Month: March 2016 – כ״ג באדר א׳ תשע״ו

Renewing Testimony for the New Month

4th Annual International Temple Mount Awareness Day, Pt 2: Dr. Roy Hoffman, Israel New Moon Society

Published on Mar 12, 2013

We take you to the moon, or at least to a proper scientific/halachic sighting of the new moon, just as it was done two thousand years ago, and as all authorities agree it will be done again in the near future. Dr. Roy Hoffman, the founder of the Israel New Moon Society describes the correct way of sighting and reporting the new moon to the Sanhedrin, and the preparations being made today for the renewal of Torah commandment of announcing each new month based on the testimony of eye witnesses.

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From YouTube, here.

The Last Parah Adumah

The Red Heifer

From: Mitch

Dear Rabbi,
What is the significance of the red heifer? How was
it different from all the other sacrifices? What role
does it play in Messianic Times and the Third
Temple?
Dear Mitch,
As rare as it may be, the birth of a red heifer is a natural
event, not a metaphysical one. There is no source in Jewish
tradition that sees the birth of a red heifer as a sign of the
arrival of the Mashiach.
According to the Torah, someone who comes into contact
with a dead body becomes halachically “impure”. The
Torah describes a very specific process that enables a person
to purify himself. This process involves slaughtering a
heifer that is completely red, burning it and mixing its ashes
with water. Some of this “purifying water” is sprinkled on
the impure person twice, over a seven-day period.
This had great practical importance during Temple
times, because all participants in the Temple service needed
to be ritually pure, and the entire nation needed to purify
themselves for the Passover, Shavuot, and Succot festivals.
It will have practical significance again when the
Temple is rebuilt.
Maimonides writes that from the time of Moses until
the destruction of the Second Temple, only nine red
heifers have been used to prepare the “purifying waters”.
The tenth red heifer, says Maimonides, will be prepared by
the Mashiach.
This can easily be misunderstood. It does not mean that
there existed only nine red heifers in history, and that the
tenth and last one to be born will be used by the Mashiach.
It simply means that the ashes from each heifer lasted a
long time, and there was never a need to prepare more
than nine. The tenth red heifer process will take place in
the times of the Mashiach.
Some years ago, a red heifer born in Israel caused a flurry
of interest and speculation about its portending the
coming of Mashiach. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, a very great
halachic authority of the time, was not overly-impressed.
He reasoned, “One of the requirements of the red heifer
is that it be at least two years old. What if the Mashiach
were to come tomorrow? Would we have to wait two
years in order to become pure? No, rather, when Mashiach
comes, they’ll find a red heifer that’s two-years old!”
The reason underlying the commandment of the red
heifer is considered the deepest secret in the Torah. Even
King Solomon, the wisest scholar who ever lived, was
unable to fathom the full depth of its meaning. According
to the Midrash its meaning will be revealed in the era of the
Mashiach.

Sources:
• Bamidbar (Numbers) ch. 19
• Mishna Parah 3:5
• Rambam, ibid. 3:4
• Bamidbar Rabbah 19:4

From Ohr.edu, here.

Jewish Demographics in Israel

Published on Apr 18, 2014

Dr. Guy Bechor discusses the actual demographic balance between Israel and the Palestinians on Israel TV Channel 2’s morning show. His data are aligned with those set out in Caroline Glick’s book: The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in The Middle East and point to the same policy conclusions

From YouTube, here.

Judaism, RIP

Binyamin: “Oy Hashem, Oy Hashem”

 

16 Adar Aleph 5776

The newest message from Binyamin is six pages long. I do not know when or if I will get to a word-for-word translation, but meantime, I can give you a quick summary and some excerpts.

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BS”D

Communication with Binyamin
Jerusalem, 7 Adar 5776

(This message was given in the wake of the terrible #402 Bnei Brak to Jerusalem bus accident which took six lives on 6 Adar 5776.)

“…Oy, Hashem, what will be with Your people?…. How will we get through what’s going to be? How will we get through the news of yesterday that’s so hard – but it’s still small compared to what’s waiting for us…..”

Binyamin discusses the tragedy. He says the victims were all tzadikim and pure korbanot taken for the sins of the nation – that they were born for this. He says people don’t understand. They are in a deep sleep and need to wake up. Such korbanot are not enough. We still have to do teshuvah. Such tragedies have been going on for years and all over the Jewish world, not just in Israel.

He says we like to pat ourselves on the back and brag about our chesed and how we keep all the mitzvot, but for the majority it’s not real Yiddishkeit, but rather something connected to the golden calf – a ‘kosher’ avodah zarah. He decries the emptiness of what is being bequeathed to the future generation. We’ve lost the rabbis who could lead us. The rabbis now, for the most part, tell people what they want to hear.

Continue reading…

From Palm Tree of Deborah, here.