בצדק תשפוט עמיתך ויקרא יט Duma Blood Libel: BeTzedek Tishpot Amitecha Vayikra 19:15 Mitvoth D'Orayta Judge With Righteousness

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Pikuach Nefesh (Savings one's life) Who can endure administrative detention which translates to charges, prosecution, imprisonment, interrogation without due process , slander and torture for a crime one does not commit?

We can therefore safely assume that this is a matter of Pikuach Nefesh and the Duma suspects' lives, physical and emotional health, are in a precarious state along with all the other Settler Youth who are suffering Post Trauma Stress Disorder following unfair, unjustified, criminal treatment...)

Pidyon Shvuyim -- Pidyon Shvuyim (Hebrew: פִּדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִים‎, literally: Redemption of Captives) is a religious duty in Judaism to bring about the release of a fellow Jew imprisoned unjustly by the authorities. The release of the prisoner is typically secured by a ransom paid by the Jewish community.  We are not asking for money but simply that you share this email and other articles/posts etc. that vindicate the Jewish Settler Youth. Share it with your Rabbi and Spiritual Leader, Askan, Jewish print media, radio, TV, email and/or social media.

Shmos Perek 23 Parshat Mishpatim Pesukim 1-8

1 You shall not accept a false report; do not place your hand with a wicked person to be a false witness.

  א לֹא תִשָּׂא שֵׁמַע שָׁוְא אַל תָּשֶׁת יָדְךָ עִם רָשָׁע לִהְיֹת עֵד חָמָס  We have good reason to believe that the Israel Security Agency (also known as ISA  or Shin Bet) has provided false reports about the hilltop, settler youth among them forced confessions.  Unfortunately, many influential leaders, Rabbanim across the board, political figures and journalists have accepted these false reports as truth and the slander has been spread throughout the secular and Jewish media.

2 You shall not follow the majority for evil, and you shall not respond concerning a lawsuit to follow many to pervert [justice].   "לֹא-תִהְיֶה אַחֲרֵי-רַבִּים לְרָעֹת וְלֹא-תַעֲנֶה עַל-רִב לִנְטֹת אַחֲרֵי רַבִּים לְהַטֹּת ב

Just because the majority of the media and political figures and even Rabbanim have condemned hilltop youth for Price Tag vandalism, arson and the murder of innocent Arabs we may not pervert justice and must conduct a fair investigation as to precisely what exactly happened and not rely on forced confessions..

3 Neither shall you glorify a poor man in his lawsuit.   

ג וְדָל לֹא תֶהְדַּר בְּרִיבוֹ: It must be a fair investigation

(As does the Torah, I am now embedding in our discussion about pursuing justice the Pesukim regarding helping with your enemy's donkey. There is much we can learn from this juxtaposition. Many Rabbanim hold that Meir Ettinger and the Hilltop youth reject and threaten Rabbinic authority when they promote going up to Har HaBayit etc. and in this respect consider them their enemy. Yet the Torah says that when our enemy is down we come to his aid.  What a tremendous Kiddush Hashem it would be if Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah and the Aguda would demand a fair and open investigation of the hilltop youth! We pray for Shalom and Unity in Am Yisroel)

4 If you come upon your enemy's bull or his stray donkey, you shall surely return it to him.   

ד כִּי תִפְגַּע שׁוֹר אֹיִבְךָ אוֹ חֲמֹרוֹ תֹּעֶה הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֶנּוּ לוֹ: Please restore the good name  of these boys who have been slandered as Jewish Terrorists in a blood libel against them.

5 If you see your enemy's donkey lying under its burden would you refrain from helping him? You shall surely help along with him.  

ה כִּי תִרְאֶה חֲמוֹר שׂנַאֲךָ רֹבֵץ תַּחַת מַשָּׂאוֹ וְחָדַלְתָּ מֵעֲזֹב לוֹ עָזֹב תַּעֲזֹב עִמּוֹ Please write a letter!

6 You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor man in his lawsuit.  

ו לֹא תַטֶּה מִשְׁפַּט אֶבְיֹנְךָ בְּרִיב (These kids are vulnerable. They have been outcasts either by choice or by force, many of them never recovered from the severe trauma and betrayal they experienced from the expulsion from Gush Katif and Amona or of a similar nature. The Jewish people owe them an apology rather than to compound the trauma)

7 Distance yourself from a false matter; and do not kill a truly innocent person or one who has been declared innocent, for I will not vindicate a guilty person.   ז מִדְּבַר שֶׁקֶר תִּרְחָק וְנָקִי וְצַדִּיק אַל תַּהֲרֹג כִּי לֹא אַצְדִּיק רָשָׁע: The hilltop youth claim that the allegations against them are false and fabricated and they deny the allegations… that is until they were tortured. One just turned 18 Jewish boy, a Duma suspect, who happens to be an American citizen, showed the scars of an attempted suicide following being tortured..

8 You shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe will blind the clear sighted and corrupt words that are right.   ח וְשֹׁחַד לֹא תִקָּח כִּי הַשֹּׁחַד יְעַוֵּר פִּקְחִים וִיסַלֵּף דִּבְרֵי צַדִּיקִים: Does government funding for Political entities and Yeshivoth come into the picture that distorts clarity of what really happened in Duma and their quick condemnations of hilltop youth?

Vayikra Perek 19 Pesukim 15-18

15 You shall commit no injustice in judgment; you shall not favor a poor person or respect a great man; you shall judge your fellow with righteousness.   טו לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ עָוֶל בַּמִּשְׁפָּט לֹא תִשָּׂא פְנֵי דָל וְלֹא תֶהְדַּר פְּנֵי גָדוֹל בְּצֶדֶק תִּשְׁפֹּט עֲמִיתֶךָ: The truth must be investigated and the words of influential politicians or even influential Rabbinic or governmental leaders should not be taken more seriously than the words of the poor and vulnerable.  

16 You shall not go around as a gossipmonger amidst your people. You shall not stand by [the shedding of] your fellow's blood. I am the Lord.

  טז לֹא תֵלֵךְ רָכִיל בְּעַמֶּיךָ לֹא תַעֲמֹד עַל דַּם רֵעֶךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה: The slander regarding the Duma case clearly reminds us of this Pasuk where almost everyone was quick to condemn them thereby engaging in character assassination and a blood libel.. These condemnations were public, are on the record, in the news and have been dutifully noted and documented and can easily be found on the internet.

17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your fellow, but you shall not bear a sin on his account.

