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Torah from Our Seder Table to Yours Sarah Pachter
The following Torah thoughts were shared at our Seder table last year. Please enjoy these insights, from our Seder table to yours. Tefila Rav Elimelech Biderman shares that Passover night is a powerful time for Tefila. Davening on the Seder night offers miraculous yeshuas in our lives. There are countless stories of people who sincerely davened on the Seder night and received answers to their plea. It is customary that during the Venitztak portion of the Haggadah, one should pause and pray from the depths of the heart. At that point in the Seder, many Gedolim would go into secluded rooms and pray for hours, and only afterwards come back to finish the Seder. On the Seder night last year, we as a family paused at the Venitzak portion, and each family member chose a favorite Perek of Tehillim to recite, and then added a personal prayer. No More Complaining When Moshe went to ask Paroah to free the Jewish nation, not only did Paroah decline, but he also made the workload harder for the Jews. Now the Jewish people had to create the same amount of bricks, but were not given straw.1 At this point, the Jews began to complain and cry out to Moshe. Instead of feeling grateful to Moshe for doing what Hashem asked, they were upset with him for asking Paroah for freedom. The commentaries explain that if the Jewish people had expressed appreciation to Moshe, rather than complaining, we would have been freed that very moment. We should have had faith that this was part of the ultimate plan. Every time there is hardship and suffering, a seed of redemption is planted, and awaits our gratitude to open up the final geula. Each time we are tempted to complain, we can instead stop and express gratitude. You might be surprised to discover just how difficult it is to break the habit of com-
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plaining. Rather than setting ourselves up for failure by vowing never to complain again, try smaller goals. Try making a no complaint zone in your home, or committing to a full week of not complaining. Even setting aside just an hour per day without complaining promotes growth. Complaining is a difficult habit to break, but the bracha we will receive is well worth the effort. The other night, our family planned to go out to dinner. Then, the children began to fight. My husband and I turned to each other and said, “Okay, I see you don’t want to go out to eat tonight. Let’s cancel the reservation.” Of course the children were upset, and I was even more disappointed, but we stuck with it. During dinner at home, I asked the children about their favorite part of the day. “Well, the worst part of the day was the fact that we didn’t get to go out to dinner!” Emmy griped. I responded, “Think about it, Emmy. If the worst part of your day and your biggest trouble is that you can’t go out to eat, then that tells me you have a really great life!” I then said aloud in prayer, “Thank you Hashem for the fact that the worst part of Emmy’s day is that we didn’t go out to dinner. Baruch Hashem!” “That’s right!” my son chimed in. “Thank you Hashem that we didn’t go out to dinner.” Afterward, we went around the table, sharing our gratitude for the perceived “bad” in our lives. We all learned a great lesson that night. It was a paradigm shift in our thinking, which we probably would not have experienced had we gone out to eat. On Pesach, or anytime, we can thank Hashem for the “bad” instead of complaining, and watch the bracha unfold. Tunnelvision When Hashem split the Yam Suf, He created twelve separate tunnels for each tribe to pass through. Hashem made an additional miracle by causing each wall of water to be hard and clear, like glass. This enabled the tribes to see that their fellow Jews were also making their way safely through the path. Rebbetzin Shira Smiles shares that
Hashem created clear vision from one tribe to the next as a chesed. It would have been too nerve-wracking for each tribe to walk through an opaque tunnel, not knowing their brethren’s fate. This way we had the menuchas hanefesh, peace of mind, to know that our brothers were also crossing safely. This imparts the beautiful lesson that we can only be truly happy when we know that others are also doing well. This element of the miracle blew Yitro away. It is for this reason that he decided to join our people. If we were a nation that cared so much for our fellow Jew, then he wanted to be part of this team. Although this is a beautiful commentary, I wonder if we still have this level of concern for one another day. We too peer into the lives of others through a clear glass, our screens. Every day, many of us scour social media, looking into the world of our friends—and frenemies—family, and colleagues. Are we looking into their world and finding comfort when things are going well for them? Or are we stewing in jealousy and desire? Only an honest internal evaluation can answer that. We all have daily opportunities to use our social media for good, to daven for others, reach out with kind words, promote others’ businesses, and give someone a boost of confidence. Will we utilize the ability to get a glimpse of others to help and care for one another, or will we be jealous? The choice is ours. Let us make a kiddush Hashem as we once did, and choose to care for one another. Leap of Faith Rabbi Phillip Moscowitz quotes the famous story of Nachshon ben Aminadav. When the Jewish nation arrived at the Yam Suf, they looked back and saw the Mitzrim chasing them. There was nowhere to go, but no one had the initial courage to take the leap of faith into the sea. Suddenly, Nachshon ben Aminadav began walking into the ocean, and the entire nation looked on to see what his fate would be. Rabbi Moscowitz quotes the Talmud, which references a lesser known version of this story. “Yes, there was still fear, uncertainty, and confusion, and yes, there was still fighting
