Shalom: In today's New York Times,(July 18, 2008) an editorial by Israeli Benny Morris, speak's of Israel's '' attack [on] Iran's nuclear sites in the next four to seven months.'' He also predicts: "if the attack fails, the Middle East will almost certainly face a nuclear war." It goes without saying that if this occurs, Jerusalem will be destroyed worse than the Babylo
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:DO HIS WILL, AS IF IT WAS YOUR WILL Rabbi Arthur Segal: Jewish Spiritual Renewal: Shabbat 7/19/08 Hebrew College, MA, USA Shalom Talmudim and Chaverim: Last week we discussed the pitfalls that occur in a life in which there is a lack of spirituality and a lack of living with an personal experience with God, where we
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:HEBREW TEMPLES:NOT ONLY IN JERUSALEM:ELEPHANTINE,LEONTOPOLIS SHALOM: OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, I HAVE BEEN AT MANY SEMINARS OR CLASSES, AND EVEN INVITED TO A CONVENTION, WHERE JEWS, SOMETIMES ALONG WITH APOCALYPETICAL CHRISTIAN ZIONISTS, HAVE WANTED TO BUILD THE THIRD TEMPLE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN JERUSALEM, NOW, AND TEAR DOWN THE MUSLIM DOME O
It started a couple of weeks ago when I mentioned to Rabbi Pesach Lerner, Executive Vice President of the National Council of Young Israel that the next time Rabbi Elon comes to town he should please let me know. Rabbi Lerner asked why. I said that I wished to discuss and compare peace plans with him. Rabbi Lerner then volunteered to personally deliver a letter to Rabbi Elon for me. This past Sund
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:Would He who forms the eye not see? Rabbi Arthur Segal: Jewish Spiritual Renewal: Shabbat 7/12/08 Hebrew College,Newton Centre, MA,USA Shalom Talmidim and Chaverim: In past classes we have spoken about the need of doing a daily chesbon ha nefesh, an accounting of our soul, of our actions, so that we can learn where we are
JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: FROM TALMID LEON RESNICK:PEACE FOLLOWS JUSTICE RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:PEACE FOLLOWS JUSTICE:BY TALMID LEON RESNICK:OSEH SHALOM Following in ancient Talmudic tradition, Talmid Leon Resnick quotes from his Rabbi and Moreh. Yasher Koach, Leon. Shalom, Rabbi Arthur Segal Home » Opinion » Letters to the Editor Peace follows justice, but
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:PEACE FOLLOWS JUSTICE:BY TALMID LEON RESNICK:OSEH SHALOM Following in ancient Talmudic tradition, Talmid Leon Resnick quotes from his Rabbi and Moreh. Yasher Koach, Leon. Shalom, Rabbi Arthur Segal Home » Opinion » Letters to the Editor Peace follows justice, but justice includes all Published Saturday, July 5, 2008, Island Packet Comment
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:TAMMUZ 17:TALMUD YERUSHALMI:CAUSING OUR OWN SUFFERING(BER 5A) Shalom: On July 20, 2008 is the Holy Day known as the Fast of Tammuz 17. Tammuz is our 4th month, with Nissan being our first. In reading this essay, please keep the following Talmud quote before you: "If a person sees that afflictions are befalling him, he should investigate his deeds to deter
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:SHABBAT 7/5/08:HEBREW COLLEGE,MA,USA A Red, White and Blue Shalom and a Happy 4th of July Independence Day Shabbat: Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war's desolation!Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserv
NOTE: MANY TIMES THESE TWO BELOW PARASHAT ARE READ TOGETHER ONE ONE SHABBAT IN ORDER FOR THE HEBREW CALENDER IN THE DIASPERA TO CATCH UP TO THE ISRAELI CALENDER READINGS. THIS YEAR (2008) IS NOT THE CASE, BUT THE BELOW D'VAR HAS THIS WEEK'S AND NEXT WEEK'S (7/12/08) PARASHAT DISCUSSED. RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL CHUMASH CANDESCENCE PARASHAT CHUKAT+BALAK NUMBERS 19:01-25:07 RABBI
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PING PONG:ISAIAH 2:2-4:JUSTICE+PEACE One of my friends and study partners wrote a letter to the editor of our local newspaper, in response to the back and forth letters, of pro- Zionists and anti- Zionists, few telling the whole truth, and each using rhetoric and propaganda. He quoted me from my essay and speech on Talmudic and Judaic P
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:LORD'S PRAYER AT JEWISH INTERFAITH WEDDINGS + ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS;Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons, and Significant Others Shalom: As one who Rabbinically counsels Jews who are in 12 step programs, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Alanon, Emotions Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and where there are not enoug
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:TALMUD YERUSHALMI:WEATHER, TZADAKAH AND GOD:TAANIT 3:3 Shalom: There is no doubt to those reading this in the present (June 2008) that the world is experiencing some very devastating climate changes bringing about major flooding, earthquakes, and God only knows what more. Certainly modern man does not relate his actions of sinning to changes in th
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:DISPUTE FOR THE SAKE OF HEAVEN RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:SHABBAT 6/28/08: HEBREW COLLEGE,MA,USA Shalom Chaverim v' Talmudim: I hope you had good week and reflected on last week's teachings and spiritual lessons. I pray that you all continue to grow in your relationship with God and with your fellow
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPRITUAL RENEWAL: PFEFFERKORN + MAXIMILIAN BOOK BURNING Shalom Talmudim and Chaverim: Stephanie wanted to remind us, with a bit of history, that while most of us in this class, if not all, live in nations where Jewish texts are readily available, for much of our history, it was forbidden to study them. Indeed the Haftarah was developed
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:TO KNOW GOD:LA DAAT:GRATITUDE RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:SHABBAT 6/21/08 HEBREW COLLEGE,MA, USA Shalom Chaverim and Talmudim: I hope your Shabbat was wondrous and your week was fulfilling. There is a seemingly cute but exceedingly wise statement in the Talmud Bavli Tractate Er
