Friday, August 8, 2014

CHUCK KOLB 08/08/2014

Shabbat Shalom Va’etchanan - Ams Yisrael Chai !!!
Ams Yisrael chai! Eretz Yisrael chai! Medinat Ysrael chai!



A beautiful vid for you and your beloveds ...
Israel from the air in high definition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6yHyNN5ZSk
https://www.youtube.com/user/HighlightFilmsIsrael
http://www.highlight.co.il/index.aspinfo@highlight.co.il

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Germany in 2009. While there,
he visited Wannsee Villa in Berlin the place that the "Final Solution" for the
destruction of Europe's Jews was planned in 1942 by Adolf Hitler and leaders
of the Third Reich. In the visitors book Netanyahu wrote three words in Hebrew
and then translated them into English: “Ams Yisrael Chai – The people of Israel live.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3769384,00.html

Previously posted ...
BREAKING - ISIS traps 50,000 on Sinjar mountain top - Kurdistan !!!

http://conpats.blogspot.com/2014/08/chuck-kolb-08072014-breaking-news.html




News posts are located after Parsha Va’etchanan ...



Shabbat Shalom Va’etchanan - Ams Yisrael Chai !!!
Ams Yisrael chai! Eretz Yisrael chai! Medinat Ysrael chai!


 

The parchment inside a mezuzah is inscribed with the Shema, which is read
in today's Torah portion.
 
Shabbat Shalom
 
Welcome to this week’s Parsha (Torah Portion), which is called Va’etchanan (And I Pleaded).
 
This is the portion that will be read in synagogues around the world this week during the Shabbat (Saturday) morning service.
 
This Shabbat, which is the first that follows the fast day of Tisha B’Av, has a special name: Shabbat Nachamu (Sabbath of Comfort).  This name comes from the first lines of the Haftarah (prophetic portion) read on this day, which begins Comfort, oh comfort My people, says your God.
 
Please read along with us; we know you will be blessed!
 
 
Parsha Va’etchanan (And I Pleaded)
Deuteronomy 3:23–7:11; Isaiah 40:1–26; Luke 22:13–38
 
“Then I pleaded [va’etchanan] with the Lord at that time, saying:  ‘O Lord God, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds?”  (Deuteronomy 3:23–24)
 
In last week’s Torah portion, Devarim, the Israelites now stood poised at the edge of the Promised Land, on the east side of the Jordan, ready to cross over and possess the Land.  Before they crossed, Moses gave a speech to the people of Israel, summarizing their 40-year history of wandering in the wilderness.
 
 

A mezuzah (doorpost) is affixed to the door frame in Jewish homes in
fulfillment of the Biblical injunction to inscribe the words of the Shema "on
the doorposts of your house (Deuteronomy 6:9)."  The parchment, which
is protected in a decorative case, is inscribed with Deuteronomy 6:4–9
and 11:13–21.
 
Included in this week’s Parsha are several of the best known and fundamental passages of Scripture in the entire Tanakh (Old Testament), including the Ten Commandments and the Shema (Listen! or Hear and Do!)—a call in Deuteronomy 6:4–9 to love the one true God with all our being.
 
This passage also exhorts us to pass on our faith to the next generation by faithfully teaching the Torah to our children.
 
“Shema, Yisra’el!  Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, Isra’el! Adonai our God, Adonai is one]; and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, all your soul and all your strength.”  (Deuteronomy 6:4–5)
 
This is the first prayer spoken in the morning and the last said in the evening before sleep.  It is often the final prayer on the lips of a Jewish person on their deathbed, and it has been uttered by many Jewish martyrs as they gave up their spirits to the Lord.
 
These verses of Scriptures are so central to Judaism that they are written on a parchment and placed in a small box worn on the forehead called tefillin (phylacteries) and also in small, decorated boxes called mezuzot on the doorposts of Jewish homes.  This is done in literal fulfillment of commands found in this week’s Parsha:
 
“Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.  Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.”  (Deuteronomy 6:8–9)
 
 

A Jewish teen recites morning prayers wearing
tefillin (phylacteries), a set of small black leather
boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed
with verses from the Torah.
 