among the tribes, but not because nobody wanted to go in… Rather, because everyone wanted to go in first. Everyone was arguing about who should jump in first and amidst the confusion, the tribe of Benjamin takes the plunge and splits the sea.” Why are there two versions of the same story? He goes on to explain that, “According to the first, well-known version, what Nachshon ben Aminadav did was incredible. It was heroic, fearless, courageous, and even somewhat superhuman. But it was the action of an individual; it was one person acting bravely. The second version is the story not of an individual, but of a family that chose to act as a brave and courageous team. “By highlighting this second version of the story, the Rabbis are telling us that while the actions of an individual are incredible and what Nachshon did deserves our admiration, there’s an even higher level to aspire to, and that’s the story of a tribe, of a family that chooses together to affect change, cause redemption, and be an inspiration to millennia of Jews that will follow. “Redemption won’t come through the acts of individuals; redemption comes when the parents and children will return to God together, when families and groups of people make courageous decisions.”2 Another important lesson to be learned from this is that as a family, it is important to stick together, because at the end of the day, all we have is each other. Never Embarrass Another In the Beit Hamikdash, the sin offering and the offering of thanks was positioned in the exact same spot. This seems odd, given the fact that they serve completely different purposes. Of course, Hashem in His infinite wisdom has a reason for everything. With these two offerings in the same place, no one would be embarrassed when bringing the sin offering, because onlookers would not know which offering a person was bringing. Matzah Matzah is called the lechem oni, bread of affliction, but also termed the bread of faith in Aramaic. This is because matzah represents potential, not actualization. Sometimes a child appears like matzah: flat and not rising to our expectations. We have to remember they are still developing potential, and must have faith that they, too can become great. Within each tragedy, there is always a seed of redemption. When we realize our potential, it brings us to action, and that action leads to our ultimate redemption.
2 https://www.aish.com/f/p/Rick-andDick-Hoyt-and-the-Power-of-Family.html?s=trh&mobile=yes
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Here I Am: The Story of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis By Carol Ungar Illustrated by Dena Ackerman Menucha Publishers 38 pp. Reviewed by Devorah Talia Gordon
Hineni, “Here I am,” was said by Avraham Avinu and Moshe Rabbeinu when called by G-d, indicating their readiness to serve Him in any way. Hineni was also the way Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, a’h, lived
her life from her very first years. In her new book, Here I am: The Story of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, Carol Ungar tells the story of Mrs. Jungreis’ journey to become the woman who started a legendary organization and led thousands of people back to Torah observance. The biography, written for readers in third to fourth grade, is one of several in the Young Readers Biography Series by Menucha Classroom Solutions, a division of Menucha Publishers. In sensitive prose, Ungar tells of the Jungreis’ being saved from the War and arriving in America, to be greeted by scores of Jews who were not keeping Shabbos or eating kosher food, who didn’t even know what it meant to be Jewish. Instead of judging them or turning the other way, Rabbi Avrohom encouraged his daughter, Esther, to bring the neighbor girls to their house, to teach them what it meant to be Jewish.
Even though Esther barely spoke English, and was scared, she did it anyway. She said, Hineni. First there was Annie, whose whole family eventually became Torah observant. And then there were more and more; enough girls coming that Rabbi Avrohom opened a school for them. Thus began Esther Jungreis’ lifelong career as a teacher and a friend to thousands. Ungar describes how Esther married Rav Meshulam, became the “Rebbetzin” and together with her husband opened a shul, teaching scores of Jews about mitzvah observance. Ungar’s writing carefully depicts the students, who simply didn’t have the opportunity yet to learn about yiddishkeit, as being treated with great respect and love by the Rav and Rebbetzin. Even the beautiful illustrations in the book convey the same sensitivity. The drawings of all of the Rebbetzin’s students are sweet images of curious faces; the drawings of Rebbetzin Jungreis are lovely, capturing her trademark short blond wig, effervescent smile, and long, elegant dresses. A favorite is the sketch of the Rebbetzin the night before her big event at Madison Square Garden, which was the founding of her Hineni Organization. Wearing her pearls and regal dress, she’s bent over her paper writing her speech, deep into the evening. While most of us either saw or heard the Rebbetzin speak, this book provides a fantastic gateway for young readers to know whom she was and how tirelessly she worked for Klal Yisroel. Hopefully, it will encourage them to look further into her contributions, read her books, and ultimately follow her example of loving, and bring close, all fellow Jews.
and Washington. It is one book in the Jewish Life in America Series published by Menucha Classroom Solutions, a division of Menucha Publishers. Goldish uses clear language to explain what could be hard to grasp: how people lived back then, without cars, running water, office buildings, shuls, schools, and markets – everything we have in abundance today. Unfamiliar words are printed in bold, with a glossary in the back of the book. This is a great book for kids to read on their own or have read to by their parent or teacher. Goldish’s detailed descriptions paint a colorful picture of what life was like – we learn what peddlers were and what they sold, how houses were built, the important contributions of women in many arenas, how Jews tried to keep kosher and build communities, and more. What is also fantastic are the quotes from writings of those who lived at the time, like this one from Lazar Blochman, writing about what his mother did in San Francisco in the 1850s, “She closed her hat business on Saturdays and Jewish holidays. She lost business from people passing through. But keeping Shabbos was more important to her than making sales.”
