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By Malka Eisenberg

By Malka Eisenberg

The images are vivid, wrenching, visceral and simultaneously reaching, grasping and reassuring, thought provoking, connecting. The Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst is hosting an exhibit of 22 of Stan (Shlomo) Lebovic’s art works, “Black is a Color,” this Motzai Shabbat (Saturday evening), January 12, at 8:00 pm.

Lebovic’s work is a blending of Holocaust images and Jewish concepts. It is a synthesis of deep analytical philosophic Torah and Jewish historic insights, connecting ties to G-d, and Holocaust references.

Lebovic has toured the U.S., presenting his art and explanations to synagogues, schools, and Holocaust museums with requests to go beyond an hour’s discussion to feature lecture series, and Shabbatons.

The current exhibit consists of 22 two-foot by six-foot freestanding banners. Lebovic

Both Americans and Israelis treasure the unique mutual friendship of the two democratic countries, hearkening back to President Harry Truman’s pioneering recognition of the newly reconstituted State of Israel in 1948.

This friendship is still maintained although it has at times seemed to be on shaky ground.

Three recent presidential appointments and the actions of a previous vice president have left members of Congress and pundits to question the motives and thought process involved in the choices.

President Barak Obama nominated (Charles) Chuck Hagel, former Republican United States SenaJOHN MCCAIN tor of Nebraska Senator (R. Arizona) from 1997 to 2009, to the position of Secretary of Defense. He is a Vietnam War veteran, and returned to careers in banking, voting machine manufacturing, and is now a university professor and is co-chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. He serves on various boards of directors; one is Chevron Corporation. Said Helen Freedman, Executive Director of AFSI (AmeriContinued on page 3

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The quilt that was sewn and donated to a Sderot bomb shelter by the NSHAHS Israel Awareness Club.

North Shore High School gives back to community

By Anna Hardcastle

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Black is a Color artist Stan Lebovic.

Amidst their piles of school work and extra-curricular activities, the students of North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck still find ample time to donate to the community. Ninth and tenth graders at North Shore are required to perform thirty hours of community service per year; however, many upperclassmen continue their volunteer endeavors throughout their high school careers.

Within the building, students volunteer for the Peer Mentoring program coordinated

by Principal of Judaic Studies Rabbi Noam Weinberg. This program sets up students that

are struggling in certain subject areas with other students who have mastered those topics. Peer mentors meet with students to study for tests, help with homework or to simply review skills in a specific area. Rabbi Weinberg said, “The Peer Mentoring program is indicative of the level of respect that students show for each other and the overall culture of our Yeshiva high school. I have been in undated with students who ask me if they can help their fellow peers. I am so taken by this beautiful show of care and concern that students show for each other. The quality and sensitivity of our students truly sets us apart.”

Students and teachers organize various Continued on page 3

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have serious concerns about positions (he) has taken on a range of critical national-security issues in recent years.’

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The silver kiddush “Cup of Love and Prayer� and its wooden base designed to commemorate Rav Shlomo Carlebach’s 18th yahrzeit.

A cup of love and prayer:

Rav Shlomo’s 18th yahrzeit

By Malka Eisenberg This weekend brings a conuence of events commemorating the continued inuence of Rav Shlomo Carlebach, a’h, on the Jewish world, in music, kiruv, and the expanding circle of his admirers on his 18th yahrtzeit.

This Motzai Shabbat (Saturday night), January 12th, Neshama Carlebach, Shlomo’s daughter and a musician in her own right, will hold a concert in his memory at the Carlebach shul in Manhattan. On Monday evening, January 14th, Jonathan Greenstein and Neshama Carlebach will present a Kiddush cup, that they codesigned in memory of Shlomo, at Greenstein’s Judaica gallery in Cedarhurst.

Shlomo Carlebach was born in 1925 in Berlin and passed away in 1994 at the age of 69. He is buried in Har Hamenuchot in Jerusalem, Israel. Shlomo, the scion of a German rabbinic dynasty, began his studies in Lithuania and came to the U.S. in 1939. He was a student at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, and Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn and Beth Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood. Carle-

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bach received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner. He worked as an emissary of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson from 1951 through 1954; the Lubavitcher Rebbe set Carlebach on his path to kiruv, to go to colleges to return Jews to Judaism. He played guitar and composed thousands of original songs with lyrics from Tanach (Torah, Prophets, Writings) and the siddur (prayers); his legacy in the Baal Teshuva movement and his music, often in Carlebach minyanim worldwide, continues to grow and thrive. “I am a big fan, a chossid of Shlomo,â€? said Jonathan Greenstein. “His music kept me connected with religion. The ďŹ rst place I stop in Israel, right from the airport, is by my Rebbe at Har Hamenuchos.â€? Greenstein saw him at an NCSY event when he was a teenager after he left Yeshiva of Flatbush and entered public school. “His music touched a raw nerve, a part of my soul that was completely missing from all the nonsense shoved down my throat in yeshiva,â€? he said. Greenstein often leads the Carlebach minyan at the Continued on page 10

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Continued from page 1 programs within the school on a regular basis. Physical Education Instructor Mrs. Debra Gold coordinates the school’s community service system and assists students who wish to make a difference. Last month, Mrs. Gold supervised a group of students from each grade who created a unique campaign to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. North Shore donated a whopping total of $14,000 to the society for cancer research and assistance for those affected. In the weeks following the devastating Hurricane Sandy, Mrs. Gold and a handful of students organized a drive to collect household cleaning supplies which were donated to areas that were destroyed by the storm. A learn-a-thon was also organized in which students gathered sponsors who agreed to donate money to the relief fund for Hurricane Sandy for every minute of Torah studied. Under the supervision of Mrs. Gold, several students plan to raise money to purchase a memorial stone with surrounding shrubs and flowers to commemorate the 26 innocent lives that were lost in last month’s Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy.

Many students also join with Dr. Jean Devlin, Director of Student Special Services at NSHAHS, to donate community service hours to Project Interact, an organization that engages in various missions, ranging from eliminating Polio to providing literacy for young children. The Anti-Bias Taskforce, supervised by Mrs. Merrie Coron, coordinates visits to local soup kitchens to provide and pack food for impoverished families during the holidays and throughout the year. In addition, numerous blood drives and canned food drives are coordinated throughout each school year.

