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Wednesday, August 16, 2017

GUEST POST: Defeat Terror with Torah

Defeat Terror with Torah
a guest post by Mr. Cohen

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov [zechuto yagen ‘aleinu] was
born in year 1772 CE and died in year 1810 of the Common Era.

Rabbi Nathan Stranhertz transcribed Sefer HaMidot from
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov from year 1803 CE to year 1806 CE.

Now for a quick and valuable quote from Sefer HaMidot:

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Sefer HaMidot, chapter pachad, paragraph 32:

“By studying Torah at the table during meal times,
we are saved from terror.”
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Rabbi Nachman of Breslov has revealed to us how to defeat terrorism.

May all Jews comply with his wise advice, the sooner the better.

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Please also read: If Daniel Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-daniel-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Isaiah Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-isaiah-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Ezekiel Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-ezekiel-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Jeremiah Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-jeremiah-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Ezra Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-ezra-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Nehemiah Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/04/if-nehemiah-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Joshua Were Alive Today:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/05/if-joshua-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: Refuting the Fans of Vashti:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/02/refuting-fans-of-vashti.html
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PLEASE help the battle against
internet anti-Semitism by making
a PayPal donation to:[email protected].
THANK YOU!!
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OTHER BLOG POSTS BY MR. COHEN:

Quick Bible Quotes from Joshua and Jeremiah:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-joshua-chapter-23-verse-12.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/12/guest-post-jeremiah-chapter-17.html

Ancient Roman historians connected Jews with the Land of Israel and Jerusalem:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/02/guest-post-josephus-vs-muslim-liars.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/05/guest-post-cornelius-tacticus.html

Rambam Rejected Childless Messiah:

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/08/rambam-rejected-childless-messiah-by-mr.html

Why Muslims Hate Jews:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/12/guest-post-why-muslims-hate-jews.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-moynihan-1982.html

Forgotten Oppression against Jews:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-forgotten-oppression.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/03/guest-post-forgotten-anti-semitism.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/06/guest-post-kiddush-hashem-1498.html

American anti-Semitism:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-seven-times-stronger.html

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-jewish-nyc-mayor.html

How a Reform Rabbi Become Orthodox (true story):

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-did-reform-rabbi-become-orthodox-jew.html

Sephardic Jews Reject Reform Judaism:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/07/sephardim-reject-reform.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/08/guest-post-persian-rabbis-decree.html

Greek NYC Jews and Syrian NYC Jews
(a rarely-told true story that very few people know about):
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/greek-jews-syrian-jews.html

How to Convict the New York Times of Unfair Bias Against Israel:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-how-to-convict-new-york-times.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-nyt-erases-israel-from-map.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/guest-postnyt-vs-israel.html

Why Pray for Tzahal-IDF:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/04/guest-post-why-pray-for-idf.html

How to Pray for Tzahal-IDF:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/how-to-pray-for-tzahal-idf.html
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Do Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution?
by Daniel Polisar, PhD in Political Science
https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2017/04/do-palestinians-want-a-two-state-solution/

Articles Refuting the so-called “Two-State Solution”:
www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/08/the-two-state-solution-is-holding-israel-hostage/
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2017/06/when-it-comes-to-territorial-compromise-israel-doesnt-have-a-choice/

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PLEASE HELP DEFEND ISRAEL FROM UNFAIR MEDIA:
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http://advocacy.ou.org/
https://antisemitism.uk/
https://twitter.com/EyeOnHamas

www.camera.org

www.DanielPipes.org
www.FactsAndLogic.org
www.HonestReporting.com
www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com

www.memri.org
www.memriTV.org

www.MideastReporter.com
www.MythsAndFacts.org
www.TheIsraelProject.org

www.BBCwatch.org

www.jhrw.com
www.ngo-monitor.org
www.PalWatch.org
www.UKMediaWatch.org
www.UNwatch.org

www.aish.com/jw/mo/4-Reasons-Why-the-Media-is-Biased-against-Israel.html

Monday, July 17, 2017

GUEST POST: Kiddush HaShem 1498

Kiddush HaShem Year 1498 CE
(a guest post by Mr. Cohen)

“In [year] 1498 [CE], at the height of the [Spanish] Inquisition,
the Portuguese king had ordered all Jews who refused to convert
to gather in Lisbon, and from there to be sent into exile by ship.
It was a mean, cruel trick.

About 20,000 hopeful Jews gathered at the quay waiting for
the promised ships, which never arrived. Eventually, they were
herded into tight quarters intended for 5,000 people and starved
there for several days.

The half-starving families, including the elderly and small children,
were repeatedly tempted with offers to convert, with the promise
of a life of luxury and ease [if they would convert to Christianity].

To their eternal credit, no one accepted the offer.

SOURCE: The Rav HaKolel and His Generation, 5^th Edition

(chapter 3, page 28) by Rabbi Yonah Landau, year 2014 CE,

68 Lee Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

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Please also read: If Daniel Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-daniel-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Isaiah Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-isaiah-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Ezekiel Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-ezekiel-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Jeremiah Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-jeremiah-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Ezra Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-ezra-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Nehemiah Were Alive Today:

Please also read: Refuting the Fans of Vashti:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/02/refuting-fans-of-vashti.html
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PLEASE help the battle against
internet anti-Semitism by
making a PayPal donation to:
[email protected].
THANK YOU!!
_________________________________________________________
OTHER BLOG POSTS BY MR. COHEN:

Ancient Roman historians connected Jews with the Land of Israel and Jerusalem:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/02/guest-post-josephus-vs-muslim-liars.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/05/guest-post-cornelius-tacticus.html

Rambam Rejected Childless Messiah:

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/08/rambam-rejected-childless-messiah-by-mr.html

Why Muslims Hate Jews:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/12/guest-post-why-muslims-hate-jews.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-moynihan-1982.html

Forgotten Oppression against Jews:

American anti-Semitism:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-seven-times-stronger.html

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/01/guest-post-jewish-nyc-mayor.html

How a Reform Rabbi Become Orthodox (true story):

Greek NYC Jews and Syrian NYC Jews:

http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/greek-jews-syrian-jews.html

How to Convict the New York Times of Unfair Bias Against Israel:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-how-to-convict-new-york-times.html
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/11/guest-post-nyt-erases-israel-from-map.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/03/guest-postnyt-vs-israel.html

Why Pray for Tzahal-IDF:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/04/guest-post-why-pray-for-idf.html

How to Pray for Tzahal-IDF:
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/09/how-to-pray-for-tzahal-idf.html

Why Israel’s 1967 Borders are Undefendable:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/03/guest-post-why-1967-borders-are-suicide.html
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Do Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution?

by Daniel Polisar, PhD in Political Science
https://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2017/04/do-palestinians-want-a-two-state-solution/

Articles Refuting the so-called “Two-State Solution”:
www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/08/the-two-state-solution-is-holding-israel-hostage/
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2017/06/when-it-comes-to-territorial-compromise-israel-doesnt-have-a-choice/_________________________________________________________

Israel is being buried-alive under an avalanche of media bias
and false accusations.

These web sites can help refute those biases and false accusations:

*********************************************************

PLEASE HELP DEFEND ISRAEL FROM UNFAIR MEDIA:
*********************************************************
http://advocacy.ou.org/
https://antisemitism.uk/

https://twitter.com/EyeOnHamas

www.camera.org

www.DanielPipes.org

www.FactsAndLogic.org
www.HonestReporting.com
www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com

www.memri.org

www.memriTV.org

www.MideastReporter.com

www.MythsAndFacts.org
www.TheIsraelProject.org

www.BBCwatch.org
www.jhrw.com
www.ngo-monitor.org
www.PalWatch.org

www.UKMediaWatch.org

www.UNwatch.org

www.aish.com/jw/mo/4-Reasons-Why-the-Media-is-Biased-against-Israel.html
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Sunday, July 16, 2017

GUEST POST: SEPHARDIM REJECT REFORM

SEPHARDIC JEWS REJECT REFORM JUDAISM
a GUEST POST by Mr. Cohen – quotes listed in time order
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********** QUOTE 1 OF 13: **********

Reform — with rebuke for existing forms inherent in the very word —
was by its nature incompatible with traditional Sephardic orthodoxy.