The Way It Was: In the Old West By Meish Goldish Menucha Publishers 47 pp. Have a history buff in the family? Is your child curious about how Jews got kosher meat before the advent of markets? Or how Jewish children learned Torah before our modern-day schools? In The Way It Was: In the Old West, Meish Goldish chronicles the history of Jewish life in the West, starting from the forty-niners (yes, thousands were Jewish) who came out to California in search of gold in the mid-1800s. The book focuses on the western states and territories, providing ample information for children in fourth to fifth grades about Jewish life in states like Minnesota, Oregon, California,
The book is filled with wonderful photographs, including covered wagons, Jewish stores, old synagogues, and schools. There are tons of great pictures of men, women, and children, which bring the text to life and transport the reader back to the Old West. Trivia question: Who was the first Rabbi of Los Angeles? (No checking Google.) Read the book to find out! For these titles, others in both series, and more: menuchapublishers.com/
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Mourning the Loss of our Nasi A look back in the aftermath of the petirah of Nasi Kolel Shas Yiden
רשכבה"ג מרן שר התורה רבי חיים קנייבסקי זצוק"ל
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A New Wave of Terror Hits the Holy Land And How the IDF is Battling ISIS in Israel By Tzvi Leff
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n March 22, Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an woke up in the Bedouin town of Hura, a sandy hamlet situated in Israel’s Negev desert. First publishing a fiery screed on Facebook pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, Qi’an then climbed into his stolen blue Hyundai minivan and drove to nearby Be’er Sheva’s sprawling BIG shopping center. Al-Qian didn’t stop driving when he reached a teeming bus stop and hitchhiking post, plowing into the dozens returning home from work and instantly killing two women. The Bedouin Islamist then disembarked from the vehicle and drew the kitchen knife he had armed himself with, stabbing and killing another two people. Only when a nearby bus driver shot and killed the terrorist with his personal sidearm did the deadly rampage come to an end. The combined ramming and stabbing onslaught was Israel’s deadliest terror attack since two Palestinians opened fire at Tel Aviv’s tony Sarona Market in 2016. An elementary school teacher and father of five, AlQian had previously served two years in prison after being caught attempting to travel to Syria in order to join ISIS’s campaign against President Bashar Assad’s government. The indictment was damning; after special forces arrested him at Ben Gurion Airport in 2015, Al-Qian admitted to exploiting his position at a large Arab school to recruit his impressionable charges into a radical Salafist ideology.
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Far from showing remorse, Al-Qian boasted about the clandestine terror cell he established in Israel that aimed to wage armed jihad against “the Zionist infidels and the enemies of Islam.” In closing arguments, the prosecutor urged the judge to impose the maximum possible sentence, telling the court that “criminals like the defendant are a ticking time bomb, and it’s impossible to know when the countdown will begin.” The grisly terror attack two weeks ago shocked Israel, coming from an Arab Israeli with full citizenship who collected a monthly salary from the Ministry of Education. Yet the panic really took hold four days later when Ayman and Ibrahim Ighbariah opened fire at a bus stop in the northern city of Hadera. First shooting and killing Border Police officer Shirel
fellow citizens. If terrorism had traditionally been motivated by nationalist terror groups, the attackers were now fervent devotees of ISIS’s goal of establishing a worldwide Islamic caliphate. Israel has never experienced anything like it.
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had a bachelor’s degree, and over half enjoyed a middle class upbringing. Their unlikely background meant that intelligence agencies had a particularly difficult time keeping tabs on local ISIS cells. Compounding the problem was the fact that many jihadists returned home on their foreign passports after fighting in Syria and Iraq, slipping back into France, Germany, and England to set up local terror networks.
