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Attack on Shalom Kaminetsky Encouraging Tamar to Remarry without a GET </h3>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Question</span>: Mrs. Friedman, maiden name Tamar Epstein, has left her husband and declared that she can remarry without a GET. Shalom Kaminetsky, the Rosh Yeshiva of Philadelphia, no doubt encouraged by his father R Shmuel Kaminetsky, has long encouraged Tamar to go her own way, to leave her husband, and now to remarry without a GET. When it became known that Tamar was actively dating and thinking of remarrying without a GET, there was some activity by some of the many rabbis who completely deny Tamar the right to remarry without a GET. But Shalom claims that he has rabbis who permit her to remarry without a GET. Because the vast majority of rabbis, including many senior rabbis, have completely forbidden Tamar’s remarriage without a GET, and Shalom claims that some rabbis permit it, what is the law we must follow in this matter? Are Tamar’s children from a new husband with no GET mamzerim?</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Answer</span>: Yes, her children from a new husband without a GET are mamzerim. It is completely forbidden for anyone to marry her until she gets a kosher GET. The reasons for this ruling are below.</div>
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See Laws of Kesubos Even Hoezer 77:3 Ramo and Gro that quote from the Rosh in teshuva 35:2: A woman was tricked by a wicked person into marrying him. He told her lies and she believed him. But once married, she realized they were lies. The Rosh says that although he does not allow coercion of a husband to force a GET in most circumstances, in such a case he permits it. However, he clearly states, that even in such a case where it is clear to all that the husband is a liar and lowly person and the woman would never have married him had she known about him, the Kiddushin remains and there must be a GET.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If so, how can we assume that Mrs. Friedman, who never said her husband was a liar or horrible, just that she had some small complaints, how can she unravel kiddushin?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>That is, a married woman can only leave her husband with a GET or with the death of her husband. But if a woman fears a certain blemish or whatever and makes a valid condition that her kiddushin is only valid if the husband is free of that blemish, in that case, if the husband had the blemish the kiddushin is invalid.</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->5.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>See EH 38:34 “If one makes Kiddushin to a woman and he or she immediately change their mind, even if the change was immediate faster than one can utter a few words, she is married with Kiddushin.”</div>
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13<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>We have in recent years rabbis coming forward with inventions to free women from their husbands, such as Rackman, but these all died out and nobody respects them. But there is always somebody else claiming these things. Rabbi Gedaliah Schwartz told me that he sent away a couple who were married and lived together for thirty days and came to him for a GET. He told them they had no need of a GET because they had no Biah. They had marriage with a ring, but no Biah. If so, they are married. That is what is says in Shulchan Aruch EH 26:4: “A woman attains Kiddushin in three ways: by receiving something of monetary value [such as a ring]; by receiving a document [that spells out the marriage], or Biah.” We see clearly that Biah is only one of three ways to achieve Kiddushin. But this inventor sent a couple away with no GET after they asked for a GET because he invented a law in defiance of the Shulchan Aruch that a ring does not make marriage. Such people as him are busy inventing ways for women to leave their husbands without a GET. But all they produce are mamzerim.</div>
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15 <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>A prominent rabbi involved in this case went to Israel to check out the halacha and everyone told him it was forbidden for her to remarry without a GET. They were shocked that in America such a ridiculous thing can be done, to allow a woman to remarry without a GET. One of the rabbis he spoke to was a Gadol HaDor in Bnei Braq who said there is nothing to be done except a GET.</div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal;">16</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>I spoke to senior rabbis who are shocked that Shalom Kaminentsky could help Tamir remarry without a GET. Shalom will not say what rabbis permit this. So let us assume that ten prominent rabbis permit it, which is absolutely ridiculous. But I want to make a point here. Again, ten very prominent rabbis permit something, and ten very prominent rabbis forbid it. What is the halacha?</div>
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19 <span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span> In Philadelphia, we have the opposite: the vast majority are against it, and a tiny number may be for it. Surely, we do not follow the minority.</div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal;">20 </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Also, when great rabbis argue with lesser rabbis, we follow the greater rabbis. See the Ramo in Choshen Mishpot 25:2, that in a machlokess about halacha if it is a question of a Torah ruling we must be stringent. This means, that if ten rabbis forbid her to remarry and ten rabbis permit it, she may not remarry. So how can Shalom Kaminetsky permit her to remarry?</div>
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<span style="font-stretch: normal;">21 </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>The Ramo says there that we follow the greatest scholar over the lesser scholar, and we follow the majority against the minority. The great rabbis oppose her remarriage without a GET, and so do the vast majority of Torah authorities. If she remarries and has a child, it is surely a mamzer. See also Rashbo 1:263.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Insights into Heaven and Earth</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Dovid Eidensohn</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">Heaven and earth are different dimensions. HaShem is
in Heaven with the angels. People in this world are not angels, have evil inclinations,
and sin regularly. But HaShem created this world for people come into a world
filled with sin and evil and to be strong and resist, and when they do sin,
which is probable, they should repent, and HaShem will accept their penitence.
A person who sins and repents merits to enter heaven and enter the heavenly
throne perhaps cleansed of sin.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">The world began without Jews. The first Jew was
Abraham, whose father was the producer of idols in a major country. When
Abraham grew older and rejected idols, he was flung into a furnace and the king
and community watched the site. They were amazed to see that Abraham walked
here and there in the raging fire and was accompanied by strange hosts. The
king was no fool and realized that although he told everybody that he was god,
this was an indication that he had competition. But he instructed Abraham and
his father to leave the country, and they left. Avrohom went to Israel, but
even there, the hand of HaShem struck, which happens in a world where evil is
something given to people to resist and find HaShem and salvation.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">A famine struck Israel and Avrohom and his wife Sara,
a beautiful woman, who was also, like her husband, a holy prophet of HaShem,
had to go to Egypt. Abraham had no choice because HaShem had driven him to
Egypt, but he knew that if the Egyptianian would see his wife they would kill
him. He therefore told her that when they came to Egypt they should declare
that they are not married but brother and sister. In those days, before the
Torah was given, even those who were the early Jews before the Torah was given,
were lax in marrying certain relatives, so the statement was not necessarily a
lie. Yaacov himself the greatest of the Avose married two sisters, which is
surely forbidden by Mosaich law at Sinai. Early Jews did not have a Torah as it
was finally delivered by Moshe and G‑d Himself at Sinai when the Jews left
Egypt.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">That is, Jews who did not suffer did not merit the
Torah. The suffering in Egypt brought the Jews to the level to merit to accept
the Torah with its strict rules. Moshe born in Egypt that killed male babies,
became the leader of the Jews who spoke regularly to HaShem and visited heaven
many times, not the previous generations of Avrohom Isaac and Yaacov. Not
everybody can tolerate all of these rules. But they are the path to eternity in
heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">Speaking of Avrohom and Sarah, another major<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>rule in the Torah, as taught by all of the
biblical books and the Talmud in various places, is that men may be the leaders
of the family and the world, but HaShem prefers women. Simply, the bible is
filled with terrible sins done by men, but we don't find these stories about
women. Our present story with Avrohom and Sarah going to Egypt will illustrate
the beginning of this.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">When Avrohom and Soro came to Egypt he concealed Sarah
in a box, but it was opened and she was revealed. She was declared a woman fit
for the king,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>who was called Pharoah.
Pharoah embraced both Abraham and Sarah, Sara as his wife, and Abraham as her
brother. Abraham was seated at the seat of honor of Pharoah and lavished with
great honor and gifts. Sarah to her doom. Pharoah came to her and after the
basic greetings, got down to business.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">Sarah cried out to HaShem and an angel came from
heaven and struck Pharoah. Pharoah jumped away, not knowing what happened, but
ashamed to tell Sarah. He gathered his energy and returned to her and this time
he got such a smack that he knew that he was not dealing with a woman, and
probably was dealing with something much more formidable. He didn't want any
more beatings, so he thought things over, and realized, that Sarah was the
wife, not the sister of Abraham.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">He therefore turned away and went to Abraham, telling
him that he now knows that Sarah is his wife, so why did Abraham lie to him and
get him such a beating. Abraham answered honestly that he knew that the
Egyptians would kill him if they knew he was married to Sarah.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">Pharoah accepted this and told Avrohom. Come to me
with your wife, and I will send you out of Egypt. A woman like this is not safe
in Egypt. I will give you and your children a wonderful land, the place of
Goshen, as well as great gifts. But you must leave Egypt immediately. I
personally and my senior servants will escort and protect you until you leave.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">From Avrohom and Sarah, after many years, came a son
Yitschok.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Yitschok married Rivka. From
this came Yaacov and Aisov. Yaacov was the primal member of the Avose, and
Aisov was wicked, although his love for his father was greater than even a Jew
displays. These three are the Avoth, the fathers of the Jewish nation. We have
much more to discuss, but for now, we conclude.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">Shalom,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 13pt; margin: 0px;">Dovid Eidensohn</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">The Coming of Moshiach</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; margin: 0px;">Dovid Eidensohn</span></i></b></div>
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<b>Jews await daily for the arrival of Moshiach. In
recent times, much ado has taken place over remarks made by the greatest of the
Kabbalists. Rav Yitschok Kaduri zt”l. He departed the world a few years ago at
the age of 108. Rav Kaduri had a photographic memory. He would glance at any
book and memorize it immediately. He made miracles. He was also the rebbe of
great rabbis and rebbes. One of these was my rebbe, the Jerusalem Kabbalist Rav
Shmuel Toledano zt”l. Rav Kaduri wrote an approbation for my rebbe who wrote
eighty Kabbala books, that he wrote them Biruach HaKodesh, with heavenly
inspiration. Throughout the world his words have been quoted that he spoke to
Moshiach and knows when Moshich will arrive.</b></div>
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<b>Now Rambam tells us in Mishneh Torah that the
prophets and sages did not know exactly what will happen when Moshiach arrives.
It is true that the prophet Eliyohu HaNovi declared in his work Tono Divei
Eliyohu at the end in his discussion of Moshiach that Moshiaich's name will be
Ephraim. And we want to discuss how this meshes with the teaching of Rav
Yitchok Kaduri that he wrote the name of Moshiach. That name as I saw<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>people quoting it was Hebrew, the first
letters of six words. The words forming the name of Moshiach are YUD HAY VOV
SAMCEH VOV SAMECH in Hebrew </b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">יודסוס</span></b><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"></span><b><span style="margin: 0px;"><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"></span>. The Hebrew name written by Rav Kaduri I interpret to mean that
Moshiach will come to the Jews with heavenly light.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px;">The first three letters
are the classical Name of HaShem, YUD HAY VOV. The second letters, SAMECH and
VOV, have a numerical value of 65, which in Hebrew can become GAL GAL, meaning,
“revelation, revelation.” This means, that Moshiach, boosted by divine lights
from heaven, will reveal, deeper and deeper, to elevate the human race to
become very close to heaven.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px;">It is sad that
some people took this to mean that the name YUD HAY VOV indicates the Christian
deity. But the following letters SAMECH HAY VOV have nothing to do with that.
If they stretch Yud Hay Vov to be the first letters of YEHOSHUA they ignore the
last three letters SAMECH HAY VOV which have nothing to do with Yehoshua.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px;">Rav Yitschok
Kaduri also mentioned something else about Moshiach. He will come soon, at a
time when the Israeli government will have no government. And also, will come
after the death of Ariel Sharon, a senior general of Israel and a Premier.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px;">We know that now,
June 24, 2019, Israel has no government, which is a very rare thing. We also
know that Arial Sharon lived a long life, then suffered for at least seven
years with loss of his faculties in a hospital, and died recently. We can
surely arouse ourselves to pray for a speedily arrival of Moshiach.</span></b></div>
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something to this.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px;">The sages believed
that the arrival would go in three stages. The first two revelations of Torah
and Messianic forces, seem to be around the Second World War and the
destruction of the Jews in Europe. At that time, a very saintly rabbi in Europe
warned the Yeshiva students to go to Vilna, a city which was surely right in
the line of the Nazi advance on Poland and elsewhere. Nobody understand what
the logic in going to Vilna had in saving Jews. Because the only hope was
running somewhere in Poland or Russia which no Jew wanted to do and stay alive.
But a rabbi and a young Jewish man, Shmuel Shain, saved many Jews.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px;">This was the
miracle of the train from Vilna through Russia to Japan, known to posterity as
the Shanghai express. At that point, Japan and Germany were at war with America.
The rabbi, Avrohom Kalminowitz, couldn't get any wealthy people to give money
for the train that was ready to leave Vilna and go to Japan. They felt
that<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>the Japanese were at war with
America, the Russians hated Jews, and if the Jews did land in Japan, Hitler
would demand them back so he could kill them. But a young man, Shmuel Shain,
contributed his and his wife's marriage money from his father-in-law, which
paid the Russians to run the Shanghai express.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px;">The rabbi who
announced that Jews should come to Vilna was Rav Chaim Ozer. He died soon after
he did this, as did another great, Reb Baruch Ber Levovitz. The one who
actually saved the Jews was a Japanese official who had the book with
permission to come to Japan. When his superiors heard about it, they told him
to immediately return to Japan. He did, but not before he flung his book of
tickets to the crowd of desperate rabbis outside his office. They boarded the
train and were saved.</span></b></div>
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to Israel1 – Dovid Eidensohn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">On
to Israel is the great effort of many Jews to go to Israel. One reason is that
those of us who live in America are beginning to realize that America is
crumbling spiritually, especially in New York State which has established a GET
law that permits all women to force a GET from their husband, something which
produces mamzerim when this woman with no kosher GET remarries and has a child.
Another law passed in January of this year is that a husband or boyfriend who poisons
the baby in a woman and kills it, has not committed a crime, and the police can
do nothing. These laws and worse are spreading in other states in America, even
in New Jersey where Lakewood Yeshiva is located. But in America, very few
people protest about the GET laws and other problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Onto
Israel got a major push in 1948 when the United Nations following a vote from
the world community, gave a small section of Israel to the Jews and the rest to
the Arabs. The Arabs then demanded that all Arabs leave that section of Israel
given to the Jews, because the Arabs were determined to kill out the Jews.
David Ben-Gurion, then the Premier of Israel, allowed the Yeshiva students not
to join the army, because although he was not religious, and probably didn't keep
Shabbos or maybe even kashruse, he did recognize that for Jews to survive among
the huge armies of Arabs, supported by the British army, there was no hope for
Jews in Israel, unless one believed clearly in HaShem. His idea was supported
by General Moshe Dayan who replied to those who wanted to draft Yeshiva
students, "They do their share." Thus two people who were not
religious were forced to accept that their only hope was trusting HaShem. And
the battles begun in 1948 showed the world that the Jews were a mighty force
that won its battles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">When
Arab countries eventually wanted to solve the Jewish problem by making Atomic
weapons to be exploded in Tel Aviv and elsewhere in Israel, the faith in HaShem
by non-Orthodox Jews was aroused and Menachem Begin sent six jets heavily
loaded with powerful bombs to destroy the places building Atom bombs to destroy
Israel. The planes all returned with no problems their mission completed. Then
a powerful general began assembling Atomic bombs and he was constantly surrounded
by protection and weapons that could take down a jet. Now a new tactic was
released by the Israel military. It was a secret command of people who knew how
to kill people. They knew that in general this general was surrounded by his
troops that protected him and that there were weapons to destroy jet planes,
but the command of killers succeeded in discovering that this General once a
year went near a sea and had company over on his balcony. They sailed a
sailboat some distance from the house and dived into the water with their
weapons. They took careful pictures at night of the balcony and the people with
the general. At the proper time, they both fired. One bullet went into the
general's heart, and the other into his neck. The two returned safely to Israel.
