tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43827868907299982202024-03-06T01:08:17.596-08:00Mrsbrite SaysMrsbritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278882889753698819noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382786890729998220.post-70435501715092951782019-05-01T13:32:00.001-07:002019-05-01T13:44:31.229-07:00<a href="http://mrsbritesays.blogspot.com/2019/05/nyt-says-its-sorry.html"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><b>NYT says it's Sorry...NOT!</b></span></a><br />
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Below is my comment on the NYT opinion piece/apology for the Antisemetic Cartoon printed in the International edition of the NYT<br />
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The Israeli Response to the NYT cartoon </div>
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/opinion/cartoon-nytimes.html .<br />
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I believe that the NYT has been complicit for decades in promoting Anti-Zionism/Antisemitism through the severe bias it has exhibited whether it be on the front page or hidden in last paragraphs or buried in the paper somewhere. The brief mention of how awful the paper feels for basically ignoring the Holocaust , beginning, during and after is pathetic. Even in your apology your reveal your willingness to blame Trump. The NYT has abdicated its role as a NEWSpaper. If you are sincere in your apology... going forward you must be sincere in becoming a real newspaper and print your opinions on ONLY the opinion page. I doubt you can live up to that challenge. Go ahead and prove me wrong.Mrsbritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278882889753698819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382786890729998220.post-71913981864824264882014-05-30T11:23:00.000-07:002014-05-30T11:43:09.914-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">How Odd of G-d to Choose
the Jews….<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By Moshe Murray ( My dear husband of 34 years)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once more we reach my
parsha in the Torah where the third aliyah that we read during the weekday, the
aliyah of Yisroel, begins with “the sons of Murray!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love this parsha…
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do I detect skepticism
among some of you? The parsha plainly says: <span dir="RTL" lang="HE">בְּנֵי
מְרָרִ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, that’s “b’nai,” the sons of; and mem resh resh yud, which
certainly sounds like M r r y or, in my case, Murray! All right, so the
Torah pronounces it Merari. But all that means is that, for the gentile
world, the sons of Merari gradually became Murray’s. After all, Kohein
became Cohen, nu?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, perhaps a more
important feature of this week’s parsha is not the parsha of Naso itself but,
what follows. And what follows is Shavuous – one of the Three Pilgrimage
Festivals where all Jews were required to travel to Yerushalayim to bring
Offerings to the Bais HaMikdosh, our Holy Temple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And, Shavuous, where G-d
Gave His Holy Torah to His Chosen people on Har Sinai. Where the Jewish People
said: “Na’aseh v’nish’mah,” We shall do and we shall hear! This is the seminal
moment of Jewish History when the Children of Israel Choose to become the
Chosen People!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(For the rest of the
non-Jewish world, the Christian holiday of Pentecost comes somewhere around
this day, June 8th this year.This year, Shavuous begins on Tuesday night, June
3rd, and it continues on June 4th and June 5th. Pentecost, meaning the “50th
day,” is the day associated with the apostles speaking in the different
languages of all of the Jews that came from around the world to celebrate
Shavuous in Jerusalem which is, according to the Torah, 50 days after
Passover.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I heard this story from
a lawyer – I am not sure who.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was a relatively
successful lawyer and was trying a case where the next court date was supposed
to be on Shavuous. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He explained to the
Judge that he could not make that court date as it was a Jewish holy day and he
was not allowed to work on that day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Judge told him: “Mr.
Lawyer. I am Jewish. I celebrate the Jewish holidays of Passover
and Chanukah. So don’t try and make up some story about some invented
holiday that I have never heard of!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Judge did eventually
come to find out that this was a real Jewish holiday but, that is an example of
how little known is Shavuous, even to most non-observant Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nonetheless, over 3,300
years ago, Am Yisroel; the Jewish people, received the Torah at Har Sinai and
formally became G-d’s Chosen People. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Moshe Rabbeinu informs
the Jewish people that G-d tells them: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“And now, if you obey Me
and keep My covenant, you shall be to Me a treasure out of all peoples, for
Mine is the entire earth. And you shall be to Me a kingdom of princes and a
holy nation.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, we are informed
that it was not that G-d Chose us, rather that Israel Chose G-d.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Midrash tells us
that G-d not only revealed Himself to the Jewish People but – to all the
Nations of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We learn that G-d first
went to the children of Esav and asked them: “Will you accept My Torah?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Children of Esav
answered, “What’s in it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hashem said: “Thou shalt
not commit murder.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Children of Esav
said: “L-rd of the Universe, the very essence of our father Esav is that he is
a murderer. As it says, (Bereishis: 27:22) ‘And the hands were the hands
