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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Ait Laasot! Hishtadlus ! FWD Rabbanic Leaders Unite to Declare Jewish Sovereignty over Har Habayit before the UN declares otherwise!

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Yehi LeRatzon Imrei Fi VeHegyon Libi Lefanecha Hahem Tzuri VeGoali.  (May the worlds of my mouth find favor with You, G-d is my Rock and my Salvation.) 

AIT LAASOT!  The time is NOW to ACT!  Read Yosef Rabin's email below.  I believe it is a key to Am Yisroel's salvation.

Contact any Rabbi you recognize in Yosef Rabin's email and email Yosef Rabin, Rabbi Algaze directly.  Feel free to contact me as well.  Let us UNITE  the key for our success and let us end the desecration of G-d's name and the ongoing degradation's afflicting Israel's Holiest sites:  

The three holiest Jewish sites, Makom Hamikdash Har Habayit (Temple Mount), Kever Yosef(Josephs Tomb in Shechem) and Hebron (Tomb of the Patriarchs) are precisely the hot spots that the Arabs have pinpointed to spread their poison of lies!  The Arabs are keen on stealing our identity built on distortions of all Biblical, historical and archaeological evidence using Islam, a mockery of religion.  They have proven their willingness to sacrifice their children to a  perversion of a God they call Allah. We are eye witness that worship of such sort brings evil destruction and harm to humanity. 

This abomination can only be refuted with Truth, our Holy and precious Torah by our spiritual leaders ! Each generation has the task to undo the Chait HaMiraglim, the sin of the Spies.  Rather than discourage the people to ascend to the Land of Israel, our spiritual leaders will Beezrat Hashem encourage  the conquest of our Land, Eretz Yisroel, for the purpose of observing the Torah and the Mitzvoth and thereby actualize the fulfillment of our precious Torah to its fullest.

This is more than just a petition.  It is a campaign to unite Rabbanic Torah Leaders with the support of the entire Nation of Israel, and righteous Noahides around the world to speak forcefully and proudly of Jewish Heritage and honorable and rightful Jewish claim to Temple Mount.  Our goal is to prevent an earthquake and subsequent tsunami of evil  threatening to shake the very essence and foundations of this planet found in that very Holy Place known as Har HaBayit.  Anavim, Anavim, G-d's humble people, the time has come to proclaim the Torah and Divine Will to the entire world.  Haazinu Hashamayim VeHaaretz.... The Heavens and Earth are G-d's witness to G-ds Covenant with the Jewish people. These witnesses, the Heavens and the Earth,  who are long lasting are starting to testify.  Will they testify that Am Yisroel revered their Covenant with the Creator of the world,  and treasured the Land of Israel and toiled to keep all the commandments like Shemittah in the spirit of Shabbat in the Land of Israel or did Am Yisroel find loopholes and say it is not relevant for our generation?  Uh oh...  I hear you tell me we don't want to act because we are waiting for the Moshiach?  

Surely we have been taught and we know that Moshiach is here on this planet as he is in every generation waiting for his people to do Teshuva, repentance.  Perhaps he is knocking on our door...

Moshiach has been waiting patiently for us to open up the door just a crack so that he can come in. 

Joining together, collecting hundreds of thousands of signatures for this petition is one relatively simple step in allowing Moshiach to get a foothold in.  After all how can we even think of bringing sacrifices logistically  on Har Habayit when the Muslims have control of Temple Mount?  Are our prayers lip service or are they for real?  Such steps such as this petition need to gain momentum.   Step by step, let us collectively work together to help open up the door for Moshiach. 


Surely Islam and its call for the destruction of Israel has no legitimate claim for the Holy Mount.  Will we allow the UN get away with a bunch of untruths and deception that will serve  to be the vehicle of its own self destruction and the destruction of humanity?

By shouting from the rooftop on Temple Mount, and it is our intention and hope that  this petition be a worthy medium emanating from that virtual cloud hovering cyperspace over Temple Mount, we actively demonstrate that we trust in G-d and G-d alone and believe with our heart and soul that He is true to His Word.  We pray that the Holy One Blessed be He will in turn protect us from all harm as He has promised in His Holy Torah! 

Rather than seeing war and destruction, Israel with its believing supporters of the Nations of the World, Noahides, will be found deserving and in this way be blessed with peace, security and prosperity.

 May all the evil decrees disintegrate like the dust in the wind and may the knowledge of G-d, the One and Only G-d, the G-d of Israel wash over the land like a Tsunami  cleansing the world with purity hope and goodness.  

written on the 25th day of Av, the 8th yahrzeit of my father Yosef Zeev ben Moshe z"l

Thank you for all your activism and support!

Shabbat Shalom!
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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Monday, April 27, 2009

Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh! How to best counter bad Internet influence, destructive text messaging...etc.

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Please forward to whomever is willing to read:

Tonight I came back from an Aseifa (gathering) put together by the Prospect Park Yeshiva in response to the detrimental effects that todays internet, cell phones, ipods, video games etc. have on our children.  There is no reason for me to doubt the veracity of the the claims that today's technology has extremely destructive consequences on many of our children.  Everyone apparently is at risk.  The easy accessibility to such negative influences to violence, pornography, unhealthy relationships at early ages has united the Rabbanim to alert the public and to convince parents to curb the use of these devices in order to protect our children from a young age.

Yet as an astute teenager remarked to me, many good kids that would have been cautious in the use of these devices in the first place  will be the first ones that will listen  to this ban while those that have a problem and should listen and stop messaging or access to the internet will be angry and disregard.  Those that should have come to this Aseifa didn't come and those that didn't really have any issues will be the most willing to adhere to the recommendations.

Let me suggest that banning messaging and internet  is not a solution. 

Because my guess is that many kids like their parents have been using the cell phones and the internet for positive things as well.  When we limit the use of the cell phone including text messaging we do stop the negative but we also inhibit the positive.  It's like some cancer treatments.  We possibly destroy both the unhealthy and the healthy tissues.  In the worse case scenario we inhibit the healthy tissue but the unhealthy tissue continues to thrive.

 If the kids who primarily use these devices for positive purposes like organizing chesed activities or texting Tehillim notices, stop as they have been told, and those that use it for negative purposes continue and disregard the ruling of the Rabbanim, we have succeeded in stopping much positive but have not succeeded in stopping the negative.

This is not our goal. 


You ask "How much positive is happening as a result of exposure to the Internet or text messaging?"

I can give you my own personal experience. Just today, I read posts of how Jews in Judea and Samaria, Sderot are under constant danger of attack from the enemy.  But thse that do not go on the internet have no clue.  Therefore Rabbanim have not issued any proclamation about "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh" literally.  When Jews in Eretz Yisroel are attacked then it is a Milchemet Mitzva to fight our enemy even on Shabbat.  When we go to war then the army must be a "Holy Camp".  This is the literal explanation of "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh".

The kids by enlarge in our Yeshivoth are self absorbed and have not been made aware of the terrible threat Am Yisroel and the entire world is facing.  Europe is blatantly antisemitic.  Today for example I got an email of pictures in Europe with Nazi propoganda, dated May 2009.  I read Arutz7 about attacks in Judea and Samaria which stabbed kids from Bat Ayin and about other attacks because of lack of civilian defense by the IDF.  Some of these attacks were miraculously Bchasdei Hashem prevented. Some were not.   I read of Obama's civilian defense force bill which sounded very scary to me because it talked about unifying millions of kids into a volunteer force where it would be forbidden to engage in religious activity or protest etc and such service would be required for student loans.  Then I read in Aruz7 about the eminent deal with the Catholic Church to take over Har Zion which will bring in tremendous numbers of Catholics to Har Habayit and other sites in EY which they consider as their Holy sites.  Instead of us claiming Har Zion and Har Habayit as belonging under Jewish Sovereignty we suffice our claim to the Har Zion and Har Habayit by  merely performing  lip service in our Tefila, prayers to bring back the Avoda of the Beit Hamikdash amd  we allow the likes of Danny Ayalon to make deals with the Pope.  All these emails make me want to cry bitterly for our Holy Temple and our lost opportunities to keep the Mitzvoth and bring peace and blessings to all of mankind.

Do the Rabbanim get these emails that keeps me up till late hours in the night?  If they practice what they preach they  have no access to these emails except to conduct business.

Yes, I too have trouble waking up on time in the morning and I am bleary eyed the next day.  Just like your students who are busy texting till wee hours in the night on stupidities. 

If these same kids only knew what was facing them in the future chas vechalila, it would be a wake up call to them to grim realities and they would recognize together with their parents what they should be spending their time doing.  They themselves will make the right choices of life and not on fantasy action emptiness and nonsense.

But if they have no clue because  their teachers have no clue how are they to blame? The spiritual leaders are off the internet and have willingly or due to mere ignorance  seem to have turned a blind eye to what is happening in Eretz Yisroel. They foolishly believe that what I can't see can't hurt me.

Have we as a Nation chas vechalila disregarded our Covenant with Hashem?  Our alliances and silence show a willingness to give away parts of our birthright and ignores the suffering of our fellow Jew in Judea, Samaria and what was formerly Gush Katif.  As a result, the Mitzva of "Vehaya Machanecha Kadosh"  takes a prominence but in a distorted way.

These same educators and parents will be forced to become familiar with the internet and text messaging and all the Shmutz out there anyway in an attempt to effectively monitor their kids activities.  They won't even be successful at monitoring much of the time because it will be almost impossible to effectively monitor due to the widespread and easy access of this very disturbing material.

So if we truly wish to fight these negative influences, we must use the tools of the internet and the cell phone and of modern technology to raise awareness and help our fellow Jew in Eretz Yisroel in positive ways and to make choices that bring life and not death. 

Our grievous mistake is to not adequately use  the tools at hand to serve Hashem and spread Torah.  We need to proclaim to the entire world that Am Yisroel belongs in Eretz Yisroel exclusively. Only we Am Yisroel have the responsibility and the obligations to keep the Mitvoth in Eretz Yisroel.  Let us proclaim that Eretz Yisroel is our precious gift from Hashem.  Our mission as a Mamlechet Kohanim VeGoy Kadosh, a Kingly Nation of Priests and a Holy Nation, is to bring forth Torah and  Kedusha, holiness of the Land.  The message Ki M iZion Tetzeh Torah Udvar Hashem MeYerushalyim will permeate the world.  From Zion will come forth Torah and the word of Hashem from Jerusalem. This in turn will bring peace and prosperity and holiness to mankind.  The Shmutz of the internet will naturally dissipate.

Here are some of the emails I received just tonight: If I look at all these emails would it enter my mind to even access the shmutz that is out there or to waste my time with stupidities and trivialities? My mind is on overload with this material.


: ערוץ מצויין ביוטיוב בקשר להסברה הישראלית, נא להשתמש ולהפיץ. תודה רבה

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Re: Messages from the Har Nof Massacre

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  • New Book: "Living On: Messages, Memories and Miracles from the Har Nof Massacre," compiled by Rabbi Daniel Yaakov Travis a member of the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue where the attack occurred and a friend of the four victims.  Book explores How to 'Live On' After Synagogue Massacre. Book explores the miracles and messages in the Har Nof synagogue attack, with all proceeds going to families of the victims.

Rabbi Travis, amv"sh

Thank you for this book  documented in the Yated page 34,  (27 Kislev 5774, December 19, 2014 issue), Israel National News http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188740#.VJe9A14CA etc.. 


The following posts should be of interest as well. I strongly believe that Har Habayit is a central message related to the tragedy.  


When Silence is a Sin...http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2008/01/yasher-koach-to-yesha-activists.html

Restoring the House of Prayer - תכון בית תפילתי Please sign petition for Temple Mount.
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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) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

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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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Har HaZeitim 2010- 2016 -Timeline of Dedication and Love for the Preservation of Har HaZeisim (ICPFF) Founders: Avraham and Menachem Lubinsky

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Har HaZeitim  There are 150,000 graves buried in Har HaZeitim. 3,000 years of history. 

"In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man." Pirkei Avot 2:1

It all  started with Avraham (Abe) Lubinsky.. 

"Around 5 years ago [in 2010] When I read the Jerusalem Post of the horrific report of the State Controller [Lindenstrauss] and I said 'How can this be?',  I decided that I was going to get involved to bring awareness to all of Klal Yisroel, to bring awareness to the Israeli Government that this can't go on!" 

Avrohom Lubinsky is doing precisely just that...He and his brother Menachem Lubinsky have stepped up to the plate!  

It is to these remarkable Lubinsky brothers who set the tone of ICPHH,  the International Committee for the Preservation of Har HaZeisim that I dedicate this post.  It has been a work of love and please take some time to read about the restoration of Har Hazeisim going on right now miraculously because of individuals who care and persist. Please include yourself among them by simply reading this post and hearing their reports. In light of the disconnect of Jews to our sacred Biblical homeland going on in the UN and throughout the world, (read what Malcolm Hoenlein has to say) let this campaign for Har HaZeisim give us the confidence and strength to fight for our Sacred Homeland and may we go from Strength to Strength!

This organization is an amazing example of how Am Yisroel can unite and be b'Achdus.
  
