Vatican: Parts of David’s Tomb to Be Under Papal Control
An official Vatican newspaper has reported that during his upcoming visit to the Vatican, President Moshe Katsav will sign an agreement giving parts of David’s Tomb over to papal control.
Read the full article HERE
Me: Here's the offer: They can have a small patch of the tomb provided we get back our Menorah, the Tzitz of the Kohain Gadol and all our relics and holy books that are collecting dust in the basement of the Vatican. Deal?
October 20, 2005
Volunteers Join Search for Temple Relics
A nature reserve below Mount Scopus in Jerusalem was the scene of an ongoing archaeological rescue project Wednesday.
Dozens of volunteers searched through refuse dumped at the site by the Muslim Wakf (religious authority) in Jerusalem's Old City during the Wakf's construction of underground mosques on the Temple Mount.
Archaeologists have found among the refuse many artifacts of historical import, including seals discovered just three weeks ago that date from the era of the First Temple (that built by the Biblical King Solomon).
Read the Rest HERE
Dozens of volunteers searched through refuse dumped at the site by the Muslim Wakf (religious authority) in Jerusalem's Old City during the Wakf's construction of underground mosques on the Temple Mount.
Archaeologists have found among the refuse many artifacts of historical import, including seals discovered just three weeks ago that date from the era of the First Temple (that built by the Biblical King Solomon).
Read the Rest HERE
See what Har HaBayit looks like today
Video from Our Holy Temple Mountבלעדי: מסע וידאו בהר הבית
Click above
Thanks again to Yisrael Medad for showing me this.
October 17, 2005
Leading Kabbalist Urges Jews to Israel - More Disasters Coming
From Arutz ShevaOn Thursday night, Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri said, "Jews must come to the land of Israel to receive our righteous Mashiach (Messiah), who has begun his influence and will reveal himself in the future."
It was during the meal after the 24-hour Yom Kippur fast that several followers approached the 104-year-old leading known Kabbalist Rabbi in Israel. A family member asked him about his remarks last month regarding natural disasters in the world. The Rabbi said that the disasters are directly related to the redemption process, which will culminate in the coming of the Mashiach.
The Rabbi added that in the near future, another wave of natural disasters will strike the world.
Read the full article HERE
October 16, 2005
October 15, 2005
Sukkot in Jerusalem, Holy Temple Style
From Arutz Sheva:The Sukkot holiday used to mean not only moving into temporary quarters, but housing those quarters themselves in temporary quarters - Jerusalem. Some families aim to renew that custom this year.
Five families have already signed up to join the initiative, and plan to build their sukkot - holiday huts - on a hillside overlooking the Temple Mount. Jerusalem archaeologist Tzachi Zweig says that this is how it used to be done:
"We know that there is a Biblical commandment to visit Jerusalem on the three Festivals, but on the Sukkot holiday, it is more than just a visit. Shavuot (Pentecost) is only one day, and the commandment on Passover is also only for one day - but the commandment on Sukkot is to 'rejoice before G-d for seven days'. We are commanded on Sukkot to live in temporary huts, or booths, and it's clear that with the masses of people who came, not all of their hundreds of thousands of booths could fit inside the city. Many huts were built outside the city, overlooking the Holy Temple, and there are many sources indicating this... It's logical that Mt. Scopus and the Mt. of Olives would be chosen for this purpose."
The site chosen for the renewal of this practice is the Emek Tzurim National Park, on the slopes of Mt. Scopus, beneath Yeshivat Beit Orot and Hebrew University. "This is the location where we have been running an ongoing archaeological analysis of dirt and rubble from the Temple Mount," Zweig said. Volunteers have been sifting through truckloads of dirt carted away from the Mount after the Islamic Waqf perpetrated an illegal construction project there.
Read the rest HERE
More Muslim Desecration
Muslim Worshippers Damage Machpela Ark
Hevron leaders report that on Friday night, Muslim worshippers praying in the Cave of the Patriarchs (Ma’arat HaMachpela) damaged an ark in the Jewish area, adding as a result of their vandalism attack, they were unable to open the lock placed on the ark to protect Torah scrolls.
Me: Speak out against this chilul Hashem and write the Knesset. Outrage if Jews did such a thing. Silence when Muslims do it. This must be stopped.
Hevron leaders report that on Friday night, Muslim worshippers praying in the Cave of the Patriarchs (Ma’arat HaMachpela) damaged an ark in the Jewish area, adding as a result of their vandalism attack, they were unable to open the lock placed on the ark to protect Torah scrolls.
