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- Torah Portion and Tanach
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- Shlach Lecha
The Torah study is dedicatedin the memory of
Asher Ben Haim
The scouts sent by Moshe to tour the Promised Land returned with a terrifying report. The inhabitants of the land are formidably huge - giants - similar in proportion to the fruits of the land. "There is but one conclusion," they said. "One must be a giant in order to live in the Holy Land. There is no place for us, little grasshoppers, in a land that demands stature and nobility. Better that we live a quiet, secure life as grasshoppers in the wilderness than to aspire to great moral and spiritual heights."
Interestingly, Targum Onkelos translates chagavim, "grasshoppers," as kamtzin. The Talmud (Gittin 55a) attributes the destruction of the Second Temple to petty, little people who looked upon others with disdain and contempt. Such is the tragic story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza.
To be a giant or to be a grasshopper? That is the question!
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Hosha'ana Rabba FLYDUBAI & HOSHANA RABBA- ANI VAHU HOSHIA NA- I & HIM SAVE US
"Ani vaHu Hoshia Na", "I and Him, Save Us". We don't just pray to Him, but we also pray to and for ourselves that we should emulate and educate our children to have that instinctive altruism with which He created the world. President Trump seemed amused about Yaniv Hayon, our PLUMBER who confidently worked with G-d like Superman (he learned from a pilot on a TV show!) to save 174 lives on the Dubai hijacking, but we in Israel are totally accustomed already 78 years to our plumbers, teachers, garbage-men, rabbis, farmers & doctors being Hashem's shlichim! This is what Zionism is about.
Moreshet Shaul Hashem Is your Shadow – part I
Based on Siach Shaul, Pirkei Machshava V’Hadracha p. 420 – an address from 1941
P'ninat Mishpat A Non-Contractor in Changing Times – part I
(based on ruling 85128 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts)