Several alumni of North Shore came together to organize a basketball game to raise money to build a bomb shelter in Ashkelon following the nuclear disaster that recently occurred within Israel’s borders. Hebrew Instructor and Coordinator of Israel Awareness Mrs. Orna Amir also arranged an appeal to raise money for a recreational bomb shelter in Sderot. Along with the Israel Awareness Club, Mrs. Amir sold pieces of felt for $10 for students to decorate with inspirational and supportive messages and drawings. The felt pieces were then sewn together into a

The coordinators of a Blood Drive at NSHAHS in 2012.

Left to right: Sydney Ruben, Sarah Blumner.

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blanket which was sent to Sderot to be hung in the bomb shelter to provide moral support for the children and families who frequently had to go there seeking safety during Operation Pillar of Defense. All sums of money were gratefully accepted and the North Shore body raised an astounding total of $2,267 which was donated to the Sderot shelter. Eleventh grader and Vice President of the Israel Awareness Club Emma Oberstein stated, “The alacrity of students, teachers and parents to help those in need has really paid off here at North Shore. Coming together to make a difference for children who live in fear daily has made us appreciate how truly fortunate we are.”

Outside of school, NSHAHS students further contribute their time and effort to their respective communities. Many students volunteer at local Friendship Circle organizations as well as the Kulanu Academy, both of which provide services and support to Jewish children with special needs.

With a student body of only 400 students, North Shore Hebrew Academy High School shines through its community service and

The participants in the 2012 Project Interact. Left to right: Mrs. Jean Devlin, supervisor, Ethan Swartz, Naomi Terzi, Gabby Zabih, Elicia Bessaleli, Max Abraham, Nati Aronoff, Naomi Hakimi, Eden Bessaleli, Erica Roth.

The coordinators of the fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Left to right: Romi Elias, Sarah Silverstein, Michael Golpanian, Talia Hakimi, Jacob Hakimi.

chesed endeavors. Headmaster Dr. Daniel Vitow warmly said, “There has never been a time that the students of the North Shore Hebrew Academy High School have neglected to do the right thing. They are the most caring and compassionate students I have ever

worked with. They are respectful, caring and sensitive young adults who are a credit to the Jewish community and society at large.”

From tutoring peers to collecting money for cancer research, the students and teachers of NSHAHS are always willing to lend a helping hand.

Politicians and pundits ponder Presidential picks Continued from page 1 can Friends for a Safe Israel), “his animosity towards Israel and the Jews has been expressed countless times over the years. He failed to sign a bi-partisan letter to the EU to add Hezbollah to its list of terrorist organizations. As Chairman of the Atlantic Council, he approved the publication of a front page article titled, “Israel’s Apartheid Policy.” Nebraska Jews are quoted as saying about their Senator that he “didn’t give a damn about the Jewish community.” He was one of only two U.S. Senators who voted against renewing the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act.” Senator John McCain, (R. Arizona) said, “ I have serious concerns about positions (he) has taken on a range of critical national-security issues in recent years.”

Another presidential appointee is John Brennan, to the position of director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Brennan is currently Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and Assistant to the President.

He earned a BA in political science from Fordham, learning Arabic and Middle Eastern studies at the American University in Cairo in his junior year abroad. He has an MA in Middle Eastern studies and is fluent in Arabic. His CIA career of 25 years included time in Saudi Arabia. He was deputy executive director of the CIA in 2001. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) “has expressed concern at and opposition to” Brennan’s nomination, citing his unwillingness to name radical Islam as “waging war on the U.S.”, calling Jerusalem “Al Quds,” criticizing the U.S. for “Iran bashing” as the source of the problem the U.S. has with Iran, believing 2003 reports that Iran had abandoned its nuclear program, defending Hezbollah as having moderated, and other concerns. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said that Brennan’s nomination as “someone who has whitewashed Hezbollah as a moderating, legitimate political group, pretends jihad is a harmless and unproblematic Muslim religious obligation, and called Jerusalem

Al-Quds – is deeply worrying and a further sign of the disastrously wrong direction the Obama Administration is taking the U.S.” The third appointee causing pundit concern is the President’s choice of senior U.S. Senator John Kerry to the position of Secretary of State. He has been a senator (Democrat) in Massachusetts since 1985. He served in the naval reserve in Vietnam for four months. Kerry has a record of not signing on to letters to support sanctions against Iran, that Arabs negotiate with Israel, renounce terror and recognize Israel’s right to exist. In 2003, Kerry condemned Israel’s security barrier, a safety measure that prevented countless terrorist attacks in Israel. Kerry met with Syrian father and son dictators Hafez and Bashir Assad at different times, and termed Syria “an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region.”

Citing Kerry’s record, Klein stated that Kerry “would be weak on Iran, terrorism and supporting Israel.”

In other news, former United States Vice

President Al Gore sold his cable television company to Al Jazeera, the Qatari based Arab media company. Gore, a promoter of green energy and who reportedly never took advertising from oil companies, now turned over his media company to an oil based country’s news arm. This greatly expands the Arab station’s market in the U.S. Said Freedman “I am not surprised, but dismayed at Al Gore’s December 31, under the tax deadline, sale of his Current TV to Al Jazeera. He felt that selling to Glenn Beck would be betraying his ideals, so selling to an outlet that supports Hamas, Hezbollah and the terrorist organizations that threaten America and Israel seems to fit into his ideology. No surprise here, but we see this as a shameful act of betrayal.”

To voice your concerns call New York Senator Charles Schumer at 212 486-4430 or in Washington at 202 224-6542 or email at www. schumer.senate.gov/contact/ and call New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at 212 688-6262 or in Washington at 202 224-4451 or email at www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/

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Opinion Obama’s “House Jews” split on Hagel

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ccording to NBC White House reporter Chuck Todd, the President’s Chief of Staff Jack Lew spent much of the weekend talking to the Jewish figures that worship progressive policy above all else. His purpose was to convince them to drop (or at least temper) their opposition to Chuck Hagel’s candidacy for Secretary of State.

Lew’s efforts were partially successful.

In a previous article, I questioned what the National Jewish Democratic Council POLITICO (NJDC) would do. In TO GO 2007, they wrote a long, detailed attack on Hagel outlining his anti-Semitic and antiIsrael views. (They took the page down when Obama began to express interest in Hagel for his administration...but I saved it on my website.)

Back in 2009 when Hagel was appointed to a minor position in the Jeff Dunetz Obama administration, Ira Forman, then executive director of the NJDC, suggested that NJDC would publicly oppose Hagel’s nomination for a position with more authority.

“If [Hagel] was taking a policy role, we’d have real concerns,” Forman said. And Forman indicated that his group would oppose Hagel’s appointment to any position that had influence over U.S.-Israel relations.

Now that Obama has made the Hagel appointment, they rushed out a statement offering support.

“President Barack Obama’s unprecedented pro-Israel credentials are unquestionable, and setting policy starts and stops with the President. While we have expressed concerns in the past, we trust that when confirmed, former Senator Chuck Hagel will follow the President’s lead of providing unrivaled support for Israel -- on strategic cooperation, missile defense programs, and leading the world against Iran’s nuclear program.”

Perhaps this group should change its name to the NHJDC, The National Hypocritical Jewish Democratic Council.

Jack Lew’s urging also worked on ADL

Head Abe Foxman, ever willing to kowtow to any progressive leader. Back in mid-December (before Lew began his “Love Chuck” calls), Foxman said this about a possible Hagel pick: “The sentiments he’s expressed about the Jewish lobby border on anti-Semitism in the genre of professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt and former President Jimmy Carter.”

His comments yesterday were much tamer: “Senator Hagel would not have been my first choice, but I respect the President’s prerogative.

I trust that the confirmation process will provide an opportunity for Senator Hagel to address concerns about his positions, which seem so out of sync with President Obama’s clear commitment on issues like Iran sanctions, isolating Hamas and Hezbollah and the President’s strong support for a deepening of U.S. Israel strategic cooperation.

I particularly hope Senator Hagel will clarify and explain his comments about the “Jewish Lobby” that were hurtful to many in the Jewish Community.”

If Hagel was appointed by a Republican president, the ADL comment would have been much closer to his December “Jimmy Carter” comment.

On December 19th David Harris, the head of the AJC (and Obama Fundraiser), said: “The first AJC encounter with Sen. Hagel I recall, was when we sought his support, in 1999, for a Senate letter to then Russian President Boris Yeltsin urging action against rising anti-Semitism. We were unsuccessful.

On June 20, 1999, we published the letter as a full-page ad in The New York Times with 99 Senate signatories. Only Sen. Hagel’s name was absent.

Our concern then has only grown since, as we have witnessed his stance on a range of core U.S. national security priorities.

What is striking is that the opposition to him today is being labeled as “neocon,” when a number of his documented positions, in fact, have been contrary to the Obama Administration’s to date — on Iran sanctions, on a credible military option against Iran, on Hezbollah as a terrorist group, on the special nature of the U.S.-Israel relationship, etc.”

Unlike Foxman, Harris refused to join in lock step with Obama’s Consigliore Lew. Yes-

terday, Harris told Ha’aretz : “The President, of course, has the prerogative to select members of his Cabinet, but the Senate is obligated to probe the record and vision of every nominee. We look forward to Senator Chuck Hagel’s responses to Senators’ questions to determine whether he is the best choice for secretary of defense,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris.

“There are serious concerns about Hagel’s commitments to the efficacy of sanctions and a credible military option against Iran, on pressing the European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, on sustaining the U.S. policy on the terrorist Hamas regime in Gaza, on the special nature of the U.S.-Israel relationship and Israel’s quest for peace and security, and on gay rights,” Harris added.

New York’s senior (and Jewish) Senator did what he always does when Obama makes an anti-Israel move—he punted. I received this official statement from the senator’s press office.

“Chuck Hagel, as a former colleague and a patriot with a decorated service record, has earned the right to nothing less than a full and fair process in the Senate. I look forward to fully studying his record and exploring his views.”

Proving, once again, when push comes to shove, Schumer will serve himself first. Heck even New York’s junior Senator said there are concerns regarding the nomination, more than Schumer. The below is Senator Gillibrand’s statement on the Hagel nomination: “Senator Hagel is a war hero who served our country honorably and was prescient in his questioning of the Iraq war. But we must look at his entire public service record in its totality in the upcoming confirmation hearings. Considering some of the statements Senator Hagel has made, and votes he has cast, particularly regarding Iran policy, tough questions must and will be asked to clarify his views before these hearings are complete.

I look forward to a fair and thorough process.”

Interestingly, Alan Dershowitz, another Obama mouthpiece has offered to testify against Hagel.

“And I’m opposed to him for one primary reason, and that is [Hagel’s appointment] is going to send the wrong message to the Iranian mullahs. They could easily misunder-

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stand that the President is backing away from his commitment not to allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons, because Hagel has opposed keeping a military option on the table. And it’s the wrong time to send mixed messages to those who are looking for an excuse for misunderstanding.”

On the humorous side, Ed Koch, who in both 2008 and 2012, first opposed Obama based on his anti-Israel track record, then supported and campaigned for him in Jewish Communities, used the Hagel nomination to admit that he had degenerated into a political hack.

“Frankly, I thought that there would come a time when he would renege on what he conveyed on his support of Israel,” said Koch, adding, “it comes a little earlier than I thought it would.”

“It’s very disappointing, I believe he will ultimately regret it,” Koch said, “and it undoubtedly will reduce support for him in the Jewish community, but I don’t think he (the President) worries about that now that the election is over.”

In other words, “Yes, I campaigned for Obama and yes, even though I said he was a friend of Israel, but I knew he was lying…I just thought it wouldn’t happen so early in his administration.”

Other Jewish senators, including Diane Feinstein and Carl Leven, have announced their support for Hagel and AIPAC, not wanting to get into a battle they can’t win, have decided to “sit this one out.”

It’s sad when organizations and politicians we support because of their moral stands on issues such as Israel and fighting terrorism, get all weak-kneed when the choice becomes one of morality vs. political expediency.

Many of those mentioned above have chosen their political career over “the right thing to do.’ But then again, that is really nothing new…after all they are Obama’s “House Jews.”

Jeff Dunetz is the Editor/Publisher of the political blog “The Lid” (www.jeffdunetz.com).

Jeff contributes to some of the largest political sites on the internet including American Thinker, Big Government, Big Journalism, NewsReal and Pajama’s Media, and has been a guest on national radio shows including G. Gordon Liddy, Tammy Bruce and Glenn Beck.

Jeff lives in Long Island.

