Who are the Israelis?

Weekly Torah portion: Is the Diaspora Just For Practice? (Ekev 2020)

 
Hibah Ensamble - Yom Shabaton (Resting Day)

Ohh, that's...that's 3rd Temple peaceful...
Enjoyable and peaceful Shabat to all - Shabat Shalom ;)

Piyyut written by Rabbi Yehudah HaLevy ben-Shmuel:

Day of rest there's no forgetting
It's memory as smell of a good scent
Dove found in it tranquility
And there will rest who labors of strength

The day respected to the faithful
Careful to keep fathers and sons
Carved in two tablets of stone
Of the most powerful and courageous of strength

Dove found in it tranquility...

And came all in covenant together
'We'll do and listen' all said as one
And opened and answered "HaShem is One"
Blessed the giving to the tired of strength

Dove found in it tranquility...

Spoke in His Holiness on the Mount of Mor (myrrh)
"The seventh day remember and keep"
And all His commands to finish at once
Strengthen the waist and encourage strength

Dove found in it tranquility...

The nation that wanders like a lost flock
Will remember to order it in covenant and oath
For the troubles not pass in them
As You've pledged on the waters of Noah (calm)


 
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Following Israel's offer of humanitarian aid to Lebanon after Beirut explosions that killed dozens, Daniel Birnbaum former CEO of SodaStream to the people of Lebanon sent this attached message.

Birnbaum and SodaStream have successfully combat BDS when they called to close the company which was based in East Jerusalem.

The company also had *Scarlett Johansson* as it ambassador and as a result she was criticized by hate organizations.

 
Only in Israel

Two IDF reservists - one Jewish and one Muslim - had a break from their guard duty and decided to use it to pray...

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The REAL reason no one is upset about Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism is a spiritual issue...which is why you will not solve it
until you show the world how to connect to HaShem.


 
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Narkis - Im Savi (With My Grandfather)

As Avraham Avinu A"H
Who counted stars at night
Who called to his Creator from the furnace
Who bound his son - was my grandfather...

The same complete faith
Inside the flame
And the same dewy glance
And soft-waving beard

Outside fell the snow
Outside they roared:
"There's no judgement and there's no judge"
And in his cracked room, the shattered
Angels sang about Jerusalem of the above

 
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If Israel is so bad, an apartheid state as the haters claim, why would they voluntarily come here? Rhetorical question of course.
But here’s something else you should know. What happened in the above photos is the exception, not the norm.
Thousands of Palestinians have been illegally entering Israel to go to the beaches for the past week, with authorities making no effort to stop them, according to Hebrew-language reports.
Some believe it is a form of nose-thumbing by Israel after the Palestinian Authority stopped all its coordination with the Jewish state in late May — including coordinating permits for Palestinians to enter Israel — in protest of Israel’s yet-unfulfilled plan to annex parts of the West Bank.

After initial attempts to cross into Israel were met with no response by the military, word spread quickly across the West Bank. Palestinians have short vacations for families, complete with transportation services to the several crossing points and from there to various Israeli cities using Arab Israeli drivers, the report said.
 
"For HaShem, your God, is the One Who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you." - Dev. 20:4

Guess where...? A nation free in its land.

 
^ Despite the potential security risk and the danger of coronavirus infection, Israeli authorities — fully aware of the phenomenon — have not taken action against it.
“The soldiers just don’t care. They could’ve stopped it in an instant,” one Palestinian man told Haaretz.
Aref Shaaban from Jenin, who has organized transportation to Jaffa and Herzliya, said that, in many cases, the troops even helped the Palestinians cross into Israel.
“The soldiers saw they were families with beach balls and food bags, not grenades,” he said.

Another Palestinian visitor told Haaretz that military jeeps turned on their headlights in the evening to help direct the families back to the hole in the fence on their way back.
Many were quoted saying that at no point did they feel threatened
— not at the crossing point, nor in the Israeli cities.
Sounds a hell of a lot like humanization to me. But IfNotNow found one instance where they were apparently stopped.

But of course we are criticized no matter what. We let them in, and some say we are undermining the PA. We stop them, and haters like IfNotNow say we dehumanize them.
 
If Israel is so bad, an apartheid state as the haters claim, why would they voluntarily come here? Rhetorical question of course.
But here’s something else you should know. What happened in the above photos is the exception, not the norm.
Thousands of Palestinians have been illegally entering Israel to go to the beaches for the past week, with authorities making no effort to stop them, according to Hebrew-language reports.
Some believe it is a form of nose-thumbing by Israel after the Palestinian Authority stopped all its coordination with the Jewish state in late May — including coordinating permits for Palestinians to enter Israel — in protest of Israel’s yet-unfulfilled plan to annex parts of the West Bank.

After initial attempts to cross into Israel were met with no response by the military, word spread quickly across the West Bank. Palestinians have short vacations for families, complete with transportation services to the several crossing points and from there to various Israeli cities using Arab Israeli drivers, the report said.
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Moving conversation with the Jews of Abu Dhabi

Diaspora Affairs Minister holds conversation with leader of UAE Jewish community after the nation signs a peace deal with Israel.

A few months ago I saw an exciting article about the Jewish community in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Jewish school and the synagogue that is under construction there, and thought about how to connect the school and the community there to the Jewish education and identity activities of the Diaspora Ministry.

Just a few months ago that would have seemed to be very far off. But tonight I have already had a moving conversation with Solly Wolf, the President of the Jewish community of the UAE. After the blessings and well-wishes, we agreed on the beginning of professional cooperation between the Diaspora Ministry and the community.

The political agreement not only improves Israel's status, but also the situation of the Jewish community there, and our ability in the Diaspora Ministry to include it in the map of our global activities.

Congratulations to all partners, both overt and covert, who were involved in reaching this agreement.
'He who makes peace in the heavens, may He make peace for us and for all of Israel, and let us say, amen.'


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Weekly Torah Portion - Re'eh 2020

The story of the Temple grassroots movement...

 
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Mizmor Shir - Nigun Ba'al Shem Tov (Ba'al Shem Tov's melody)

The melody of Rabbi Yisrael ben-Eli'ezer Ztzvk"l to the House of David ben-Yishay A"H.

Peaceful and enjoyable Shabat to all - Shabat Shalom ;)

 

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