by Moshe Burt
There seems to be a mistaken perception that an action or derech commonly done and accepted in society therefore is proper. The fact that actions or derech commonly accepted in society don’t necessarily make them automatically permitted by Halacha.
Toward the end of Parsha Nitzavim, Moshe Rabbeinu informs the B’nai Yisrael about Teshuva: […]
by Moshe Burt
Each Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, we daven the Unesaneh Tokef as part of the Mussaf tefillah.
The story behind the Unesaneh Tokef tefillah (expressing the seriousness of the day): relates the Gezeira Rah (evil decree) faced by R’ Amnon of Mainz and his Kehilla of forced conversion to Christianity dating back about 1,000 […]
IDF Dismantles Two Explosive Devices Planted [by Arab Terrorists] Along Gaza Fence
IDF Arrests Palestinian [Infiltrator] Who crossed into Israel [Near Kissufim Crossing] From Gaza
Shots Fired at IDF Troops Near Gaza Fence
Israel Readying for Long-Range Hamas Rockets
Gaza Gunmen Fire at Troops, Engineers [Near Southern Gaza]
2 Armed [Beduin] Drug Smugglers Killed by IDF Forces Near Egyptian […]
2 Mortar Shells Fired by Gaza Terrorists Hit Eshkol Region
IDF Arrests 5 Palestinians in North Gaza Suspected of Planting Bombs
Hamas Commander Threatens Schalit [Isn’t it Time for Miliary Action to Liberate?]
Rock Attack [by Arabs] in Hevron
IDF Nabs Three Arab Terror Suspects
Rock Attack Near Shilo
Rock Attack Near Sinjil [Near Ramallah]
Firebomb Attack South of Jerusalem
Palestinians Stone […]
by Moshe Burt
Parsha Nitzavim begins:
“Atem Nitzavim HaYom…Today you are standing before Hashem, your Lord… You are thus being brought into the covenant of Hashem, your Lord, and [accepting] the dread oath that He is making with you today. He has established you as his nation, so that He will be a G’d […]
Commentary:
The months of pre-publicity regarding Israel State Comptroller Lindenstrauss’s investigation and report regarding what the government of Israel did or did not do on behalf of Jonathan Pollard were not promising and the accounts of the investigation report bear out the previous impressions.
This author is not even so surprised at the sham report as […]
Commentary:
Manhigut Yehudit’s US Program Director, Yocheved Seidman, recently wrote a piece citing a recent lead editorial on Israel from “The Economist” magazine. Seidman views the magazine, perhaps like president Barack Hussein Obama, as presenting a perception of “the elected prime minister of Israel as an irrelevant article.”
As this author read Seidman’s entire piece, […]
Commentary:
Elyakim Haetzni, noted lawyer and champion of Jewish residence throughout Ereat Yisrael writes the piece below noting prime minister Netanyahu’s serial weakness against US pressure. He notes that Bibi mistakenly has no such fear of domestic pressure fear similar domestic pressure, “nowing that the ‘National Camp’ will refrain from again toppling a “rightist” […]
5 Mortar Shells Hit Western Negev [Including on IDF Troops Operating Near the Kissufim Crossing]
IAF Bombs a ‘Kidnap Tunnel’ Second Time in One Week
Report: Hezbollah Arms Cache That Exploded [in July] Contained Chemical Weapons
PA Terror Fugitive Nabbed [by IDF Near Shechem]
Knife Wielding PA Youth Arrested in Hebron
Rock Attack Near Ramallah
IDF Nabs Five Terror Suspects […]
Kassam Falls North of Sderot
Two Mortar Shells Land in Western Negev [Sunday Evening]
Israeli Arab Plotted with Hezbollah to Kill IDF Chief of Staff, by David Lev (Israel National News)
Jihadist Hackers Hit Bnei Akiva Yeshiva [in Haifa]
[Arab] Rock Attack at El Aroub [next to Gush-Etzion - Hevron Highway]
IDF Arrests Nine Terror Suspects [Wast […]