Letter to the editor ficials will soon come forward to the Not Hagel community - pressuring Jewish esDear Editor: As someone well-schooled in politics, permit me a prediction concerning the ill-advised nomination of Senator Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary. His hostility towards Israel and his dangerous level of tolerance for the prevarications, stalling tactics, genocidal intentions and the like of the Iranians, Hamas, Islamists galore and others of like mind is only too well-known.

Our focus ought to be on Jewish elected federal officials of the President’s party in particular. The President makes his position on certain vital issues clear to all of us from this nomination.

My prediction? Those elected of-

tablishment leadership groups - with a scenario to go something like this: “We’ve met with Senator Hagel and he has made pronouncements which give us his assurance of commitment to Israel, fighting terrorism, strengthening the U.S.-Israel military partnership and …we are prepared to support him.”

These are the same kinds of people who explain to you that they “work behind the scenes” whenever dark clouds arise.

These people should be candidates for the “behind the scenes work” required of CIA officers. They may do better than John Brennan.

Jeffrey S. Wiesenfeld

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Coming home: the covenantal promise

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here are certain things in life we take for granted, and chief amongst these are the relationships we have built over a lifetime. So one wonders exactly what Hashem (G-d) is saying at the beginning of this week’s portion: “And G-d spoke to FROM THE HEART Moshe and said to him OF JERUSALEM ‘I am G-d’.” (Exodus 6:2) Why is G-d introducing Him/Her self to Moshe? Especially considering the point we are at in the story: After seventy-nine years, at the burning bush, Moshe accepts the mission to go back to Egypt and facilitate the redemption of the Jewish people from Rabbi Binny slavery. Moshe arrives Freedman back in Egypt and things seem to be off to a good start, but something goes terribly wrong, and overnight the dream becomes a nightmare. Not only are the Jews not free, they are more enslaved than ever. In response to Moshe’s and Aaron’s request for freedom, Pharaoh has doubled the already impossible workload, and the Jews bend under the terrible burden. Moshe, in response to the people’s bitter challenge, calls out to the G-d who has promised redemption, asking: “Why have you sent me?” (5; 22) Where is the redemption You promised us is at hand?

And it is at this juncture that G-d decides to ‘introduce’ Himself!? What can this mean?

Further, G-d seems to continue with a short history lesson: “And I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob… but my name I did not reveal to them. And I have also fulfilled my covenant to give them the land of Canaan that they once lived in.” (ibid. ; 6:3-4) Huh? What covenant, exactly, has G-d fulfilled? They are still slaves in the land of Egypt, and their oppression is worse than ever!

Deep in the heart of the old city of Jerusalem, lies a broad wall, covered with moss, and steeped in history. Most tourists don’t seem to get that far, bypassing the corner street that leads to it, in search of betterknown historical sites. It’s almost as though this wall comes to those who earn it.

Twenty seven hundred years ago, the big bully on the block was the empire of Assyria. Ashur, as it was called in the Bible, had mustered the largest army the world had ever seen: 185,000 men. And this army, commanded by Saragon, the great Assyrian general, had been waging a campaign of terror and destruction over the entire Middle East.

In the Talmud, Saragon is called Sancheirev, from the language of Churban, destruction; Sancheirev was the destroyer. After destroying the ten northern tribes in a brutally violent military campaign, Sancheirev set his sights on the pearl of the Middle East: Jerusalem.

The southern kingdom of Judea was not much to speak of twenty seven hundred years ago. Encompassing some twenty or thirty square miles around Jerusalem, with little in the way of a standing army, and no natural barriers to rely on, the Jews who managed to stay ahead of the advancing Assyrian army, escaped into the old city walls of Jerusalem.

Soon, the city was overflowing with thirty thousand Jews, desperate to survive the coming onslaught. The King at the time was Chizkiahu (Hezekiah), who was also a prophet, and the Book of Kings tells how he set about fortifying the walls of the city, which had fallen into disrepair. Especially, the verses point out how he built a broad wall to encompass all the homes that had sprouted up in the northwestern corner of the city outside the walls. Indeed, in their haste to build this wall ahead of the advancing Assyrians, they built up two outer walls, throwing stone and mud inside to achieve a wide, broad wall against the Assyrian battering rams, and they built it up in some places on top of some of the homes to save time. One has the sense the last stones were in place just in time.

What must it have felt like, to see 185,000 men bent on your destruction coming up through the valley and surrounding your home?

Things soon went from bad to worse.

There was no food, and the Jews were starving to death. There were no other options, so King Chizkiahu did what Jews have been doing ever since: he called the entire city together in prayer.

Understand that these thirty thousand Jews represented the entire Jewish people; there was no one else left. And they were surrounded by the mightiest army the world had ever known. Twenty seven hundred years ago, we were on the verge of the final solution to the Jewish problem.

But, any time the entire Jewish people will get together to do anything, is a moment of enormous promise. So the people pray, and Hashem performs a miracle. In the middle of the night, the entire Assyrian army falls dead before the angel of the Lord.

(Amazingly, this story which is told partly in the 19th chapter of the second book of Kings is also described in the ancient writings of Herodotus, the historian of Alexander the great, who says the 200,000 strong army of Assyria mysteriously dies of a mysterious plague outside the walls of Jerusalem.)

Today, you can see this wall, discovered courtesy of Jordanian mortar fire in the SixDay War. You can see how the wall is built as a broad wall, rising on top of ancient homes and built exactly as the Bible describes.

Carbon dated along with the Assyrian arrowheads found below it in the valley, it sits quietly triumphant, at long last rediscovered, having waited so long for her children to come home.

There are no words to describe what it feels like to stand above such a wall, listening to the wind howling through the alleys of Jerusalem. It is almost too much to take in. So you look at one stone, and you wonder where these Jews, so long ago, found the faith to build such a wall and still believe they would survive….

So what is this covenant G-d speaks of to Moshe? A thousand years earlier, this was the covenant G-d made with Abraham. Abraham, seeing himself childless at nearly one hundred years old, is promised by G-d that he will have a son who will inherit his dream.

