Some of the aftermath of the Parashat Korach confrontation...

5 Tammuz 5785 | ה תמוז ה'תשפ"ה

 

                             

This is no longer a video, but a picture. 

 

To see my previous post having to do with this issue, click or press HERE. 

הרס בחמש נקודות התיישבות ביו"ש מאז שעות הבוקר - חיילי צה"ל נשלחו לביצוע המשימה: "מסע נקמה חסר מעצורים

(Destruction in five settlement points in Judea and Samaria since morning - IDF soldiers were sent to carry out the mission: "An unbridled campaign of revenge")

** this occurred yesterday, Monday, 30 June 2025 **

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Blogger's note: This is the first time I'm using a video that isn't YouTube. It works, and is very short. Heavy on the Blogger system, though. Not for you, dear reader, but for me, the blogger. From what I can tell, you don't find material like this on YouTube. (Although, see below near the end of the post.)

This post could be called "IDF, who are you??? part 2." The Parashat Korach confrontation is what I'm calling what happened on this past Erev Shabbat near Binyamin, Samaria. The video above is a short selection about the response from the army yesterday, Monday, 30 June/4 Tammuz. They destroyed a number of communities in Samaria yesterday morning, according to the Hebrew I received from a friend. With the help of Google Translate, Grok and an additional friend or two, I hope a reasonable translation was made.

Somehow I think there was some miscommunication accusing the youth from the hilltop they were defending from Arabs...a jeep drove up near them, that turned out to be the battalion commander who apparently threatened to shoot them all dead and managed to shoot one, who is still in the hospital under intensive care, thankfully not dead, according to this early report, with an update at the end (H/T: Tomer Devorah.) -HDG

UPDATES BELOW! 

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 HEBREW -- עברית

 English follows Hebrew

כוחות משטרה ומנהל אזרחי פשטו היום (שני) על גבעת מקנה אברהם בגוש עציון, החריבו את בתי המקום ודיר העיזים, והחרימו חומרי בנייה נוספים.

במקביל פשטו הכוחות על נקודת התיישבות נוספת הסמוכה לישוב מיצד והחריבו גם שם את המבנים, לצד החרמת ציוד. במהלך ההרס צחק אחד מעובדי הקבלן הערבים שהביא המנהל, ואמר בזלזול לתושבים "למה אני מגיע לכאן כל פעם? כי אני אוהב להרוס ליהודים" 

זמן קצר לאחר מכן, כשהתושבים פונו מהשטח וכוחות המנהל האזרחי ופועלים הקבלן נשארו לבדם בגבעה, פרצה לפתע שריפה במקום שמשתוללת עד לרגעים אלו. בשעה זו תושבים וכוחות כיבוי נאבקים בלהבות במטרה להשיג שליטה על האש
 

בתוך כך, ביצעו כוחות צה"ל ומשטרה הרס נוסף בנקודת התיישבות ליד בת עין, לצד 2 פינויים בגזרת בנימין - בגבעה בהר חצור בה התרחש ירי המג"ד בשבת האחרונה, ובנקודת התיישבות נוספת בואדי חרמייה ששומרת על מבתרי כביש 60

בגבעת מקנה אברהם תקפו בחריפות את מסע ההרס שמתרחש בשעות האחרונות: "בניסיון נפשע לגבות את ירי המג"ד לעבר נערים יהודים בשבת, נכנסה המערכת כולה לסחרור ויצאה כעת למסע נקמה חסר מעצורים בהתיישבות כדי להסיט ממנה את הביקורת על התרת דם המתיישבים ולחפות על שקריה"

"גבעת מקנה אברהם שומרת בגופה על השמורה ההסכמית מפני השתלטות עויינת של הרש"פ באמצעות רעיית צאן וחקלאות, וכמו יתר הגבעות מהווה המחסום היחיד בפני תוכנית המדינה הפלסטינית. אנו קוראים מכאן לשרים כ"ץ וסמוטריץ' הממונים על המנהל האזרחי: עצרו מיד את הפגיעה בחלוצי ההתיישבות!", הוסיפו בגבעה

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Police and Civil Administration forces raided Givat Mikneh Avraham in Gush Etzion today (Monday), destroying the local houses and the goat pen, and confiscating additional construction materials.

