Friday, January 24, 2025

Thanksgiving and Prayers for the hostages & Richard And Robert Sherman And The Arguable Antisemitism Of P.L. Travers By Saul Jay Singer & 15 Facts You Should Know About Moses’ Staff By Yehuda Altein & Maimonides: The Reluctant Doctor Who Changed Medicine & The Portion of Va'eiraThe First Redemption & with those we have lost


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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.

Thanksgiving and Prayers

As we see some of our kidnapped brothers and sisters return from Gaza, we thank G‑d for those who have miraculously survived in the lion's den and we mourn those who have been murdered. Join us in praying that the returnees quickly recover from the physical and emotional trauma they have suffered.

And we are, of course, forever mindful of those who are still being cruelly held captive by terror groups in Gaza and pray for their safe return.

Please click here for our updated prayers list, including those who have returned, those who are no longer with us, and those whose return we continue to pray for.

Israel has paid a treacherously steep price to bring three young Jewish women home, releasing some 90 terrorists—people charged and convicted with heinous crimes. Convicted Palestinians handed over by Israel in similar lopsided "exchanges" have quickly returned to terror activities, among them the masterminds of the Oct. 7 massacre.

And so as we welcome back those so brutally taken, we continue to pray for the welfare of the IDF soldiers, the wisdom of Israel's leaders, and for the safety and security of all of our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land, who are under constant threats by those who seek to harm us.

May G‑d protect them and all Jews wherever they are and bring peace to the entire world.

Recite Chapter 20 of Psalms

The Chabad.org Team

Richard And Robert Sherman And The Arguable Antisemitism Of P.L. Travers

By Saul Jay Singer

Richard And Robert Sherman And The Arguable Antisemitism Of P.L. Travers | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Saul Jay Singer | 16 Tevet 5785 – Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | JewishPress.com

Photo of the Sherman Brothers on the set of Mary Poppins with Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke.

The Sherman Brothers with Walt Disney

Portrait of P. T. Travers (1934): Was she an antisemite?

15 Facts You Should Know About Moses' Staff

By Yehuda Altein

https://www.chabad.org/library...

The Portion of Va'eira

The First Redemption

Moses undertakes his mission to Pharaoh. He, together with his brother Aaron, appeared before the king of Egypt and demanded that he release the Children of Israel from bondage.

Pharaoh refuses, and the plagues, of which Pharaoh was forewarned, begin to descend upon Egypt.

Even though it is quite obvious that the plagues only affected the Egyptians and not the Israelites, there is no reference to this fact in the text.

Only in the 4 ^th plague, the plague of "arov" (mixed animals), does the Torah state here what is not stated previously anywhere else. "And I will make a redemption between My people and your people" (Exodus 8:19).

The first redemption takes place at the time of the plague of "arov" and that is the reason why the term "pedut" (redemption is used).

But this is only a partial redemption which will be followed by more enslavement. This, therefore, explains why the word "pedut" is written without the letter "vav".

However, in the future, there will be a more complete redemption, and this is foreseen in Psalm 139:7 " O Israel, hope in the LORD; for with the LORD there is mercy, and with Him is plentiful redemption", where the word "pedut" is written in its complete form with the letter vav in its proper place . (Baal Haturim)

And perhaps this is also alluded to by the crown above the letter "pei" in the word "pedut".