Reform, an attempt to bring Judaism “up to date,” to make Judaism appear
to be at home with existing American religious patterns, was attacked
by traditionalists as a subversive attempt to “Christianize” Judaism.

Under Reform, women would come down from their secluded balconies
in synagogues, and worship side by side with their husbands.
Men would take off their tall silk hats.

[Reform] synagogues would look more like churches.
English would replace Hebrew.

SOURCE: The Grandees: the Story of America's Sephardic Elite
(chapter 14, page 192) by Stephen Birmingham, year 1971,
First Lyons Press paperback edition, ISBN: 9781493024681 ISBN: 149302468X

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********** QUOTE 2 OF 13: **********

“…it [Reform Temple Emanu-El, in year 1868 CE]
represented — on a national scale — a triumph for the
Reform movement, which the Sephardim had so long opposed.”

SOURCE: The Grandees: the Story of America's Sephardic Elite
(chapter 18, page 253) by Stephen Birmingham, year 1971,
First Lyons Press paperback edition, ISBN: 9781493024681 ISBN: 149302468X

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********** QUOTE 3 OF 13: **********

“While Reform Judaism was remaking the pattern
of Jewish life, threatening to topple the traditional
orthodoxy, these [Sephardic] Jews knew nothing of it.”

SOURCE: The Grandees: the Story of America's Sephardic Elite
(chapter 21, page 273) by Stephen Birmingham, year 1971,
First Lyons Press paperback edition, ISBN: 9781493024681 ISBN: 149302468X

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********** QUOTE 4 OF 13: **********

“…the insistence of the Sephardim on retaining
the Orthodox form of worship — against the trend
toward modernization and Americanization that
has been marked among Jewry all over the country …”

SOURCE: The Grandees: the Story of America's Sephardic Elite
(chapter 22, page 284) by Stephen Birmingham, year 1971,
First Lyons Press paperback edition, ISBN: 9781493024681 ISBN: 149302468X
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********** QUOTE 5 OF 13: **********

“To this day there is no Sephardic synagogue
which is not strictly Orthodox.

Although not all Sephardic Jews are personally Orthodox,
Orthodoxy has remained the official Sephardic tradition.
Nowhere in the entire Sephardic world has
Reform or Conservative Judaism penetrated.”

SOURCE: The Secret Jews (chapter 3, page 99)
by Joachim Prinz, year 1973, Random House,
ISBN-10: 0853031851 ISBN-13: 978-0853031857
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********** QUOTE 6 OF 13: **********

“Enlightenment brought major changes to the Sephardic community too,
but Reform never presented a serious challenge to the established
Orthodox rabbinate, and the vast majority of [Sephardic] lay people,
even those who grew lax in their Halachic observance, remained
attached to the traditional [Orthodox] rituals in the synagogue and the home.”

SOURCE: Piety and Power (chapter 1, page 7)
by David Landau, year 1993 CE, publisher: Hill and Wang,
ISBN 10: 0809076055 ISBN 13: 9780809076055

MICROBIOGRAPHY: David Landau was News Editor
of HaAretz, Managing Editor of The Jerusalem Post
and Israel Bureau Chief for the Jewish Telegraphic agency.

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********** QUOTE 7 OF 13: **********

“The Reform leaders did not rest on their laurels,
and continued agitating until they had obtained a
foothold in virtually every single kehillah in New York.

Out of 100 shuls that had been established in the early 1800s,
only a pitiful ten percent, ten shuls in all, remained Frum [Orthodox].

Three or four of the ten [synagogues that remained
Orthodox in New York] were Sephardic shuls,
and the rest were Ashkenazi shuls that had heroically
managed to withstand the pressure of the Reform movement.”

SOURCE: The Rav HaKolel and His Generation 5^th Edition
(chapter 7, page 53) by Rabbi Yonah Landau, year 2014 CE,
68 Lee Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211

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********** QUOTE 8 OF 13: **********

"…We do declare that:

We affirm the eternality of our holy Torah, the Jewish nation,
and the Holy Land of Israel.