Yes, this sounds like a miracle, but HaShem in Israel is busy with miracles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Recently
poverty in Israel has been relieved when Premier Netanyohu hired an American
company to dig oil out of the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. When it created
a gush of good oil near Tel Aviv Israelites realized that times were changing
in their favor. This was followed by the Chinese purchasing the largest dairy
company in Israel for a billion dollars. Now many companies around the world
are pouring money into Israel, turning Israel into a modern place where people
can live with thriving businesses and flows of money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Moshiach
everyone knows is on his way. Let us pray for his speedy arrival, and meanwhile
pray that our faith in HaShem and trust in His kindness will sustain us despite
any difficulty, that we all, gentiles included, will welcome Moshiach and pray
to HaShem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Shalom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px;">Dovid
Eidensohn</span></div>
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to Israel2 – Dovid Eidensohn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">A</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Prominent Monsey,
NY Family Loses Senior Members to a Higher World</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">By
Dovid Eidensohn</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Even
in a city of noted Torah personalities, Monsey, NY is special. I was in Israel
recently for a few weeks and did not know of the recent passing of a very
prominent member of our community, Emil Tauber. He was devoted to promoting
Torah scholars and for a long time established funds to support the most
promising youth to become leaders of the Jewish people. One of his most
promising products was his brother Yechiel Tauber, who eventually established a
large and beautiful building housing many prominent Torah scholars. Emil Tauber
passed away when I was in Israel and Yechiel Tauber passed away before then,
but not before he established the beautiful building for Torah scholars and Beth
Din. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">When
we mention the great who have passed on, it is appropriate to turn to Monsey,
NY, itself, and its history. Going back a few generations, we find that Monsey,
at least where many lived, was essentially a farming village with here and
there a shull or Yeshiva. Even in the past generation when I came to Monsey,
across the street from me was an apple orchard, and I once killed a snake in front
of my house a short distance from a major shull. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">About
this time a prominent Torah personality from New York came to Monsey and recognized
its potential. He had a major Yeshiva of his own in New York City, but saw that
Monsey could eventually challenge in Torah terms even New York’s Torah
community. He came to what was the Spring Valley Yeshiva and joined the board
of directors. He advised them to go to the center of the business community in
Spring Valley. Route 59 stretched along major communities including Monsey and
Spring Valley. This New York rabbi saw that precisely in Spring Valley and
Monsey, the potential for fantastic money existed for those who would buy now,
when things were yet very much like a tiny place nobody would spend much money
to purchase. But the Board of Directors dismissed him completely. Somebody
commented, “What a dreamer.” The property at that point had little commercial
value. But today its value is incredible. And those few, such as somebody I
know personally for many years, who realized that the rabbi from New York was
right on target, began immediately buying up properties. These people are today
quite wealthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">At
the time of the expansion of Monsey, at least at its early phases, I had left
Lakewood where I learned for the last two years of the life of the Gaon Reb
Aharon Kotler zt”l, and had moved to Monsey. I had, at this time, begun to
teach in a Monsey school, and my subject was Tanach. But I could not find good
sources for Tanach. As the Gaon Reb Yaacov Kaminetsky zt”l once said, “Nach
does not have strong commentators other than the Malbim, and his style is
unique.” I did find various comments on Nach but they were strange to me. I
read them carefully and came to the conclusion that these sources were Kabbala,
something I had never studied. I bought a beginner’s Kabbala book, and found it
was studying a biblical teaching, but what it wanted to teach was beyond me. I
stuck at it, and finally came up with a proper explanation. I subsequently
became strongly interested in Kabbala, but I needed a rebbe. And that I could
not find anywhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">One
day, my wife wanted to visit a friend and I went along. As we left, the hostess
handed me a booklet. I thanked her for it and we left. I read it when I got home,
and realized that this book was Kabbala, and it had a lot that could teach me.
I noted who the author of this book was, someone from Israel, and contacted
him. He responded, and I began writing to him to the point that I was writing
him very often lengthy Kabbalistic ideas. But at that point he felt I was too
much into Kabbala, and should emphasize paskening Torah law. He challenged me
on this and asked me why I don’t just join a Kollel that teaches how to
interpret the Talmud. I told him that I wanted very much to find the right
Kollel, but the only one I really wanted to join had a style where everyone had
to learn exactly what the master of the school wanted them to master. I could
not do such a thing, because I had my own style and liked to dig deep into
things on my own. Eventually, the great rabbis of Israel Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
and Reb Yaacov Kaminetsky both complimented me for my ability in this. If I had
any brains, which at that point were obviously lacking, I would know that my
rebbe in this world and the next was right, and I would behave. But it seemed so
remote that I just went my merry way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Later
on, I did begin learning halocho seriously. My style was to go to a senior
rabbi who had mastered the Talmud and its commentators, and ask a question on
the Torah. While he was thinking about my question, I would interject with my
own understanding. He would accept or reject it. One day I came to such a rabbi
and asked a question. His phone rang and he was off to answer somebody’s question.
You may or may not do such and such. So I waited. But this time the
conversation was going into a different sphere, and I was amazed. There was obviously
some major problem there, and I had no way to listening to it. So, I just sat
there. Finally, the rabbi concludes the conversation, and told me that he would
not answer this particular question. But he did advise me to go to the
Strassberger Rov, the senior Rabbi in Israel on Gittin, who was visiting his
son-in-law Rabbi Eichenstein zt”l, who lived right down the block from where I
was with that Rov.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I
came to see this rabbi and was let into the house. He soon appeared and I asked
him the question. He did not answer it. He sat silently. This happened even
after I repeated my question three times. I was not going to repeat it again.
Then he said, “Rav Eidensohn…” When I heard that, I knew I was going to get a
real beating. And I was right. He continued, “A Rov never says what you just
said.” Well, I thought, the next thing is for him to throw me out of the house,
and awaited that, even though I had no idea why he felt that way. But he
suddenly got up and went into the next room, where I could see him clearly. He
was obviously involved in an important decision, and went back and forth. Then
he came back to me and said, “I have a serious shaalo.” When I heard that I
didn’t know what world I was in. First he tells me that I don’t know how to
talk. And now he tells me, of all<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>people, that he has a serious Torah question. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">He
said to me that he must ask Reb Moshe Feinstein zt”l a question, but does not
know how to reach him. I realized that I was in a very strange world now. Here
is the person who is the expert on Gittin in all of Israel, who is desperate to
ask a question of Reb Moshe Feinstein, somebody he surely had spoken to many
times, and he asks me, somebody who doesn’t know how to talk, how he gets to
Reb Moshe? But my policy always was and is, if a great rabbi will talk to
you,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>strike. And I did. “Rabbi,” I said.
“I am a close disciple of Reb Moshe, and will gladly bring your question, after
it is written by you, to Reb Moshe. I will leave for Reb Moshe first thing in
the morning.” The next morning, bright and early, I was on the bus and soon was
racing up the steps to the house of Reb Moshe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Suddenly,
an arm of steel seized me and demanded, “Where are you going?” I answered, “I
am going to Reb Moshe.” He replied, “Reb Moshe is not feeling well. You can’t
go today.” I replied, “I have a letter from the Aido HaCharedis in Israel.” He
immediately passed me on and I went flying up the steps. Yes, Reb Moshe wasn’t
feeling well, and his rebbetsin was not thrilled that I had come to deliver
something to him, but the gabbai of Reb Moshe, who was a friend of mine,
welcomed me warmly, read the letter, and assured me that I would be issued an answer
by Reb Moshe who would respond shortly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Every
day I called and every day the gabei told me the same answer. “Reb Moshe
permits what he was asked, and I would soon receive an answer. But I never did.
Finally, I was going to Israel to visit my rebbe, and I wrote to the gabei that
I was going to Israel to visit my rebbe, and that once I am there, I would
surely visit the Strassberger Rov, and I left his address.” I stayed by my
rebbe a few days, and then, on Friday, I went to visit the Strassberger Rov. He
welcomed me warmly, and told me that he would soon be going to the Mikva of the
Rabbis, but that I would go to the regular Mikvah. Thus, he would be home
earlier than I would be there. And so it was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I
came into the house and the Strassberger Rov was reading the reply from Reb
Moshe. He asked me, “Did you speak nicely to Reb Moshe?” I was stunned and
replied in a manner that left no question about that. It was only much later
than all of this became perfectly clear to me. The Strassberger then explained
to me what was puzzling him when I visited him in his house and added to it an
additional problem that was created by Reb Moshe’s letter. It seems that his
problem was about a young man who came from a country with few rabbis if any.
And nobody knew if this boy was born a Jew or something else, and maybe, he was
a mamzer or a doubtful mamzer who could not marry a Jewish woman. If the person
was a gentile it was easy to convert him to Judaism. If he was a mamzer it was
easy to marry him to a mamzeres, and there were organizations that did this.