Involvement and support have come from Knesset members and organizations whose leanings span from left to right...  Labor Leader Bougie Herzog, Miri Regev, Danny Ayalon, Jeff Daube - ZOA, Yishai Fleisher, Arieh King-Israel Land Fund,  Barbara Goldstein Hadassah International, Elliot Engel, Jerold Nadler,   Rabbi Pesach Lerner Executive Vice President Emeritus of the National Council of Young Israel, Rabbi Sholom Gold,  Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff Morah d'Asra Agudah Beis Binyamin, Agudath Yisroel of America, the Noveminsker Rav - Rav Perlow- Rosh Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah America and Chief Rabbi Lau etc.. 

The Lubinsky's have succeeded to unite a broad spectrum of influential factions and leaders both in Eretz Yisroel and in Chutz LeAretz in order to secure, protect and preserve Har HaZeisim. 


In this day and age when one listens to the News and becomes easily discouraged or depressed, it is heartwarming to watch or read the transcript of the youtubes below. 
One can't help but be moved and inspired to be part of it. 



Recent Events:

Har HaZeisim 18 Nissan 5776 (April 26, 2016)
On  Chol Hamoed Pesach 5776  (April 26th) there was an historic day of events on the top of Har Hazeisim. The event was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, headed by Minister Miri Regev, the Jerusalem Development Authority and the International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeisim (ICPHH) https://harhazeisim.org/media/video

Also recognition should go to the Government of Israel who as a result of the efforts of the ICPHH has committed to finance the Fence:  

Does that mean that the Build the Wall Campaign funds can be diverted to the restoration of MaTzeivos and Visitor center? https://harhazeisim.org/build-the-wall

Arieh King  writes you can quote in my name:
Arieh King
Jerusalem Council Member
Emergency and Security Committee deputy Chairman

The Fence will be built 33% from the Municipality.
And 67% from the government.
The total budget is:4.5 Milion NIS.

The 1.5 MNIS from the municipality will pass at 25/5/16.

Also- The event at Pesach at Mount Olives was sponsored by the government.
500,000 NIS


Meeting in Brooklyn, NY Breakfast in the home of Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff  


Menachem Lubinsky: Transcript draft 

You should take a tour of Har Hazeisim and start with Neviim and go all the past the modern day Rabbanim, The Chevra Kadisha says that there are 15,000 British Citizens buried on Har HaZeisim, there are almost 20,000 Americans buried on Har haZeisim...from every country, from every stream from every background. The Gov't... and  Malcolm Hoenlein sitting here....and he has played a huge role in the development of Har HaZeisim, huge... and the Israeli cabinet, just a few weeks ago, adopted a five year plan, to secure Eastern Yerushalyim and Har HaZeisim.  4,000 new policemen will be hired for Yerushalayim and 1500 will be just for East Jerusalem and Har HaZeisim. So if you ever go to a breakfast and want to know what was accomplished, [and say] I was there last year, Wow Rabbosai... who can have imagined that when my brother had started the organization, and people said you're nuts, nothing will happen there, it's just a bad neighborhood, nothing is going to change..... 

[introducing Malcolm Hoenlein]
One of the founding pillar of the ICPHH (International Committee of the Preservation of Har HaZeisim) Malcolm Hoenein:

Malcolm Hoenlein:
 
I don't know how many of you know that when you mention the name Lubinsky in the halls of the Israeli Gov't today, everybody starts shaking.  They made possible what for now, almost fifty years was deemed nearly impossible. Next year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Unification of Yerushalayim...and to think that it took all these decades for someone to emerge a pair of brothers, together with friends, that has changed the future course of history in Yerushalayim... because the loss of Har HaZeitim is the loss of Yerushalayim...it is the way to divide Yerushalayim... it is a way to assure that the future will be put in doubt at the very least. Some of you will remember that a couple of years ago,  when I spoke to you,[see interview below in 2012] I said, there is plot underway, that there are things being done now, while we sit and wait on the sidelines, our enemies are plotting all the time and have a clear design. It reminded me of what I think Reb Yaakov zt"l had said, "Shebechol Dor VeDor"... you mean there isn't one generation that didn't have it?  Every generation? He said the answer is in the next paragraph in the Hagaddah, "Tzeh Ulemad", we read that Lavan "Bikesh Laakor es HaKol"  he said that in the generation that Yaakov while was building up his family, his flock, he had problems but he thought things were ok, but all the time Lavan was plotting against him.  
 

For the last 4 decades,  5 decades, people thought we couldn't get to Har HaZeitim.  But how much worse could it be?  And in fact all this time there was a plot being planned and enacted.  and we saw it in fruition in the last few weeks, in the vote of UNESCO, United Nations Education Social [blah blah....], and they voted after a process of almost 2 years, and we tried to warn about it and warn about it and nobody wanted to listen to it and nobody wanted to heed the warnings when they started with the meetings of ISESCO in Amman Jordon a couple of  years ago, 42 countries  with UNESCO where they started with the Kotel being Al Buraq's Wall named after Mohammad's horse who ascended one after the other after him...he never visited Israel in his lifetime but supposedly he went up from his death from Har HaBayit and his horse followed him, and Kever Rachel was really the mosque named after the driver of Mohammad  [ Bilal bin Rabah mosque] , and the Maarat HaMachpela is only a Mosque.  And people dismissed it.  And what I called it to the attention even of leaders in Israel and here... people said, what could it mean, it's a joke...How can you rewrite?  How can you eliminate 3,000 years of history? In every Arab Document, in every League of Nations every official document KUtav Rachel is only described as Kever Rochel, "Kutav Rachel. The Kotel, was always called the Wailing Wall or the Western Wall. never Al Buraq's wall. Har HaBayit is now what was never called Omar El Sharif except in limited documents in more recent years  by the Arabs... so after that, they brought it to a meeting in Berlin.  And they adopted a formula where the names would be hyphenated.  So the Kotel is The Kotel-Al Buraq's wall, Kever Rachel is Kutav Rachel - Mohammad's driver, And then in an action last month, 57 countries participated in a vote, that now removed the Jewish names altogether.  And so the Kotel is only Al Buraq wall, Al Buraq Plaza, [Temple Mount is Al-Aqsa Mosque or] Al-Haram Al Sharif,  Kutav Rachel no longer exists, they have erased all of Jewish history... by the way it's true for the Goyim too who hold it's sacred... 57 countries including France, Russia, India voted for this resolution... United States obviously opposed it.  And you think about what's the intent?   With all that's going on in the Middle East, with all the disruption, the volcano of the Arab countries, the collapse of borders and  governments.. why would they focus on this?  Because they know if they take away our past, they take away our future.  That if they erase all our connections, then what right do we have to be there today or to be there in the future? They have erased all of Jewish history but also the Jewish connection. 
 
