The Tragedy in Eretz Yisroel! Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz speaks Sorting it out Ourselves; Explaining it to Our Children

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Dear Friends and Activists, 

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz has an amazing series on Project Yes teaching Personal Safety for Children. (Please check out his links 5-minute child safety videos, Child Safety Video #1, Child Safety Video #2, and Child Safety Video #3)

He apparently spoke tonight on the topic  "The Tragedy in Eretz Yisroel – Sorting it Out Ourselves; Explaining it to Our Children."  

http://www.rabbihorowitz.com/PYes/ArticleDetails.cfm?Book_ID=1830&ThisGroup_ID=238&Type=Article&SID=2&utm_source=Sorting+it+out+Ourselves+July+2%2C+2014&utm_campaign=Sorting+it+out+Ourselves&utm_medium=email

It upsets me that there seems to be total resignation that what happened comes from Hashem and that all is for the good and we are incapable of understanding why Hashem is sending us such tragedies.  Isn't it also true that if we go in happenstance (Kerry)  Hashem sends us curses?.....   

Rabbi Horowitz asked for questions.  So I asked him some rather down to earth questions....  I also had some answers that I thought would help....

Dear Rabbi Horowitz, amv"sh

How after 44 or so, failed kidnapping attempts and finally a "successful" attempt, 3 brutally kidnapped and murdered, can we reassure our children with confidence that there won't be any more kidnappings and murders.  

What if anything is deterring the terrorists?  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182448#.U7TPD_ldXOg.  

When Yesorim, afflictions come, we need to ask ourselves what message is Hashem sending us.  Yefashfesh Adam Bemaasav....Let us examine our deeds.

Project Yes has been proactive with Summer Safety messages to prevent tragedies. If known pedophiles were allowed freedom to roam the streets and access to classrooms and camps, all your education would be compromised and made so much harder!  

I believe this tragedy of kidnapped teens in Israel is first and foremost a wakeup call that we need to confront evil, specifically Hamas and Fatah..  There is a danger of just focusing on Emunah and Betachon and accepting that what Hashem does is ultimately for good when one does not confront the evil itself. 

Will we then blame G-d or recognize that we perhaps were at fault?   Adults know this and will have a hard time explaining the failure to act with resolve and strength to protect society and kids will sense it as well.

I hear you say. there is nothing I personally can do, "It's not my place but the Government of Israel to act. All I can do is strengthen my Emunah and Betachon." This reminds me of a true story that happened in my community.  A Rebbe's young son hurt his finger. The boy's mother took him to the doctor who bandaged the wound and told the mother to keep the bandage on and to come back in a week.  The mother tried to comply with the doctor's orders.  The kid was in a lot of pain and the doctor insisted it would heal and be fine.  On Shabbos the pain was too great and they took the kid to a neighbor who was a PA.  The PA took off the bandage and saw that the problem was that the bandage was on too tight cutting off circulation. Baruch Hashem the finger was saved.

Sometimes, even a lay person needs common sense. 

How can we explain to kids what could be done differently so that this doesn't happen again.  

If you suggest teach them never to hitchhike, is that a solution? Stopping to hitchhike in Judea and Samaria where buses don't run frequently and are often not affordable, will significantly disrupt how people live their lives.  Hitchhiking is a common practice and an accepted way to commute within a close knit trusting community.  Blaming the hitchhikers puts blame on the victims.  It's like telling young children who were abused that their skirt was too short and if they dress with longer skirts this wouldn't happen.  Sure precautions, more buses and phone apps should be taken but the emphasis must be on stopping the perpetrators, the murderers and kidnappers. 

Emunah and Bitachon

Let us have Emunah and Bitachon that Hashem Promised the Land to Am Yisroel and not the Palestinians and that in the Torah, only those who accept Jewish Sovereignty and 7 Noahide Laws are welcome as Ger Toshav entitled with full human rights as specified in the Torah (VeChai Imach)

In parshat Behar:

לה וְכִי-יָמוּךְ אָחִיךָ, וּמָטָה יָדוֹ עִמָּךְ--וְהֶחֱזַקְתָּ בּוֹ, גֵּר וְתוֹשָׁב וָחַי עִמָּךְ.

35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee.

