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From: borntolose3 (Original Message) Sent: 11/17/2008 9:51 PM
Very good!
Abraham in the 21st Century by David Wilder // Emergency Meeting
tomorrow Reply to: hebron@hebron.com
Emergency meeting tomorrow – see below
www.hebron.com/english/images/top_flash_pic1.jpg
Abraham in the 21st century
David Wilder
November 16, 2008
This coming Shabbat we read in the weekly Torah portion how Abraham
purchased Ma'arat HaMachpela for 400 silver shekels (in today's term's,
about $750,000). The story is told in the Bible in great detail how
Abraham haggled with Efron the Hittite and finally bought the double
cave to bury there his wife Sarah.
What if...?
What if Abraham had lived today in the 21st century?
Abraham cannot reach out directly to Efron. If Efron knew that Abraham
the Ivri – the first Jew, wanted to buy his land, he would refuse
outright, knowing that the punishment for selling to a Jew is instant
death by the hands of the country's elders.
So, Abraham approaches Fony the Hittite, pays him a lot of money, and
asks him to be a go-between, to purchase the caves for him. Of course,
after raising the price a few times, Fony the Hittite agrees.
He then approaches Efron with an offer that cannot be refused: 400
silver shekels for a dungeon, a cave, and some of the property around
it. Efron jumps at the offer and taking the money, finds his way to his
cave to count the cash, making sure he didn't get ripped off. Unknown to
him, a secret camera from the roof of the cave films his greedy act.
Being satisfied that the money is in order, he returns to sign the
contract with Fony the Hittite. This act is also filmed, just for the
history books.
Fony takes the contract and films to Abraham, who can now announce the
funeral plans for his dearly departed wife. A few hours later the
procession begins. The casket is followed by Abraham and Isaac and
thousands of others who respected this righteous woman. Unknown to them,
others, from the IIA (Israelite Intelligence Agency) have infiltrated
the crowd and too are taking part in the mourner's ceremony.
As Abraham reaches the cave, a few hundred black-uniformed special
security forces jump out from behind the rocks, trees and bushes.
"STOP," they scream! "You have no permission to enter the caves of
Machpela. They do not belong to you!"
Abraham, having some experience with these kinds of people, pulls out
the contract and films, sets up his laptop, and screens the
transactions, saying, "you see – I really did buy the caves – they
belong to me!"
The IIA forces aren't taken by surprise. The head honcho dials quickly
and within moments a panel of Hittite judges have taken their seats in
front of the caves, blocking the entrance, waiting to hear the case
before them.
The IIA forces call on Efron: Did you sell this cave to Abraham?
Efron: Of course not.
IIA: How do you explain this film of you counting this money?
I was asked to count it for someone else – I counted it and gave it
back.
The IIA then called Fony:
IIA: Did you purchase this cave for Abraham the Ivri?
Fony: Me? Why would I do that?
IIA: For money?
Fony: My morals would never let me buy property for a Jew.
The IIA rests its case.
Abraham calls to G-d and says: Now it's Your turn.
G-d takes the stand.
Abraham: Please tell the truth. Did I buy these caves?
G-d: Yes, they belong to you. I created them for you during the first 6
days of creation. I even showed them to Adam and Eve.
Abraham: And I paid full price for them? You witnessed this transaction?
G-d: Of course, 400 silver shekels in cash went to Efron via Fony the
Hittite.
Abraham: I rest my case.
The judges huddle and whisper hurriedly to each other. A few moments
later they announce:
We reject Abraham's testimony and that of G-d. We are the highest force
on earth. Even G-d must obey us. The caves must stay with Efron. Abraham
may not bury Sarah there. He must leave immediately. Take the body and
go.
Abraham shrugs at G-d, looks at his son, and they all turn around and
walk away. The caves of Machpela remain with Efron, and Sarah remains
unburied.
That's the way it probably would have been had Abraham lived today.
Morris Abraham, the righteous Jew who purchased Beit HaShalom with his
father Mickey, told me this morning: "We will not be driven out of our
home a 2nd time. We were expelled by the Arabs and the British in 1929
– my family was forced to leave its home in Hebron. We will not be
exiled again, again expelled from Hebron, this time by the Israeli
government. Just as Abraham purchased Ma'arat HaMachpela almost 4,000
years ago, so too did we, the Abraham family, buy property in Hebron. It
was all done legally. We have the documents, the videos and the
recordings. It belongs to us, and we will live there!"
With the help of G-d. The judges, the attorney general, the defense
minister, whatever they may think, are not above G-d, and justice will
win out. It may take some more time butBeit HaShalom will be ours.
Without any doubt!
