Getting Tzedaka requests can be quite annoying. An ounce of Prevention....

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The following was sent to me by Israel Kaplan:

 

Nursery school deals with aftermath of Kassam attack.

 

 

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/TV/?act=one&id=2070

 

Israel Kaplan writes:
This evening we received a report from the new community of Nitzan that 300 families in this community will not have sufficient food for the Yom Tovim coming up.

The contact name in Nitzan is Rivka Madar.   Phone numbers and emails are available on request. Please email israelkaplan@yahoo.com

 

My commentary:

 

Dear List:

 

Nitzan is a community of displaced Gush Katif families.

 

Please send this info to Kupat Hair and Vaad Harabbonim.  Their contact info is plastered all over Boro Park and Flatbush at this time of the year and before each of the important Jewish Holidays.  They put out beautiful multi page glossy circulars (In the past the circulars ran between 14 to over 20 pages and inserted in newspapers such as the Jewish Press and Yated or Hamodia.  My family in Flatbush receives at least   2 copies per circular each time either from the newspaper or from the mail).   Perhaps you can tell them that if more expulsions are scheduled in Yesha, then Bnei Brak might be affected and be a target in the future just like Sederot is today. They then will definitely be overwhelmed with requests for Tzedaka. Please ask them to ask the Gedoilim that are pictured on their brochures, to speak out forcefully regarding better security for Sederot and future expulsions Their own communities may chas veshalom be targets in the future if Yesha becomes a Palestinian/Hamas State Chas Vechalila.

 

Of course they must believe what they write, and we are all Areivim and it should not make a difference if the poor person is from Nitzan or from Bnei Brak and since they do such a wonderful job fundraising for poor people in Israel could they please include Nitzan. 

 

The biggest form of Tzedaka is not to allow someone to reach the poverty level.  The residents of Gush Katif were all productive citizens. Since we let the gov't of Israel destroy their means of Parnassa and were Silent, then we are now carrying the load of helping them in their time of need.  Sederot is now under fire.  The residents of Sederot are productive.  However, it's becoming quite difficult to make ends meet with Kassam rockets interfering on a regular basis.  Which communities are next?  Kupat Hair and Vaad Harabonim not to mention Meir Panim will be totally inundated with requests!  All of our well to do and not so well to do brothers in the Diaspora will be bombarded with Tzedakah requests.  It will get quite annoying.

 

 

 

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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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