of Esav,’ and (Bereishis: 27:40) ‘By the sword you shall live.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">L-rd of the Universe, we
cannot accept Your Torah.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">G-d then went to the
children of Amon and Moav and He said to them: “Will you accept My Torah?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Chidren of Amon and
Moav answered, “What’s in it?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hashem said: “Thou shalt
not commit adultery.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Children of Amon and
Moav said: “L-rd of the Universe, our very essence is that we come from
adultery. As it says (Bereishis: 19:36), ‘And Lot's two daughters conceived
from their father.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">L-rd of the Universe, we
cannot accept Your Torah.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">G-d then went to the
children of Yishmael and He said to them, “Will you accept My Torah?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The Children of
Yismael answered: “What’s in it?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hashem said: “Thou shalt
not steal.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Children of Yishmael
said: “L-rd of the Universe, our very essence is that we live from thievery and
robbery. As it says (Bereishis: 16:12), ‘his hand will be upon all, and
everyone's hand upon him…’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">L-rd of the Universe, we
cannot accept Your Torah.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hashem went among all
the nations of the world. There was not a nation to whom G-d did not
speak and on whose door G-d did not knock, asking them whether they wished to
accept His Torah. And every nation refused after hearing what was in the
Torah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> After G-d had
spoken to all the nations of the world, G-d came to the Children of Yisroel and
He said to them: “Will you accept My Torah?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And the Childen of
Yisroel said: “Na’aseh v’nish’mah; We shall do and we shall hear!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We learn that Israel
immediately pledged their loyalty to whatever Hashem wanted them to do even
before they knew what was being asked of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the one seminal
moment in Jewish history when the entire Jewish Nation spoke as One and
proclaimed to G-d – Whatever you ask of us, we will do – even before we know
what it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Israel Chose G-d and
thereby became the Chosen People.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For most Torah observant Jews, the above is sort of “inside
baseball,” a well known midrash.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, I heard an additional understanding of “Na’aseh
v’nish’mah” from one of our Kollel rabbis, Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, the other night –<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Judaism is not a religion. It is a Relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Na’aseh v’nish’mah; We will do (whatever you want) and (then) we
will hear (what you want us to do)” is the Relationship that the Jewish People
pledged to Hashem in their Greatest Moment at Har Sinai.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the Torah, this Moment is referred to as the "marriage
day" between G-d and the Jewish People; between Heaven and Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And, for over 3,300 years, we have been trying to remember to
infuse this sacred Relationship which we Chose to have with G-d into every
aspect of our lives - into our own marriages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For men, there is no more important place to remember to instill
this Relationship than in marriage. “We will do and then we will hear” is,
quite frankly, the opposite of my and, I suspect, many men’s responses to their
wives’ requests.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">G-d Chose the Jews because the Jews Chose to have this special
Relationship with G-d.There is not a married couple who, somewhere inside of
them, does not want this special Relationship with their spouse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Torah was given to us to transform our lives by taking each
mitzvah; each lesson that the Torah can teach us, and applying it to every
facet of our life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For men, imagine the Relationship you could have with your wife if
every time she asked you anything, your immediate response was – I will do
whatever you ask, even before you tell me what it is….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">May we all be zocheh to such a Relationship with our spouses and
to remember that we Chose this Relationship at Mt. Sinai by proclaiming to the
world that we agree to do what is necessary before we even know what it is that
is necessary to do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Gut Shabbos and Gut Yom Tov.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">The Age of Innocence</span></b></div>
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I am running through the tall grass on the highway
meridian. I think- I am the first and
only person to walk here. On the ground I have stepped on, it is virgin
territory. It is pure. I am pure. I am uncluttered. I smile; I let the sun warm my skin. I like
that very much. I am real. I am free. I
am unique. I am growth personified. Like a blade of grass in a field of grass. I
am singular and I am part of a greater whole.
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I love</div>
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I love everyone and everything.</div>
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I talk with G-d and G-d hears me. I am not alone…ever. I can ….do, be, do, be</div>
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I trust.</div>
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I trust myself. I know myself, I know my thoughts </div>
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I have thoughts. My
thoughts are unique to me.</div>
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I trust others…implicitly.