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Founded in 2011 as an offshoot of Al Qaeda, Islamic SHiN BeT FALLS ASLeep State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is infamous for its public beheadings of Western hostages and strings of terror attacks its followers have committed around the world. When ISIS began becoming increasingly popular, Claiming to practice the authentic brand of Islam datIsrael’s Shin Bet internal security agency cracked down. ing back to the days of Fearing that ISIS would recruit amongst Israeli Arabs Mohamed, the radical and Palestinians, the agency launched a comprehensive Sunni terror group seeks effort to stamp out the radical ideology when it was still The new wave of iSiS-inspired to establish a worldwide small. Caliphate administered Beginning in 2013, a special unit was organized, terrorism rocking the according to the dictates tasked with monitoring social media pages known to Jewish State has made of Sharia law. promulgate incitement. Intelligence officers kept tabs ISIS rose to global on what was being taught at Israeli Arab schools; those it clear that israel’s prominence after it exreturning from countries such as Turkey, Egypt, and intelligence community had ploited the chaos resulting Saudi Arabia were interrogated upon landing at Ben from the bloody Syrian Gurion Airport, and extremist mosques were put under fallen asleep at the wheel. civil war to conquer large surveillance. swaths of territory. At its The mammoth effort played a key role in ensuring height in 2015, the radical that ISIS never took hold within the Israeli Arab comgroup controlled a third of Syria and 40% of Iraq, includmunity. At a time when ISIS enjoyed widespread popuAboukrat at point blank range, the two cousins drew larity in Muslim communities throughout Europe, only their stolen IDF-issue M-4 assault rifles and embarked ing major cities such as Tikrit, Mosul and Anbar. At the same time, ISIS-affiliated jihadists pulled off 87 Israelis and Palestinians were convicted of belonging on a murderous shooting spree. Killing Yazan Falah, anto the extremist group. other Border Police officer, the terrorists were cut down dozens of the deadliest attacks Europe has ever seen. This includes a triple suicide bombing at a Brussels AirThat was then. by undercover commandos who happened to be eating port in 2015 and blowing up 130 people at France’s BatThe new wave of ISIS-inspired terrorism rocking the at a nearby restaurant. Jewish State has made it clear that Israel’s intelligence The elite operatives prevented a massacre. Ayman aclan theater a year later. From the outset, ISIS presented a unique challenge community had fallen asleep at the wheel. and Ibrahim had been armed with no less than two maWhile usually highly professional and viewed as one chine guns, four pistols, and over a thousand bullets. for global counterterrorism efforts. The Islamic State Both were wearing body armor and had clearly planned attracted tens of thousands of Westerners drawn to its of the world’s most advanced counterterror bodies, the vision of building a new world order run to murder as many Israelis as they could. Hadera’s deadly spree established a pattern. Like according to Muslim law. While traditional terror groups Al-Qian, Ayman and Ibrahim Ighbariah were Israeli such as al-Qaeda recruited primarily citizens, residents of the nearby Arab city of Umm AlFahm. Like Al-Qian, Ayman and Ighbariah were admir- amongst poor and disaffected immiers of ISIS and had published a video earlier in the day grant communities, ISIS saw tens of in which the masked jihadis declared their allegiance to thousands of educated and successful the terror group while standing in front of its infamous professionals flock to its ranks. Docblack flag. Like Al-Qian, the cousins had previously done tors, engineers and lawyers, people with advanced academic degrees who time in 2015 for attempting to fight with ISIS in the civil had previously lived an upstanding life war ripping Syria apart. The panic barreling through Israeli society hit a fe- as law abiding citizens, picked up and moved to Syria to battle the infidel Asver pitch when 27-year-old Palestinian Diaa Hamarshah sad government. opened fire at a busy Bnei Brak thoroughfare, killing A prominent example of this phethree passerby and Arab police officer Amir Khoury who had rushed to the scene. Like the previous attacks, nomenon is Mohammed Emwazi. Born Five people were killed in Bnei Brak Hamarshah was an ex-convict who did time for attempt- in London, the terrorist known colloquially around the world as “Jihadi ing to become a suicide bomber and wrote a Facebook John” was working as an IT expert and had graduated post filled with Islamist incitement prior to setting off to Shin Bet is now undergoing withering criticism for its from the University of Westminster. But in 2013, Emwazi fulfill his murderous fantast. failure to foresee and stop the recent murderous spree. By now, it was clear; Israel was experiencing a deadly flew to Syria and was next seen beheading hostages in a Every one of the recent string of attacks could have terror wave unseen since the Second Intifada. But while series of gruesome videos. been prevented. As opposed to “lone wolf” terrorists According to a study by the World Bank, 30,000 Israel has a long history battling terrorism, this wave which are difficult to prevent, as no one save for the jiwas different. If previous attacks were committed by fighters hailing from 85 countries had joined ISIS as of hadist himself knows what he is plotting, the attacks in Palestinians, Israeli Arabs were now turning on their 2015. Out of those, 80% had graduated high school, 45% Be’er Sheva, Hadera, and Bnei Brak were carried out by
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organized terror cells. Coordinated attacks commonly generate what is known as a “high intelligence signature.” The attackers communicate beforehand, resulting in phone calls or emails that can be intercepted. Weapons must be purchased, and potential terrorists disappear from home or work at strange hours or stop attending school – all things that attract the attention of the thousands of Shin Bet informants. In addition, the perpetrators were all former convicts who previously did time for terror-related offenses. Prior to embarking on their murderous spree in Hadera, Ayman and Ibrahim Ighbariah had changed their Facebook profile pictures to ISIS propaganda, while Al-Qian in Be’er Sheva and Diaa Hamarsheh from Bnei Brak had
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both posted jihadist screeds on the day of the attack. Why wasn’t the Shin Bet paying attention? In an off-the-record briefing with Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, a senior police general related that the Shin Bet had inexplicably failed to build any intelligence infrastructure targeting ISIS in Israeli Arab and Palestinian society. “We’re seeing a weakness at Shin Bet in terms of anything related to monitoring terrorist- or security-related activity against Israel,” he said. “Over the last three years, Shin Bet security agency staff have not issued warnings on Islamic State activists being real threats, nor have they alerted the police to such operations on the ground,” the officer added. “Even when we were holding discussions to assess the situation, the representative from Shin Bet would be a junior official who didn’t add anything of substance.”