יז לֹא תִשְׂנָא אֶת אָחִיךָ בִּלְבָבֶךָ הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת עֲמִיתֶךָ וְלֹא תִשָּׂא עָלָיו חֵטְא: Silence of evil is evil, to quote Glenn Beck.  How can we be silent at this travesty of justice? Not coming to their defense points to Sinat Chinam against the hilltop and Settler youth in our hearts and fueling Sinat Chinam between Chareidim and Dati Leumi communities. Will we allow them to be locked up to satisfy our own agenda?

18 You shall neither take revenge from nor bear a grudge against the members of your people; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

יח לֹא תִקֹּם וְלֹא תִטֹּר אֶת בְּנֵי עַמֶּךָ וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה:

Amein! Ken Yehi Ratzon!

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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. 

Tal Binyamin AKA Tapuach West Being Expelled and Demolished...Comments...which Settlement Community is next Chas VeShalom on the Chopping Block. Where is Leadership to Stop THIS?????

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Tal Binyamin - Tapuach West getting expelled and demolished. Named after Talya and Binyamin Kahane

Tal Binyamin Community

Around eighteen years ago, a number of young families established a new community in the Samarian hills called Tal Binyamin (Tapuach West). They established the community in memory of the couple Talya and Binyamin Kahane HY”D ob"m.

More Destruction of Jewish Homes Today in Samaria

https://israelunwired.com/more-destruction-of-jewish-homes-today-in-samaria/

Fwd: live feeds to expulsion of Jews now in Tapuach קישור חי לגירוש היהודים עכשיו בתפוח. Persecution of Hilltop Youth by Vicious Police. Live video. Please circulate

https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/06/fwd-live-feeds-to-expulsion-of-jews-now.html

"The Voice of our Brothers' Blood Cries out to us" On Duma Suspects Harsh Torture by Shabak.

https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-voice-of-our-brothers-blood-cries.html

Fwd: פוגרום בתפוח-מערב Lawfare pogrom in Tapuach-West by Susie Dym

https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/06/fwd-lawfare-pogrom-in-tapuach-west-by.html

Fwd: Persecution! Destruction again in Tapuach Midwest bc of Housing infractions ! The Israeli government ignores BAGATZ enforcement in the Arab and Bedouin sector Yet Persecutes Jewish Sector by Bulldozing Jewish Homes by David Bedein. The Entire Nation should Protest!

https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/06/fwd-persecution-destruction-again-in.html

Tapuach West: Evacuation, demolition: 'What'd you expect from Supreme Court?' Moshe Herzlich brother  of Talya Kahana hy'd who was murdered with her husband Rabbi Binyamin Kahane hy"d son of Rabbi Meir Kahane. 
Moshe Hertzlich accuses government of responsibility for evacuation, demolition. 'If State says land isn't ours, what do you expect from Court?'
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/247562?

משה הרצליך בוגר יחידת אגוז – יחידת עילית בצה”ל, ואחיה של טליה כהנא שנרצחה ע”י מחבלים לעיני ילדיה הקטנים יחד עם בעלה (h)

https://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/37573

Read about Talya Kahana's Father hy"d 
Avraham Herzlich - The Shepherd who Sold the Ferrari. Father of Talya Kahana hy"d
https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/06/avraham-herzlich-shepherd-who-sold.html

Is this the Governments answer to the Duma Investigation and to the Hilltop Youth, those that are associated with Rabbi Meir Kahana. This Tuesday there is a court hearing as per whether the torture of the Duma suspects will be accepted.  Does the Government have no conscience?  

Stop with all the Political wheeling and dealing. According to Moshe Herzlich this expulsion was totally unnecessary. (see his video above in Hebrew). He  says it is all being orchestrated by the Government. The community offered to move the homes on their own without taking a Shekel. Is this all a political show for Jared Kushner and for Jason Greenblatt?

When will we unite to Stop this Ongoing Needless and Horrible Persecution of Hilltop Youth and Destruction of Jewish Settlement especially those with an affiliation of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane hy"d ob"m. 

Why is each Yesha community acting independently?  Why are these Jewish Youth  shouldering this ongoing Chillul Hashem on their own? 

Why can't the established Settlements of Yehuda and Shomron Unite?  Where is the Great Jewish Leadership of Rav Goren z"l  who stormed to Har HaBayit and Hebron with a Shofar on his own in 1967? http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/first-person/when-the-arabs-surrendered-hebron-rabbi-goren-recalls-how-he-reclaimed-the-cave-of-the-patriarchs/2016/11/23/

Israel Uncensored: On the 8th Day, Don’t Forget Netiv Ha’avot [audio]
http://www.jewishpress.com/multimedia/radio/land-of-israel/israel-uncensored-with-josh-hasten/israel-uncensored-on-the-8th-day-dont-forget-netiv-haavot-audio/2018/06/19/


Incessant Police Violence Marks Evacuation of Tapuah Hill West
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/police-news/incessant-police-violence-marks-evacuation-of-tapuah-hill-west/2018/06/17/

Under International Pressure Netanyahu Saves Illegal Arab Settlement While Demolishing 2 Jewish Neighborhoods
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/global/europe/eu/under-international-pressure-netanyahu-saves-illegal-arab-settlement-while-demolishing-2-jewish-neighborhoods/2018/06/19/

Can't individual communities in Yehuda and Shomron like  Hebron, Kiryat Arba,  Itamar, Gush Etzion, WIG etc. join together in solidarity to prevent the senseless Destruction and Persecution of these Hilltop Youth and demand that the government validate our religious and ideological claim to our Land.  This ideology is no different and actually an outgrowth of the mainstream Yesha enterprises yet this particular group has been bad mouthed, framed, tortured and ostracized. 

Each "established"  community, be it a Settlement or a Yeshiva is getting payback and  it is buying silence and we don't seem to hear the Voice of Our Brothers Blood which is crying out with the Torah Message in its pure unadulterated form.

These Jewish Youth in Josephs Territory are not getting any compensation package  and quite the opposite, they are literally imprisoned and beaten up, 

The time has come to reverse the trend.  Let the Shabak, the Rabbanim, the Yesha Counsel all the mainstream Yesha enterprises etc.  feel what it's like to have a tarnished reputation after all the wonderful work they are doing.  

Until these Hilltop Youth get the positive recognition they deserve, no one else deserves it as well!

It's time to wake up Am Yisroel....

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

Fwd: The founding fathers and mothers - Yehudit Katsover

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2018

The Founding fathers and mothers of the settlement movement

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of
Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, Golan Heights and the Sinai, the weekly
Yesha Shelanu newsletter publishes interviews with the founders of the
settlement movement; the pioneers who, immediately after the Six Day
war, renewed Jewish life in Israel's Biblical Heartland. This week
they published the story of our very own Yehudit Katsover.



The story of Yehudit Katsover

Yehudit Katsover, resident of Kiryat Arba-Hevron, is married to Zvi
Katsover, mother of 5 children and grandmother.

She is co-chair of the Women in Green movement and is the founder of
the Sovereignty Movement together with Nadia Matar. Yehudit and Nadia
have been leading in recent years the practical discourse for Israeli
sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley.

1.     A Bit of Background

"I was born in April 1947 in Transylvania (once Hungarian, but now
under Romanian sovereignty) it was something like living in "the
territories". My parents were Satmar Hasidim, but also Zionists, who
belonged to Poalei Agudat Israel. There was an abiding longing for the
Land of Israel in their home. They were steadfastly and expectantly
waiting for the approval of the authorities to immigrate to the Land
of Israel. My mother is a survivor of Auschwitz and my father studied
at Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum's Satmar yeshiva.

My parents married after the Holocaust. It was not for love, at first,
but in order to rebuild the Jewish People. They brought three children
into the world. In post-war Europe, this was a large family. We made
aliya to the Land of Israel when I was 12 years old, arriving in the
month of Nissan. The first thing that made a great impression on me in
Haifa was the light. It was a clear, bright, pure light, which exists
nowhere else in the world. We were sent to Dimona by the Jewish Agency
– but my parents, with their 70 kilos of belongings - settled down in
B'nei B'rak, for religious reasons. (I would eventually go to Dimona
later).

I grew up and went to school in Kfar Eliahu, near Gedera. In 1966,
with a teacher's certificate in hand, I went south to Dimona, where I
met my husband Tzvi. We married and were both deeply engaged in
education and other activities. We passed the Six Day War in school
shelters with all of the children and their parents. The liberation of
Jerusalem moved us to the core, caused us to be so proud; the song,
Jerusalem of Gold, echoed everywhere, was heard from every building.

2.     The Move to Kiryat Arba-Hevron

Benny, Zvi's brother, married in Hevron. He and his wife Bina were
living in the Administration Building, where we used to visit them.
One of these times, during a tour of the area, Benny told Zvi, "This
is where Kiryat Arba will be". And Zvi, without consulting me, gave
him a promise: "if there is going to be a city here, we are coming".

Kiryat Arba was established in August 1971, and anyone who knows Zvi
knows that he keeps his promises. I fought the decision vigorously. It
was good for us in Dimona. What more did we need besides our social
and educational activity and community in the Negev? But Zvi claimed,
and rightly so, that "many people will come to Dimona. Fewer will come
to Hevron. The challenge now is to settle the liberated areas". It was
not easy. Looking back years later, I was fortunate that Zvi won this
argument.

We arrived in Kiryat Arba on the first day it was possible to move in.
It was Rosh Hashanah eve, 1971. There was no doctor, no telephones, no
sidewalks, in the winter there was mud all over, there was no
transportation. Luckily, Rav Levinger, ztz"l, who was the head of the
residents' committee, tried to help me cope during this difficult
period. I began to work as a cultural coordinator together with him.
The rabbi's personal example, his ethical behavior, his family's
frugality, Rav Levinger's total dedication, the many discussions and
endless arguments, finally broke through the wall of alienation. I
began to participate in the noble struggles to develop Kiryat Arba, to
expand the hours for Jews to be allowed to pray  in the Cave of the
Patriarchs; entering Beit Hadassah and staying there for months,
together with 13 other women and our children, under the leadership of
Rabbanit Miriam Levinger, all that was the perfect melting pot.

I learned much from the Rav, and in everything I do I try to act in
accordance with three principles that he taught us: initiate –
determine facts on the ground; carry out public relations activities
in favor of the action; lobby in Knesset and bolster the government.

3.     The Beit Hadassah Story Could Provide Material for a Hollywood Film.

Info: The historic Bet Hadassa complex in Hebron was built in 1893
with funds from Jewish communities around the world. Later the
Hadassah Organization turned it into a medical clinic which granted
free medical care to both Jewish and Arab residents. In 1929 the
hospital was the site of some of the worst rioting by Arabs who
murdered 67 Jewish residents of Hebron. The clinic was looted and
burnt. The liberation of Hebron in 1967 enabled the Jews to return the
Jewish presence to Bet Hadassa.

Construction in Kiryat Arba was frozen. Nothing new was being built.
People gathered for a meeting at Rav Levinger's house. How can we
break though the building freeze?

The idea of entering the Beit Hadassah building in Hebron came from
artist Baruch Nahshon, whose wife Sarah and their ten children were
among those who participated. Zambish (Ze'ev Hever) and Dompa (Aharon
Domb) were responsible for the planning and logistics of the operation
to enter Beit Hadassah. Late one night, in 1979, 13 mothers and 45
children with minimal equipment got into a truck. The idea was that
Prime Minister Begin, Polish gentleman as he was, would not evict the
women and children who had entered without the husbands. We entered
the bet Hadassa building on Thursday, before dawn. If we could manage
to remain Thursday, Friday and Shabbat, we hoped that this would
constitute a "chazaka". We arrived by truck to the back of Beit
Hadassah. A ladder was raised. We climbed the ladder one by one. We
passed the fence and found ourselves in the courtyard of Beit
Hadassah. In front of Beit Hadassah there always were Israeli soldiers
on guard duty because of a previous attempt to enter. We had to keep
totally silent so that we would not draw the soldiers' attention. One
of the open miracles was that no child uttered even a peep and none
cried during this time.

We entered the lower floor or the building. It was totally dark. Our
footsteps raised clouds of dust that had lain undisturbed over the
years. We settled down for a short nap.  The morning sun was rising
and the soldiers were surprised by the women and children in the
building. We began to survey the building and try to organize a daily
routine.

The Division Commander – Fuad Ben Eliezer – came and decided that no
one else could enter Beit Hadassah, and a list of names was made.
Whoever was already there could stay. But if someone left they could
not return. We received supplies from Kiryat Arba. They brought
essential supplies and passed them through the windows. They brought
water in jerry cans, set up 2 chemical toilets, we bathed sparingly, a
cup of water was enough for a decent bath; we started a school on
site, the wonderful women of Kiryat Arba who visited, took laundry and
returned clean clothes and diapers. Everything was passed through the
windows, for we could not go out and they could not enter the
building.