But if he is a doubtful mamzer, it is much harder, and the only hope is to find
a gentile woman, and to convert her to Judaism, and even this is only permitted
because the child had no hope basically in his situation and some loophole had
to be found for him which was this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">At
this point I visited my rebbe Reb Fishel Hershkowitz zt”l, and told him the
entire story. He was furious at the Israeli rabbis who were considering
marrying this boy, who was extremely religious, to a gentile woman with no
Jewish experience or roots, something which could not last. He told me that the
only hope for this boy is to ask Reb Moshe Feinstein the shaalo, and he it is
expected would permit the boy to marry a Jewish woman. There was, however, a
problem in this. The senior rabbi in Israel was completely opposed to marrying
this boy to a Jewish woman. And he demanded that he marry a gentile woman who
would go through the proper process. Stay tuned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Meanwhile,
it was Friday before Shabbos, and the Strassberger told me that the letter from
Reb Moshe permitted the Israeli rabbis to marry the boy to a gentile woman who
would do what the Shulchan Aruch advises for a doubtful mamzer. The only
question now was to clarify if the boy must make a berocho at the wedding or
not. He told me to go to the senior rov was controlled the rabbis of Israel and
ask the question to him. I went, found the rabbi, and told him that the
Strassberger Rov asked the above question. The Rov answered that they should
take a gemora that has a similar question, read the words, and that would take
care of the question.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Something
began to bother me. So, they are going full blast, with Reb Moshe’s permission,
to make this marriage. But Reb Moshe is not in charge at all. I suddenly said, “Rebbe,
this is an Agunah shaaloh.” Meaning, perhaps we could ask Reb Moshe the shaalo
as my rebbe Reb Fishel had demanded. The Israeli rabbi exploded at me and said,
“Somebody wanted to say that and we wanted to put him Cherem.” When I heard
that, it just blew me away. The next thing I knew was that two hands reached
into my head, parted my skull, and threw a paper into my head. It shot out of
my mouth and I heard myself saying, “The Rov should pasken, not suggest, that
the boy ask Reb Moshe the shaalo.” <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But
the Israeli Rov wasn’t even looking at me. He was looking away from me, towards
somebody who was very prominent, and talking to him. I saw nobody. So I
repeated myself again about the Rov paskening that the boy go to Reb Moshe to
ask his shaaloh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
Rov suddenly swerved back to me and said strongly, “I heard you the first time.
Yes, I pasken that the boy ask Reb Moshe the Shaaloh.” Obviously, the two hands
in my head that shot out the paper were the hands of Reb Fishel, who flew in
seconds from America to Israel to save me from being put in Cherem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">When
I heard what the Israeli rabbi had said, that the boy should ask Reb Moshe the
shaalo, I reverted to style, to bother every Gadol without mercy until they
hinted to me that my time was up. I sat with him Erev Shabbos about half and
hour and returned to the Strassberger Rov with the pleasant news. Obviously,
when he was searching for Reb Moshe, he had the same idea in mind. But he could
not rule against the major Rov in Israel. Now that this Rov has reversed
course, the Strassberger was happy to add his agreement that the boy should ask
his shaaloh from Reb Moshe. I then found a major Rov who agreed that the boy
should ask Reb Moshe his shaaloh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I
now prepared to return to America and present my treasure to the boy himself. The
boy, however, immediately demanded that Reb Moshe is an American and he only
wants Israeli rabbis to rule on this. I went to a prominent American rabbi who
spoke to the boy who agreed to go to Reb Moshe as all of the Israeli rabbis had
demanded. I never saw him again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Now,
of course, it is surely time to return to the beginning of our discussion here,
the departed Tauber brothers who build such mighty Torah structures. The two
were Emil and Yechiel Tauber in a family filled with special rabbis who served
others with heart and soul. I was in Israel for Pesach this year and did not
hear that Emil passed away just before Pesach. I called his son Akiva Tauber
who had showed the greatest kindness to me when I had to borrow money for my
wife, that he would drive to me not that I came to him. Emil was also very
considerate about helping me in such situations, despite the terrible problems
he personally was suffering. But the large family were all very kind and helpful
people. And surely the great souls of Emil and Yechiel will rejoice in heaven
when people on this world voice their appreciation for the wonderful Torah
community that they and their relatives established.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>torahhalacha.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717567438021118860noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506243205036161192.post-74703493283374288772019-04-05T09:17:00.001-07:002019-04-05T09:17:56.805-07:00Pesach a time of joy in English and Hebrew by Dovid Eidensohn
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Pesach
is Coming!</span><span dir="RTL" style="margin: 0px;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="margin: 0px;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span dir="RTL" style="margin: 0px;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="margin: 0px;"></span> </span><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"></span><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"></span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>English and Hebrew</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Dovid
Eidensohn</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Pesach is coming! Don’t
eat bread! Prepare a luscious meal for the holidays! But what does Pesach
really mean to us?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Pesach translated in
English means “to jump.” The Jews were slaves in Egypt and were now, in Pesach
time, about to be released from slavery and brought to the Holy Land. There
were delays, but ultimately, the Jews did enter Israel and until this day have
had thousands of years in Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We will now enter into
the word Pesach on a deeper level, one that benefits from the exact translation
from the Torah and the teaching of Elijah the Prophet in Melochim 1. In English
Elijah the Prophet lived at a time when the king and his pagan wife worshipped
idols and his wife had hundreds of pagan worshippers who ate at her table.
Elijah the<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Prophet summoned the king
Achavav and urged him to bring all of the pagan worshippers to a debate with
Elijah, to see if the G‑d of Israel is to be worshipped, or the pagan gods. The
king accepted this and summoned the pagan worshippers to confront the Jewish
prophet Elijah. We turn now for benefit of pure translation to the Hebrew,
which for me, a person who plans soon to move to Israel, finds an opportunity
to brush up on my Hebrew which will surely come in handy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Again, we quote the book
of Melochim as Elijah the Prophets accepts the challenge of the pagans and the
pagan King of Israel and his wife a full fledged pagan who murdered the
prophets of HaShem. Now the Hebrew from the Book of Melochim 1:21.</span></div>
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<b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">ויגש אליהו
אל כל העם ויאמר עד מתי אתם פסחים על שתי הסעיפים. אם השם האלקים לכו אחריו ואם
הבעל לכו אחריו ולא ענו העם אתו דבר. ויאמר אליהו אל העם אני נותרתי נביא להשם
לבדי ונביאי הבעל ארבע מאות וחמשים איש. ויתנו לנו שנים פרים ויבחרו להם הפרה האחד
וינתחהו וישימו על העצים ואש לא ישימו ואני אעשה את הפר האחד ונתתי על העצים ואש
לא אשים. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>וקראתם בשם אלהיכם ואני אקרא בשם
השם והיה האלקים אשר יהנה באש הוא האלקים ויען כל העם ויאמרו טוב הדבר. ויאמר
אליהו לנביאי הבעל בחרו לכם הפר האחד ועשו ראשונה כי אתם הרבים וקראו בשם אלהיכם
ואש לא תשימו. ויקחו את הפר אשר נתן להם ויעשו ויקראו בשם הבעל מן הבקר עד הצהרים
לאמר הבעל אננו ואין קול ואין ענה ויפסח על המזבח אשר עשה. </span></b></div>
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<b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">ויהי בצהרים
ויהתל בהם אליהו ויאמר קראו בקול גדול כי אלקים הוא כי שיח וכי שיג לו וכי דרך לו
אולי ישן הוא ויקץ. ויקראו בקול גדול ויתגדדו כמפשטם בחרבות וברמחים עד שפך דם
עליהם. ויהי כעבר הצהרים<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>ויתנבאו עד לעלות
המנחה ואין קול ואין ענה ואין קשב. ויאמר אליהו לכל העם. גשו אלי. ויגשו כל העם
אליו. וירפא את מזבח השם ההרוס. ויקח אליהו שתים עשרה אבנים כמספר שבטי בני יעקב
אשר היה דבר השם אליו לאמר ישראל יהיה שמך. ויבנה את האבנים מזבח בשם השם ויעש
תעלה כבית סאתים זרע סביב למזבח. ויערך את העצים וינתח את הפר וישם על העצים.