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:Jewish Spiritual Renewal: A Student's Comment of Her Progress, Hebrew College, MA, USA Shalom: The below is an email received today from one of your fellow classmates on how she has put the lessons learned in Jewish Spiritual Renewal into action and her results. (Her name and email have been redacted.) As we've discussed the technique is not new,
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: JEWISH WITCHES AND PROPHETESSES JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL CLASS SHABBAT 6/14/08 HEBREW COLLEGE, NEWTON CENTRE, MA, USA Shalom: Since some of you may be on over drive with so much intense late night study due to holiday of Shavuot, I will try to keep my class this week short. This will act in concert in that this Shabbat'
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:RIGHTEOUS OF ALL NATIONS HAVE A SHARE IN THE WORLD TO COME Rabbinic Talmudic Judaism at its finest hours has been pluralistic within its own community and with its neighbors of different religions. At its worst, Judaism has been xenophobic , each community within thinking its minhag (tradition) was the only way to God, and belittling not only other Jews, bu
the Lowcountry and the Coastal Empire. Home Shavuot All people, animals deserve ethical treatment Published Saturday, June 7, 2008 Jews celebrate on June 8's eve, Shavuot, commemorating Moses receiving the Torah atop Mount Sinai. Sinai was chosen because it belonged to no nation. The Torah's teachings belong to all humankind. The whole of Torah has been distilled to: "What is dis
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: THEOPHANY: MA'ATEH MERKABAH: LEVIATHAN: ZIZ + BAR YOHANI BIRDS JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: SHAVUOT 'EXTRA': 6/8/08 EVENING UNTIL EVENING OF 6/10/08: HEBREW COLLEGE, NEWTON CENTRE, MA, USAShalom: As promised, here a special Shavuot holiday edition. I was planning on sending this Sunday, but I am doing this pre- Erev Shabbat as the response to the Shavuot st
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: SHAVUOT: AKDAMUT: EZEKIEL: RUTH: ISRU HAG JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: SHAVUOT 'EXTRA': 6/8/08 EVENING UNTIL EVENING OF 6/10/08: HEBREW COLLEGE, NEWTON CENTRE, MA, USA Shalom: As promised, here a special Shavuot holiday edition. I was planning on sending this Sunday, but I am doing this pre- Erev Shab
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:YOKE OF TORAH REMOVES WORLDLY YOKES The below is from one our students. She alludes to this quote for Pirkie Avot in trust and having faith in God to relieve he of fears, resentments, defects of character, and rightfully so. Our finite selves can only go so far and at some point in our lives, we come to the wise conclusion, that we must
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:HEBRAIC AND JUDAIC CONCEPTS CONCERNING THE DEATH PENALTY To: Hilton Head Ethics SeminarFrom: Howard RadestRe: Seminar meeting, Wednesday, June 4, 2008Our final Ethics Seminar of this season will meet on Wednesday, June 4 from 3 – 5 pm. at the Hilton Head Public Library. Leading the discussion will be Rabbi Arthur Segal, a member of our Sem
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:TIKKUN LEIL SHAVUOT:NASO:GRUDGES RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: Jewish Spiritual Renewal: Shabbat: 6/7/08:Hebrew College,Newton Centre,MA,USA Shalom: Today is the 44th day of the Counting of Omer soon bringing us to the end of the 7 weeks between Passover and Shavuot. Shavuot begins Sunday Eve 6/8/08 at circa 8:11 PM Ea
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: HILLEL: LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF: ARTHUR SZYK: Shalom: The Hebrew, in the below illustration, is ' V'ahavtah L'rayahkah Kahmokah' (Love your Neighbor as Yourself) (Lev. 19:18). Living 100 years before the Common Era, Rabbi Hillel taught, ''That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah: The rest is the
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:CHESBON HA NEFESH:SHAVUOT:NUMBERS Jewish Spiritual Renewal Class, Shabbat 5/31/08 Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA,USAShalom:I hope this new week finds you all well. Shavuah tov.Today is the 37th day of the Omer so we are in the 6th week between Passover and Shavuot.As always to comment, question, share, etc, email spiritualrene
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: AGRIPROCESSORS: WHEN KOSHER IS TRAIF: HEKSHER TZEDEK'S NEED:PART TWO Recall of Aaron's Best Beef and Chicken Products Release Date: July 17, 2007 NJLINCS Health Alert NetworkPublic Health InfoDistributed by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services Subject: Recall of Aaron's Best Beef and Chicken Products
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: AGRIPROCESSORS: WHEN KOSHER IS TRAIF: HEKSHER TZEDEK'S NEED Shalom: For those of you who have read my D'vrai Torah or Talmudic essays, or my classes on Jewish Spiritual Renewal, you are all well aware of my deep concern of not pointing out the defects of others, {for we all have defects of our own to work on with God's aid}, nor am I a fan of loshan ha
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL; LAG B'OMER: RABBI AKIVA'S STUDENTS DIDN'T SHOW PROPER RESPECT ONE FOR THE OTHER: BAR KOCHBA: BAR YOCHAI ;TALMUD YERUSHALMI TA'ANIT Shalom Everyone: I try to limit my class to once a week, but I would be remiss if I did not bring to your attention the holiday of Lag B' Omer which started at sun down
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH POLYGAMY: YISRAYL HAWKINS : "THE MORE WIVES, THE MORE WITCHCRAFT" In the news recently is another cult quoting Jewish scripture allowing them to be polygamous. This time it was Pastor Yisrayl Hawkins who has his congregants dress up in Jewish prayer shawls (tallitim) with fringes (tzit-tzit), and kippot, and has Shabbat services on Saturday.
