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- The Life of Tzaddikim
- Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu
The rise of Ayatollah Khomeini to power caused a huge wave of anti-Semitism against Israel and against Jews in general. Many Jews in Iran, mostly wealthy ones, were tried in in the kangaroo courts of the revolution, where they were sentenced to death by hanging and their property confiscated and given to Khomeini’s people.
In such an atmosphere of anarchy the lives of the Jews there were turned upside down. In particular, the Jewish women suffered. When they had to go to the mikveh, the non-Jews would harass and bother them, turning their lives into a nightmare.
The situation came to the ears of Rabbi Eliyahu, who turned directly to Ayatollah Khomeini by way of a formal letter from the State of Israel. The Rav wrote to the Ayatollah that he was sure he wouldn’t do anything against a person’s faith or against the word of God. He was sure that Khomeini would agree that it wasn’t right or fair that a woman should be harassed on her way to immerse in a mikveh, and he was sure that such things had been done without his authority, as he was an honest, decent man, etc….
Khomeini’s people were rather suspicious of the letter, but the Ayatollah wanted to see what Rav Eliyahu had written.
He read about the problems that the Muslims were causing the Jewish women and immediately ordered a new mikveh to be built for them, and in addition, he even placed guards on site so as to prevent the Muslim men bothering them.
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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)
Moreshet Shaul Our King on Rosh Hashana, Our Father on Yom Kippur.
Based on Aroch Siach, p. 221 (Rav Shaul Yisraeli)
