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Ask JTF For October 29 Broadcast
MasterWolf1:
Hello Chaim,
My question is to you is, what you think of having Christians that come from the Mid East who their lives were just devastated from the Muslim vultures in the movement? As you know the near genocide to the Coptics in Egypt and a full slaughter with Christians in Lebanon as well. They too have lived throught he worst atrocities those that did live through it through the Muslim invading these countries. Like I am a huge supporter of Bridgette Gabriel if you ever get a chance to hear her or read about her I fully recommend it. She and many other Christians from the Mid East is extremely vital for our cause don't you think?
If you ever want to read up on Bridgette's website and her contribution here is her website.
http://americancongressfortruth.com/
Thank you for your time as always.
M.W.
MassuhDGoodName:
Shalom Chaim!
My layman's study of Torah has presented me with several most perplexing questions, and I always ask those more knowledgeable than myself to discuss these particular passages.
Regarding the Torah narrative detailing the passage of the Children Of Israel through the wilderness, in which they were bitten by poisonous vipers:
Moshe asked for guidance from Ha'Shem, and was thereby instructed to construct a brass replica of a serpent and lift it up on a pole so that by gazing on it, the Children Of Israel would be immune from the vipers' venomous bite.
This same identical brass serpent is mentioned much later on in scripture as one of the relics stored in the Temple in Jerusalem.
Ha'Shem's order to Moshe to construct a "statue" of an animal seems "out of synch" with the Mitzvah prohibiting graven images or worship of idols.
What can we in JTF learn from this story?...and is it pertinent to our current struggle?
Sincere regards,
MassuhDGoodName
jdl4ever:
--- Quote --- Shalom Chaim!
My layman's study of Torah has presented me with several most perplexing questions, and I always ask those more knowledgeable than myself to discuss these particular passages.
Regarding the Torah narrative detailing the passage of the Children Of Israel through the wilderness, in which they were bitten by poisonous vipers:
Moshe asked for guidance from Ha'Shem, and was thereby instructed to construct a brass replica of a serpent and lift it up on a pole so that by gazing on it, the Children Of Israel would be immune from the vipers' venomous bite.
This same identical brass serpent is mentioned much later on in scripture as one of the relics stored in the Temple in Jerusalem.
Ha'Shem's order to Moshe to construct a "statue" of an animal seems "out of synch" with the Mitzvah prohibiting graven images or worship of idols.
What can we in JTF learn from this story?...and is it pertinent to our current struggle?
Sincere regards,
MassuhDGoodName
--- End quote ---
Good question. The answer is that in Judaism we have a concept of "Horah Sho'ah" which means that a prophet or G-d may temporarily bypass any commandment written in the Torah at a time of imminent need; except for the ban on worshipping idols or worshipping other gods. The snake did not violate the prohibition of worshipping idols; for it's purpose was for the people to see it and repent to G-d (since it remined them of the power of G-d in that he sent the snake as a punishment). It did violate the prohibition for creating graven images though. G-d chose to temporarily bypass the ban on making graven images this one time due to the impending need for Israel to repent. Also, Elijah the prophet temporarily bypassed the prohibition on offering sacrifices outside the temple and offered a sacrifice on Mount Carmel in his challange to the worshippers of Baal to show Israel that Baal was a false G-d and the only true G-d was the Lord of Israel.
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Jdl4ever apploigizes to Chaim for being evil and accusing him on the jtf forum for not being sincere about moving to Israel. :'( Chaim, you are a tremendous Tzaddik of our time and I admire you a lot. The tremendous self sacrifice that you suffered for freeing Soviet jewry is unbelievable. I yearn to reach a quarter the hollyness that you reached. Most jews are all into learning but you are all about action and action is what counts! I don't want to have such a powerful tzaddik hate me since tzaddikum have tremendous power in heaven. Although I disagree with you on some issues and am more of a Yukutiel person, I still stop by once in a while to hear you speak and I do support you.
The accusation that you accused me of going on many sites and slandering you is not correct. I only made this accusation on the JTF.org old forum and I wanted you or the moderators to answer it but they did not respond (why????) so I repeated it a few times on the old JTF forum since I wanted a response to discount it. I am ONLY a member of one other forum (kahane.org), and I searched all my posts to find if I slandered you there, but I did not find anything nor do I remember doing it on that forum. If I did post something, I probably deleted it shortly afterwards since I thought it was important to post any comments on your forum first and to hear what you have to say. You are correct that I subconsciously directed my decision to stay in America onto yourself. (You got a little too angry ... who is a little anonymous forum poster to make you so upset?)
I am glad that you answered my questions and will post more in the future. I agree with your analysis of blacks living in America. The Rubin thing is that he did a lot of good work running the JDL but did a very bad thing slandering Polard (which he appoligized publically for but it can't be undone), so it is the policy of myself to judge all jews favorably and to concentrate on the good things that he has done since you don't know his background (maybee he was a Bal T'shuva & was not as learned as you are in Torah) and only G-d can judge him. Also, since the JDL under him was concerned only with protecting Jews in America, I don't care what stupid remarks he or his family said about Israel since it is not their department nor does it have any impact. I know you disagree, and disagreement is fine. I would not call him a Tzaddik bec. I don't know enough about him, but neither will I publically call him an evil person like you did (also the FBI probably killed him since his death was suspicious in there being no camera footage in the prison).
Anyways, I wish you all the best. -jdl4ever
Christian Zionist:
Chaim,
In his book, "My Life," (a.k.a My Lie) that demon Clinton reflects on the 1998 Wye River Accords, in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was told Pollard would be released as part of a deal that would also free 750 arab terrorists from Israeli prisons.
Clinton says Netanyahu brought up the Pollard issue at the last minute, and that he had to renege on the release after CIA Director George Tenet threatened to resign if Pollard's sentence was commuted. But Pollard, relying on personal reports he says he received from the Israeli team at Wye including Netanyahu and former Cabinet Secretary Dan Naveh, as well as public on–record statements of key participants, maintains his release was promised by Clinton as an integral part of the Wye Accords. Speaking to the Knesset in 2001, Naveh stated that Bill Clinton made an explicit commitment to Netanyahu, to release Jonathan Pollard. Malcolm Hoenline, executive vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said that he received a phone call from Tenet immediately after the Wye Summit, in which Tenet denied that he had ever threatened to resign if Pollard were freed.
Now my question is: I remember reading in one of the previous JTF website articles Bibi was criticized for not doing enough to secure the release of Jonathan Pollard. Now in the light of the new revelations from Pollard and Tenant do you still want to hold Bibi accountable? It seems Bibi was taken by surprise which he could not have anticipated in advance! In other words do you think Bibi could have done more to secure Pollard's release?
Also I would like to hear your comments about Boris Shusteff's article in Arutz Sheva on 01/23/2006:
Boris wrote the following in Arutz Sheva:
"When we blame Bibi for abandoning Hebron, we keep forgetting that in essence he did not change much of the reality on the ground. He did not give to the Arabs the part of the city inhabited by Jews. He simply withdrew the Israeli army from the Arab-populated part of the city. As he said: "In effect, what I was doing was giving up the Arab part of this city and ensuring that we retain nearly all of Judea and Samaria. The point about "nearly all of Judea and Samaria" is extremely important. "
Toda Raba!
Christian Zionist
Yoel:
Dear C.
You rightly criticize and assail the degenerate "black culture" but what in G-ds name has gotten into white America lately?
I am sure you are aware of the recent spate of senseless shootings in schools. Particularly gruesome was the murder of 5 little Amish girls in Pennsylvania.
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