I am not afraid of others</div>
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I trust others and I trust G-d. </div>
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I am not afraid</div>
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I am not afraid of what others think of me</div>
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I don’t second guess me or others</div>
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I smile freely</div>
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I love what I am doing in the moment and I love everyone</div>
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I love G-d</div>
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If someone is upset</div>
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If someone is upset at me</div>
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It has nothing to do with me</div>
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I would not upset anyone…intentionally</div>
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If I am wrong, I’m sorry</div>
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And if I am not..it will pass</div>
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I am in a wood near a stream, looking for salamanders. I am an explorer. My eyes and ears are my tools. I am in the shade of the green canopy by the little stream watching the water rush around the rocks. I love the way the rocks look so clean in the clear rushing water. I collect the rocks. This one is special. As I am special.</div>
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I sing..all the time,</div>
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By Myself</div>
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With my friends</div>
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With G-d</div>
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I dance too</div>
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I am happy</div>
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I try my best in everything</div>
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And if I fail, I just fail a little because I tried my best
and therefore I succeeded in what I set out to do…my best</div>
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I try again.</div>
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I consider others…</div>
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Can I help</div>
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<i>We too have been charged...</i><br />
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For Chanukah my kids gave me the book,<b><i> Out of the Depths:The Story of a Child of Buchenwald who Returned Home At Last.</i></b> By Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau. The last paragraph of the book repeated the theme that appeared throughout-the continuation of the Jewish people. </div>
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Upon completing the Memoirs of Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau who emerged like a phoenix from the ashes of Buchenwald concentration camp, it seemed so right to be here with my children, and newest grandchild and my son in law's extended family (only) 40 of which were present at the seudah, the meal which accompanies the redemption ceremony; a real-life-time tangible continuation of the budding remnant of our people. As Rabbi Lau points out (quoting Mayor Ed Koch) that even those who did not experience the Holocaust were redeemed because had we been in Europe during the war, we would surely experience / witness its horrors. and even if we would have survived our psyches would surely have been wounded and filled with images too strong too forget. And although Rabbi Lau was only 8 years old upon liberation from Buchenwald, he and his brother Naphtali were charged by their father with the continuation of the family (Rabbinic) line. </div>
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I too feel so charged, and thank G-d have been blessed with 4 grandchildren ...so far. As Rabbi Lau also points out while quoting an army offcer - Jews can only move forward. <i><b>Go Viter..!</b></i></div>
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The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is mostly hype and hoax for all the “Useful Idiots” all over the world. Watch this and listen up! And let “all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out!”<br />
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Unlike Adults. I censor even when I try or think I am “trying” to speak to G-d. G-d, my Creator who sees all, knows all, “speaks and does”. That truly doesn’t make sense. But that is what I do.<br />
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My son used to have a trumpet teacher who told him a useful piece of truism. “Practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent.” <br />
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Now I need to undo 45 years of furiously practicing the censor-cover-up thing. <br />
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What are the preliminaries? According to Rabbi Shalom Arush in a book called Garden of Emunah, translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody, EMUNAH is the ticket. Once you have Emunah you can go far.<br />
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I have some level of Emunah. I do believe that Hashem runs the world. That everything that happens is ultimately for the Good, even if it doesn’t seem that way. Everything is a test. And passing the test means I get to move up the ladder closer to Hashem. If I fail the test or try not to show up for it, I’m going down. The ladder, that is.<br />
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We were all sent here to correct some peccadillo and we will return again and again, to the same place, exactly….unless I can pass the test (42 tests to be more precise). <br />
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Knowing what G-d wants of me is at least part of the test. But I think I need to ask. I need to ask for His help in knowing what that is and then ask for His help to carry it out. Engage in a conversation with G-d; Hisbodedus or Hitbodedut, (depending on your Jewish persuasion.)<br />
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It is harder than you think. Try it. I am, and I realize I need to crawl out from under the 45 year old pile of …schmutz that I have hidden under all these years. <br />
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<br /><a href="http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2010/05/video-i-am-israel.html">http://daledamos.blogspot.com/2010/05/video-i-am-israel.html</a></span>Mrsbritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278882889753698819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4382786890729998220.post-62615293233484306242010-04-12T11:42:00.000-07:002010-04-13T18:53:01.352-07:00The Days after PesachThe Days after Pesach are a combination of coming down and counting up!<br /><br />The wonderful anticipation of something great about to happen. The Pesach seder; a reliving of the moment of our freedom.<br /><br />When I was a little girl, I used to cry about the fact that I was a slave in Mitzrayim, Egypt; toiling under the whip to build Pithom and Ramses. Little babies used as mortar between the stones. Wicked taskmasters getting their jollies torturing my people. And then we witness the makkos, the plagues to which all the Jews were only spectators. And then we take the Egyptian god and slaughter it under the noses of our Egyptian neighbors. I think at that moment we were truly free.<br /><br />This is all very true and at the same time, quite esoteric. But wait! There's more! We are set free and we left with untold riches and we waltz through the Yam Suf, the Sea of Reeds, dry shod, while our oppressors in hot pursuit " scream, "I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide plunder, I will unsheathe my sword, my hands will impoverish them." (Does this ring a bell? Think current events.) "Then the Alm-ghty blew with his wind and the sea enshrouded them. The mighty ones sank like lead in the waters." With all the Egyptians dead on the seashore, Moshe Rabbeinu leads us to Har Sinai to get the most valuable treasure of all, the Torah.<br /><br />But in order to get the Torah, we must count up 1, 2, 3, ...to 49 and reverse the 49 levels of impurity that was our station, the lowest station possible, before we would be irredeemable (no, the Jews are not coupons)<br /><br />What a ride!!! And we're not finished yet!<br /><br />As a matter of fact a Jew is never finished. That is the beauty of being Jewish.Mrsbritehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00278882889753698819noreply@blogger.com1