Rabbis issue worldwide prayer calls Jewish state on edge as record number of rockets slam population centers
Rabbis issue worldwide prayer calls
Jewish state on edge as record number of rockets slam population centers
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Posted: July 31, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
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© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – As a record number of Hezbollah rockets slammed into Israeli towns yesterday, rabbinic leaders here and abroad called on Christians worldwide to increase acts of kindness, for Jewish men to done tefillin, or Jewish prayer phylacteries, once per day, while Jewish women were asked to light Sabbath candles every Friday night to ensure the safety of Israel during its military campaign in Lebanon.
"We call upon all Christians and non-Jews to increase in acts of goodness and kindness to your neighbor and fellow man. For Jewish males above the age of 13 to don Tefillin every weekday. Tefillin possesses a special spiritual component that frightens and deters the enemy. And to all Jewish women to start lighting Shabbat candles every Friday before sunset. Shabbat candles too have a spiritual component to dispel darkness and to light up the world," the Rabbinic Congress for Peace, a coalition of over 1200 rabbinic leaders and pulpit rabbis, said in a statement.
Congress members include some of the most esteemed Orthodox rabbis in the Jewish world.
Tefillin are leather objects with black straps containing biblical verses that are worn on the head and on one arm by Jewish men during weekday morning prayers. The verses inside the tefillin are handwritten by a scribe and consist of the four sections of the Torah in which tefillin are commanded.
One of the main commandments for wearing tefillin comes from the biblical verse in Deuteronomy: "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. ... Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a frontlet between your eyes."
Tefillin have been directly connected to war and terrorism, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Lewin, a member of the Rabbinic Congress, explained to WND.
A verse in Deuteronomy states, "Then all the people of the earth shall see that the name of God is proclaimed over you and they will fear you."
The Talmud explains the biblical verse is referring to the donning of tefillin, which contains the name of God.
In response to the verse, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, promoted a tefillin campaign in Israel and around the world before the 1967 Six Day War, in which the Jewish state was attacked by several Arab countries.
"Before the Six Day War the Rebbe [Schneerson] recognized the power of tefillin and its connection to war against Israel and the desire of its enemies to annihilate the Jewish state, and he started an enormous tefillin campaign," said Lewin. "Here too we are calling on Jewish men to wear tefillin during this most dangerous time.
Lewin said his group is urging Jewish women to light Shabbat candles because "light dispels darkness, especially the holy light of Sabbath candles, which is said to light up the world and overwhelm the darkness of war. The Zohar, the foremost book on Jewish Kaballah, says that Shabbat candles bring peace to the whole world."
The rabbis' international calls comes as Hezbollah fired over 140 Katyusha rockets at targets in northern Israel yesterday, wounding at least five people, one of them a reporter for Israel's Haaretz daily. It was the largest number of rockets launched in one day since the conflict started July 12 after Hezbollah terrorists ambushed an Israeli military patrol and kidnapped two soldiers.
About 90 rockets per day have been slamming into northern Israeli cities the past three weeks, including into Haifa, Israel's third-largest population center. About one-third of Israeli citizens are currently living under rocket threat.
Hezbollah leaders warned their group would soon launch rockets deeper into the Jewish state, targeting central Israeli cities.
"I declare that we will enter the 'beyond Haifa' stage," Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned last Wednesday in a television address. "In the new stage, our attacks will not remain limited to Haifa. Irrespective of the reaction of the enemy forces on the rocketing of Haifa, we will move to the stage of beyond Haifa."
Also last week, the Iranian Fars news agency in Lebanon quoted Fuad Dirani, a commander in Hezbollah, saying the terror group has set a new rocket target for itself – the city of Netanya, which is about 16 miles north of Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial capital.
Hezbollah is known to possess missiles that can reach Tel Aviv and beyond. In its military campaign in Lebanon the past three weeks, Israel has destroyed a number of Iranian Zalzel missiles, which have a range of about 125 miles. Tel Aviv is about 90 miles from the Lebanese border. According to Israeli officials, Hezbollah is thought to have a stockpile of 50-100 Zalzel missiles, although officials here admit privately they have thus far greatly underestimated Hezbollah's rocket arsenal as far as the number of rockets they possess and the range the rockets can travel.
Jewish state on edge as record number of rockets slam population centers
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Posted: July 31, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
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© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – As a record number of Hezbollah rockets slammed into Israeli towns yesterday, rabbinic leaders here and abroad called on Christians worldwide to increase acts of kindness, for Jewish men to done tefillin, or Jewish prayer phylacteries, once per day, while Jewish women were asked to light Sabbath candles every Friday night to ensure the safety of Israel during its military campaign in Lebanon.
"We call upon all Christians and non-Jews to increase in acts of goodness and kindness to your neighbor and fellow man. For Jewish males above the age of 13 to don Tefillin every weekday. Tefillin possesses a special spiritual component that frightens and deters the enemy. And to all Jewish women to start lighting Shabbat candles every Friday before sunset. Shabbat candles too have a spiritual component to dispel darkness and to light up the world," the Rabbinic Congress for Peace, a coalition of over 1200 rabbinic leaders and pulpit rabbis, said in a statement.
Congress members include some of the most esteemed Orthodox rabbis in the Jewish world.
Tefillin are leather objects with black straps containing biblical verses that are worn on the head and on one arm by Jewish men during weekday morning prayers. The verses inside the tefillin are handwritten by a scribe and consist of the four sections of the Torah in which tefillin are commanded.
One of the main commandments for wearing tefillin comes from the biblical verse in Deuteronomy: "And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. ... Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a frontlet between your eyes."
Tefillin have been directly connected to war and terrorism, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Lewin, a member of the Rabbinic Congress, explained to WND.
A verse in Deuteronomy states, "Then all the people of the earth shall see that the name of God is proclaimed over you and they will fear you."
The Talmud explains the biblical verse is referring to the donning of tefillin, which contains the name of God.
In response to the verse, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, promoted a tefillin campaign in Israel and around the world before the 1967 Six Day War, in which the Jewish state was attacked by several Arab countries.
"Before the Six Day War the Rebbe [Schneerson] recognized the power of tefillin and its connection to war against Israel and the desire of its enemies to annihilate the Jewish state, and he started an enormous tefillin campaign," said Lewin. "Here too we are calling on Jewish men to wear tefillin during this most dangerous time.
Lewin said his group is urging Jewish women to light Shabbat candles because "light dispels darkness, especially the holy light of Sabbath candles, which is said to light up the world and overwhelm the darkness of war. The Zohar, the foremost book on Jewish Kaballah, says that Shabbat candles bring peace to the whole world."
The rabbis' international calls comes as Hezbollah fired over 140 Katyusha rockets at targets in northern Israel yesterday, wounding at least five people, one of them a reporter for Israel's Haaretz daily. It was the largest number of rockets launched in one day since the conflict started July 12 after Hezbollah terrorists ambushed an Israeli military patrol and kidnapped two soldiers.
About 90 rockets per day have been slamming into northern Israeli cities the past three weeks, including into Haifa, Israel's third-largest population center. About one-third of Israeli citizens are currently living under rocket threat.
Hezbollah leaders warned their group would soon launch rockets deeper into the Jewish state, targeting central Israeli cities.
"I declare that we will enter the 'beyond Haifa' stage," Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned last Wednesday in a television address. "In the new stage, our attacks will not remain limited to Haifa. Irrespective of the reaction of the enemy forces on the rocketing of Haifa, we will move to the stage of beyond Haifa."
Also last week, the Iranian Fars news agency in Lebanon quoted Fuad Dirani, a commander in Hezbollah, saying the terror group has set a new rocket target for itself – the city of Netanya, which is about 16 miles north of Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial capital.
Hezbollah is known to possess missiles that can reach Tel Aviv and beyond. In its military campaign in Lebanon the past three weeks, Israel has destroyed a number of Iranian Zalzel missiles, which have a range of about 125 miles. Tel Aviv is about 90 miles from the Lebanese border. According to Israeli officials, Hezbollah is thought to have a stockpile of 50-100 Zalzel missiles, although officials here admit privately they have thus far greatly underestimated Hezbollah's rocket arsenal as far as the number of rockets they possess and the range the rockets can travel.
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