Get to Heaven Keep the Seven

Everybody wants spirituality. To be a good person means to walk in G-d's ways. How does that translate to reality? The only guidebook to spirituality that has stood the test of time is the Hebrew Bible. The Bible says that the Jews will be a light onto the nations. But if you are not a born Jew, you have to convert, which is not so easy!! If you do convert, it is a lot of work to be a Jew (three times a day prayer, keeping kosher, observing the Sabbath).

This blog will show you how to be Jewish without the work!!

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Tel Aviv on the eve of the defeat of the Nazis

Rabbi Yehuda Lave

Serve the Almighty With Joy

"Serve the Almighty with joy." (Psalms 100:2)

Joy adds to our enthusiasm and love for the Almighty and will motivate us to cleave to Him. If a person is sad when he fulfills the commandments, it is analogous to a servant who serves his master with a sad facial expression. Try to feel joy whenever you fulfill a mitzvah.

The Talmud relates that some people saw that the Sage Abaye was very happy. They asked him why. "I have just performed a mitzvah, so I feel great joy," he replied.

Love Yehuda Lave

This is Tel Aviv after declaration of defeat of Germany in 1945

so much for claims of no Jews.

They would have massacured us if they won

nothing has changed..If we let them they will slaugher us again-except we won.

Van Morrison does "Into the Mystic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0DJ8hWgNes

 

10 American Castles to see on your next visit to the US

http://goo.gl/oufWPm

Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion visits Albert Einstein at Princeton University on 1951. (AFP/Getty Images)

On Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independence Day, in 1955, Albert Einstein was scheduled to address the American people on ABC, NBC and CBS. His speech–a passionate plea for peace and defense of the fledgling state of Israel–had been written in conjunction with the Israeli consulate and famed Ambassador Abba Eban. But on April 18, eight days before Einstein was to deliver it, the physicist died suddenly at the age of 76.

Newly published documents from the Israel State Archive and the Albert Einstein Archive at Hebrew University allow us to read the last working draft of Einstein's speech, 58 years after he had hoped to give it.

"This is the seventh anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel," Einstein opened. "The establishment of this State was internationally approved and recognised largely for the purpose of rescuing the remnant of the Jewish people from unspeakable horrors of persecution and oppression."

"Thus, the establishment of Israel is an event which actively engages the conscience of this generation," he continued. "It is, therefore, a bitter paradox to find that a State which was destined to be a shelter for a martyred people is itself threatened by grave dangers to its own security. The universal conscience cannot be indifferent to such peril."

Einstein had choice words for those who placed disproportionate blame on Israel for its tensions with its Arab neighbors. "It is anomalous that world opinion should only criticize Israel's response to hostility and should not actively seek to bring an end to the Arab hostility which is the root cause of the tension."

From this, Einstein segued into a critique of the United States' and Soviet Union's "one-sided military pacts and arms agreements" with Arab states, a Cold War policy through which each aimed to extend their influence in the Middle East.

Instead, Einstein argued, "International policies in the Middle East should be dominated by efforts to secure peace for Israel and its neighbors. This would conform with the universal ideals of peace and brotherhood which have been the most significant contribution of the people of Israel in its long history."

Einstein's own relationship to Zionism was complex. He toured the United States to raise money with future Israeli President Chaim Weizmann for the World Zionist Organization. He delivered the first lecture at Hebrew University. He was even offered the Israeli presidency (he declined). But Einstein was also ambivalent about the idea of a Jewish nation-state, preferring a binational arrangement with Mandatory Palestine's Arabs. And he was not hesitant to critique Israel's policies and military actions in public forums.

Because of these nuances, Einstein has often been appropriated by anti-Zionists, who claim him as their own. But as his final speech shows, Einstein remained until the end a passionate defender of Israel and seeker of peace–and a strong believer that the two causes were not mutually exclusive, but rather mutually reinforcing.

 

 

Old rollor coaster coming down

https://www.facebook.com/linda.mccleskeymogerman/videos/10209032133023566/

WATCH: Israelis Love and Appreciate Their 'Lone Soldiers'

http://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-israelis-love-and-appreciate-their-lone-soldiers/

French Police protest the violence

French police protest the violence they say is aimed at them

In the frightening footage a policeman who leaves the vehicle is viciously attacked by a masked protestor. Police in the city were themselves protesting at the violence directed against them. Read the full story:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3596420/French-police-protest-against-violence.html 19 May 2016

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