Me: Speak out against this chilul Hashem and write the Knesset. Outrage if Jews did such a thing. Silence when Muslims do it. This must be stopped.
October 12, 2005
Have an easy and meaningful fast
May Hashem hear our pleas, forgive our sins and send Mashiach Tzedkeinu immediately for the swift redemption of all of Klal Yisrael.Amen.
Great Yom Kippur LINKS found HERE
October 09, 2005
One step closer to Mashiach
MK: Gov´t Has Better Things to Do than Promote Yom Kippur
Knesset Member Avraham Poraz of Shinui demands that the government stop sponsoring a campaign promoting participation at Yom Kippur prayer services.
In a letter to the Prime Minister's Bureau he released this morning, MK Poraz wrote, "It is not the job of the Prime Minister's Office in particular, nor of the State in general, to use public funds to publicize ads whose purpose is only to encourage Jewish repentance and participation in Yom Kippur prayers. The State has more important needs on which to spend money than this unnecessary campaign."
Click above to read the full article.
For those of us who believe in G-d and His Torah... Here are some Yom Kippur resources (you may want to throw in an extra prayer for Shinui and their self-hating anti-semitic members).
*The Yom Kippur Avoda
*Temple Service
*The Role of the Kohain Gadol (High Priest) on Yom Kippur
*Kitzur Halakhot of Yom Kippur
Knesset Member Avraham Poraz of Shinui demands that the government stop sponsoring a campaign promoting participation at Yom Kippur prayer services.
In a letter to the Prime Minister's Bureau he released this morning, MK Poraz wrote, "It is not the job of the Prime Minister's Office in particular, nor of the State in general, to use public funds to publicize ads whose purpose is only to encourage Jewish repentance and participation in Yom Kippur prayers. The State has more important needs on which to spend money than this unnecessary campaign."
Click above to read the full article.
For those of us who believe in G-d and His Torah... Here are some Yom Kippur resources (you may want to throw in an extra prayer for Shinui and their self-hating anti-semitic members).
*The Yom Kippur Avoda
*Temple Service
*The Role of the Kohain Gadol (High Priest) on Yom Kippur
*Kitzur Halakhot of Yom Kippur
Pretty cool - Birkas Kohanim Stamp
Issued by the Israeli Government. Thanks to Rav Yaakov Kleiman of "the Tribe" for forwarding it to me.
October 06, 2005
Today is Tzom Gedaliah
From OU.org: "Tzom Gedaliah (Fast of Gedaliah) is an annual fast day instituted by the Jewish Sages to commemorate the assassination of Gedaliah Ben Achikam, the Governor of Israel during the days of Nebuchadnetzar King of Babylonia. As a result of Gedaliah's death the final vestiges of Judean autonomy after the Babylonian conquest were destroyed, many thousands of Jews were slain, and the remaining Jews were driven into final exile.The fast is observed on the day immediately following Rosh Hashanah, the third of Tishrei. In the Prophetic Writings this fast is called 'The Fast of the Seventh' in allusion to Tishrei, the seventh month.
When Nebuchadnetzar King of Babylonia, destroyed the Temple's Sanctuary in Jerusalem and exiled the Jewish people to Babylonia, he allowed an impoverished remnant to remain in the land and appointed Gedaliah Ben Achikam as their Governor. Many Jews who had fled to Moab, Ammon, Edom, and other neighboring lands returned to the land of Yehudah, tended the vineyards given to them by the king of Babylonia and enjoyed a new respite after their earlier oppression.
The King of Ammon however - hostile and envious of the Judean remnant sent a loyal Jew, Yishmael Ben Netaniah, to assassinate Gedaliah. In the seventh month (Tishrei) Yishmael came to Gedaliah in the town of Mitzpa, and was received cordially. Gedaliah had been warned of his guests murderous intent, but refused to believe his informants in the belief that their report was mere slander. Yishmael murdered Gedaliah, together with most of the Jews who had joined him and numbers of Babylonians whom the Babylonian King had left with Gedaliah The remaining Jews feared the vengeance of the Babylonian King and fled to Egypt.
The surviving remnant of Jews was thus dispersed and the land remained desolate. In remembrance of these tribulations, our Sages instituted the 'Fast of the Seventh' on the day of Gedaliah's assassination in the seventh month."
