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A First Person Account of the Heartwarming Election Day Effort
I wanted to share with you what I and many others like me experienced last Tuesday on Election Day:
I arrive at the main Jerusalem headquarters at Har Hotzvim at noon and see dozens of cars decorated with large Gimmel signs coming and going - to transport as many voters as possible to the polls, helping those who find it difficult to get there themselves, since every single vote counts. Many dozens of people are swarming around the entrance to the building, hoping for the privilege of helping the cause, as was urged by the rabbonim.
There is good technological news for the chareidi public interested in email service without access to the dangers of Internet which has ensnared and felled many a victim. Since very recently, such a new email service is now being marketed.
As of January 30 (19 Shvat) 399 millimeters of rain had fallen in the Jerusalem area during the current season (August 1 to date). This represents 135% of the average rainfall for this period and 74% of the average rainfall for the entire season in the Jerusalem area which is 537 mm. It is raining this week.
The Sunday Times Presents: Netanyahu in an Anti-Semitic Caricature
The Sunday Times, one of the foremost British newspapers and generally supportive of Israel, published in its first issue since the reelection of Netanyahu a provocative cartoon depicting him as using the blood of Palestinian children as mortar in a wall to build up Israeli defense.
While in his youth Rabbi Dovid enjoyed a comfortable life, never lacking anything, he was later thrown into dire poverty.
When he was appointed rov of Rave, he was utterly destitute. His father-in-law the Bach once came to visit. Seeing the rundown home his son-in-law lived in, with barely a morsel to place on the table, saddened the Bach deeply. However, being poor himself, he could only promise R' Dovid that when Hashem favors him with a better parnossoh, he would send R' Dovid some support as well.
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As both Knesset and municipal elections (somewhat later) approach, a number of questions have become more pressing: whether to vote, whether not to vote, whom to vote for, what to vote for, who will achieve what, who got things done, who will get things done, who will give me more, whether our group is represented in government institutions or not, etc., etc.
In the first part, HaRav Scheinberg explained that when we put on tefillin we are supposed to think about what Hashem did for us in taking us out of Mitzrayim. The Ramban teaches us at the end of Bo that, "As a result of the tremendous open miracles, a person will acknowledge concealed miracles -- for they are the fundamental basis for the whole of Torah. A person has no share in the Torah of Moshe Rabbeinu until he believes that all things and every occurrence, all of them, are miracles; that they do not operate by any natural or automatic process, either for the masses or for the individual."
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