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!!
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Yom Ha'atzmaut/Date (2024) Evening of Mon, May 13, 2024 – Tue, May 14, 2024 & Herzog gives Talmud that survived the Holocaust to Yad Vashem & Following Iran's attack, more US aid is needed for Israel & On Israel’s 76th Birthday: 7.427 Million Jews, 2.089 Million Arabs, Half a Million ‘Others’ By David Israel
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.
I will be sponsoring a kiddush again this week in honor of my recent birthday. Please mark your calendars as it on Shabbat.
It will be Shabbat May 18th at my Yeshiva, Ner Avraham in Rehavia. I will also be sponsoring the third meal at the Yeshiva. Please contact me if you need the location. You only have a birthday like this one once (of course that is true for all birthdays) so, I would all my friends to come to help me celebrate.
On Israel's 76th Birthday: 7.427 Million Jews, 2.089 Million Arabs, Half a Million 'Others'
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.
Yom Ha'atzmaut/Date (2024) Evening of Mon, May 13, 2024 – Tue, May 14, 2024
Yom Ha'atzmaut (Hebrew: יוֹם הָעַצְמָאוּת, lit. 'Day of Independence') is Israel's national day, commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948. It is marked by a variety of official and unofficial ceremonies and observances.
Because Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948, which corresponded with the 5th of Iyar on the Hebrew calendar in that year, Yom Ha'atzmaut was originally celebrated on that date. However, to avoid Sabbath desecration, it may be commemorated one or two days before or after the 5th of Iyar if it falls too close to the Sabbath. The day preceding Israel's independence day is Yom HaZikaron, which is dedicated to the memory of fallen Israeli soldiers and Israeli civilian victims of terrorism.
In the Hebrew calendar, days begin in the evening; Yom Ha'atzmaut is observed from nightfall until the following evening of the designated day.[2]
History
David Ben-Gurion proclaiming independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism.
Israelis observe Yom Ha'atzmaut to commemorate the Israeli Declaration of Independence, which was proclaimed by future Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion on behalf of the Yishuv on 14 May 1948.[3] The mood outside of Ben-Gurion's residence just prior to the announcement was joyous:
The operative paragraph of the Declaration of the Establishment of State of Israel of 14 May 1948[5] expresses the declaration to be by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the basis of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. The operative paragraph concludes with the words of Ben-Gurion, where he thereby declares the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.
Memorial Day, or Yom Hazikaron, ends at sunset, and is immediately followed by the onset of Independence Day, given that in the Hebrew calendar system, days end and begin at sunset.
An official ceremony is held every year on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem on the evening of Independence Day.[7] The ceremony includes a speech by the speaker of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament), artistic performances, a Flag of Israel, forming elaborate structures (such as a Menorah, Magen David) and the ceremonial lighting of twelve torches, one for each of the Tribes of Israel. Every year a dozen Israeli citizens, who made a significant social contribution in a selected area, are invited to light the torches. Many cities hold outdoor performances in cities' squares featuring leading Israeli singers and fireworks displays. Streets around the squares are closed to cars, allowing people to sing and dance in the streets.[8]
Reception of the President of Israel for honouring excellence in 120 IDF soldiers. The event takes place in the President's official residence in Jerusalem.[9]
Israeli families traditionally celebrate with picnics and barbecues.[15] Balconies are decorated with Israeli flags, and small flags are attached to car windows. Some leave the flags hoisted until after Yom Yerushalayim. Israeli Television channels air the official events live, and classic cult Israeli movies and skits are shown.[8]
Religious customs
Hallel recited at the Day to PraiseIsrael Independence Day event in Jerusalem, 23 April 2015
In response to widespread public feeling, the Chief Rabbinate in Israel decided during 1950–51 that Independence Day should be given the status of a minor Jewish holiday on which Hallel be recited. Their decision that it be recited (without a blessing) gave rise to a bitter public dispute, with Agudath Israel rejecting the notion of imbuing the day with any religious significance whatsoever, and religious Zionists believing the blessing should be obligatory.[16] The Rabbinate also ruled that they were "unable to sanction instrumental music and dances on this day which occurs during the sephirah period."[17] The recitation of the blessing over Hallel was introduced in 1973 by Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. The innovation was strongly denounced by his Sephardic counterpart, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef[18] and by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, leader of Modern Orthodox Judaism in America.[19]
The Religious Zionist movement created a liturgy for the holiday which sometimes includes the recitation of some psalms and the reading of the haftarah of Isaiah 10:32–12:6, which is also read on the last day of Pesach in the Diaspora, on the holiday morning. Other changes to the daily prayers include reciting Hallel, saying the expanded Pesukei D'Zimrah of Shabbat (the same practice that is observed almost universally on Hoshanah Rabbah), and/or blowing the Shofar. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik questioned the Halachic imperative in canonising these changes[20] (it is not clear what his personal practice was regarding the recital of Hallel). In any case, the majority of his students recite Hallel without the blessings.[21] A number of authorities have promoted the inclusion of a version of Al Hanisim (for the miracles...) in the Amidah prayer.[22] In 2015 Koren Publishers Jerusalem published a machzor dedicated to observance of Independence Day, in addition to Jerusalem Day.[23] In 2015, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat founded Day to Praise, a global initiative which calls on Christians around the world to join in reciting the Hallel (Psalms 113–118), with the Jewish people, on Israel's Independence Day.[26]
Independence Day is designated to be on the 5th day of Iyar (ה' באייר) in the Hebrew calendar, the anniversary of the day on which Israeli independence was proclaimed, when David Ben-Gurion publicly read the Israeli Declaration of Independence. The corresponding Gregorian date was 14 May 1948.[27]
Sabbath observance
However, nowadays Independence Day is rarely celebrated on the 5th of Iyar itself, and on most years is moved forward or backwards by one or two days. According to the rules of the Jewish calendar explained in Days of week on Hebrew calendar, the 5th of Iyar can fall on a Monday, a Wednesday, a Friday, or a Saturday. To avoid Sabbath desecration, it was decided in 1951 that if the 5th of Iyar falls on a Friday or Saturday, the celebrations would be moved up to the preceding Thursday (3 or 4 of Iyar). Additionally, since 2004, if the 5th of Iyar is on a Monday, the festival is postponed to Tuesday (6 of Iyar). Monday is avoided in order to avoid potential violation of Sabbath laws by preparing for Yom Hazikaron (which one day before Independence Day) on a Shabbat. As a result, Independence Day falls between 3 and 6 of Iyar, and can be on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. It will only actually be on the 5th of Iyar when this date happens to be a Wednesday.[27]
A rare volume of the Talmud printed before World War II and found unscathed in a historic Munich beer hall after the Holocaust was given to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum by the family of President Isaac Herzog.