We affirm that our Judaism is solely determined by
the teachings of our Holy Torah, both written and oral,
as passed down through the generations, all the way to Sinai.

Movements such as Conservative and Reform are foreign
to our Torah tradition, and their executions of halachic rites
such as: marriage, divorce, and conversion will NOT be recognized."

SOURCE: RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE
IRANIAN RABBANIM IN THE UNITED STATES
AT ITS FIRST NATIONAL RABBINIC CONFERENCE,
2017 JUNE 7 * YEAR TAF SHIN AYIN ZAYIN, SIVAN 13,
IN ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA

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********** QUOTE 9 OF 13: **********

“There are no Conservative or Reform congregations
affiliated with the Syrian community.”

SOURCE: November 2017 quote from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Jewish_communities_of_the_United_States
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********** QUOTE 10 OF 13: **********

Ashley Perry (Perez) of Jewish News Syndicate said:

“The terms Conservative, Reform, Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox

were never part of the Sephardi lexicon. Our synagogues and

communities have not been divided by their theology or level of observance.”

SOURCE: Give Sephardi Voices a Seat at the Global Jewish Table

by Ashley Perry (Perez) of Jewish News Syndicate (JNS dot org) 2018/1/31
www.jns.org/writers/ashley-perry/
www.algemeiner.com/2018/01/31/give-sephardi-voices-a-seat-at-the-global-jewish-table/

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********** QUOTE 11 OF 13: **********

Rabbi Jeremy Rosen said:

“There was no Reform movement in the Sephardi world, which

explains the dissonance in Israel between Israeli Judaism and American.”

SOURCE: Jewish Intolerance and Sephardim
by Jeremy Rosen, 2018 May 11

http://jeremyrosen.com/2018/05/sephardim.html
www.algemeiner.com/2018/05/11/jewish-intolerance-and-sephardim/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Rosen

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********** QUOTE 12 OF 13: **********

“Rabbi Ken Spiro, a historian and a licensed tour guide from

the Israel Ministry of Tourism…explains that the major difference

between Israel and the Diaspora is that in the Jewish state, there

is a large population of Sephardim (Jews from the Arab world)

who are generally more traditional and historically have had

no exposure to Reform or Conservatism Judaism—movements

that originated in Western European—as well as American

Ashkenazi Jewish communities of the 19th and early 20th centuries.”

SOURCE: Why Israelis aren’t as worked up about the

Western Wall as Diaspora Jews by Josh Hasten, 2018 August 1

www.jns.org/why-the-israelis-arent-as-worked-up-about-the-western-wall-as-diaspora-jews/

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********** QUOTE 13 OF 13: **********

Liam Hoare (freelance writer based in the United Kingdom) said:

“On top of that, Reform and Conservative Judaism were never

present in Sephardi Jewish communities in the Muslim world…”

SOURCE: Reform and Conservative Judaism Have Failed

in Israel and It’s Their Own Fault by Liam Hoare,

March 2015, Issue 24 of The Tower Magazine

http://www.thetower.org/article/reform-and-conservative-judaism-have-failed-in-israel-and-its-their-own-fault/

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Please also read: If Daniel Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-daniel-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Isaiah Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-isaiah-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Ezekiel Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-ezekiel-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Jeremiah Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-jeremiah-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Ezra Were Alive Today:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/03/if-ezra-were-alive-today.html

Please also read: If Nehemiah Were Alive Today:

Please also read: Refuting the Fans of Vashti:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2018/02/refuting-fans-of-vashti.html
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____________________________________________________________
PLEASE help by making
a PayPal donation to:
[email protected].
THANK YOU!!
____________________________________________________________

OTHER BLOG POSTS BY MR. COHEN:

Ancient Roman historians connected Jews with the Land of Israel and Jerusalem:

https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/02/guest-post-josephus-vs-muslim-liars.html
http://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2016/05/guest-post-cornelius-tacticus.html

Rambam Rejected Childless Messiah: