Your Favorite Things About Israel

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Benayah Berabi, Eden Hason and Idan Raichel - Ahava Kazot

 

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See the beauty of Gan Hashlosha

 

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Purim, Purim

VIDEO: How to Make the Perfect Hamantaschen | The Nosher

 

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Yummy Gluten-Free Hamantaschen | The Nosher

 

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Gluten-Free, Sugar Free Hamantaschen Recipe | The Nosher

 

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A joyous woman stands before the shores of the Dead Sea at sunrise (Shutterstock).
And the ransomed of Hashem shall return, And come with shouting to Tzion, Crowned with joy everlasting. They shall attain joy and gladness, While sorrow and sighing flee
Isaiah 35:10 (The Israel Bible™)

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uf-du-YAY a-do-NAI y’-shu-VUN u-VA-u tzi-YON b’-ri-NAH v’-sim-KHAT o-LAM al ro-SHAM sa-SON v’-sim-KHAH ya-SEE-gu v’-NA-su ya-GON va-a-na-KHAH

A Shared and Everlasting Joy
The Hebrew language includes many words to describe various forms of happiness. The term osher refers to a type of personal happiness that one experiences when engaging in an activity such as listening to music or observing something spectacular in nature. Simcha, on the other hand, is a type of happiness that is created in the company of others such as when celebrating a wedding or laughing as a family. In this verse, Yeshayahu(Isaiah) promises that the ransomed of Hashem (God) will return with simchat olam(everlasting joy) upon their heads. The simcha, the shared joy of the redemption of the nation returning to Hashem in the Holy Land, will last forever.

 

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Tel Beit Shemesh Excavation Reveals Pivotal First Temple Period Remains

 

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Yitzhak Eshel - Shalom Aleichem

Peaceful Shabat to all beit Yisrael

 

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Aqueduct in Caesarea at sunset with a full moon (Shutterstock).
On your new moons you shall present a burnt offering to Hashem: two bulls of the herd, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, without blemish.
Numbers 28:11 (The Israel Bible™)

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uv-ro-SHAY khod-shay-KHEM tak-REE-vu o-LAH la-do-NAI pa-REEM b’-nay va-KAR
sh’-NA-yim v’-A-yil e-KHAD k’-va-SEEM b’-NAY sha-NAH shiv-AH t’-mee-MIM

Rectifying the Jewish Calendar's Lunar and Solar Components
Judaism follows a calendar with both lunar and solar components. The months are determined by the cycle of the moon, with the new month beginning when the first sliver of moon reappears in the sky at the beginning of a new lunar cycle. At the same time, though, the Jewish calendar has a solar component. Each of the festivals are supposed to fall out during a specific season in Israel, reflected in the agricultural aspects of the holiday. Pesach must fall out during the springtime as the grain begins to ripen, Shavuot celebrates the wheat harvest and the beginning of the fruit harvest in early summer, and Sukkot is celebrated in the beginning of the autumn, at the end of the harvest season. There is, however, an eleven-day discrepancy between the number of days in twelve lunar months and a solar year. To enable the months to follow the cycle of the moon while also ensuring that the holidays are celebrated in the appropriate seasons, a thirteenth month is added to the year seven times in every nineteen-year cycle.

 

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A family of Christian Zionists plant trees in Israel with Israel365 (Eliana Rudee).

Thus said Hashem: I will raise My hand to nations And lift up My ensign to peoples; And they shall bring your sons in their bosoms, And carry your daughters on their backs.
Isaiah 49:22 (The Israel Bible™)

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koh a-MAR a-do-NAI e-lo-HEEM hi-NAY e-SA el go-YIM ya-DEE v’-el a-MEEM a-REEM ni-SEE v’-hay-VEE-u va-NA-yikh b’-KHO-tzen uv-no-TA-yikh al ka-TAYF ti-na-SE-na

Non-Jewish Contribution in the Resettlement of
Eretz Yisrael
Yeshayahu describes the great contributions that the nations and individual non-Jews will play in the resettlement of Eretz Yisrael. In modern times, this prophecy is being fulfilled by the unprecedented number of non-Jews who visit, support and pray for Israel. Great individual Christian warriors for Tzion have also emerged to fulfill Yeshayahu’s prophecy. For example, Major-General Orde Charles Wingate (1903-1944) was a British officer in Palestine during the Mandate, and trained many of the future leaders of the Israeli army. He drew on his love and knowledge of the Bible, and distilled strategies from the battles of Yehoshua, Gidon and King David. Known throughout Israel as “ha-yedid” ( ) or, ‘the friend,’ the Jewish people remember Orde Wingate and all the righteous non-Jews whose love for the Bible drove them to stand with Israel in her moment of need.

 

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"Yafa Ve Tamah" - Love Song to Torah

By Lior Elmalich, Michael Peretz, Haim Ouliel and Shim'on Siboni.
Have a good week and happy month of Adar!

 

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Michael Peretz - Omrim (They Say)

They say Hashem is testing you
They say you're under examination
Say "go get a bracha"
Say "time is the doctor"

They say Hashem is testing you
He examines the will and the intentions
They think what "what's in your head"
And how you get excited and overwhelmed

And you're only a human being
Created in His image
Yes, you're like everyone
And not in His place anymore

They ask, how didn't you see
And why aren't you careful
And how naive have you been
Trusting too much and hastening

The think you've certainly made a mistake
That there's a punishment for every "trick"
But it's only Him, from above
Indicating the boundaries for everyone

 

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"go get a bracha"
Say "time is the doctor"

But, time runs out.

 

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"go get a bracha"
Say "time is the doctor"

But, time runs out.

Rabbi Tarfon says, the day is short and work is plenty, and the workers are lazy, and the salary is a lot,
and the house owner urges.....He (Raban Gamliel) used to say, not upon you to finish the work,
and neither are you free to quit it.

Chapters of Fathers ch.2 (Mishnah Pirkey Avot)

 

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Nissim Black ft. Yisroel Laub - A Million Years

 

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[WATCH]: Rabbi Tuly Weisz Answers Your Burning Questions
Every living creature that swarms will be able to live wherever this stream goes; the fish will be very abundant once these waters have reached there. It will be wholesome, and everything will live wherever this stream goes.
Ezekiel 47:9 (The Israel Bible™)

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Why is it called the "Dead Sea?"
Why is it called the Dead Sea in English? In Hebrew, it's not called the Dead Sea, but the Salt Sea because of the extreme salinity of the water which makes life there unsustainable. However, the Bible says that this was not always the case - and Ezekiel says that in the future, there will again be life in the area. In the land of Israel, this prophecy is already coming to fruition, with fish found living in Dead Sea sink holes! Click here to learn more and watch the rest of Rabbi Tuly's answer.