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Over 250 shluchim of the Rebbe and Chabad activists from all over the land, got together today for the emergency convention in the Nir Etsiyon hotel near Chaifa where a detailed course of action designed by Tsach's Board for Preservation of the Nation and the Land was presented and explained. The program is based upon the Rebbes directives regarding the conditions in Israel and was approved by the Supreme Beis Din of Chabad in Israel. Two simultaneous courses of action to be taken are: 1. Extensive propaganda regarding the grave dangers of the disengagement plan and 2. Increasing of the merits of the Jewish nation by intensifying the three important realms of Torah, Prayer and Charity.
To implement these, the shluchim and activists will be using two booklets that have been especially published for these purposes. One of them is named, 'What will occur when there are no more sheep?' and the second one is called, 'Three Ways to Change the Situation' - which explain the powers of Torah, Prayer and Charity and their capabilities of bringing salvation to the nation of Israel. This booklet also stresses the laws of the Rambam on issues regarding the Holy Temple, in a clear and concise language, and also contains several chapters of Tehillim designated to abolish the decree when read.
Are the booklets translated into English? Where can we get them?
ReplyDeleteWhat - no orange balloons?!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWe have had almost 2 months criticism of the Solidarity Rally, just because a bit of orange colour has offended some "conservatives".
ReplyDeleteWHAT DO YOU WANT ?
If you want a sober gathering for tehillim (as recomended by Chabad shluchim in Israel) Why was it not done in the last 2 months ?????
There are only 18 days left till D-DAY, instead of critics, we need action! Who is willing to organise anything in Melbourne for this emergency? NO ONE BUT MOSHE ELKMAN !
In Sydney last Sunday they at least tried to say some tehillim -- "BUT NOT IN MELBOURNE"
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Chabad in Israel will issue 2 booklets.(see main article) Interesting to note -- Mr Elkman has reprinted the Artscrolll Tehillim (with permission) and also reprinted the Rebbe's talks on transfer of Land. What prophetic vision! This is exactly the 2 booklets the Shluchim in Israel recently published!
ReplyDeleteI counted the number of people at last weeks rally. There were exactly 770 !
ReplyDeleteJokes aside, orange victim is right! Why doesn't someone hire the Werdiger Hall, and get an equally big crowd to do it their way ?
One of the many dreamt up FACTS was that all settlers are moving into caravans!
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Two Gaza families given keys to alternate housing
By Gideon Alon, Amos Harel and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents
Two families slated for evacuation from Gaza Strip settlements received keys from the Housing and Construction Ministry on Thursday to homes built in Moshav Mivka'im, in the Negev.
Housing and Construction Ministry Director-General Shmuel Abuav said that the neighborhood in Mivka'im was constructed in two months. The 32 homes are actual houses, rather than temporary homes or caravans. Each home covers some 80 square meters.
The first two families to receive keys to their new homes are from the northern Gaza Strip settlement of Nissanit, and both plan to move their possessions to their new homes on Saturday. As determined by the Evacuation-Compensation Law, the evacuees will be able to live in the homes for two years free of charge, and will then have the option of purchasing them.
Dozens of settlers protested Thursday near two West Bank settlements slated for evacuation - Sa-Nur and Homesh ? and broke a gate placed by Israel Defense Forces troops. The gate, placed in an effort to oversee traffic going into the settlements, was put at the northern exit of the settlement of Shavei Shomron.
Some 80 residents of Shavei Shomron and adjacent settlements broke the gate. IDF sources said that the settlers pushed soldiers deployed in the area and insulted them and the senior officers. Police officers dispersed the protesters.
The army claims that the placement of the gate is not linked to the pullout plan, but is an attempt to thwart Palestinian attacks. Two weeks ago, an explosives-laden car was detonated in the area.
i think this blog should be changed to 'israeli echo' or something.
ReplyDeletethe articles on israel etc outnumber the aussie ones.
Moshiach is coming and we will all be in Israel!
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ReplyDeleteAd Mosa quotes from Haaretz which is known for its far leftist bias and is a stooge for the disengagement. Why don't you read www.israelnationalnews.com
ReplyDeleteThey say that adequate housing has NOT yet been provided!
Haaretz is one of the mainstream papers. INN from Arutz Sheva is a militant extreme right wing site that was banned in Israel. If you check which papers are supplied daily to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations you will see on the web that Haaretz is between the 12 but no INN.
ReplyDeleteMina, have you actually read the news on Arutz 7 ? I found they simply state the facts truthfully, unemotionally - nothing militant or extreme!