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: "I STOOD BETWEEN GOD AND YOU": DEUT 5:5: EGO EDGES GOD OUT Jewish Spiritual Renewal Class Shabbat 5/24/08 Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA,USA Shalom everyone and I hope your week was wondrous. As always, you can post your thoughts and/or answers or comments by emailing spiritualrenewal@shamash.org . If you w
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL:JEWISH CONVERSION: THE BIG LEBOWSKI Shalom: I received the below email with a simple question in it. While 99.99% of me felt I was being made the butt of a joke and having my time wasted, for the 0.01% I answered the question politely . Mishna Pirkie Avot 2:19 tells us : Rabbi Elazar said:" Know what to respond to a heretic.". Yo
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TALMUD YERUSHALMI TRACTATE BERACHOT 4:3 :PRAYER FOR TROUBLED TIMES: KOL YISRAEL AREVIM ZEH BAZEH: ALL ISRAEL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE ANOTHER : TZEDAKAH AND MAR UKVA , TALMUD BAVLI KETOVTH 67B: WALL STREET AND THE CREDIT CRUNCH: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL Shalom: A question was posed to me by a Rabbi, Rav Abrams: "I was in the checkout line behin
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: Jewish Ethical, Spiritual and Personal Considerations with Illness, Dying and Death A friend asks: I have a question. Technology can make the experience of age differentdepending on your income level. Is that new? How would the Rambam have practiced medicine now?Another answered but didn't expound on the Rambam nor on Je
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: IF GOD LIVED ON EARTH, MEN WOULD THROW ROCKS AT HIS WINDOWS Shalom: A wonderful Kabbalistic, Rabbi Weiman asked me the following question the other day: " Are we allowed to be angry with God? Is it ok to scream angrily "Why are you doing this to me?!" " I answered him: Dear Rabbi W: There is an old Yiddish expression:
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: SEVEN SHEPHERDS OF THE OMER: RIBBIT : HETTER ISKA: ELEPHANTINE ISLAND, EGYPT JEWISH TEMPLE Shalom:As always, one can post an answer by emailing spiritualrenewal@shamash.org . If you want your name and email ''off'' or amended, just ask, and I will do so.At sundown tonight , Monday 5/12/08, begins the 23 day of the Omer tak
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The Pope Debates A RabbiSeveral centuries ago, the Pope decreed that all the Jews had to convert to Catholicism or leave Italy. There was a huge out cry from the Jewish community, so the Pope offered a deal. He'd have a religious debate with the leader of the Jewish community. If the Jews won, they could stay inItaly; if the Pope won, they'd have to convert or leave.The Jewish people met and picked an aged and wise rabbi to represent them in the debate. However, as the rabbi spoke no Italian, and the Pope spoke no Yiddish, they agreed that it would be a 'silent' debate.On the chosen day the Pope and rabbi sat opposite each other.The Pope raised his hand and showed three fingers. The rabbi looked back and raised one finger. Next, the Pope waved his finger around his head. The rabbi pointed
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: YETZER HA RA: CHARACTER DEFECTS The below is a posting from a member of the Jewish Spiritual Renewal Class of Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA, USA via Shamash.Org. Following it, is a comment by Rabbi Arthur Segal. The member's last name has been eliminated and his email address has been redacted as per his request. RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: YETZER HA RA: CHARACTER DEFECTS POST FROM MARTY: ________SBC@AOL.COM. with a comment after by Rabbi Arthur Segal: This message was originally submitted by _____SBC@AOL.COM to the SPIRITUALRENEWAL list at SHAMASH.ORG. You can approve it using the&nbs
Background and commentary to this story can be found on the Life of Rubin blog. The short version is that Mishpacha Magazine ran an interview with Rabbi Belsky (and Rav Miller, Rav Heinemann) where Rabbi Belsky made some very disparaging remarks about Chabad using broad generalizations and sterotypes. (The remarks, in full appear at the bottom of the post as they were published on Shmais)The following letter was received by Shamis News Service Bs"d SHMAIS.COM EXCLUSIVE: 11 questions for Rabbi Yisroel BelskyTuesday, May 06, 2008FROM THE SHMAIS.COM EMAIL INBOX B”H Not a week had passed since Pesach, and already Rav Belsky, Rosh Yeshivah in Torah VoDaas and official Posek for the OU causes us to ask so many new questions.1) Why, so soon after celebrating the birth of Am Yisroel, are we try
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: HE WHO CONDEMNS OTHERS, SEES IN THEM HIS OWN FAULTS: TALMUD KIDUSHIN 70A Shalom and Yom Holedet Someach Israel (Happy Birthday, Israel....# 60!): As always to post an answer, comment, question etc, email spiritualrenewal@shamash.org . If you want your name and email address redacted, just say so, and I shall delete it before posting. Jews celebrate on June 8's eve, Shavuot, commemorating Moses receiving the Torah atop Mt. Sinai. It is 7 weeks from Passover. Shavuot is derived from the Hebrew word for 'seven.' The sages teach that Sinai was chosen because it belonged to no nation so that the teachings in the Torah could belong to all humankind. The wh
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:SHAVUOT: MAJOR LESSON OF THE REVELATION AT SINAI Dear Editor: Jews celebrate on June 8's eve, Shavuot, commemorating Moses receiving the Torah atop Mt. Sinai. It is 7 weeks from Passover. Shavuot is derived from the Hebrew for 'seven.' The sages teach that Sinai was chosen because it belonged to no nation so that the teachings in the Torah could belong to all humankind. The whole of Torah has been distilled to: "What is distasteful to you, do not do to your fellow." As a rabbi, I am often consulted with situations involving human conflict. Genesis 37:14 asks us to: "look into the wholeness" of your fellows. We are not to look at their defects. It is human nature to
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TALMUD YERUSHALMI BIKKURIM: AGING WITH GOD: COUNTING THE OMER During the season of counting the Omer, the 7 weeks between the end of the first full day of Passover and Shavuot, the sages teach us that we are to take stock of ourselves spiritually. The Talmud Yerushalmi Tractate Bikkurim 2:1 tells us that if one is condemned to Divine excommunication because of various types of sins, he will die at fifty years of age. But what is someone lives beyond 50? The Talmud Yerushalmi gives the following explanation:''As to death at the age of 52, that is the age at which the prophet Samueldied.He who dies at 60 dies in the way the Torah refers to death.Death at the age of 70 is death as an act of lov