On the first Shabbat eve it was a bit sad, but this feeling quickly
dissipated. When prayers to welcome the Shabbat were over at the Cave
of the Patriarchs, the entire community came to Beit Hadassah and
broke out in powerful song that echoed into the distance. Even today,
when I remember this event, I am overcome with emotion and my entire
body trembles. This singing on Erev Shabbat, while we were inside and
they were outside, continued for the entire period of close to a full
year of our stay in Beit Hadassah.

Rav Levinger's activism resulted in many visits by politicians;
journalists came to see what was happening. There were difficulties,
the severe hygienic conditions left their mark. There was a constant
battle with lice, and then with hepatitis. Shoshana Peretz' pregnancy
was progressing and there were concerns that if she left to give
birth, they would not allow her to return. Our friends on the outside
saw an item on our daily supermarket list, a request to bring a
"havilat leida" (childbirth kit). By mistake, they read "havilat
glida" (a package of ice cream) and indeed, brought us some delicious
ice cream. Ultimately, Shoshana did leave to give birth and afterward
was allowed to return with her newborn baby girl, so a new name,
Hadassah, (of course) was added to the list of the commune's
residents.

On Shabbat eve, the 16th of Iyar, May 2nd, 1980, Arab terrorists
ambushed the worshipers leaving the Cave of the Patriarchs. Six
yeshiva students were killed and sixteen were wounded – and this was
the impetus for the Jewish return to permanent residency in the Old
City of Hevron .

A step forward in Hevron and a step backward in Yamit. From Bet
Hadassah I went straight to Yamit. I lived in the Iksim neighborhood
in Yamit with other families that had come from Kiryat Arba. The
struggle in Yamit was like this:

On one hand we had faith that there would be no expulsion. But we
hunkered down anyway.

The expulsion from Yamit was difficult physically, but especially
emotionally. We returned home to Kiryat Arba broken and exhausted. It
was difficult to talk to people who had not been expelled. Only people
who had been expelled understood each other. Routine life seemed
strange. How was it possible to continue after this terrible rift?
Those who came from Yamit felt like Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai when he
emerged from the cave. Something had broken deep within the
nationalist camp, our innocent faith that there was a straight line to
the redemption.

4- Deputy Council Head and the Struggles to develop Kiryat Arba-Hevron

We are consoled by taking action and keeping active. Thank G-d as
deputy council head of Kiryat Arba we expanded the Avraham Avinu
neighborhood, and Beit Romano.

Later the Ulpana was established under the urging of Rabbi Rafi
Kuperstock and they began planning a yeshiva high school, which was
established when my husband Zvi was appointed as council head. I tried
to be a help to him, mainly in the battles over security as a member
of the Action Committee.

One of the most significant roles that I have had the privilege of
fulfilling was to lead the absorption of Russian immigrants in 1990.
As a teacher in the Ulpan, I experienced daily the realization of the
vision of the revival of the "dry bones".

After some years, together with Rav Moshe Bleicher shlit"a and Zvi as
council head, we established the (women's) College for Teachers, a
branch of Efrata College. We began with 17 students, but by the time I
ended my term as principal of the college after 20 years, there were
200 students, filled with a spirit of mission and dedication to the
next generation.

The Expulsion from Gush Katif and Following the Expulsion

During the Expulsion from Gush Katif we were in Gadid, where I met
Nadia Matar, of Women in Green, who was with her family in Kfar-Yam.
The naiveté of Yamit transformed into a resolute decision – no more
evictions and expulsions! Immediately following the expulsion, we
worked together with Rav Levinger, zt"l, until the expulsion from Beit
HaShalom.

After Beit HaShalom, Nadia and I focused on activism to keep the land
holdings in the area of Gush Etzion from being taken over by Arabs.

Netzer

The first activity was to open the Za'tara bypass road. Next, we began
activities in the Netzer hills, between Elazar and Alon Shvut.  We
noticed that the Arabs, supported amply with funds from anti-Israel
organizations from Europe and the U.S., were illegally planting in the
state lands of Area C, with the obvious objective of taking over the
area.

Together with dozens of Women in Green members and residents of Gush
Etzion, we began to plant trees according to the map, on land that was
not considered to be privately owned by Arabs. The Arabs uprooted the
trees that we planted. We planted again and again. The Civil
Administration "did not like" (to say the least) our work. We sent a
signed letter to Shaul Goldstein, council head at that time, saying
that we had no claims on the land, on the trees, or on the fruit of
the trees that we had planted. Everything was for the good of the
country, with the goal of preventing illegal Arab takeover of these
lands.

We succeeded to plant many acres of land. After years of Sisyphean
activity in the field, we were successful. The land was declared to be
state land and is now under the jurisdiction of the council.

Shdema

While we were still active in Netzer, Hagai Huberman telephoned us in
2008, saying "Go up to Shdema before the Palestinian Authority takes
over the camp". Shdema, an abandoned IDF military camp, located
strategically between Har Homa in Southern Jerusalem and Tekoa in Gush
Etzion and controlling the new eastward road, is located on a hill in
Area C that is surrounded by Areas A and B. There was a danger that we
might lose the site. If the Arabs took over that hill, G-d forbid, it
would mean that the Jewish territorial contiguity between Jerusalem
and Gush Etzion would be cut off from the east.  The Arabs were
claiming that they wanted to establish a hospital there. They used the
"humane" argument even though they could set up hospitals anywhere
they want in areas A and B. Clearly their intention was not the
hospital but rather the take-over of this strategic hill in area C.

We went up – the Arabs had already ruined and looted everything,
destroyed all that was at the camp, so that only 3 buildings remained.
We decided that there would be continuous activity there, in order to
save the site from illegal Arab takeover. We established the Committee
for a Jewish Shdema" with Women in Green members and activists from
East Gush Etzion and Har Homa. Simultaneously, we established the
Lobby for a Jewish Shdema in the Knesset. After a struggle of several
years, in which we came every week to Shdema with dozens and sometimes
hundreds of activists, supported by the participation of the Gush
Etzion Council under Shaul Goldstein, we succeeded to restore a Jewish
presence to the site. The IDF returned and turned the site into a
military camp once again.

We used this same pattern of action with the Adorayim Camp in South
Hevron Hills, where the council, led by Tzviki Bar-Hai, then
established an emergency center. Also in the battle for Givat Ha'Eitam
near Efrat, which constitutes the land reserves for the city's
development, after two years of intensive activity, the council, led
by Oded Ravivi, took over the project and established a farm at the
site.

