Shabbat

Portion VaYeeGash

Portion VaYeeGash and

 

Those Darn Houtis missiles - woke up my little daughter 430 AM

 

All they do is call down more hell on their half of Yemen!

And prove what sickos they Iran and Turkey leaders are.

 

The Torah, however , is eternal

 

Portion VaYeeGash and proving Chanuka : Treasure Trove Of Hasmonean Era Coins Found On Chanukah In the Jordan valley. (See below link)

 

So a little story here (from Alon last night)

 

And a connection to Rabbi Bachya's explanations on the portion, who wrote that

 

On the way down to Egypt, Jacob sacrifices to the Almighty -

Elokei yitzchak - G-d of Isaac, his father

 

As Rabeinu bBachya ben Asher ( not the other one) says,

 

Not to the G-d of Avraham. ..

 

Because Jacob received the powers of Isaac

And the blessings of a return to Israel from various exiles-

From his father Isaac

 

Story:

 

Grandfather Father and little son are taken to Auschwitz

 

And father decides when he is liberated that

 he wants nothing more of Judaism

And brings up the little boy who also miraculously survived

With no religion

 

For the boy's 13th birthday they go shopping for a gift and in the store the boy sees a cheap old menorah,  the boy grabs it and asks his father what it is

Dad angrily grabs it away from him

And they fight over it

And naturally it falls and BREAKS ..  revealing some

Hebrew name on a piece of paper

Reading it out loud, the father says "I don't know if any one will survive this place –

but if anyone is still alive and finds this,

My name is Zecharia ben Asher and I hope that some Jewish person will Some Day

Say kaddish for me.

The Dad faints

It is HIS father's name

Of course it made a difference in their lives!

 

So let me ask...

Ðo Jews still listen to American News reports like that Monday about 1110 pm we all were attacked by another Houtie missile

and

That every day a fèw missiles are still shot out of hiding places in Gaza?

AND

Does anyone really believe the Chanuka story?

See the proof

https://vinnews.com/2024/12/29/treasure-trove-of-hasmonean-era-coins-found-on-chanukah-in-jordan-valley/

and

Does anyone believe that Joseph was the viceroy - king's second in command - in Egypt

 

I have trouble absorbing the miracle of Israel controlling all the former flash points in Syria (some of which I visited in the early 1970's)

See below

Soldiers playing in the snow this week

 

*לַחֲדָשׁוֹת שְׂמֵחוֹת*

chat.whatsapp.com/BZ0EoO7J2ozGTZrIseGnLT\

 

*English*

chat.whatsapp.com/HBYAwMBAaEBID2FGjTqS9h

 

We are being reminded of the miracle of being Jewish

But also the price we pay in soldiers lost

And children crying when the sirens go off at night – to protect us from falling debris.

 

We will need to rebuild what Iran has inspired their followers to destroy.

Together

And the portion begins "And Judah got close to Joseph to speak…"

 

 

Shabbat Shalom
 
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz