Moshe Nachbar @nachnotes

Please please please learn this Torah from my Rebbe the Heilige Ishbitzer together with me!! The Rebbe writes about the deeper meaning behind why Moshe added the letter Yud to Yehoshua’s name. The letter Yud hints at innocence or being straightforward or simple because ultimately it’s just a little dot. And that’s the reason why Moshe added it to his name. The Gemara in kiddushin teaches that if a person says to his friend, can you be my messenger and betroth a certain women to me and the friend goes and betroths her to himself, then the Halacha is that it is valid. The Gemara also says that such a person acted with deceit. “מנהג רמאות”. It seems that Yehoshua did the same thing when Moshe asked him to investigate the land. After all, Moshe wanted to become “betrothed” to the land of Israel, but in the end, he scouted it out just for himself. Therefore, it seems that his excursion wasn’t done in innocence. So Moshe added a Yud to his name to remind him that he should always be straightforward and honest in all of his actions! WHAT!!!!!!! Ok, hear me out. I want to share my Chiddush on this piece. The Ishbitzer is teaching something breathtaking about the danger of self-interest. The moment a person wants something badly enough, even something holy, he or she begins to unconsciously rewrite the story in his or her own favor. They convince themselves that they are serving a mission when, little by little, the mission begins serving themselves. That is why Moshe gives Yehoshua a Yud, a tiny dot. Because spiritual greatness is not found in becoming bigger, smarter, louder, or more certain. It is found in preserving the small, honest point inside yourself that can still ask, "Am I really doing this for the reason I think I am?" The most dangerous deception is not when we lie to others; it is when desire quietly recruits our intelligence to lie to ourselves. The Yud was Moshe's reminder that the greatest leaders are not those who never have personal interests, but those who never stop returning to that simple, innocent point of truth that exists beneath all the agendas, fears, ambitions, and justifications. Sometimes the holiest thing a person can do is become small enough to be honest again.

✡️ - MUST WATCH: Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt, Rabbi of the Altneu NYC synagogue, making a Mi Sheberach Lecholim for Neturei Karta men protesting the Israel Day Parade in Manhattan on Sunday. @BenZevG

Rav Shmuel Eliyahu calls for the building of a Beit Knesset on Har HaBayit: “I call upon the Knesset and the Prime Minister - It is time to build a Beit Knesset on Har HaBayit. There is no place that belongs to the Jewish people more than this holy place.”

שמענו בשם הבעש״ט זצללה״ה שאמר על עצמו שאם הי׳ יודע בטח בעצמו שהוא מזרע אברהם יצחק ויעקב והיינו בשורש תולדתו הוא מקושר בקדושה, הי׳ הולך עם הכובע שלו מן הצד, כנהוג מי שהוא שש ושמח בעצמו על כי הולך לבטח דרכו ולא יפחד משום דבר.

On Shavuos night, Rebbe Nachman was walking to the mikveh with chassidim. Rebbe Nachman kept asking, “do you hear those noises?” No one else heard a thing. “How do you not hear that!?” They finally realized that that Rebbe Nachman was hearing the thunderous sounds of Sinai.

My wife Toby and I are in @Israel becoming citizens. At the Interior Ministry, the official reviewing our papers - a Jew who came from Ethiopia in 1991 - asked me for proof that I was Jewish. I showed him letters from our rabbi. As I did so, tears began to flow. I told him: “I remember the 1970s and ’80s, when we marched and protested so Ethiopian Jews could come home to Israel. Back then, many questioned whether Ethiopian Jews were Jewish at all. We insisted our Black brothers and sisters were as Jewish as any of us.” And now, 35 years later, here was a holy Ethiopian Jew confirming my Judaism. We had come full circle. Holding his hand, I sang: “Zeh hayom asah Hashem, nagilah ve’nismechah bo” - This is the day God has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Jews from East and West have returned home together. Am Yisrael chai v’yichyeh.

