Sahara Desert gets snow and goodbye to Channakah

Can't see images? Click here...                                                             Rabbi Yehuda Lave Evaluate Your Present Course Even if you have devoted a lot of time and effort to some project, if you know now that it is better to cancel it, do so. The fact that you have invested much energy is irrelevant. Deal only with the question: "Is this the right thing to do now?" It is illogical to continue something just because you already started it. The matter has to be worthwhile in its own right. What was invested in the past is already over with, and need not tie you down to wasteful activities. Love Yehuda Lave as we say goodbye to Chanakah 2016 and Happy New year on the Secular Year Incredible footage captures first snowfall in the Sahara Desert in 37 years The Greatest gift you can give 59 Strange facts Look at your zipper.  See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.   2 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.   3 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.   4 On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.   5 Chocolate kills dogs!  True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system.  A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.   6 Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.   7 Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.   8 Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.   9 There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. We know why   10 Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.  Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.  A fixation maybe ?   11 Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves.  That's the opposite of the norm.   12 The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!  more appropiate   13 By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.  Good advice   14 Mosquito repellents don't repel... They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.   15 Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.  Just close the lid on the toilet that will help   16 The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.   17 Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.   18 Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.   19 Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.   Shame on him   20 The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.  I'VE TRIED THEM ALL   21 To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs.  It will let you go instantly.   Nice to know   22 The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. RUBEN IN LESS TIME   23 The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.   24 The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.WONDER WHY   25 Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.NOW THAT IS SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND   26 The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.   27 Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT".   28 It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.  NO .. I TRY VERY HARD NOT TO WHEN I'M DRIVING   29 In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".   30 A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.. OH GOOOOD !   31 We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.   32 Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.   33 Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year.THE DEAD SEA 1 METRE A YEAR SO WHAT !   34 Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV. I LOVE SLEEPING SO WHAT DOES THAT MAKE ME ?   35 Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.   36 When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka. Must learn that language   37 There are more chickens than people in the world.   38 The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.   39 There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C. .   40 The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day. Who did the counting ?   41 The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three times each morning.   42 The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.   43 The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette company died of lung cancer.   44 Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.I'm off to have my hair tested tomorrow ..   45 The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.Poor things, bless them..   46 Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears never stop growing.   47 You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. I'm going teo bed NOW !!   48 A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. I am definitely going to bed now !!!Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.   49 Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.   50 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.  So what ???   51 When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.Oh Mr moon stay forever near me…   52 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned his wife or mother because they were both deaf.   53 A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions.  After weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe leaving her mentally retarded.Lesson : DO NOT NAG !   54 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.   55 Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."   56 Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. Now that is important to know !   57 "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.   58 Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do. Poor left handers …   59 The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language. Yes that is what we had to type a trillion times when learning how to typewrite … oh those foxes and dogs … A most non--Immaculate Conception of the Messiah ! Isaac Mozeson Hanukah and Vayeshev (Genesis 38): Tamar Sheds Light on Immaculate Conception The twice married, upright תמר Tamar courageously conceives the ancestor of King David by playing a prostitute. She was not born Jewish, but she desperately wanted to fulfill the promised Levirite marriage, and to bear the destiny of Judah's path. A most non--Immaculate Conception of the Messiah ! The Hellenic re-write of conceiving the Messiah involves an engaged Jewish virgin named Miriam/Mary who does not consent to a "Leda and the Swan" -style supernatural conception. Active vs. passive; real/fantastic; Jewish-universal/Jewish only to replace the Jews; sex can be abused, but is the divine vehicle for giving love and life/ sex is filthy but necessary for the lowly masses. There can be no greater contrast, nor more important one, between these two heroines of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Gospels. The name תמר Tamar is about being "upright." תמר TaMaR is a tall, straight palm tree, and a pillar (Jeremiah 10:5) [E-Word entry: TRUNK]. Do you really think the Greco-Romans invented the pillar? Or did the Creator of our Natural Universe show us the way? Back in graduate school in American Literature I had a nominally-Jewish professor who was a respected author and expert in Greek Mythology and the sources of modern literature. We were learning Hawthorne's A Scarlet Letter, whose climactic scene has Reverend Dimmesdale condemning Hester Prynne in court for adultery -- for carrying HIS own baby, which he would not confess to . Dr. S. was stunned to hear from a kid in the back that this is the precise scene of Genesis 38 -- except that Judge Judah mans up when Tamar presents evidence that Judah is the father of the child… who would give rise to David and the Messianic line of actual Judean kings. Could our Creator be telling us that courageous human endeavor will engender redemption? Hanukah is the time to hold a candle up to the black and white differences between the Hebraic and the Hellenic. Happy Hanukah. See you tomorrow and goodbye to Chanakah Love You Rabbi Yehuda Lave Your mailing address Contact Phone Website LIKE TWEET FORWARD You received this email because you signed up on our website or made purchase from us. Unsubscribe