We saw that each battle for every hill took us years and a tremendous
amount of resources but did not solve the underlying problem for the
Land of Israel. We, the Jews living in Judea and Samaria, in the eyes
of the authorities, are considered the invaders, in their eyes we are
here temporarily. And while it is true that we have managed to redeem
a few hills, at the same time, the Arabs, funded by millions of
dollars from abroad, are taking over  hundreds of other hills, and at
this rate we will lose all the state lands and Jewish communities will
become isolated islands within a sea of Arabs, Heaven forbid. And the
worst part is that the Land of Israel is always on the bargaining
table. We understood that we had to take care of the problem at its
root.

Setting out on a Campaign for the Application of Sovereignty
–Conferences, a Journal, Parlor meetings, Vigils

We decided to demand the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea
and Samaria. So that the Israeli Knesset and government would declare
once and for all that this Land is ours, to cut off the Arab hopes for
a state in the heart of our Land, that it should resolve this matter
as it did with Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Uri Elitzur, z"l, MK
Geula Cohen, Caroline Glick, Rav Beni Elon, z"l and Dr. Martin Sherman
all expressed this idea before we did, speaking and writing on the
subject. We turned it into a full fledge campaign,  that would
constantly focus on the subject of sovereignty and we have been, and
still are,  acting continuously to instill awareness of the subject.

The first Forum for Sovereignty met in Geula Cohen's home back in
2011, with the participation of Caroline Glick, Dr. Moti Kedar, Eran
Bar Tal, Rabbanit Melamed, Rav Itai Elitzur, Shimon Cohen and Yoram
Ettinger. Today there is an expanded committee for Sovereignty – its
members include Sam Solomon, Avraham Shvut, Shosh Shilo, Renee
Margolis, Ruthi Lieberman, Lior Shurka, Uri Bank, Ruthi Ben Haim,
Tanah Lehavi, Dr. Aviah Shoham, Col. (Res.) Moshe Peled and Yoav
Tuvia.

In 2011, we started out with the first Sovereignty Conference in
Hevron. Approximately 250 people participated and there were
courageous speakers, among who was MK Tzipi Hotovely, who is still
actively involved in promoting the application of Israeli sovereignty.
We were all perceived as totally delusional. Even in our own camp.

After a year had passed, we organized the second conference in Hevron,
but during the year we held parlor gatherings and many personal
discussions with public figures – the hall overflowed with people so
we set up a screen outside of the hall and a year afterward we
organized a third conference, this time in Jerusalem. We had planned
to hold the conference in the Bible Museum – a place that is symbolic
and very fitting for the topic of Sovereignty. But even during the
first stages of registration we understood that we would not be able
to hold all of those who registered. So we changed the location to a
hall in Bayit veGan that held about 800 people. At the time of the
conference, attended by ministers, MKs, academicians and public
figures, about 1000 people crowded into the hall and outside were
another few hundred who were unable to enter. This is when we began to
draw the attention of the media.

Nadia and I felt that we were not reaching enough people so we decided
to publish a journal, which is distributed in 200,000 (two hundred
thousand) copies in Hebrew and English. We also set up a Sovereignty
Internet site in Hebrew and in English www.ribonut.co.il. The strategy
was that we would begin to raise awareness among the people in our own
communities, and then expand the activity among the nationalist camp
all over the country. The concrete barriers on Route 60 served us as
bulletin boards. Sometimes we paid a fine but it "did the job".

We did not (nor do we now) have money for large and extended campaigns
because on the Right, people make contributions for buildings,
institutions, ambulances  or Torah scrolls, which are all important
causes, but to raise money for public advocacy is much more difficult.
To many donors, donating to campaigns to change the public
consciousness seems as if he is giving money for no purpose because he
cannot see the result right away. But thank G-d some donors believed
in this campaign and enabled us to act. This is certainly a good
occasion to thank them.

Few believed that it would be possible to advance the cause of
sovereignty. We continued with conferences (the fourth one was in
February 2017, when more than 1200 people came and Arabs from Judea
and Samaria who wanted Israeli sovereignty also participated), parlor
gatherings, publishing a journal, we spent hours in the Knesset,
speaking with council heads and in vigils at the prime minister's
residence. We also started planning a master plan for Greater Israel
after we found out that in its 70 years of independence, and fifty
years since the liberation of Judea and Samaria, the State of Israel
has not produced any strategic master plan for the Greater Land of
Israel west of the Jordan.

The council heads in Judea and Samaria joined the efforts, the YESHA
(Judea , Samaria and Gaza) Council, Amana, Orit Struk and our friends
from the Likud Shevach Stern, Natan Englesman and Shai Merling have
done, and are still doing, outstanding work.  Among other things, they
organized the assembly of the Likud Central Committee where 1500
members of the committee voted unanimously in favor of sovereignty in
the areas of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria.

The Land of Israel Lobby under the leadership of MK Yoav Kish and MK
Bezalel Smotrich promoted the application of Israeli law in Ma'ale
Adumim and just recently proposed a law consistent with the decision
of Likud Central.

Members of Knesset Yoav Kish, Bezalel Smotrich, Miki Zohar and Yehuda
Glick have prepared detailed plans for the application of sovereignty.
The great majority of ministers and Likud members support the
application of sovereignty and members of HaBayit HaYehudi all support
the application of sovereignty. Minister Bennett has contributed
considerably to the promotion of sovereignty with the Israel Stability
Initiative in April 2012.

Following the Six Day War, what began in the Left weakly, with the
publication of journal "A Conversation among Warriors", gained
strength after the Yom Kippur War with the establishment of the Peace
Now movement, under Uri Avneri, who began a "peace attack" in the
media, academia and the justice system. Within 20 years they had won
quite a bit of success influencing the discourse, the effect of which
was felt even in the prime minister's Bar Ilan speech. One of the open
miracles was that despite the intensive brainwashing, the people moved
to the right. The people understand that the concessions promoted by
the Left weakened us against the enemy by giving him the hope, a hope
that resulted in terror. The political system in the Right understands
the spirit of the people and responds to it.

The American administration under Trump is sympathetic to Israel. The
declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel constitutes a key
to the application of sovereignty. The Sovereignty Movement, founded
by Women in Green, serves as a platform for all the different groups
and individuals who speak and act toward the application of
sovereignty. There is still a lot of work ahead. It took the Left 20
years to change the discourse. We, the Sovereignty Movement, continue
to work hard on all fronts and we hope that the plan to apply
sovereignty will be faster and will be legislated by the Knesset and
overcome all obstacles.

Establishing Oz veGaon

As we were engaged in the Sovereignty Campaign, the three youths,
Gil-Ad, Eyal and Naftali, Hy"d, were abducted in Gush Etzion by Arab
terrorists. Eighteen days later, on the 3rd of Tamuz, June 2014,
immediately after the bodies of the youths were found, we decided that
this event must not be glossed over quietly. We had to provide a
Zionist response.