At the same time, the forces raided another settlement point near the settlement of Mitsad and also destroyed the buildings there, along with confiscating equipment. During the demolition, one of the Arab contractor workers brought by the administrator laughed and said disdainfully to the residents, "Why do I come here every time? Because I like to destroy Jews." 

Shortly thereafter, when the residents were evacuated from the area and Civil Administration forces and contractor workers were left alone on the hill, a fire suddenly broke out in the place that is raging to this day. At this time, residents and fire brigades are battling the flames in an attempt to gain control of the fire.

 Meanwhile, IDF forces and police carried out additional destruction at a settlement point near Bat Ayin, along with two evacuations in the Binyamin sector — on a hill on Mount Hazor where the battalion's shooting took place last Saturday, and at another settlement point in Wadi Haramiyya that guards the dismemberment of Highway 60.

 In Givat Mikneh Avraham, they sharply attacked the campaign of destruction that has been taking place in recent hours: "In a criminal attempt to justify the firing of the battalion at Jewish teenagers on Shabbat, the entire system has gone into a spiral and has now embarked on an unbridled campaign of revenge against the settlement in order to deflect criticism from it for allowing the blood of the settlers and to cover up its lies."

 "Givat Mikneh Avraham guards the agreed reserve with its body against hostile takeover by the PA through sheep grazing and agriculture, and like the other hills, it constitutes the only barrier to the Palestinian state plan. We call from here to Ministers Katz and Smotrich, who are in charge of the Civil Administration: Immediately stop the harm to the pioneers of the settlement!" they added from the hill.

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 My Hebrew-speaking friend tells me that the hill was named after Avraham Avinu (Abraham, our Forefather) out of gratefulness to him.

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I am wrong after all, and I'm happy to find: There is YouTube material on this topic! This is short, but longer than the video above. Here is more from a search on YT on Judea and Samaria in general. A lot of it is actually positive!

 UPDATE: Finally, today (2 July 2025), we hear from Honenu — a law firm that takes donations because their usual clients aren't even middle class, yet they get the best representation. Here is Honenu's summary of the situation many have been trying to make sense of for days now, with photos and video clips.

Please pray for Assif Hallel ben Efrat, the 14-year-old youth who was shot. 

UPDATE: Today, 3 July 2025, Assif was released from the hospital. The bullet was collected for evidence in the case. It had better not be "lost"! 

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 More reading: 

 Tomer Devorah: The Misapplication of Language Should Be A Crime | A7: Last 2 suspects in Binyamin clash released; Lessons of the Massacre: Israeli intelligence to mandate studying Islam and Arabic [It's about time! Also employ comparison/contrast with Torah Judaism. HDG]; Hamas's s**ual terror demands elimination, not negotiation; The public most exposed to terror and violence are the settlers; CUT THE LIES — HAMAS NEVER AGREED TO DISARM AND NEVER WILL | VisionMag: We need to talk about the hilltop youth; 'Hilltop Youth' sues police for wrongful arrest and abuse; The price of Trump joining our war | JNS: Worldwide diplomatic isolation is better than more dead Jews (!!!) | 

 

More video & audio:

 Watch Bibi's Churchill Moment (plus text) | Listen: VisionMag: What's a 'decolonized Judean'?; The Jewish relationship to colonialism and postcolonialism; Understanding the 'Hilltop Youth' with Akiva haKohen | Watch on Israel Unwired: Bombshell report: Biden gave Hamas over $2B to kill Israelis; Shocking truth of Oct. 7: Israel's deep state viewed Jews as the enemy instead of Hamas; Dismantling the settler violence narrative; The hidden war against the Jews of Judea and Samaria; Judea and Samaria are key to the next stage of Jewish redemption | Listen: IL Newstalk Radio: Lenny Goldberg, The Jewish Truth Bomb: Ode to the Hilltop Youth | Pulse of IL: Dismantling the settler violence narrative [3 July 2025 - HDG]; HOW ISRAEL'S DEEP STATE PUTS US ALL IN DANGER | IL Unwired (article with video): Did Jewish "settlers" kill a Palestinian-American on Friday [11 July - HDG]? | The Road to Elath (Oranim Zabar Troup, from 1959, the whole album.) |

 

 

IDF, who are you???