The full text of the resolution condemning Israel

Can't see images? Click here...                                                             Rabbi Yehuda Lave What Do You Say to Yourself After Someone Criticizes You? Imagine that someone criticizes you. Then imagine yourself feeling joyful about this wonderful opportunity to learn something positive from the criticism. Imagine that you love to hear feedback about what you've said and done or didn't say and do. Positive feedback means that you are on track. Critical feedback means that you can now improve and develop yourself. Imagine that your self-talk sounds like, "I appreciate and am grateful for this wonderful opportunity to become better. I am grateful to this person for telling me something that will be beneficial for me." If you actually respond to criticism this way, congratulations! It shows that you have integrated one of the elevated qualities listed in the 48 factors to acquire Torah. If you are like most people, however, you don't think of critical feedback as one of your greatest pleasures in life. But if you have the inner strength, courage, and honesty to be open to hearing criticism, you will grow more in life. So what can you say to yourself if you have not yet mastered the ability to love criticism? One possibility is: "My goal is to constantly grow and develop myself. I love positive feedback. But I can grow from critical feedback. So I will increase my inner strength, courage, and honesty to be open to hear what people say, and to weigh what they say objectively." You don't have to feel bad about yourself because someone gave you critical feedback. Your value as a person is inherent, because you are a child of the Creator and are created in His image. You have many positive qualities and have done many positive things. Your value and worth are infinite. Integrating this attitude will ensure that your sense of self-worth will remain consistently high. Love Yehuda Lave and Happy Chanakuh Dear World =a letter to the world The Rationalist view of Sequlah's In the past, I have written about how I am fairly tolerant of superstitions - one person's segulah is another person's fundamental religious belief. How much more inherently irrational are segulos than, say, tefillas haderech (which I am extremely makpid about)? Furthermore, they can be psychologically helpful. However, I am gradually becoming less and less sympathetic to them. First of all, I have seen how major organizations capitalize on segulos in order to take advantage of people. Second, the entire anti-scientific mindset is clearly very harmful - just look at the measles outbreak, which seems to be caused by the anti-scientific anti-vaccination movement. It's a pity that people can't make use of more traditional segulos. I would like to once again share the following list of segulos, sourced in Chazal and the Rishonim, and compiled by my late neighbor Rabbi Dovid Landesman ztz"l: 1. Segulah for recovery from illness – go to a doctor [Berachot 60a, Bava Kamma 46b) 2. Segulah for longevity – lead a healthy lifestyle (Rambam, De'ot 4:20) 3. Segulah for marriage – look for a suitable wife (Kiddushin 2b) 4. Segulah for shalom bayit – love and forbearance (Sanhedrin 7a, Bava Metzia 59a) 5. Segulah for children – prayer to Hashem (Shmuel I 1) 6. Segulah for yir'at Shamayim – learning (Avot 2:5) 7. Segulah for spirituality – learning and mitzvah observance (Megillah 6b) 8. Segulah for kavanna in prayer – take it seriously (Berachot 5:1) 9. Segulah for parnasa – learn a profession (Kiddushin 30a) 10. Segulah for pure faith – don't believe in segulot (Devarim 18:13) This Makes Up for Everything: Happy Hanukkah! Chag Sameach from the White House! He did not mention that, had the Maccabees redeemed the Holy Temple today, they would surely have been condemned by the UN Security Council, with the US abstaining, because said Holy Temple stood in 'Occupied East Jerusalem.' President Barack Obama issued a Hanukkah greeting 2 weeks ago – one day ahead of the start of the Jewish holiday, and at about the same time his UN envoy abstained at a Security Council, throwing the Jewish State to the dogs for the first time since his spiritual predecessor President Jimmy Carter had done in it 1980. Obama explained that "the meaning of this holiday has inspired an American tradition of religious freedom."       Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the Holy Temple in 165 BC by the Maccabees after it had been desecrated by Helenized Jews and their imperial patrons in Damascus. Obama, who hosted more than 1,000 people during two Hanukkah receptions at the White House last week, on Friday afternoon addressed how the values of the holiday apply to everyone, regardless of their faith. He did not mention that, had the Maccabees redeemed the Holy Temple today, they would surely have been condemned by the UN Security Council, with the US abstaining, because said Holy Temple stood in "Occupied East Jerusalem." "For more than two millennia, the story of Hanukkah has reminded the world of the Jewish people's perseverance and the persistence of faith, even against daunting odds," the president said. "For more than two centuries, the meaning of this holiday has inspired an American tradition of religious freedom – one codified in the Bill of Rights and chronicled in the enduring promise President George Washington made in his letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island: that the United States 'gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.' "May the flicker of each flame in every Menorah remind us all of the profound miracles in our own lives. And may the light of hope we shed continue to drive out darkness and brighten the futures we build for our families, our neighbors, our communities, and our world. "On behalf of Michelle and my family, Chanukah Sameach. Happy Hanukkah!" It can be safely said, to paraphrase the late Winston Churchill, a man who never pretended to like Jews but nevertheless sacrificed tens of thousands of his countrymen's