Thursday, August 04, 2011

On Hakoras HaTov - Gratitude to my Rabbonim, Importance of keeping Kedusha of Mikdash Me'at (keeping sanctity in our personal homes)

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Bor she'sha'sis mi'menu mayim al tizrok bo even. Don't throw rocks in a well.  

Am I mocking or striking  the Rabbonim, the  very sources of my own Chinuch, religious education, on my blog Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com?

It is clearly forbidden to do so as we learn out from Moshe Rabbeinu who did not strike the River and sent Pinchas to fight Midyan rather than fight a Nation that protected him. .   

Gratitude is not because someone did something for you. But rather if you benefited, that's the keyword. If you benefited from somebody, you must have gratitude (from the book Netivei Ohr pg.165 by Rabbi Nissim Yagen). Even if the person did not have good intentions. That's why it says by Moshe that he was not allowed to hit the Nile river, to make it into blood. He had to ask Aharon to do it. A river does not care. It does not care whether he lived or died. But since Moshe benefited from the river, so then he has to have gratitude and he can't strike it. You hear?? Likewise in the Talmud it says "the well that you drank from, do not throw rocks in it". Even though the well has no feelings and does not care, nevertheless since you benefited from it, you must show gratitude.

How I have drunk from the wells of Torah lectures, books and tapes teaching us about  Kedusha, sanctity, in our Mikdash M'at, our personal homes.  How I envy those beautiful Chareidi (and non Chareidi) families who always speak dignified and respectfully  to each other,  spouse to spouse, parents to children and children to parents and children  to their siblings.  They are nourished with these same sources but to a higher degree than myself.  How I wish that my own Mikdash Me'at would reach a very lofty level where communication is without anger, demeaning and insult but rather just with clarification. And if I would follow these teaching in the Chareidi circles more carefully and rid my house of the TV and negative influences of Internet then surely my house would be a holier place.  I don't refute it.  

Yet I live a life less secluded and my house is invaded with the influences of a secular society and my Mikdash Me'at is compromised.  Chatasi, Avisi Pashati.  Hashem Yerachem. Al Eila Ani Bochiya.  

Tonight I went to a lecture by Rabbi Aharon Rakeffet and he said that a leader of the Conservative Movement who himself was Shomer Shabbat does not have religious grandchildren. Yet the Chareidim for the most part are success stories, (and of course there are those that have fallen by the wayside),  but the majority are those whose children and grandchildren are Shomrei Torah and Mitzvoth, building beautiful families with  Kedusha permeating their homes and Shabbos and Yom Tov is filled with palpable sanctity and holiness and if there is discussion of Harry Potter, Yankees and Jets it is in order be maalin Bakodesh and be raised to a higher level.    I wish my family could be like theirs...and Divrei Torah be the primary spoken words on Shabbos... 

Rabbi Rakeffet said that their success is their failure and their failure is their success. 

Let me add my personal explanation of Rabbi Rakeffets reflection.  Perhaps I personally can add to the Chareidi's observance of Torah and Mitzvoth by alerting them to things that they need to know because what they don't know will hurt them Chas Veshalom...

It seems to me that this insulation has  insulated Chareidim, Children of Holocaust Survivors as myself,  from knowledge of pure evil that is threatening the world at this very moment. It is the obligation of their papers to print such material but they choose not to so as not to offend the Gedoilim who are of the opinion that supporting Judea and Samaria is not part of their public agenda. This passive position opens the door for a Palestinian, Nazi ideology supporting State threatening not only Am Yisroel but the world.. 

http://www.mythsandfacts.org/Conflict/9/childrendyingtokill1.htm (Palestinians Sacrificing ones children to the Molech, Robin's note)

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2310/terrorism-norway-israel  (Norway defends Palestinian terror against Israel but is in shock when it hits home)

Fogel Family Murderer Convicted After Confession.  


Are Chareidim aware that this murder of the Fogel family did not happen in a vacuum and had Jews been more aware and vigilant and supportive of Yishuv Itamar (which is community with a window view of Shchem and Har Eival and Har Grizim) and their requirements of security this terror attack would not have been possible? 


Are Chareidim made aware that Shchem is the City where Avraham Avinu was first promised Eretz Yisroel  "LeZaracha Etein Es Haaretz", and the first city that Am Yisroel came to when they entered Eretz Yisroel and heard the blessings and curses on Har Grizim and Har Eival?

Chareidim don't get emails from Daniel Greenfeld entitled: 

"Something Rotten in Norway".  http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/01/something-rotten-in-norway/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1cea915465-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN which shows how a community that tolerates, supports and defends evil will have it turn against itself. 

or PMW Palestinian Watch http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=5347. Abbas' advisor: PA should honor "Martyrs" and not worry about donor's grants

and will they hear about the Chillul Hashem and destruction on Har Habayit? http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2011/08/fresnozionism-terrorism-on-temple-mount.html  Surely these excavations could have been prevented and can be prevented with some protest coming from the Chareidi and Dati Leumi and Leumi world uniting and not silenced when American Foreign Policy stopped supporting a United Jerusalem

Are Chareidim aware that the gov't wants to demolish 47 hiomes in Migron in the Shomron even when there are no Palestinians who can prove ownership?  http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/the-migron-test-1.376868 tells a story of secular courts system destroying our rights to Eretz Yisroel. Where are Jewish Courts and our Sanhedrin based on Torah Shebichtav and Torah Shebaal Peh????