OperATiON WAve BreAker The sudden spate of ISIS-inspired attacks has jolted Israel’s defense establishment into action. After the Bnei Brak attack, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett issued new directives enabling the Shin Bet to put Israeli Arabs in administrative detention, a holdover from the British Mandate allowing citizens to be imprisoned for six months without seeing a judge or a lawyer. Realizing that armed civilians can be a force multipli-
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er in stopping terror attacks, Bennett relaxed regulations in order to allow more people to be eligible for a personal carry permit. “Open your eyes. Whoever has a license to carry a weapon, this is the time to carry it,” said the prime minister. This past Wednesday, the Shin Bet raided central Israeli Arab towns known to be hotbeds of ISIS support, arresting over 80 terror suspects in Umm Al Fahum alone. On Saturday morning, commandos from the elite YAMAM SWAT team raided Jenin, shooting and killing three Islamic Jihad members on their way to commit coordinated terror attacks inside Israel. YAMAM operatives struck again a day later, taking down a Palestinian cell on the central Route 6 highway. Meanwhile, 1,200 IDF combat soldiers were deployed to major Israeli cities, where they will patrol and support police operations for the next month. This move is unprecedented, as Israel has traditionally refrained from handing police duties over to the military. While recruits in basic training had assisted law enforcement in 2015 during a wave of stabbing attacks in Jerusalem, never had armed soldiers been sent en masse to cities such as Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Herzliya. All of the new measures are part of “Operation Wave Breaker,” a new coordinated campaign involving the IDF, Shin Bet, Israel Police, and Mossad to constrain the violence before it spirals out of control.
A riOTOuS rAmAdAN? The aggressive response stems from several factors. Most pressing is Ramadan, which began on April 2 and will continue until early May. The Muslim holy month traditionally sees an upsurge in terrorist attacks in Israel and around the world, as the holiday brings with it increased religious fervor while hordes young men are out of school and work. To illustrate, a recent study by the Dutch think tank Datagraver found that terrorism in Israel jumped 200% during Ramadan between 2005 and 2016. With hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and Israeli Arabs flocking to the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount throughout Ramadan, the defense establishment fears that a scuffle between worshippers and police officers at the holy site could trigger widespread rioting that would rapidly spread to Judea and Samaria and Israeli Arab cities. On everyone’s mind is the unprecedented Arab violence that tore Israel apart last Ramadan. Beginning with tensions over viral TikTok videos documenting Arab attacks on Jews, matters spiraled out of control
when police faced off with rioters hurling bricks and firebombs at the Al Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem Day. Fueled by incitement on social media, the Hamas terror group launched rockets from Gaza “in order to protect Jerusalem from Zionist aggression,” leading Israel to launch the three week Operation Guardian of the Walls operation in response. Escalations between Israel and Palestinian militant groups were nothing new. But for the first time in the country’s history, its Arab citizens joined in the violence out of homage to their Palestinian brothers. For a week straight, tens of thousands of Israeli Arabs turned on their fellow citizens. In Lod and Ramle, only armed vigilante patrols prevented a massacre of the local Jewish community. In Akko, an inflamed Arab mob burned down Jewish hotels and businesses in the historic old city; hundreds of Bedouins blocked major thoroughfares in the south, pulled Jewish motorists out of their vehicles, and viciously beat them. The unprecedented violence overwhelmed Israeli law enforcement and only an emergency call up of Border Police along with a curfew ended the week-long rioting. But the unrest left deep scars and shattered relations between Israel’s Jewish and Arab sectors. “In little more than a week in May 2021, Arab rioters set ablaze 10 synagogues and 112 Jewish residences, looted 386 Jewish homes and damaged another 673, and set 849 Jewish cars on fire. There were also 5,018 recorded instances of Jews being stoned,” summarized a recent feature in Fathom Journal. “Three Jews were murdered and more than 600 were hurt. Over 300 police officers were injured in disturbances in over 90 locations across the country,” continued the article. “The intensity and scope of the Arab uprising was unprecedented in recent decades, if not since the founding of Israel in 1948. For many Israeli Jews, the fact that masses of Arab Israeli citizens expressed open support for, and actively aided, Israel’s enemies during wartime shattered an illusion of growing coexistence between Jews and Arabs.” In recent months, Israel’s defense establishment began preparing for the possibility that the aforementioned riots would repeat themselves. Shin Bet officers had summoned extremist imams and Arab principals for a “chat” and implored rabbis associated with Jewish Hilltop Youth in Judea and Samaria to calm tensions. Now, the fact that Israeli Arabs are leading the wave of ISIS-inspired terrorism is raising fears that the May 2021 riots will repeat themselves. Israel’s aggressive response to the Arab terror wave is designed to prevent just that. Indeed, Sunday evening saw clashes between Palestinian rioters and police at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City. At the same time, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi warned that the military was preparing for a massive escalation that would result in “Operation Guardians of the Walls 2.0” and that the violence could lead ISIS to attack Jewish communities around the world. It may be “deja vu all over again” – all the pieces are in place for the boiling cauldron to explode. The next few weeks will tell if Ramadan passes peacefully or if the entire country will be rocked by violence, Hashem yishmor.
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Coverage of Historic Turnout as a Projected 50,000 Bnei Torah Took Dirshu Bechinas at Testing Locations Worldwide. Chaim Gold “Ashreichem!” That was the enthusiastic way HaGaon HaRav Yisrael Neuman, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva, Beth Medrash Govoha of Lakewood, began his brief address to a massive crowd of some one thousand talmidei chachomim at Dirshu’s testing site in Lakewood last week. Rav Neuman, known as one of the masmidim of the generation who only in cases of great need leaves the Yeshiva to give public addresses, felt compelled to make an exception and come and address Dirshu’s talmidei chachomim. In his remarks, he commented about the fact that hearing about the thousands upon thousands of new Dirshu members brought him a measure of comfort during these days of mourning for the Sar HaTorah, Maran, HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, zt”l. He said, “We have a kabbalah from the Alter of Slabodka that when there is a rabbim, a multitude of talmidei chachomim it has the chashivus, the import of a gadol hador. When I look at this rabbim of talmidei chachomim taking a bechina, in some sense, I feel that we are trying to fill the void of the koach haTorah that has been lost with the passing of Rav Chaim.” 27,000 Tests in Eretz Yisroel Alone! In truth, there are no words to describe the colossal response to the beginning of the machzor sheini of Daf HaYomi B’Halacha. Even the hanhala of Dirshu, who have seen numerous massive growth spurts over the years, were amazed by the world-wide response as untold thousands gathered in testing centers from Yerushalayim to Tzefas to Be’er Sheva and all over Eretz Yisrael. The entire North America and Canada, Europe, England, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, France, Holland, even Gibraltar, as well as Argentina and Australia all had a massive uptick of new participants. According to Rabbi Shlomo Rozenstein, Dirshu’s Director of Public Relations, in Eretz Yisrael alone over 27,000 tests were taken!! Testing centers were packed wherever you went. Wherever one goes in Eretz Yisrael or in chutz la’aretz, one sees Yidden immersed in chelek aleph of Mishnah Berurah. A menahel of a prominent boys cheder in Lakewood related, “I have been to about five different shuls over the past week throughout Lakewood and wherever I go, I see people learning Daf HaYomi B’Halacha.” Every age and Stage at Boro Park testing site A small window into the massive influx of new learners and test takers can be gleaned from what took place in Boro Park this past Sunday night. Dirshu’s hanhala realized that its regular testing site at the large Spinka Shul would not be large
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enough. They rented out a floor of the new large building called Boro Park Square that comprises an entire square block in Boro Park. The building, located at 14th Avenue and 37th street, saw streams of people coming throughout the night. Not only that, but Dirshu arranged shuttle busses along five avenue blocks to bring the test takers to the testing site. The busses were packed. Rabbi Ahron Gobioff, Dirshu American Director, related that nearly 2,000 people alone came to the Boro Park site in the course of the night. “Every table was full,” said Rabbi Gobioff, “there were even some taking tests on chairs without tables in front of them. Another very heartwarming, emotional thing for me,” continued Rabbi Gobioff, “was seeing the wide-ranging ages of the test takers. At one table you could have children barely bar mitzvah age together with elderly Yidden with white beards, kollel yungeleit alongside baalei battim and bochurim. It was the most beautiful sight! Klal Yisrael in all its different ages and stages united by limud haTorah.” At the Boro Park site, HaGaon HaRav Benzion Strasser, shlita, Nitra Rav of Boro Park, and Rav Dovid Hofstedter, shlita, Nasi Dirshu, briefly addressed the crowd. Monsey: Rav Yisrael Simcha Schorr: “When You Learn Halacha You Become Partners with Hashem!” At the Bais Medrash of Yeshiva Beis Dovid in Monsey many hundreds filled almost every possible space. The event was graced by HaGaon HaRav Yisrael Simcha Schorr, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ohr Someach. Rav Schorr in his address to the crowd, related that he felt a tremendous zechus to be standing in a bais medrash that literally has representation of Yidden from all the wide-ranging array of communities of Yidden that comprise the frum community of Monsey. All are here “k’ish
echad b’lev echad”, engaged in the preservation of limud haTorah. In other locales in Brooklyn there was also an exponential increase in Dirshu participants and test takers. At the Williamsburg site, many hundreds came and were addressed by HaGaon HaRav Meir Grunwald, shlita, Pupa Dayan and a son of the Pupa Rebbe, shlita. Thousands Join Dirshu All Over Europe Rabbi Chezky Shuvaks of Dirshu Europe was equally amazed at the remarkable increase in lomdei Torah learning in the Dirshu programs and taking the tests. In London, many hundreds gathered at testing sites in the large Belzer Bais Medrash in the Stamford Hill neighborhood and in the Golders Green, Edgeware and Canvey Island neighborhoods. In Manchester as well, many hundreds came together at one central location, the Machzikei Hadas Hall, to take the test. In Antwerp too, hundreds came to take the test and Zurich, Vienna and even Budapest and Gibraltar had major increases. A new testing site was even opened in Rome, Italy! Imagine the nekama on Titus Harasha who came from Rome to destroy the Bais Hamikdosh and now Yidden are taking Dirshu tests on Torah learned in Rome! The large bais medrash at the Orchos Chaim Cheder in Lakewood took on a different look this past Sunday night: tables upon tables upon tables, tightly packed, rows upon rows of chavrei Dirshu, brows furrowed, as all you could hear was the scratching of pens on paper. The truth is even before one entered, one knew something was different and special about that evening. Driving into the parking lot one saw a veritable wall of cars. Finding a parking spot was a task. Well over 1,000 people were at the Lakewood testing site, a site that was permeated
by a feeling of anticipation as the hundreds of new test takers held Dirshu bechinas in their hands for the first time. It was a historic evening in Lakewood and around the world. Rav Dovid Hofstedter: When Torah Is Learned B’shleimus, It Protects B’shleimus In his remarks at the Lakewood testing site, Rav Dovid Hofstedter expressed his tremendous feelings of gratification that in the wake of the siyum on machzor sheini of Daf HaYomi B’Halacha and the start of machzor shlishi there has been such a colossal increase of people learning halacha and taking tests on halachos in locales spanning the entire world. “The simcha of so many more people learning Torah is in essence a simcha of hashraas haShechina,” he said. Rav Hofstedter showed proposed an original thought based on a Gemara on how we can emerge intact both spiritually and physically, from the difficult galus in which we find ourselves. Rav Dovid said, “When Torah is learned b’shleimus, when it is halacha Berurah and Mishanh Berurah in one place, it protects b’shleimus. When we learn entire masechtos, all the sedarim and all the halachos in Shulchan Aruch, not just certain parts, we are striving to learn the Torah b’shleimus and this offers us more protection. Rav Dovid then commented that Rav Chaim Kanievsky’s passing has left a great void, a “forgetting of the Torah.” When there is less Torah in the world, when there is shikchas haTorah in the world, it is a sakana. With great passion, Rav Hofstedter concluded, “It is our task to increase Torah learning in the world by undertaking to learn and chazer and learn Torah b’shleimus!”
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U.S. Envoy: Israel Will Handle Iran
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on Thursday said that Israel will not face U.S. restrictions if it wishes to act against Iran, regardless of whether a new nuclear deal is signed. When asked in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 News if Israel will be expected to “sit quietly and not do anything” if a nuclear deal is signed, Nides said, “Absolutely not. We’ve been very clear about this. If we have a deal, the Israelis’ hands are not tied. If we don’t have a deal, the Israelis’ hands are certainly not tied. “Israel can do and take whatever actions they need to take to protect the state of Israel.” Nides added that U.S. President Joe Biden “will do whatever he can do to make sure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon… It’s clear we’d like to do it through a diplomatic channel.” According to him, “The Israelis know very clearly exactly what is going on. I’m not suggesting they necessarily like it always, but there are no secrets here.” When asked about Israel’s efforts to stop the current wave of terror attacks, Nides told Channel 12, “We’re not going to tell the government what to do.” He also said that payments to terrorists, which he called, “martyr payments,” “must stop.” At the same time, the U.S. does not want to “lose the vision” of a two-state solution,” though he admitted that “we can’t impose anything on anyone.” The United States is also “very comfortable with what the Israelis are doing vis-à-vis Ukraine,” Nides added. “When we have issues, we express them, as Israel expresses them to us.”
The Beautiful Kinneret This week, the Kinneret neared its upper red line threshold, sitting only 13 inches below its maximum capacity — a level which it has not reached in 30 years. The water level is now 13 inches below the upper red line, or 686 feet below sea level. The upper red line is 208.8 meters (685 feet) below sea level. The water levels of the Kinneret have
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seen dramatic highs and perilous lows in recent years. Only six years ago, the situation was extremely bleak. On April 4, 2016, the lake level was 11 feet lower than today. The Kinneret is Israel’s largest freshwater lake, and while it is no longer used as the main source of drinking water, it is still seen as a significant gauge of seasonal rainfall. Even though the Kinneret is nearing its maximum capacity, there are fail-safes to prevent flooding. If the water level exceeds the upper red line, the Israel Water Authority opens the Deganya dam, located at the southern end of the lake.
Arab Mayor Mourns Terrorists Umm al-Fahm Mayor Samir Sobhi Mahamed on Thursday briefly resigned his position following criticism for his condolence message mourning two ISIS-inspired terrorists who murdered two Border Police officers in Hadera last week. Two hours after his resignation announcement, however, Mahamed changed his mind, stating that he would remain in his position due to pressure not to step down. The message in question, posted on Facebook and signed by Mahamed, mourned the deaths of terrorists Ayman and Ibrahim Ighbariah, cousins from the northern Arab city, who were killed by police while carrying out their terror attack. The post was deleted after about an hour, and Mahamed apologized, saying it had been posted by an external contractor and claimed he had not seen it prior to its publication. In an interview with Kan that evening, Mahamed said he would take responsibility for the post but said that the condolences were routine. “It shouldn’t have been sent out,” he said then. “I understand everyone who is angry.” He added, “If I need to resign, I will resign. I came here to benefit the Arab community. If my resignation will benefit the community, that’s what I will do.” When asked whether he was actually resigning, Mahamed said, “You know what, this is my redemption. Yes, I announce my resignation. I’m leaving this position with a lot of pain because I came here to contribute.” According to Channel 12 News, several government ministers called Mahamed to urge him not to resign. Later, at around 10pm that same night, Mahamed told Israeli news outlets, “Thank you all for the support. I won’t resign.” Mahamed emphasized to Kan, “We’ve condemned, we still condemn, the crime committed in Hadera. It didn’t come from us, as far as we’re concerned murder is murder. “My agenda and vision have always been … tolerance, activism, and partnership, and I always tried to implement those values in collaborations with the Jewish
community and that is what I will continue to do.”
Bennett: Carry Your Guns
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett last week urged Israelis licensed to bear arms to carry their weapons when going about their business during the day. In a video statement, Bennett said, “Citizens of Israel, we are currently experiencing a wave of murderous terrorism. “What is expected of you, citizens of Israel? Alertness and responsibility. Open your eyes. Whoever has a license to carry a weapon, this is the time to carry it.” Bennett’s call follows a string of terror attacks in Be’er Sheva, Hadera, and Bnei Brak. The prime minister added, “The IDF, Shabak (Israel Security Agency), and the Israel Police have significantly increased their intelligence operations in order to reach, in a timely manner, those who are planning to carry out attacks. We have also reinforced the presence throughout the country of those in uniform and those carrying weapons. “As of now, our forces have carried out more than 200 investigation or arrest operations,” Bennett stressed. “There is no limit on resources” for battling terrorism. Concluding his statement, Bennett said, “Citizens of Israel, we are currently experiencing a wave of murderous terrorism and, just like in all the previous waves, we will prevail, together.” “This is neither our first nor our second wave of terrorism. We have experience with struggle. Israeli society, when it is tested, knows how to show composure, remain resilient, and rise to the occasion. We cannot be broken.”
Life Sentence for Esther Horgan’s Killer Terrorist Muhammad Mruh Kabha, who murdered Esther Horgan in cold blood in December 2020, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday by the Samaria Military Court. Horgan, an Israeli from the Tal Menashe, was a married mother of six. In its decision, the court called Horgan’s murder a “case that shocks the soul,” describing Kabha’s actions as “inconceivable evil.” Horgan, then 52, was jogging on December 20, 2020 in the forest near her
home, when Kabha, who had been waiting in the area for a victim, chased her and knocked her to the ground. Though Horgan tried to fight the terrorist off, he pinned her down and hit her on the head with large rocks, causing her to bleed and breaking bones in her chest and arms until she went still. Horgan’s widower, Benjamin Horgan, said, “Hearing once again the detailed description of this horrific crime brings us back to very difficult moments and underscores the importance of the court really using all the power given to it by the legislature to take part in the war on terror.” Kabha was convicted in October 2021 of intentionally causing death and conspiracy to shoot at a person. He has been sentenced to life plus three years in prison and ordered to pay compensation of about $1 million. Benjamin Horgan pointed out, “During the life of this vile killer in prison, he will earn over NIS 4 million from the Palestinian Authority. He will enjoy it, his family will enjoy these funds, the Palestinian Authority will rebuild his destroyed house. And the Israeli government is doing nothing. The court has gone a long way this morning, even with the compensation ruling, but it is not enough.”
Terror Attack Thwarted Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Saturday praised troops who thwarted a terror attack which the terrorists were on their way to carrying out. On Friday night, four Yamam officers were injured and three terrorists were killed in a shootout near Jenin. In a video statement alongside Shabak (Israel Security Agency) chief Ronen Bar and military secretary Avi Gil, Bennett said, “We are in the midst of a joint effort of all the security forces to stop the wave of recent attacks and restore security to Israeli citizens.” The terrorists who were eliminated, members of the Islamic Jihad terror organization, were a “ticking time bomb,” Bennett said. According to reports, the cell was planning to carry out a shooting attack in central Israel. Bennett added, “We certainly assume there will be many more attempts, and we are working right now to prevent them. Our people act with great bravery, around the clock, in a hostile and violent environment, and I want to send a speedy recovery to the wounded in the operation.” Of the four wounded officers, two were lightly wounded, one suffered moderate wounds to his lower limbs, and the fourth suffered serious injuries and required hospitalization. That officer, S., is “is one of the State of Israel’s best field commanders,” Bennett stressed. He noted, “Terror is not new. Once it’s Hamas, once it’s Islamic Jihad, this time there is some involvement of ISIS. We will get through this difficult period.”
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