See interview with Morris Abraham:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128419
**********************************************
*
Emergency Assembly
TOMORROW Tuesday, 20 Cheshvan, November 18, Sports Auditorium in
Kiryat Arba
CALL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND ASK THEM TO PLEASE COME!! AND OF COURSE
-- FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY!
Attending: Knesset Members from Ichud Leumi, Kadima, Yadhut haTorah and
Shas: MKs Uri Ariel; Otniel Shneller, Menachem Porush, Nissim Zeev.
Kol haKavod to MK Nissim Zeev from Shas whose family is moving into Bet
HaShalom for the duration!!
Attending:
Rav Lior, Rabbi of Kiryat Arba; Rav Waldman, Rosh Yeshivat Nir;Rabbi
Levinger, founder of Hebron Jewish Community,
Tzvi Katsover and Malachi Levinger, Outgoing Mayor and Mayor--Elect of
Kiryat Arba; Daniella Weiss; Noam Arnon and more.
Egged bus 160 from Jerusalem will leave Central bus Station at 6:20pm,
6:40pm and 7:00pm
A bus will leave Efrat at 7:30pm by reservation only: 0505500834 or
02-9931484
Background: The Israeli Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the residents
of Bet HaShalom in Hebron have three days to evacuate their legally
purchased homes. For thousands of years, Jews have bought houses and
fields in Eretz Yisrael -- even the Ottoman Empire didn't deny them that
basic right. It has taken a post-Zionist, post-Oslo Israeli government
working hand in hand with a hopelessly politicized judicial system to
adopt a racist policy of preventing Jews from buying and holding
property in the Jewish homeland. The rights of the Jewish People in
Hebron are not subject to debate. They are eternal rights that are
thousands of years old. Whoever denies Jews the right to buy property in
Hebron, weakens their rights everywhere in the Land of Israel.
The struggle over Beit HaShalom is:
* a struggle for justice over land legally purchased,
* a struggle over the Jewish and human right to acquire property,
* a struggle over the rights of the Jewish Nation in the Land of Israel
The battle over Beit HaShalom is therefore the battle of every
Jew.
ENDORSING: Jewish Community of Hebron – Kiryat Arba Hevron
Municipality-
Bet Hashalom residents- Loyalists of Eretz Israel- Chomesh Tehilla-
Women in Green- HaMateh leHatsalat HaAm VeHaarets- Youth for Land of
Israel- Sanhedrin- Mateh Shabbat Chaye Sarah- Virashtem Ota- Mattot
Arim- Committee for Eretz Israel- Gush Katif expellees- Nahalal Forum
www.hebron.com/english/images/article_comment.gifcomments
<http://www.hebron.com/english/article.php?id=456#comments>
The Jewish Community of Hebron
POB 105 , Kiryat Arba-Hebron 90100
hebron@hebron.org.il
<mailto:hebron@hebron.org.il>
Tour Hebron: Tel 972-52-431-7055 or write: tour@hebron.com
<mailto:simcha@hebron.org.il>
The Hebron Fund
1760 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11230
www.hebronfund.com hebronfund@aol.com <mailto:hebronfund@aol.com>
718-677-6886
Web: www.hebron.com Ma'arat HaMachpela: www.machpela.com
<http://www.machpela.com/>
Gift shop:www.hebrongifts.com
You too can Help Hebron - www.hebrontruma.com
To subscribe or unsubscribe to the Hebron list, simply email:
hebron.mail-subscribe@hebron.org.il
<mailto:hebron_today-subscribe@hebron.org.il>
hebron.mail-unsubscribe@hebron.org.il
<mailto:hebron_today-unsubscribe@hebron.org.il>
www.hebron.com/english/images/bottom_logo.jpg
The Jewish Community of Hebron
P.O. Box 105, Kiryat Arba 90100 Israel
Tel: 972-2-9965333; Fax: 972-2-9965304
info@hebron.com <mailto:office2@hebron.org.il
Those who kneel before G-d can stand before anyone! Please daven for the
safety of Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael and for G-d's Shalom for
Yerushalayim ! Am Yisrael Chai! Please support Healing Teddies ---
www.healingteddies.org.il
www.israeltruth.org
www.israeltruth.2itb.com
Help Israel and show the world you care! SWI Israel Store:
www.cafepress.com/isenburg . These items can be used anytime and
anywhere to let your community know that wherever you stand, you stand
with Israel!
Please support the victims of the expulsion and those whose communities
are still in danger. Eretz Yisrael le'am Yisrael! Wherever we stand we
stand with Israel! Forever!
How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who choose
the
Jewish G*D, and hate the Jew! ~ Francis A. Schaeffer
From: borntolose3 (Original Message) Sent: 11/17/2008 9:51 PM
Very good!
Abraham in the 21st Century by David Wilder // Emergency Meeting
tomorrow Reply to: hebron@hebron.com
Emergency meeting tomorrow – see below
www.hebron.com/english/images/top_flash_pic1.jpg
Abraham in the 21st century
David Wilder
November 16, 2008
This coming Shabbat we read in the weekly Torah portion how Abraham
purchased Ma'arat HaMachpela for 400 silver shekels (in today's term's,
about $750,000). The story is told in the Bible in great detail how
Abraham haggled with Efron the Hittite and finally bought the double
cave to bury there his wife Sarah.
What if...?
What if Abraham had lived today in the 21st century?
Abraham cannot reach out directly to Efron. If Efron knew that Abraham
the Ivri – the first Jew, wanted to buy his land, he would refuse
outright, knowing that the punishment for selling to a Jew is instant
death by the hands of the country's elders.
So, Abraham approaches Fony the Hittite, pays him a lot of money, and
asks him to be a go-between, to purchase the caves for him. Of course,
after raising the price a few times, Fony the Hittite agrees.
He then approaches Efron with an offer that cannot be refused: 400
silver shekels for a dungeon, a cave, and some of the property around
it. Efron jumps at the offer and taking the money, finds his way to his
cave to count the cash, making sure he didn't get ripped off. Unknown to
him, a secret camera from the roof of the cave films his greedy act.
Being satisfied that the money is in order, he returns to sign the
contract with Fony the Hittite. This act is also filmed, just for the
history books.
Fony takes the contract and films to Abraham, who can now announce the
funeral plans for his dearly departed wife. A few hours later the
procession begins. The casket is followed by Abraham and Isaac and
thousands of others who respected this righteous woman. Unknown to them,
others, from the IIA (Israelite Intelligence Agency) have infiltrated
the crowd and too are taking part in the mourner's ceremony.
As Abraham reaches the cave, a few hundred black-uniformed special
security forces jump out from behind the rocks, trees and bushes.
"STOP," they scream! "You have no permission to enter the caves of
Machpela. They do not belong to you!"
Abraham, having some experience with these kinds of people, pulls out
the contract and films, sets up his laptop, and screens the
transactions, saying, "you see – I really did buy the caves – they
belong to me!"
The IIA forces aren't taken by surprise. The head honcho dials quickly
and within moments a panel of Hittite judges have taken their seats in
front of the caves, blocking the entrance, waiting to hear the case
before them.
The IIA forces call on Efron: Did you sell this cave to Abraham?
Efron: Of course not.
IIA: How do you explain this film of you counting this money?
I was asked to count it for someone else – I counted it and gave it
back.
The IIA then called Fony:
IIA: Did you purchase this cave for Abraham the Ivri?
Fony: Me? Why would I do that?
IIA: For money?
Fony: My morals would never let me buy property for a Jew.
The IIA rests its case.
Abraham calls to G-d and says: Now it's Your turn.
G-d takes the stand.
Abraham: Please tell the truth. Did I buy these caves?
G-d: Yes, they belong to you. I created them for you during the first 6
days of creation. I even showed them to Adam and Eve.
Abraham: And I paid full price for them? You witnessed this transaction?
G-d: Of course, 400 silver shekels in cash went to Efron via Fony the
Hittite.
Abraham: I rest my case.
The judges huddle and whisper hurriedly to each other. A few moments
later they announce:
We reject Abraham's testimony and that of G-d. We are the highest force
on earth. Even G-d must obey us. The caves must stay with Efron. Abraham
may not bury Sarah there. He must leave immediately. Take the body and
go.
Abraham shrugs at G-d, looks at his son, and they all turn around and
walk away. The caves of Machpela remain with Efron, and Sarah remains
unburied.
That's the way it probably would have been had Abraham lived today.
Morris Abraham, the righteous Jew who purchased Beit HaShalom with his
father Mickey, told me this morning: "We will not be driven out of our
home a 2nd time. We were expelled by the Arabs and the British in 1929
– my family was forced to leave its home in Hebron. We will not be
exiled again, again expelled from Hebron, this time by the Israeli
government. Just as Abraham purchased Ma'arat HaMachpela almost 4,000
years ago, so too did we, the Abraham family, buy property in Hebron. It
was all done legally. We have the documents, the videos and the
recordings. It belongs to us, and we will live there!"
With the help of G-d. The judges, the attorney general, the defense
minister, whatever they may think, are not above G-d, and justice will
win out. It may take some more time butBeit HaShalom will be ours.
Without any doubt!
See interview with Morris Abraham:
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128419
**********************************************
*
Emergency Assembly
TOMORROW Tuesday, 20 Cheshvan, November 18, Sports Auditorium in
Kiryat Arba
CALL ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND ASK THEM TO PLEASE COME!! AND OF COURSE
-- FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY!
Attending: Knesset Members from Ichud Leumi, Kadima, Yadhut haTorah and
Shas: MKs Uri Ariel; Otniel Shneller, Menachem Porush, Nissim Zeev.
Kol haKavod to MK Nissim Zeev from Shas whose family is moving into Bet
HaShalom for the duration!!
Attending:
Rav Lior, Rabbi of Kiryat Arba; Rav Waldman, Rosh Yeshivat Nir;Rabbi
Levinger, founder of Hebron Jewish Community,
Tzvi Katsover and Malachi Levinger, Outgoing Mayor and Mayor--Elect of
Kiryat Arba; Daniella Weiss; Noam Arnon and more.
Egged bus 160 from Jerusalem will leave Central bus Station at 6:20pm,
6:40pm and 7:00pm
A bus will leave Efrat at 7:30pm by reservation only: 0505500834 or
02-9931484
Background: The Israeli Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the residents
of Bet HaShalom in Hebron have three days to evacuate their legally
purchased homes. For thousands of years, Jews have bought houses and
fields in Eretz Yisrael -- even the Ottoman Empire didn't deny them that
basic right. It has taken a post-Zionist, post-Oslo Israeli government
working hand in hand with a hopelessly politicized judicial system to
adopt a racist policy of preventing Jews from buying and holding
property in the Jewish homeland. The rights of the Jewish People in
Hebron are not subject to debate. They are eternal rights that are
thousands of years old. Whoever denies Jews the right to buy property in
Hebron, weakens their rights everywhere in the Land of Israel.
The struggle over Beit HaShalom is:
* a struggle for justice over land legally purchased,
* a struggle over the Jewish and human right to acquire property,
* a struggle over the rights of the Jewish Nation in the Land of Israel
The battle over Beit HaShalom is therefore the battle of every
Jew.
ENDORSING: Jewish Community of Hebron – Kiryat Arba Hevron
Municipality-
Bet Hashalom residents- Loyalists of Eretz Israel- Chomesh Tehilla-
Women in Green- HaMateh leHatsalat HaAm VeHaarets- Youth for Land of
Israel- Sanhedrin- Mateh Shabbat Chaye Sarah- Virashtem Ota- Mattot
Arim- Committee for Eretz Israel- Gush Katif expellees- Nahalal Forum
www.hebron.com/english/images/article_comment.gifcomments
<http://www.hebron.com/english/article.php?id=456#comments>
The Jewish Community of Hebron
POB 105 , Kiryat Arba-Hebron 90100
hebron@hebron.org.il
<mailto:hebron@hebron.org.il>
Tour Hebron: Tel 972-52-431-7055 or write: tour@hebron.com
<mailto:simcha@hebron.org.il>
The Hebron Fund
1760 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11230
www.hebronfund.com hebronfund@aol.com <mailto:hebronfund@aol.com>
718-677-6886
Web: www.hebron.com Ma'arat HaMachpela: www.machpela.com
<http://www.machpela.com/>
Gift shop:www.hebrongifts.com
You too can Help Hebron - www.hebrontruma.com
To subscribe or unsubscribe to the Hebron list, simply email:
hebron.mail-subscribe@hebron.org.il
<mailto:hebron_today-subscribe@hebron.org.il>
hebron.mail-unsubscribe@hebron.org.il
<mailto:hebron_today-unsubscribe@hebron.org.il>
www.hebron.com/english/images/bottom_logo.jpg
The Jewish Community of Hebron
P.O. Box 105, Kiryat Arba 90100 Israel
Tel: 972-2-9965333; Fax: 972-2-9965304
info@hebron.com <mailto:office2@hebron.org.il
Those who kneel before G-d can stand before anyone! Please daven for the
safety of Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael and for G-d's Shalom for
Yerushalayim ! Am Yisrael Chai! Please support Healing Teddies ---
www.healingteddies.org.il
www.israeltruth.org
www.israeltruth.2itb.com
Help Israel and show the world you care! SWI Israel Store:
www.cafepress.com/isenburg . These items can be used anytime and
anywhere to let your community know that wherever you stand, you stand
with Israel!
Please support the victims of the expulsion and those whose communities
are still in danger. Eretz Yisrael le'am Yisrael! Wherever we stand we
stand with Israel! Forever!
How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who choose
the
Jewish G*D, and hate the Jew! ~ Francis A. Schaeffer