In 1939 Jewish Population in the Land of Israel was 449,000 (Jewish Virtual Library)
in 1938 Jabotinsky estimated that Land of Israel could accomidate 15,000,000  Jews within a 60 year period  [1998]

https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic....4#p2538954


As of May 9,2024 the Jewish Population of the Land of Israel is 7,427,000  Israel is 76 years old

As of OCt 13,2024 the Jewish population of the Land of Israel is 7,689,000 
Israel passes the prophetic population of ten million - Israel365 News

https://www.facebook.com/thebreman/posts...176694490/

https://israel365news.com/391713/america...y-donkeys/

Europe threaten by Islam
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381990

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2008/04..._columbia/

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/390924

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5664...ob-baskind

muslins can go on Temple mount
https://israel365news.com/israel-news/#google_vignette

as for jews on Temple Mount
https://israel365news.com/389853/teenage...ple-mount/

Exodus 6:3 Wrote:

Exodus 6:3 Wrote:But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and I will increase My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

This phrase is repeated in several passages in the Torah--that God hardens the Pharaoh's heart. Why is this? What does it mean? And why would God harden his heart? Wouldn't it be easier to soften his heart such that he is more conciliatory to letting the Hebrews go? Is it just to give God a reason to "increase [His] signs" as a show of his might and therefore prove that he is the Almighty God?

Exodus 6:7 Wrote:And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

The Bible seems to pick the oddest, seemingly random, points in the text to make a point of mentioning the age of the characters involved.

Exodus 6:9 Wrote:"When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Provide a sign for yourselves,' you shall say to Aaron, 'Take your staff, [and] cast [it] before Pharaoh; it will become a serpent.' "

I've noticed in this in more than one place--God instructs Moses to instruct Aaron to perform some act or some deed. It seems important who plays to the role of instructing the other and who carries out the instruction.

Exodus 6:11-12 Wrote:11 [Then,] Pharaoh too summoned the wise men and the magicians, and the necromancers of Egypt also did likewise with their magic.
12 Each one of them cast down his staff, and they became serpents; but Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs.

Is there any symbolism to the snake (serpent)? I know this is a recurring theme in the story of Exodus. God showed Moses on Mt. Sinai that he could turn is staff into a serpent. Why a serpent? Also, looking ahead, I know that God sends serpents to plague the Israelites for their wicked ways in the wilderness and instructs Moses to build a brazen serpent propped up on a stick such that he who gazes upon the serpent will be immune to the bite of the actual serpents. What is the symbolic significance of the serpent? The only thing I can think of is that Moses wields power over the serpent (his own staff, that is) and maybe this represents his mastery over the monstrous or the deadly?

Exodus 6:15 Wrote:Go to Pharaoh in the morning; behold, he is going forth to the water, and you shall stand opposite him on the bank of the Nile

Why opposite to Pharaoh? Does this mean on the opposite side of the river?

Exodus 6:28-29 Wrote:28 And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your bedroom and upon your bed and into the house of your servants and into your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs;
29 and into you and into your people and into all your servants, the frogs will ascend.'"

When reading about the plagues that God inflicts on the Egyptians, are we to read into the symbolism of each plague? My previous question about the symbolic significance of the serpents is a case in point. What about in this case? Is the plague of frogs symbolic of something? Or is it just frogs and that's all there is to it?
And why is Pharaoh so stubborn? Surely, if it were me, I would have buckled under the first miraculous seeming plague--the staff that became a serpent (although I would hardly call this a plague)--is it a competition between Gods? The Egyptian Gods vs. The Hebrew God? Is Pharaoh simply holding onto his faith that his gods will win out over the Hebrew God? Is it that he's not yet convinced it's more than a cheap magician's trick? Is God being the puppet master, hardening Pharaoh's heart as is repeatedly mentioned in this chapter?

see link at
https://www.brandeis.edu/hornstein/sarna...%20War.pdf
https://www.timesofisrael.com/braving-bi...civil-war/

From American Jewish Archives records:

https://sites.americanjewisharchives.org..._02_00.pdf

   


Shalom!
What do the four letters  עייר in brackets mean? (I understand the rest of the inscription: Organization Yad Labanim – Organization of the community of the martyrs of the IDF and care for families)

Thank you for your help!

I see a clear, consistent description of the second gathering of Israel to their land coming from Isaiah 11, Jeremiah 16:14-16, and Jeremiah 31:7-9

(1) It will involve the drying of the tongue of the Egyptian Sea (apparently the Gulf of Suez) and the River (apparently the Euphrates) so that they will walk back to the land without wading or swimming.
(2) The exiles of Israel will come from many places, particularly the north country, where they will have been living in scattered, poor conditions, including hiding in holes of the rocks. They will come walking in a big group, weeping, being shepherded by the Lord.
(3) This second gathering will be so impressive that it will replace the first gathering (the exodus from Egypt) in the minds of the people as the most impressive event of the history of Israel.

It is obvious that this has not happened, yet. A group of Jews is there now, but they mostly have come on airplanes and ships, a few hundred at a time. There was a time when the Jews in the north had difficulty getting out of the Soviet Union, but that seems to be past and the Jews still up there are there because they have not decided to come back to their land, yet. I understand that about half of the Jews are back in the land at present.

My point is this: This second gathering, as described by the prophets, does not seem possible if a significant amount of Jews have already returned and are established in the land.

The shocking implication is that Jews will once again be expelled from their land before the second gathering can take place to inaugurate the Messianic Kingdom.

There are other practical arguments that confirm this conclusion. One is that the majority of Jews in Israel do not seem to be Torah observant. I recently retired from working for an Israeli company, and saw a generally humanistic approach to life by all that I saw. Staying in the land has something to do with obeying God, the last time I checked. Next, Israel continues to be dependent on the U.S. I was of the understanding that Israel is supposed to trust in God alone. Well, the U.S. is teetering on the brink. It stands to reason that when the U.S. goes down, Israel will fulfill their own word that they depend on the U.S.

At this time, anti-Semitism is coming out of the closet and increasing around the world. Brooklyn may be turning into a death trap, especially if Putin launches a nuclear tsunami, as has been threatened. I think most Jews are seeing this and realizing that it might be time to move out. Back to Israel seems to be the best choice, but is it? By all means, get out of the U.S. now, if you can't manage to do it yesterday. but Israel might be a death trap, also. I suggest going some other place, maybe Paraguay, maybe Botswana. The exile is not over, until the Lord shepherds his people back, walking and weeping, not on a Boeing airplane.