Fwd: SAVE SDEROT: PENSIONERS, YISRAEL BAYTAINU, SHAS, GEDOLIM, TZADIKIM, DIA...

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Dear Rav Eliashiv shlita, Rabbi Kamenetsky shlita, Rabbi Viener shlita,   info Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel shlita of Agudas Yisroel of America,  Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb of the OU and Mr. Nathan Diamant shlita of RZA  , Mishpacha magazine,  Rabbi Lerner shlita of the Young Israel, amv"sh

 

You are all caring Leaders of Am Yisroel, amv"sh

 

Are you sure you can not do anything about what is happening in Sederot? Perhaps you are doing something already, We must learn from our good friend Israel Kaplan from Toronto who sends 5-10 emails a day.   Perhaps some sort of condemnation of the Gov't of Israel for not protecting its citizens is in order.  Maybe it will embarrass them into acting.

 

When it's Pikuach Nefesh, one just acts and doesn't wait for others to give their Haskama (public support) (see writings of Lubavitch Rebbe When Silence is a Sin).   I know the Gedoilim don't like to go on the Internet and discourage their constituencies from doing so as well. (A side note, If some of the email addresses above are not a public official one please forgive me. I had no choice because I don't know how else to reach some of you by email since you do not have an official email address). This is a matter of Pikuach Nefesh. Please notify your constituency, almost all of whom have email addresses that they need to cry out not only to Hashem but to also  act in a manner that will put an end to this Chillul Hashem.  First we must publicly Claim that Eretz Yisroel is our rightful inheritance.  Condemning the Rocket attacks is not enough.  If Israel were occupiers as the Arabs claim then the attacks are justified. 

 

Please watch the video  of students and teachers running into shelters from incoming Kassam Rocket in Sederot.  Trust me it's not untzniyus (immodest) but it contains violence.  Yes it is immoral. Our Silence is also immoral. The Silence of the Government to act is immoral.  This is violence but not the violence of Fiction in the movies. It's the real thing.  Al TAAMOD AL DAM REIACHA.  Maybe by crying out we can stop this violence against Acheinu Yisroel Hametzuyim Batzara (Our Brethren in Israel that are in distress) I realize that it is the policy of the Gedoilim to discourage Internet.  BUT DO YOU KNOW AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN SEDOROT!?!?  Do your constituents know?  Before the Disengagement from Gaza those that had access to the Internet most likely knew what would happen in Sederot after the IDF  left.  I myself have many copies of the video entitled "A Stab in the Heart" that  predicts all of this.  It was produced prior to the Disengagement.  One actually needs only a CD player to play it.

 

Olmert wishes to give away all of YESHA.  WHAT is happening in SEDEROT can be scenario for BNEI BRAK.  Sederot is another test.  Will the Jews protest?  Will the world protest? If not enough protested the Disengagement from Gaza and now there's Silence to the outrage in Sederot... 

Which town is next?  I hope it's not yours. 

 

To my List:

 

Please email the above  Rabbinic Leaders and organizations  and voice your opinion.   Also ask the editors of the Jewish Media, the Yated, Hamodia, the Jewish Press, Arutz7, Nachum Segal etc. whose policies and editorials are dictated by these organization to please ask our Spiritual Leaders why they are choosing to be SILENT!  What is the point of Davening and begging Hashem to listen to our prayers when our brothers are crying out to us and we are SILENT!?!?  Will we repeat our mistakes of the past?  Many survivors of the Holocaust are still alive today/  They include many of our parents, who were live witnesses to the atrocities of the Holocaust.  There was silence then as well.  Yet now it is still not too late.  WAKE UP!

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Homeless Right written post election 2006 by Elyakim Haetzni

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Elyakim Haetzni writes a post a year ago after the elections called the Homeless Right http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/6156 calling for a new Party to represent the Right since all the other parties have failed them. 

 

II agree with Elyakim Haetzni and wish to take his suggestion even one step further.  Even if such a party actually was successful in winning the majority vote, I seriously doubt that the entire country would hop on board willingly. I am realistic. I don't see that the Nation is yet ready for such a strong leap even with strong education etc..  

 

Keeping unity among the people of Israel is the ideal and a goal we must work towards.  However, we have no choice but to consider another option. 

 

It is my position that a strong Right Wing Party emerge as Elyakim Haetzni suggests and I even have a good name for such a party.  I would call that party "Zocher Habrith", remembering the Covenant in order to look forward, which is precisely the opposite of Kadima who chooses to not look back.  Then let that right wing party and government,  agree to the establishment of a trial sovereign authority in Yesha that has a constitution that is based on Torah.  The rest of Israel will maintain it's secular form of government but will not be antagonistic to it's sister entity.  Since a government based on Torah and a Sanhedrin  is quite revolutionary and will be subject to many fashlas at least in the beginning, it therefore should be started small scale as a small model.  Even for the strongest believers in Hashem and His H-ly Torah, setting up and implementing such an entity will prove to be quite a challenge.  Slowly, as this small Sovereign authority gains in popularity and success and begins to prove itself, more and more people will find the courage to come aboard.  It is my belief that this small entity will bring admiration from the rest of Am Yisroel and from the Nations of the World and admiration for the brilliance of Hashem's H-ly Torah.  We will begin to lead as a Nation, act like the Lion rather than be the lamb among the wolves. 