The Pesachim Tractate of the Babylonian Talmud has been in the family's possession for the last eight decades; it will be permanently displayed at the museum in Jerusalem.
The book was discovered amid many other religious artifacts in the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich in 1945 and was entrusted to Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog (1888-1959), grandfather of the current president of Israel. The rabbi was the chief Ashkenazic rabbi of Eretz Israel and a prominent religious leader during the pre-state period.
The Bürgerbräukeller was where Adolf Hitler launched the Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923, and where he announced the re-establishment of the Nazi Party in February 1925. In 1939, the beer hall was the scene of an attempted assassination of Hitler and other Nazi leaders by Georg E
Israeli President Isaac Herzog (left) and the Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan at the ceremony at the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, April 17, 2024. Courtesy of Yad Vashem
Following Iran's attack, more US aid is needed for Israel
Israel is not only fighting for its people but for all of civilization, and this war is a must-win. That costs money, too.
It was the single largest drone attack ever carried out by any country. It was the first time Iran attacked Israel directly from its own soil, after decades of relying on proxies. And it wasn't cheap.
The use of planes, Arrow missiles and the David's Sling missile defense system to shoot down more than 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles cost somewhere between NIS 4 billion and 5 b., Brig.-Gen. Reem Aminoach, a former financial adviser to the IDF chief of staff, told the Ynet news site.
Aminoach noted that every single Arrow missile fired costs $3.5 million. He lamented that the Israeli Treasury was holding up ordering new planes from the US – even just to replace existing ones.
RABBI SCHWARTZ'S TERRIBLE IRAN ATTACK MEME JOKES OF THE WEEK
Waiting for missiles from Iran makes me feel like I'm waiting for my Hot internet tech guy who will come some time between Friday and Sunday.
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Poll: What scares you more?
a) No daycare or school and the kids will be home on vacation and I haven't finished Pesach cleaning
b) Iran
Estimated time of Arrival of Missiles in Israel
4:02 AM Magen Avraham
4:32 AM Gr"a
8:15 AM Rabbeinu Tam
1:30 PM Monday Morning- Amshinov
Don't be worried about the Iranian missiles. It's like an Israeli bank transfer. It takes a few days until it shows up in your account.
9 hours until the missiles fall in Israel is enough time to allow your dough to rise. Let's get started so we don't get stuck with Matzas for the next holiday established.
If everyone is already awake all night tonight, let's just make the seder already…
Joe Biden- It's critical that Israel starts sending humanitarian aid to Iran before the closure of Israeli airspace.
There are reports that Iranian warheads are being loaded with cheerios and breadcrumbs
The Gaza Ministry of Health has just announced that Israel killed 20,675 Palestinian women and children in Iran
They sent UAV's from Iran but it will take a few hours… It's like when contractions start and they in the meantime until the birth, try to sleep a little.
The Iranian Army didn't take into account that Israel's entire airspace had been covered in not one, but two layers of heavy duty aluminum foil.
Cleaning for Pesach reminds me of the war in Gaza. We move everything to the south part of the house and clean the North and then when we come to clean the south the children return to the north with their chametz. We either have to stop the Humanitarian aid or control the entire house by Monday!
Iran: We've launched missiles at you
Israel: Hmm we can't see any
Iran: Did you try to refesh your sky some times it takes a minute because of the connection.
Israel: Yeah..nothing
Iran: Check your spam…
I don't mean to brag or anything, but this is like the tenth "end of the world" I've survived…
New Biden Speech notes : "You say DON"T" really loud…
Update: The owner of the local Makolet said Israel will bomb Iran in the next day or two. I will update after I speak to my taxi driver.
Breaking News: The final missile sent by Iran four days ago has nearly arrived in Israel. It has just completed its' fourth bus transfer and will be staying in a motel overnight before taking to the skies again where it will be shot down by the Israeli Iron dome system.
The UN is fuming because of Waze recalculating being messed up all of the humanitarian aid ened up in Bnai Brak as part of the Pesach Kimcha D'pischa distribution.
I have two nephews who were called back to Gaza and they told me that a certain number of soldiers would be allowed to return home for the Seder Night and the soldiers could decide amongst themselves who it would be. It was unanimously agreed that whoever was invited to their mother-in-laws would be allowed to remain in Gaza.
See you tomorrow bli neder
We need Mashiach now!
What is disliked by you, don't do to others. Be nice and kind and smile!
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