote on Partition of Palestine has great historical significance that should in no way be diminished by the change of rhetoric or attempt to negate the importance of what took place.
Every Jew should know about this day, and every effort should be made to negate the relentless war against the truth of history. | | | | Those we have lost Stories of civilians and soldiers killed since Hamas's onslaught on Israel on October 7, 2023
Every day you can look at another victim and send him/her prayers
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Foreign workers, tourists and students | | | | | See you Sunday bli neder, Shabbat Shalom We need Mashiach now! What is disliked by you, don't do to others. Be nice and kind and smile! Love Yehuda Lave | | | | |