 

Related posts

 

Please visit http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-response-to-helen-f-israels-jewish.html

Please visit http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2006/09/moshe-feiglin-and-relational-database.html

search for Feiglin on http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

 

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Think Tank regarding Shemittah

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The Shemittah year is coming closer.  Let us set up a think tank of how we could observe Shemittah without Heter Mechira, buying from Arabs, and/or Pruzbul.   This would be a revolution in economics and government as well as the best thing that ever happened to Tikkun Middos. A year of placing our faith in Hashem and in each other.  

 

 

In the Shemittah Sabbatical year all our work is for the sake of Heaven and not for personal gain.  We are commanded to keep from working the Land and the fruits of the Land has Kedushath Shviis.  But letting everyone eat from our field and giving out loans w/o repayment have halachos that truly need to be rediscovered.  Please read  http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2006/03/yahrzeit-ilan-ramon.html

 

Shabbat Shalom!

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Article on the Seventh Year

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To Dvora Waysman and the Jewish Press.  Re: article about the Seventh Year http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/23642/The_Seventh_Year.html

 

Thank you on your post about Shemittah. 

 

These are my comments.

I would like to see shemittah observed in the Spirit of Shabbat as suggested in the Torah.  Please visit http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-response-to-shemittah-sale.html
and read any of the posts of http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com.  Here you will find a novel approach that is venturing into unknown territory similar to how the Jews traveled in the desert.  They lived day to day depending on Hashem for their food.  They could not hoard their food.  The food had extra sanctity since it was manna from heaven. In fact the prayer for sustenance, Parnassa is the Parsha of the Manna.  Shemittah is Shabbat Haaretz and if kept properly will bring Am Yisroel blessings in Parnassa where we will  be the head and not the tail.  We will loan and not have to loan.   If Shemittah was observed properly we would be living in peace and security.  There must be something amiss since  Eretz Yisroel is surrounded by our enemies, Hamas, Hizbollah, El Queida, Fatah etc and the world is a dangerous place today.  Doesn't Hashem promise peace and security if we keep shemittah properly.  Hashem is true to keep His promises. Somehow the suggested ways of keeping Shemittah in our times don't have the spirit of Shabbat, of Meiyn Olam Haba, having a taste of the world to come. Keeping Shemittah as suggested in http://shemittahrediscovered, the blog, sounds like fun and in the spirit of Shabbos but is venturing in unknown economic and political territory. Living a kibbutz Lifestyle in a capitalist society is indeed scary.   What do you mean I will loan money and not be repaid!?!?  What's the point of working hard and then giving out loans and not getting my hard earned money back?!? That's why Hillel instituted Pruzbul you may add. 

 

In the Shemittah year we remember that it is not my strength or power that provides me with sustenance but G-d's.  Today, chemical, biological and nuclear threats abound not to mention hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes and earthquakes.  These threats are far scarier than the Shemittah scenario.  Let's at least brainstorm of how an Israeli economy or the government of Israel could run when debts are released and everyone is busy going to farms and picking food for themselves and partying.  A year of eating  for free is how the Torah describes it, not a year of not having anything decent to eat unless it's imported or cost a fortune or from produce that was grown on the Land (that was sold) during Shemittah.  The thought of buying produce from our most bitter enemies in Gaza  who would love nothing better than to see Eretz Yisroel obliterated and become Hamasland is quite sickening.  We really have no other option but to try to live Shemittah as the Torah truly intended, by partying and sharing rather than with a disaster like 911, the War in Lebanon, Hurricane Katrina etc.  where ultimately we were forced to share our resources.   Incidentally, 911 happened immediately following a Shemittah year.  So did the stock market crash in 1988.  The decision to destroy Gush Katif came after Pesach in the 4th year of the Shemittah cycle.  I wonder if the farmers said vidui maaser a Mtzvah that we read in Ki Savo when the farmers confess that they gave maaser as best as we could.  We have the unfortunate reality that we do not have a Beit Hamikdash and do not know who all the Kohanim or Leviim are. Hashem is aware of that. Hashem knows our limitations.  Even if you say nowadays, it is all Derabbanan is there a strong possibility that Hashem is finding  fault with us for not keeping these Mitzvoth properly given our circumstances!?

 

This is food for thought and should not be ignored.  May Hashem bless any person/media that has the courage to print/pass on this letter.

 

Sincerely,

 

Robin Ticker

faigerayzel@gmail.com

http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com

 

 

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What l00 Prophets could not accomplish...was accomplished by the ring of Achash

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What l00 Prophets could not accomplish...was accomplished by the ring of Achashveirosh...

This was sent to me by Shifra Hoffman. She sent me to http://shuva.net/ which is a website that contains Nazi propaganda in America today. I personally saw original Nazi literature that was recently distributed on Capital Hill. It was picked up by my friend who simply picked up the literature that was being distributed. Amazing that no one on Capital Hill was stopping them from their "freedom of expression". Bayamim Hahem Bizman Hazeh. In those days in our times....

Let us not forget that Jewry, in Europe and in America were silent in pre Nazi Germany. Rabbinic Jewry in Eastern Europe discouraged Aliya because they strongly opposed the secular Zionist Movement. The majority of religious Jews went to the death camps rather than on Aliya. My husband is the son of a Holocaust survivor. (his mother ob"m was from Poland, miraculously survived the h-ll in the Warsaw Ghetto and the different concentration camps over the span of 5 or so years). My parents were from Czechoslovakia, also Holocaust Survivors. My Father ob"m lost his first family, his wife and daughter ob"m and my mother had it relatively "easy" with just one year or so in Auschwitz Labor camp. Many of her family members perished, like one sister who like too many were unfortunate to have been married with a baby. Mother and baby never had a chance....

My husband has a strong interest in history. Today, on Shabbos, he gave us a history lesson of the World Leaders in the time of WWII. He mentioned Chamberlain the appeaser and Churchill and Roosevelt who finally stood up to Hitler. I mentioned that Roosevelt did not do much to stop the flow of Jews to the Concentration camps. My husband added that in his defense, that American Jewry were Silent even after being approached by Hillel Kook a.k.a. Peter Bergson. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/HKook.html.

The Bergson Group tried their hardest to publicize the atrocities of Nazi Germany. There was much opposition to the Bergson Group.

The following was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Kook

Kook and his followers were widely opposed by large sections of the American public, particularly by many prominent American Zionist organizations. In December 1943, the American Jewish Conference launched a public attack against the Bergsonites in an attempt to derail support for the resolution. (Wyman 1984:202)

The British embassy and several American Zionist groups, including the American Jewish Committee and other political opponents sought to have Kook deported or drafted. (Wyman 184:346) They encouraged the IRS to investigate the Bergson groups finances in an attempt to discredit them, hoping to find misapropriation, or at least careless bookkeeping, of the large amount of funds the groups handled. The IRS found no financial irregularities. (Wyman 1984:346) Included in those trying to stop the Bergson Group's rescue activities were Steven Wise and Nachum Goldman (see the Wyman-Medoff book in References). A State Department protocol shows Nachum Goldman telling the State Department that Hillel Kook doesn't represent organized Jewry, and suggested either deporting him or drafting him for the war effort (See documents at end of the Wyman-Medoff book).

Did you know however that many Rabbanim including Rav Moshe Feinstein did actually protest. (It's something but one protest is nothing compared to the enormity of the atrocities).

The following too was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Kook

The Day the Rabbis Marched

One of the Committee's more memorable activities was a protest Kook organized known as the Rabbis' March. The protest took place in Washington, D.C. on October 6, 1943, three days before Yom Kippur. While the Bergson Group was largely secular, Kook successfully used his family's rabbinic heritage to convince between 400 and 500 Orthodox rabbis to attend. Among the participants were Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Eliezer Silver, president of the Va'ad Ha-Hatzala and co-president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States, Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo (sometimes recorded as Solomon Mordechai) Friedman, the Boyaner Rebbe of New York and president of the Union of Grand Rabbis of the United States, Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz, rabbinical dean of the Mir Yeshiva, Rabbi Naftali Carlebach, father of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, and Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and his father, Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech Hertzberg. The Lubavitcher dynasty was conspicuously absent as was Conservative and Reform Jewry.

Joined by Bergson Group activists, the Jewish War Veterans of America, and a number of prominent members of Congress including William Warren Barbour, the protesters marched on the United States Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, and White House, pleading for U.S. intervention on behalf of the Jews in Europe. Though the delegation was reluctantly received by Vice-President Henry Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt avoided them entirely, both out of concerns regarding diplomatic neutrality, but also influenced by the advice of some of his Jewish aides and several prominent American Jewish spokespeople (including Dr. Stephen Wise), who thought the protest would stir up anti-Semitism and claimed that the marchers, many whom were both Orthodox as well as recent immigrants (or first-generation Americans) were not representative of American Jewry. Shortly before the protest reached the White House, FDR left the building through a rear exit to attend an Army ceremony, and then left for a weekend in the country. Disappointed and angered by the President's failure to meet with them, the rabbis stood in front of the White House where they were met by Barbour and others, and refused to read their petition aloud, instead handing it off to the Presidential secretary, Marvin McIntyre. The march garnered much media attention, much of it focused on what was seen as the cold and insulting dismissal of many important community leaders, as well as the people in Europe they were fighting for. One Jewish newspaper commented, "Would a similar delegation of 500 Catholic priests have been thus treated?" [1]

For your own viewing of Nazi Propaganda happening today please view

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4452153918748081072&q=Zionism+and+Christianity%3A+Unholy+Alliance

This will be posted on my blog Shemittah Rediscovered

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