Tu B'Shevat 2023 will begin in the evening ofSunday, 5 Februaryand ends in the evening ofMonday, 6 February and The history of the media intifada against Israel by historian Richard Landes and The Apartheid Libel to Destroy Israel By Khaled Abu Toameh and Europe-wide halacha hotline launched and How could Nixon speak with astronauts on the moon 1969 in a telephone with that distance 240,000 miles away through Van Allen belt?

View in browser 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. Love Yehuda Lave Join my blog by sending me an email to YehudaLave@gmail.com Tu B'Shevat 2023 will begin in the evening of Sunday, 5 February and ends in the evening of Monday, 6 February It is also called Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot (Hebrew: ראש השנה לאילנות), literally "New Year of the Trees". In contemporary Israel, the day is celebrated as an ecological awareness day, and trees are planted in celebration. The name Tu BiShvat is originally from the Hebrew date of the holiday, which occurs on the fifteenth day of Shevat. "Tu" stands for the Hebrew letters Tet and Vav, which together have the numerical value of 9 and 6, adding up to 15. The date may also be called "Ḥamisha Asar BiShvat" (חמשה-עשר בשבט‎, "Fifteenth of Shevat"). Tu BiShvat appears in the Mishnah in Tractate Rosh Hashanah as one of the four new years in the Jewish calendar. The discussion of when the New Year occurs was a source of debate among the rabbis, who argued:[4][5][6] The first of Nisan is the "new year for kings and festivals". The first of Elul is the "new year for the tithe of cattle"; Rabbi Eleazar and Rabbi Shimon, however, place this on the first of Tishrei. The first of Tishrei is the "new year for years" (calculation of the calendar), "for release years" (sabbatical years[citation needed]), jubilees, planting, and for the tithe of vegetables. The first of Shevat is the "new year for trees" according to the school of Shammai; the school of Hillel, however, place this on the fifteenth of Shevat. The rabbis ruled in favor of Hillel on this issue and the 15th of Shevat became the date for calculating the beginning of the agricultural cycle for the purpose of biblical tithes In the Middle Ages, Tu BiShvat was celebrated with a feast of fruits in keeping with the Mishnaic description of the holiday as a "New Year." In the 16th century, the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Luria of Safed and his disciples instituted a Tu BiShvat seder in which the fruits and trees of the Land of Israel were given symbolic meaning. The main idea was that eating ten specific fruits and drinking four cups of wine in a specific order while reciting the appropriate blessings would bring human beings, and the world, closer to spiritual perfection.[12] In Israel, the kabbalistic Tu BiShvat seder has been revived, and is now celebrated by many Jews, religious and secular. Special haggadot have been written for this purpose.[citation needed] In the Hasidic community, some Jews pickle or candy the etrog (citron) from Sukkot and eat it on Tu BiShvat. Some pray that they will be worthy of a beautiful etrog on the following Sukkot.[13] The Three Musketeers at the Kotel The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember. The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave. The Apartheid Libel to Destroy Israel By Khaled Abu Toameh The Apartheid Libel to Destroy Israel | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Khaled Abu Toameh | 22 Kislev 5783 – December 16, 2022 | JewishPress.com The history of the media intifada against Israel How a war of lies and language endangers not only the Jewish state, but the West itself, in a new book by historian Richard Landes https://www.israelnationalnews... How could Nixon have spoken with astronauts on the Moon in 1969 on a telephone 240,000 miles away, through the Van Allen belt? The telephone Nixon was speaking into was relayed to a radio transmitter, which was connected to a very large dish antenna , most probably the one at Honeysuckle Creek in Australia, although it could have been Goldstone in California or Parkes in Australia. Here is a diagram of how the signals were sent and received. The diagram shows the the signal route for the TV signal, but as they were all combined with radio, engineering data, bio data, tracking, etc. all in one radio signal called the Unified S-Band it is also valid for telephone calls on the radio voice link. Graphics -NASA..Note the positions of the Australian sites are not accurate..see comments below, from David Charles. Also the INTEL satellite signal went to New York before distribution to the networks.. Here is a photo of the dish antenna at Honeysuckle Creek it is 26 meters in diameter, or 85 feet. This is similar to the other tracking antennas. The radio voice signal was split into two different frequencies, this is called "duplex" which means that both ends could talk and listen at the same time, no need to stop and release the transmit button on your microphone ,or say "over". Although it was still difficult because of the 1.5 second delay caused by the distance to the Moon. EDIT: Scott Obrien suggested an addition as an edit. Which I have also edited and added to using the Honeysuckle creek site as my source. Thanks Scott. The Manned Space Flight Network The backbone of this communications network is the NASA MSFN (Manned Space Flight Network). Three 85 foot (26 metre) stations were built for communication at lunar distances. Each was teamed with a nearby 85 foot Deep Space Network antenna for redundancy and versatility. In addition, a series of 30 foot (9 metre) USB antennae were established around the world, as well as tracking ships and the ARIA fleet of KC-135 aircraft for critical support in earth-orbit, at TLI and during re-entry. The MSFN (generally pronounced "misfin" in the US and M-S-F-N in Australia) was managed by the Goddard Space Flight Centre, in Greenbelt, Maryland. An amazingly sophisticated voice and data network, NASCOM, centred on Goddard, brought the MSFN together. All communications from Houston went via Goddard. then to NASA mission control at Houston, NASA launch operations at Kennedy, NASA JPL at Huntsville Alabama they were all linked by hundreds of thousands of copper phone lines and undersea cables . So patching the presidents phone in to the network was a trivial task. Here is a map showing the tracking station coverage.. From Honeysuckle Creek site. The Van Allen Belts are not a barrier to radio signals. There are many communications satellites and television carrying satellites in a geosynchronous stationary orbit, many thousands of miles beyond the VABs, Which, if you have satellite TV, is the reason you don't have to keep adjusting your antenna all the time. If the VABs stopped radio signals most of our international communications would be blocked as would all satellite TV. 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