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"As we gathered in our synagogue for the evening services of Maariv at the end of Shabbat, the spirit of our congregation was in deep prayer -just as it was going to be minutes later, during our blessings for the new week. “Oh House of Jacob --come let us go by the light of Hashem. The stability of your times, fear of G-d --that is one’s treasure. And David was successful in all his ways, and Hashem was with him.” » If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletterWhile we did not mention it, it was in all of our minds. Thankfully, our Rabbi, the spiritual guide at the helm of our congregation, solemnly said: “As we begin this most challenging week...” Yes, indeed, this is probably the most challenging week for the Jewish people and Israel in the last few years.As the majority of the world seems to be heading towards darkness, no one can ever deny the pages of History that show incontestably the wonderful yet the painful road of the Jewish people and their incredible survival and success beyond any and all challenges.Looking back in History, we find them in Spain, where they emblazoned Spanish life in every possible way, until the King and Queen of Spain gave in to pressure and authorized the expulsion of their trusted friends and confidants, the Jews. Little did the Sovereigns know that by signing the expulsion of the Jews, they were simultaneously signing the end of progress of their culture and they were ending the advancement of their science, economy and so much more. Spain, without the Jews, was never again to be the same. And, such examples abound throughout History. Wherever the Jews lived, life prospered and blossomed...As recent as last century, the Holocaust took them to the Promised Land of their ancestors, where they witnessed and were part of a miracle. Within barely a few years since their return, the Promised Land went from a desert to a magnificent and prosperous garden of vineyards and thick, green, powerful forests and the country was filled with scented flowers with their eternal colors that have survived despite millennia of absence.Back in their Homeland, Israel’s path has been filled with life and love, with expansion in every possible way -and with war after war waged against them, and in between, the clear and present danger of active, irrational hate inoculated to adults and their own children and that has been translated in concrete attacks of terrorism and devastation -courtesy of the Muslim Palestinian world and the Muslim world at large."
I bet that news isn't widely known among the MFM nor greeted with cheers in the Isslamic world!