Preparing the Next Generation
 
This week’s Torah portion begins with Moses reminding the people of how he pleaded with God for the privilege of entering the Promised Land, but God refused to grant his request.  Rabbinic tradition says that Moses begged God 515 times, (taken from the gematria or numerical value of the word va’etchanan).  Moses tells the people how he asked God,
 
Let me go over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that fine hill country and Lebanon.’  But because of you the Lord was angry with me and would not listen to me. ‘That is enough,’ the Lord said. ‘Do not speak to Me anymore about this matter.’”  (Deuteronomy 3:25–26)
 
Moses, the man who led the Israelites out of Egypt and spoke to God on their behalf when they found His presence too terrifying, would not enter the Promised Land because he disobediently struck the rock twice in the wilderness of Zin, instead of speaking to it as God commanded.  (Numbers 20)
 
The people were without water, and after Moses and Aaron prayed, God told Moses to give the people water by speaking to the rock.  But Moses, who was angry with the people for their whining, called the people rebels and implied that it was he and Aaron who were providing for them.
 
Some have suggested the speaking to the rock might have symbolized speaking God’s Word (as given to Moses) and striking the rock may have represented Moses’ effort.
 
Though Moses and Aaron were called to lead the Israelites, performing many signs and wonders, it was God who was providing for them, miraculously providing life-giving water when necessary.
 
As a result, God told Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust in Me enough to honor Me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this community into the land I give them."  (Numbers 20:12)
 
 

Moses Smites the Rock in the Desert, by James Tissot
 
Although Moses would get a glimpse of the Land of Promise, he would be among those of his generation who would die in the wilderness because of their sins.  His successor, Joshua, would cross over the Jordan with the new generation of Israelites who would conquer the Land.
 
“But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see.”  (Deuteronomy 3:28)
 
Joshua, whose Hebrew name is Yehoshua, takes the people into the Promised Land, where they will take hold of all that God has promised.
 
He is a type of the Messiah, Yeshua (which is a form of the name Yehoshua), who will take His people into the true Promised Land of Heaven where we will not perish but inherit eternal life.
 
We can learn a lesson from Moses remaining on the other side of the Jordan.
 
There are times when, despite our earnest begging and pleading, God in His perfect wisdom, justice, and mercy simply says ‘no,’ and that is the end of the matter.  God may even ask us to encourage someone in the next generation who will carry the torch further than we have, and we need to accept this decision with a grace born of humility.
 
 

Forty Ethiopian immigrants from the absorption center in Tzfat join eight
teens from Great Britain to celebrate in Jerusalem their Bar Mitzvah (Son
of the Commandment), the Jewish rite of passage in which teens assume
moral responsibility for their own actions and become eligible to be called
to read from the Torah.  (Photo credit: Jewish Agency)
 
 
El Kanah: The Jealous God
 
Before Moses surrenders the leadership of Israel to Joshua, he exhorts the people to keep God’s Torah and to live in obedience to God’s ways in order that they may take possession of the Land.  He tells them:
 
“Now, Israel, listen to the laws and rulings I am teaching you, in order to follow them, so that you will live; then you will go in and take possession of the land that Adonai, the God of your fathers, is giving you.”  (Deuteronomy 4:1)
 
Moses reminds the children of Israel how they stood at the foot of Mount Sinai and received the Ten Commandments.  He warns them not to forget the Torah of God, and to diligently teach God’s commandments to their children and grandchildren.
 
 

A young woman has her Bat Mitzvah (Daughter of the
Commandment) in Jerusalem.
 
In telling them this, he reminds them three times that God spoke from the fire at Sinai, and He did not have a form.  Therefore, because they saw no image of God, they are not to carve for themselves images of God, which is detrimental to faith, nor of gods, which is idolatry.
 
This prohibition of the making of carved images is accompanied by the warning that God is a consuming fire:
 
“Watch out for yourselves, so that you won’t forget the covenant of Adonai your God, which He made with you, and make yourself a carved image, a representation of anything forbidden to you by Adonai your God.  For Adonai your God is a consuming fire, a Jealous God [El Kanah].”  (Deuteronomy 4:23–24)
 
The name of God used in this verse is El Kanah (Jealous God).  This name is also mentioned elsewhere in this Parsha in Deuteronomy 5:9, 6:15 and in Exodus 34:14 (see also 1 Kings 19:10, 14).
 
 

A Jewish bride and groom stand under the chuppah.
 
The names and titles of God declare to the world who He is.  They also answer our deepest questions regarding our relationship to God.
 
The name El Kanah reveals that God is protective of His people and His relationship with them.  In the same way the relationship between a husband and a wife is sacred, He will not share our praise and devotion with other gods.
 
In fact, the covenant God made with Israel at Mount Sinai is likened to a marriage ceremony, complete with the cloud covering symbolizing the chuppah (marriage canopy) and the ketubah (marriage contract), outlining the responsibilities and privileges of both bride and bridegroom and the agreed upon vows.
 
God is, therefore, asking His people to be faithful unto Him, forsaking all other gods.  All forms of idolatry and worship of false gods is “spiritual adultery,” and can be likened to an unfaithful spouse who commits adultery.
 
The Lord lovingly and faithfully watches over His Bride, and guards her jealously, like a passionate husband protecting His bride.
 
 

Jewish bride and groom
 
 
Unfaithfulness and Exile
 
“Adonai will scatter you among the peoples; and among the nations to which Adonai will lead you away, you will be left few in number.  (Deuteronomy 4:27)
 
In this Parsha, Moses prophesies the tragic consequence of Israel straying from their devotion to God and turning to idols: they would be sent into exile (galut) and scattered to the four corners of the earth.
 
This happened with the destruction of the Holy Temple and Jerusalem by the Babylonians and the Romans.
 
However, God is merciful; He promised that if the people would repent and turn back to Him with all of their heart and soul, then He would relent and bring them back to the Land.
 
Indeed, in fulfillment of a great number of prophecies, including those of Moses, the Lord did bring His people home from Babylon.  In these last days, He is once again bringing His people home.
 
“In your distress, when all these things have come upon you, in the last days [acharit-hayamim], you will return to Adonai your God and listen to what He says; for ADONAI your God is a merciful God.  He will not fail you, destroy you, or forget the covenant with your ancestors which He swore to them.”  (Deuteronomy 4:30–31)
 
This miracle has happened in our very generation as Jewish people are returning to the Land of our forefathers from the north, south, east and west.  It is not because of our righteousness that we have come back to the Land, but because of the covenant God made with our ancestors.
 
 

An Orthodox Jewish man recites morning prayers.
 
 
Haftarah Va’etchanan: Comfort My People
 
This week’s Haftarah (prophetic portion) is the first of a series of seven special Haftarot of Consolation that begin on the Shabbat following Tisha B’Av and continue until Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year).
 
These seven Haftarot follow three special Haftarot called the "Three of Rebuke," which are read from Tammuz 17 to Av 9, the three weeks during which we mourn the destruction of the Temple and the onset of the exile of the Jewish People.
 
Isaiah 40 opens with a word of comfort to those who are in exile in Babylon and to the destroyed city of Jerusalem:
 
“Comfort, comfort My people, says your God.  Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”  (Isaiah 40:1–2)
 
 

Jewish men pray at the Western (Wailing) Wall in
Jerusalem, where it is traditional to stuff prayers on
slips of papers in the crevices of the wall. 
 
This week’s Divine consolation to the people of Israel declares reconciliation, restoration, national renewal and hope.
 
“A voice cries: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.  Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.  And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.’  (Isaiah 40:3–5)
 
This prophecy of Isaiah would likely have been understood by the Israelites as an allusion to the ancient practice of eastern monarchs sending harbingers before them to prepare the way, leveling roads and removing impediments for the king.  And just as these monarchs prepared the way before themselves, God will prepare the way and lead the Jewish exiles home from Babylon just as He led them from Egypt to the Promised Land.
 
This passage also speaks of the future manifestation of the Lord before the world, in which people would be led out of bondage to sin and into the Kingdom of Heaven. 
 
God confirms the trustworthiness of this promise, stating that while all flesh is like grass, God’s Word stands firm forever.  God is watching over His word to perform it and His promise to restore and save Israel is reliable and can be trusted by all.
 
 

Reading from the Torah scroll
 
Only God’s Word can restore what seems unrestorable, reconcile what seems irreconcilable, and comfort those who are without comfort.
 
The greatest comfort any Jewish Person can receive is the security in knowing that their sins have been paid for once and for all by Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus the Messiah).
 
Please comfort God's people today by helping Bibles For Israel reveal Yeshua to the Jewish People in powerful, culturally sensitive ways.
 
"Comfort, comfort My people, says your God.  Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins."  (Isaiah 40:12)
 

 
  Eruption - Stromboli gorgheggia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVm5hmAIY80 (0:42)

Yazidi Member of Iraqi Parliament collapses in tears
after calling upon World to Rescue the Yazidis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNoP-tQ5mCw (2:35)

Iraq: Yazidi Minority Flee For Their Lives From Islamic State
The Islamic State has advanced since routing the Kurdish Peshmerga and seizing areas on the Iraqi Syrian border, trapping thousands.
http://www.clarionproject.org/news/iraq-yezidi-minority-flee-their-lives-islamic-state

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The Next War on Israel’s Horizon
by Avi Davis

As Operation Protective Edge winds down, there is growing speculation about the next and far more serious military threat that the country may be forced to confront. On its northern border with Lebanon, the Israeli army is faced with the daunting prospect of 100,000 long-range rockets far more accurate and effective than the missiles used by Hamas in its recent confrontation and far more likely to cause damage to life and property than the former offensive. Hizb'allah, which launched a 34-day offensive against Israel in July, 2006, is the Hamas threat multiplied tenfold. [...]
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/the_next_war_on_israels_horizon.html

Giant Sinkholes Appear Around Drying Dead Sea – Will The Dead Sea Be Eaten By Sinkholes?
There are now over 3,000 sinkholes around the Dead Sea on the Israeli side. This compares to 40 in 1990, with the first sinkhole appearing in the 1980s. The Dead Sea is drying up at an incredible rate leaving huge chasms of empty space in its wake. These chasms appear in the form of large, devastating sinkholes and are increasing in number throughout the region. Experts claim they are now forming at a rate of nearly one a day, but have no way of knowing when or how they will show up. [...]
http://strangesounds.org/2014/08/giant-sinkholes-appear-around-drying-dead-sea-will-dead-sea-eaten-sinkholes.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x2JlBctc7Y (0:40)
https://www.youtube.com/user/HighlightFilmsIsrael

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Russia Prepares Large-Scale Invasion: “Battle-ready Force of Infantry, Armor, Artillery, and Air Defense”
by Mac Slavo

A massive buildup on the Ukrainian border in the last 48 hours has seen Russia double its troop levels with 17 additional battalions and has left Western leaders trying to figure out what President Vladimir Putin is planning to do next. On Tuesday, the Russian President called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to resolve the “humanitarian crisis” in Ukraine that has reportedly left tens of thousands of people displaced because of fighting over the last several months, a move that some in the West see as prelude to a Russian invasion of Ukraine. [...]
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/08/russia-prepares-large-scale-invasion-battle-ready-force-infantry-armor-artillery-air-defense

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Liberia - state of emergency as Ebola death toll rises to 932

Liberia's president declared a state of emergency on Wednesday to combat the ongoing outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, as the country began implementing quarantine checkpoints. The country’s president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, said that the scale of the Ebola outbreak represents a threat to Liberia’s security. [...]
http://rt.com/news/178556-ebola-outbreak-health-emergency/

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Thanks - Sher Zieve
vid title - THE MOST VIRAL VIDEO FOR 2014

Without any expectation that it will do any good, I'll repeat what I've been saying since April, 2009 - This blessed nation cannot afford B. Hussein Obama. - Now, we're at critical mass. This nation - after the horrifying damage that this foreign imposter has already done in his illegitimate 5 1/2 years in our Oval Office - we cannot afford another 2 1/2 years of him and his cabal. His pre-planned RUINATION OF AMERICA agenda is now accelerating at a noticeable rate. We must join together - somehow! - to stop this deadly sabotage from within.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX6VCjpI0S0 (7:37)
also here - http://safeshare.tv/w/EDBZOvVlia

CFR John Bolton: World Has Descended Into Chaos Under Obama ! w vid

Former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton warned of the perilous new age our world has sunken into under President Obama’s leadership. Bolton appeared on Fox Business Wednesday and hammered the president for his failure to effectively lead. “The world is descended into chaos,” Bolton said. [...]
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/bolton-world-has-descended-into-chaos-under-obama/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om6QK0wYYS0 (3:43)
https://www.youtube.com/user/WashingtonFreeBeacon