 
Last week I was in the cemetery of Warsaw and in the cemetery behind the Ramah Shul in Krakow.  And you see how they fixed up the cemetery in Warsaw which is huge... and many Gedoilim, many Rebbes are buried there.  in addition to tens of thousands of others...and it used to be that you could hardly walk in. and yet that cemetery as been completely restored now.  Many Matzeivos are not in the right places because nobody knows where they belong... and you think about the fact that all of this was invested to clean up this cemetery... as important as it is, and yet the most important National Cemetery of the Jewish people can be neglected?... could be allowed to deteriorate to the conditions that we saw there not long ago and some of which still remains and there is still much work to be done.  Last week we saved the cemetery in Golipoli. Nobody knows where Golipily it is, even in Golipily they don't know where it is.  But there is a Jewish cemetery with a thousand graves that was going to be destroyed, and Erdogen, the President of Turkey with whom I happened to meet 10 minutes after I got the call, just by chance from Asra Kadisha  about the problem in this cemetery, and just basherte, just 10 minutes later I was meeting with the President of Turkey...and I raised it with him and in a minute he got the Governer  of Golipily on the phone and it turns out it was the wrong cemetery, the governor thought it was the wrong cemetery,  and we got a word Friday that we saved the Cemetery... so we are able to save cemeteries around the world... but the most important one... the one that is a symbol to the whole world... and its desecration is a message to the world...

You know in this weeks' Parsha, we talk a lot about VeAhavta Lereyacha... and what is a greater expression of VeAhavta LeRayacha if not taking care of those of the dead, to take care of the Kevoros, to make sure that they are afforded the dignity that they are entitled to. We have lost a lot of time over these five decades. But Thank G-d, because of the work of this Committee, because of the Committee...now Ministers talk about it... the government talks about it... they've committed money towards it. There are soldiers up there..., there are policemen up there, there is many more [things] that will be done... and we had to embarrass them into it... including the representatives of the frum parties, many of them told me that they haven't visited their grandparent's Kevarim maybe in 20 years... in 30 years. Even Bibi's grandparents are buried there... and people did not go...and you can't be maasik [comprehend], what was it, how can it be possible that they allowed this situation to go on for so long? So maybe it was like Avraham Avinu who had to circle for 3 days before HaKadosh Baruch Hu would show him Har HaMoriah... to build up the anticipation... to get him to appreciate it... to make him be able to see what he might have not been able to see... Maybe we had to wait in order for us to appreciate the Kedusha, the importance, the significance of Har HaZeitim...and many more people are coming to realize, that this is the true Chesed Shel Emes...that this is the true responsibility that all of us have there, and in every other cemetery for that matter...and the fact that Har HaZeitim occupies the highest geopolitical position that it does...  Do you know that it is the highest mountain in the region, it is 90 meters higher than Har HaBayit, than Har HaMoriah?  It is of significance far beyond just its physical location...we all know the Kedusha that is there...we all know of the Neviim who are buried there...we know of the future role as well as the past role that HarHaZeisim played in our history...and now is the chance of our generation to come and to rise to the occasion... to meet our responsibility.  All of Jewish History will know if we failed or if we succeeded.  Our children and grandchildren and their grandchildren will benefit from it or pay the price for it.   [thanks Donors..]

Menachem Lubinsky

We have given the Israeli Govennment confidence that we can take back East Yerushalyim.  We have shown them that it can be can be done. We need not surrender Yerushalayim and say that it is a fact of life and we can't do anything about it.  

 
 Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff,

(Compare what happened when the British bulldozed bodies of the Kedoshi, victims of the Holocaust into mass graves because of the threat of Typhus with  what the Arabs did Yemach Shemam on Har HaZeysim under the Jordanians.)   

...They took Bulldozers and instead of burying our Kedoshim our Tzadikim our Rishonim our Acharonim  our Neviim, they disinterred them,  whole bodies, limbs,  skulls, 65,000 and tossed them around like dirt and  they didn't just build the Intercontinental Hotel and pave latrines with tombstones with monuments, matzeivos , Halba Tzara, [bad enough], the bodies themselves,  the Kedoshim themselves, the Tzadikim  themselves they made into donkey racing tracks. They built villages themselves to the right and left of Har HaZeisim itself, all those Arab villages are built on top of Kevarim. The Navie Zechariah says this very succinctly. The Navie Zechariah in Kapital Gimmel 3:7  says as follows,  כֹּה אָמַר יְהֹוָה צְבָאוֹת אִם בִּדְרָכַי תֵּלֵךְ וְאִם אֶת מִשְׁמַרְתִּי תִשְׁמֹר וְגַם אַתָּה תָּדִין אֶת בֵּיתִי וְגַם תִּשְׁמֹר אֶת חֲצֵרָי וְנָתַתִּי לְךָ מַהְלְכִים בֵּין הָעֹמְדִים הָאֵלֶּה: You do yours and I will turn the Omdim into  MeHalchim.  I read this in a Michtav Tanchumim its a beFeirush Pri Tzadik.  He explains that there are two types of  Bruyim, [creatures] Omdim and Mehalchim, a child is called the knee of the father. Why the knee of the father? Why not the heart the eyes the mind...Reb Tzaduk says there are two types of Bruyim. There are Malachim who are Omdim, they fulfill their mandate and they stay at their level. Then there are Mehalchim, human beings.  they are alive and well. They strive, they grow, the climb they accomplish. When a person dies, he can be a Tzadik, a Rebbe...but he turns automatically from a Mehalchim to an Omdim. He is very close to the Kisei HaKavod but he can't go any further. he can't ascend, he is frozen in place. eternally. He is like a Malach,l an anges.  When we learn  Zechariah, you are bringing him back alive and he is ascending to get closer to the Kisei HaKaov.  The knee is the part of the body which makes you ambulatory.  Imagine what it means to safeguard the Makom of these Tzadikim. from further disinterment, from further Bizayon like Rav Aaron Shechter said to me two years ago, that not only do the Goyim want to step on us, they want to step on our graves and trample our dignity. That is  not what they are trying to do but what they are actually doing. There are Arabs who spend 1,000 Shekalim for every grave demolished. Take a sledgehammer, smash the headstone, take a picture, they'll give you 1,000 Shekalim. Then there was a Mehapecha, a revolution started by two brothers [the Lubinsky's]...it was not their business but it became their business, I have a vested interest, my father zt"l was nifter 19 years ago and he is buried on Har HaZaisim.  together with his father and his mother and my mother's father she should be well and healthy, her mother, every uncle and aunt...My uncle Rabbi Rottenber I have gone 19 years to the Kever...and in 19 years the Matzav, the situation is the same. we go daven vasikin. The bottom line is that they have made a Mehapecha.  [a revolution]  They are doing 2 very important things. Rav Aaron Kahn came up with a very simple idea that we should contact descendents from all over the world, even if they are not so connected to Yiddishkeit, and show them pictures of the Kever and say we are restoring it.  No. 1 Safety in numbers. Generating support from all over the world that Har HaZeisim is a Makom of Kedusha and people should visit.  a Beis Haknesses to daven Mincha or Maariv.  Guided tours to the Keverim of the Gedoilim. Now you might be offended with what I'm about to say. The Kosel is not limited to Chareidim. The greatest Simcha I get is to see Sephardishe fellows maybe not as connected to Yiddishkeit as they could dancing Dovid Melech Yisroel Chai VeKayom at a Bar Mitzvah at the Kosel. to have so many Yidden going...that is the first thing. Nothing wrong with having more and more Yidden coming to Har HaZeisim to reexplore their roots like they come to the Kosel , if thousands and tens of thousands of people would come, it would automatically change the landscape.  And a practical thing is building a wall  to safeguard the Gerer Chelka and other places, they have even desecrated the Kevarim of soldiers,  there isn't anyone in EY that isn't concerned.  but the politicians and the chief Rabbi who was here 2 years ago told me personally that they are mortified and embarrassed that Yiden in Flatbush have to get together on Bedford and O to discuss Har HaZeisim to turn it into a front burner issue.  but  withi permission of the Novaminsker Rebbe Shlita,  Rosh Agudas Yisroel,  he has been so involved in this, he has come to speak to us, he has been Mechazek us from day one in this inyan, topic.  He realizes that this is a cause to champion.  You saw the film that it wasn't only the chareidishe members of Knesset that are jumping on the bandwagon, even the Labor movement, all types of individuals, whether because of the Lubinsky's or Reb Malcolm or Gedolei Yisroel who are at the forefront, this is a Mitzvah. it's mistama a Chiyuv, it is probably an obligation,  and if you learn the Navi Zecharia,   וְנָתַתִּי לְךָ מַהְלְכִים בֵּין הָעֹמְדִים הָאֵלֶּה you start to get a sense of what we are doing. Hakadosh Baruch Hu Yitzliach Darkeinu, grant us success,  that we should be zocheh Siata Dishmaha, merit heavenly support, to increase Kevod Shamayim honor to our G-d in Heaven, and I thank personally the Rabbanim Gaonim that participated, Achai VeRaiai, and the Ribono Shel Olam will see that if we take Talmidei Chachamim who are no longer with us seriously, we will take the Talmidei Chachamim who are still with us even more seriously, that the Ribono Shel Olam will continue to be mechazek us [strengthen us] Torah, Avodah and Mitzvoth....

