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2021 Elections: Religious Zionism has doubled its power

With the publication of the samples, the great story of the election is revealed: the religious Zionist public has doubled its power

With the publication of the results of the samples tonight, it is revealed that the disturbing split between Naftali Bennett and Smutritz may have only done good for religious Zionism as a public. The two parties, Religious Zionism and the Right, succeeded in obtaining according to the results of the samples - 15 seats. An impressive achievement for the religious public.

Religious Zionism is one of the surprises of the current election, due to the fact that in all the polls before the election they swung around the blocking percentage, and in exceptional cases won five seats.

Tonight (Tuesday), the "Religious Zionist" party according to the results of the samples wins 7 seats. An achievement reached in the past by the "New Right" list, which united three parties of religious Zionism.

The Yaminah party, which received the backing of the Jewish Home Party, stood at a double-digit number in all polls, and according to the results of the polls receives about 8 seats - an achievement previously reached by Naftali Bennett when he ran alongside other parties, so despite falling out of the polls.

Currently, according to the samples, these will be the representatives of religious Zionism in the next Knesset:

In Religious Zionist party:
1. Bezalel Smotrich
2. Michal Waldiger
3. Itamar Ben Gvir
4. Simhah Rotman
5. Orit Struck
6. Avi Ma'oz
7. Rachel Zinkin

In the Yaminah party:
1. Naftali Bennett
2. Ayelet Shaked
3. Alon Davidi
4. Matan Kahana
5. Amichai Shikli
6. Nir Orbach
7. Knight Kara
8. Edith Silman

בחירות 2021: הציונות הדתית הכפילה את כוחה - כיפה

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Post election tribute to Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook zts"l
As votes are counted, we should recall Rav Tzvi Yehuda's words: 'The building of Eretz Yisrael is accomplished by every segment of the Nation.' Op-ed.

While all of the votes in the latest election have not yet been counted, the Religious Zionist (Dati Leumi or Dati Tzioni in Hebrew) community in Israel has reason to be pleased with the results. Since many Religious Zionists vote for the Likud, Shas, Blue and White, United Torah, and other parties, the fourteen-or-so seats garnered by Smotrich and Bennett don’t reveal the true size and strength of the Dati-Leumi community, whose ideology is based on the spiritual inspirations of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook and his son, HaRav Tzvi Yehuda, who was born in Seder Night.

After the Six-Day War, it was the students of HaRav Tzvi Yehuda who founded the Jewish communities (aka "settlements) in Judea and Samaria, Gaza, and the Golan. His students also established the myriad of yeshivot, ulpanot, and the Dati-Leumi educational system which produces the ideological and spirited young people who adhere to the foundations of Torat Eretz Yisrael, which HaRav Tzvi Yehuda termed, “HaTorah HaGoelet” – the Torah of Redemption. And it was his students, Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed and Yaacov Katz (“Ketzele”) who founded Arutz 7, an important beacon of Religious Zionism.

In honor of HaRav Tzvi Yehuda, here are just a few of his teachings, taken from my soon-to-be-published book, “Like Father, Like Son”:

*“My Father said that since groundless hatred caused the destruction of the Second Temple, to bring about the Temple’s rebuilding, we have to increase unlimited love. This love is not dependent on anything. It is like God’s unconditional love for Israel. This love exists regardless of any shortcomings in the beloved, or without any conditions that have to be met. Even with all of the deficiencies and imperfections in people, love must be total. There can be great differences in personalities, or disagreements in learning, or debates over the right thing to do, but true Ahavah (love) transcends all of this and surrounds all of the Jewish People, like the eternal love of God for His people.”

*“The Geula (Redemption) stands in contrast to the Galut, our exile from the Land of Israel. Geula is the opposite of Galut. What is Galut? An aberration. For instance, in our normal state, we need to be here, the entire Nation of Israel in the Land of Israel. And all of Eretz Yisrael needs to be in our possession. Baruch Hashem, the Lord’s blessing is now shining upon us, increasing, little by little, in gradual stages: immigration, Statehood, victory in wars, more Aliyah, Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, economic boom, and the like. The process unfolds in natural stages. Just as Hashem can bring the Redemption through miracles, He can do it without miracles, in a simpler way, through a natural process, via the conquest, settlement, and development of Eretz Yisrael. The Redemption which is unfolding before us now, which we can clearly see with our eyes, appears in stages – not all at once.”