ReplyDeleteThe reason they were "banned" is because most media are left bias, the government watchdogs are also dominated by the left lunatics, they can't tolerate the truth - so much for "freedom of speech"!
after 2 months criticism, still no logical reason emerging, except that the majority at the rally were teenagers covered in Orange. So what if the kids had fun? Have you forgot you were young once? Despite the rumours, they were disciplined, watched the videos quietly and learned a lot. They said tehillim too!
ReplyDeleteOur opposition is dreaming - you should see Israel - every second car has an orange ribbon! The place is covered in orange, kids T-shirts, caps, face paint, even icy poles in orange flavour.
But you're still not convinced. OK, I give in. Now YOU can organise an "orange free" rally, anyone wearing orange is banned and will be disengaged! Would you get a minyan?
Only 2 weeks left till the expulsion! Any communal gathering on the agenda? Any request to say Tehillim on any shul noticeboard? Anyone give a damm!!!
I can hear the screams of the souls of the Warsaw ghetto uprising - don't give up!
Hassidic Singer Cancels Israeli Concert because of Disengagement
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"(IsraelNN.com) Popular Hassidic singer Avraham Fried has canceled a concert that was scheduled for this summer because of the slated expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif. Fried was supposed to appear in a major concert in Bat Yam with other singers but cancelled his appearance.
He explained that he does not mean to appear on stage at the same time that Jews are being expelled from their homes and their land"
Unfortuantely, barring a ness gadol, the evacuation is a given reality on the ground. Let us hope and daven it will be carried out with no harm to Yidden on either side of the issue.
Shoshanna, do you have the white flag of surrender on top of your house? This has never been the Jewish way! If your landlord wanted to kick you out unfairly. He deviously wanted to cover-up his own corruption by focusing the media on you (unthinkable)
ReplyDeleteWould you still write of "a given reality"? or would you fight "tooth and nail", take him to court, get your friends to rally round for you?
Yes Shoshanna, You would get a "tickle in your spine", that every jew on the planet is dovening with tears flowing down their cheeks, just so you and your family should be able to stay in your house! You would certainly not want people to talk of giving up 2 weeks early
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oj, I do not have a white flag because we are not at war with the Israeli government, as you erroneously believe we are. We have disagreements with their policies--and there is a big difference between warring with the Israeli government and disagreeing with them. You chose to try and make this a civil war, while I do not believe in civil war between Yidden for any reason.
ReplyDeleteI believe the people in Gush Katif are probably more level headed than some of the local orange people here who seem to be hotheads. At the end of the day, the people of Gush Katif will protest, but I do no believe they will risk life and limb. They will protest to the bitter end and then leave without violence--not because it is the right thing to do, but because they will have no other sensible choice. it would be nuts for civilians to try and take on the IDF. It would be nothing but suicide.
It is unrealistic to believe, as you do, that the government will reverse their policy at this late point in the game. I hope and daven they will, and if they do, it will take a ness gadol to make them do so.
Your putting a long complex historical process into simplistic childish terms. This did not just occur over the past few weeeks, even though some of you seem to have suddeny found out about this as a cause celebre recently, but this Oslo scourge is deeply endemic in Israel's political culture. It will take alot more than orange ribbons to reverse it. Especially since its root is a spiritual malady of our people.
Shoshanna, surprisingly I agree with most of your comments. However here is a rare chance to cut this Oslo cancer out of our souls! Of course its beneath the dignity of many to put an orange ribbon on their car, especially in Aust.
ReplyDeleteA business and advertising study in Israel has recently shown that this ORANGE fever is the most successful marketing campaign in history! Never before has a simple COLOUR by itself, without any logo, been promoted so well! (Maybe the RED of the Communist era came a little close to it)
Sharon will probably make it into the Giuneass Book of Records - as the world's most stubborn Jew, of course, he will not stop no matter how much ORANGE he sees. But why can't we put ego aside, just this once, to help give empathy and sympathy to the Gush Katif residents.
Like I said above - Shoshanna, we should fight "tooth and nail" and give them "goose bumps" that every jew on the planet is dovening with tears flowing down their cheeks, just so they and their families should be able to stay in their houses! They would do the same for you too!
You would certainly not want to hear people talk of giving up 2 weeks before it happens
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Sharon's stubborness served him well when he was a general. It is a middah that made him one of the greatest warriors in our people's history but, it is not a quality that makes for a good Prime Minister. A Prime Minister who behaves like a general, and not a leader of a democratic government, becomes dictorial, as Sharon indeed has.
ReplyDeleteSharon is not coming from a Torah-true perspective. Although he respects the tradition, his world view is not informed by our faith. In all likelhood he does believe he is swallowing the bitter pill of disengagement that needs to be swallowed to ensure the future security and survival of the Jewish State.