 Light of 4 Tammuz 5785 | אור ד' תמוז ה'תשפ"ה

 

a beautiful song...may the hostages in Aza be freed from the Gazan prison!

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This is about the incident in a place in a small Shomron place called Binyamin, that took place on EREV SHABBAT KORACH 5785: This past Friday night at this writing.  

A teenage civilian was shot in the shoulder in the chest (you can see how the different versions of the story go); a live bullet was found in his ribs — according to the hospital where he was taken for treatment — and the rest of his companions were threatened by the battalion commander (the IDF officer) in the Shomron. A summary of details, with links to full stories, will follow.

The father of one of the civilians (they're known as "hilltop youth" in the territory they live in) wrote this article, published on Israel National News. This is not the youth who was shot with live ammunition, not a rubber bullet. 

The police went to see him in the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) and decided not to interrogate him due to his medical condition.

Attorney Shimshilashvili revealed that contrary to IDF spokesperson claims that only sponge-tipped bullets were used, Hadassah Hospital issued an official statement confirming that a live bullet was discovered in the teen’s body. “The police understood that questioning a minor in such a condition was not feasible — and I commend them for that,” he added.  

Naturally, I have questions and observations from what I've read so far... 

Could this be in any way a modern-day version of Korah's argument with Moshe Rabbenu? Is Moshe any more deserving of running the people than Korah, his cousin?

Could the IDF be considered hero or criminal? Schizophrenic, perhaps? Could our soldiers be heroes in Gaza, and at the same time criminals in Yo"sh (Judea and Samaria, known locally as Yehuda and Shomron)?

Did an IDF battalion commander threaten to KILL the group of "hilltop youth" in the Shomron? The father of one of them has seen the videos and says they support the civilians' statements.

When this article calls IDF out to have committed criminal activity, it is not against Arabs, but against their fellow Jews. A stranger looking at this situation would think we'd be clearer on this since "OCTOBER SEVENTH." The people are, but our armed forces seem to be selective in their assessments and not to understand why the people would hold that their main job is to protect the Jewish population. Remember that the world presumes both Gaza and Yo"sh to be Arab territory and not Jewish. I say again, that those who believe that should throw out or burn their holy bibles and qurans! Not ours, not mine, but their very own. They clearly testify otherwise.

Many religious Jews believe that the IDF is the only part of the government system that has the capacity for good as well as evil; they call it klipa Noga (In Hebrew, Noga is Venus, the planet with the brightness of a star.). 

The rest of the system has become a promoter of evil, just like the rest of the world that openly hates Israel and Jews, and is only in place until Mashiah is revealed. This shows itself particularly with regard to territory that should be part of Israel unequivocally, but has not been enacted at least in the last thirty-five (35) years — since the 6-Day War is more like it, 58 years, to be exact. Especially since Aharon Barak, the former Chief Justice, brought the current corrupt practices to the Israeli justice system.

The main thing is that the mission of the Jewish People is clarified further, provided that the title question is asked and answered.

I'm still waiting for Honenu to post.  I'm working on a followup to this post that a friend is providing me. 

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More reading:

SEARCH: Iran arrests and kills Jews [because not all the links are true -HDG] | JNS: The ONLY thing that matters: Jewish survival | JPress: Knesset panel weighs impeachment of MK Ayman Odeh over hostages-terrorists comparison | A-7: Knesset committee votes to oust MK Ayman Odeh  Also, by Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover: And now, as the Middle East is being renewed... עברית כאן | The Settler Violence SCAM by Amit Segal |

 

More videos: 

Nation of Israel: What's really bothering the Jew-haters? | Prager U: Every Israel-hating American should watch this video. Is Israel a liability? | Pulse of Israel, with Mordechai Kedar: It's time for Trump to punish Qatar for the Hamas massacre (with history) |

613: The ultimate irony...