Menachem Lubinsky then spoke and  said that of the 23,000 grave markers,  that need to be put there we know exactly where they are lying and we can put a Matzeiva, a gravestone with their name. Most died 1480 to 1850 and their graves were destroyed under the Jordanians.   We have to do this job since their names alone can't link us to their descendant families. He said that the gov't restored 20,000 kevarim but they didn't have names. This is different.  Every shul should adopt a matzeiva.  It costs $2,000  per Matzeiva.  This would change the whole complexion of Har Hazeisim, since you wouldn't see this Churva, destruction when you come from the road and would give us a sense of confidence. 

The Noveminsker Rav - Rav Perlow

This is a sacred effort to preserve to save Har HaZeisim, our most precious commodity... Har haMishcha as the Mishne calls it, Mishcha means oil, comes from the word Meshicha pouring oil, and the Har HaZeisim produced the oil that was used to consecrate Devarim shebikdusha, sacred objects. It is an achrayus, obligation,  for us to preserve and  to keep. We have to be Mekayim, fulfill,  Hashavas Aveida, returning a lost object  to Klal Yisroel, the Assembly of Israel. Klal Yisroel's relationship to Har HaZeisim poses an obligation on each individual to do what they could that those buried have proper Kavod, respect.  It is also a matter of  Kevod Shamayim, honor to our G-d in heaven. This Makom Kadosh, outside of Har haBayit, Temple Mount, involves so many Halachos, laws such as Hilchos Para Aduma, the laws of the Red Heifer. There is so many Halachos that are involved, with Har haZeisim and its position towards the Kodshei Kadoshim, the Holy of Holies. This should make us extremely sensitive to the need  to remove this shame. The Lubinsky family has the particular zechus, merit to have raised awareness for us to feel responsible do something  to restore Kavod, honor.  I call it Hashavas Eveida, returning a lost object. Klal Yisroel is a lost sheep. May we be zocheh, merit,  to bring back the Shechina, G-d's presence,  and may the oil flow again, the Shemen HaMishcha, the annointing oil that is holy and may we be zoche, merit, to complete the task of restoring honor and respect to this Holy Place. 

Prior to the Brooklyn breakfast, Menachem Lubinsky was interviewed on JMINTHE AM by Nachum Segal. Here is an Audio and partial transcript of this interview: 

The reason that this meeting has been called is because we have gotten to a certain point where Har HaZesim right now needs to be secured finally.  What has happened now is that the Israeli Government has done an enormous amount in terms of security, in putting up surveillance cameras, even having a police substation, but for whatever reason destruction of graves continues, people continue to be stoned and access roads to Har haZeisim. More and more it has come apparent that with Arab expansion, they have built almost 50,000 illegal units from Ramallah almost up to Yerushalyim, it comes apparent that Har HaZeisim is sort of the strategic area that is preventing the Arabs from creating a choke-hold on Yerushalayim, but not to speak of the fact that there is 150,000 Jews buried there.  It is probably the only place where you can walk through 3,000 years of history from the Neviim all the way up to the history of Modern Israel. Menachem Begin is buried there...but the point of the matter is that the Knesset will be holding a special tour of Har haZeisim  and session on  of Har haZeitim, on the 15th of June. We feel that this is the time for Neila, to lock up the issue about the security, to demonstrate  forcefully the position of Sovereignty over Jerusalem and to prevent what the Jordanians did to Har haZeisim,   the desecration of 60,000 graves between 1948 and 1967...probably the largest mass destruction of graves in the history of the world,  Mind you the Nazi's only destroyed 12,000 graves and they marched through Europe in 6 years and that was only so that they can make way for their tanks....

Rabbi Lieff is holding the meeting because he feels it is Shaas Kosher, this is the time to close the deal so to say...

 ...When I go to Israel and I speak to the Knesset Members... there is no opposition with the exception of the Arabs. Whomever you talk to, if you speak to Bougie Herzog on the left or all the way on the right,everyone agrees, this has to be done for some reason all they keep saying is Menachem, Avraham (he's my brother)  keep up the pressure on us because this has to be done.  Why this fell upon two brothers from Brooklyn 6,000 miles away for this task...I'm not sure...but I am sure that we must stop the vandalism, we must stop the destruction, we must stop the throwing of garbage on Har HaZeisim, We have to make it secure. Remember that this is a 3,000 year old cemetery that they are still burying people today...  

