Jewish History from long ago

The Seal
Jewish seal from 2,700 years ago found in Jerusalem, Israel announces - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

The Inscription 
2,700-year-old Hebrew inscription found in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel

More seals!
Huge Kingdom of Judah government complex found near US Embassy in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel

Hi Everyone,

This is my first post here. I hope this is the correct forum but please let me know if not.

I've been saying (I don't sing!) the Eshet Chaiyl to my wife in our Shabbat evening services for the last 45-odd years, but I really have problems with the translation, and in general the meaning of this poem -  It's really not appropriate to our lives in this age.

Can anyone suggest an alternative poem that I could read to her that's more in keeping with a wife as an equal partner.

Failing that I may have to make one up, and nobody would want to hear that

Thanks

Violence in Netherlands against Maccabi Tel Aviv fans of November 8, 2024:

Only in regard to Israeli citizens, do the International Media seem to become "confused".

A video emerged, by a Dutch photographer Annet De Graaf (female) which appears to show: 
a mob running. 
At first this was reported generally, as pro-Palestinians attacking (a) Maccabi Tel Aviv fan(s). 

Now the media are fact-checking this to state, at the photographer's (the photographer who made the video in question) insistence, that the mob were instead Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attacking a Dutch man.
On the following DW webpage it also states that another video taken from a different angle, confirms De Graaf's claim. 
On France 24 English they claim the mob are identified because one man was wearing yellow.

My concerns:
Although the Dutch photographer Annet De Graaf claims the people shown on her video were Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, there is no indication as to how she so identified the people shown on her video. 
Although there is apparently another video taken from a different angle allegedly confirming De Graaf's claim about the identity of the people shown on her video, again there is no indication how this other video confirms the people's identity, any more than the De Graaf video.
France 24 English claim one man was wearing yellow, but the yellow clothing I saw them show, did not confirm that this was the yellow and blue typical of Maccabi Tel Aviv.

[Heading:] "Fact check: Amsterdam video doesn't show attack on Israelis": 
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-amsterd...a-70763374
However, if the reader cares to scroll down that webpage, in fact right down to the bottom of it, they can see that it also states the following: 

Quote:'The exact identity of the men in the video remains unclear. A spokeswoman for the Amsterdam police said in an interview with DW that the video taken by the Dutch photographer is the subject of an ongoing investigation. At present, the police cannot provide any information about the identity of the perpetrators seen in the video.'

Source:
See latter link.

Quote:One attacker:
'For the children, for the children M*F*, for the children.'
Victim:
'I give you my money, I give you my money.'
Same attacker:
'Free Palestine now. Free Palestine.'
Another attacker:
'Free Palestine, free Palestine.'
[Remaining audio unclear.]

Source for video:
See latter link.

The international Media are generally pro-Palestinian Arab and anti-Israel and therefore the Media typically do not recognize the Palestinian Arab war of terrorism against Israeli Jewish civilians in Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”). This bias in favor of the Palestinian Arabs leads to what I will refer to as “time-preference” propaganda. For example, the Media prefer time to start with reports of Jewish villagers (aka “settlers”) attacking Palestinian Arab property, NOT with the PRIOR terrorist attacks by the Palestinian Arabs.

“Comprehensive Listing of Terrorism Victims in Israel” [including upon Israeli Jewish villagers in Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”)]:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/com...-in-israel


The Media bias in favor of the Palestinian Arabs is set against the background of, and is also due to, the politically-biased and unjust United Nations resolutions labeling Jewish habitation in various parts of the Jewish ancestral-homeland of Israel, as “illegal occupation”. Typically this refers to Judah and Samaria (“West Bank”), and “East” Jerusalem.

The political bias in the United Nations produced "unjust law" being resolutions:
> describing any part of the Jewish people's ancestral-homeland of Israel as in "Israeli Illegal Occupation",
> that manifestly wrongly recognizes Arab usurpers as having the right to self-determination within the Jewish ancestral-homeland, yet devoid of any historical objective-evidence in support, while not recognizing the same right to the Jewish people! 

Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral-homeland. Internationally-recognized history shows that the last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel (Roman-imposed name “Palestine”), prior to the RE-establishment of Israel in 1948, was the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom. It included what is now referred to as the “West Bank”, Gaza, and Golan Heights. Capital (what is now East) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map: 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg

People tend to be mislead by the “halo-reputation” United Nations. The U.N. and its structures have for many years had a built-in pro “Palestinian” Arab bias. The “Palestinian” Arabs start-off in U.N. votes by enjoying a block-vote in their favor of up to 56 Arab and additional Islamic-aligned countries (e.g. U.N. member states that are also members of the “Organization of Islamic Cooperation” and follow its policies when voting in the U.N.), and influence of Arab oil money with consequential trading power; compared to Israel being just one country.

Under the British Mandate (1922 to 1948), both Jews and Arabs who applied for citizenship became "Palestinian":
This citizenship, using the name "Palestinian", ceased with the end of the British Mandate.

The Arabs within the land of Israel only started using the name "Palestinian" for themselves from about 1960.

The “Palestinian Arabs” dropped the name “Arab” because they do not want you to understand they mostly originate from Foreign-Arab-Migrant-Workers who came to the land of Israel just prior to, and during the British Mandate, to take advantage of higher wages through Jewish returnee-exiles. I have discussed this in more detail together with extract quotes and sources, here:
"Are the Palestinian Arabs really as they claim, native (aka indigenous), to Israel?": 
https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/forum/show...hp?tid=789

The Arabs in Judah and Samaria, and Gaza, those who are neither Israeli citizens nor have Israeli "residence", are present only by way of the Oslo Accords which provided for autonomy. 
(The Oslo Accords allowed Israel to build homes (aka "settlements") in Area C of the "West Bank".)

The Palestinian Arabs in Judah and Samaria breached the Oslo Accords because they continued with a war of terrorism against Israel Jewish civilians. If a Palestinian Arab terrorist murders an Israeli Jew and the terrorist is imprisoned by Israel, the “Palestinian Authority” aka “Fatah” and the “Palestinian Liberation Organisation” (the P.A. funded by the “European Union” and the U.S.A.), pay a reward-“pension” to the family of the attacker. This fund is referred to as the "Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund": 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinia...rtyrs_Fund

The Palestinian Arabs in Gaza breached the Oslo Accords by putting Hamas in power which never recognized the Accords, and who over many years fired thousands of rockets at Israeli cities, and who on October 7th, 2023 carried out a barbaric attack on Israeli civilians (while in south Lebanon Hezbollah were planning a similar attack on Israeli civilians in northern Israel).

Many Egyptians entered Gaza as new "Palestinians" under the illegal-occupation of Gaza by Egypt 1948 to 1967 -  copies of two such passports issued by the then Egyptian illegal-occupiers of Gaza: 
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3ofilrrsl...s.pdf/file

The Palestinian Arabs have no valid historical claim over any part of the land of Israel.
There has never been an indigenous “Palestine” / Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel upon which the “Palestinian” Arabs could base any claim to any part of Israel.

Being in breach of the Oslo Accords the Palestinian Arabs (not having Israeli citizenship nor residence) are squatters and thus illegal-occupiers.

There are Media articles complaining about “far right” Israeli government Ministers who it is alleged wish to “push out” Palestinian Arabs from the “West Bank”.

What does "far right" mean in politics?
According to WordNik, it means: 

Quote:'The most conservative or reactionary part of a political or religious grouping.'

Source:
https://www.wordnik.com/words/far right

A son of Israel was murdered because he defended himself today
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-execu...f-defense/
3 Heshvan 5785
2 rabbis also died on this date
https://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/day...zhiner.%22

Take warning for it was only one death that lead to the deaths of 6 million brethern

On 12 April 1933  16 Nisan 5693 

4 Jews were shot by the SS At Dachau  (3 killed and 1 died of wounds)

*The first two days of Passover (April 12 and 13) and the last two days (April 19 and 20) have restrictions. The middle days of the eight day holiday do not.

Haman has no mercy toward jews even before 7 october 2023   22 Tishrei Shemini ATzeret

Flee to Israel to live...or suffer the consequences 

Jewish Leadership and their communities actions
Jewish Leadership moral responisiblty (thehebrewcafe.com)

Hello everyone,

Yes, I'm still moving this project forward. I may not have the time or energy to post a new thread every day, but the way I figure it, I have the rest of my life to complete it. So what's the rush? In any case, I covered Exodus 8 & 9 here and now I cover Exodus 10, 11, and 12. And as always, my source is https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9871.

Exodus 10 Wrote:8 [Thereupon,] Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, worship the Lord your God. Who and who are going?" 9 Moses said, "With our youth and with our elders we will go, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our cattle we will go, for it is a festival of the Lord to us." 10 So he [Pharaoh] said to them, "So may the Lord be with you, just as I will let you and your young children out. See that evil is before your faces. 11 Not so; let the men go now and worship the Lord, for that is what you request." And he chased them out from before Pharaoh.

Exodus 10:20 Wrote:But the Lord strengthened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out.

Exodus 10:25 Wrote:But Moses said, "You too shall give sacrifices and burnt offerings into our hands, and we will make them for the Lord our God.

Exodus 10 Wrote:28 Pharaoh said to him, "Go away from me! Beware! You shall no longer see my face, for on the day that you see my face, you shall die!" 29 [Thereupon,] Moses said, "You have spoken correctly; I shall no longer see your face."

Exodus 11:9 Wrote:The Lord said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not heed you, in order to increase My miracles in the land of Egypt."

Exodus 12:2 Wrote:This month shall be to you the head of the months; to you it shall be the first of the months of the year.

Exodus 12 Wrote:3 Speak to the entire community of Israel, saying, "On the tenth of this month, let each one take a lamb for each parental home, a lamb for each household. 4 But if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor who is nearest to his house shall take [one] according to the number of people, each one according to one's ability to eat, shall you be counted for the lamb. 5 You shall have a perfect male lamb in its [first] year; you may take it either from the sheep or from the goats. 6 And you shall keep it for inspection until the fourteenth day of this month, and the entire congregation of the community of Israel shall slaughter it in the afternoon. 7 And they shall take [some] of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they will eat it. 8 And on this night, they shall eat the flesh, roasted over the fire, and unleavened cakes; with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 You shall not eat it rare or boiled in water, except roasted over the fire its head with its legs and with its innards. 10 And you shall not leave over any of it until morning, and whatever is left over of it until morning, you shall burn in fire. 11 And this is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste it is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord.

Exodus 12:23 Wrote:The Lord will pass to smite the Egyptians, and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and the Lord will pass over the entrance, and He will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to smite [you].

Exodus 12:31 Wrote:So he called for Moses and Aaron at night, and he said, "Get up and get out from among my people, both you, as well as the children of Israel, and go, worship the Lord as you have spoken.

Exodus 12:37 Wrote:The children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot, the men, besides the young children.

Exodus 12 Wrote:The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover sacrifice: No estranged one may partake of it. 44 And every man's slave, purchased for his money you shall circumcise him; then he will be permitted to partake of it. 45 A sojourner or a hired hand may not partake of it. 46 It must be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the meat out of the house to the outside, neither shall you break any of its bones. 47 The entire community of Israel shall make it. 48 And should a proselyte reside with you, he shall make a Passover sacrifice to the Lord. All his males shall be circumcised, and then he may approach to make it, and he will be like the native of the land, but no uncircumcised male may partake of it. 49 There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who resides in your midst."

Smotrich urges ramping up West Bank, Gaza settlements, pushing Palestinians out | The Times of Israel
Far-right Israeli settler movement aims to push Palestinians out of Gaza (msn.com)


Yet only in Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_e...ma-square/

It is no crime for Jews to take back what was stolen from them 104 years ago.

No friends of Israel  are
https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/05/21/b...-concerns/

Why do some people wrongly believe Modern Israel was "created" by the United Nations?

Israel was not Re-established by the United Nations. 

