AT PEACE WITH DEATH
What led Yaakov to feel his life work is now complete, saying “now I may die”?
What led Yaakov to feel his life work is now complete, saying “now I may die”?
Joseph was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, eventually to serve Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s ministers. The Torah relates how his master’s wife attempted to seduce him and how he resisted temptation.
On 19 Tishrei 5734/1973, Corporal Moshe Levy took part in a battle that seemed hopeless, the battle for the “Budapest” outpost in the Sinai. Even after the Russian Sagger missile severed his right hand, he continued fighting and endangered his life to save the lives of other soldiers. His bravery earned him the highest military decoration given by the IDF: the Medal of Valor.
I would like to take this opportunity to discuss a very fundamental message conveyed by the Hayom Yom: The year begins on 19 Kislev and not Rosh Hashana!
It was an extremely wintry night. Annoying raindrops splashed the faces of the passersby. This was not a good reason to refrain from going on Mivtza Chanuka which the Rebbe established. The goal is to bring light to every home, to every Jew, wherever he might be, even in a hospital room, behind bars, or a soldier at his post who is tensely watching the border
From doing business in Miami malls bathed in sunlight, to a Chassidic wedding on the beach, being arrested by immigration authorities and forced to return to Eretz Yisroel with a two-week-old baby, it was all just to end up on shlichus on a Shomron mountaintop yishuv.
Over 400 rockets and mortars were fired at Israeli citizens over a period of two days. Now too, people have seen open miracles that occurred in Ashkelon and other places.