Israel and The Sin of Expulsion

by Moshe Burt
Sefer Shem Mishmuel, translated to English by Rabbi Zvi Belovski (page 347), relates that:
While journeying to meet …Balak, with the intention of cursing the …Jewish nation, …Bila’am had difficulties with his donkey. The animal kept stopping [or straying off of the path], frightened by an angel that Bila’am was unable to see. […]

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by Moshe Burt
Our Parsha opens with Hashem, as we understand, visiting Avraham Aveinu on the 3rd day after Bris Milah, when Avraham was at the height of his pain following the circumcision, as Rashi indicates, “to inquire about his welfare.” (Metsuda Linear Chumash rendering of Rashi on Perek 18, posuk 1)
It’s not like Hashem […]

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Commentary:
Many of you may wonder why this blog has been silent for awhile, aside from the weekly Parsha HaShevua.
Frankly, it’s been a case of basically the same recurrent news, day after day. How many times and in how many different ways can one comment on the same news, again and again with only the […]

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Michael Freund comments on today’s Yassamnik/IDF violent eviction of Jews from their Beit HaShalom homes;
Treachery and Tyranny in Hebron, by Michael Freund (Israel National News)
“The Labor party and Kadima are both sagging in the polls, and fear that parties such as Meretz will steal their thunder and their votes.
It was an act […]

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Commentary;
Caroline Glick writes a damning indictment of the Left’s hypocrisy in assaulting language and, as a result, legality, morality and Jewish land and sovereignty. This post deals only with the hypocrisy regarding the left’s assault on legality, morality and Jewish land and sovereignty, although Glick drives home her point citing everything from feminist Education […]

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Commentary;
In case this blog’s readers haver wondered about the dearth of commentary here, it is increasingly difficult to churn out thoughts regarding the myriads of ways in which religious Jews are being undermined and degraded and the ways in which Israel’s security and sovereignty is being damned by leftist elites and their cronies and stooges […]

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Commentary;
The Olmert, Kadima, Barak, Livni, Yishai government of weakness, equivocation and partisan convenience has given up the store, the entirety of Israel’s diplomatic and military assets and set back Israel’s credibility to a historic low-point. Their lack of stregnth and principle has netted a minus in all areas, credibility, principle, hasbara and […]

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One must wonder why the Dory Golds and Ashley Perrys are not among the movers and shakers of Israeli Hasbara, rather than the marginal literacy of Tzipy Livni and her foreign ministry of multi-religional, incompetent, incoherent and self-defeating attempts at branding and hasbara. What truly lies beneath the destructo nature of the foreign ministry of […]

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On Wednesday evening, I was among 200 bloggers in Israel who attended Nefesh b’Nefesh’s first annual Bloggers Conference held at NBN offices in Givat Shaul.
There was nothing much new to come out of the various panel discussions, Q & As beyond the opportunities for face-to-face, in-person networking amongst bloggers. But the deli and salads were […]

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Commentary;
Yep, that’s me, making the point that needs to be made to the Foreign Ministry, and indeed every ministry and functionary of Israeli governance again and again and again until it sinks irrevocably into their consciousness; “But we ARE a Jewish state.”
A hat tip goes to Batya Medad for taking this shot.
And […]

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