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Beit Midrash
- Shabbat and Holidays
- Jewish Holidays
- Purim & The Month of Adar
Purim of Persia, there have been many other
miraculous occasions when Jewish communities were
saved from disaster. The "Purim of the Curtains"
(Tevet 22) marked when the Jewish community of
Prague was saved in 1623, after being falsely
accused of stealing royal gold curtains. In
"Purim Fassano" (4th day Pesach) the Jews of this
Italian town were saved when an unexploded French
bomb scared away a wild mob that was threatening
them. In 1616, the Jews of Frankfort were saved
from a vicious anti-Semite named Vincent
Fettmilch in "Purim Vincent" (20 Adar) In "Purim
of Saragossa, Spain (17-18 Shvat) the Jews were
saved by parading before the king with the all of
the town’s Sifrei Torah. There were not one, but
two "Purims of Chevron," (14 Tevet) in 1814 &
1832; "Purim Yemen" happened in Sana on 16 Adar;
& "Purim Burghul" (29 Tevet) was in Tripoli in
1793 when the Jews of Libya were saved at the last moment.
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
