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Hebrew	Transliteration	English translation
כֹּל עוֹד בַּלֵּבָב פְּנִימָה	Kol od balēvav pənima	As long as in the heart, within,
נֶפֶשׁ יְהוּדִי הוֹמִיָּה	Nep̄eš yəhudi homiya,	A Jewish soul still yearns,
וּלְפַאֲתֵי מִזְרָח, קָדִימָה,	Ulp̄aʾatē mizraḥ qadima,	And onward, towards the ends of the east,
עַיִן לְצִיּוֹן צוֹפִיָּה,	Ayin leṣiyon ṣoviya;	An eye still gazes toward Zion;
עוֹד לֹא אָבְדָה תִּקְוָתֵנוּ,	Od lo avda tiqvatēnu,	Our hope is not yet lost,
הַתִּקְוָה בַּת שְׁנוֹת אַלְפַּיִם	Hatiqva bat šənot alpayim,	The hope of two thousand years,
לִהְיוֹת עַם חָפְשִׁי בְּאַרְצֵנוּ,	Liyot am ḥop̄ši bəʾarṣēnu,	To be a free people in our land,
אֶרֶץ צִיּוֹן וִירוּשָׁלַיִם.	Ereṣ-ṣiyon virušalayim.	The land of Zion and Jerusalem.

History

The title of the national anthem, HATIKVA, means "The Hope." It was written by Naftali Herz Imber (1856-1909), who moved to Palestine in 1882 from Galicia. The melody was arranged by Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia, from a musical theme in Smetana's "Moldau" that is partly based on a Scandinavian folk song.

Hatikva expresses the hope of the Jewish people, that they would someday return to the land of their forefathers as prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. The Jewish people were exiled from Israel in 70 C.E. by the Roman army led by Titus who destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem. During the two thousand years of exile, the Jewish people said special daily prayers for return to Israel while facing the East in the direction of Jerusalem. They celebrated the holidays according to Hebrew seasons and calendar. Zion is synonymous with Israel and Jerusalem.

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Come On Now IDF, You Can Build A Better Sukkot Than That

Sukkot (aka Feast of Tabernacles, Feast of Booths) hearkens back to times in ancient Israel when Jews would build huts near the edges of their fields during the harvest season. Sukkot, along with Passover and Shavu'ot, are the three pilgrimage festivals known as shalosh regalim commanded in the Bible. 

G-d commanded in Leviticus 23:42–43: “You shall live in booths seven days in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

Sadly, Christian hypocrites have no need to perform essential commandments that G-d ordered us to observe forever.

Horse People Are My Favorite Kind Of Folk

I can be standing in line at a coffee shop with a half-dozen strangers and spot a "My Rescue Horse Rocks" button on a woman's purse, and pretty soon we're sharing photos of our horses and chatting like we've known each other since kindergarten.

I think it's because if someone loves horses, then you can almost always bet that they're real, because horses are the best at figuring out the fakers in life, and their snorty mistrust will soon discourage them. You can bet a horse person is a hard worker, because anyone who mucks and grooms and throws feed and saddles and spends hours riding knows what it's like to sweat.

They're also usually generous and kind, because our horses teach us that by example. So when I hear about folks in the horse community who have suffered loss, it hits harder for me because I believe I could bounce back after losing my house to a disaster, but I'd be lost without my horses.

a ha ha, a ha ha

כן! אברהם פריד

ניקולס היקר, מתיו:
פסח יהיה כאן בקרוב. זהו אחד של G-דרחמנא מז'ור חגים כי אנו צוו להקפיד לעדכן אותה כל שנה. השנה יהיה 25 מרץ-אפריל 2.
כמו ילדים, זה היה הכי כיף משתאות עבורנו. זהו כאשר G-d שוחרר לנו כמטרה לשעבוד. הוא אותנו ממצרים אל הארץ המובטחת, ישראל.
היסטוריה ומדע הוא פנומנלי. G-d להגדיר את זה כך לא היתה אי פעם במחלוקת קיומו.
אני רוצה לדעת משהו. חופשות פאגאנית חגגנו כמו התחלה טובה מיטוב היוצר שלנו היו ילדים. בסופו של דבר, לחשוף את האמת, כאשר היית מבוגר מספיק כדי להבין.
בגיל 13, רציתי בר Mitva לך. שצעירThis הפעם שנער הופך גבר. הוא היה צריך להשפיע את התבנית של מחשבה ופיתוח.
אני כבר מנסים לגלות אם יש גילאים בוגרים כי אדם יכול להיות בר Mitva לאחר 13. עד אז, אוהבת אמא

 

Purim! Again?

These are your people. Try to start pulling yourself together.

Unique to the Jewish calendar, Purim is actually observed on different days depending on location.

The majority of the Jewish people celebrate Purim on the 14th of Adar (yesterday). However, Jews living in the city of Shushan (now the city of Shush, Iran), Jerusalem and all the cities that had walls at the time of Joshua's conquest of Canaan, celebrate Purim on the 15th of Adar (today).

Son, this is a little complicated. Just enjoy the song. Love Mom

שבת שלום Hebrew is Read From Right To Left

Shall I sing to them too? Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat, Shabbat, Shabbat Shabbat Shalom. I don't exactly have Jonathan Settel's voice.  (Purple is the color of royalty)

What Comes Around Goes Around

Purim is coming up this Friday (February 23-24). This is a Jewish event many Jews celebrate. It is one of those stories: What Comes Around Goes Around.

Two generations ago, a nation attempted to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth. Purim is a holiday that takes us back to the first time in history such a genocide against the Jews had been attempted – some 2,300 years ago.

The holiday of Purim marks the Jews’ salvation from the plot of Haman, a high officer of the Persian Empire, an advisor to King Achashveirosh.  Haman’s rage against the Jews was incited by the failure of a single Jew, Mordechai, to bow before him as he passed by.  Rather than seeking to do away with Mordechai alone for this slight, Haman plotted revenge against Mordechai’s entire people.

Haman sought, and gained, permission from King Achashveirosh to do as he pleased against the Jews, and Haman took this license and ran with it. He legislated an action that would wipe out every living Jew in the empire on a single, blood-soaked day.

The King happened to do away with his first queen – and happened to replace her with Esther, a girl who happened to be a Jew.  Mordechai, Esther’s relative, happened to overhear, and foil, an assassination plot against the King.  It also so happened that he was not rewarded immediately for that deed.

One night, Haman decided to go to the king to get permission to hang Mordechai. But that very night, the king couldn’t fall asleep. He asked for the Book of Records to be read to him -- and the book just happened to open to the page recording Mordechai’s long forgotten act of loyalty towards him.

The King asks Haman how the man the King wishes to honor should be treated.

Haman, thinking the King wishes to honor him, advises making a royal parade. Does that advice get used?  It surely does. But it is used to honor Mordechai, not Haman. Haman constructs a gallows to hang Mordechai. Does that gallows get used? It certainly does. But not the way Haman imagined. He himself is hanged on those gallows.

In the end, the Jews were saved from Haman’s plot – but, pointedly, they were saved in a non-miraculous fashion. The message of the Book of Esther is that God is there even when He doesn’t seem to be there.

Q & A: WHAT IS THE MITZVAH OF HONORING ONE'S PARENTS AND HOW IS IT FULFILLED? By Rabbi Joey Grunfeld  (Summarized by Kini Cosma)

Included in the Ten Commandments, is the mitzvah (commandment) to honor your father and mother. The Torah writes: "Honor your father and your mother so that your days may be lengthened upon the Land which the Lord your God gives to you" (Exodus 20:12). 

Later in Deuteronomy, in the restating of the Ten Commandments, the verse reads: "Honor your father and your mother as the Lord your God has commanded you in order that your days may be lengthened and that it should be good for you upon the Land which the Lord your God gives to you" (Deuteronomy 5:16).

Another relevant verse from Leviticus: "Every man shall revere his mother and his father and you shall observe My Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God" (Leviticus 19:3). 

We see from these verses that there are two mitzvot (commandments): 

1) To honor your parents and
 2) To revere your parents.

Love motivates one to do positive things; fear keeps one from transgressing the negative.

What difference does it make if a child learns this principle as a commandment from God or he picks up his attitude towards parents from his society?

A rabbi was sitting next to an atheist on an airplane. Every few minutes one of the rabbi's children or grandchildren would inquire if they could bring him something to eat or drink or if there was anything they could do for him. 

The atheist commented, "It's wonderful the respect your children and grandchildren show you; mine don't show me that respect." The rabbi responded, "Think about it. To my children and to my grandchildren, I am one step closer in a chain of tradition to the time when God spoke to the whole Jewish people on Mt. Sinai. To your children and grandchildren -- unfortunately, you are considered to be one step closer to being an ape."

Are children more inclined to respect their parents if they think they are one step closer to being an ape or if they believe that their parents are one step closer to being created by the Almighty who heard God speak?

From the Torah perspective, a parent is a paradigm for relating to God. A parent loves his child unconditionally, sets boundaries, reproves, feeds his child though the child did wrong, wants only the best for his child. 

A parent is not always understood or appreciated and is sometimes suspect of not having the child's best interest at heart. (Mark Twain once commented, "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned.") Hopefully, the children eventually appreciate their parent's motivation.

If one does not show gratitude and respect to his parents who gave him life, how is he expected to show gratitude and respect for God who not only is a Partner in giving him life, but Who has given him the whole world? The Torah helps us train our children in how to relate to their parents and therefore how to relate to the Almighty.

The Almighty has implanted in parents an innate love for their children, but this does not lessen the Torah obligation to honor and respect one's parents. We must be grateful for the numerous acts of kindness that our parents have bestowed upon us. We have no right to minimize their efforts on our behalf by questioning their motives.

Here are some basic halachot, (Jewish laws) instructing us how to respect our parents:

•         A child should consider his parents distinguished, even if others do not consider them so. 
•        We must always speak to our parents with a soft and pleasant tone. 
•         A child must not contradict his parents. (Yorah Daiah 240:1 -- The Code of Jewish Law) 
•         A child must not call his parent by name. (Yorah Daiah, 240:1) 
•         A child must not sit in a place where his parent usually sits. 
•         A child should fulfill his parent's requests with a pleasant facial expression. 
•         You are obligated to stand up before your father and your mother when they enter the room (YD 240:7) 
•        A child has no right to humiliate or embarrass his parents, regardless of what they do to him. 
•         If a parent tells a child to violate either a Torah law or rabbinical law, he is forbidden to comply.  
•       A child must be careful not to awaken his parents.

Parents should make sure that their young children show respect towards them and others. If a young child forms the habit of being disrespectful to his parents or others, he will also lack respect when he grows up. (This is why I never let my children call adults by their first names even if my friends introduce themselves to my kids using just their first name.) The reward for honoring parents is long life. Therefore, if a parent sincerely loves his children, he should make sure that they fulfill this commandment!

From The Little Guy Who I'm Sponsoring

I get to help him with education and other life necessities. I get to watch him grow up and thrive with my donations every month.

He will grow up and become a  responsible citizen.  I  feel so privileged to sponsor a little guy who needs to feel people care. Good luck to you  little Kenny and family! 

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Thank you so much Jeremy and Kathryn Medlen for taking your dog case to the Texas Supreme Court. 

My dog Chrunchy was also in the same situation where she was euthanized after being picked up.  At first I saw her in a local newspaper to be adopted out but after contacting the animal shelter was told she was put down. Chrunchy was a beautiful dog. She helped me train my wild horses by going into the woods and scaring out the deer so my Mustangs wouldn't get spooked. 

At one point, the neighbors were fighting terribly and she ran out into the street and got hit by a truck. I prayed her back to life. That was ten years ago. I still miss her. 

Today, I own a service/therapy Chihuahua and three Mustangs that are also service animals. I can wrap my Chihuahua around my neck and lower lumbar. Because Bing-Bing is from Mexico, his body temperature is like a hot water bottle. 

Since one of my businesses is for horse shoeing and trimming hooves, my Mustangs keep me in practice. Also they have saved my life in one of the worse human right violations in the U.S.A. I'm sorry about your beloved do.

 

How Poor We Are

One day a father and his rich family took his son to a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family. When they got back from their trip the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"

"Very good Dad!" replied his son.

"Did you see how poor people can be?" the father asked.

"Yeah!"
"And what did you learn"

The son answered, "I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden; they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden; they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon."

When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless. His son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are!"

Our outlook on life depends on the way you look at things. What others may think as riches, others may want. The most important things in life are your friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life. If you have these then you have everything!

Visiting your sponsored child can change your life in unimaginable ways. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that will cement a lasting and wonderful friendship…an opportunity to see with your own eyes how you’re bringing tangible help, optimism and self-esteem to someone special.
Traveling to your sponsored child’s community will confirm how important your sponsorship is to your child, their family and even their community. You’ll also see how grateful your child is to have such a good friend and supporter.

Should you decide to visit your child, we ask that you contact our Kansas City office as soon as possible with specific dates. Our staff will gladly help arrange your visit. We’ll also provide you with valuable information, procedures to follow during your visit, and other helpful material to make the most of your visit.

Unannounced visits are prohibited to ensure the safety and privacy of everyone involved. Our field staff looks forward to assisting you during your visits so you can truly enjoy your time with the child rather than worrying about the uncertainties that arise when visiting an unfamiliar place. 

