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A Lifestyle According to the Torah and Halocho by HaRav Sholom Ber Sorotzkin 1) "And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rochel died on me in the land of Canaan along the way, when yet there was but a little way to come to Efrat, and I buried her there on the road of Efrat, that is Beis Lechem" (Bereishis 48:7). Rashi (ibid.) explains, "`When I came from Paddan' -- although I am troubling you to bring me to be buried in the land of Canaan, and this is something I did not do for your mother. Since she died near Beis Lechem I buried her there, and did not bring her even to Beis Lechem. I knew you were offended by my doing that, but I want you to know that Hashem had told me to do it, so that she will be [on the way to Beis Lechem] to help her children . . .."

FEATURE The "Stability of Zionism" -- A Headline That Has Not Become Outdated by Yisroel Spiegel Sometimes, even a fifty-year-old headline can make current news. One such headline from over half a century ago read, "The candidate for president, Dr. Weizmann, advises maintaining the refugees in the camps for the sake of `the stability of Zionism in the country.'" These words, which represent a very distorted, even fearsome, attitude with regard to the bitter fate of persecuted Jews, people who survived the devastating Holocaust by the skin of their teeth -- says everything about the Zionist movement, whose centennial was `celebrated' this past year.

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