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The Shmuz on the Parsha
Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier
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ashi tells us that after the Torah described the life of Aysav in an abbreviated manner, it then told over the events in the life of Yaakov in full detail. The reason for this is that Yaakov and what occurred to him are important in the eyes of HASHEM, whereas Aysav and his life aren’t. So too, Rashi explains, we find with the ten generations from Adom to Noach. Each individual gets a mere mention until we get to the life of Noach. Then the Torah elaborates in full detail. The same pattern is repeated with the ten generations from Noach till Avrohom. We are told in condensed form – “so and so gave birth to so and so” – until we get to the life of Avrohom. Then the Torah again goes into great detail because the life and activities of Tzadikim are important in the eyes of HASHEM, whereas those of Rashiim aren’t significant. Rashi continues with a Moshol to help explain this concept. Imagine a man has lost a precious stone in the sand. He takes a sieve and begins combing through the sand to find it. The sieve picks up many small rocks along with the gem that he is searching for. Once he finds the gem, he takes it out and throws the rocks away.
of a Moshol. Chazal use parables to help bridge a gap. When we are dealing with concepts that are outside our frame of reference, our sages often use examples and metaphors to bring difficult ideas into terms that we can understand. For instance, if you were given the task to describe the color purple to a color blind person, how would you portray it? Well, it isn’t blue and it’s not red… The problem is that since this person sees all colors in the grey spectrum, neither point of reference has any meaning. So you might revert to a moshol. Imagine that sounds have color. Then a cello would be a woody brown, and a flute would be a light yellow. In the midrange would be a saxophone, and that’s purple. The purpose of the moshol is to capture the essence of a distant concept and bring it closer. Why does Rashi feel we need a Moshol to understand this concept? It seems rather straightforward. Aysav wasn’t important, so the Torah told over his life quickly, whereas Yaakov and what he accomplished are significant, so the Torah went into the details. That seems like an elementary concept, not one that needs repeating or a Moshol to help clarify it.
The purpose of a Moshol
The value of a person
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obvious at all, namely the true value of a person. If you were to ask a chemist the value of a human being, he might say, “Well, let’s see . . . So much potassium… so much magnesium… I would estimate his value at about 60 cents.” That would be accurate in one dimension. If we were measuring the value of a human from the perspective of the chemicals that make up his body, we would find him rather inexpensive. However, from a different perspective, the human is the most precious entity on the face of the planet – something so precious that it was worthwhile to create an entire cosmos for just one person. The difference in the value systems manifests itself in the way a person lives his life. If a person leads his life like any other occupant of this planet, as just another member of the animal kingdom, then he has the value of whatever his physical being represents – a couple of pounds of rotting meat. However, if a person recognizes the reason that HASHEM put us on the planet and leads the life of a great person, then his value is incalculable.
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understand the difference in their values. Let me give you a Moshol: When a man is looking for a pearl in the sand and he picks up some rocks along with it, they are utterly, totally and completely valueless to him. He throws them back down. The Torah is using this Moshol to give us the perspective of the stark difference in value. It wasn’t that Aysav wasn’t as important as Yaakov – he was valueless, something to be discarded. He was a rock. When he left this planet, that is all that was left – the body to decay into the ground. This concept is very relevant to us because we tend to get very busy at this thing called life. Working, doing, going, taking care of this, taking care of that … But a person has to ask himself, “What is it that I am so busy with? Granted I have to make a living, agreed that I must take care of many basic physical needs, but has that taken over the focus of my life? Do I spend so much time focused on the mundane issues of survival that it has become the epicenter of my existence? If it does, then I am no different than a beast of burden -- I am a rock.” Two men can look identical; yet the difference between them can be the distance from the heavens to the earth. If a person follows his natural tendencies, he may well have wasted the greatest opportunity of his life, and at the end of it all, he will have nothing to show for all of his efforts. Whereas, if a person invests his energies in those values that the Torah teaches us, then he at his very essence becomes more precious than anything that we can imagine, and for eternity he will enjoy those phenomenal accomplishments. The entire world was worth creating for him alone.