It seems to me that we must take care of the Ger Toshav, a non Jew in Israel, by making sure that they have a livelihood and that they don't get too poor. Human rights like medical benefits and education seems to be in order. However, if they don't accept Jewish Sovereignty and the Noahide laws, this does not apply.  Those that celebrated the kidnappings and murder do not fall into the category of Ger Toshav.  For these individuals, there are 22 neighboring Arab countries  with 800 times the land mass of Israel where Arabs can find their relatives and their respective communities and tribal affiliation.http://www.standwithus.com/booklets/25Answers/ page 2 

Frankly, it seems pretty clear that there is no strong deterrence for terrorist and in fact the opposite.  Terrorists have it pretty good in Israel: They are rewarded with money, education, power, honor and even eternal blessings.  Check out these links.

• They get paid a nice salary in jail.  Cash for Killers: US Funding Palestinian Terrorists?
• They even get a degree PALESTINIANS EARN DEGREES WHILE IN ISRAELI JAIL
• often released and then receive a heroes welcome. Israelis React in Pain Over Release of Terrorists
• Martyrs rewarded with 72 Virgins
  
• Shahada (Death for Allah) promotion
  
• families of martyrs are rewarded Terrorist 'Martyrs' Families to Receive Millions of Dollars. PA government encourages terrorists to trade their lives for their families' financial security - 74 million dollars' worth.
• and they are glorified. 
  

The world says that Jews are "occupying their land". They have stolen our Identity and we do not protest.

Jews have yet to unite and assert our entitlement to Eretz Yisroel based on Torah.

I am a bit cynical of those who memorialize the victims when they empower evil to begin with. Why did Shimon Peres have to speak at the Levaya?  http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/244698/president-peres-eulogy-at-the-funeral-for-eyal-yifrach-naftali-frankel-and-gilad-shaar.html. 

I didn't appreciate him lecturing about Torah or offering to talk to Obama ,

 

Therefore, let us trying a different approach! Even if you don't actually live in Eretz Yisroel, the Land is also your inheritance. 

Each and every person can do their little part to convince themselves, their Rav,  the government of Israel to Annex Judea and Samaria  Accept Levy Report. 

​Buddy Macy suggests these s

imple steps:

 

1) Open a second email window.

2) Copy & paste the following addresses (of Prime Minister Netanyahu and members of his staff, and select MK's) to the To: section of the email: bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il,memshala@pmo.gov.il,dannys@pmo.gov.il,pm_eng2@it.pmo.gov.il,mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il,alexanders@pmo.gov.il,rond@pmo.gov.il,myaalon@knesset.gov.il,ysteinitz@knesset.gov.il,ddanon@knesset.gov.il,gsaar@knesset.gov.il,yiskatz@knesset.gov.il

3) Copy & paste the following to the Subject Line of the email: HONOR OUR BOYS: ANNEX JUDEA & SAMARIA NOW!

4) Type your name and country in the text of the email; feel free to include a brief message, if you'd like.

5) Forward this email to everyone on your email, Facebook, LinkedIn and/or Twitter lists!!!

 

Here are additional suggestions:  Some of these points are discussed at length at http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2014/06/more-on-bring-back-our-boys-hardline.html

• Ask your Rav to speak out for our entitlement of Judea and Samaria.  Ask Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah, Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation,  Agudath Yisroel of America, Young Israel, Chabad, OU, RCA etc to say Judea and Samaria is part of Biblical delineated boundaries. 
• Speak out for our entitlement of Har Habayit, Hebron, Kever Yosef, Kever Rochel, Kever Dovid Hamelech etc. all of our Holy Sites situated in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria in areas conquered in 1967 after our enemies attacked us from all sides. 
• Encourage Building in Judea and Samaria instead of the opposite slowdown of building in Judea and Samaria.  
  
• Collective Punishment on PA and Fatah when the situation calls for it  
• Throw out Arab Knesset MK's who don't recognize Israel's rights to Judea and Samaria. Deny voting rights to those who don't accept Israel's Sovereignty over the entire Israel. 
• Stop libeling, arresting, provoking, condemning and vilifying settler youth of Judea and Samaria. They have witnessed expulsions, homes cruelly demolished, their Yeshiva taken over and friends kidnapped and murdered.
  
• Hitchiking:  There are those who believe that it's a way of life in Judea and Samaria that has many pluses.  (Of course we need to take proper precautions. Robin)
• Try to visit Israel and work towards Aliya.  Just look at the US National Debt and your confidence in the dollar will plummet. 

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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker
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