ויאמר מלאו ארבעה כדים מים ויצקו על העלה ועל העצים. ויאמר שנו וישנו. ויאמר שלשו
וישלשו. וילכו המים סביב למזבח וגם את התעלה מלא מים. ויהי בעלות המנחה ויגש אליהו
הנביא ויאמר השם אלקי אברהם יצחק<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>וישראל
היום יודע כי אתה אלקים בישראל ואני עבדך ובדברך עשיתי את כל הדברים האלה. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>ענני השם אנני וידעו העם הזה כי אתה השם אלקים
ואתה הסבת את לבם אחרונית.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>ותפל השם השם
ותאכל את העלה ואת העצים ואת האבנים ואת העפר. ואת המים אשר בתעלה לחכה. וירא כל
העם<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>ויפלו על פניהם ויאמרו השם הוא האלקים
השם הוא האלקים. ויאמר אליהו להם תפשו את נביאי הבעל איש אל ימלט מהם ויחפשום
וירדם אליהו אל נחל קישון וישחתם שם. ויאמר אליהו לאחאב עלה אכל ושתה כי קול המון
הגשם. ויעלה אחאב לאכל ולשתות ואליהו עלה אל ראש הרמל ויגהר ארצה וישם פיו בין
ברכו. ויאמר אל נערו עלה נא הבט דרך ים ויעל ויבט ויאמר אין מאומה ויאמר שב שבע
פעמים, ויהיה בשביעית ויאמר הנה עב קטנה ככף איש עלה מים ויאמר עלה אמר אל אחאב
אסר ורד ולא יעצרכה הגשם. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></b></div>
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ועד כה והשמים התקדרו עבים ורוח ויהי גש גדול וירכב אחאב<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>וילך יזרעלה. ויד השם היתה אל אליהו וישנס את
מתניו וירץ לפני אחאב עד באכה יזרעלה. ויגד אחאב ליאזבל את כל אשר עשה אליהו ואת
כל אשר הרג את כל הנביאים בחרב. ותשלח איזבל מלאך אל אליהו לאמר כל יעשון אלקים
וכי יוספון כי כעת מחר אשים את נפשך כנפש אחד מהם. וירא ויקם וילך את נפשו ויבא
באר שבע אשר ליהודה וינח את נערו שם. והוא הלך במדבר דרך יום ויבא וישב תחת רתם
אחד וישאל את נפשו למות ויאמר רב עתה השם קח נפשי כי לא טוב אנכי מאבתי. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></b></div>
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our purposes, we see that Pesach means jumping, here and there. There are good
times and bad times. Few Jews are perfect, and most of us sin. But when we repent
Hashem forgives us. Ultimately, great peace will come into the world, and all
people, even gentiles, will worship HaShem. But until we merit that in the
Messianic times, the world will have it moods, its “jumping” and we must maintain
our ability to serve HaShem in the thick and thin of life. May we merit to have
a happy Pesach and a life for ourselves and our families and all people of more
and more happiness and blessings and the ability to tolerate and rise above the
problems until we will merit the end of testing and the permanent joy of the
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>torahhalacha.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717567438021118860noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506243205036161192.post-73930113843308377852019-03-28T08:01:00.000-07:002019-03-28T08:04:26.646-07:00Hebrew parsha of Shemini - English stories of Chofetz Chaim<br />
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">ויהי ביום השמיני</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">דוד אליהו אידנסון</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">פרשה זו ויהי ביום השמיני כולל כמה
ענינים שקשה מאוד לעמוד עליהם. וע' בכלי יקר על התורה שם בסוף שמיני שמאריך בזה
ואומר שהעולם הזה יש בו ז' ימים והם נגמרים עם שבת יום הז'. וכל זה המספר של ז'
הוא של העולם הזה. שמיני הוא בחינה למעלה מן העולם הזה. והוא הבחינה שמוסיפים על
הז' ימים אחד לעשותו ח' דהיינו שמיני. ובזה מתקדש היום יותר מן הבחינה של ז' של
העולם הזה וכבר נכנס קצת למעלה לקבל אור גדול שהוא שופע להראויים אליו בבחינת יום
השמיני. וכן הברית מילה שהוא ביום השמיני להלידה של הילד הוא מתקדש יותר מן היום
הז' לבד. ודוחה את השבת.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">עוד מוסיף הכלי יקר שיש עוד בחינה
למעלה מן הח' והוא כאשר עולים עוד יותר להוסיף עד י' שהוא האות היותר קודש כבר
נכנסים לרשות של מעלה ממש יותר מח' ע"ש באריכות.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">והנה בפרשה<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>סוף פרק ט' וז"ל ויבא משה ואהרן אל אהל
מועד ויצאו ויברכו את העם וירא כבוד השם אל כל העם. ותצא אש מלפני השם ותאכל על המזבח
את העולה ואת השלמים. וירא כל העם וירנו ויפלו על פניהם עכ"ל</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">פרק י' וז"ל ויקחו בני אהרן נדב
ואביהוא איש מחתתו ויתנו בהן אש וישימו עליה קטרת ויקריבו לפני השם אש זרה אשר לא
צוה אותם. ותצא אש מלפני השם ותאכל אותם וימתו לפני השם עכ"ל ע' בכלי יקר על
זה אריכות גדול ואומר שיש סוברים שהיו חוטאים נדב יאביהו שהיו הולכים אחרי משה
ואהרן ואומרים זה לזה מתי ימותו זקנים הללו ונעשה אנו המנהיגים ע"ש שדוחה כל
הפירושים הללו שמוכח שלא חטאו נדב ואביהוא אלא במה שמפורש בתורה שהביאו מה שלא צוה
אותם השם. ובאמת מה שדחה הכלי יקר כמה פירושים גדולים ונוראים על ידי הדיוק שלו
צ"ע שהלא מצאנו בתורה ובנביאים והכתובים כמה קושיות על תיבות או לשונות, ולא
מצאנו עליהם ביאור מספיק.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>ועל זה אמר
הגר"א שכן הוא דרך התורה להניח קושיא גדולה באמצע הפסוקים של התורה או הגמרא,
ומי שמצער עצמו לעסוק בהם להבינם זוכה לסודות התורה גדולים. וידוע שהגר"א היה
ראשון ביחד עם השאגת אריה, שהשאגת אריה הוא שנתן להגר"א התואר
"גאון" שנשאר עליו יותר משאר הגאונים. והגאון אמר על השאגת אריה
"אני והוא בקבלה הוא ואני בנגלה." אבל סתם שיש קושיא מן הפסוקים כן הוא
בכל התורה. והעיקר לעסוק להבינם והקב"ה מאיר בהעוסק באמונה שיזכה סודות התורה
או אפילו ענינים גשמיים שהוא צריך אליו, כגון שצריך לעשות עסק גשמי או שידוך, אם
עוסק בכל כוחו להבין המצב שלו יזכה מן השמים להבינו. וכן רבי אהרן קטלר זצ"ל
שהיה מסופק אם ללכת לארץ ישראל או לארצות הברית ועשה גורל הגר"א והיה התירוץ
שילך למשה שהוא הבין הכונה רבי משה פיינשטיין זצ"ל בארצות הברית וכן עשה, ושם
קבע ישיבת לייבוואד כמה כוללים וגם פשט את ידיו גם בארץ ישראל לעשות כמה כסף לצרכי
היהודים בארץ ישראל שהעניות גבר מהם בהם. וכמה יהודים וילדיהם נשארו בני תורה
ולולא זה היו הילדים נאבדים מן התורה כמו בילדי טעראן ר"ל שהציונים<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>השמידו אותם.</span></b></div>
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שבתורה בראשית ברא אלקים. ופרש"י שבראשית תמיד צריך לתיבה אחרת עמו כגון
בראשית ממלכת פלוני אבל לומר סתם בראשית אינו מספיק. והוא קושיא גדולה על הפסוק
והתיבה הראשונה שבתורה. אבל להגר"א יש לישב זה שמי שעוסק באיזה ענין להבינו
משמע אפילו ענין גשמי יזכה לאור של מעלה ויבין הענין. ובזה י"ל הכונה בראשית
שבאמת בדיוק נשאר ריקם בלי שום תיבה אחריו לגלות מהו הבראשית מה. והכונה שמי שעוסק
להבינו אפילו אם הוא ענין גשמי כגון להשיג סברא בעסק גשמי או שידוך<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>מגלים למי שעוסק להבינו ויודע מה לעשות. וכן פה
בראשית אין לו סיום והאדם חושב עליו ומתפלל להשם לגלות דעתו ולבסוף יצליח אם מכוין
לשם שמים. ובראשית הוא תחלת התורה והוא שורש לכל התורה שמלא קושיות כאלה מהו הכונה
ומה חסר פה ושם. ומי שעוסק להבין לשם שמים לבסוף יזכה להבין גשמיות או רוחניות
בס"ד.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">והנה מצאנו קושיא גדולה בתחלת התורה.