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL; JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: THE GATES OF TESHUVAH ARE ALWAYS OPEN: KEDOSHIM Shalom: I hope each of your, and your family's, Passovers were sweet and spiritual. For those who wish to comment, answer, question or post, email spiritualrenewal@shamash.org and if you wish your name and/or email address deleted, please just ask and I will do so. We are into the 7 weeks preceding Shavuot, the holiday commemorating the Torah being giving to Moses and us on Mt. Sinai. During these 49 days, we immediately, on the eve of the first full day of Pesach, which would have been Sunday the 20th of April this year (2008), we begin counting the Omer. Shavuot will begin on the 8th of June in the evening this year. Rav M. Weiman, a wonde
At the end of the tax year, the Tax Office sent an inspector to audit the books of a synagogue.While he was checking the books, he turned to the Rabbi and said, "I notice you buy a lot of candles. What do you do with the candle drippings?""Good question," noted the Rabbi. "We save them up and send them to the candle makers, and every now and then they send us a free box of candles.""Oh," replied the auditor, somewhat disappointed that his unusual question had a practical answer.But on he went, in his obnoxious way: "What about all these biscuit purchases? What do you do with the crumbs?""Ah, yes," replied the Rabbi, realizing that the inspector was trying to trap him with an unanswerable question. "We collect them and send them back to the manufacturers, and every now and then they send a
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: MEDITATION: CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH GOD Dear Chaverem: Marco's question (below) about how we meditate and hear God is an important one. It is frankly what Jewish Spiritual Renewal brings us to. It is part of developing a personal relationship with Ha Shem. It is a question which I was planning to delve into much later in the class. But let me touch on some salient points today. As Jews we are a 'listening' people. The watch words of our faith are in the Shema, "Hear, O' Israel". When we all stood at Mt. Sinai listening to the Ten Utterances (Commandments) , we said ,"We will do, and we will listen." (na'aseh ve-ni'shema - Exodus 24:7) But we have forgotten how to liste
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUAL RENEWAL: WORRY AS AN AFFRONT TO GOD Shalom and again Chag Somaech: I hope your Seders were marvelous and filled with signs and wonders with family and friends. Again, to post a reply, comment or answer, just email SpiritualRenewal@shamash.org and state if you want your name and email deleted before its sent to the rest of the class. In Psalm 32:2 we read: "Fortunate is the person to whom God imputes no iniquity" The sages said that the verse lends itself to another translation: "Fortunate is the person who considers every moment he does not think of God, to be an iniquity." What the sages were teaching, that as spiritual Jews, one tries to have a conscious contact with Go
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TALMUD YERUSHALMI AND THE FOUR CUPS OF WINE ON PASSOVER / HAGADDAH Shalom and a sweet Pesach: All of us who have attended a Passover Seder are familiar with the Hagaddah's explanation of the four cupsof wine. The Yerushalmi Talmud gives three other explanations. The sages ask in Talmud Yerushalmi Tractate Pesachim 10:1, 37b: "From what texts are the four cups of wine derived?"Rabbi Yohanan said in the name of Rabbi Benayah: "They correspond to the four redemptions: Say, therefore, to the Israelites: I am God and I will take you out, Vehotzeiti ,Vehitzalti - "And I shall deliver,"Vega'alti - "And I shall redeem,"Velakachti - "And I shall take." (Exodus 6:6-7) This is
Shalom and Chag Sameach and Happy Passover! As always, for those who wish to post, send an email to spiritualrenewal@shamash.org . If you want YOUR email left off, please say so, and I will remove it, before posting it. I will do the same with names. If you are forwarding this to friends, and they wish to sign up, all they need do is to email listserv@shamash.org (no 'e' in serv) and write in the body, with nothing in the subject, 'SUBSCRIBE SPIRITUALRENEWAL your name." "Your name", can be an avatar of two words, or simply the word 'anonymous'. The computer needs something. This class from Hebrew College, outside of Boston, MA, USA, is 100% free to audit and participate in. Ok. So let us begin. All of us, in our lives, at one time or another,
I'm posting this article from Rabbi Shumley because it really speaks to me as a single woman who really doesn't like internet dating and is rather shy.Should I Call in a Pro?Five reasons professional matchmakers can take theawkwardness out of dating and put you on the fast track to your soul mate.Dear Rabbi Shmuley,I'm 32 years old, and I'm reallyready to have a serious relationship and move forward in my life. I'm doingonline dating, but I'm also considering trying a professional matchmaker. I knowthat there are Jewish matchmakers, and secular ones like I see on TV, but I'mCatholic--do you think this is a viable option for someone like me? Is it worththe time and money, or should I just be pumping up my social life on my own?--Make Me a MatchDear Make Me,A matchmaker is a great idea,and n
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: THE REAL REASON FOR CHAROSET ON PASSOVER IS THE SONG OF SONGS Shalom: Ellen and I are preparing for Passover and our Seder. We have 20 attending. If you are with -in driving distance of us, and have no where to partake of a Seder, be you of the Jewish faith or not, email us at RabbiASegal@aol.com and a place will be made for you. We start at 6 PM Saturday April 19th. After all the years of Ellen and I making Seders or attending them, Ellen asked, why is there no brachah, blessing, mentioned to do for the charoset? And what is the real reason it is there? Dovid Melach [King David ] tells us to make at least 100 beracoth a day, and here is an opportunity to make one over the spices, the fruit and nuts, in the charose
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: DINA DE MALCHUTA DINA [ THE LAW OF THE LAND IS THE LAW ] OR NASATA VE NATATA BE EMUNAH [ DID YOU CONDUCT BUSINESS HONESTLY ] OR BOTH? BUYING DISCOUNTED FORECLOSED HOMES. I read recently of a Jewish real estate investor being brought before a Bet Din, a Jewish Court, because he was buying foreclosed homes, at very discounted prices. While this was perfectly legal under his State and Federal law, was it 'kosher' under Jewish ethics? There is an old tradition, when Jews in their own communities inside the greater communities at large, judged themselves. It was considered Chilul ha Shem, (desecration of God's name) for a Jew to bring another Jew into a secular court for adjudication. And so batai din (Jewish courts