*“The Jerusalem Talmud teaches that the Redemption comes about, ‘Little by little, like the dawning of the day,’ (Berachot 1:1). The Redemption unfolds in gradual stages. As major step in the process is the establishment of Jewish sovereignty of Eretz Yisrael. Until our time, it was not clear how this would occur. Now, thank God, it is crystallizing and progressing before our eyes. The days of Mashiach encompass a great number of stages, as our Sages reveal in the expression, ‘Two thousand years of Mashiach’ (Sanhedrin 97A and B). This is also implied in the expression which we say toward the end of the Shacharit prayer, ‘The years of Mashiach.’

"The ingathering of the exiles, and the restoration of Jewish sovereignty over Eretz Yisrael – Medinat Yisrael – are clear steps in the process and revelations of Mashiach. The revelation of the Exile’s end began to appear with the settlement of the early moshavim, as our Sages teach, ‘There is nothing more revealing of the end of the Exile than this, as the Prophet says, ‘But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My People Israel, for they will soon be coming’ (Ezekiel, 36:8). Rashi explains, ‘When Eretz Yisrael gives forth her fruits in abundance, the end of the Exile is near, and there is no surer sign of the end of the Exile than this’ (Sanhedrin 98A).

"This is clearly happening today. We see the blessing on the Land and on her fruits – grapes, bananas, oranges – each day we hear of greater agricultural success. Just yesterday, the Land was a desert, and today we export fruits to all the world! This is a quiet miracle of the days of Mashiach. We have to accustom ourselves to see this as the work of Hashem. Likewise, with the great immigration of our People and the restoration of Jewish sovereignty over our Land – these are all aspects of Mashiach orchestrated by the Master of the World, the Causes of Causes. The restoration unfolds every day. The Master of the Universe is not idle, God forbid. Today, we are in the middle of the road, in spite of all the complications which will all be worked out over time.

"Medinat Yisrael is the statehood of the days of Mashiach, which begins with revealed events and concludes with hidden matters like the revival of the dead. There is no contradiction between these two facets of our Redemption, the revealed and the secret. For we are dealing with our unique Divine Nation, with the Statehood of Am Yisrael, a normal State which must weather the all sorts of trials, and with this, a State where prophets will once again roam. The Redemption doesn’t only evolve through obvious miracles. We also experience the quiet miracles of a desert land yielding bushels and bushels of fruit, of cities built on sand dunes and swamps, and of a Nation reborn in the ancient Land. All of this is a part of Mashiach. And it is happening now.”

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Post election tribute to Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook zts"l

As votes are counted, we should recall Rav Tzvi Yehuda's words: 'The building of Eretz Yisrael is accomplished by every segment of the Nation.' Op-ed.

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Zohar Zacharov - HaGvarim Bochim B'Laylah

Avner Gedassi song:

"The men are crying at night their voice not heard
The men are crying at night a disappearing cry
The men are crying at night there's nothing to hide

He who has paid a high price neither has a price
Who hears who knows a man can't cry out from the ground!"

 

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Narkis and Miri Mesikah - Mosheh (Moses)

Life spread on the table
It doesn't interest us
You wanted to bring a message
But the wall is standing between us
Everything freezes standing in shadow

You would try more
This heart heard everything
Stubborn stubborn this heart
Wants to get out but the waters
As a wall and no one answers

Quickly
You will be our eyes
So the heart already opens
Everything freezes standing in shadow
Return quickly

Remember we stood between walls of water
We saw everything happen
Now everything stands in shadow
Return quickly

As once
You would run an entire desert

Eventually we went out because of You
But You are the last one who didn't see the land
Turning into the ember of our life
You saw a country from afar

Now everything turned into a habit
The yearning already passed
What was burning inside the heart, remained in You
But for us everything is frozen standing in shadow

Quickly, You will be our eyes...
As once, You would run an entire desert

 

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The Water Authority will provide only Groundwater till after Passover,
no fear of Chametz

From Wednesday, until after Passover, the Water Authority will supply water from groundwater without fear of chametz. This follows a request from the chairman of Torah Judaism party, MK Mosheh Gafni, from the director of the Water Authority.

He said, "A large public is careful not to use the water on Passover that comes from the Sea of Galilee through the national carrier because they are in the open and may contain chametz, the proposed solution is to use water that comes from the ground."

רשות המים תספק עד לאחר חג הפסח מים ממי קידוחים, לא חשש חמץ

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Update your Haggadah!
We should regard the events of our times as the continuation of the same process that began with the Exodus from Egypt.