Israel was not “created”; modern Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral-homeland as can be seen by looking at a map of the Jewish Hasmonean kingdom; there has never been any indigenous “Palestine” / Arab sovereign state in the land of Israel.

The last indigenous sovereign state in the land prior to modern Israel, was the post-Biblical Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom (including the "West Bank" (land of the previous Jewish Kingdoms of Judah and Samaria), Gaza, and Golan Heights), with its capital of (what is now "East") Jerusalem; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg


People often allege that following the Second World War the Allies Re-established Israel: 
The Allies did NOT Re-establish Israel. 

People often allege land was "given" to the Jews to Re-establish Israel:  
NO land was given to the Jews.

Israel was NOT Re-established due to the Holocaust, but because the land of Israel is the ancestral-homeland of the Jewish people.

In 1947 the United Nations proposed a Partition Plan (two-state solution) under resolution 181. While the Jewish Community accepted the Plan, it requires more than one party to constitute any agreement. The Palestinian Arab response was to start a civil war to take ALL the land and ethnically-cleanse or murder the Jews from the Jews ancestral-homeland of Israel. 

Israel was Re-established in 1948 following the United Nations Partition Plan. 
Why is the word "following" an accurate description?
 > Because the U.N. in proposing the Partition Plan approved the Re-establishment of Israel; approved Jewish self-determination within the Jewish people's ancestral-homeland of Israel; and approval of an Arab state (for which there was and is, neither precedent nor justification) within the land of Israel). 
 > Because Israel's Re-establishment followed (in point of time) that U.N. Partition Plan. 

The U.N. Partition Plan then, acted as a catalyst, causing the Palestinian Arabs to react as they typically do, with violence, by their violent-rejection of the U.N. Partition Plan, attacking the Jews, and leaving the Jewish Community with no choice but to defend themselves, resulting in defense capable of Re-establishing Israel.

Consider in the Israel -v- Terrorists war, what the difference on the battlefield is, between a: Journalist and a Spy:

Journalist:                                                           Spy:

Has a map of the area                                          Ditto.
Has a camera                                                        Ditto.
Wants the best "pix" of the other side                  Ditto.
Wants best PIX of sensitive military areas             Ditto.
Will nicely-expand those digital images               Ditto.
Transmits PIX to public (thus to both sides)         Transmits PIX to one side!
Wears a BIG sign saying: "Press"                          Ditto.
May say they are "Independent"                          Says they are "free lance"!
They are 'only doing their job'                             Likewise!

Information contained in images of an ongoing conflict amounts to surveillance intelligence, which will be used by the one side to inflict casualties upon their opponents. 

The following is an example of legislation from the United States, their military apparently having expressed significant concern about Media-surveillance being publicly-released and consequently, placed in the hands of any enemy:

Quote:[Heading:] '18 U.S. Code § 797 - Publication and sale of photographs of defense installations'

'On and after thirty days from the date upon which the President defines any vital military or naval installation or equipment as being within the category contemplated under section 795 of this title, whoever reproduces, publishes, sells, or gives away any photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation of the vital military or naval installations or equipment so defined, without first obtaining permission of the commanding officer of the military or naval post, camp, or station concerned, or higher authority, unless such photograph, sketch, picture, drawing, map, or graphical representation has clearly indicated thereon that it has been censored by the proper military or naval authority, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.'

'(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 738; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)'

Source:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/797

Should Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel, be made to resign over the October 7th, 2023 Palestinian Arab Hamas barbaric attack and massacre?

No, not unless the reader would have thought it appropriate for Franklin D. Roosevelt (President of the United States from 1933 to 1945) to resign over the Japanese attack on Peal Harbor of December 7, 1941.

President Roosevelt's address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on December 8 1941 is as appropriate a description today of Israel's circumstances following the Palestinian Arab Hamas attack, as it was for the United States' response to the Japanese attack on U.S. forces in Pearl Harbor in 1941. 

Following President Roosevelt's accurate description of the attack on Pearl Harbor as: 
'a date that will live in infamy', 
the President went on to say:

Quote:'No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.'

Extract source:
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war...arl-harbor