 17 Sivan 5785 | י"ז סיון ה'תשפ"ה

 

613* 

 ***UPDATE BELOW***

 ...is that today, the day we were alerted that Iran is attacking us, is FRIDAY THE 13TH.

Not only that, today's date, June 13, is numerically written as 6/13 (at least in the US). 

Remind anyone of anything? 

For many of the nations of the world, Friday the 13th is an inauspicious day. An unlucky day. (Other numbers are said to take on this role, for example some of the lands of the Far East have a different number. But, today I'm focusing on 13.)

For Jews, however, especially appreciated by those who speak Hebrew and are aware of gematria, 13 is a particularly auspicious day. Very positive words in Hebrew add up to 13:

Love — ahava — אהבה

One — echad — אחד

God (the unpronounced name) is double-13, or 26. יהוה

And yet another layer: 613 is the number of mitzvoth in the Torah. 
Whatever we can take on today, we should do now. Shabbat is upon us, for a start, even if we have to keep it in our shelters.

 

IRAN, YOU MADE A BIG MISTAKE IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE WORLD. 

YOU ARE ATTACKING GOD as well as the JEWS.

LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU.

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Shabbat shalom umevorach to all the Jews of the world, and a great weekend to all the people who love God enough to love His people too. 

 

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*Thanks to a neighbor in my neighborhood for the heads-up about the 6 in 613. Another neighbor advises that the alternate way to write the date, 13/6, is also auspicious; it refers to the Hebrew words ביד חזקה (b'yad hazakah, with a strong hand...).  

***UPDATE***

24/6/2025/28 Sivan 5785: The peace declared today lacks, at least the following: 

• Civilians were killed on 24 June (4 according to Israel HaYom, Jerusalem Post) in Beersheva while sleeping in their beds. We hadn't even buried them yet, nor found those buried under the rubble, whether in Beersheva whether dead or alive, just before the ceasefire. The point here is that, even though it was before the ceasefire was to start, THE VICTIMS WERE CIVILIANS. Only one of those killed in Beersheva was a soldier. The rest were CIVILIANS, in every sense of the word; to target them is a war crime!
• WHERE ARE OUR HOSTAGES??? ARE THEY HOME YET??? President Trump, did you forget that HAMAS is a proxy of IRAN??? Did you forget that "October Seventh," still ongoing, is the responsibility of IRAN??? Considering that we are expected to have and maintain a full peace, don't you think this is an important thing to have resolved? If the US experienced anything like we Israelis did, would you expect a mediator to neglect the issue of your people trapped behind enemy lines?
• DON'T FORGET BUSHEHR (see Bushehr phase 2 here). This is the one nuclear site that currently exists (that we know of) in Iran and is being prepared for use as I type. It seems to be closer to Israel than the other sites were, from what I could tell. Two more are coming, thanks to RUSSIA. Let's not forget them, either, and note where they are on the map when they are shown.

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We must not forget to put our trust ONLY IN GOD, and only give HIM credit for our victories, whenever and however they come. For the above reasons and more, I believe we're still not done with the Iranian shadow, and possibly other shadows, over us, the Jewish people.

 

More reading: 

R' Green: Reflections on 6/13 | Israel Unwired: Open miracles, living prophecy — the night that shook the world!!! | Shmuel Sackett: Iran vs. HaShem (!!!)| YWN, from the 'mailbag': June 17, 2025: How Megillas Koheles points to this date as "Eis Shalom" — the final pre-Mashiach era | Elder of Ziyon: Israel's enemies drink their own Kool-Aid | NYT: The U.S. must now reckon with a hegemon in the Mideast: Israel | WashPost: With Trump on side, Israel becomes the Middle East's clear hegemon | JPress: ...Israel emerges as undisputed hegemon in the Middle East | VisionMag: We must fight this holy war alone | IL Unwired: Iran promised a "long night" — but the God of Israel had other plans | Mayim Achronim: Iran, Mossad and Mashiach | TOI (opinion, by Nikoo Pajoom): I'm Iranian — Israel's attacks give me hope | Myrtle Rising: Recent Q&A with R' Itamar Schwartz of Bilvavi regarding Iran | YWN: R' Yitzhak Yosef paskens to hold weddings during the 3 Weeks this year | JPress (Hana Levi Julian): Israel targets Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, IRGC HQ, internal security directorate, etc.!  Also (Elie Weinstock) : No Jew should be left behind | Tomer Devorah: I pray his end is like Korach's (video included) | JPress (Fiamma Nirenstein): From bomb shelters to Tehran: Israel's ancient struggle to survive | Phys.org: Drought, sand storms and evacuations: How Iran's climate crisis gets ignored |

 

Videos:

 H/T Tomer Devorah: (short) Hodu l'Hashem Ki Tov (HEB w/English subs) | also there, more videos underneath!...some with English, most only in Hebrew. | Pulse of Israel: The night Israel changed the world  plus: The fall of Israel's enemies: A historical shift you need to see; Iran thought we'd break. They awakened the Jewish Lion[ess]. | Israel Unwired: This Iranian propaganda video came back to bite them big time! | Sky News AU: Israel has 'decapitated' Iran's IRGC | R' Lawrence Hajioff: Why Iran is REALLY attacking Israel and why the US have intervened now (it seems the Rav is saying that we're in the way of the Méhedi (that's how he pronounced the Muslim Mashiah) and the US is the main nation of non-Muslims.) |

 

Audio: 

Israel Newstalk Radio: Iran is trying to create a new Auschwitz in Israel |

Stop calling it Zionism, already.

 3 Sivan 5785 | ג' סיון ה'תשפ"ה

 

 This video from some time ago gives all of us a clue on how to understand how to treat our enemies.
Dr. Anjuli Pandavar, ex-Muslim and retired college professor, said, at that time, this was "a great start" on Israel's part. We could do more. Much more.

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 It's not Zionism, at least according to the plain definition, the obvious application being to, and about, Zion, which is synonymous with Jerusalem. See HERE for more on that. It's STATISM, as applied to all the other countries of the earth; in this case, to the Jewish state. 

I wonder, is it just my wild-and-crazy imagination, or is "Zionism," according to our governance system, actually meant to invite disgrace upon our Holy Land, and especially its capital? 

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My post from back in February 2025 suggested that we think about the Kingdom that is the nation of Israel's native governance. I can hear the laughter now, from far, far away and long, long ago...

...because we haven't had any resemblance to a real Jewish Kingdom for a couple thousand years; and the one we had back then was corrupt, and therefore disgraceful. In the 21st century of the 'common era' we find ourselves in, we might have a clue if we lived in the British Isles, or one of the other nations, small or large, that has any type of monarchy (a list of the various kinds can be found HERE). Only a clue, however, because we'd actually have to read our Tana"ch (the Jewish canonized scriptures that don't include the Xian ones or any others) and find the many passages that describe it (or use an artificially 'intelligent' program to find them, which I do not prefer.).

But since the way it is presented to us in the current State of Israel, a so-called democracy since 1948 CE, we would find it hard to imagine what living under the properly Jewish monarchy would be like. After all, democracy, at least as I as a former American understand it and heard it recently, essentially means each of us is our own royalty. This means, if going by results means anything, that evil royalty versus good royalty could end up making the whole country subject to evil leadership, and therefore, become evil. The American founding fathers warned the world about this in their day.

Apparently, Israelis are not nearly as free as we think we are. Consider Rabbi Michoel Green's new series on Zionism (the series intro begins HERE). No one who lives in a democracy — or any other form of government — really enjoys freedom, according to Rabbi Green. See part 1: Conspiracy of Modern Statism and part 2: The Lie of Zionism. The rest, you can read on your own, either by free or paid subscription. There are many parts to it.).