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: NO ONE IS TRULY FREE UNTIL ALL LIVE IN PEACE ; PASSOVER Home » Opinion » Letters to the Editor No one is truly free until all live in peace Published Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Comment on this | Email it | Print it | Feeds | | | | | | | Passover begins sundown April 19. The Passover Hagaddah states: "Those who hunger, enter and eat." The rabbis were not only speaking of those needing food, but also of those wanting spiritual and human connection. The story of Passover, which celebrates liberation of the Jewish nation from Pharaoh 3,500 years ago, is retold yearly, reminding us of the universality of national liberation, be it in Tibet, Kosovo, Palestine or Darfur. ''A theology without social action is a dinner consisting only o
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: BOB DYLAN + MARLON BRANDO AT PASSOVER SEDER This was published last year in the LA Jewish Journal and this year some other papers are running it. It is such a weird juxtaposition of people----Dylan, Brando. Louis Kemp, of Kemp Seafoods, the author, is not lying about being Bob Dylan's childhood friend--he is mentioned in all Dylan bios By Louie Kemp You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in "Apocalypse Now," but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most. I got to know Marlon about 30 years ago through a mutual friend. His son, Christian, came to work for me in fisheries I owned in Alaska and Minnesota. Marlon
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RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: REGEL REDUFIN: TALMUD YERUSHALMI PESACHIM : WOMEN'S RIGHTS Shalom: I hope everyone is preparing for a sweet and wondrous Passover. Many of us are scattered throughout the globe and cannot be with family, so we develop friends as surrogate family. My lovely bride is preparing dinner with another wonderful gal and 20 people are coming for Seder. Yet all are couples and none are with their children nor grandchildren nor their parents, nor siblings, including us. The Torah speaks to us of having every family having a Passover meal, with the Pascal lamb, for one's family together, and inviting another family to join, if the lamb is too much food for one family to consume. The idea of a Seder (which is Talmudic) or a Pesach meal with
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: THOSE WHO ARE HUNGRY, LET THEM ENTER AND EAT : PASSOVER : KOL DIHFIN YEISEI V'YEICHOL Dear Editor: Passover begins sundown, April 19. The Passover Hagaddah states: "Those who hunger, enter and eat." [KOL DIHFIN YEISEI V'YEICHOL ] The rabbis were not only speaking of those needing food, but of those wanting spiritual and human connection. Passover, which celebrates liberation of the Jewish nation from Pharaoh circa 3500 years ago, is re- told yearly reminding us of the universality of national liberation, be it in Tibet, Kosovo, Palestine or Darfur. A theology without social action is a dinner consisting only of a menu. None of us are truly free, unless all of us live in Shalom.
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: JEWISH SPIRITUALITY: 'TOPLESS JEWS' Dear Reader: From one of my students, in Brazil : Marco: Shalom:I apologize if my English is not as eloquent as Rabbi Riemer's below post. It is not my first tongue. My rabbi's wife has helped shape this for me.I read the below and many thoughts came to my head from my reading and my studies with my rabbi-teacher Dr Rabbi Arthur Segal this past year.I remember the story in the Talmud of the two young boys asked, to see if they were able to participate in a minyon, where God is.One pointed up to the ceiling, and the other went outside and pointed up to the heavens.Both where considered by the head rabbis to understand the concept of Who we worship and eventually became famous r
Shabbat Shalom: The below moving video was sent to me by my dear friend in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pablo. Click here: Video Hatikva - hatikva, israël, francky, perez, rap - Dailymotion Share Your Videos For those not aware, Hatikva is the Israeli national anthem, 'The Hope.' The text of Hatikvah was written by the Galician-Jewish poet Naftali Herz Imber in Zolochiv (Ukraine) in 1878 as a nine-stanza poem named Tikvatenu ("Our Hope"). It was supposed to be an expression of his thoughts and feelings following the construction of one of the first Jewish settlements in Israel, Petah Tikvah . Published in Imber's first book, Barkai (Hebrew: ברקאי),(English: Morningstar) the poem was subsequently adopted as the anthem of Hovevei&n
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: INVITATION to the Jewish Spiritual Renewal Mailing List Class of Hebrew College, via Shamash.Org Our Spiritual Renewal Seminar via Torah and Talmud study and honestsharing is designed for Jews of all backgrounds and educationlevels, especially modern Jews, searching for Jewish meaning intheir lives. We meet on-line weekly with a d'var Torah withTalmudic references, to help us develop a spiritual awakening,and live a life that is happy, joyous and free. There is no costand Rabbi Segal is available for guidance and motivation. This class is hosted by Hebrew College of Newton Centre, MA, USA,via their computer based Shamash: The Jewish Network. To join this class, which is free, send an email to LISTSERV@SHAMASH.ORG.(note there is no 'e' in 's
This happened just a few days ago, when, following an attempt by one to steal a kippa from rabbi Uria Ohana in Brooklyn, 3 others assaulted him. As far as I know, some of the perpetrators may not have been caught yet. I should hope that they are. The one who was responsible for trying to steal the rabbi's kippa deserved whatever he got, and should definitely be charged with committing a hate
Happy Purim!! I am writing this as my fast for the fast of Esther is almost concluded as I will soon break-the-fast and make my way to Synagogue to fulfil one of the five mitzvoth of Purim, to hear the Megillah of Esther being read. We all know of Purim. But do we know of the Holiday of Nicanor, which for a time was more important than Purim to the Jewish people? Read on to learn, please. The fast of Esther is on the 13th of Adar and unlike most of our holidays and holy days, this fast does not start at sundown the evening before the day. It started at dawn today. And it ends at sundown of the day of 13th. Of course, we understand, that when sundown comes on the 13th, the 14th of Adar begins, and hence Purim begins. The Fast of
BREAKING - “Religion of Peace”: Krystallnacht, USA? - Five Muslims Beat Jewish Rabbi in Brooklyn: ”
By Debbie Schlussel
Yesterday, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time, four to five Muslims viciously attacked Rabbi Uria Ohana in Brooklyn, New York, while shouting, ‘Allahu Akbar.’
