It's Time Once Again - to Expel Yishmael

19 Marcheshvan 5787
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Vayera

The Stone Edition Chumash Commentary:

Ishmael is expelled:  In the ninth of Abraham's Ten Trials, God commanded him to banish Ishmael, because he was a menace to the spiritual health - and perhaps the very life - of Isaac.  To signify Ishmael's gross nature, the Torah describes him as the son of Hagar, the Egyptian.  Despite her many years in the home of Abraham and Sarah, Hagar remained an Egyptian princess, and Ishmael gravitated to her influence rather than Abraham's.  That Abraham found it repugnant to send Ishmael away is clear from the narrative, but he was strong enough to do whatever he was commanded.  As the Patriarch of Israel, his primary responsibility was to subordinate his feelings of love to the dictates of the future.

If only the leaders of the Jewish people today would follow Avraham Avinu's example!!

~ SHABBAT SHALOM ~ 

The Sleepers Have Awakened (Part 2/2)

18 Marcheshvan 5787

(Part 1)

"We Have A Problem..." 

That clip was taken from (IDSF - Israel's Defense and Security Forum)
Israel's Election Result Nobody Expected — and What It Means for the War.
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A lot of right-wingers are screaming that this situation is anti-Zionist!  It seems to me that it is very much "Zionist"...

They've been kicking the can down the road for 78 years!!Reality has now caught up!!
I think it is only right and proper that, on his yahrtzeit, we give Rabbi Meir Kahane the last word...

  

The Sleepers Have Awakened (Part 1/2)

18 Marcheshvan 5787

This is what I wrote on "X" the day following the election in Israel...

The big wake-up call; the big lesson for Israeli Jews from yesterday's experience is this: As long as non-Jews (Arabs) can vote, you don't have - can't have - a "Jewish" country. It is already - and has always been - a state of all its citizens (all with equal rights).

That is an important, even essential, realization that paves the way toward making us a real Jewish country in the future.

As the devastating truth hits home, more and more comments on social media are focused on this very fact. I'm happy to see the direction the discussion is taking.

These are just a few examples.  There are a lot more.  And that's also just on "X" and just on what my account pulls up for me to see.  Contrary to what many foreigners think, the Jews are not suicidal.  They will eventually make the correct conclusions and determine to take the hard actions it will require to survive.

PS:  For the uninformed...

Israel's top court allows Arab parties to run in election

Wesley Dockery with dpa, Reuters

October 2, 2026

The ruling overturns a move by the Central Elections Committee to ban four parties. The conservative Muslim Ra'am party could serve as the kingmaker following the next elections.

(Part 2)