Light of 7 Menachem Av 5786 | אור ז' מנחם אב התשפ"ו
Here's a video I wanted to post for ever so long, but I lost the connection to it. Avi Abelow kindly provided me a link to this Pulse of Israel special:
From October 7th Horror to a Torah Scroll
It's a beautiful example of how a community that was hit by great tragedy was able to be revived by a Torah wedding and a new beit knesset. It took place in Nahal Oz, one of the communities that was viciously attacked on October Seventh, 2023/Simchat Torah 5784, and since this video was taken, has a synagogue as well as a brand new Torah.
I could not find anything on the Internet about the uniqueness of a Torah wedding, so I am taking on the work of describing it: Carrying a freshly written Torah on a wagon or something similar in a parade with a lot of people going with it through the streets of the neighborhood of the village, town or city where it will be read out loud, and the calligrapher who painstakingly hand-wrote the Torah (called a sofer) even helping a number of neighbors fill in, for a small donation each, one of the final letters of it before it is read. It symbolizes the reenactment of the wedding of the Torah to the Jewish People.
Without even thinking about it, I found one thing about which the Internet may have no knowledge. Until today.
With God's help, may all who watch it be blessed abundantly.
ENJOY.
Avi has two media outlets, both of which are on my sidebar, in different places. Pulse of Israel | Israel Unwired
And if I'm wrong about any of the details of this post, please write and tell me.
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More reading:
Security Chief Accused of "Abuse and Persecution" of Jews - Channel 14 | A-7: Defense Minister Israel Katz questions surge in administrative orders [but does nothing about the prisoners affected - HDG] | Shemittah Rediscovered blog: Honenu Organization Issues Urgent Letter: Tal Yinon Dardik is in life-threatening danger (this is a story that should never be in Israel! The first article above 👆 has a lot of detail. But, my question is: Who is going to go to the Russian Compound in Jerusalem and save him??? -HDG) |
This short video says so much because most of our people are sadly secular
ReplyDeleteand know so very little of who and what we are. The first thing that all Jews
must remember is that we are from one family and we alone have the only covenant with Hashem, G-D Almighty. We are a people, a nation, a family, with our own DNA, who are commanded by our Creator to live by His Laws of our holy Torah which was given to us as a gift by Hashem, the G-D of all creation.
When we veer away from our holy Torah where it warns us to obey His Laws
and to learn from our holy Sages their teachings and commentaries, sadly, our haters rise up against us as a wakeup call for us to remind us who we are and what our mission is. Let us never forget that we are blessed and our Redemption is very close at hand but we need to return to our roots.
Then the rest of righteous humanity will also be blessed and we will have a
world full of the knowledge of Hashem and pure goodness.
yid