Zohran Mamdani’s wife celebrated the kidnapping and execution of this child.

נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid

3 weeks ago

Every single day, we remember.

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Israel has received $174 billions in aid since 1948. Ukraine has received $188 billions in aid since 2022. I know where Tyler should fly next.

Charging… @RedPillSayian

3 weeks ago

Tyler Oliveira on Israel being the top recipient of U.S. foreign aid since World War II 😡 “They will take our money and let our soldiers die to eliminate an ‘existential threats’ to Israel…but i’m the second coming of Hitler”

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Yes. Slandering the world’s only Jewish state is an act of conformity. It’s much ballsier to tell the truth about the war Hamas started against Israel.

Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish

3 weeks ago

Spanish actor Javier Bardem says speaking out against Israel’s genocide on Gaza has actually landed him more offers for work. Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, he said he believes the global narrative about Gaza has changed.

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I have largely remained silent in public since January 1 because I believe criticism should be constructive and focused. But this post about the Nakba is deeply disturbing, not only because of its one sided and dishonest characterization of history, but also because it attempts to delegitimize Israel as a state even before 1967. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot argue that the “settlements”, which began after 1967 following Israel’s victory in a war against neighboring states, are the root cause of the conflict, condemn them relentlessly, and justify marches through Jewish neighborhoods in New York over so called “illegal” land sales in the West Bank, while simultaneously condemning the very founding of the State of Israel itself through a one sided narrative built on distortion and falsehoods. It is also worth noting that while thousands of Arabs lived within Israel between 1948 and 1967, Jews were expelled from areas captured by invading Arab armies from neighboring countries. Those expelled included Jews whose families had legally owned and purchased land for hundreds of years. Take, for example, the Tzemach synagogue in Jerusalem. In 1847, more than a hundred years earlier, followers of Chabad Lubavitch established and purchased the synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City. During the 1948 war, the Old City fell under Jordanian control. The Jewish population was expelled, and Jews were denied access to Jerusalem, including the Tzemach Tzedek synagogue. I really do not want to get too deep into the history because that is not my main point here. There can be disagreements and different perspectives about what happened and to whom, but the focus should be on achieving a long term peace in Israel and the region. The tweet’s one sided narrative deepens division instead of advancing peace, coexistence, and understanding, and it should never have been posted by the mayor of New York City.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor

4 weeks ago

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us

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הודו לה׳ כי חסדו! יום ירושלים בארץ ישראל. ❤️

בינה מלאכותית הקימה את ר' ישעיה'לה לתחיה

Yehuda Shmuel Sherman was 18 years old. 🕯️ He and his brother Daniel were on a security patrol near Homesh in Samaria when a Palestinian driver accelerated at full speed toward their ATV. Daniel's back was broken and two of his vertebrae were shattered. He couldn't move. Then more Palestinians arrived. They saw two Jewish boys lying on the ground, one dying, one paralyzed. They didn't call for help. They didn't stop. They threw stones at them and tried to lynch them where they lay. This is who we are dealing with. No mercy. No humanity. Just pure, savage hatred toward Jews. And Arab media's response was calling Yehuda a car thief and defending his killers. A boy is dead. His brother's back is broken. They tried to finish them both off on the ground. Say his name. Share his story. Don't let them rewrite it.

This 16-year-old Israeli boy carries his grandmother to and from the bomb shelter, over and over again since the start of the war. Incredible.

This will change how you see the war. The last five weeks of missiles have been exhausting, traumatic, and frightening. I completely understand Jews who choose to live outside Israel and spare their families this constant risk. There is a profound privilege in fighting for Israel — even when our “battle” is running to the bomb shelter as missiles streak across the sky. We are not alone in this struggle. We stand in a chain that stretches back millennia. Like Joshua’s generation, who crossed the Jordan and conquered the land with faith and courage. Like the Maccabees of Chanukah, who refused to bow to foreign decrees and lit the menorah of Jewish sovereignty. Like the Jews of the First and Second Temple periods, who faced Babylonian and Roman empires and chose defiance over despair. We walk in the footsteps of the young fighters of 1948 who faced seven Arab armies with little more than determination and a dream of renewed independence. Of the soldiers and civilians of 1967 who reunited Jerusalem against overwhelming odds. Of the heroes of 1973 who turned back surprise invasions on two fronts. Today the roles differ: some of us wear uniforms and carry rifles at the front. Others — civilians like me and my family — live the struggle differently. We build homes, raise children, work, study, and yes, we drop everything and rush to shelters every few weeks when sirens wail. It is exhausting. It is frightening. But for me, the privilege outweighs the danger. To be part of the Jewish return to our ancestral land, to settle and strengthen it in our generation, is worth the price. My children will grow up knowing they are not spectators to Jewish history — they are living it and determining its destiny. The struggle continues, and I am grateful to be in it.

אדי, אחיו של מקסים אנטיס ז״ל, שנפל אתמול בלבנון: ״אני אחפש אחריך עד סוף העולם, ונרקוד יחד עם נועם, בן וגלעד״

Smotrich’s Passover message: On the mitzvah of “and you shall tell your son,” and on my personal, our personal, miracle. The Exodus from Egypt is not some historical story about a one-time event that happened 3,338 years ago. The Exodus is something present and everyday. It is a story of faith in the justice of our path and of responsibility that passes from generation to generation — responsibility for the existence, freedom, and independence of the people of Israel, from the Exodus from Egypt until today. This year, the commandment “and you shall tell your son” takes on a completely different meaning for me — “and you shall tell your children.” Recently, my son Banaya, a Givati fighter, was severely wounded in Lebanon. We received him back through an open miracle. After undergoing a life-saving surgery, he is recovering and growing stronger, thank God. The fragment removed from his body somewhat resembles, symbolically, the map of the Land of Israel. There is no sharper reminder of why we are here and what we are fighting for in these historic days. Banaya, like his younger brother Yedidya, and like tens of thousands of heroic soldiers, was called to the flag and rose to defend this land — a land we endured hardships to return to, and whose protection lies on all our shoulders. This year, on the eve of the holiday, as we sit at the Seder table, I think about our duty as parents. About the sacred commandment not only to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt but also to tell our own story, in our own time — a wondrous story of the miracles that are with us every day. Of the generation of victory, striving to add goodness to the world and to eradicate evil from within us. A generation that continues to fight for our freedom against those who, in every generation, rise up to destroy us — and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hands through the courage of our spirit and the bravery of our soldiers. > For the child sitting at the holiday table tonight is the one who will rise tomorrow to defend the State of Israel. “And you shall tell your son — and you shall tell your children.”here is no sharper reminder of why we are here and what we are fighting for in these historic days. Banaya, like his younger brother Yedidya, and like tens of thousands of heroic soldiers, was called to the flag and rose to defend this land — a land we endured hardships to return to, and whose protection lies on all our shoulders. This year, on the eve of the holiday, as we sit at the Seder table, I think about our duty as parents. About the sacred commandment not only to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt but also to tell our own story, in our own time — a wondrous story of the miracles that are with us every day. Of the generation of victory, striving to add goodness to the world and to eradicate evil from within us. A generation that continues to fight for our freedom against those who, in every generation, rise up to destroy us — and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hands through the courage of our spirit and the bravery of our soldiers. For the child sitting at the holiday table tonight is the one who will rise tomorrow to defend the State of Israel. “And you shall tell your son — and you shall tell your children.”

Sh'foch Chamatcha isn't heckling, it's part of the seder

New York Post @nypost

2 months ago

Mamdani heckled while speaking at NYC Passover seder during tense moment trib.al/BR0ax3s

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Their faces really tell the whole story. May their memory be a blessing.