Read the rest HERE
October 02, 2005
A Sad State
MK Porush: Israeli Youth Are Disconnected From Basic Judaism
In the wake of the reports that an IDF commander ordered a religious soldier to unknowingly step on a prayer shawl (talit), Knesset Member Meir Porush (Agudat Yisrael) said the incident proves that Israeli youth is cut off from its own religious heritage. "The sorry incident in which a soldier was made to trample a talit proves that the youth in the state are cut off from basic Jewish values and know less than nothing about Torah and the heritage of Israel," MK Porush said. "On the eve of Rosh Hashanah 5766, it is fitting that the leaders of state understand that only if we succeed here in raising descendants who deepen their Jewish identity will no enemy or evil-wisher be able to break our spirit or harm us physically."The time has come for the education system to return to all the Jewish students the cultural keys to the Jewish literary treasure trove, in order to preserve the spiritual light of our heritage, and in order to protect the Jewish spark so that it never, God forbid, go out."
Me: Couldn't have said it better.
In the wake of the reports that an IDF commander ordered a religious soldier to unknowingly step on a prayer shawl (talit), Knesset Member Meir Porush (Agudat Yisrael) said the incident proves that Israeli youth is cut off from its own religious heritage. "The sorry incident in which a soldier was made to trample a talit proves that the youth in the state are cut off from basic Jewish values and know less than nothing about Torah and the heritage of Israel," MK Porush said. "On the eve of Rosh Hashanah 5766, it is fitting that the leaders of state understand that only if we succeed here in raising descendants who deepen their Jewish identity will no enemy or evil-wisher be able to break our spirit or harm us physically."The time has come for the education system to return to all the Jewish students the cultural keys to the Jewish literary treasure trove, in order to preserve the spiritual light of our heritage, and in order to protect the Jewish spark so that it never, God forbid, go out."
Me: Couldn't have said it better.
September 30, 2005
First Temple Seal Discovered in Arab Debris
From Arutz Sheva. Bolding is mine.Archaeologists have revealed they have found a Jewish seal from the period of the First Temple, according to Professor Gabi Barkay.
The seal was discovered in debris which was taken from the Temple Mount six years ago and is the first time a Jewish artifact from the First Temple has been found, he added. The seal, less than one centimeter long and made from burnt mud, bears ancient Hebrew writing and probably was used for official documents and letters, Prof. Barkay said. It is more than 2500 years old and provides a direct link with the era of King David.
Arab Moslems have authority over the Temple Mount site and have been systematically removing debris from the Temple Mount site for years despite protests from archaeologists who fear they will lose any opportunity to find remnants of the First Temple. Arabs also have waged a publicity campaign claiming that the Jewish Temples never existed on the mount.
From this week's Haftarah - Parshas Nitzavim
וְאַתֶּם, כֹּהֲנֵי יְהוָה תִּקָּרֵאוּ--מְשָׁרְתֵי אֱלֹהֵינוּ, יֵאָמֵר לָכֶם; חֵיל גּוֹיִם תֹּאכֵלוּ, וּבִכְבוֹדָם תִּתְיַמָּרוּ
But you shall be called the Kohanim of the L-RD, men shall call you the ministers of our G-d; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their splendor will you revel.
וְנוֹדַע בַּגּוֹיִם זַרְעָם, וְצֶאֱצָאֵיהֶם בְּתוֹךְ הָעַמִּים; כָּל-רֹאֵיהֶם יַכִּירוּם, כִּי הֵם זֶרַע בֵּרַךְ יְהוָה
And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the L-RD has blessed.
But you shall be called the Kohanim of the L-RD, men shall call you the ministers of our G-d; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their splendor will you revel.
וְנוֹדַע בַּגּוֹיִם זַרְעָם, וְצֶאֱצָאֵיהֶם בְּתוֹךְ הָעַמִּים; כָּל-רֹאֵיהֶם יַכִּירוּם, כִּי הֵם זֶרַע בֵּרַךְ יְהוָה
And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the L-RD has blessed.
It's the END of the WORLD!!! (it has to be...)
One of the signs of the End of Days?
UK: Israeli offensive appropriate
Israel's response to the recent Kassam rocket attacks on Sderot has been measured and appropriate, Kim Howells, Britain's Minister of State for the Middle East, told The Jerusalem Post, disregarding Palestinian appeals for the world to rein in the IDF.
Me: A European country backing Israel? What's the world coming to?
UK: Israeli offensive appropriate
Israel's response to the recent Kassam rocket attacks on Sderot has been measured and appropriate, Kim Howells, Britain's Minister of State for the Middle East, told The Jerusalem Post, disregarding Palestinian appeals for the world to rein in the IDF.
Me: A European country backing Israel? What's the world coming to?
Ohr LaGoyim: It begins, Baruch HaShem!
Sanhedrin Moves to Establish Council For Noahides A council of non-Jewish observers of the Seven Laws of Noah has been selected and will be ordained by the reestablished Sanhedrin in Jerusalem this January.
