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!!

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Israel's population at 9,136,000 on the eve of 2020 and When will American Jewry Wake Up? By Caroline B. Glick and President Trump addresses nation after Iran response

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Yehuda Lave, Spiritual Advisor and Counselor

Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works  with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money,  and spiritual engagement

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Senior Observations

My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.

If you answer the phone with "Hello, you're on the air!"... most
telemarketers will quickly hang up.

When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.

To me, drink responsibly means don't spill it.

When I say "the other day," I could be referring to any time between
yesterday and fifteen years ago.

Cop: "Please step out of the car."
Me: "I'm too drunk, You get in."

I've had my patience tested. I'm negative.

If you're sitting in public, and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?"

Sixty might be the new forty, but 9:00 PM is the new midnight.

I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.

I run like the winded.

I don't remember much from last night. But the fact that I need sunglasses to open the fridge this morning tells me it was awesome.

When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing
on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?

I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get
really excited.

It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a herd of turtles.

Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes, that would be boring. Spend thirty seconds in my head, that'll freak you right out.

The older I get, the earlier it gets late.

Israel's population at 9,136,000 on the eve of 2020

On the eve of the new decade, Israel's population stands at 9,136,000 according to data by the Central Bureau of Statistics, as reported by Ynet, up from 7,509,000 in 2009, an increase of 17.8%.According to CBS estimations, 6,772,000 Israelis identify as Jews – or 74.1% of the total population - and 1,916,000 as Arabs - 21%. 
Full Story (The Jerusalem Post)

President Trump addresses nation after Iran response

President Donald Trump is set to address the nation this morning following retaliatory attacks on Iraqi bases housing U.S. soldiers last night by Iran. 11Alive News Atlanta will have analysis and reaction immediately following the president's remarks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbT_6864Ouo

New Solution For Jerusalem's Downtrodden: A Soup Kitchen With Look And Feel Of Restaurant

When most people think of a soup kitchen, the image is usually that of a tattered building in a unadmirable part of town where the poor line up to receive their daily rations. The feeling of judgement, uncertainty and anxiety are factors that cause hesitation to those who can't afford to buy food, but need a lot of help. Those below or hovering slightly at the poverty line would rather remain hungry than compromise their pride by going to a soup kitchen.

But one organization in Israel came up with a solution. That organization is called Meir Panim (brightening faces). Meir Panim has established Restaurant-Style soup kitchens throughout Israel to provide the look and feel of a restaurant. No questions are asked and all are welcome. Volunteers serve patrons a hot dish filled with protein, healthy sides, and fresh salads. 
Full Story (Breaking News in Israel)

When will American Jewry Wake Up? By Caroline B. Glick

Was the machete attack at Rabbi Chaim Rottenburg's home in Monsey, N.Y. last Saturday night wake-up call enough?

Are liberal American Jews ready to accept the truth about anti-Semitism in America?

Following the Dec. 10 massacre at the kosher supermarket in Jersey City, Chris Gadsen, a local high school principal, shared an op-ed on his Facebook page calling for dialogue between the city's Jewish and black communities.

Joan Terrell-Paige, an elected member of the Jersey City school board, responded angrily. She began her response to Gadsen's post by vilifying the city's Jews as "brutes" who oppressed blacks by buying apartments from them.

Then she accused "6 rabbis" of "selling body parts."

Then she accused Jews of planting "drugs and guns" in the black community.

In closing, Terrell-Paige paid homage to the shooters.

"Mr. Anderson and Ms. Graham went directly to the kosher supermarket. I believe they knew they would come out in body bags. What is the message they were sending? Are we brave enough to explore the answer to their message? Are we brave enough to stop the assault on the Black communities in America?"

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy both demanded that Terrell-Paige resign. The Board of Education was expected to censure her and call for her to resign at a meeting scheduled for Dec. 19. That meeting was canceled. So were subsequent meetings scheduled for Dec. 23 and Dec. 30.  A fourth meeting was scheduled for Jan. 2.

As the board dithered, Terrell-Paige began racking up support. On Dec. 18, the Hudson County Democratic Organization's Black Caucus issued a statement saying, "While we do not agree with the delivery of the statement made by Ms. Terrell-Paige, we believe that her statement has heightened awareness around issues that must be addressed and that should be a topic of a larger conversation by two communities that have already and must always continue to coexist harmoniously."

On Dec. 29, John Flora, a Democratic congressional primary candidate, said, "Rather than hastily demanding her resignation this was an ideal moment for our locally elected to sit down with Mrs. Terrell, clarify her statements, and be prepared to demonstrate empathy."

Terrell-Paige's supporters scheduled a public vigil on her behalf, to take place an hour before the Jan. 2 meeting.