Rabbi Ohana, assistant head rabbi of Chabad-Lubavitch of Massachusetts, was about to get on the [...]
Reuters -- The Zaka emergency service said he was walking with a bodyguard in Jerusalem's walled Old City, where his seminary is located, when he was attacked. The bodyguard gave chase but the attacker escaped, leaving behind a blood-stained knife.The rabbi, 49, was stabbed in the neck.
Greensboro, N.C. (ThaLunatic Daily) Rabbi David Alan Stein, a 35 year rabbi at the American Hebrew Academy has been arrested and charged with 8 counts of having sex with a student.Investigators first learned of Steins alleged sexual assaults after the victim, a 16 year old student at the school told school administrators who then contacted police. Police say Stein engaged in sexual acts with the boy at least eight times during the 2006-2007 school year, with most of the incidents occurring on the school campus.Stein, who was the director of campus life at the school, was fired shortly after investigators began their 4 month long investigation into the allegations. He then moved to California to live with his parents.Stein is currently being held on a $50,000 cash bondDanny ViceThaLunati
Israel also asks God to enlighten the hearts of the GentilesBy Rabbi Jacob Neusner"Israel prays for the Gentiles. So the other monotheistic religions, including the Catholic Church, have the right to do the same thing, and no one should feel offended. Any other attitude toward the Gentiles would block them from encountering the one God revealed to Israel in the Torah. The Catholic prayer manifests the same altruistic spirit that characterizes the faith of Judaism. The kingdom of God opens its gates to all of humanity: when they pray and ask for the swift coming of the kingdom of God, the Israelites express the same degree of freedom of spirit that impregnates the papal text of the prayer for the Jews (better: "Holy Israel ") to be recited on Good Friday.I will explain myself. For the theol
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL : TALMUDIC DISCOURSE: PASSOVER, EXODUS, MOSES' SPIRITUAL AWAKENING Shalom Talmudim: It has been posited that the whole of Genesis is to lead our people to commit the sin against their brother Joseph, to eventually get the clan of Israel, into Egypt, and into slavery. This slavery would eventually have them yearn for liberation and acceptance of Torah. Hence Moses, a Levite son of the Israelite clan, with an Egyptian name, grew up in the house of Pharaoh, as a prince of Egypt. The Torah has to have him have an national awakening and identify with his people. Hence the verses of Exodus 2:11-15, has Moses refer to his fellow Israelites as ''brethren'' twice, and for the first time Moses actually sees their burdens and suffering.
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: MARc BENAYER: CHILUL HA SHEM FOR ALL OF JUDAISM It has been jested with the quip by the late and much-lamented Sir Isaiah Berlin ,OBM, that we Jews ''are like any other people, only more so.'' So a Jew murdering another Jew on the Holy Days at a Chabad Shul, no less over a woman (was the mechitzah not thick enough?) comes as a sad news, but as no surprise. In my 56 years I have 'seen' a Rabbi in my South NJ Temple hire a congregant to murder his wife, as a child 'seen' a married Rabbi have an affair with the married president of the sisterhood, actually seen a Rabbi and Cantor duke it out on the bimah, and have seen the worst character assassinations occur in Temples, Synagogues, Shuls and J
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: MARK BENAYER: CHILUL HA SHEM FOR ALL OF JUDAISM It has been jested with the quip by the late and much-lamented Sir Isaiah Berlin ,OBM, that we Jews ''are like any other people, only more so.'' So a Jew murdering another Jew on the Holy Days at a Chabad Shul, no less over a woman (was the mechitzah not thick enough?) comes as a sad news, but as no surprise. In my 56 years I have 'seen' a Rabbi in my South NJ Temple hire a congregant to murder his wife, as a child 'seen' a married Rabbi have an affair with the married president of the sisterhood, actually seen a Rabbi and Cantor duke it out on the bimah, and have seen the worst character assassinations occur in Temples, Synagogues, Shuls and JC
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: SUCCESS OF JEWS IN THE USA AT THE COST OF SPIRITUAL FITNESS: PEW FORUM ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE Shalom: In a recently released Pew Forum report on ''Religion and Public Life'', the statistical conclusions of which are published below, we can see that Jews are fairing well in the USA. We are fairing well by the standards set by our capitalistic secular society. Let us see where we stand. We still, 100 years after the Ellis Island explosion of immigration, still have our mass population in the North East. Approximately a quarter of us live in the West and the South and a sprinkling of us in the Mid West, mostly in the major cities. We are evenly spread out over all age groups with almost as many young Jews and elderly. And we are almost evenly sp
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: BERACHA HA GOMEL: JEWISH PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Monday, February 25, 2008 In Vayikra (Leviticus) 7:11-12 we read "This is the law of the zevach shlamim, peace offering, that one will bring to God when he brings it as a thanksgiving offering." According to Rashi, of circa 1000 years ago, one brings the offering ''regarding a matter of thanksgiving for a miraculous act which occurred to him such as if he returned from a sea voyage, crossed the desert, was healed from an illness or emerged from priso