A man who sacrificed his life, who bled on the battlefield as he did, who fearlessly risked his life leading his fellow countrymen into battles that held odds that were overwhelmingly against victory, could not suddenly transform into a traitor, even to protect himself from scandals.
Sharon has a well thought out rationale for his policies. This rationale is based on his brilliant but wrongheaded political strategy, a calculated risk, in the hopes of eventually maneuvering Israel into a stronger geopolitical position. The tragedy of it all is that Sharon's plan will not work, but proponents of his plan cannot be convinced of that because they are not looking at it through the lense of the Torah.
Therefore, the only solution is for us to teach more Torah, to spread the light, and through that more Jews will come to abandon the godless Oslo mentality. Without a Torah perspective, there will always be a way to conjure up a brilliant rationale for land giveaways that sound logical and feasible.
The bottom line is that we must do as the Rebbe taught-let the world know that EY belongs to us only because G-d gave it to us. And when we successfuly make them see this eternal truth, then Oslo mentality will fall by the wayside.
THE FOLLOWING IS A REPORT ILLUSTRATING THE LEGITIMATE CONSTRUCTIVE CHABAD EFFORTS & OPINIONS AGAINST DISENGAGEMENT:TAKE NOTE OF THE LAST PARAGRAPH --
ReplyDeleteAccount of Prime Minister Sharon's meeting with Chabad rabbis (from Arutz 7):
The meeting began in a friendly atmosphere, but tensions gradually rose, and at certain points it was "almost on the verge of an explosion." So said today one of the participants, Chabad Spokesman Rabbi Menachem Brod, to Arutz-7's Yosef Meiri.
Participating in the meeting were Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner, who was the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s secretary, Chabad Israel Rabbinical Court Director Rabbi Yitzchak Yehuda Yaruslavski, his deputy Rabbi Menachem Glocobosky, Binyamin Regional Council Rabbi Shimon Elituv, and other senior rabbis.
The 90-minute meeting began with the recounting of stories about Prime Minister Sharon’s meetings with the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the warm ties between them. Left unmentioned was the fact that the Rebbe once advised Sharon not to enter politics altogether.
The Chabad representatives told the Prime Minister how strongly the Lubavitcher Rebbe always opposed any concession over any part of the Land of Israel. “While we do not have your experience and knowledge," Rabbi Brod told him, "we do have the Rebbe and we are certain that he is right."
Prime Minister Sharon explained what he felt were the advantages of his plan, the circumstances that led him to initiate it, and the importance he ascribes to the settlement movement. He spoke against violence - with the full agreement of his guests - and against refusal to fulfill disengagement-related orders. Some leading Chabad rabbis have called for such refusal.
"True, it is difficult and painful," Sharon said, "but the State of Israel has decided - we are leaving Gaza. Even if it is difficult, the Plan will be implemented. The Plan will be implemented because it is the right thing for the State of Israel.”
Rabbi Brod told Arutz-7 that the rabbis decided to meet with Sharon after he said that if he could speak with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he would persuade him of the correctness of his plan. "We showed him that the Rebbe's opinion, which is the opposite of Sharon's, corresponds perfectly to the situation and dangers as we see it now," Rabbi Brod said. Sharon asked to see the Rebbe's words in writing, and the rabbis said they would send him the relevant passages.
Sharon himself admitted that the Rebbe had been more precise and accurate in his analysis of the shortcomings of the infamous Bar-Lev Line [a chain of fortifications built by Israel along the Suez Canal after the Six Day War, which was easily overrun by attacking Egyptian forces on the first day of the Yom Kippur War - ed.] than IDF experts.
Rabbi Groner told Sharon, "You feel that the plan will be beneficial to Israel, but you yourself cannot be certain that things will develop the way you want them to. We tell you with absolute certainty, in light of the Rebbe's clear words, that this plan will cause the exact opposite."
"It will lead to a most grave security deterioration, will bring terror to inestimably high levels, and will increase international pressure on Israel," Rabbi Groner continued. "If you think that giving up Gush Katif and northern Shomron will save the settlement blocs, the exact opposite will occur; it will serve as a precedent and proof that it is possible to dismantle even the large settlement blocs."
Asked if there were any arguments that seemed to make Sharon more uncomfortable than others, Rabbi Brod said, "When we talked about the danger to Jews that the plan was likely to bring, we could see that this was not pleasant for him to hear."
The Prime Minister said, "The country cannot accept violence against policemen and soldiers, and Chabad people who do this cause damage to Chabad." The rabbis responded that the disengagement plan causes such great pain and unrest in the public that they can barely exert their authority over them in these areas