I also think we need to read this article about how some of us are fighting back in an effective way. And more from it, about behind-the-curtain stuff going on regarding "OCTOBER SEVENTH" and the lead-up to it, starting with "Who Dare Point Fingers at Those Who Spied for Iran??!!" and all the links to related material there. We ordinary Israelis are seriously "being played" for fools, even in the situation we find ourselves in today. Thanks to Myrtle Rising for these two articles, and much more.

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I wrote the first draft of this post during the day the Bibas family was brought back in coffins: Thursday, 20 February 2025 (22 Shevat 5785). I didn't cry because I had gone into cold anger. The way the whole presentation of the coffins was done — I didn't watch the videos or other media that displayed it, but I heard about it — makes me wonder whether our enemy (Hamas is the tip of the iceberg, so to speak; the whole Muslim world is our enemy; I mention dhimmitude in my writings sometimes, but the Muslims were past that many years ago, and want us all dead...) thinks that the most manipulable people in our country are the leftist supporters of the system we live under; they would be correct. But the fact that their counterparts in the government are the de facto rulers here makes us all the more vulnerable. 

At least one person, writing on Arutz Sheva,  recognizes this and is able to write about it clearly. I would say, watch for more like that.

Israelis remember when, just before this war began, there were protests in parts of the country against judicial reform. So, it seems, not only did they give our enemies the impression that we were vulnerable, ripe for the picking; but they also find us vulnerable enough that when the hostages' families protest openly, few oppose them. (One of these groups doesn't protest against our government, however. The Tikvah Hostages' Families Forum (ENG) addresses the correct parties, Ham-ass and the rest of the enemy entities. See a good example HERE of why I wish the mainstream media here would focus on them, rather than the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which focuses the blame on Israel and thus weakens us.)

I hear all the groups' pleas and their cry; however, they aren't the only ones suffering. How about the fallen soldiers whose families are mourning, the injured, whose families are with them in their pain and loss of limbs? How about the people who are driven from their homes from the periphery? 

And how about the baby who was born from his shot-to-death mother as SHE WAS IN LABOR. He died two weeks later. How many of these have we not heard about? Search for Ravid Haim ben Tze'ela.

I would like to be with all of that. However, being openly vulnerable in a time like this is just making things harder for the whole country, making it harder to win. 

Perhaps this latest offensive, Gideon's Chariots, will be our last chance? I hope not...Gideon (Gid'on) wasn't allowed to have chariots in his own time; now, we have at least their equivalent, be"H.

Just in case some readers still think that the government oppresses the judicial system here, I would like to disabuse you of that notion: For the past 30 years it has been the other way around. When was the last time you read or heard in any news source about the Knesset passing any laws without having the Israeli Supreme Court (in those days, translated the High Court of Justice) annul them? 

In Israel, it seems as though the governance system (including all branches, but especially the unelected portion of them) calls itself a democracy, but acts like a dictatorship that favors a certain group over all the others. (Ironically, it was mostly people from this very group that was targeted on "OCTOBER SEVENTH." Fortunately, some of the hostages, that we know of, got the message and are passing it on to others.)

What is referred to as "the government" consists of those who are elected — the legislative and executive branches, while the judiciary, which appoints its own replacements, is its own branch. 

Furthermore, it appears that the elected branches have no power over this one whatsoever, making it impossible to stop the judiciary from overreach. Even coming up with a way to stop this overreach can be annulled, as we just saw. As Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) summed up in this article  (emphasis mine):

Israel’s legal problems stem from a judicial revolution that began in the last 30 years under the aegis of former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak. He arrogated to the judiciary almost unlimited powers to overturn virtually any measure undertaken by the country’s government.

Rather than defending a stable system of checks and balances, Barak’s judicial revolution created a system in which there is no check on the court, giving its permanent liberal majority the ability to override governmental decisions...

Chaos followed as an anti-Netanyahu “resistance” took to the streets to prevent any change. Though it was presented to the world as an effort to save democracy, the truth was just the opposite. The goal of the demonstrators was to prevent democratically elected governments with which they disagreed from being able to truly rule. 

This includes passing laws that would strengthen the stability of the citizenry and the Land itself. Only now, when even the army and the judiciary find themselves within easy reach of our enemies, are the elected branches able to reach out for parts of our land that anyone with a Tana"ch, Bible or  Quran in their hand can verify is ours to begin with.

It would seem that the best way to ensure that law gets enforced is...to enforce it. But since the people running "the system" don't like what our law is meant to be, we-the-people aren't allowed to decide what to enforce and what not to enforce.

I sympathize with anyone who really can't imagine what living in the Biblical vision of The Kingdom would be like. I have been working with myself for a long time to even accept the idea, since I have been neither a subject nor a citizen of even a modern kingdom at all. However, I think it's pretty obvious by now that to keep things as they are, or even try to improve them while staying in "demockracy" mode, will leave us far from solving our multitude of problems. Participating in elections that end up with us running in place, almost constantly under fire again and again and again ad nauseam, is not a good thing. 

An improperly-run kingdom, as occurred after King Solomon's time, isn't the answer either. That's why we need to make sure it's the real Biblical one, with Biblically-mandated leadership and proper supervision to insure proper fulfillment. 

Maybe that's why the post was delayed until the weekend before Shavuot, when we once again have the opportunity to understand what our nation is all about?

Here's an interesting article that just might give us a good clue about whether or not our current system is serious about solving problems...or are they more interested in political manipulation?

Shabbat shalom; and may our upcoming Shavuot bring us understanding and merit! 

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More reading:

 Amb. Tzipi Hotoveli to British broadcaster Piers Morgan: Would you accept Hamas on your doorstep? | First One Through: The United Nations' adoption of Palestinians enables it to only find fault with Israel - original HERE | JPress: How to give to universities without supporting Jew-haters | VisionMag: Trump demands Israel relinquish claims to most of the west bank Also: Jerusalem should prepare for major Trump betrayals | JPress: 'Every terrorist has a name': Government to publicize identities of all prisoners freed in hostage deal[s?] Also:  Israeli intelligence missed gender-based violence as a strategic tool on October 7 Also, by Tzvi Fishman: One Homeland, NOT Two | HDG protests 2025 'pride' parade in Yerushalayim by linking to Myrtle Rising: Publicly protesting the desecration of Yerushalayim & Eretz HaKodesh  Also Tomer Devorah: My public protest + Rabbi Richter | JNS: Israel eliminationism: A single ideology with multiple tentacles | JPress: R' Elie Mischel: The calvary isn't coming. It's time for Jews to save themselves Also: David Israel: Shkoyach: Financial Times editorial accuses Israel of undermining future palestinian state Also: Yonatan Daon: This is NOT a war with 'Hamas' — it's a war with Palestine | The modern Jewish prophet who predicted France's two-state betrayal | Israel doesn't owe you an explanation! |

 

HUMOR: A7's one and only R' Prov. Dov Fischer: Persona non Greta  | This would be funny...except it's not. Elder of Ziyon (who never made aliyah AFAIK): According to the UN, I — an American — am a violent Jewish settler |

 

More viewing: 

 Syrian Jew [Abraham Hamra] BLOWS pro-Palestinian MINDS with the truth about Muslim countries | VisionMag: A common misunderstanding of the Torah by R' Yehuda haKohen | Presented by Eylon Levy and 10-year-old Ben Carasso: Horton Hears a Jew! | Pulse of Israel: From DC Terror to Gaza War: The war on Jews has no borders |

 

A current insight from Parashat Emor...

 La"G laOmer 5785 | ל"ג לעומר ה'תשפ"ה

Parashath Emor | פרשת אמור

 

 Postscript (P.S.) below

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Concerning Leviticus/Vayikrá 24:10-16

There was an incident in the desert where the son of a Hebrew woman and an Egyptian man was rejected from the tents of what he thought was his tribe, Dan. It turns out that this is the precedent for ordinary Jews as well as the tribes of Levi and Yehuda for the father determining the tribe: If the father is not a Jew, the offspring between him and the Jewish mother do not have a tribe. The son turned and blasphemed God, using the Name we don't pronounce, and then, after He was consulted by Moshe, he was punished with death by stoning.