B'nai Noach, literally "Children of Noah," known as Noahides, are non-Jews who take upon themselves the Torah's obligations for non-Jews - consisting of seven laws passed on from Noah following the flood, as documented in Genesis.
Read the full article from Arutz Sheva HERE or click above.
Thanks to Kalman HaLevi for pointing this out to me.
September 27, 2005
Chutzpah!
Ancient ritual bath discovered in Old City to be opened to public
By The Associated Press
The government will soon open to the public a new archaeological site not far from a sensitive holy shrine in Jerusalem's Old City, officials said Tuesday.In 1996, Palestinian riots broke out throughout the West Bank when Israel opened ancient tunnels that run near the site of the biblical temples, which is now home to two Muslim mosques.The latest archaeological discovery is a ritual bath from the period of the second Jewish Temple, which was destroyed in A.D. 70, and a small wall from the period of the first Jewish Temple, destroyed in the year 586 B.C. The public will be able to view the remains with a light show about Jewish history in the coming weeks, said Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, chief rabbi of the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites.
Me: Wait for it...
Adnan Husseini, the head of the Islamic Trust that oversees the two mosques at the site, condemned the diggings and Israel's intention to open it to the public, calling it a "confiscation" of Muslim property.
Me: I'd laugh if it wasn't so very very sad. Thanks to Yisrael Medad for directing me to this article. His blog can be found HERE
By The Associated Press
The government will soon open to the public a new archaeological site not far from a sensitive holy shrine in Jerusalem's Old City, officials said Tuesday.In 1996, Palestinian riots broke out throughout the West Bank when Israel opened ancient tunnels that run near the site of the biblical temples, which is now home to two Muslim mosques.The latest archaeological discovery is a ritual bath from the period of the second Jewish Temple, which was destroyed in A.D. 70, and a small wall from the period of the first Jewish Temple, destroyed in the year 586 B.C. The public will be able to view the remains with a light show about Jewish history in the coming weeks, said Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, chief rabbi of the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites.
Me: Wait for it...
Adnan Husseini, the head of the Islamic Trust that oversees the two mosques at the site, condemned the diggings and Israel's intention to open it to the public, calling it a "confiscation" of Muslim property.
Me: I'd laugh if it wasn't so very very sad. Thanks to Yisrael Medad for directing me to this article. His blog can be found HERE
September 26, 2005
Gee, who would've guessed?
וְגַם-יְהוּדָה--תִּלָּחֵם, בִּירוּשָׁלִָם
"And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem"
זְכַרְיָה - 14
Reform, Conservative Groups Advocate for a Palestinian State
(IsraelNN.com) A group of sixteen Jewish and Christian delegates from the United States returned home this week from a week-long trip to Israel. An official statement of the group - signed by, among others, delegates representing the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Religious Action Center of the Union of Reform Judaism and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism - expressed recognition for "the historic links [of]... the Palestinian People have to the land," and advocated a Palestinian State.
The statement said, in part: "As representatives of mainline Protestant Churches and the American Jewish community, we have demonstrated that Christians and Jews can work together to seek peace even when there is disagreement on specific policies and solutions. As a result of these days, we will now be even more effective advocates for a secure, viable and independent Palestinian state alongside an equally secure State of Israel, affirming the historic links that both the Jewish People and the Palestinian People have to the land."
Upon our return, we are committed to... Effectively support those Palestinians and Israelis who are courageously working for reconciliation and a two-state solution with concrete actions that will help sustain their work."
"And Judah also shall fight against Jerusalem"
זְכַרְיָה - 14
Reform, Conservative Groups Advocate for a Palestinian State
(IsraelNN.com) A group of sixteen Jewish and Christian delegates from the United States returned home this week from a week-long trip to Israel. An official statement of the group - signed by, among others, delegates representing the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Religious Action Center of the Union of Reform Judaism and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism - expressed recognition for "the historic links [of]... the Palestinian People have to the land," and advocated a Palestinian State.
The statement said, in part: "As representatives of mainline Protestant Churches and the American Jewish community, we have demonstrated that Christians and Jews can work together to seek peace even when there is disagreement on specific policies and solutions. As a result of these days, we will now be even more effective advocates for a secure, viable and independent Palestinian state alongside an equally secure State of Israel, affirming the historic links that both the Jewish People and the Palestinian People have to the land."
Upon our return, we are committed to... Effectively support those Palestinians and Israelis who are courageously working for reconciliation and a two-state solution with concrete actions that will help sustain their work."
How far will they go?
Excellent clip on anti-Israel media bias. See it HERE.
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