And Abraham (Genesis 15:4-6) trusts in G-d and believes in this promise. But then Abraham asks an amazing question: ‘How do I know my descendants will really inherit this land?’ (15: 8) Incredibly, Abraham, who has no problem believing he and Sarah will have a child, though Sarah is ninety years old, does not Continued on page 14

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Shabbat and a Jewish family: a true modern miracle After the Holocaust, Mr. Levinsky (not his real name) refused to join his brothers` business in Switzerland, even though it would have made him a millionaire. He preferred to stay in London, working as an accountant, rather than work in a business that was open on Shabbat. His brothers broke all contact with him. Years later, upon his deathbed, his older brother acknowledged that he had been mistaken; while he ran after his millions, abandoning Judaism, his London based brother raised a wonderful family - the Swiss based children couldn`t find happiness with all their money. And there`s an extra caveat at the end of this story ...

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A cup of love & prayer: remembering Rav Shlomo Continued from page 2 Young Israel of Woodmere.

A Judaica dealer since age 14, Greenstein owns businesses in home health care and real estate but Judaica is “my love and passion. “ He met Neshama Carlebach through the band PeyDalid and they became friends.

Greenstein wanted to do something for Rav Shomo’s 18th yahrzeit, what would have been his 88th birthday. “Shlomo’s most special thing in the world was Shabbos,” explained Greenstein. He asked Neshama how Shlomo made Kiddush, the blessing over wine recited on Friday evening and Saturday at noon before two of the Shabbat meals, and she cupped her hands, showing that he held the cup in the palm of his hand. Neshama and Greenstein designed the silver Kiddush cup together, with a rounded base so it sits in the palm of a hand. Each cup is made from two pieces of 925 silver by Greenstein’s silversmith in Jerusalem in a workshop 20 feet from the Mamila Mall. Each cup is hammered by hand and engraved with the words: “Good Shabbos, Good Shabbos, The Cup of Love and Prayer. Designed by Jonathan Greenstein and Neshama Carlebach.” Its name is a reference to the kiruv center for song, dance and gatherings for unaffiliated Jewish youth called the House of Love and

Prayer set up by his followers in San Francisco in the 1960s.

“So many of us believe in G-d and traditions,” said Neshama Carlebach. “When they hold this cup, they connect to what my father gave on a spiritual level in a physical sense.

He was a spiritual human being.” His music helps “bring his energy down, helps people connect with G-d and themselves on a spiritual level.” She noted that people who are not observant are “not getting in the door, and even the observant, its hard to be mindful and now even more. Hashem wants us to connect.” She pointed out that the cup “has to be passed hand to hand, passed from one human being to another—you can’t put it down for someone else to take it. My father was connected to everything meaningful and G-dly. I can’t think of anything more meaningful to celebrate his life. It’s a beautiful tribute.”

Neshama explained that January 14th is Shlomo’s English birthday, the 18th of Tevet is his Hebrew birthday and his yahrtzeit, the day of his death, is the 16th of Cheshvan. She has a yearly commemoration on his yahrtzeit at the Carlebach shul, but it was postponed due to Hurricane Sandy. She sings his songs and speaks about him at these events. “It’s beautiful and meaningful for me,” she said.

“It is celebrating his life and remembering his petirah (death).“ She said that it is often sold out but “call to see if there’s space.”

She said that many didn’t give her father credit for his work and that she “had an issue with that. He was an innovator, a pioneer; he was changing the world. No one in the world doesn’t have a story or memory” about him.

“I just think he’s more alive then ever. It’s a beautiful thing. When someone is gone from this world they tend to fade. But the world remembers and keeps him here. I am very grateful.”

Greenstein made ten silver Kiddush cups.

He wanted to “do something the not yet so learned person could associate with just to connect with a physical Shabbos connection with Reb Shlomo.” He said that Shlomo died in poverty, giving everything that he made in his life to charity. “I felt he was deserving of it now, to do something in his memory.” A portion of the sales, “a big chunk,” said Greenstein, will be donated to the Israel Children’s Cancer Fund. Each cup is priced at $2500.

He also made a silver charity box, a replica of Rav Shlomo’s grave. It is, said Greenstein, “also hand wrought and comes with five CDs of previously unreleased Reb Shlomo recordings.” It is priced at $7500.

“G-d is in all of us,” said Neshama. “We

Photo courtesy of Jonathan Greenstein

Jonathan Greenstein, owner of Greenstein Gallery in Cedarhurst. are G-d’s Kiddush cup.”

For more information about Neshama’s concert go to www.carlebachshul.org. The shul is at 305 West 79th Street in Manhattan.

The concert is at 8 pm on January 12th. For more information call 212 580-2391.

The ten Kiddush cups and the charity box will be displayed on January 14th between 8 and 10 pm at Greenstein Gallery, 417 Central Avenue. Everyone, said Greenstein, is invited.

YILC hosts Holocaust art exhibit “Black is a Color” Continued from page 1 presents his art and explains his ideas, philosophy and creative process about six of the works. His work is also available in book form, with each image printed along with one of his essays related to the art. He is also in the process of completing work on a Haggadah.

Lebovic was born in Los Angeles, California in 1963, the son of a Holocaust survivor, raised and comforted by the embrace of his father’s tattooed arm. “I remember him talking about his past from the earliest age,” recalls Lebovic. “His manner of discussion provided a relatively safe environment for him to discuss what had happened to him.

He really left his emotions in the camps, and spoke of his ordeal in a very non-emotional, almost matter of fact manner. I never got the sense that he was bitter or sad. No tears, no anger. I was very interested in what he went through. I think the fact that my mother had not gone through the war--she grew up in Bogota, Columbia--and she was genuinely interested in hearing his story along with us, gave me and my brother the security we needed to endure and the comfort we needed to press on with questions. The stories left me with a profound sense of purpose. When someone’s father says he truly believes that he was saved by the hand of G-d, it begs the question, ‘Why would G-d go out of His way to save my father? Could I afford to turn my back on such a legacy or is it incumbent upon me to make G-d’s efforts worthwhile?’

“Having been told by my father that he continued to believe in G-d, I quickly developed a relationship with G-d. I was not raised religious, but I was raised to be faithful. As I grew, my connection to G-d continued to expand and take on more and more of the religion. By the time I was in my upper teens I began keeping Shabbos and, after high school, I went to Israel and attended yeshiva.

The Holocaust began as a great motivator, but as I grew and became religious, I encountered more and more internal turmoil over the existence of so much evil in a world that

I believed was guided by a good G-d. When I could no longer quiet the demons, I wanted to use my creative abilities to portray my struggle.”

He studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., owned several illustrative service companies, and published a children’s book. He gave his business to an employee in 2007 for a percentage of future revenue. “I simply could not focus on the art and the business so I had to make a choice,” Lebovic explained. He terms his work a “personal quest” not knowing how far this would take him in delving into his issues or how much he would produce. He focused on what was “most disturbing at the moment” characterizing this as a “very emotionally charged period of time.” He produced each work with long essays and began to display his work in response to others’ requests to see it. He explains his creative and analytical process, providing him with “the opportunity to continue my exploration along with others and, together, grapple with the really big issues.”

As for his studies of the Haggadah, he terms it, “the single document which Judaism chooses to use as the vehicle for transmitting faith from one generation to the next.” Rather than analyzing it at the Seder night, he “decided to hold up each section to the light and see if I couldn’t find monumental expressions of faith in every word.”

Rabbi David Fohrman, Resident Scholar, Young Israel of Woodmere and Lead Educator, Aleph Beta, is familiar with Lebovic’s work. “What is particularly remarkable about the personal viewpoint he constructs, is its fusion of dark experience with the light and illumination that comes from a profound meditation on Jewish sacred texts,” Fohrman pointed out. “Stan takes pieces of text that are very familiar to many of us, and makes them unfamiliar, strange, and glorious in his new retelling of them. He searches out the ambiguities in these texts, the irony latent in them – and then lays them before our eyes, in newly unfamiliar form, along with images to match. The combined effect can shake the

Photos courtesy of “Black is a Color”

Artist Stan Lebovic explaining his creative process and his analysis of his work at one of his “Black is a Color” art exhibits. reader loose of his preconceived notions, comfortable and banal assumptions, like very little else can. In the end, the viewer who experiences Stan’s work may be disconcerted by it, but, if he truly opens himself or herself to it, he may well find himself spiritually refreshed and invigorated as well.”

Lebovic is Orthodox and currently lives with his wife and children in Baltimore, Maryland. To create his work, he pointed out that he uses a digitized tablet to draw images in computer illustration programs and combines photographs with his art, three dimensional renderings, textures and scans, and blends them “into the image I am looking to achieve.”

He said that he is anticipating introducing and discussing his work at YILC, noting that each exhibit is unique. “I would like viewers to form their own impressions of the work before diving into my intended message. Many pieces are intentionally left in a state of flux.

They can be interpreted in almost opposite directions. After all, that is what life offers us. Events that can be interpreted one way or another. The choice is ours and I believe that variety is a valuable contribution to any important issue. I enjoy hearing interpretations of my work which I did not intend to present.

Such revelations only serve to expand the discussion and include valuable insights. I hope to learn a lot and continue this journey

The iconic “bound”: a hand wrapped in tefillin grasped by the barbwire clad arm of a Holocaust survivor. with those in attendance.”

The Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst is located at 8 Spruce Street, Cedarhurst, New York, 11516.

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The Baal HaTanya legacy today upon the bicentennial of his yahrtzeit core ethics curriculum. While it was officially shunned by almost all Lithuanian yeshivos, many of their greats, e.g., Rav Eliyahu Dessler, obviously studied it and used it as a basis for their work. Rav J. B. Soloveitchik talks extensively of studying it clandestinely, being caught by his father, and then being tested by him on its content.”

By further contrast, we have an extensive essay by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, entitled, “Alienation and Faith: Between Tanya 32 and The Lonely Man of Faith,” wherein he attempts to contrast the theological presentments of both ideologies. He further adds to this religious kaleidoscope the theological role of Maimonides, as well as a brief cameo appearance by T. S. Eliot.

This essay by Rabbi Sacks is among the most complicated and intellectually daunting that I have ever encountered. While I found it a challenge, I would strongly suggest that you wait a while so as to devote your reading of this work for a later part of your life’s experience.

Lastly, may I reprise a suggestion of three years ago of Rabbi Nechemia Polen’s essay, “Charismatic Leader, Charismatic Book: Rabbi Schneur Zalman’s Tanya and His Leadership,” that can be found in “Rabbinic and Lay Communal Authority” [Yeshiva University Press, 2006] edited by Suzanne Last Stone and Robert S. Hirt.

In this study, Rabbi Polen, best known for his groundbreaking study on the Aish Kodesh, HY”D, makes the following extremely interesting historical observation that places the Tanya in a very interesting historical

perspective.

“Likkutei Amarim / Tanya is one of very few works of early Hasidism that was actually written by the nominal author and brought to publication in the author’s lifetime and under his direction. It is also one of the very few works of early Hasidism that, rather than conveying its ideas in the form of occasional homilies linked to Biblical texts or the festival cycle, presents a sustained exposition and makes a highly structured argument. While the special character of Tanya has long been recognized, the compositional strategies and the developmental unfolding of the book have not been sufficiently grasped.”

In his conclusion, Rabbi Polen makes note of the following rather detailed observation that merits your careful attention: “As the foundational work of this religious movement, Tanya achieved enormous success and has been of inestimable influence.

It must be recalled, however, that the initial purpose of Tanya was not the promulgation of mystical doctrines, much less the teaching of mystical techniques or practices, but the stratification and regimentation of the Hasidic community and the assignment of appropriate roles.”

In summing up this week’s essay, let me conclude with the following tribute by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz from his introduction to his commentary on the Tanya: “This is a book in which the incidental ideas, as well as the supporting chapters surrounding the central theme, are no less important than the main topics. The more one reads this book, the more one discov-

ers illuminating thoughts and ideas, a comprehensive outlook on life, insight into the structure of Jewish history, and moral guidance on countless problems. This short book encapsulates an entire philosophy and guide to life.”

To date, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s Tanya commentary in English runs to three volumes, encompassing the first thirty seven chapters of this sacred work. They deserve your patronage and study.

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Among his most lasting literary works was the Tanya, perhaps the most definitive foundational work of Chabad chasidus, as well as one of the most influential of Judaism’s literary works of that era. Yet among his interpreters, each saw different teachings and theological meanings in his writings in the Tanya.

According to one of the premier contemporary commentators of the Tanya, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, “At first glance, the Tanya seems to affect the style of an ordinary book of mussar, practical adAlan Jay Gerber vice intended to direct people in the path of G-d’s worship and of self-perfection. In fact, it takes an original approach to the basic issues of self-improvement, applying the principles of Hasidism to reveal the root causes of human failings and to devise comprehensive solutions.”

In contrast, Rabbi Eliyahu Touger, in a correspondence to this writer over five years ago, wrote the following observation: “Tanya was never considered part of Mussar per se. It was – is – studied by almost all Chasidic groups, not only Chabad. For example, Viznitz has certain chapters in its

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Crown rack of lamb, fit for a king! he needed stitches, it wouldn’t be half as bad as I described it. Not quite sure I ever got over the guilt of having unintentionally caused him such fear--but he got me back.

In 2004, when he was in yeshiva in Israel for the year, his chavrusa (learning partner) was kiddingly running after him. It seems there was an indoor window that went unnoticed, until Daniel crashed through it. Dazed, bleeding and in pain, Daniel still insisted that no one get in touch with his parents. He reasoned that he was 18 and could be responsible for himself. And besides, going through a window with his face was one thing, having to explain it to his mom thousands of miles away and having to hear her hysteria was quite another. He and his friend were waiting at the Kotel entrance for a cab to take to the hospital and were about to get into one that had just dropped off some passengers, when one of them asked, “Daniel? Daniel Pollack is that you?” It was his Aunt Renee and Uncle Jack, in Israel for their grandson’s bris. “Yes,” he replied, as blood poured down his face. “Promise me you won’t tell my parents. I don’t want to worry them,” he said. To this day my sister thinks he was actually in a fight. There are still safety decals in Daniel’s honor on the new window in the yeshiva.

You didn’t actually think that Jerry wouldn’t have a story about stitches did you?

As a child, my husband loved nothing more than spending time in the park a few blocks from his house. Unfortunately, his mom always needed to finish cleaning, do the laundry and prepare dinner before taking Jerry and his brother to the park. As long

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He was five after all, very independent and adventurous. This should be a piece of cake, he thought. So, when his mom went down to the basement to do the laundry, he decided to activate his strategy to get to the park.

“Seme,” Jerry called, “hurry up, I’m going to fly down the stairs like Superman, then fly on to the park. You run down the stairs and just in case my plan doesn’t work, you catch me so I don’t get hurt.” This was not the first time he deputized or drafted his brother to play a key role in one of his wacky plans.

Seme, all of four years old, waited at the bottom of the steps. He held his breath hoping the plan worked, it just might, after all his older brother was wearing a blue towel wrapped around his neck; he sort of looked the part. Jerry then took off, and in no time crash landed like one of the early Wright brother’s failed attempts at flying. There he was, Superman, sprawled out on the concrete, his chin split open and bleeding profusely. “Seme, you were supposed to catch me,” Jerry cried. Seme often had to play a difficult no win role in Jerry’s adventures.

Needless to say, many stitches were involved.

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■ 1/2 c. brown sugar ■ 4 tsp ground ginger ■ 1/2 c. soy sauce ■ 1/2 c. lemon juice ■ 2 cloves of garlic, crushed Directions; ■ Preheat oven to 375 F Combine brown sugar, ginger, soy sauce, lemon juice, and garlic. Brush the marinade over the chops and place in a Bundt pan, bones side up, with the center of the pan coming up through the middle of the roast.

Cover the exposed bones with aluminum foil so they won’t get burnt. If you don’t have a Bundt pan, just stuff the middle of the roast with a ball of foil.

Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until the meat reaches an internal temperature of 130 F, (approximately 8 to 12 minutes per pound) which is medium rare, or 140 if you prefer it more well done.

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stitch in time saves nine, comedians like to keep their audiences in stitches and then there are just plain stitches….

My boys were seven and five years old and playing in the backyard on Shabbat afternoon, when my younger son came running in. “It’s not my fault,” Jeremy kept on repeating. “Daniel told me to throw the block of wood up to the bush so the ball would fall down, I didn’t know it would fall on his head.” Having never seen a head wound before, I was shocked at the amount of blood.

Hatzalah said he would definitely need stitches but could wait till after Shabbat, which was three hours away. Once the bleeding stopped, I prayed he would not remember me scolding him earlier in the week.

My choice of words, in trying to get him not to Judy Joszef jump on the bed with his brother might have not been appropriate, I realized, especially now. Just then he started to cry and I told him the bleeding had stopped and the doctor in the hospital would be quick and get him in shape in no time.

“But you said if I was wild and fell and hit my head I would need stitches, and they would have to take a really big needle and thread and sew me up.” I explained that I just said that to scare him so that he wouldn’t be wild.

I admitted I shouldn’t have and that although

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Coming home: the covenantal promise Continued from page 6 believe G-d will give the land to the descendants of that child?

So G-d makes a covenant with Abraham, promising him that his children will one day be strangers in a strange land, and they will suffer there, but that they will eventually come home, and that He will give this land, the Land of Israel, to his children.

Rav Soleveitchik, one of the great rabbis of the last generation, explains this puzzling sequence of events. You see, Abraham misunderstood the nature of our relationship with G-d. Abraham assumed our relationship was one of contract, or chozeh. G-d teaches Abraham that our relationship is really one of Brit, or covenant.

A contract is an agreement whereby both parties agree to a list of mutual conditions, which bind them to certain commitments.

But if one side violates the conditions, the agreement is no longer binding on the other side. This is how Abraham understood our relationship with Hashem. As long as we do our bit, Hashem will do his. But if we violate our end of the bargain, then Hashem need no longer be committed to his. Abraham was

confident that he could keep his end of the bargain, but how could he guarantee that his descendants would do the same? And when they violated their end of the bargain, how could Hashem promise they would still deserve the Land of Israel?

Hashem explains to Abraham, however, that our relationship with G-d is not one of contract. We are bound by a covenant. And a covenant, unlike a contract, can never be broken. Kind of like the ‘agreement’ we enter into when we have children. You can divorce a wife, but never a child. They will always be your children.

Hashem promises that, no matter what happens, one day we will come home. That is our covenant; our promise.

And this is precisely what Moshe and the Jewish people needed to hear, specifically now, when things seemed so dark. Bending under the backbreaking labor, enslaved for over two hundred years, without even straw to make bricks, laughed at by Pharaoh and the Egyptians, Moshe and the Jewish people are reminded in their darkest moment of that same covenant.

In fact, this is what the name that G-d ‘in-

troduces’ Himself as really means: the same letters that form the root of Hayah, Hoveh, and Yehiyeh, Hashem was, is, and will be.

