Monday, 17 February 2020
Sunday, 16 February 2020
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THEY EAT ? EAT KOSHER AND STAY ALIVE
At Least 2 Israelis On “Diamond Princess” Test Positive For Coronavirus
Israel’s Health Ministry announced that Japan’s Health Ministry reported on Sunday morning that two Israelis on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship with an outbreak of coronavirus anchored off Yokohama port, tested positive for the coronavirus and were transferred to a hospital in Tokyo. A third Israeli may have contracted the virus as well but test results have not yet been confirmed.
The report added that the Israelis have only mild symptoms.
Israel is sending a senior physician specializing in infectious diseases, Professor Ron Nir-Paz, to Japan on Monday to assist the Israeli patients and ensure they are receiving the best medical care possible. Deputy Director of the Health Ministry Itamar Grotto left to Japan on Motzei Shabbos following Health Minister Yaakov Litzman’s decision last week to send him to Japan to assist the Israelis on the ship.
Earlier on Sunday, Japan’s Health Ministry stated that another 70 people aboard the quarantined ship have tested positive for the coronavirus, raising the total number of people aboard the ship who have contracted the coronavirus to 355.
Meanwhile, the US says Americans aboard a quarantined cruise ship will be flown back home on a chartered flight Sunday, but that they will face another two-week quarantine.
“Based on the high number of COVID-19 cases identified onboard the Diamond Princess, the Department of Health and Human Services made an assessment that passengers and crew members onboard are at high risk of exposure,” the US embassy said in a letter to its passengers.
SIXTEEN CHILDREN
I WAS AT A SHIVA LAST WEEK IN STAMFORD HILL . THE FAMILY CONSISTED OF SIX BOYS AND TEN GIRLS ALL MARRIED AND VERY FRUM.
ONE OF THE SONS TOLD ME A STORY, HIS FATHER WENT IN TO HOSPITAL, AND THE NEXT DAY WHEN HIS SON COMES IN TO HOSPITAL TO VISIT HIS FATHER, A DOCTOR COMES UP TO HIM AND SAYS I THINK YOUR FATHER IS SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA THE SON SAYS TO THE DOCTOR THAT CAN NOT BE POSSIBLE AS YESTERDAY HIS MIND WAS AT FULL STRENGTH.
THE DOCTOR SAYS I ASKED HIM A FEW QUESTIONS TO WHICH HE GAVE RIDICULOUS REPLIES, THE SON SAID TO THE DOCTOR, WHAT DID YOU ASK HIM , I ASKED HOW MANY CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE , HE ANSWERED SIXTEEN, THE SON SAID THANK G-D HE HAS SIXTEEN.
THE FUCKING GOYIM HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF JEWISH PEOPLE.
WE THE JEWISH PEOPLE FEEL WE HAVE TO REPLACE THE SIX MILLIONS THAT FUCKING HITLER WIPED OUT MAKING HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY IS NOT ENOUGH.
WE DO NOT CARE WHAT THE FUCKING GOYIM THINK.
Friday, 14 February 2020
THE HOLY KLAUSENBERGER REBBE ZT"L
An Overview of the Shalom Zachar
(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com)
[Written in honor of the shalom zachar of our ninth grandchild – born to Moshe and Aliza Hoffman.]
The Klausenberger Rebbe zt”l was once shot in the arm r”l by a Nazi while he was in Auschwitz. He was afraid to go to the Nazi infirmary, even there were doctors there. He knew that if he entered that building, it was true sakanas nefashos, and he might never come out alive.
Instead, the Rebbe plucked a leaf from a tree to staunch the bleeding. The Rebbe then cut off a branch and tied it around his wound to hold it in place. It healed in 3 days. He then promised himself that if he would survive the horrible evil that was Auschwitz, he would build a hospital in Eretz Yisrael where every human being would be cared for with dignity. And the basis of that future hospital would be that the doctors and nurses would believe that there is a Creator in this world and that when they treat a patient, they are fulfilling the greatest mitzvah in the Torah.
Fast forward 32 years. The Rebbe did survive. We are in Union City, New Jersey in the Yeshiva’s building. It is now 1976, slightly after Purim, and the Rebbe is conducting a Shalom Zachar, but it is not for his child nor a grandchild. Nor is it for any child of one of his Chassidim.
Who was it for?
In 1976, the maternity ward of the Klausenberger Rebbe’s Laniado hospital in Netanya had just opened up. Its first baby was born. It was a boy. The Rebbe was called and the phone was taken in the nursery where the Rebbe could hear the child cry.
The Rebbe was overcome with emotion. The Nazis had been defeated and Klal Yisroel had survived.
A new child had entered Klal Yisroel.
How could he not make a Shalom Zachar? How could he not make a seudas Mitzvah of thanks? And so he did.
ON SHABBOS AFTER MAARIV
After Maariv in thousands of shuls across the world, the gabbai will announce that a shalom zachar will take place at the house of so and so. We are all tired after a hard week. But the emotion felt by the Klausenberger Rebbe in seeing the continuity of Klal Yisroel should be felt by all of us. How can we not go?
THE MINHAG
It is a minhag in Ashkenazic Jewish circles to host a Shalom Zachar where the baby is found on the Shabbos after a baby boy is born. It is generally held after the Shabbos evening meal. It is not a meal where people wash.
IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING THE REASON FOR MITZVOS
The Rambam (Hilchos Me’ilah 8:8) tells us that it is important to understand the reason why we do our Mitzvos. He also writes this in Moreh Nevuchim (3:31). It is also the view of the Zohar (Parshas Yisro p. 93b) and Rabbeinu Yonah Shaarei HaAvodah #54. This is also true for understanding why we perform our customs. There are three main reasons cited for the custom of the Shalom Zachar.
GRATITUDE REASON
The Terumas HaDeshen (Siman 269) explains that it is a Seudas Hoda’ah, a meal of thanksgiving. It is held in thanks that the child was saved from the travails and dangers involved in the birth. This is how the Terumas HaDeshen understands the view of Rabbeinu Tam cited in Tosfos in Bava Kamma (80a, “Yeshua HaBen”).
NEW SPIN ON THE GRATITUDE REASON
Perhaps the incident cited above gives us a new reason for the Shalom Zachar. Perhaps, in the eyes of the Klausenberger, the baby represents Klal Yisroel. This baby, Klal Yisroel was saved from the travails and dangers of Jewish history. Infant Klal Yisroel had survived the Rindfleish Massacres, the Crusades, the Gzeiras Tach vetat of Chmelnieki, the pogroms of Russia, and the holocaust itself! This baby represents the very continuity of the Jewish people itself.
This reason of Hakaras HaTov for the Shalom Zachar highlights to us the idea that we should always have and develop a feeling of gratitude and appreciation for all that Hashem gives us. We should also have this appreciation for all that others do for us as well. This is a critical component in our development as Ovdei Hashem.
APPRECIATING TORAH REASON
The TaZ cites another reason in the name of the Drisha. The Drisha was written by Rav Yehoshua Falk (1555-1614), a great Posaik from Poland. He writes that is based upon the Gemorah in Niddah 30b that states that when the child is born a malach, an angel, strikes the baby on his mouth and causes the child to forget all of the Torah he had learned while in his mother’s womb. This meal, according to the Drisha, is to mourn the Torah that was lost.
According to this reason, we highlight our appreciation for Torah study. The Torah must always be central to our lives. Every day in Maariv we recite “ki HAIM chayeinu.” Torah is our life itself.
APPRECIATING SHABBOS
The TaZ provides his own reason based upon a Midrash found in chapter 27 of VaYikra Rabba. There, the Midrash explains why the Bris Milah is held on the eighth day. It draws a comparison between a king who tells his subjects that he will only grant them an audience after they first appear before a matronisa – a hostess. The TaZ writes that this is the reason we hold the Shalom Zachar on Shabbos.
From the TaZ we gain an appreciation of the gift that Hashem gave us in the Shabbos. It is important to remember that more than the Jew has kept Shabbos – Shabbos has kept the Jew. Although it is somewhat ironic that the person who coined this expression was not observant, it is, nonetheless, a truism.
WHY NOT FOR GIRLS?
Rav Yechezkel Landau of Prague is noted to have asked the question on the reason cited by the Terumas HaDeshen (in his Dagul Mervavah sefer on Yoreh Deah). If this is the, in fact, the reason for the Seudah to express our appreciation for the salvation of the baby – how come we do not hold this meal when a girl is born?
This author would like to answer that question with a shocking find. In Meseches Smachos Aivel Rabbasi (2:3) – we do find such a meal!
The meal is called “Shavuah HaBas” and it parallels the name found in Bava Kamma called Shavuah HaBen. It is also likely that the Kiddush that we have in shul on Shabbos when a girl is born is in order to fulfill this idea too.
Some relate that Rav Chaim Kanievsky Shlita has consistently advised young women who are still in search of a Shidduch to hold a Kiddush in shul – even if the girl is now in her twenties! It could very well be that the Shabbos Kiddush is a fulfillment of the “Shavuah HaBas” that is referenced in Aivel Rabbasi. Others, however, relate that this is not Rav Chaim’s position.
REASON FOR THE NAME
The Yaavetz writes in his Sefer Migdol Oz that the reason it is called Shalom Zachar is on account of the fact that it is to remember or commemorate the Torah that was lost. While the baby was in the womb he was studying Torah with a malach. That Torah is now no longer – it is lost. This meal commemorates it.
IS IT A SEUDAS MITZVAH?
The Trumas HaDeshen rules that, in fact, the Shalom Zachar is a Seudas Mitzvah. He cites as a proof that the Gemorah in Bava Kamma tells us that Rav entered the meal of Yeshua HaBen (as it was called then, according to the Trumas HaDeshen). We know from elsewhere (Chullin 95b) that Rav never ate at a Seudas Reshus – a festive meal that was not a seudas Mitzvah. Therefore, the Trumas HaDeshen concludes that it is a Seudas Mitzvah.
The Chavos Yair, however, disagrees. He states (Siman 70) that it is possible that Rav had just popped in and did not partake of the actual meal itself.
DELAYED BRIS
If the child is jaundiced or otherwise ill and the Bris will not be held within the next week, there is a debate among authorities as to when the Shalom Zachar is to be held. Some hold it on the Shabbos before the Bris (Yaavetz and Chochmas Adam 149:24), while others (Zocher Habris) hold that it is always the Shabbos after the baby is born. The language of the Ramah seems to indicate that he held to this view. The prevailing custom seems to be that it is held after the birth.
A FRIDAY NIGHT BIRTH
What happens when the baby is born on Friday night? In such circumstances it is often logistically difficult to arrange a Shalom Zachar. The Pri MaGadim (MZ YD 444:9) writes that one does it as close to the birth as possible. The Chayei Adaam, however, disagrees and writes that it should be done as close to the Bris Milah as possible. Each person should ask his own Rav.
CONCLUSION
What is being suggested here is that there may be a fourth reason for the Shalom Zachar seudah. There is the general idea of it being an expression of Hakaras haTov found in the Trumas HaDeshen. There is the reason proposed by the author of the Drisha that it is to enhance our appreciation of Torah. There is the reason further suggested by the TaZ that it is to enhance our appreciation of Shabbos. The fourth reason – suggested by this author but alluded to in the actions of the Klausenberger Rebbe is that it also enhances our appreciation for Jewish continuity.
The author can be reached at yairhoffman2@gmail.com
THE CHAREIDI ARE MORE STUPID THAN THE NOT FRUM
Chareidi Sentenced To 2 Years In French Jail For Smuggling Khat, Sent by Kiryat Sefer Khat Operator
A 20-year-old Chareidi Israeli was sentenced to two years of prison in France and a fine of €14,000 ($15,223) for smuggling khat on Wednesday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday afternoon.
The 20-year-old was arrested a week ago at the airport in Paris when 40 kilograms of khat was found in his possession.
The Chareidi young man was convinced to smuggle khat into Europe by a Kiryat Sefer man, the man behind the network recruiting hundreds of Chareidi young men and women to smuggle Khat into Europe, according to a Chareidim10 report.
Another young man from a Chareidi family was arrested in Czechoslovakia two weeks ago when 40 kilograms of khat was found in his possession.
Attorney Mordechai Tzivin, who specializes in international crime, extradition and Interpol and has voluntarily assisted in over ten cases of Chareidi youth arrested in Europe for smuggling Khat, said that the Kiryat Sefer resident, “D.B.,” convinces the youth that smuggling Khat isn’t dangerous since it’s not an illegal drug in Israel.
Tzivin added that the police are aware of the identities of the Khat operators but they have no legal means to stop them since there is no law that bans taking Khat out of Israel.
The Department of Israelis Abroad in the Foreign Office Consular Division is familiar with over 100 cases of Israelis being arrested in Europe for smuggling khat in the past year.
A Foreign Ministry spokesperson added that “the punishments in Europe for smuggling khat are becoming more and more strict and many young adults are finding themselves in prisons abroad for long periods.”
“The Foreign Ministry again warns young adults and their families not to be tempted by offers to smuggle khat into Europe, where it is illegal and is fully considered a drug.”
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has published multiple warnings to Israeli travelers about smuggling khat, which is legal in Israel. Dozens of Israelis, many of them Chareidi, have been arrested in various countries in the past two years for smuggling khat, which is so widely sought in Europe that one kilogram can be sold for a few hundred euros.
Khat has been used traditionally for centuries in Somalia, Yemen and Ethiopia and khat chewing is an important social ritual there in all types of settings including khat cafes (mafrishes). Although some view it as a mild stimulant, there is evidence that khat is addictive and long term use or abuse has been linked to various disorders, including insomnia, anorexia, gastric disorders, depression, liver damage, heart attacks and psychiatric disorders. Some say that khat is used as a substitute for alcohol in countries where alcohol is prohibited for religious reasons.
The use of khat spread to Europe and North America together with immigrants from Africa and the Middle East, but unlike the immigrants who view khat like coffee, most Western countries place it in the same category as cocaine.
“It is definitely not like coffee,” Garrison Courtney, spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration, told the Los Angeles Times in a 2009 article about khat. “It is the same drug used by young kids who go out and shoot people in Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan. It is something that gives you a heightened sense of invincibility and when you look at those effects, you could take out the word ‘khat’ and put in ‘heroin’ or ‘cocaine.’”
Others add that khat is linked to violence in Somalia.
The UK banned khat in 2013, joining the US, which banned it in 1993, Canada and most European countries.
THE ISRAELIS ARE STUPID
HE MUST BE STOPPED: Kiryat Sefer Resident Is Encouraging Chareidi Youth To Smuggle Khat Substance
The man behind the network recruiting hundreds of Chareidi young men and women to smuggle Khat into Europe lives in Kiryat Sefer, Chareidim10 reported.
Attorney Mordechai Tzivin, who specializes in international crime, extradition and Interpol and has voluntarily assisted in over ten cases of Chareidi youth arrested in Europe for smuggling Khat, said that the Kiryat Sefer resident, “D.B.,” convinces the youth that smuggling Khat isn’t dangerous since it’s not an illegal drug in Israel.
Tzivin added that the police are aware of the identities of the Khat operators but they have no legal means to stop them since there is no law that bans taking Khat out of Israel.
D.B. even tells the Chareidi youth that they don’t have to worry about a jail term since if they are caught by law enforcement agencies, they should turn to the local Chabad shluchim who will make sure they are released.
MK Moshe Arbel (Shas) said on Tuesday morning on Radio Kol Chai that many parents turn to him for assistance after their children are arrested in Europe but there is nothing he could do to help them. He said that he has appealed to the opposition in the Knesset, including Blue & White, to fast-track legislation in the Knesset banning taking Khat out of Israel.
“Dozens of the detainees for smuggling Khat are Chareidim and Datiim,” Arbel said. “Parents call me crying to help them but we can’t interfere in criminal proceedings in other countries.”
“I appealed to the opposition to fast-track legislation banning taking Khat out of Israel. The police are aware of the operators behind the smuggling but they have no legal tool to stop it. It may also be a tax offense.”
I HAVE A QUESTION ?
