Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "IT IS NOTHING NEW AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

There is a lesson of history that the Jewish People, and the State of Israel need to understand and it is a lesson that our Sages understood and about which they gave warnings.
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This is a lesson that will determine whether Israel will survive or fail, prosper of wither away, and unless there are changes, history will record a failure.
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Our Sages 2000 years or so ago, remarked that the Temple was destroyed because of “needless hatred”. Of couse more was destroyed than a building. Jerusalem was destroyed.
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The forests of Israel were burnt, leaving bare hills that eroded when winter rains came, leaving rocks exposed everywhere. The population was reduced, between those starved, and those murdered, and those taken as slaves, to almost nothing,...
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leaving the land empty for the most part for 2000 years and Jews who lived outside Eretz Yisrael, a majority of our people actually, were so demoralized that most, 3/4ths, ended up as Christians within 300 years.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote;
"SHABBAT SHALOM

שבת. שלום
לכול. עם ישראל

Parsha Vayishlach
Genesis 32:4–36:43

I hate to say it and many will object to my doing so, but reading the drama of this parsha it sounds sort of like a soap opera or a Latin American telenovela.
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Jacob, now very rich after being away in Haran for 20 years, returns back to the land of his father and grandfather with all his family and wealth. After all the years away, he is concerned how he will be received back in the region by his brother and his clan.
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So, he sends ahead hundreds of cattle and sheep to appease his brother and to avoid conflict.

But on the night before meeting Esau and confronting a possible problem, Jacob has an interesting experienced, one some call a dream, others call an actual event.
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Whatever it was, Jacob enters a struggle with a strong being (an angel?) and is victorious, and this being calls him Yisrael, as Jacob had struggled with the divine, and in the process hurts his hip. Now anyone who has ever had sciatica knows how bad that can hurt.
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But then, Jacob meets up with his brother, and they embrace, but decide that to part ways is for the best for them and all that they have.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "IRELAND AND ISRAEL. — WHAT MAKES NO SENSE.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote,
"AMERICANS LIKE TO LOOK TO THE BILL OF RIGHTS, THE 10 AMENDMENTS TO THE US CONSTITUTION AS THE GREATEST PROTECTION OF LIBERTY,....
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