בתחלה אומר בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים והארץ. ולבסוף איזה<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>פסוקים מתחיל בדרך אחרת לגמרי ביום עשות השם
אלקים ארץ ושמים. והוא מן ההיפוך אל ההיפוך. בתחלה אומר בראשית ברא אלקים שהוא מדת
הדין הקשה. את השמים תחלה ואח"כ הארץ. ולבסוף איזה פסוקים לבד משנה כל הדרך
ואומר ביום עשות השם אלקים ארץ ושמים. לא ברא אלקים שהוא מדן הדין אלא עשות השם
שהוא מדת הרחמים. השם אלקים הוא רחמים בעיקר ואלקים דין בטפל. שלולא השינוי היו
צריכים להחריב כל העולם שהוא מלא חוטאים כדאיתא בחומש ובכל הספרים. שלכן קבע התורה
הב' דרכים, הראשון מה שיש לעשות לכתחלה, שאם יתקיימו הרשעים בעולם אחרי שחוטאים
יהיה חילול השם שהוא היפוך התורה. שלכן שינה הקב"ה לגלות שהעיקר שלא להחריב
העולם שרק באצל נח מצאנו שהחריב הקב"ה העולם ושוב הבטיח שלא לעשות כן עוד הפעם.
והבטחה זו הוא תלוי שלא להחריב העולם עוד הפעם אלא להניח הרשעים כמו שהם בעיקר
ולמעט בדין.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">ובזה אתי שפיר שהקב"ה לחם עם
הלבנה שהיא מלאך שהבינה הפסוק הראשון שצריכים דינים קשים למעט חילול השם.
והקב"ה הבטיח לנח שלא להוסיף על החרבן של נח עוד. א"כ בהכרח שצריך שלא
להחריב העולם דלא כהלבנה. עד שהקב"ה ראש שאי אפשר לפייס הלבנה שהיא תובעת
ותובעה שלא יהיה חילול השם של הרשעים בעולם עד שהקב"ה אמר על עצמו, הביאה עלי
כפרה שמעטתי את הירח והוא תמוה ביותר ממש. הקב"ה בעצמו צריך לעשות תשובה
ר"ל? אוי לאזנים שכן שומעות! אלא הגמרא אומר בע"ז דף ד' שהקב"ה
הבין באחרת מן הלבנה, בזה, שהאעיקר לא שיהיו כולם צדיקים אלא שיש הרבה חוטאים
ורשעים בעולם, אבל כל מי שיעשה תשובה כראוי יתקבל. והקב"ה גילה הכח הגדול של
תשובה במה שהוא עצמו קיבל על עצמו לעשות תשובה בכדי לפייס הלבנה. אבל בעיקר לא חזר
הקב"ה אלא לגלות שהעיקר בעולם לא להמית הבריות שחוטאים שכמעט כולם חוטאים.
אלא שמי שיחטא יעשה תשובה ויתקבל.</span></b></div>
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פגע אדם בקין שהיה הולך ככה כאילו לא פוחד מאחד. ושאלו אדם והלא הרגת את אחיך ואתה
הולך ככה בלי שום דאגה? אמר לו קין דיברתי עם הקב"ה והוא שאל אותי היתכן
שהרגת את אחיך, והקב"ה אמר לו הלא דמי אחיך צועקים אלי מן האדמה. ואמר קין
להקב"ה שרוצה לעשות תשובה.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>וקיבלו
הקב"ה והבטיח לו שיחיה הרבה שנים בלי שיזיקנו אנוש וכן היה . ומיד הבין אדם
הראשון הכח של תשובה ורץ לאשתו לפייסה לעשות שלום ביניהם ואמר לה שהיא אם כל חי.
ובכל זאת אנו אומרים בתפלות בזמן קידוש הלבנה שנזכה שהלבנה תחזור להגדולה שהיא
רוצה. שהעיקר אצלנו הוא השלימות שיהיה העולם בלי חוטאים, והגם שהבטיח הקב"ה
לנח שלא להחריב עוד את העולם, עדיין מתפללים להחזיר העולם להשלימות שרצתה הלבנה,
למעט חילול השם. וזה יהיה לעתיד לבא. וכן הרמב"ם אומר בסוף מלכים שלעתיד יהיה
מצב שהגוים עצמם יתפללו להשם.</span></b></div>
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the English section of our material, which is simply about stories of the
Chofets Chaim. But these stories are very important, and reflect on the entire
system of living in a world filled with evil and how to deal with it.</span></b></div>
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relative of the Chofetz Chaim knew that he was accustomed to go when nobody was
around to a certain shull, and to pray strongly to HaShem about something. He
was determined to find out what this was about. He came and stood behind the
Chofetz Chaim, who was crying out to HaShem, “Master of the Universe! I am a
Cohen. And a Cohen has a tendency to anger. Please, spare me from anger?”</span></b></div>
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Chofetz Chaim was accustomed to go upstairs in his attic and cry for long times
to HaShem. The Mashgiach of Mirrer Yeshiva, Rav Yeruchom Levovitz, heard about
this, and decided to listen in. He climbed up a few steps and heard some of the
Chofetz Chaim’s crying to HaShem for his sins, and Rav Yeruchom fainted and
fell down the steps.</span></b></div>
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Chaim once announced that in the middle of the night in Radin, he would reveal
a secret of the Torah. The entire community came to hear it. He said, “Elokei
neshomo shnosato bee tehovra he……..etc.” He concluded with “And in the future You
will remove it from me and restore it to me in the Future World.” The Chofetz
Chaim noted that “restore it to me” is with a mapik hay and he asked why. He
replied, “When HaShem will restore our souls to us in the future world, he will
restore our souls exactly as they were in this world, with all of the sins.”
That was the secret.</span></b></div>
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situation with a happier note, our above remark about Rav Yeruchom Levovitz the
Mashgiach of Mirrer Yeshiva, can continue with when he passed away around the
same time as the Chofetz Chaim, in the thirties. At about the same time that he
and the Chofetz Chaim passed on, Hitler yemach shemo began slaughtering six million
Jews. Suddenly, a very senior rabbis, also, close to his death bed, issued a
ruling. The Yeshiva world should gather in Vilna. Reb Aharon Kotler obeyed, and
one way or the other, thousands of Torah Jews assembled in Vilna. But what to
do next? Shortly, either Hitler or Stalin would be in Vilna. A miracle<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>happened. Although Japan was then at war with
America because it bombed Pearl Harbor, and America was bombing Japan, the
Russians allowed a train to drive from Vilna to Japan. The one who took
responsibility was a Japanese in charge of giving people permission to come to
Japan. When his superiors discovered that he was giving out permission to all
of the Jews assembled in<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Vilna, they
rebuked him. He took his book of passes and flew it out the window where
hundreds of people took their sheets and were saved when they reached Japan. He
lived until after the war and for a long time Jews praised him to the sky. And
other Japanese were also friendly with Jews.</span></b></div>
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Levovitz, who at this time had died. Now the leader of the trainload of Jews was
Rabbi Yechezkel Levenstein the Mashgiach of Mirrer Yeshiva. The Jews landed in
Japan which was being bombed by the Americans for their attack on Pearl Harbor.
No Jews were bombed. Each night Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz came to Reb Yechezkel
Levenstein and told him where the bombs would fall the next day. The Jews were
not bombed. Eventually Reb Aharon Kotler left Japan and came to America and the
other Jews decided to leave all at once or none at all, and they eventually all
left. Reb Yechezkel then taught in several places and finally in Israel.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
Contrast between Purim and Chanukah</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Dovid
Eidensohn</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">At
first glance, Purim and Chanukah are very similar holidays. Both are rabbinical
holidays. The heroes of both periods put their stamp on Jewish life for
generations. A close study of the two holidays, however, and the inside stories
of the heroes involved, paints a different picture. Both periods had their
terror and their triumph. Both periods had their heroes and their villains. But
the actual outcome for the heroes of the two holidays was much different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Let
us begin with Purim. The Purim story is about the Persian King Achashverush, a
man of enormous wealth, who, originally, as taught by a commentator there,
hated Jews more than Haman! He was changed when Mordechai, who knew the Seventy
Languages, overheard officers of the king plotting to murder him. The king
investigated and killed them. He wrote down that Mordechai the Jew saved him,
but did nothing to honor him. And so it was for a long time. Then Mordechai had
a falling out with Haman, who decided to kill him. It seems that at one time
Mordechai was traveling somewhere with Haman when Haman ran out of money. He
asked Mordechai for money and Mordechai replied that only if he would become
Mordechai’s slave would he give him the money. Haman having no choice, agreed.
Now Mordechai noticed that Haman walked around with royal clothes bedecked with
pagan images. Mordechai refused to rise for Haman and his pagan images and when
Haman objected, Mordechai showed Haman the paper signed by Haman that Haman was
the slave of Mordechai. The Jews were terrified at the act of Mordechai to
torment such a powerful person as Haman, and they protested to Mordechai, but
he was obstinate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Ultimately,
we know what happened, that Queen Esther came to the king uninvited in his
special palace, an act which could result in her being killed by the king, but
he accepted her and proffered to her his royal specter, a sign of respect. She
told him she came to him to invite him to a banquet to honor her, the king and
Haman. The king accepted and ordered Haman to come. The king asked her during
the banquet why she had invited him and she said she would tell him tomorrow at
the next banquet. He agreed and they parted and came together the next day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Until
now Esther told the king nothing about her background. He only knew that she
was a great beauty, which sufficed for him. He also suspected that her refusal
to divulge her past was negative, probably indicating a lower level of birth,
which would make it impossible to have a child from her, unless she was from
royal blood. Thus, although they were married, the king limited himself to
making sure he would have no children from her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Now,
at the second banquet, the king again asked Esther what her request from him
was. She replied that she was requesting that the plan of Haman to wipe out the
Jews would be reversed. The king was startled and went outside of the royal
room to the place where his beautiful trees were planted. He noticed, in great
dismay, that people were chopping down these trees. He asked why this was being
done, and they, who were actually heavenly angels, sent to implicate Haman,
told the king that Haman had instructed them to chop down the trees. Now the
king was doubly furious. First of all because Haman wanted to kill his wife the
queen, and secondly because Haman had told people to chop down the royal trees.
He came back to where Haman and Esther were and noticed that Haman was actually
on the royal recliner where the queen was sitting. The king exploded and roared
at Haman, “Do you force yourself on the queen in my castle?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Somebody
told the king that Haman had constructed a huge tree to hang Mordechai on it.
The king ordered, “Hang him on it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Haman
was immediately draped so he could not talk or object to anything and was
prepared for his death. The king then turned to Esther who, for the first time,
told the king about her royal birth, as a descendent of the Jewish king Saul.
Now the king, for the first time, spoke to her as a royal person to a royal
person and treated her with great honor. For Esther, this was a great tragedy.
For when she discussed with Mordechai about her attempt to reach the king she
added, “And if I will be destroyed, I will be destroyed.” This could have meant
that the king might be upset by her visit to him and kill her. But it could
also mean that until now when the king forced himself upon her, she was not a
sinner, and could continue relations with her husband Mordechai. But now that
she had come to the king on her own, and he for the first time wanted to have a
child from her, she could no longer relate to Mordechai. One reason was that if
the baby emerged with the appearance of Mordechai the king could not use him as
the next king. Also, Esther feared that her willingly going to the king without
being forced would itself make her forbidden to ever be with Mordechai. Thus,
Purim was a tragedy for both Esther and Mordechai, who deeply loved each other,
and now were permanently separated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>All of this is in contrast to the Chanukah
story. There the group of Cohanim priests who fought successfully to drive the
Greeks from Israel did not suffer in any way like this. True, some of them died
in the battles, but they died as heroes in war, without the pain and the shame
of being forbidden to their dear husband and wife. Furthermore, in the Chanukah
story, the most prominent person was not a man at all, but a woman. She was a
great beauty, the daughter of the High Priest, who was selected by a Greek as
was their style, to be with him against her will. She came, and agreed to his
wishes, but suggested that they begin with some delicious food she had
prepared. He ate some, and drank some, and eventually, simply fell down
unconscious. She then killed him, and took his head to the Greek general. When
he saw the decapitated head, he became terrorized, and he and the entire Greek
army fled Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Thus,
the heroine of the Chanukah story was a woman, who completely retained her
honor. But the heroine of the Purim story lived the rest of her life in great
shame and pain, although she gave birth to children of Achashverush who became
beneficiaries of the Jewish people. And Mordechai, who lived without our knowing
any more children from him, achieved great honor from the king, the Jews and
Persians, but the pain of the loss of his beloved wife remained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">So,
until we know the entire story, we are missing important details, which to us
may not seem crucial, but for Mordechai and Esther they were crucial. May their
memory be honored for all time, in this world and the next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Yes,
the Jews never had such easy lives. But there are various times and various
problems. Purim and Chanukah are, in this sense, instructive. Whatever the Jews
suffer from, their pain lasts in this world, and the hope is that that when
they go to a higher world, they find the full glory they truly deserve.</span></div>
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much learning? How much earning?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">See Berochose 35b an
argument between Rabbi Yishmael and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochoi. Rabbi Yishmael
maintains that a Jew must work a full day to sustain a livelihood. Rabbi Shimon
bar Yochoi disagrees, because if so, nobody will master the Torah. Rabbi Shimon
bar Yochoi counters that a Jew should study Torah essentially and not work, but
that others will work for him. The problem with this is that Rabbi Shimon bar
Yochoi was running away from the Romans who wanted to kill him, and the Romans
would surely not feed him. So it makes sense to accept the gemora there that “many
did as Rabbi Yishmael and succeeded” meaning that others did not succeed. Okay,
we seem to be getting somewhere. But wait. There are two gemoras that blow
everything to pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Sota 44A says that
Derech Erets teaches us that a man should build his house, plant a vineyard,
and only then marry. In other words, he should not marry until he is wealthy
and has enough money to be comfortable and supply the needs of his wife and
children. The Zohar adds that one who marries without a house and vineyard is a
Tipashe, a fool. Also, the gemora in Hurius 10b says that Rabbi Yochanan
decreed that Torah scholars need the money to be comfortable or some wealth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This brings us to a
terrible question. If a person has to spend most of his life learning Torah and
only a small portion to earn a living, when does he become wealthy? Indeed, the
gemora Berochose 35b rules that people do have to work hard during the day,
meaning, not so much learning. This contradicts the Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim
156.1 that every Jew must learn most of the day and only a small part of the
time for his earnings. This is not the opinion of Rabbi Yishmael, the dominant
opinion and is not the opinion of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochoi, who says that
strangers will support the learners, at a time when the Romans were searching
for Rabbi Shimon to kill him. Surely they did not support him. Indeed, Rabbi Yochanan
says in gemora Shabbos 11a that the law is not like Rabbi Shimon bar Yochoi but
like Rabbi Yishmael. If so, how can we manage enough money to marry? Something
has to give? Either Rabbi Yishmael is wrong, or Rabbi Shomon bar Yochoi is
wrong, or no Jew gets married other than a few rich ones. This is surely wrong.
This bothered me for a long time, especially as I didn’t find anyone else who
asked these questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">But the rule is, that
when somebody gets stuck when he studies Torah, and he gives all he could to
understand, HaShem helps him. The Vilna Gaon even suggests that there are
questions on the Torah that seem to block all logic. But within these questions
are the secrets of the Torah. I believe that this idea is the first word in the
Torah, Beraishis, which, as Rashi says there, is a word missing a key word. In
the beginning of what did HaShem create the heaven and the earth? Whatever we
do, that word is missing. I believe the missing word is that there are things
about heaven and earth that are beyond human understanding, but can only be
revealed by HaShem to those who study Torah. And that is the key to all of the
Torah and all of the gemoras. They are all riddled with questions. But if we
struggle and ask HaShem’s help, we will find answers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">My answer is that
children must be trained by the father to learn Torah most of the day but to
also spend some time of the day to earn money. I actually wrote a treatise about
a fictional boy, Shimi, who, at the age of five, was approached by his father. “Shimi,”
he said, “you are a smart little boy, and you are learning nicely in Hebrew
school. Yes, it is crucial for a Jew to study Torah. But we need money also.