I WAS WALKING IN THE STREET, AND NOTICED A DOG
HAVING A PEE, WHAT WAS INTERESTING TO ME WAS
THAT IT DID NOT JUST PEE, BUT WENT TO A WALL
LIFTED UP HIS LEG AND PEED ( IT DID NOT WANT TO
GET IT'S LEG WET ) I ASKED A DOG LOVER, HOW DID
IT KNOW TO DO THAT, WITHOUT EDUCATION.
A DOG LOVER ANSWERED ME, THAT IS INSTINCT, THE
SAME WAY AS SEX IS TO AN ANIMAL.
I ASKED HIM DO HUMANS HAVE INSTINCT AS WELL
HE SAID YES.
WHAT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, IS WHY THE
EDUCATION AUTHORITIES, WHO THINK US HUMANS,
NEED SEX EDUCATION, AND OUR INSTINCT ARE NOT
ENOUGH AND WE WOULD PROCURATE LIKE
ANIMALS FROM OUR INSTINCT.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO GAVE ADAM AND EVE
SEX EDUCATION .
Thursday, 13 February 2020
ISRAELIS EAT LIKE MAD, THAT IS THE TRAGEDY
TRAGEDY: Chareidi Woman Dies After Stomach-Shrinking Surgery
A 43-year-old Yerushalmi woman who was suffering from extreme obesity died on Tuesday after having received surgery to shrink her stomach. She had a number of pre-existing illnesses in addition to living with obesity.
Due to her weight, she underwent stomach shrinking surgery last month, a surgery that was deemed successful. Due to a leak that took place following the initial surgery, doctors were forced to operate a second time in order to stop the leak between her stomach and her small intestines.
In spite of the surgery being a success, the woman never regained consciousness. After staying in the ICU for a week, she passed away in spite of the heroic efforts put forth by the doctor.
A spokesperson for Hadassah Har HaTzofim hospital said: “Each year we perform hundreds of similar surgeries, conducted by a team of experts in their field and we have one of the lowest rates of complications resulting from the surgery. A death notice has been given to the Health Ministry and the staff and volunteers here at the hospital express our condolences to the woman’s family.”
THEY ARE MAD FOR A BIT OF FOOD THEY ENDANGER THEIR LIFE
Chinese Factory Owner: “Eating Kosher Saves You From Illness, Tell Am Yisrael To Pray For Us”
Rav Avraham Schlesinger, an Israeli senior kashrus supervisor, recently said in a shiur that a Chinese factory owner whose factory he supervises wrote to him that the coronavirus, which is believed to have originated with bats, shows how eating kosher saves Jews from illnesses, Kikar Shabbos reported.
“We see that the Jewish concept of eating kosher saves you from illnesses because the entire epidemic apparently began due to the consumption of bats,” the factory owner wrote. “We also see how powerless human beings are as is accepted in the Jewish faith.”
Rav Schlesinger added: “The factory owner requested that I convey to Am Yisrael: ‘Pray for us. You are close to G-d.'”
Rav Schlesinger, the head kashrus supervisor of Badatz Chanichei HaYeshivos, also said in his shiur that mashgichei kashrus are continuing to travel to China via other countries, adding that that the Av Beis Din of the kehilla, Hagaon Rav Mordechai Gross, paskened that from a halachic viewpoint mashgichim are permitted to travel to Chinese cities far away from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.
“There a big kashrus project in China,” said Rav Schlesinger. “It’s a project that’s carried out over many months of the year and requires a large staff of mashgichim. A new round of work is scheduled to start now which will continue until the end of Iyar and requires a large staff of mashgichim there at all times – including Pesach.”
“Many shailos came up regarding the project. Harav Gross was asked, among other shailos, whether it’s permissible to allow a mashgiach who is willing to do so to travel to China, mainly due to his dire financial situation. The halachich safek is if all of China is considered a “makom mageifah” or only the Wuhan city area.”
“At first we thought that it will be a matter of days and we began to broadcast the project live to Eretz Yisrael as we hoped that within a short amount of time, the mashgichim will arrive and check over what was done. But the days are passing and there’s also no workers so the whole existence of the project was in doubt. Due to this, Harav Gross paskened that a mashgiach who wants to travel to China to a city far away from the epidemic is permitted to do so.”
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