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Airbnb’s Outrageous Decision Against Israel by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
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I’ve used Airbnb to book an apartment in Jerusalem, and I’m not sure whether I’d be able to find the same great place to stay today. The truth is, the apartment my family and I stayed in was in central Jerusalem, and I’m just not sure which side of the 1967 border it was on. In today’s unified Jerusalem where all people are free to go, it’s hard to tell. I remember walking through the area with my Israeli cousin, and hearing her reminisce about how dangerous that downtown part of the city used to be. Jordan controlled the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Old City, and didn’t allow any Jews to live or even to visit its territory. Snipers used to shoot from the Jordanian side of the border into the Jewish areas of Jerusalem, killing civilians. I was shocked when a friend once explained that her mother grew up To advertise, call 718-513-9885
an orphan: their family lived along the pre1967 border in Jerusalem, and Jordanian snipers killed both her parents, who were civilians. Does Airbnb really want to go back to that? When I stayed in my Jerusalem Airbnb I had Jewish and Arab neighbors. Arabs and Jews walk freely in the streets, where before 1967 Jews were forbidden to set foot. I was able to walk from the apartment to the Old City of Jerusalem, which is teeming with tourists from all over the world and is home to Jews, Muslims and Christians. That wasn’t the case before 1967, when Jordan didn’t allow Jews to worship at holy sites like the Western Wall, when Jews whose families lived in the Old City for centuries were forced out, and when Jewish synagogues
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had lived for centuries, and continuing to occupy them to this day. 150,000 Greeks were forced out of northern Cyprus, to be replaced with ethnic Turks. Yet today Airbnb offers listings like a “Beautiful three bedroom house with a pool” in Girne, Cyprus, an area currently under illegal Turkish rule. In 1976, Morocco annexed the Western Sahara, a region that continues to fight for its independence and whose sovereignty has been recognized by the UN. A 2018 US State Department report documented the use of torture in Western Saharan areas by Moroccan forces. That hasn’t prevented Airbnb from listing vacation rentals in the disputed territory, including a “Bungalow Deluxe Triple” in the Moroccan-occupied Western Saharan city of Dakhla, which is specifically mentioned in the State Department report as a site of tension and poor human rights. Airbnb’s decision to cut off Israeli listings is tragic. It limits travelers’ horizons instead of expanding them, and it spreads the false assumption that somehow out of the 191 countries
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and cemeteries were desecrated and destroyed. It’s particularly galling that Airbnb would take the step of banning listings from outside of Israel’s pre-1967 borders because the site lists thousands of vacation rentals in other areas that are disputed and that have terrible human rights records. In 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus, occupying areas where Greek families
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psychology at the Sorbonne and became a popular children’s book author. Her book, Twenty Jakata Tales, was published in 1939. After the fall of France in 1940, the Khan family fled, catching the last boat out of France to England. There, Noor and her brother Vilayat joined the war effort, signing up to fight with British forces. Fighting wasn’t a natural choice for Noor. An avowed pacifist, she also bitterly opposed British rule of India. She was also extremely gentle and soft spoken. Noor’s friend Jean Overton later recalled: “Noor was the quietest person it was possible to imagine. Her voice was so slight and soft so as sometimes scarcely to be audible.” Yet faced with the barbarity of Nazism, Noor didn’t hesitate and joined Britain’s Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). As the war escalated, Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill realized that the Allies needed more intelligence To advertise, call 718-513-9885
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and setting up safe areas from which to broadcast. For four and a half months, she evaded capture and sent a regular series of coded broadcasts from Paris to London. It was later estimated that in those months, she performed the work it would normally have taken six operators to do. In October 1943, Noor was betrayed to the Gestapo. It’s thought that she was turned in by Renee Garry, whose brother was Noor’s first contact in Paris. Noor was arrested and sent to the Gestapo’s infamous headquarters at 84 Avenue Foch in Paris where prisoners’ screams could be heard coming from the building day and night. Tragically, Nazi officials were able to find records of Noor’s broadcasts and used them to send their own signals to London, luring new British spies to France - and right into the Gestapo’s trap. Although Gestapo headquarters were tightly guarded, Noor managed to break out of her cell and escape. The Gestapo tracked her down and arrested her just hours later. Now classified as “highly
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dangerous”, Noor was sent to Pforzhem prison in Germany where she was tortured and kept in chains in isolation for ten agonizing months. Despite being repeatedly questioned and tortured, Noor refused to divulge secrets about the radio transmission program and the identities of her fellow operators. In September 1944, Noor and three other female spies were transferred to the Dachau concentration camp where they were shot on September 13. Noor was only 30 years old. Witnesses recalled that the last word she said moments before her murder was “Liberte”. Noor Inayat Khan, descendent of Muslim royalty, embodied Hillel’s maxim, “In place where there are no leaders, strive to be a leader” (Pirkei Avot 2:5). Refusing to sit on the sidelines, she made the ultimate sacrifice in fighting the Nazis. Her courageous example deserves to be widely known.
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How the Jews Changed the World & We Don’t Even Know It by Rabbi Ephraim Shore
This Thanksgiving, let’s give thanks to the Jewish people. “The Jews started it all – and by “it” I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and gentile, believer and atheist, tick. Without the Jews, we would see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings. And we would set a different course for our lives… Their worldview has become so much a part of us that at this point it might as well have been written into our cells as a genetic code.” --- Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews The number of fundamental ideas and values the Jewish People have given to the world is truly remarkable. And it’s also remarkable how most people don’t realize
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this. We simply forget that these concepts and ideals were once not the way of the world. In fact, they were not only revolutionary but often at complete odds with conventional wisdom of the times. As Paul Johnson wrote in The History of the Jews, “All the great conceptual discoveries of the intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they have been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift.” In the spirit of Thanksgiving, let’s stop to appreciate some of the Jewish inventions taken for granted in our world:
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our weekend. Until the Jewish invention of Sabbath, every day, every month, every year was the same. We introduced the concept of taking out time to focus on the higher things in life and enjoying being and not just doing. Christians adapted the Jewish Shabbat to Sunday in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.1
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Universal Literacy and Education: In a world where literacy was a luxury enjoyed by the vast minority, the People of the Book taught that the pursuit of wisdom and learning was the highest pursuit and the right and obligation of every child and adult. No Jewish community existed without a school. Even the Greeks and Romans came nowhere near creating a written culture, 2 and the medieval world saw even greater drops in literacy. The Church, ancient Greece and the United States not only discouraged literacy for some (e.g. Blacks, slaves, non-clergy), but it took until 1918 for every US state to require students to complete elementary school. 3 It took India until 2009 to adopt what the Jewish nation has been practicing for 3,500 years.
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Without the Jews, we would see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings. And we would set a different course for our lives… of the underdog and the helpless. As the Torah states, “You shall not wrong or oppress a foreigner, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. You shall not abuse the widow or orphan. If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry” (Exodus 22:21-23). Jewish law ensured that every man and woman has the right to a fair trial, is innocent before proven guilty, and allows for no prejudice towards the rich or powerful.
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Infinite Value of Every Human Life: In a world of human sacrifice, murder of children (particularly baby girls), and wanton war and killing to further material gains, Judaism taught that every life is holy, created in the image of God, and of infinite value – even the old, the mentally or physically handicapped and the sick. If you think that is obvious, consider the practice of human sacrifice that was central to most South American civilizations until the Spanish Christians conquered them just 500 years ago.
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The Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: While the founding fathers of America may have found “these truths to be self-evident”, in fact it was far from self-evident unless you were highly influenced by Jewish values (otherwise the Declaration of Independence in 1776 would not have been so revolutionary!). Many societies up to modern times have sought to limit individuality in the name of service to the state or religion or feudal lord (Communism, Nazism, many religions and all totalitarian regimes). But 3,000 years before 1776, Judaism introduced to the world that every human has the right, and obligation, to aspire to reaching his/ her unique goals, personal fulfilment and potential.
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Tzedaka and Tikkun Olam: In a world where the idea of giving away one’s property to others was seen as both bizarre and foolhardy, Judaism taught that we are obligated to donate 10-20% (tithe) of what we earn to make the world a better place. Judaism was trend-setting by millennium when it required us to lend money to our fellow man with no interest, to return lost objects, to refrain from verbal abuse and gossip, not to take revenge or bear a grudge, to protect animals from suffering, and to demand that we love every human being regardless of race, religion or color. “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Lev. 19:18) was introduced 2,000 years before Christianity.
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first “Man” was not actually a man but an androgynous male/female being which was then separated into two). From the earliest times women have held important leadership positions in the Jewish world. Our matriarchs were considered even greater than their husbands in prophecy and other areas. Judaism forbade harassment of any kind. Way ahead of its time, a woman’s rights to intimacy were enshrined by the first Jewish marriage contracts (kesuba). Men are obligated to honor their wives even more than themselves. Women in Judaism enjoyed more rights than in most of Western civilization. For example, it took until 1900 for all US states to allow women to buy, sell and own property or to write her own will and contracts. Without the Jewish nation, the world as we know it would simply not exist. Paul Johnson summed it up beautifully: “To them (the Jews) we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person; of the individual conscience and so of personal redemption; of the collective conscience and so of social responsibility; of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation
of justice, and many other items which constitute the basic moral furniture of the human mind. Without the Jews, it might have been a much emptier place.” And while the world was busy absorbing Jewish inventions into their culture, they were simultaneously persecuting and not infrequently attempting to destroy us. How strange that one of humanity’s most positive contributors has been singled out for more hate than any other. Cahill observed this phenomenon: “Our history is replete with examples of those who have refused to see what the Jews are really about, who – through intellectual blindness, racial chauvinism, xenophobia, or just plain evil – have been unable to give this oddball tribe, this raggle-taggle band, this race of wanderers who are the progenitors of the Western world, their due.” This Thanksgiving, let’s follow the lead of American President John Adams, who said, “I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that chance had ordered the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”
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The Rosenthal family just barely made it out alive. An Aish.com exclusive.
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Elias, and 16-year-old daughter Moriah – went back inside their house. When a power blackout hit around midnight – due to high winds impacting power lines – everyone went to sleep. At 3:30 am, Eli heard a fire truck roaring through the neighborhood, sounding an alert: “Evacuate NOW!” It was to be the final warning. One gaze out the window confirmed the worst. A downed electric transformer had ignited the parched landscape suffering one of the worst droughts in California history. Winds of 60 mph fanned the flames and carried them at high speed. Emergency personnel were caught by surprise, leaving residents virtually no time to escape. Eli quickly woke up the others and there no time to take anything – heirlooms, photos, or IDs. Within 25 seconds – with no electricity, in the pitch dark – the Rosenthals made their way downstairs to the garage. “We touched the garage door To advertise, call 718-513-9885
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Justin was raised as a non-religious Jew, “in synagogue only once, for my Bar Mitzvah,” he says. When he met Shacharit, who had grown up Reform and become observant, Justin needed to catch up on Judaism. So in the mid-1990s, he attended Aish HaTorah’s Discovery seminar in San Francisco. “My reaction was: Where has this been my whole life?” Justin says. “So I became an ardent reader of Aish.com and haven’t stopped since. I’ve always shared the content with my children. Aish.com has made a world of difference.” Prior to the fire, the Rosenthal children attended public school, while maintaining a strong Jewish identity. “They really love Judaism,” Justin says. “At high school they
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started a Jewish Club to teach other kids.” Events of the past year have greatly impacted the Rosenthal’s Jewish life. After the fire, they relocated to Oakland, where they’d already been involved with Beth Jacob Congregation. Shul members opened their homes, and the local Jewish high school immediately accepted the children, infusing the family’s Jewish life. Today Eli is studying at the Aish Gesher program in Jerusalem. His twin brother Ari attends Yeshivat Har Etzion and plans to become a rabbi.
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Today, 15 months after the fire, Santa Rosa is a city in crisis. The flames were so intense that they melted the plastic water pipes embedded three feet underground – destroying plumbing infrastructure and releasing chemicals into the soil and water supply. The federal government has since removed much of the toxic soil, leaving massive empty pits where beautiful homes once stood. The firestorm is never from the minds of Justin and Shacharit who speak publicly, sharing their experience and promoting home safety. “In a group of 100 people, perhaps one knows how to open the garage manually,” Justin says. “In event of a natural disaster, we’re woefully unprepared.” Besides the need for flashlights, smoke detectors, and an evacuation plan, Justin recommends making electronic copies of
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important documents and uploading them to the cloud. It’s a lesson he discovered too late. “All our documents were destroyed, and we had to spend countless hours in government offices establishing our own identification,” he laments. The 2017 Santa Rosa fire was not the first for Justin’s parents. In 1991 they were living in Oakland when a huge firestorm broke out that killed 25 people and destroyed 3,000 homes. “Most of the deaths occurred on my parents’ street, and they were the last ones to get out alive,” Justin says. “The smoke was so thick that they couldn’t tell which way was downhill. So my father put the car in neutral and let gravity guide them. He needed to keep banging into the curb to gauge where he was going.” As for the Rosenthals’ future, they still await settlement from the insurance company. “With so many natural disasters, these companies are facing financial ruin,” Justin says. “The concern is that they will become insolvent and not pay anything out.” Today Justin works in Davis, California, where the current inferno has claimed over 50 lives and 8,800 structures, making it the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state’s history. One of Justin’s colleague’s is searching for her missing family; her uncle is already declared dead. Every day, Justin is grateful for his family’s survival. “Had my son not heard the warning,” he says, “we would have slept right through it.”
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What is Chanukah without latkes and doughnuts! Traditionally we eat dairy dishes to celebrate the victory of our heroine Yehudis over the evil general Helifornis, while at the same time we fry our delicacies in oil to celebrate the victory of the Maccabees.
Traditional Crispy Potato Latkes Latkes are a real staple part of Chanukah fare. If you plan to serve latkes, make lots of them, as they are sure to disappear quickly. Even though they are featured elsewhere, they are still the favorite Ingredients: 6 potatoes 1 small onion 4 eggs ½ tsp salt 1/8 tsp black pepper (optional) Instructions: Grate potatoes in food processor on your favorite blade, I favor the shredder as pieces are a bit bigger and latkes come out crispier. Squeeze out the liquid through a
colander. Add the rest of ingredients. Mix well. In a deep pot or deep frying pan, heat oil very thoroughly. Drop batter by spoonful and fry until golden on both sides. Pat with paper towel to absorb the oil. Serve warm with applesauce or sour cream, if desired. Just plain is great too. Preparation time: 12 minutes Cooking time: 18 to 24 minutes Serves 8
Creamy Cauliflower Latkes I love cauliflower any which way it is served. In honour of Chanukah here is a latke made out the delectable cauliflowers Ingredients: 1 2lb bag frozen cauliflower 2 fresh pressed garlic ½ tsp salt 6Tbs reduced fat cream cheese 2 eggs 1Tbs flour 1 Tbs olive oil Directions: Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil. Add the cauliflower, and simmer for 10 minutes or until soft. Drain and return the cauliflower to the pot. Using a potato masher, mash the cooked cauliflower. Add the garlic, salt, cream cheese, eggs, flour and olive oil and mix until well combined. Heat 3 Tbs oil in a frying pan. Drop cauliflower mixture by tablespoon into the hot oil. Cook until nicely browned on both sides. Serve immediately with a dollop of sour cream. These freeze well and are delicious when warmed up in the oven at 300 F for about 15 minutes. Note: this recipe is delicious when served as mashed cauliflower, instead of mashed potatoes, just omit the flour. Prep: 7min Cook: 25min Serves 6
Easy Cheesy Vegetable Quesadillas Tortillas are very popular these days. Tortillas come in various textures; white flour, whole wheat, tomato or spinach. Subsequently their colors will vary. They go a long way for any occasion and easy to serve. The variety of ways to serve it is endless. Here is a simple recipe that is almost a meal, children are sure to love this finger food. Add pizzazz to this dish by contrasting colors of tortillas and serving them in a variety of colors. Ingredients: 4 tortillas your favorite variety 2 Tbs oil 1 medium onion chopped 3 cloves garlic (optional) 1 large leek cut in strips 1 large zucchini cubed 1 red pepper cut in thin strips 2 Tbs Marinara sauce Salt and pepper to taste 6 oz (200gr) shredded mozzarella/or pizza cheese
Directions: In a large frying pan sautĂŠ chopped onions and garlic until translucent 8-10 minutes. Add washed and sliced leeks, cubed zucchini and red pepper. Allow to cook for another 10-15 minutes until vegetables are tender. To assemble spray baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray. Spread two tortillas on the baking sheet sprinkle lightly with Mozzarella cheese. Pour vegetable mixture onto the cheese, spread a thin layer of Marinara sauce. Sprinkle with more cheese on top and cover with remaining tortillas. Bake in a preheated oven at 400 for 5 minutes or until cheese is melted. Remove from oven cut into desired slices and serve. Preparation time 15 minutes Serves 8-12 For an even easier version omit the vegetables and just spread tortillas with cheese and marinara sauce cover with another tortilla and bake until cheese is melted, for equally delicious results.
Spiced Sugar Donuts with a Twist “Variety is the spice of life” goes the adage, after indulging in the same donuts time and again, this recipe is a welcome change for the daring; the pumpkin or sweet potato/ butternut squash lends it a slightly sweet taste which is very flavorful. Donuts Ingredients: 3 1/2 cups all purpose flour 4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground ginger(optional) 1/4 tsp ground cloves (optional) 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg (optional) 1 cup sugar 3 Tbs butter, softened 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup plus 1 Tbs buttermilk (to make your own mix 1 Tbs vinegar into ½ cup milk) 1 cup cooked, mashed pumpkin (canned is ok) sweet potato/ butternut squash (your choice) Canola oil (for deep-frying) Spiced Sugar: 2 cups sugar 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground ginger (optional)
1/4 tsp ground cloves (optional) 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg Directions: Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and spices in a medium bowl. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add in vanilla, buttermilk and pumpkin. Gently stir in flour mixture until fully incorporated. Cover bowl with a dishcloth and refrigerate at least 1 hours. Sprinkle two baking sheets with flour. Working with 1/3 of the dough at a time, roll the chilled dough out, on a lightly floured surface, to about 1/22/3 inch (2 cm) thickness. Using a 2 1/2 inch diameter round biscuit cutter or wide mouth glass, cut out rounds and place on a baking sheet. Use a 1 inch cutter or small liqueur cup to remove the center of the round, and set the donut hole on the baking sheet as well. Repeat until all the dough is used. You may reroll the scraps. You should end up with 24 donuts and 24 holes. In a large saucepan, heat 2-3 inches of oil to 365F/185C. Make a thick stack of paper towels to drain the donuts on. Fry the donuts as well as holes until golden brown, about 1 minute per side. Remove doughnuts to drain and cool thoroughly on paper towels. In bowl, whisk together sugar and spices. Coat donuts and donut holes in sugar mixture. The sugar will stick to the residual oil (though no one likes to think about that). Enjoy! Makes 24 donuts and 24 donut holes, but can be halved
Easy Schmeezy Chanukah Cookies What do kids like even more than eating cookies? Making cookies! Mix the dough, get out the rolling pin and Hanukkah-shaped cookie cutters (menorah, oil lamp, stars, and more), and give your children a memorable and yummy Hanukkah experience. Great activity to help them anticipate the candle lighting ceremony. Ingredients: 1 cup (200 grams) butter or pareve margarine, at room temperature 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 2 Tbsp. orange juice 1 Tbsp. vanilla 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp. baking powder Preparation: Mix ingredients margarine and sugar until smooth. Add in eggs,
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In the name of our holy religion, we hereby forbid any Jews from learning Torah in public!!!
In a time when we are forced to convert, the halachah is that we must give up our lives rather than transgress any mitzvah in the Torah!
What will be?
We will continue to learn the holy Torah.
Who will learn Torah with us?
Rebbe, they will kill us for this!
I am prepared for everything! I will not forsake the holy Torah! My lord, the Rabbi of the Jews continues to learn Torah with them‌
What?! Arrest him this instant!
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Illustrated by Chana Eisenstein Holy Rebbe, we are left completely alone!
My dear students, in this city you will find Rebbe Maimon, the dayan of Spain, with his son, the gaon Rebbe Moshe. They will continue to learn Torah with you.
We lost our holy Rebbe Yehudah Ha’Kohen. He died al kiddush Hashem for his mesirus nefesh to learn the holy Torah in public!
Oy, Hashem, who will continue to lead and guide us?
Rebbe Maimon will deliver a eulogy on the Rebbe. Hashem did not forsake us, because he sent us the dayan Rebbe Maimon, with his illustrious son Rebbe Moshe.
The holy Rambam and his father became the new leaders of the Jewish community in Fez.
Interesting‌ Why is this house constantly receiving so much mail?
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Illustrated by Chana Eisenstein On Sukkos:
A good Yom Tov!
Let’s go to the Jewish Quarter. Today they are celebrating an interesting holiday.
My lord, the king, that's Rebbe Moshe ben Maimon. He is the Jewish sage. They say he's an exceptionally wise person and extremely knowledgeable in the Jewish Torah.
Your wisdom is legendary. Therefore, I cannot understand this nonsense of walking around carrying a branch and leaves in your hand.
Greetings, Rebbe Moshe!
Greetings, my lord, the king! May Hashem bless you with an enduring kingdom!
Rebbe Moshe, enlighten us as to the meaning of this. Only silly people and young children walk around carrying leaves in their hand‌
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Illustrated by Chana Eisenstein This is not nonsense. This is a mitzvah that Hashem commanded us to perform on this Yom Tov.
Well said! Have a happy holiday together with your congregation.
The people who throw stones are the silly ones‌
Thank you, my lord, the king!
This time, we were saved.
He insults our religion like that and the king remains silent?!
I didn't hear him say anything against our religion. What did he say wrong?
He said the ones who throw stones are silly! He meant the Muslims who travel to the holy city of Mecca and place a rock on the mountain.
Really?! He must be killed for this!
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