Dozens of Women in Green members together with residents from Gush
Etzion, and with support from the Gush Etzion Council headed by Davidi
Perl, ascended the hill overlooking the junction and began preparing
the place as a significant Jewish holding on the road ascending from
Hevron to Jerusalem. This was our immediate Zionist response to the
vile murder.

Our activity at the preserve had the full support of the families of
Gil-ad Shaer, Eyal Yifrah and Naftali Frenkel and the place was named
after the youths – Oz veGaon (Gil-ad Eyal and Naftali).

Since that night when the activists went up to begin the work of
preparing the preserve, many groups of youths, young men and women
alike, have come to the site from throughout the Land, and even from
abroad, to participate in cleaning the place, weeding, paving,
painting, installing lighting, installing park equipment and taking
part in creative and cultural activities involving Jewish and Zionist
values.

The preserve has become a place that IDF soldiers and security people
view as a strategic point for the protection of Gush Etzion Junction.
Educational and hasbara activities are held at the place, as well as
training for groups and individuals on topics of heritage, Judaism,
history and Zionism. To date, tens of thousands of youths have taken
part in these activities.

The many youths that visit the preserve participate in agricultural
workshops, strengthening their bonds to the soil, they study ecology,
art and culture along with lessons in self-defense taught by Elyashiv
Kimhi and Tsuri Botush.

There are also facilities for Jewish studies at the preserve. On
Tuesdays there is a Beit Midrash for women, called Havruta, at Oz
veGaon, where dozens of women enjoy lessons in the Prophets and
Writings, given by leading rabbis and excellent lecturers, and in the
evenings, the Beit Midrash opens its doors to men for lessons led by
Rav Mor Bergman.

To commemorate the completion of three years since the establishment
of Oz veGaon, the Zionist Avenue was dedicated, where ideological
quotes from Zionist leaders from the past 120 years are posted. There
is also an interactive seating area where there is information and
poems about milestones in Zionist history.

In this same ideological public spirit, the Sovereignty movement
founded by Women in Green holds conferences and lectures at the
preserve on matters dealing with the application of Israeli
sovereignty in Judea and Samaria. Leading shapers of public opinion,
MKs, ministers, rabbis and many public figures from Israel and abroad
have taken part in these events

I would like to thank my friend Nadia and the Almighty, for the
privilege to work together in such wonderful harmony.

I know that the way is long
But I will walk until my strength fails…
(Poem by Yehoram Taharlev)

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Blow the Trumpets! Territory Folks Should Stick Together: What Tikkun, What Lessons can be learned from the tragic murders of Rabbi Itamar ben Gal and Rabbi Raziel Shevach and Communal Tragedies? Action Alert!

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Here are 7 lessons after contemplating, listening to eulogies and reading media reports etc. 

Lesson 1: Blow the Trumpets:  -

To cry out to Hashem in the event of great distress that affects the community as a whole. 

The following Rambam in Hilchot Taaniyot in the Mishneh Torah was quoted by Rabbi Shlomo Diamond in a CD put out by learntorah.com RDC719  following the Azan tragedy in Brooklyn, NY Chanukah, Rosh Chodesh Tevet 5778.  Interestingly, both the Azan Family and the Sassoon Family tragedy happened on Rosh Chodesh a day designated for repentance and the sounding of Trumpets. 

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/951995/jewish/Taaniyot-Chapter-One.htm

Introduction to Mishneh Torah Hilchos Ta'aniyot

[This text contains] one positive commandment: To cry out to God in the event of great distress that affects the community as a whole. This mitzvah is explained in the following chapters.הלכות תעניות - הקדמהמצות עשה אחת והיא לצעוק לפני ה' בכל עת צרה גדולה שלא תבא על הצבור: וביאור מצוה זו בפרקים אלו:
1 It is a positive Torah commandment to cry out and to sound trumpets in the event of any difficulty that arises which affects the community, as [Numbers 10:9] states: "[When you go out to war... against] an enemy who attacks you and you sound the trumpets...."

Yael Shevach made a condolence visit to Miriam Ben-Gal, whose husband Itamar was stabbed to death in Ariel terror attack,  Their Husbands were murdered weeks apart. West Bank widows lament their common bond

https://www.timesofisrael.com/husbands-murdered-weeks-apart-west-bank-widows-lament-common-bond/

There were eerie similarities between the two tragedies that took place within a month of each other."We are both educators, both Raziel and Itamar were Torah scholars, and both of us feel that we were chosen for this role," Yael Shevach said, explaining that "role" as one responsible for strengthening the settlement movement in their husbands' honor.

"Both Raziel and Itamar loved life, they both loved to dress and eat well. Raziel was killed on his way home from a circumcision and Itamar was on his way to a circumcision. Raziel's sister will be getting married in less than a month, and Miriam's sister will be getting married in less than a month," Yael Shevach added.

Lesson 2: ברית we must focus on the Eternal Covenant between Hashem and the Jewish People! 

Brit Milah is a Sign of the Covenant.  אות ברית between G-d and the Nation of Israel. An Everlasting  Covenant that Hashem is giving to Avraham Avinu and to his seed thereafter, the Land of his sojourning for an everlasting possession....  Rabbi Shevach was coming from a Bris and Rabbi ben-Gal was going to a Bris.  

Bereishit - Genesis - Chapter 17

And I will establish My covenant between Me and between you and between your seed after you throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant, to be to you for a God and to your seed after you.		זוַֽהֲקִֽמֹתִ֨י אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֜י בֵּינִ֣י וּבֵינֶ֗ךָ וּבֵ֨ין זַרְעֲךָ֧ אַֽחֲרֶ֛יךָ לְדֹֽרֹתָ֖ם לִבְרִ֣ית עוֹלָ֑ם לִֽהְי֤וֹת לְךָ֙ לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים וּלְזַרְעֲךָ֖ אַֽחֲרֶֽיךָ:
8And I will give you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings, the entire land of Canaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be to them for a God."		חוְנָֽתַתִּ֣י לְ֠ךָ֠ וּלְזַרְעֲךָ֨ אַֽחֲרֶ֜יךָ אֵ֣ת | אֶ֣רֶץ מְגֻרֶ֗יךָ אֵ֚ת כָּל־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן לַֽאֲחֻזַּ֖ת עוֹלָ֑ם וְהָיִ֥יתִי לָהֶ֖ם לֵֽאלֹהִֽים:
9And God said to Abraham, "And you shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.		טוַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֱלֹהִים֙ אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֔ם וְאַתָּ֖ה אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֣י תִשְׁמֹ֑ר אַתָּ֛ה וְזַרְעֲךָ֥ אַֽחֲרֶ֖יךָ לְדֹֽרֹתָֽם:

10This is My covenant, which you shall observe between Me and between you and between your seed after you, that every male among you be circumcised.		יזֹ֣את בְּרִיתִ֞י אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּשְׁמְר֗וּ בֵּינִי֙ וּבֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔ם וּבֵ֥ין זַרְעֲךָ֖ אַֽחֲרֶ֑יךָ הִמּ֥וֹל לָכֶ֖ם כָּל־זָכָֽר:
11And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be as the sign of a covenant between Me and between you.		יאוּנְמַלְתֶּ֕ם אֵ֖ת בְּשַׂ֣ר עָרְלַתְכֶ֑ם וְהָיָה֙ לְא֣וֹת בְּרִ֔ית בֵּינִ֖י וּבֵֽינֵיכֶֽם:
12And at the age of eight days, every male shall be circumcised to you throughout your generations, one that is born in the house, or one that is purchased with money, from any foreigner, who is not of your seed.		יבוּבֶן־שְׁמֹנַ֣ת יָמִ֗ים יִמּ֥וֹל לָכֶ֛ם כָּל־זָכָ֖ר לְדֹרֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם יְלִ֣יד בָּ֔יִת וּמִקְנַת־כֶּ֨סֶף֙ מִכֹּ֣ל בֶּן־נֵכָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹ֥א מִזַּרְעֲךָ֖ הֽוּא:
13Those born in the house and those purchased for money shall be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.		יגהִמּ֧וֹל | יִמּ֛וֹל יְלִ֥יד בֵּֽיתְךָ֖ וּמִקְנַ֣ת כַּסְפֶּ֑ךָ וְהָֽיְתָ֧ה בְרִיתִ֛י בִּבְשַׂרְכֶ֖ם לִבְרִ֥ית עוֹלָֽם:
14And an uncircumcised male, who will not circumcise the flesh of his foreskin-that soul will be cut off from its people; he has broken My covenant."		ידוְעָרֵ֣ל | זָכָ֗ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־יִמּוֹל֙ אֶת־בְּשַׂ֣ר עָרְלָת֔וֹ וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה הַנֶּ֥פֶשׁ הַהִ֖וא מֵֽעַמֶּ֑יהָ אֶת־בְּרִיתִ֖י הֵפַֽר:

Lesson 3: Territory folks should stick together! Push for Sovereignty over the entire Israel

Does it take a terror attack to settle the Land? Something is not right here! Why are we settling the Land simply in response to Terror attacks rather than because it's our Land to settle?  Why are we still demolishing homes in Netiv HaAvot? Let us push legislation to normalize all of Judea and Samaria as per the Levy Report and push Sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (google womeningreen Sovereignty movement).

Lieberman Submits Proposal to Legalize Havat Gilad

http://hamodia.com/2018/01/14/lieberman-submits-proposal-legalize-havat-gilad/ YERUSHALAYIM -

State efforts to provide legal and security solutions for the residents of Havat Gilad in response to the terror attack there last week continued on Sunday, as Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman went to the cabinet with a proposal to retroactively legalize the outpost and build new housing for those on disputed land.

Naftali Bennett promises to triple the city Har Bracha following this attack. 

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/241673 

"In past years, many cities were born in response to murders. Kiryat Shmona, Maaleh Hahamisha, this is the answer. There are more families, more children, more schools, more towns, and more homes. When this is what sprouts up in front of the terrorists, they'll start to understand that they're banging their heads against a cement wall, and it's a waste of their time."

However there seems to be resistance from the Israeli Govt to apply Sovereignty over the entire Judea and Samaria even though there is wide support among the people and the Knesset. 

Netanyahu Trying to Quash Next Week’s Sovereignty Vote
By JNi.Media -  24 Shevat 5778 – February 9, 2018
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/politics/netanyahu-trying-to-quash-next-weeks-sovereignty-vote/2018/02/09/

An Open Letter to PM  Benjamin Netanyahu from the co-leaders of the Sovereignty Movement Yehudit Kasover and Nadia Matar written Feb 8, 2018 to Complete the Victory of the 1967 War.
http://womeningreen.org/3778-2
Watch Ezra Ridgley's youtube's rendition of this letter:) (a work of love)
https://youtu.be/kWjwkASmE2M


Territory Folks Should Stick Together! 

Let's stop this divide and conquer modus operandi which encourages each Yishuv to fend for themselves to address their individual needs discouraging banding together, working in unity to stop any demolition and injustice that is targeting another group of settlers or another community of settlers.  

Lesson 4: Can we Help Save Home Demolitions in  Netiv HaAvot ?

Pending bulldozing of homes in Netiv HaAvot based on Judicial tyranny of Israel Supreme Court. http://www.jewishpress.com/?s=netiv+haavotהרס נתיב האבות Destruction in Netiv HaAvot. Celebrating 70 years of Jewish Sovereignty with Destruction of The Path of Our Forefathers? https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2017/11/destruction-in-netiv-haavot.html
Bulldozers sent in to Netiv Avot February 6th.  QNch3kxnP79QDp6G7PBMYrS0P (did they really have to send in the bulldozers a month early adding insult to injury and more trauma to the families?) 

My comments:  Indeed Bennett's words are comforting for the widow of Rabbi Itamar ben Gal as was the decision to legalize Havat Gilad to the widow of Rabbi Shevach.  But while these words of comfort were said, what is happening in Netiv HaAvot?  Bulldozers were already sent to demolish their homes.  Does it take a murder chas veShalom for Naftali Bennett and the MKs to finally send those bulldozers back from where they came.  Both Rabbi Itamar ben Gal and Rabbi Raziel Shevach were well respected in Dati Leumi circles.  Let their memories serve to unite all of the Yishuvim in Judea and Samaria with a demand not only for their own particular community but also to stop the pending demolition of Netiv HaAvot! and any future scheduled demolition as a way to actualize the fulfillment of our  Covenant with Hashem.

Lesson 5 Can We Save Elisha Odess from the Clutches of the Jewish Division of the Shabak?

This coming Monday, Elisha Odess is scheduled for a hearing.  This 16 year old kid was put under administrative detention, accused of a murder that he did not commit yet he confessed to, under torture and for the past 2, 3 years has been languishing in jail without ever having had a fair trial. 