This is the name of G-d that represents the fact that Hashem transcends time and nature. That we need to remember, when things seem so challenging, that Hashem promised so long ago, that just because things don’t make sense, indeed may never make sense from our perspective in this world, that it is all a part of our journey, begun so long ago.

And that one day, somehow, Hashem will bring us home.

The Jewish people, after two hundred years of darkness in Egypt, were so lost.

Hashem tells Moshe: you have to remind them of who they are, and of all they can be.

Right above this ancient broad wall, sits a playground, where the Jewish children of the old city of Jerusalem come to play and laugh in the sunshine.

Twenty five hundred years ago, amidst the flames of the destruction of the Temple, the prophet Zechariah (8:4-5) issues an amazing prophesy: “There will come a time, so says the Lord of Hosts, when the old will yet sit in the

streets of Jerusalem, leaning on their walking sticks from length of days, and the city streets of Jerusalem will be filled with the sounds of the children, playing in her alleyways.”

These children, playing in that playground, above that wall, are the fulfillment of a twenty five hundred year old dream. The Jewish dream has never been about armies marching in; our dream has been that one day the children will come back to play.

After two thousand years of wandering, we are home.

And if you come to visit, and walk through the alleys of Jerusalem, you can see it, too, this incredible twenty seven hundred year old wall, waiting for so long for all of her children to come home to play….

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem, Binny Freedman Rav Binny Freedman, Rosh Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem’s Old City is a Company Commander in the IDF reserves, and lives in Efrat with his wife Doreet and their four children.

Parshat Va’era

Distinction between peoples I

n his “Living Torah,” Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan summarized the many options of what the 4th plague may have been, based on Midrash and commentaries: Flies (Rabbi Nechemiah), wild animals (Rabbi Yehuda) (Sh’moth Rabbah 11:4) (based on a literal reading of Psalms 78:11); dog-flies (Septuagint); blood-suckers (Philo); mixture of insects and snakes (Sefer HaYashar); Beetles (scarab or dung beetle); wolves (Rashbam), panthers, eagles or other birds (Midrash Tehillim 78:45); giant squid (Midrash Aggadah).

In the warning before the plague of “Arov,” Moshe tells the King of Egypt, “On that day, I will miraculously set apart the Goshen area, where My people Rabbi Avi Billet remain, so that there will not be any Arov there. I will therefore make a distinction between My people and your people.” (8:18-19) If Goshen will be set apart, why is there a need to make a distinction between G-d’s people and the Egyptian people? Because even if Israelites are not in Goshen, they will not be affected by the Arov.

Targum Yonatan summarizes the idea: While the [animals or flies or beetles] are annoying Egyptians, the Israelites will not be bothered.

Rashi and Rashbam use the terms “yavdil” and “havdalah” to describe the distinction that will take place between the two nations.

The Baal HaTurim focuses on the three times the word “p’doot” (which I have translated as “distinction”) appears in the Bible.

The other two times it is spelled with the vowel-letter Vov, while this time it is written without that letter-vowel – the vowel is the three-dotted-diagonal slant which provides the “oo” sound. The word, which can also mean “redemption” is considered to be incomplete here because the redemption from

Egypt was incomplete – either because it was followed by other exiles (Rabbenu Bachaye), or because many Jews died during the plague of Darkness (R’ Chaim Paltiel) and never experienced redemption.

The Baal HaTurim describes the redemption from Egypt as complete when it actually happens – but not at this time (during Arov). The complete “p’doot” (with a “vov”) is in Tehillim 111:9 – referring to the redemption from Egypt – while the next “complete p’doot” will take place in the future, as described in Tehillim 130:7.

We certainly hope and pray for the complete “p’doot” to take place speedily in our days. Until that time, I find the sentence that speaks of the “p’doot” in the plague of Arov to be quite compelling, especially when viewed by itself – out of context: “I will therefore make a distinction between My people and your people.”

There has always been, and I guess there will always be, a distinction between My people (the Children of Israel) and your people.

Why is anti-Semitism on the rise in Europe? Why is the Arab-Muslim propaganda machine so focused on vilifying the Jew? Why does a Jew building a house in Jerusalem cause so much friction? Why does the subject of Israel raise so much anger – why are people around the world so anti-Israel, one of the smallest countries, with one of the smallest populations in the civilized world?

Why is the word “Jew” sometimes used derogatively – as a verb (to ‘jew someone’) or as an adjective (a ‘jew lawyer’)? Because the Jew, by his very existence, is distinct.

I do not believe in Jewish exceptionalism.

There are many ways to interpret the idea of being the “chosen” people, and the approach I favor is “chosen to represent G-d on this earth” as well as “chosen to bear responsibility as a moral compass.” [See the Wikipedia entry on “Jews as the chosen people” for different perspectives on this subject. And read “Why the Jews?” by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin to understand the history of and reasons for the existence of anti-Semi-

tism.]

Nonetheless, the Children of Israel as a distinct unit, with membership being multifaceted – a national element, a religious element, and passed through birth; a group defined by both a homeland and Holy Land; and a feeling of brotherhood which surpasses nationalities, political differences and even language – this is the blessing of being distinct.

And distinction should never lead to extinction.

G-d was so intent on demonstrating His power to the Egyptians, He was going to demonstrate how a swarm of dog-flies could distinguish between slave and taskmaster, or how attacking animals (whether wolves, snakes, or wild animals, etc.) could pick out Egyptians vs. slaves.

This difference was cemented at Sinai when the Jewish people received the Torah and became the keepers of G-d’s Word on this Earth. It does not make anyone a supe-

rior human being, for it is one’s deeds that are honored, and one’s life-choices that determine who is a role-model for all.

But the distinction began with Shmot 4:22 when G-d said, “You shall tell Paroh that my oldest, my first born, is Israel.” All of humanity are G-d’s children. And just as every family can only have one first-born, Israel is considered G-d’s first-born. And the first-born has responsibilities. The first-born can mess up and can suffer the consequences or the first born can earn the honorifics that come with the natural spot as leader of the family.

G-d made the distinction between His people who had suffered, and Paroh’s people, who had caused all the suffering.

Distinct does not mean better – but it can mean “different.” And it can refer to a group others can either learn from or ignore. G-d made the distinction between peoples – may we merit to best represent our role, for the betterment of mankind.

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