There is a rolling pogrom going on in the New York metropolitan area against Orthodox Jews. It involves continuous harassment and attacks against Jews in the streets of New York, punctuated by deadly assaults. "Mr. Anderson and Ms. Graham" carried out the first lethal assault. Last Saturday night Grafton Thomas carried out another particularly violent attack with a machete at Rabbi Rottenburg's home in Monsey.

There are three types of active anti-Semitism playing out today in America. The first is white nationalist anti-Semitism. It is practiced by white individuals and groups ideologically aligned with the Nazis. We saw its handiwork in the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and the deadly shooting at the Chabad house in Poway, California.

The second anti-Semitism is leftist anti-Semitism. Leftist anti-Semites get their ideological inspiration from the Soviet Union and the PLO/Hamas. Like the Soviets and Palestinian terrorists, they reject the existence of Jewish civilization. They deny the right of Jews to Jewish history, to the Jewish homeland, to Jewish nationalism, and to Jewish peoplehood. They demonize and attack Jews who don't won't accept the status of second-class citizens denied the right to their own identity and heritage.

The third type of active anti-Semitism in the United States today is black anti-Semitism. Black anti-Semitism became a salient form of Jew-hatred in America in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War when Saudi Arabia began funding and proselytizing to black communities. Today the Nation of Islam, under the genocidally anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan, is arguably the most powerful and influential engine for propagating and legitimizing Jew-hatred in America.

Over the past 15 years, black anti-Semitism began cohabiting with leftist anti-Semitism. The initiative to merge the two forms of Jew-hatred came from leftist anti-Semites. Under the banner of "intersectionality," they linked "Nazi" Israel to African American allegations of police brutality and institutional racism. Black Lives Matter's adoption of a leftist anti-Semitic platform that rejects Israel's right to exist speaks to the success of the left's campaign. Reports that Thomas searched for "Zionist temples" before he barged into Rabbi Rottenburg's home show the lethal consequence of their merger.

According to the New York Police Department, by last September, anti-Semitic attacks in New York City had increased 63 percent from 2018. The final 2019 numbers will certainly be even worse. The attacks in Brooklyn have been carried out by non-whites.

To fight the onslaught of bigotry being unleashed against its members, America's overwhelmingly Democratic and deeply liberal Jewish community needs to recognize two hard truths.

First, liberal American Jews need to realize their local and national leaders have been lying to them. For years American Jewish leaders at the national and local levels have been peddling the claim that the ideological and political right poses the greatest threat to the American Jewish community. Not only does the rolling pogrom in New York put paid this lie, but the raw data, collected since the start of the century, also shows this is incorrect.

Repeated surveys by the Anti-Defamation League show that African Americans are on average around twice as likely to be anti-Semitic as the general population.

Repeated Pew and Gallup surveys show that liberals and Democrats are increasingly anti-Israel and hostile to Jews and conservatives and Republicans are increasingly pro-Israel and hostile to anti-Semites.

Instead of accepting these facts, liberal Jews make excuses for leftist and black anti-Semites.

Almost every major American Jewish organization—from AIPAC to the Reform and Conservative movements—clings to the "two-state" paradigm as an article of faith. This despite the fact that like the Palestinians, anti-Israel activists and groups reject Israel's right to exist.

The apparent thinking is that the American Jewish community's support for Palestinian statehood will convince leftist anti-Semites to accept that Jews have the right to support Israel's existence. In other words, the Jewish community treats leftist anti-Semitism as a policy dispute rather than a bigotry whose goal is to oppress them. This denial has prevented the community from taking adequate action against leftist anti-Semitic aggression on U.S. campuses.

Rather than demand an accounting of black politicians and communal leaders for black anti-Semitism, liberal Jewish leaders accuse the Jewish community of racism.

Last month, as Jewish blood was being spilled every day in Brooklyn, the Reform Movement held its annual convention in Chicago and voted to support reparations to African Americans for the crime of slavery.

One of the leaders of the Reform Movement, Rabbi Jonah Pesner, explained the decision in an op-ed in The Chicago Tribune. Pesner insisted that American Jews must take action "against the racism still lingering in our congregations and communities."

Several liberal Jewish writers claimed the Jersey City Jewish community itself brought on the attack on the kosher supermarket. Chassidic Jews had no business buying homes in black neighborhoods, they wrote.

Contrast the stunning forbearance liberal Jews extend to leftist and black anti-Semites to their intolerance for white nationalism. Every liberal rabbi can give detailed sermons about the dangers of white nationalists and insist that U.S. President Donald Trump is the greatest threat to American Jews. They angrily dismiss as irrelevant all mention of Trump's Jewish grandchildren, his record as the most pro-Israel president in history and the unprecedented measures he has implemented to fight anti-Semitism in American academia. He opposes open borders, so he hates Jews, they insist.

The second inconvenient truth the American Jewish community needs to get its head around is that the Democratic Party has become fully Corbynized. Like Jeremy Corbyn's U.K. Labour Party, today's Democratic Party abets anti-Semites and anti-Semitism in America.

In 2018, running unopposed, Arthur Jones won the Republican primary in Illinois's 3rd congressional district. Jones was the sole candidate because the district is overwhelmingly Democrat. When it came out that Jones is a Nazi, not only did the Republican Party denounce him, the state party called on Republicans in the 3rd district to vote for the Democratic candidate.

The Republican House leadership censured Iowa Rep. Steven King and removed him from all committees after he spoke favorably about white nationalists in a newspaper interview.

Whereas the GOP denounces and works against its anti-Semitic members, the Democratic Party rewards and defends its anti-Semites. Terrell-Paige's story is far from unique.

The Democratic House majority refused to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) after she made a series of anti-Semitic statements.

In August, the Democrats rallied against Israel in support of Omar and her fellow anti-Semite Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). The two intended to lead a tour in Israel that month. Once Israeli authorities realized the purpose of the trip was to delegitimize Israel's right to exist, in accordance with its immigration law, Israel denied them entry visas.

Rather than condemn their colleagues for working towards the annihilation of the world's largest Jewish community, Democratic leaders condemned Israel for standing up to them.

One of the most powerful caucuses in the House is the Congressional Black Caucus. Its leading members publicly support Farrakhan despite his role in propagating anti-Jewish bigotry in the black community.

In the 2016 presidential race, Trump faced near-daily demands—which he met—to reject the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke and denounce him. The liberal Jewish establishment refused to accept Trump's repeated renunciations of Duke's support as genuine.

In the 2008 presidential race, then-Senator Barack Obama was asked once to reject Farrakhan's endorsement. He refused. Eighty-eight percent of American Jews voted for him, and declared him "the first Jewish president."

New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio passed radical bail reform policies that give thugs get-out-of-jail-free cards. Accordingly, last Saturday a woman arrested after violently assaulting three Jewish women in Brooklyn was released from jail without bail. She was arrested again Sunday after attacking a fourth woman, and promptly released again.

DeBlasio blamed the Monsey attack on Trump.

As far as progressive Jewish activists are concerned, DeBlasio's policies are anti-black. Last week they criticized DeBlasio's announcement that he was augmenting police patrols in Jewish neighborhoods, claiming, "This is what dividing vulnerable communities look like."

This sort of crazy talk is not cost-free. It is dangerous. Inconvenient truths will not go away just because they are unpleasant.

It is a fact that leftist and black anti-Semites are just as great a threat, if not greater threats to the Jewish community than white nationalist anti-Semites.

It is a fact that the Republican Party rejects anti-Semitism in all its forms and expels anti-Semites found in its ranks, and the Democratic Party enables and advances leftist and black anti-Semites and anti-Semitism.

So long as the liberal Jewish establishment and its members refuse to accept these facts, the attacks against America's Jews can be expected to increase in frequency and violence.

New High-Rise Planned By Tel Aviv's Hashalom Station

Lubinsky Group, the owners of the Sypholux factory at 100-106 Yigal Alon Street in Tel Aviv near the corner of Derekh Hashalom and the Hashalom railway station are promoting a plan to build a mixed-use 45-floor office, commercial and residential tower. Lubinsky Group's partners in the project are Aviram Dollinger, Baruch Ophir and Yehezkel Elani.

The plan, which is due to be discussed this week by the Tel Aviv Planning & Building Committee includes 34 floors of commercial and office space and the top 11 floors of apartments. The office space might also be used as a hotel.

Full Story (Globes)

HEBREW CORNER

Later on Yosef invites his father Yaakov and the entire family to come to Egypt.

And He said: 'I am God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation.

I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.'

 (Genesis 46, 3-4) 

 

HEBREW CORNER

 

The terms Torah uses for Yaakov coming to Egypt is   - going down - ארד

While coming out of Egypt back to the Land of Israel is going up - אעלך.

And indeed, anyone leaving the Land of Israel to immigrate to another country is considered to be going down, because the land of Israel is spiritually wise the highest land in the world.

And whoever immigrates to Israel is considered to go up / rise from any other country.

 

In Modern Hebrew the following terms exist:

 

OLEH KHADASH (m)  - עולה חדש 
OLAH KHADASHA (f)
 – עולה חדשה

New Immigrant (lit. new riser)
 

 


ALIYAH – עלייה - Immigration to Israel
 

HAGIRAH – הגירה - immigration to any other country
 

 

Here are some other usages of the word OLEH

 

KAMA ZE OLEH?  - כמה זה עולה - How much does it cost?
 

LO ALAH YAFEH – לא עלה יפה - It did not succeed/did not come out well

 

ZE YA'ALEH LE'KHA BE'YOKER!  - זה יעלה לך ביוקר -  

It will cost you! (You will pay for it) 

See you tomorrow bli neder

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