Naftali Bennett wrote an Oped in the New York Times in 2015 that painted the hilltop youth as terrorist Jewish Youth distinct from the Nationalist Camp.  This kind of Lashon Hara and Motzei Shem Ra isolating the hilltop youth has had devastating ramifications for these kids and their families. 
Demonization and false Accusations against Hilltop Youth Elisha Odess Elisha ben Odess Please Davan and Demand RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE! Trial this Monday Feb. 12, 2018

Seeking Confession at All Costs, Israeli Court, AG, Endorsed Torture of Jewish-American Minor by David Israel

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/police-news/seeking-confession-at-all-costs-israeli-court-ag-endorsed-torture-of-jewish-american-minor/2018/02/08/

ISRAEL OPENS BRUTALITY INVESTIGATION AGAINST SHIN BET: 

  https://www.vosizneias.com/290471/2018/02/01/jerusalem-israel-opens-brutality-probe-against-shin-bet-security-service/ 

Lesson 6: Defense and Security  for the Nation of Israel  should be guided and consistent with Torah and Mitzvoth

Let us demand that military procedures, guidelines and orders on how to deal with terrorists be guided and consistent with Torah morality and ethics. 

Strikes against the Israeli Defense Leadership:

https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/02/strikes-against-israeli-defense.html and additional ones here...

Lieberman, Security Failures in Judea and Samaria, reflective of Failed Leadership?

https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/01/lieberman-security-failures-in-judea.html


Lesson 7  Har HaBayit 
5 Mitzvoth - Lesson from Rabbi Itamar ben-Gal 

Video of Rabbi Itamar ben-Gal hy"d with a group going up to Har HaBayit teaching us of the 5 Mitzvoth, Biblical Commandments with their ascent (h)  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_D5HzbsVy_DSe9C9q3d1YE_2Ob_yoWtt

1. בניית בית ה  Building Beit HaMikdash.  by our very ascent to search out The Place of Har Habayit, the Mountain of the House of Hashem,  is a way to fulfill the Mitzvah בניית בית ה.,
2. להתפלל ולהשתחוות לה  To pray and bow down to Hashem
3.  מורא המקדש Having Awe of the Beit HaMikdash. To go with awe and trepidation on the Mount
4. לא תחנם Not to allow a foreign entity to claim ownership and gain a foothold by our very ascent
5. .והורשתם את הארץ to inherit, take ownership of the Land

The Eternal Capital of the Jewish People


[Video] Walking On The Temple Mount produced by Ezra Ridgley Walking On The Temple Mount. http://thejewishheritageproject.com/   This is your chance to tour the Har HaBayit, the most sacred land in the universe. Jerusalem, Israel. This is your chance to be part of something great! The site where the Jewish Temple will be rebuilt when Hashem wills it. (Next best thing to being there [Robin])
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oPjT7-RvIw&t=239s

אתם נצבים! Action time!  Call your Rabbi, spiritual leader...

 What can we do here in America and in Chutz LeAretz?  Al Taamod Al Dam Reyacha.  We can not stand idly by the blood of our Fellow Jew. Your phone call may make a difference! Please read this link and you will find contact information of Major Jewish Organizations or simply call your local Rabbi and Jewish Newspaper and ask them to publicize these travesties of justice to change the status quo on these matters!   

For an example of an activist Par Excellence please read the letter Helen Freedman, Executive Director of AFSI (Americans For A Safe Israel) afsi.org who wrote such a letter to Knesset Members: http://conta.cc/2ErsM8V

Temple Mount, Judea and Samaria Lives and Property Hefker? Temple Mount, Netiv HaAvot, Raziel Shevach Father of 6 Murdered Chavat Gilad, Letter to Ambassador Friedman from Helen Freedman Executive Director of AFSI

https://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2018/01/temple-mount-judea-and-samaria-lives.html

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The Sassoon Family, the Azan Family, the Shevach Family, the ben-Gal Family, the Salomon Family, the Ariel Family, Har Nof massacre victim's Families etc share something in common.  A member or members of their family served as Communal Sacrifice(s),  for Am Yisroel.  From all the speeches and Hespedim, this seems to be a consensus.  Each and everyone of these Korbanot seemed to be amazing and special souls.  The best of the best.  The finest of the fine. 

 Why did they deserve to die if not to be Mechaper Am Yisroel,  to atone for the collective sins of Am Yisroel?

Enough of human sacrifices! What lessons can Am Yisroel learn from these horrific human sacrifices... to wake us up and to do Teshuva ...so that we don't have to be witness to any more such horrific tragic events such as these?

Let us pray and yearn for the Beit HaMikdash for the opportunity to bring Korban Chatot Tzibbur the right way. 
חַטּאת הַצִּבּוּר וְהַיָּחִיד. אֵלּוּ הֵן חַטּאת הַצִּבּוּר. שעִירֵי רָאשֵׁי חֳדָשִׁים וְשֶׁל מועֲדות שְׁחִיטָתָן בַּצָּפון וְקִבּוּל דָּמָן בִּכְלִי שָׁרֵת בַּצָּפון וְדָמָן טָעוּן אַרְבַּע מַתָּנות עַל אַרְבַּע קְרָנות. כֵּיצַד. עָלָה בַכֶּבֶשׁ וּפָנָה לַסּובֵב וּבָא לו לְקֶרֶן דְּרומִית מִזְרָחִית. מִזְרָחִית צְפונִית. צְפונִית מַעֲרָבִית. מַעֲרָבִית דְּרומִית. שְׁיָרֵי הַדָּם הָיָה שׁופֵךְ עַל יְסוד דְּרומִי. וְנֶאֱכָלִין לִפְנִים מִן הַקְּלָעִים. לְזִכְרֵי כְהֻנָּה. בְּכָל מַאֲכָל. לְיום וָלַיְלָה עַד חֲצות   https://www.sefaria.org/Siddur_Ashkenaz,_Weekday,_Shacharit,_Preparatory_Prayers,_Korbanot,_Laws_of_Sacrifices.3?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

translation with the help of Interlinear Artscroll for weekdays.


Sin offerings of the Community and of the individual  -- These are the sin-offerings of the community: the he-goats of Rosh Chodesh and of the Festivals...their slaughter is in the north and the reception of their blood in a vessel of service is in the north.  Their blood requires four applications [one] on [each of] the four corners [of the Altar].  How is it done?  [The Kohen] ascended the [Altar] ramp, turned to the surrounding ledge and arrived at the corner which is south-east, [then at] the east-north [corner], the north-west [corner] and the west-south [corner].  The leftover blood he would pour onto the southern base.  They are eaten inside of the [Courtyard] curtains, by males of the priesthood, in any manner of preparation, on the day [of offering] and on the following night until midnight.  

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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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