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TWAS A CHANCE FOR TWO SHEHECHEYANU / LAST BITE OF PASSOVER ''Tonight 2/20/08 is the full lunar eclipse at 9:00 PM. The nextone won't be for two years so don't miss the chance to say a shehecheyanu!'' Shalom: Last night's eclipse was marvelous especially when the moon turned blood red. But while our eclipse will come again in two years, we Jews had another shehecheyanu to say yesterday. Yesterday was the celebration of Purim Katan, as it was Adar One 14. There's a strong connection between Purim and Purim Katan. The Talmud teaches teaches: "There is no difference between the first Adar (Purim) and the second Adar (Purim) , but the reading of the Megillah and the distribution of gifts
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: ON PURIM, LOTS, AND BALLOTS Dear Editor: The Jewish Holiday, Purim (3/21/07), celebrating victory of Persian Jews against their planned destruction circa 357 BCE, is discussed in the Book of Esther. Their nemesis, Haman, cast lots (purim) to determine the date of the annihilation. Purim also means ''ballots.'' Every four years we are concerned about our democracy. 76 years before Athenian democracy, Babylonian Jews, developed majority rule in their academies and courts. The commandments of working towards justice falls upon Jews each day and not just when voting. "If your brother becomes poor, and his means of support fail, you&n
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TALMUDIC DISCOURSE: PASSOVER AND THE AFIKOMAN Shalom: "Today, we are used to the idea that the afikoman is a piece of matsah thatis standing in for a piece of the Passover sacrifice of lamb. Whenthe Temple stood, groups would buy into shares of lamb and everyone in the group would eat a portion as the last thing they tasted during the Passovermeal. In the Yerushalmi Talmud, however, we have several alternative definitions:What does the term afikoman mean?'Rabbi Simon said in the name of R. Inanini bar R. Sisay: Kinds of musicplayed as entertainment after dinner.Rabbi Yochanan said: Kinds of sweet things eaten after the meal to whetone's thirst for further drinking. Samuel said: For example, the mushrooms and pigeons of Hananiah b
A Jewish congregation in New York honors its Rabbi for 25 years of service by sending him to Hawaii for a week, all expenses paid.When he walks into his hotel room, there's a beautiful girl, nude, lying on the bed. She says, "Hi, Rabbi, I'm a little something extra that the president of the board arranged for you."The Rabbi is incensed. He picks up the phone, calls the President of the Temple Board and says, "Greenberg, what were you thinking? Where's your respect? I am the moral leader of our community! I am very angry with you and you have not heard the end of this."The girl gets up and starts to get dressed. The Rabbi turns to her and says, "Where are you going? I'm not angry with you."Hawaiian VacationThe Perfect HusbandDead CowFree Pair of Pastry Kicks
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: TORAH COMPENDIUM: TORAH PORTIONS: PARASHA: JEWISH HOLIDAYS A COMPENDIUM TO THE TORAH FROM AN ETHICAL SPRITUAL AND RENEWAL JUDAIC POINT OF VIEW, DRAWING ON TALMUDIC, MIDRASHIC, AND RABBINIC REFERENCES FROM POST TALMUDIC TO MODERN TIMES. TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THE EVERY PARASHA, [TORAH PORTION] FOR THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES [CHUMASH] CLICK ON THE BLUE VERBIAGE FOR THE ONE OF THE FIVE BOOKS YOU WISH,(HINT: THE FIRST LINE OF THE BLUE WORDS ON THE YELLOW BACKGROUND ARE THE LINK, WHILE THE OTHERS WORDS, SEEM TO NOT LINK ONE ANYWHERE), AND A HYPERLINK WILL APPEAR. THEN CLICK ON THAT, AND YOU WILL BE TAKEN TO CHUMASH CANDESCENCE OF RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL, AND THEN CLICK ON ANY PARASHA YOU WISH TO READ AND STUDY. HINT: CLICK ON THE TOP LINE OF THE BLUE ON
DEAR READER: PLEASE SCROLL THRU THESE GOOGLE HITS TO GET TO THE D'VRAI TORAH ON THE PARASHAT IN CHUMASH CANDESCENCE, AS WELL AS TALMUDIC DISCOURSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS. THIS SEEMED TO NEED TO BE DONE TO ALLOW GOOGLE AND OTHER SEARCH ENGINES TO LET THOSE SEARCHING FOR ESSAYS ON THE TORAH PORTIONS TO COME TO OURS. THANK YOU, SHALOM, RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL. Web Results 1 - 100 of about 893 for "RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL". (0.17 seconds) Rabbi Arthur Segal: RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL Posted by Rabbi Arthur Segal at Friday, February 15, 2008 ... Rabbi Arthur Segal: United States: I am available for Shabbatons,and can speak on various ...rabbiarthursegal.blogspot.com/2008/02/rabbi-arthur-segal.html - 60k - 21 hours ago - Cac
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: A STILL SMALL VOICE: FORWARD God speaks to all us all the time with a 'still small voice.' as he did to Elijah. (1 Kings 19: 12). The Hebrew word for Prophet is Nevi, which is derived from the word for 'open.' We need to be an open channel to be able to hear God. If we are blocked with ego, pride, resentments, fears, selfishness, and belligerent denial of God, we will not hear a word from God. God never turns his back on us, but we, with false pride, or 'righteous anger,' turn our faces from Him. When we do so, who are we facing? God took us out of Mitzraim, the land of Egypt, the land of the 'narrow space', because that is exactly what the Hebrew word for Egypt means. Yet how many of us have put ourselves ba