lives to end their mass murder, Never has a smaller man said so much and meant so little. JNi.Media About the Author: JNi.Media provides editors and publishers with high quality Jewish-focused content for their publications. Full Text of UN Security Council Condemnation of Israel, Resolution 2334 The full text of the 2016 UN resolution demanding Israel give up any territory won in defensive wars since 1967. By: Hana Levi Julian Published: December 24th, 2016     JewishPress.com is providing the full text of Resolution 2334(2016) for readers who are wondering about the precise language in America's betrayal of Israel on Friday, and that of others who voted unanimously for the UN Security Council resolution condemnation of the Jewish State. The full text of resolution 2334 (2016) reads as follows: "The Security Council, "Reaffirming its relevant resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967), 338 (1973), 446 (1979), 452 (1979), 465 (1980), 476 (1980), 478 (1980), 1397 (2002), 1515 (2003), and 1850 (2008), "Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming, inter alia, the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force, "Reaffirming the obligation of Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12 August 1949, and recalling the advisory opinion rendered on 9 July 2004 by the International Court of Justice, "Condemning all measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, including, inter alia, the construction and expansion of settlements, transfer of Israeli settlers, confiscation of land, demolition of homes and displacement of Palestinian civilians, in violation of international humanitarian law and relevant resolutions, "Expressing grave concern that continuing Israeli settlement activities are dangerously imperilling the viability of the two-State solution based on the 1967 lines, "Recalling the obligation under the Quartet Roadmap, endorsed by its resolution 1515 (2003), for a freeze by Israel of all settlement activity, including "natural growth", and the dismantlement of all settlement outposts erected since March 2001, "Recalling also the obligation under the Quartet roadmap for the Palestinian Authority Security Forces to maintain effective operations aimed at confronting all those engaged in terror and dismantling terrorist capabilities, including the confiscation of illegal weapons, "Condemning all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terror, as well as all acts of provocation, incitement and destruction, "Reiterating its vision of a region where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders, "Stressing that the status quo is not sustainable and that significant steps, consistent with the transition contemplated by prior agreements, are urgently needed in order to (i) stabilize the situation and to reverse negative trends on the ground, which are steadily eroding the two-State solution and entrenching a one-State reality, and (ii) to create the conditions for successful final status negotiations and for advancing the two-State solution through those negotiations and on the ground, "1. Reaffirms that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace; "2. Reiterates its demand that Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and that it fully respect all of its legal obligations in this regard; "3. Underlines that it will not recognize any changes to the 4 June 1967 lines, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties through negotiations; "4. Stresses that the cessation of all Israeli settlement activities is essential for salvaging the two-State solution, and calls for affirmative steps to be taken immediately to reverse the negative trends on the ground that are imperilling the two-State solution; "5. Calls upon all States, bearing in mind paragraph 1 of this resolution, to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967; "6. Calls for immediate steps to prevent all acts of violence against civilians, including acts of terror, as well as all acts of provocation and destruction, calls for accountability in this regard, and calls for compliance with obligations under international law for the strengthening of ongoing efforts to combat terrorism, including through existing security coordination, and to clearly condemn all acts of terrorism; "7. Calls upon both parties to act on the basis of international law, including international humanitarian law, and their previous agreements and obligations, to observe calm and restraint, and to refrain from provocative actions, incitement and inflammatory rhetoric, with the aim, inter alia, of de-escalating the situation on the ground, rebuilding trust and confidence, demonstrating through policies and actions a genuine commitment to the two-State solution, and creating the conditions necessary for promoting peace; "8. Calls upon all parties to continue, in the interest of the promotion of peace and security, to exert collective efforts to launch credible negotiations on all final status issues in the Middle East peace process and within the time frame specified by the Quartet in its statement of 21 September 2010; "9. Urges in this regard the intensification and acceleration of international and regional diplomatic efforts and support aimed at achieving, without delay a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East on the basis of the relevant United Nations resolutions, the Madrid terms of reference, including the principle of land for peace, the Arab Peace Initiative and the Quartet Roadmap and an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967; and underscores in this regard the importance of the ongoing efforts to advance the Arab Peace Initiative, the initiative of France for the convening of an international peace conference, the recent efforts of the Quartet, as well as the efforts of Egypt and the Russian Federation; "10. Confirms its determination to support the parties throughout the negotiations and in the implementation of an agreement; "11. Reaffirms its determination to examine practical ways and means to secure the full implementation of its relevant resolutions; "12. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Council every three months on the implementation of the provisions of the present resolution; "13. Decides to remain seized of the matter." Hana Levi Julian About the Author: Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism. Four novice nuns were about to take their vows. Four novice nuns were about to take their vows.  Dressed in their white gowns, they entered the chapel for their symbolic marriage to Jesus, making them "Brides of Christ."  Just as the ceremony was about to begin, four Hasidic Jews came in and sat in the front row.  The Mother Superior said, "I am so honored you want to share this experience with us. May I ask why you came?"  "We're from the groom's family." See you Sunday and happy Chanukah and Shabbat Shalom Rabbi Yehuda Lave Your mailing address Contact Phone Website LIKE TWEET FORWARD You received this email because you signed up on our website or made purchase from us. Unsubscribe