Comments on: Reflecting Back on Yom Yerushalayim

By: simon

simon — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:34:32 +0000

What is for certain is that like Independence Day, it is a day that no longer seems to unite but divide.
Now THAT’S shtussim! I was at the Kosel & saw black-hat Yeshiva bachurim, Chassidishe yungeleit, dancing with flags, & with soldiers & young men in knitted kippas. If that’s not unity, what is?
Let me quote what a newly-arrived Rav from America just wrote about this:
“There is a difference between an observant person, and a person who actually feels G-d in his life. There is a difference between a scholar and a Tzaddik. Gershom Scholem was the world’s foremost authority on Kabbalah, but no one ever came to him for a bracha. IMHO those who do not feel the need to acknowledge G-d’s miracles on Yom Ha’Atzmaut and Yom Yerushalayim, have as much religious feeling as Woody Allen, no matter how knowledgeable they are about Jewish texts. Whether you say Hallel, with a bracha or without a bracha, or don’t say Hallel at all, but like Purim, make a special meal; witnessing miracles demands a religious response. Let us all acknowledge the special miracle of Israel and Jerusalem.”
AMEN!

By: kitzur_dot_net

kitzur_dot_net — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:33:10 +0000

YWN, why do occupy yourself with such shtussim?
This day is a blanket “hetter” for wild teenagers to drink and act otherwise inappropriately on public streets and buses.
I boarded a bus last night, and I was extremely disappointed. I said “ברוך שפטרני” to myself when so many of these passengers got off at Ben Yehuda Street (I’m sure many of the readers know what goes on there at nights).
So please YWN, fill your pages with news that pertains to – as your names suggests – the Yeshiva World !

By: talmidbavli

talmidbavli — Mon, 21 May 2012 20:27:07 +0000

Yes, there is a crack, but not in the neshoma, but rather a crack in the curtain of Falsehood.

By: baron

baron — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:17:19 +0000

nice article!

By: Milhouse

Milhouse — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:08:00 +0000

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the event at Merkaz, vowing to never divide Yerushalayim.

He also vowed that the Ulpana neighbourhood in Bet El would never be evacuated. We will see what his vows are worth.

Years ago when he gave Chevron away he vowed that if the Arabs ever shot from the hills the tanks would immediately roll to take them back. We saw what that vow was worth when Shalhevet Pass was killed and there were no tanks.

Besides which, why are the outer neighbourhoods Yerushalayim more important than Chevron or the Shomron?

By: zionflag

zionflag — Mon, 21 May 2012 16:31:58 +0000

Amen Vamen for the kosel once again in Jewish hands. As Rav Tzedka zt”l would say, “The Kotel is waiting for us, the shechina has been yearning for our tefillos”,,he was discourage talmidim who had the opportunity to davean at the kosel to go to kivrei tzadikim.

BH “The Kotel is in our hands”..