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: SHAVOUT PARASHAT CHUMASH CANDESCENCESPECIAL SHAVUOT TORAH READINGSEXODUS 19:01-20:23NUMBERS 28:26-31DEUTERONOMY 14:22-16:17EZEKIEL 1:1-28,3:12HABBAKKUK 2:20-3:19BOOK OF RUTHRABBI ARTHUR SEGAL "Kosher X-Files with Jewish Men in Black""Ezekiel saw da wheel" is how the African American spiritual begins.Moses saw the Burning Bush. The Children of Israel saw Mt. Sinai "smoke"and "shudder" amidst "thunder and lightning" and "powerful shofar blasts"(Deut. 19:16-18). The themes of the above portions of the Tanach (HolyScriptures), which make up this Shavuot's and Shabbat's Torah andHaftorah readings deal with revelation and theophany. Theophany is the appearanceof God to man. Shavuot is the holiday that celebrates God's revealing theTorah
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PESACH PARASHAT CHUMASH CANDESCENCESPECIAL PARASHA "SEGMENTS" =EXODUS 33:12-34:26 andNUMBERS 28:19-25SHABBAT CHOL HA MOED PESACH RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL"Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dried Bones""God ...set me down in the valley, which was full of bones...they werevery abundant... they were very dry...Oh dry bones, hear the word of the Lord:I will bring spirit into you and you shall live. I shall put sinews...and flesh...and skin over you. I open your graves and raise you from your graves...and I shall bring you to the Land of Israel." This quotation is from this week's Haftorah found in Ezekiel 37:1-14. It was established as thisSabbath's reading from the Prophets due to its parallel to Passover, our
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL:CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: ROSH HASHANAH PARASHAT CHUMASH CANDESCENCEROSH HASHANAHSPECIAL READINGS:GENESIS 21:1-341 SAMUEL 1:1-2:10NUMBERS 29:1-6GENESIS 22:1-24JEREMIAH 31:1-19RABBI ARTHUR SEGALHAPPY NEW YEAR !!! LA SHANA TOVA !!!!!"We Can't Return, We Can Only Look, Behind from Where We Came"SYNOPTIC ABSTRACT:On many Jewish holidays there are special sections of parashat read thathelp us to remember themes of the holidays. The theme of God's mercy andkindness is woven throughout these special readings. Genesis 21 tells ofSarah, a 90-year old woman, giving birth to Isaac. It also tells of Hagarand Ishmael being expelled by Abraham at his wife's insistence. Godrescues them in the desert. Genesis 22 tells of the binding of Isaac,Abraham's faith in God, and God'
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL :CHAZAK! CHAZAK! VENITCHAZEIK! BE STRONG! BE STRONG! AND MAY WE BE STRENGTHENED! The Conclusion of Deuteronomy - Devarim Dedication This fifth book of five, of the Five Books of Moses, Chumash Candescence, has been seven years in the making. Its long awaited serialization on the Web has finally arrived, with the other one book, G!D willing, to follow. Chumash Candescence is the first full compendium to the Torah studying in detail each Parasha, with references to the Talmud, Midrash, and other Rabbinic sources, from post-Talmudic times to the present, from a Jewish Renewal, Spiritual and Modern point of view. It is part of a greater Text that will be soon published in book form, with profi
RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL : CHUMASH CANDESCENCE : PARASHA VEZOT HA'BERACHAH : DEUTERONOMY 33:01-34:12 Please join together in prayers to God as we end Sukkoth, for Him toshelter all of mankind in His tent of peace. May all of the children ofAbraham, Jews and Arabs, and yes, even Jews with Jews, learn to lovepeace and pursue peace. Amen.CHUMASH CANDESCENCEHOSHANNAH RABBAH(10/20)SHEMINI ATZERET(10/21)SIMCHAT TORAH(10/22)PARASHA VEZOT HA'BERACHAHRABBI ARTHUR SEGAL"Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land"SYNOPTIC ABSTRACT:This is the last portion of the Chumash (the Five Books of Moses). Mosesblesses each of the tribes of Israel individually. But did Moses blessALL twelve? When he is through with his farewell blessings, Mosesascends Mount Nebo, sees the land of Israel from this moun
Knesset Members and OU Condemn Rabbi Wolpe's 'Gallows' Remark26 Tevet 5768, 04 January 08 03:41by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) Members of Knesset, ministers and a major US-based Orthodox Jewish organization condemned Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe on Thursday for his statements likening Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other ministers to collaborators with the Nazis, saying that by law they should be executed. Rabbi Wolpe made the remarks on Tuesday, at a gathering of activists and supporters of SOS Israel, a rabbinic organization he heads, which focuses on preserving Jewish life throughout the Land of Israel. During the meeting, Rabbi Wolpe called Olmert a traitor, accusing him and others of aiding the the modern-day "Nazis" in the Palestinian Authority by giving them weapons and releasing te
Just joking. Cuz, I don't even know a joke like that.
Actually, now that I think about it, I don't really know any jokes to tell. I think the only joke I can come up with on the drop of a hat is a very old one that is a little itty bitty bit sexual in nature and ends with "We're all going to Hawaii, we're all going to Hawaii!" but you have to actually see the person telling it and what they
