An Eye for an Eye ???

The Jerusalem Post and other places report that Israeli official security and governmental sources told The Jerusalem Post on Friday: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Israel retaliated where they were attacked.”

Could somebody please teach some Torah to Israeli official governmental sources..... "an eye for an eye" is not meant to be taken literally.  

עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן "An eye for an eye" [Mishpatim 21:24]

The term "eye for an eye" explain Chazal [Bava Kamma 84a] is not meant to be taken literally - one who causes another the loss of an eye is not punished by having to lose his own eye.  Rather, it means that the responsible party must pay the monetary value of an eye.

Chazal's interpretation of this halachah, said the Vilna Gaon, is alluded to in the words of the verse.  Why does the verse state "Ayin tachas ayin" - which literally means "an eye beneath an eye" - and not "Ayin be'ad ayin" - which means "eye for an eye"?

The Torah, explained the Gaon, is hinting to us that in order to discover the true meaning of the verse, we must look at what is "beneath" the ayin, that is the letters that follow the word "ayin" עין:

The letter ayin ע is followed by the letter pei פ

The letter yud י is followed by the letter kaf כּ

The letter nun is ן followed by the letter samech ס

These letters form the word keseph - כּסף - money !

Source: Rabbi Yisrael Bronstein

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Thank You

I had a dream last night and hence this blog post.  

I want to thank Devorah Haggar from Chicago for the header for this blog, which she made for me a long time ago - so long ago that I can't even remember when it was.  She designed and put it together, and sent it to me, and it's been up there ever since.

I lost contact with her a long time ago, and because I've been through at least two computers since then, I have also lost a lot of contact details for people over the years.

So thank you Devorah Haggar. I don't know if you still read this blog, but I had a dream about you.

The Redemption Process: How it All Unfolds

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Dubai

 

April 16 2024

Dubai International Airport 🇦🇪 has recorded nearly 160 mm (6.3 inches) of rain in the last 24 hours. For context, most of the Dubaï metro typically averages 3.5 inches per year. This is truly a historic event for the area.

This is where Hashem is reminding the mega-rich with their tallest buildings that they are no match for His power.

And no it's not cloud seeding, CERN or weather manipulation, which are the preferred conspiracy theories for this event.

It was Napisiti and Atu: green and purple respectively.  They blocked the sun, turned day into night, turned roads into rivers and the sky turned green.  Here's a few videos to show you how it looked.  This is real, nothing is photo-shopped or AI, we don't need to do that because Hashem is doing it for us.

This is Napisiti approaching. I've shown you this so many times before, it's obvious.

The strobe lightning

Pink lightning, it was very pink in the video which I couldn't download

Sky turned green

Day turned into night

Roads turned to rivers

If you want to see more examples of Napisit, Atu and the rest click on the WONDERS label underneath this post.

Miracles of War, Freedom, Gerim and Kindness

Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

Believe it or Not

I can't seem to stay off my blog, there is always something that needs to be said.

The miracle of the Iranian missiles causing very little damage and not even one death was over-looked and over-shadowed by all the conspiracy theories.  People chose to believe the conspiracies rather than acknowledge the incredible miracle that occurred.

That is called AMALEK.  Anything that causes you to doubt Hashem's power and an open miracle is Amalek.

I expect morons on the internet to think it was a conspiracy because they don't understand how Hashem protects Israel, they don't understand miracles, and they think it must have been a set-up because there is no other rational explanation for how so many missiles were sent but they were all blocked by Israel's defense system.  

I didn't expect that some orthodox Israelis and other Jews around the world,  especially those who are awaiting Moshiach, to agree with the conspiracy theories and point the finger at the Israeli government, claiming it was a plot and the world had been fooled into thinking it was really an attack.

I think people have stopped believing in miracles. Even though we are in the MONTH OF MIRACLES.

The other thing that annoys me is that people say to me that it is IMPOSSIBLE to believe that a second solar system is passing us by,  and that the world would be knocked off it's axis etc etc.   

Let me tell you.... nothing is impossible if Hashem is doing it. Hashem can do whatever He wants, and even if you think it can't be possible..... it is possible.

I see things in a different way to a lot of you.... sometimes I think I just want to get off the internet completely because I seem to be talking a different language or something.... but conversely that is the reason why I need to be here.

Miracles are happening all around us.  Look at the comment I posted here about Dubai, and the sun being blocked and the sky turning green and the airport being flooded like a river.  When have you ever seen the sky turn green?   Answer: only when Napisiti is above.  Because Napisiti is green, just like Atu is purple and gives us purple skies and purple lightning.

I don't care if it's IMPOSSIBLE.  It's happening and Hashem is doing it, just like Hashem controlled the missiles from Iran.  

When you believe it, you will see it.    Hashem can do anything at all.

Two Birds

Then the kohen shall order, and the person to be cleansed shall take two live, clean birds, a cedar stick, a strip of crimson [wool], and hyssop. [Metzora 14:4]

Rashi explains that since tzara'as comes about because of lashon hara, the person being purified must bring two birds, for birds ''constantly twitter with chirping sounds''.

The Talmud Yerushalmi [Berachos 1:2] cites the words of R' Shimon bar Yochai:  ''If I would have been standing on Har Sinai at the time the Torah was given to the Jewish people, I would have requested before Hashem that He create two mouths for man.  One mouth would be for the purpose of toiling in Torah study, and the second would be for the purpose of allowing him to speak about his ordinary needs.''

Later, R' Shimon bar Yochai changed his mind, and he said:  ''If the world cannot withstand man's slander when he has only one mouth, how much more so would this be the case if he had two mouths.''

Source: Rabbi Yisrael Bronstein