Nachum Segal 

Menachem Lubinsky is with us live via telephone.  Participating in the Breakfast Meeting this coming Sunday morning "HarRav Moshe Tuvia Lieff Morah D'Asra of Congregation Agudath Yisroel  Beis Binyamin, Rabbi Dovid Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel, the Noveminsker Rebbe, Malcolm Hoenlein, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents there is a website saveharhazeisim.org.

Timeline: Har Hazeitim on Youtube: 

Har HaZeitim 2016 (6:25 minutes) 6 incidences 0 desecrations in April 2016.

Narrator: 

Since Biblical Times, men have come to Har HaZeisim, Mount of Olives to honor our ancestors, our Neviim, our Gedoilim. Har HaZeisim is the burial place of the Neviim Zechariah, Malachi, and Chagai and famous.Rabbanim: Ramban, Ben Ish Chai, Avraham Yitzhak Kook and Notables, Shmuel Yosef Agnon Prime Minister Menachem Begin.  But today we find too litter honor and far to much danger and defilement.  In every row,  in every terrace, along every ancient wall, signs of hatred still mar this holy ground and with Hashem's help, we have begun to break back Has-hem's Holy cemetery. We have begun to repair the damage of Arab Occupation. where tens of thousands of graves were destroyed and the bones of our peoples were scattered in the dirt. But today even beneath  the Israeli flag,  they still desecrate, they still hurl stones and peaceful mourners. 
 
Malcolm Hoenlein
"In Jewish Tradition there is no greater Mitzvah than dealing with the needs of those who are not able to deal with them on their own.  The Mitzvah of Mes Mitzvah, of Kavod HaMes of dignity of the Mes doesn't end with the funeral. It begins there."
 

Narrator: 

No vandalism or rocket attacks in months. 

See what can be accomplished when Jews around the world unite. ICPHH has arranged tours like Yarchei Kallah, New Chapters of ICPHH in London Amsterdam Jerusalem, NY LA, Toronto. Inspiring gatherings around the world to raise support. 

Abraham Lubinsky

 "We are here to continue to work with the Israeli Government, that this change must happen that everyone should be able to visit their loved ones, Roshei Yeshivas and Rebbe's whenever they wish. The Committee has embarked on a mission to restore the graves of 23,000 souls. Our Build the Wall compaign on the Eastern side and  a capital campaign to fund a Visitor Center and Shul.  We are asking everyone to please get involved, to help out the organization, we have a lot of work ahead of us, and we need all of Klal Yisroel to be involved in this Holy Project.  

Moshe Lyon Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem 

"Bechol Dor VeDor Omdim Aleinu LeChaluteinu VeHaKadosh Barch Hu Matzileinu Miyadam  We will continue to go up to Har HaZeitim with confidence. in front of our enemies who want to prevent us from our Life's [daily] routine.  This is the place to say that Jerusalem will be united and strong against the entire world forever. 

Har HaZeitim 2015  (6:18 minutes)  300 incidents 20 desecrations in April 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pnNmW2za1w Scenes of horrible desecration and rock throwing attacks

Agudah 89th Dinner January 2012
Featuring Malcolm Hoenlein,  Avraham and Menachem Lubinsky,  Dov Fishoff

Malcolm Hoenlein: 
"The issue of Har HaZeitim is a far greater significance than I think most people realize. Not only because of it geographic location and the 100,000 people who are buried there, but it has a symbolism that goes beyond that.  There are attempts now to declare Kever Rochel and Maaras HaMachpela and even the Kotel as Arab Holy Sites and they want to take away Har HaZeisim as well...because they know if you take away our past you take away our future.  

Menachem Lubinsky: 
 It was about a year ago that the State Controller Michel Lindenstrauss issued a report condemning and criticizing the Government of Israel for 43 years of neglect of Har HaZeisim.  He pointed to the violence, he pointed to the absolute abuse of the entire area, the destruction of graves, the inaccessibility of some areas, and that prompted the Jerusalem Post to do an editorial again criticizing the Government for neglecting Har HaZeisim. 

Avrohom Lubinsky 
 "I read the Lindenstrauuse Report in the Jerusalem Post and that did it for me.  I mean the next morning I was on fire and I said it's got to stop.  

Menachem Lubinsky: 
How is this being allowed to happen? Why are people being stoned when they go up to be Mispallel by a Kever? Why are graves still destroyed. Why is garbage strewn all over?  Why are the Arabs treating t his as this is another neighborhood of theirs?  

Avraham Lubinsky: 

I myself have been stoned 5 or 6 years ago visiting my parents grave and 2 Arabs were sitting on the wall above and started throwing rocks and stones at me.  

Menachem Lubinsky:  

He reached out to me and others to say we need to do something about this. We need to raise the consciousness of the world that Har HaZeisim is being neglected. We need to be able to make the case that Har HaZeisim is part of Klal Yisroel. It's not just Eretz Yisroel, it's not just Yerushalyim:  

Avraham Lubinsky:  

That evening I said  to Rabbi Zwiebel, he happens to be a neighbor of mine, I said, my father was an Agudah starter and Agudah needs to get involved and help me. That's about all I knew from the start. 

Malcolm Hoenlein: 

I've been involved with Har HaZeisim from the start. I heard many complaints about the inaccessibility, the desecrations of many of the graves there, I approach gov't officials frequently but it wasn't until there was a sustained effort led by Reb Avrahom, that really brought this issue to the fore and enabled us to leverage those contacts and see some real concrete results. 

Rabbi Avrahom Lubinsky:  

There was money allocated many years ago for this to be taken care of,  and the pressure that we are putting on the gov't at the present has been severe, it has been in the associated press, in every single newspaper all over the world

Menachem Lubinsky:  

I know I spoke to many Gedoilim over the years about this project,  I spoke to Reb Aryeh Leib Shteinman, particularly the Gerer Rebbe because 2 of the Gerrer Rebbes are buried in Har haZeisim, there is a deep concern in Ger about what happens on Har HaZeisim....

Avraham Lubinsky:  
What we've succeeded in, which is our main goal which is to have a police force on the mountain. There was some closings that we wanted closed.  They are closed throughout the mountain.  There are a total of 160 cameras that have to go up.  We have also succeeded in restoring a lot of the graves and this is where we. stand now.  

Menachem Lubinsky:  

And the Agudah has become one of the first partners in this effort to try to  correct the problem.  and the Agudah has been very forceful, very helpful, very dedicated to this cause and it is very appropriate that this is the venue for where Har HaZeisim is recognized.  

Dov Fishoff active Member of Agudah :

Over the past year Avraham and his brother have made tremendous efforts to preserving Har HaZeisim.  However, the work is by no means done.  THIS IS KLAL YISROEL"S CAUSE AND WE NEED EACH MEMBER OF KLAL YISROEL TO JOIN US IN PRESERVING THE KEDUSHA OF HAR HAZEISIM.  