The World Next Week: August 7, 2014 w mp3 (31:07)
Hosts: Robert McMahon, Editor, CFR.org
James M. Lindsay, Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Turkey holds presidential elections; the fortieth anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation is marked; and Russian president Vladimir Putin goes to Crimea.
http://www.cfr.org/global/world-next-week-august-7-2014/p33330

US missile cruiser enters Black Sea again ‘to promote peace’
US missile cruiser Vella Gulf has entered the Black Sea in what the American Navy described as a move to "to promote peace and stability in the region." Moscow has considered any such acts as “offensive.” The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) entered the Black Sea on Wednesday as part of the effort to “strengthen the collective security of NATO allies and partners in the region,” according to a statement by the US 6th Fleet. [...]
http://rt.com/news/178584-us-navy-black-sea/

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Stop the NORTH AMERICAN UNION

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/  

Treason: Border Patrol Agent Reveals that ADMITTED MURDERERS are Being Released into America !
What is it going to take for Americans to put down their remotes and wake up to what is happening at our Southern Border? And more importantly, what will it take for Americans to finally do something about it? Has everyone forgotten that these people work for us? Would you consider releasing an admitted murderer, notice I said admitted and not suspected, into the United States an act of treason? Would that qualify? [...]
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/08/treason-border-patrol-agent-reveals-admitted-murderers-released-america/

EBOLA FEARS GROW
Immigrant influx fuels worry along US-Mexico border

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/05/ebola-outbreak-fuels-concerns-over-health-risks-along-us-mexico-border/

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Grab A Gun: North Carolina Sheriff Urges Residents to Arm Themselves !

Editor’s Note: This sheriff knows what needs to be done to make his county a safer place to live. The first step is insuring that residents are equipped to protect themselves. The Harnett County sheriff expressed concern Monday evening about a recent spike of violent crime, and he’s even told residents to start arming themselves. WTVD-TV reported that more than 100 people packed the sanctuary of the Spring Hill United methodist Church Monday Night for a community meeting on crime. There has been an explosion of violence and crime in the area, especially in the last few weeks. [...]
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/grab-gun-north-carolina-sheriff-urges-residents-arm/
http://myfox8.com/2014/08/05/nc-sheriff-urges-residents-to-arm-themselves/

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Thanks -  John Rolls
THIS OUR 'LAST HOPE' ?
by Brandon Smith / Alt-Market.com

Not long ago, I felt compelled to address the idea of self defense as a moral imperative in an article titled “Violence In The Face Of Tyranny Is Often Necessary.” My intention was to perhaps undo some of the propaganda conditioning that Americans have suffered over the decades that has taught them that “all” forms of violent action are “immoral”, including the defense of one’s person, one’s property, and one’s freedom. [...]
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2014/08/organized-community-defense-is-americas-last-hope-2-2890540.html
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/2266-organized-community-defense-is-americas-last-hope

Will America Survive ?
by Lawrence Sellin, PhD

    From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide. - Abraham Lincoln. Barack Obama has become the instrument of that suicide. [...]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/will-america-survive     

Thanks - Kirk MacKenzie
Historic fail? Greatest Americans missing from proposed curriculum.

New history curriculum standards proposed for top high school students leave out such American icons as Benjamin Franklin and Martin Luther King, Jr., paint colonists as bigots and gloss over the Greatest Generation's fight to save the world from Nazi Germany, according to conservative education activists who want the framework delayed — and perhaps scrapped altogether. [...]
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/07/historic-fail-greatest-americans-missing-from-proposed-curriculum/

Attack - Obama Media Go After Sheriff Arpaio Over Obama Forgery & Citizen Grand Juries
The leftist extremists at Southern Poverty Law Center, among other extremist outlets, are attacking Sheriff Arpaio for reportedly answering a question from a CA resident about a citizen grand jury for Obama's forged birth certificate. SPLC attempts to paint Sheriff Arpaio, and birthers, as part of the Sovereign Citizens Movement. Before we proceed. It should be noted [...]  
http://www.birtherreport.com/2014/08/attack-obama-media-go-after-sheriff.html

 

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