If you want to observe the mitzvot of this coming Pesach properly, you should add to the Haggadah the story of the ingathering of the exiles over the last century, the story of the liberation from the yoke of British and Turkish rule, and that of the successful struggle against our enemies since the establishment of the State of Israel and to this day.

According to our Sages, telling of the present-day miracles is the most basic duty of the night of the Seder. The Rebbe of Chabad once wrote that this is the interpretation of the obligation written in the Mishnah: "In every generation, a person must see himself as though he himself came out of Egypt." We should regard the events of our times as the continuation of the same process that began with the Exodus from Egypt.

The Rebbe spoke in 1990 about the Exodus of Russian Jews after their 70 years of imprisonment behind the iron walls of Communist rule in the Russian bloc countries. He also spoke of the vanquishing of Saddam Hussein, that great enemy of the Jews. Therefore, we bless God in the Passover Haggadah, saying: "Blessed are You, HaShem our God, King of the Universe, who liberated us and liberated our ancestors from Egypt."

This is exactly what the prophets Jeremiah and Isaiah teach us. Jeremiah says, "Therefore, behold, the days come, said the Lord, that it shall no more be said: 'As the Lord lives, Who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,' but: 'As the Lord lives, Who brought the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries whither He had driven them'; and I will bring them back into their land which I gave unto their fathers." (Jeremiah 16, 14-15. Brachot 13).

Jeremiah does not invalidate the positive mitzvot in the Torah of remembering the Exodus from Egypt, he upgrades it. He tells us that the story of the guidance of Hashem and His governance in our time describes His greatness and His guidance of our world in a much better way. Aliyah from 102 countries is much more miraculous and amazing than the immigration to Eretz Israel from one country, Egypt.

The story of redemption after 1,900 years of exile in which we survived as a people is much more astounding than the redemption after 210 years of Egyptian exile in which we kept our identity.

The story of the conquest of our country in our times with such a small number of fighters who had not used weapons in 1,900 years is much more miraculous than the conquest of the country in the days of Joshua ben Nun with six hundred thousand armed men and the sons of Gad at their head.

Therefore, we say in the Passover Haggadah: "Therefore, we must thank, praise, acclaim, glorify, exalt, laud, bless, and elevate, He Who has done for our forefathers and for us all of these miracles. He took us out from slavery to freedom, from anguish to joy, from mourning to a holiday, and from darkness to a great light, and from bondage to redemption, and we will sing before Him a new song, Halleluiah."

Note the words "a new song". This means that new songs about miracles that are happening nowadays should be added to the Haggadah, of which songs have not been written yet. And so, we will feel the hand of God managing all of reality.

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In the opinion of Rabbi Elazar ben Azaria, in the future we will not tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt, but rather of the liberation from all the countries where we were exiled for 1,900 years. As Jeremiah says: "(...) no more be said: 'As the Lord lives, that brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,' but: 'As the Lord lives, that brought the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries..."

In the opinion of the Sages: “They countered: not that the Exodus from Egypt would be uprooted, rather the enslavement of Israel to foreign rule would be paramount, and the Exodus from Egypt secondary." Although they disagree as to whether we should still tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt today, there is no dispute that we should tell of the miracles of the recent generations.

There are those who do not tell the stories of miracles of our days because they were man-made and not by supernatural miracles. This is a mistake as Purim and Hanukkah also happened through men and we say the prayer "Al Hanissim" [about the miracles] about them. So, do we pray thanks daily: "for Your miracles that are with us every day", and these also are not supernatural miracles.

The truth is that when we make the blessing over bread "Who brings bread out of the land", we are thanking God even though the farmer sowed and harvested the wheat, the miller ground it and the baker baked the bread. Without them, we would not be able to make the blessing, and with them we bless our Father because he gives us the strength to make things. This is how it is in Purim and in Hanukkah and in our days.

Some don't tell these stories because they are not written in the Haggadah. And that's really not a good reason, as in our times we have been privileged to see things that many generations haven't merited. We've been freed from the enslavement of sovereigns who ruled us for 1,900 years, and almost the majority of the Jewish people are already in Eretz Yisrael. In the days of the authors of the Haggadah, these things had not yet happened, but they wrote in the Haggadah that we should sing a new song about them.

In the Rebbe's other talks he brings many other examples of the miracles of redemption that take place today. In a conversation he had with our Master my father [Rav Mordecai Eliyahu ztz"l] and Rabbi Avraham Shapira ztz"l, he mentioned the Gemara which says that the fact that the Land of Israel which was a wilderness for 2,000 years is now providing plentiful fruit is a sign of Exile’s end. "And Rabbi Abba said: You have no clearer sign of the end of the Exile than this, as it is said, (Ezekiel 36) "But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to My people Israel; for they are close to coming." Rashi interprets this to mean: "when the land of Israel will give her fruit bountifully, then the end [of the Exile] is near, and you have no clearer sign of the end." (Sanhedrin 98/a). And for that we have to be thankful.

The Rebbe also brings the story of the changing attitudes of the nations who acted towards us with anti-Semitism and now have adopted a fairer and more respectful attitude. Also, of the startling changes leading to most countries in the world signing nuclear disarmament agreements, agreements in which 80% of the world's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons were dismantled. That is the fulfillment of the prophecy of "and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." And although there is still room for progress, same as the Exodus from Egypt which did not solve all problems - slowly but surely, we have advanced towards the Land of Israel and Jerusalem and the Kingdom of the House of David.

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The practical application of this Halacha is that each of us on the Seder night should tell the story of his family who came from wherever it was, the story of their settling in Eretz Yisrael, the participation of the family members in defending the Land. Tell this story with the story of the entire people and of the entire country. Tell it in the manner of "beginning with condemnation and ending with praise" - from the exile and the holocaust and the weakness, to rebirth and victory and heroism. And the more one tells – more is he praised.

Update your Haggadah!

We should regard the events of our times as the continuation of the same process that began with the Exodus from Egypt.

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When they all want to be us, but can't stand we actually exist...

Jewish TikToker Accused of Cultural Appropriation of...Matzah Ball Soup

A Jewish woman on TikTok has posted this delicious video showing the making of Moroccan matzah ball soup. You won't believe what happens next

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A breathtaking view of the Yizr'ael Valley in northern Israel

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Relax and get ready for Pesach
Chava Dumas teaches essential steps to make your Pesach preparations fun.

Are you stressed when you even think about Pesach (Passover) cleaning? Are you in a situation this year which makes preparing for the Passover holiday particularly difficult? Do you see the month or two before Pesach as a time of bondage, and the Passover seder as freedom from Pesach cleaning?

All that can change! This is not the way preparations for Pesach were meant to be!

The Jewish People are celebrating their connection to Hashem (G-d), their freedom from Egyptian bondage, and their becoming a nation. It's a time of great joy and celebration! We are meant to be filled with gratitude for the precious gift of life and for the abundance of blessing!

Chava Dumas explains that there are two goals in the huge task of preparing for Passover. The short term goal is to rid the house of hametz (leavened products, including bread, crackers, pasta, and more). This is not to be confused with "spring cleaning," though many families try to refresh their homes top to bottom prior to Pesach.

The second goal is creating a legacy for our children. We want them to have special, warm, and fond memories of the Pesach seder, of the whole holiday, and even of the month-long preparations. If we spend our time cleaning while angry, while full of stress, and while yelling at the family for eating, the memories our children will have are bound to be negative.

Chava teaches us how to do the preparations in small bites, in an organized fashion, keeping in mind the big picture. We are not slaves to Pharaoh while getting ready for Passover; we are G-d's holy nation, doing an important mitzvah (commandment), and therefore should be full of joy.

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Relax and get ready for Pesach

Chava Dumas teaches essential steps to make your Pesach preparations fun.

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Live: Passover sacrifice at foot at Temple Mount

Temple mourners practice sacrificing the communal Paschal offering and pray for the reinstitution of the true Passover sacrifice.

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Yagel Haroush & Shir Yedidot Ensemble

Ydidi Ro'i Mekimi is a poem composed by Rabbi Yisrael Nagara (1555 Safed - 1628 Gaza). The piyyut expresses the longing of the Jewish people in exile to their G-d as a flock that yearns for the guiding and supportive hand of the shepherd and for redemption.

Rabbi Yisrael Nagara was the rabbi of Gaza, buried there in an ancient Jewish cemetery, considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets of all time.

 

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Are We in a Rush? | Pesach 5781

 

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Parent's reaction when Jewish and Arab children meet

 

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Attacking soldiers then whining after suffering the repercussions: It’s the Palestinian way

 

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Attacking soldiers then whining after suffering the repercussions: It’s the Palestinian way

They've never been any good at thinking out the consequences of their actions.

 

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Attacking soldiers then whining after suffering the repercussions: It’s the Palestinian way

Israel stealing more land.