Har HaZeitim Progress 2012 [11:21 minutes]  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGEIEg19l-4

Jeffe Daube- ZOA, Abe and Menachem Lubinsky, Malcolm Hoenlein, Labor Head Yitzhak Herzog,Tzipi Hotoveli,  Elliot Engel,  

Rabbi Shalom Gold, 

"My Father is buried here, my in laws are buried here, my friends, family who doesn't know someone that is buried here on Har HaZeisim. It is important to make sure that it is accessible at all times of day or night. We must make sure that this is the Heritage of the Jewish People"  

Yishai Fleisher 

it is place of constant problems, we are constantly facing rocks. Rocks are like bullets,  Rocks kill, they break your window, they get in your kids eyes chas vechalila...This is what happens here. You cannot get to the cemetery, 

Jerold Nadler - Shows a big rock that was just a fragment. 

someone threw a hard rock at us. 
 
Yishai Fleisher
 "Fear is the weapon of our enemy, To divide us, to make us afraid to walk in our own graveyard, to live in our city." 

Malcolm Hoenlein 

"We need to have laws like we do in 35 States that holds people accountable increases the punishment, even for minors, there must be punishment and their parents must be held accountable for the children engaged in these acts...The judgement of Har HaZeisim will not be what others did to us, but what we did or failed to do. And I think that is the critical challenge.  Moshe Rabbeinu told us at the Mitzva of Hakhel, that the greatest challenge against the Jewish people in not an external enemies, war or natural disasters...it's apathy, indifference and ignorance... Those are the 3 challenges that we could not overcome.  We need to educate people about the history, the current reality and what needs to be done so they feel pressure.  We need to educate Members of the Knesset and Elected officials because they don't know.  And everyone we brought here responded immediately. ". 

Itzhak Herzog: Head of Labor Party

"With this effort that has commenced in the last few months, and the public awareness and attention, that there should be a clear upgrade of this site, I think it should be a major effort of the government as well as the municipality of Jerusalem, and I can say on behalf of many members of the Knesset of all parties concerned, that we will support it vehemently in the Knesset as a very strong lobby to make sure that what we've seen so far we should not see and we should see a much better kept site of Har HaZeitim!"  

Barbara Goldstein Deputy Executive Director of Hadassah Israel

 "All of us represents all kinds of organizations that bring groups to Israel. "I am very proud that every Hadassah Mission every group,  visits the Mount of Olives. It's us, each one of us, should make sure that every one of the groups that are coming, every one of the Conventions, every one of the Federations, wherever it is, we make sure to come and visit [Har HaZeitim], " 

 Danny Ayalon,  Foreign Minister 

"...and we see great interest in the cemeteries, some of which are 3000 years old, we know that there are no people like the Jewish people in understanding of honoring the past and building the future. 

Malcolm Hoenlein  

I hope that this effort be the beginning and not the end..that we will all live up to the responsibility that all future generations will look back and thank you and praise you for preserving their past and their future. 


Har HaZeitim 2010 (3:54 minutes) Terrible desecration, 

Quotable Quotes:

"They understand that if you take away our past, you take away our future" Malcolm Hoenlein

"ICPHH was established To tell the world what was happening and what needed to be changed...."

"Even in the midst of the most recent wave of terror, the hate crime at Har HaZeitim is down. The committees efforts have brought in increased security.  as a result there are no new reports of vandalism or rocket reports in months.  It is a testament to what can be accomplished when Jews around the world unite!"

"It comes apparent that Har HaZeisim is sort of the strategic area that is preventing the Arabs from creating a choke-hold on Yerushalayim" Menachem Lubinsky on JMINTHEAM May 2016


Sincerely, 

Robin Ticker

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Wednesday, April 08, 2015

Rabbi Yitzchok Sorotzkin Teshuva: Stop the Talking Campaign. Going one step further... Yearn for Malchut Shamayim, Malchut Beit David, Beit Hamikdash.


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Rabbi Yitzchok Sorotzkin's Stop the Talking campaign going around, to encourage people to stop talking in shul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6WgMPCtm1Y&safe=active leads us to a Yalkut Shimoni which describes how Am Yisroel must do Teshuva to dispel the prosecutors up in Heaven. 

Let us get to the root of the matter.... 

Let's talk about Har Habayit, Temple Mount.  We can no longer afford to push off this discussion.

First thing in the morning to start the daily sacrifices on Har Habayit, the observer on the roof looks towards Hebron,

 Yoma Perek Gimmel Mishneh Aleph.  
 
The Mishneh states (Courtesy of Artscroll)
 
"The   Administrator said to the assembled Kohanim; 'Go out and see if the time for slaughtering has arrived,," If it had arrived, the one who sees [it] (the observer on the roof) says "Barkai!"  (the sheen of the sun can already be seen)
 
Mattisya ben Shmuel says: (he was the administrator of the lots) 'The whole of the east has lit up.' 'as far as Hebron?' And he (the observer on the roof) says Yes!!
 
This Mishneh is talking about how when the sacrifices in the Har Habayit in Yerushalayim commence each morning, it must be determined that indeed it is daylight. The Mishneh discusses how this is determined and Hebron, the burial place of our forefathers is a key player.

Our discussion about Hebron leads us to digress a bit to talk about the Covenant that G-d made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob buried in Hebron.

Vayikra 26 Pasuk (42) "Vezacharti as Brisi Yaakov, Veaf as Brisi Yitzchok, Veaf es Brisi Avraham Ezkor, Vehaaretz Ezkor". I will remember My Covenant with Jacob and also My covenant with Isaac, and also My covenant with Abraham will I remember, and I will remember the Land. (43)The Land will be bereft of them; and it will be appeased for its sabbaticals having become desolate of them; and they must gain appeasement for their iniquity, because they were revolted by My ordinances and because their spirit rejected My decrees.

The Covenant of Yaakov is in Breishis Perek 28 Pasukim 13-16. 
The Covenant to Yitzchok is Breishis Perek 26 Pesukim 2-6. 
The Covenant with Avraham is Breishis Perek 15 Pesukim 18-21. 

The Covenants and promises to the forefathers share three points. 
1. Land is promised to them and to their children afterwords 
2. The Nations of the world are blessed through them and 
3. the children must keep the commandments in order to be worthy of the Land.

How can we be complacent regarding giving away Judea and Samaria?  

Surely we forego any possibility of observing the Shemittah or the rest of the commandments dependent on the Land. 

Where is the cry "THIS IS OUR LAND"? 

Why has there been silence when the White House annuls the Covenant between G-d and our forefathers and the people of Israel by accusing us of "an occupation that has lasted for almost 50 years". 

The Six Day War in 1967  won by Israel via open miracles not legitimate? Is the Covenant that G-d sealed with us when He took us out of Egypt to bring us to the Land of Israel not binding in our day and age?

 ZOA  reports: 
In a critical moment, Mr. McDonough adopted Palestinian talking points, declaring, "An occupation that has lasted for almost 50 years must end.. and the Palestinian people must have the right to live in and govern themselves in their own sovereign state." ('White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough Remarks As Prepared at J Street Annual Conference,' March 23, 2015).


The Torah in Nitzavim Perek 29 Pasuk 23 says And all the nations will say, "For what reason did Hashem do so to this Land; why this wrathfulness of great anger?" (24)And they will say, "Because they forsook the Covenant of Hashem, the G-d of their forefathers, that He sealed with them when He took them out of the Land of Egypt, and they went and served the gods of others and prostrated themselves to them, gods that they knew not and He did not apportion to them. So G-d's anger flared against that Land to bring upon the entire curse that is written in this Book; and Hashem removed them from upon their soil with anger, with wrath, and with fury and He cast them to another land as this very day! The hidden[sins] are for Hashem, our G-d but the revealed [sins] are for us and our children forever, to carry out all the words of this Torah." 

Our Rabbis instituted prayer as a temporary substitute ever since the Temple was destroyed.  

If one delves into every part of the liturgy, starting with Modeh Ani, going to the Bracha of Tzizit, Tefilin, Mah Tovu, reciting of Akeida, Karbanot, .....Yearning for Har Habayit, the Temple Mount, is central to every single prayer. 

So let us return to our discussion about the Tefilla campaign.

This Tefila campaign, not to speak in the Beit Knesset, the shul,  which is a Beit Mikdash Mi'at, a little Temple, must connect to the very root, which is our deepest yearning to return to the Avoda in the Beis Hamikdash, Temple Mount, the very place Chosen by G-d, the Great Temple.  This in turn connects us with Hebron and the Covenant G-d made with our forefathers. 

Tefilla as did Sacrifice, is supposed to lead us to closeness to G-d.  When we consider our prayers akin to the sacrifices, we need to cry because in Today's world we can't serve G-d in the Temple like we once did. 

After the Har Nof massacre in the Beit Knesseth, and after the terrible fire in Flatbush with 7 pure souls were returned to G-d in heaven, we are in deep pain because we sense that if we did have the Beit Hamikdash and the ability to bring the Karbonot it would have been Mechaper us an atonement. Does Hashem have no better option than to take human sacrifice like in Har Nof or in Midwood to be Mechaper Israel r"l.  

Rabbi Sorotzkin seems to strongly give over the message that talking in Tefila is an insult to G-d and that has brought upon Israel horrible tragedies. 

Surely this makes sense because to be Mezalzel Tefila, to make light of our prayers,  is to be Mezalzel the Avoda, to make light of Temple service in the Beis HaMikdash.  

Only G-d can read the service of the heart.  While it is true that talking instead of praying is indicative of lack of respect and shows lack of reverence it is also true that one can be saying all the right words, have impeccable decorum, yet still lack closeness to G-d.  

Most of us can attest that at times prayers can be mere lip service.. 

In fact Rav Sorotzkin ends his talk describing a scene where all the Tzadikim righteous souls are defending Israel saying how much Chesed, kindness the People of Israel do and how many Mitzvoth they do etc. yet it is not enough... 

He then brings down a Yalkut Shimoni that there are three things that Israel despised 
  
Maasu B'malchut Shamayim They despised the Kingdom of Heaven
not machshiv Beis Dovid       and the Davidic Kingdom
Ubibinyan Beis Hamikdash    and the building of the Beis Hamikdash.

and until there is a Tikkun on these three things, we won't be zocheh to leave this Galus. 

Let us elaborate...

Maasu B'Malchut Shamayim.  Despising the kingdom of heaven...

We remember the Malchut Shamayim on Rosh Hashana in Malchiyut.  We pray that all the Nations of the world will recognize Hashem and His Kingship.  For that we need to be willing to take a leadership position in the world.  Har Habayit is the key for this to happen.  The Nations of the world will stream to Jerusalem and bring gifts to Hashem.

 Isaiah Chapter 2

1. The word that Isaiah, son of Amoz, prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem.  א. 2. And it shall be at the end of the days, that the Mountain of the Lord's House shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains, and it shall be raised above the hills, and all the nations shall stream to it.   ב. 3. And many peoples shall go, and they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the Lord's mount, to the House of the God of Jacob, and let Him teach us of His ways, and we will go in His paths," for out of Zion shall the Torah come forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.   ג. 4. And he shall judge between the nations and reprove many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift the sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.   ד. 5. "O house of Jacob, come and let us go in the light of the Lord."

 Isaiah 11:9  "They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as water covers the sea"

We need to be Mevakesh these three items as it says in Hoshea 3:5
ה. אַחַר יָשֻׁבוּ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וּבִקְשׁוּ אֶת יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵיהֶם וְאֵת דָּוִיד מַלְכָּם וּפָחֲדוּ אֶל יְהֹוָה וְאֶל טוּבוֹ בְּאַחֲרִית הַיָּמִים:
5. Afterwards shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God and David their king, and they shall come trembling to the Lord and to His goodness at the end of days.

Achar  Yashvu Bnei Yisroel, if Bnei Yisroel will return once again, 
Uvikshu es Hashem Elokeychem.  They will ask for Hashem their G-d.  (This is Malchut Shamayim)
Ves Dovid Malchum  They will ask for the Kingdom of David
Upachado as Tuvam, they will want His goodness, this is the Beis Hamikdash.

Hoshea   tells us the importance of understanding the Chashivos (great importance) of 
  • Chashivus Malchus Shamayim
  • Chashivus Malchus Beis Dovid
  • Chashivos Malchus Mikdash

Yerushalyim Ircha BeRachamim Tashuv.

Surely one can not imagine that in Har Nof there was lack of decorum, among those brutally murdered....  

Hoshea may be the key to better understand why this tragedy happened. 

The key is Unity of Am Yisroel so much noted by the parents of those recently sacrificed namely the parents of the 3 boys and the family members of the Har Nof massacre and the Father of the Sassoon family. 

Let me suggest the following:

The Secular yearn for a Malchus Shamayim.  A Jewish Kingdom where Israel is involved in Tikkun Olam and being a light onto the Nations.

The Chareidim yearn be be Holy and separate.

When there is appreciation between the Secular and Chareidi Jews of the value of each others yearning, to be a Kingdom of Priests, a Holy Nation serving the Nations of the World then we will be deserving of dissipating our enemies without war and without human sacrifice. 

Let us yearn for the return o the Davidic Kingdom and the return of the Temple and the Holy Sacrifices where Israel will be known far and wide as a Mamlechet Kohanim veGoy Kadosh a Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation..





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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) and Howard Chaim Grief great activists and lovers of Eretz Yisroel, Am Yisroel and the Torah. Yehi Zichronum Baruch.  May their memories serve as a blessing.

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