On one of his travels across Europe, the great French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte led his troops through a small Jewish town. He passed by a synagogue where everyone was sitting on the floor crying and reading little books by the light of small candles.
Napoleon asked his aide, “What is this?” He was told that the Jewish people are mourning the destruction of the Temple (twice). “How long ago was that?” he inquired, “Two thousand years” was the answer.
Napoleon, astonished, was then quoted saying: “A nation that cries and fasts for over 2,000 years for their land and the Temple will surely be rewarded with both land and the Temple.”
Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av, is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. On this day we fast, deprive ourselves and pray, as we mourn the destruction of the first and second temples, and many other calamities which befell our people throughout history on this date.
Our generation is blessed to live in these times, together in our ancestral homeland, in our own independent state; in our reunified capital Jerusalem.
“All who mourn [the destruction of] Jerusalem will merit to see it in its joy” (Ta’anit 30b)
The menorah on the Arch of Titus in Rome, depicting the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the Jewish people. Today, this menorah is the national symbol of the State of Israel.
Photo: Amos Ben Gershom
Source: @GPOIsrael
Congratulations: Israel's rhythmic gymnastics team won silver at the 2023 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup in Milan.🥈
You've made us proud! 👏🇮🇱
Photo: איגוד ההתעמלות בישראל Israel Gymnastics
My son, Daniel, took this picture today while we were shopping. Really, @NordstromRack? Really? I’m wondering who the brilliant designer was behind this!
The Covenant School shooting was horrific.
For everyone who says “thoughts & prayers aren’t enough,” I AGREE.
Ask why EVERY SINGLE SENATE DEM voted against my bill doubling police officers in school.
One armed officer could have stopped this lunatic, BEFORE a child was killed.
3 years ago today a Black Hebrew Israelite murdered Leah Ferenc mother of 3; Moshe Deutsch; Douglas Rodriguez husband & father, and Det. Joseph Seals father of 5, in an anti-Jewish attack in Jersey City. Black replacement ideology is violent, false, and deadly. BHI are not Jews.
I welcome the @WhiteHouse’s decision to convene a much-needed roundtable to address rising #antisemitism and look forward to @ADL’s participation. It's time for a whole-of-government approach and a unified national strategy to meet the moment of the day most effectively.
For the people who insist that antisemitism doesn’t mean just Jew hatred. Even the Nazis went out of their way to say, no, it’s just about Jews. From November 5, 1942 @nytimes
Shocking:
A gay Palestinian flees to Israel and is given asylum.
Then he is kidnapped, taken to Hebron and brutally beheaded by Palestinians.
Silence from:
Amnesty
Corbyn's cult
the Squad
HRW
Al Jazeera
These people dont care about Palestinians at all. They just hate Israel.
A 25-year-old Palestinian man, Ahmed Abu Maria, who fled to Israel and was granted asylum two years ago due to his sexual identity, was reportedly abducted and taken back to the West Bank city of Hebron, where he was beheaded yesterday.
May his memory be a blessing.
Watch: Thousands gather at the Western Wall to recite Selichot, the traditional prayer in which Jews ask God for forgiveness in the days leading up to the Jewish new year (Rosh Hashanah).
📸Itzik Ohana, Kikar Shabbat