Dearest Matthew

 











Dear Matthew (Mattchoo):  I just wanted you to know that I would have always been there for you. Whether you had Asperger's syndrome or anything else. I would have never been at local Bars ("My Place") or traveling to umteen countries like Mrs. Lanza did.  If I had a child who needed my undivided attention, I would have been there!  I'm not judging her parenting. But, I remember how my mom raised me and she was a good mom all the way until the end.

I'm sorry I could not stay with your dad but I could not put up with his alcohol habit because I did not know what alcoholism was. It truly is a disease and not a choice because who in their right mind would take $18,000, give $5k to me and his baby son, then go from bar to bar buying everyone drinks? I'm sorry our relationship didn't work out but if I loved someone, I'd turn the world upside down for that person. I love you, have a Merry Xmas, and I hope you get to do all the things in life you dream of. Love Mom.

In Whose Best Interest?

The New Son At Equestrian Travel Mall and Legal Services

I am so excited to sponsor a little boy from Ecuador. I've always had this dream.  He is 5 years old. I made my first payment today for $25. I didn't want the opportunity to get away on this one because he is so cute. Unfortunately, if I tell the people in my community it will lead to jealousy which leads to violence. At night I sneak my groceries in so my neighbors don't get jealous. Isn't that too much? I wouldn't even buy a candy bar in this country if I didn't have to.

I get two letters a year and an updated photo, a yearly progress report with updated info., a complimentary magazine, a yearly update of the accomplishments in my child's agency, the opportunity to send cards and help provide gifts for birthdays, holidays and special occasion.

I'm hoping there will be lots of potential as the years progress like visitations, etc.

Immediately, I will receive a sponsorship welcome kit that includes: A guidebook, annual reports, access to internet website that shows my contribution history and child information anytime, a letter from the director of the area where my child lives.

He will receive regular medical checkups, treatment and dental care, educational essentials like school supplies, fees and uniforms, good-quality clothing and shoes, improved living conditions, nutritional assistance and family support, activities that encourage learning and promote leadership skills and civic involvement. And, a lifelong friend who cares!

Guess what else. Kenneth has a brother named Matthew. I also have a biological son named Matthew.

Some Mothers Have Sons Who Look Like Her

Some jewish mothers have sons that look like her. Some jewish mothers get to keep their sons. Compare Barbara Streisand's son who looks like his mother to my son (NEVER FREELY RELINQUISHED) who looks like me. 

My beautiful son, Nicholas.  He looks just like me: 

No ladies, he is engaged to a Hebrew soldier

Every Once In A While, There Will Be Someone There To Stick Up For You

Footage obtained from the "A.I." auditions showed Minaj threatening Mariah Carey by saying things like "off with your head" and "I will knock you out."

“How dare this little girl! … If I had been Mariah I would have walked over to Nicki and strangled her to death right there," Nicks told The Daily. “I would have killed her in front of all those people and had to go to jail for it." To read more, click here.

Every Once In A While, There Will Be Someone There To Stick Up For You. Thank you, Stevie Nicks for being so brave!


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A Labor Day Tribute To America

I often wondered why, back in the 60's, the police were called "Pigs". After all they did not resemble pigs. They did not have square noses or curly tails. What made the revolutionists call the police "pigs"? Well, for what ever reason, I enjoyed the fact that the police "conquered crime", were the "hero's" of today. And, I wanted to be one, desperately. I often thought about the glory and the prestige of saving one's life. A police officer is what I wanted to be when I grew up! But, today, being an associate in the science of the Administration of Justice, I now know why the revolutionists called the police "pigs". It is not because the first letter of the alphabet begins with "P" but it is because they take and take and take. They take your whole soul. Well, some people will say, "Only Jesus can take your soul!" And, "They can only take your soul if you let them!" But, it is just as well because those "Christians" are the ones that help the police take your soul.

The more you try to straighten out your life, the more they take. They take relentlessly with no end in sight. Only G-d knows why Timothy Beard died while being in the custody of the Lassen County jail. Maybe the public defenders pled his life away. Maybe Lassen County needed a scape goat. What about the evidence that pointed to his wrong doing. But for whatever reason, Timothy Beard, at 18 years old, had had enough. And, I truly belive that Timothy Beard is in a much better place then those of the Lassen County Judicial System will ever be. G-d bless America the way America has blessed me. -Kini-

About the Author:
Kini Lani was named by her mother. Kini Lani means "bright heavens" in Hawaiian. Kini Lani has now been renamed by the U.S. Government and their Jews as "From Deepest Darkest Pits of Hell". G-d made the explicit mistake of giving her dimples when she use to smile. If you don't believe me, check out www.kinispolarbear.bravehost.com