Part of the geula process is the resolving of questions that come up as part of its anticipation. Even though I most likely haven't come up with an answer to the following question, I hope people to whom it applies will begin to think about it.

How do we deal with Jews who have no Jewish fathers with regard to living in the Land?

(A warning to the many, many American Jews (and perhaps among those from other countries as well?) who have non-Jewish fathers, like the one in this Torah portion. Please, don't curse God for your situation. It won't turn out well even if you are not put on trial and sentenced with a bunch of rocks thrown at you until you die. This is what the Talmud and many other books have been all about: Figuring out what to do when we all finally get back together again, with precedents for many, many situations. Even sticky ones like yours.

It's not your fault. It might have turned out differently for ben Shlomit bat Dibri (the young man above), had he prayed and asked for an answer, instead of insulting Him. You have the chance to do better than he. It would be best to start with your Local Orthodox Rabbi. Hopefully, if he doesn't have an answer for you, he might know one or more halachic authorities who have thought about it in advance of the day when it will be urgent to know what to do.)

My perspective (please don't take this thought like halacha, since I am no authority): During the times we've been living in since at least the last century or so, many women seem to have found it challenging just to give birth to Jews, never mind finding a Jewish husband. I have read articles that explain why many Jewish men didn't want to marry a Jewish woman. Either way, problems result that may seem to have no consequence now, but will later on...especially since we are expecting the Great Redemption shortly with God's help, given that all the other times previously have not been witnessed globally, in real time, like the aftermath of the Massacre of October Seventh, 2023. Remember that it was also Simchat Torah 5784, bringing forth a mostly negative global response against the Jews of the Gaza Envelope and the rest of Israel as well, rather than against their attackers, murderers and kidnappers.

The solution to this difficulty would seem to be a challenging one, to say the least. I would like to see it solved so that those who find themselves in that position through no fault of their own would be able to dwell with their people Israel in our Holy Land, even if not among the tribe of their mother. In my experience, those children whose father is Jewish and their mother, not so, can convert, and they will have a tribe and likely would be able to live among their tribe. Even though if their father is a Kohen they will not be able to inherit that part of it, so wouldn't be able to participate as a Kohen, conversion would make them Jewish. 

I wish my readers a happy La"G laOmer and Shabbat Shalom!

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P.S. 16 July 2025: Looking through my Rabbi Sprecher videos for something else, I came across this explanation about the connection between Zachor  זכור (Remember) and Zachor זכור (male human). 

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 More reading:

 Otzma Yehudit MK blames IDF Central Command Chief for murder of pregnant woman Tzeelah Gez (her first name is spelled in many different ways in the various media - HDG) | Holocaust survivor's warning to American Jews must go viral (why isn't the video here? I put this under 'more reading' because the article is still here -HDG) | Jewish Agency chair: Expect 1 million olim due to antisemitism | Neshama notes: According to the Zohar, the entire period of time allotted for Techiyas HaMeisim is between 210-214 years in advance of 6000. WE ARE NOW 215 YEARS NEARER | Israel Unwired: The deep state fears a Jewish victory more than a jihadist enemy | Blast from the past: Who's afraid of the "settlers?" by R' Moshe Levinger, z"l | Vision Mag: Washington's anti-Israel axis |

Video: 

Bill Maher crushes the far-left with viral clip about Israel (article here — HDG) | H/T: Inspiration from Zion: This is a Love Story → Nova Massacre Survivor & Eurovision singer Yuval Raphael's Story | Tomer Devorah: 4 videos about Mashiach and Geula | Arabs colonized North Africa & the Middle East...and use "Palestinians" as a battering ram! (Less than 10 min.) | Pulse of Israel: Why is the Gaza war taking so long? Avi Abelow explains. | R' Aryeh Weinstein comments on the video: Brigitte Gabriel Just EXPOSED 1,400 Years of TRUTH (nobody was ready) |