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Via Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:

Soon after Napoleon’s campaign, the French historian Chateaubriand visited Jerusalem. There he found a tiny Jewish community whose persistence filled him with awe. Speaking of the Jewish settlement, he wrote:

It has seen Jerusalem destroyed seventeen times, yet there exists nothing in the world which can discourage it or prevent it from raising its eyes to Zion. He who beholds the Jews dispersed over the face of the earth, in keeping with the Word of God, lingers and marvels. But he will be struck with amazement, as at a miracle, who finds them still in Jerusalem and perceives even, who in law and justice are the masters of Judea, to exist as slaves and strangers in their own land; how despite all abuses they await the king who is to deliver them . . . If there is anything among the nations of the world marked with the stamp of the miraculous, this, in our opinion, is that miracle.

R. Mahler, A History of Modern Jewry 1780-1815, 621.

A Temple in Flames The Final Battle for Jerusalem and the Destruction of the Second Temple

Aug 18, 2019

A battle that will never be forgotten! Experience the historic moments of the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE that led to the destruction of the Second Temple. A breathtaking drama, Temple in Flames shows the brutal tactics used by Titus and his legions to subdue the besieged city of Jerusalem. In a painfully realistic manner, the film shows the desperate, heroic battle waged by the Jewish fighters to defend their beloved city … to their last drop of blood.

From YouTube, here.

ממשלת חמורו של משיח

רמז לחמשה קדנציות לבנימין נתניהו • להודות על הטוב • ממשלת חמורו של משיח • צל צואת ֹא תְ נַ סּ וּ אֶ ת ה’ • עיקר הנסיון בדור האחרון • הממתין לנסים חמורו של משיח • משיח טבעי • איסור ל בכדי לקיים מצוות עובר בלאו • בניית בית המקדש לפני ביאת משיח • ומשיח בדרך הטבע • האם הציבור מוכן לקבל משיח בצורה טבעית • צבא ע“פ תורה • פאה נכרית • ממשלה בתמיכת הערבים • הכרה ברפורמים • צריך לעשות הכל שלא יתקיים גזירת הגאון ר‘ מנדל שפרן שליט“א •”חדש אסור מן התורה”

הרב יצחק ברנד שליט”א:

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Monday, June 28, 2021

Chasam Sofers Joke

The Midrash (פ’פנחס) enumerates the six names of זמרי. and the reason for 5 of the names why he was called by that name.

On the name שלמיאל, the Midrash doesn’t give the reason because this was his original name.

The ליקוטי חבר בן חיים writes, he heard from his Rebbe the Chasam Sofer,

Why was he named Shlumiel?

The Midrash (פ’ בלק) says that 12 ניסים happened to פנחס which enabled him to kill זמרי.

The Chasam Sofer jokingly said, “Wasn’t he a Shlumiel that all the 12 things that had to happen in order for him to get killed,
actually happened.”

From Toras Aba, here.