Today IDF troops came under mortar fire in Gaza.  They responded to the mortar fire by firing back in the same trajectory from which the Hamas mortars came.

Where did the Hamas mortars come from, and the IDF return fire end up? The UNRWA school for children.

The two well-known Hamas terrorists were killed, but so were many people who sought shelter in the school.  You have to realize that the Hamas plan their attacks.  They didn’t just “happen” upon the school as a “random” location to fire mortars (and if they did, it would still be gross negligence!)

This is nothing less than child abuse by Hamas.

Why don’t the media, politicians, and UNSC call on Hamas to take responsibility for the safety of their own civilians, especially their own children??

“We will have peace with the Arabs
when they love their children
more than they hate us.”

-Former Israeli PM Golda Meir

Hamas knows the risks of hiding their commanders and weapons inside of children’s schools, not to mention firing mortars and rockets from the schools.

I’m so sickened by their child abuse that I can’t even write.
Keep on praying.

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More Palestinian child abuse:

“A Givati [IDF combat] force entered a [Gazan] school on Monday night, and in the morning discovered that it was rigged with explosives that were connected to a piano in a nearby home.” (Jpost.com)

These “people” spent the past 3+ years booby trapping their own homes…
What about building a future for their children?

Oscar-award winning actor John Voight was awarded the Tzedakah Award by Noahide Nations at this year’s first Noahide World Conference.

Voight said,

“The Seven Noahide Commandments appeal to my own sense of what I feel is a higher purpose, which is to try to get everyone to an understanding of what they’re asked to do, what life’s responsibilities are. These very simple Seven Laws of Noah, are good basics.”

- Jon Voight

Below is an interview with John Voight on Israeli television from May 2008 after he visited the rocket-battered town of Sderot.

Notables:
“G-d says to Abraham: Those who bless you will be blessed, those who curse you will be cursed.  And isn’t that what has happened [in history]?”¹

“All sane people should have a passion for Israel at this time.”

“I’m thinking about the future of our children, about the future of this world that we’re in.”

This wonderful cartoon by Dovid Taub is brought to you by Chabad.org <-- Go there for a larger version.

“What is the way of loving [G-d] and fearing Him? When a person ponders His great and wondrous works and creations he immediately loves, praises, and extols and is filled with a great desire to know the Supreme Being . . . And when he contemplates these things he immediately is drawn back with great reverence and he realizes that he is a small, insignificant, unenlightened creature standing with a frail intellect in the presence of a Being Who is Perfect in Knowledge”
(Maimonides, Laws of the Foundations of Torah 2:2)

Wow…

http://www.whoshalllive.com

Thanks for the embed tip DJ!

One of the rabbi’s from my yeshiva (house of study) in Israel is Rabbi Slifkin.

His material may bee of special insect to Bnei Noach¹ since he is the world expert on Zoology and Torah!

Meet Rabbi Natan Slifkin!

Intro Video

Rav Slifkin with a beautiful male cheetah.

Everything you want to know about animals, bugs, fish, monsters, and even mythical beasts as relates to Torah can be found in Rabbi Slifkin’s books. See his website for more info, and his blog to keep up with his current safari travel.

Also, if you haven’t seen this jaw-dropping safari video yet…Hashem’s Creation is astounding!

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Oh, and here’s a new piece on an Israeli zoo taking care of a tortoise that is handicapped:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8Cwqhmv3Y

A lovely post by Rabbi Lazer Brody on dietary wisdom.

However, I have heard of particular Christian groups that do honestly support Israel and the Jews without a hidden agenda to convert Jews.  Is it possible?

Any input on this from iHN readers is appreciated.

Great to hear your voices!

Shabbat Shalom!

Why did I choose this video? Why didn’t I choose one of the big Torah scholars on YouTube? Why do I feel he articulates such a beautiful message, despite the imperfections in his enunciation?

Because “Words which emanate from the heart, enter the heart.”

Shabbat Shalom!

(source: Ohr Somayach)

Dear Rabbi,

While on a plane from Boston to Philadelphia two weeks ago, I happened to look at the cover of the book the man seated next to me was reading. On the back cover of the book, the following quotation appeared: “Words written from the heart, enter the heart.” As a scholar and professor, I was very moved by the quotation and wrote it down for my own keeping. The quote was attributed to “The Sages.”

I would like to ask: Where do these words appear in the vast writings of The Sages? I would be very grateful if you could find the time to provide me with an exact reference so that I might consult the entire text and see in what context the statement was made.

Dear Dr. C.,

“Words which emanate from the heart, enter the heart” is sometimes quoted in the name of “the Sages,” meaning that it is from the Mishnah, Talmud or Midrash. But the truth is that the source for this phrase is a bit of a mystery! Although it has indeed become an accepted Jewish teaching, it does not seem to appear in any of the above mentioned sources!

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I would like to propose that the phrase is an application of the principle taught by King Solomon in Proverbs: “As water [reflecting] the face is to the face, so a man’s heart is to [his fellow] man.” Meaning that the human heart intuits the emotions of others, and thus if one speaks with an open heart, the heart of the listener will be open as well.

In the late 1800’s Poland issued a ban against shechita (ritual slaughter of animals). It is told that Rabbi Yisrael Meyer Kagan, the Chafetz Chaim, came before the Polish officials to plead for the rescinding of this decree which would cause tremendous hardship for Poland’s Jews. The Chafetz Chaim pleaded passionately, in Yiddish. When he’d finished and the translator began translating into Polish, the official said, “Stop. You don’t need to translate.” He was so moved by the Chafetz Chaim’s words, even though he hadn’t understood them, that he agreed to do all he could to help rescind the decree.

Sources:

* Tractate Berachot 6b
* Proverbs 27:19, see Metzudot David