High Court Issues 'Death Sentence' to Migron

The High Court Tuesday told the government to destroy the Migron community, home to 47 families in northern Samaria, by next March.
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu


How will the Chareidi newspapers report what is happening in Migron?  Like Haaretz or like Arutz7?  My guess is that they will barely report on it so that they won't have to choose any controversial slant. Or will they choose to be "objective" and sit on the fence without taking any sides as if to say that choosing for or against giving away Judea and Samaria are two acceptable valid Torah positions.  Why do they take a decisive position  regarding Bris Mila, circumcision or Shechita, Kosher ritual slaughter but not on our entitlement to live and settle in Judea and Samaria and obligation to observe the Mitzvoth Teluyot Baaretz?

How familiar are Chareidim with the destruction of 22 communities in Gush Katif and Northern Shomron and the havoc and pain and suffering for 10,000 people and their families and friends.  (not to mention the suffering of neighboring Sderot). Somewhat,  but apparently not enough to prevent other expulsions Chas VeShalom.  

What will make them, their teachers and my teachers  understand that my desire is that the Kedusha in their homes stay as is.  Fighting for Eretz Yisroel is also a Mitzva and preventing the destruction of Jewish lives overrides all other Mitzvoth except the 3 cardinal sins which by the way are threatening us for which we are obligated to be Moser Nefesh. What is the point of learning Gemaras on property rights and sit by while Har Habayit is being desecrated with the sanction of a secular Israeli courts and destruction of Jewish homes and communities is legalized by  secular Israeli courts led by a minority against the wishes and desires of the majority?

Just because many rulings of the Israeli government is secular now does not mean that this is the way it has to be?  All of our Tefillos of returning to Eretz Yisroel and rebuilding the Beit Hamikdash so that we can once again bring Karbanot is a possibility in our day!  Hashem sends us miracles and technology which is all for His Honor and all this technology are tools to bring the Kedusha to mankind, Letaken Olam BeMalchus Shakai as we say in Oleinu, To Perfect the World with the Kingdom of Heaven.  

Last night Rabbi Gorelik spoke in the Chabad Shul of Ocean Ave, Rabbi Liberov's shul, the first of a 12 part series on Moshiach He talked about the coming of Moshiach and asked how come technology like the airplane or cars  only appeared within the last 200years.  People were riding horse and buggy for thousands of years.  Then quite miraculously, without major new discoveries, inventions came into existence that could have been invented earlier.  He quoted a Zohar that said that just like the waters in the time of Noach opened from above and from below when Noach was 600 years old, in the 6th millenium in the  600th year or so, the wellsprings of knowledge of science and technology(from below)  and Chasidut(from above) will flood the world preparing it for the 7th millentium which is Yom sheKulo Shabbos,  a millenium of complete Shabbos.  

We are now living in an age of amazing technology.  It is now the Erev, the Eve of  Shabbos of this special millenium.  Who would have believed before such technology existed that we would be able to fly to Eretz Yisroel for each Shabbos or comprehend how  the entire world will hear the news about Moshiach simultaneously. Yet we all know that this is totally possible in our times.

Rabbi Rakeffet said that many in the Chareidi World are now trained and knowledgeable in computer systems and are flooding institutions of learning that teach a trade such as  Machon LeParnasa, Machon Lev etc.  There are separate classes for men and for women.... 

 How else can Chareidim provide for their families nowadays?  Grandparents can no longer support 40- 50-80 grandchildren bli ayin hara.  Perhaps, years ago, very wealthy Chareidi  parents and grandparents supported the next generation.  But their success led to their failure ken yirbu and it is no longer feasible to be able to support such large extended families. 

There are over 10,000 boys bli ayin hara in Nachal Chareidi where there are no women and multiple Hashgachot, supervision seals, on the food they eat.  

There are Chareidi Rabbanim like Rav Yissachar Dov Rumpler and his Eishis Chayil author of Halacha Berura and Agudath Chalamish (Chareidim LeMaan Yehuda VeShomron) who join with Dati Leumi in their desire to fight for Eretz Yisroel, to settle Yehuda and Shomron and to rid our land of Avoda zara, Idol worship and Gilui Aroyot immorality.  There is a 2 volume Sefer entitled Halacha LeTzava which answers questions for the Jewish Soldier like "Can I take my Tefillin with me if I am called up to the Front on Yom Kippur", 

So my message to all the Rabbonim that have raised my level of Judaism and Kedushah is to thank them from the bottom of my heart and to reciprocate in kind by my own connection with Hevron Ir HaAvot and to connect them as well with Hebron.  I can not think of a greater gift that I can give to anyone, the love of my soul, the desire of my heart but to be closely connected with our Forefathers and Mothers Avrohom, Yitzchok and Yaakov, Sara, Rifka, Rochel and Leah. How I wish to share the intense longing for Hebron and for Eretz Yisroel, our H-ly Land where our Mitzvoth reach the highest actualization and completeness of sanctity possible.

I don't know how many out there are listening to what I am saying.  But as Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein said today in Radio Hidabroot (round the clock on the web or in Brooklyn 97.5fm )  http://torahanytime.com/Rabbi/Zecharia_Wallerstein/ , that it is not up to us to finish the job,  We just have to try to do our best and leave it up to Hashem.  

Anovim - Great Song!!


Lyrics in English
"At the moment when king Mashiaj comes, he will stand on the roof of the holy temple and call out: My humble children, the time of your redemption has come.And if you don´t believe me, look at the light that I shine upon you!"(Yalkut Shimoni, Ieshayahu 60-499)

Lyrics in Hebrew
beshaa shemelech hamashiach ba omed al gag Bet Hamikdash mashmia leIsrael veomer: anavim anavim higia zeman guelatjem veim ein atem maaminim reu beori shezarach.


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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
Activist emails sent to my list  are L'Ilui Nishmat Yisrael ben David Aryeh ob"m (Izzy - Kaplan)  a great activist and lover of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichrono Baruch.

Most of these emails are posted on Shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com 

Personal emails to individuals will not be posted to my blog. 

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