Yes, most of the day you will study Torah, and yet, a Jew needs money also.
Would you like to earn some money even now?” Shimi was very interested in what
his father was saying, and earning money, why not, sure!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Shimi’s father said, “Next
time you go to Hebrew school, bring along some nice fruit from our farm, and
trade it with your friends, who surely bring their own fruit to school.” Shimi
did it, and he returned with some of his friends’ fruit. “Fine” said his
father. “Let’s keep this up for a while, okay? You’re doing so well, that I
think<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>you are a real business person!”
Shimi puffed up his small cheek, and just swallowed in the compliments. The
main thing, however, was the hope that more was to come. His father had talked
about him earning money. Now, that was something special. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The time came when Shimi’s
father told him, “Come with me.” They went a few blocks, and Shimi knew exactly
where they were. This was the home of Shimi’s father’s best friend. “Here,”
said his father. “Take these nice fruits, rap on the door, and sell them to my
friend.” Shimi was a little nervous. But he did what he was told. He rapped on
the door. The man of the house answered, and saw a tiny five year old child
rapping on his door. What was this about? Then, he looked up, and saw his
friend, Shimi’s father, watching the door. Aha. So that was the game. “Yes, my
dear friend, and what can I do for you today?” asked the father’s friend of
Shimi. Shimi replied, “Would you like to buy any of these delicious fruits?”
Well, thought the father. I have a choice in the matter? My best friend won’t
talk to me if I refuse. He reached in his pocket, and pulled out some nice
change. Shimi was ecstatic. He, a five year old child, had a nice chunk of
change!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The father was careful
to go steadily up the ladder. Now he took Shimi to strangers. But the child was
catching on. The coins were rattling in his pocket, and he was thrilled. What
does a child with money want? He wants more money, a lot of it. And the father played
this to the hilt. Next came a new level of training, and it would hurt. “Shimi,
I know you have been selling various nice fruits and food, and you have made
some nice change. Now, I want to graduate you to more expensive items. Are you
ready to proceed?” Shimi responded, “If you want me to do something, I am ready
to try it.” Well, said his father, this is an expensive leather piece from the farm.
Find somebody, on your own, to sell it to, and tell me what they pay you for
it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Shimi was paid, which
was for him, an enormous amount of money. Much more than he got for selling an
apple. Now he was given good money, not nickels and dimes, but solid dollars.
With great pride, he showed his money to his father. His father was disappointed.
“Shimi, you took twenty dollars for that leather piece, but it was worth fifty
dollars.” Shimi was crushed, and he started to cry. His father was ready for
this. He sat Shimi down and explained to him the entire situation and why Shimi
should greatly rejoice in the very mistake his father knew he would make.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Shimi, I have a dear
friend, who married a rich girl. His father-in-law gave him a fortune as a
nedan, a gift to the husband from the wife’s family, to encourage him to enter
business and make a lot of money. Alas, my friend never lost a penny in his
life, and had no idea how to proceed. He lost everything, and the money was so
much, he could never pay it back. So I took you, a five year old boy, who sold
an expensive piece of leather for less than its value. You lost about thirty
dollars, and you know what, it is the smartest thing you ever did. Because I am
training you to be a businessman, somebody who will one day not do what my friend
did when he lost a fortune and could never recoup it. You will recoup the
thirty dollars you lost a thousand times. You will have farms, fields, houses,
and your wife and children will never have to worry about money. Now, wipe your
tears, smile, and get ready for stage two. Now we are going to train you to buy
property. Remember the mistake you made today. And be sure that you never make
a mistake like that again.” Shimi resolved that he would be very careful next
time he sold or bought anything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">“Tomorrow,” said Shimi’s
father, “we are going to look at a property I am interested in. Pay close
attention how I deal with the owner. Are<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>you ready?” Shimi was ready. The day came when Shimi followed his father
to see him purchase a field from this person. They began to haggle about the
price. Finally, the seller said, “I won’t sell for less than such and such.”
Shimi’s father said, “Okay, let me think about it,” and left.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Shimi felt very bad for
his father. He thought his father had lost out on the property. But his father
was doing exactly what he wanted Shimi to see. Never buy property unless<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>you get a real good deal. If it is worth ten
thousand dollars, make sure you don’t pay ten thousand dollars. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">My original story of
Shimi went on much longer, but suffice here to sum up that Shimi began buying
property at economical rates. People realized that he was rich and they rushed
to buy his properties and have their children begin Hebrew school on his terms.
He insisted that the new people raise their children as his father had raised
him, to begin earning money at a tender age. By the time he came of marital
age, his parents found for him exactly what they wanted, and here was one
growing and happy family.</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">What a happy world it
would be if all children were raised to be happy and wealthy!</span></div>
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<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Parshas
Ki Siso</span></div>
<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Dovid
Eidensohn</span></i></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
Parsha of Ki Siso begins with the building of the holy utensils of the Mishkan.
It concludes with the heinous sin of the Jews worshipping the Golden Calf, an
act of idolatry even while Moshe was on the mountain with HaShem learning the
Torah and the Ten Commandments which included the entire Torah.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We
have questions on the parsha. First of all, it is obvious that the mistake the
Jews made to worship the Golden Calf was because they anticipated Moshe
returning from talking to HaShem on a certain date, and they got the wrong
date, at least, the people got the wrong date. This itself is very
strange.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>HaShem is talking with Moshe,
who is supposed to return to the Jews on a certain date which he surely told
the Jews, and they all got confused. Everyone, including the brother of Moshe,
Aharon, who was the leader of the Jews while Moshe was speaking to HaShem on
Mt. Sinai, accepted the cry of all of the Jews that Moshe was no longer alive
and that they Jews needed a new god to lead them. Did the Jews have to worship
idols because Moshe was a few hours late by their reckoning? And, more
important, was Moshe really late? How can somebody talking to HaShem who is
supposed to know when to return to the Jews, who told the Jews when he would
return, tell the Jews something different than what he made up with HaShem?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This
is the small question. The big question is on HaShem Himself. When the Jews
assumed that Moshe was dead and that the Jews must create an idol to be their
god, it is obvious that the entire date of Moshe’s arrival back to the Jewish
camp was unknown to the Jews. And that more incredibly, they assumed he had
died, and based on this, decided to deny HaShem entirely and worship an idol
that emerged from a fire saying “I am your god.” Why did HaShem not ensure that
Moshe gave the right date to the Jews, and why did HaShem not remind Moshe to
leave on that exact date. It is obvious from the story in the Torah that there
were many hours from the act of the populace in making the Golden Calf until
Moshe was finally sent by HaShem on what was obviously a date that HaShem
considered too early for Moshe to leave Him. If so, it surely is incredible
that Moshe himself and the Jewish people and even HaShem were not prepared to
honor the date Moshe told the Jews he would return.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">But
there is actually another question that quells all of the above questions, and
it so stunning that it will, as we will see, answer all of the above questions
even though it is incredibly amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">To
prepare you for this incredibly amazing fact, it is necessary to prepare the
process a bit, to make the result more palatable. </span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We
have mentioned earlier in various discussions that this world is filled with
people who sin, that the world is filled with darkness, and that “from darkness
comes light.” Obviously, if at the time of the Giving of the Torah, the Jews
built a Golden Calf and worshipped it, something went wrong. How did that
happen? What terrible darkness came into the world to uproot all of the above?</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
answer, as taught in Gemora Avoda Zora 4b and 5a, is that HaShem did it,
deliberately. It was something crucial for the entire existence of the world, a
world where people always sinned and the only thing that would save them from
Gehenum was penitence. Furthermore, this heavenly mercy applies to people who
sin against HaShem. But people who sin against other people must appease the
hurt person and become forgiven, without the act of penitence alone by the
sinner. (If the sinner does his best to appease the one he sinned against, this
is another thing which we won’t go into now.) If so, sin is a terrible thing
and since people are always suspected of doing this or that sin, even some sins
that HaShem on his own won’t recognize the Teshuva, it was necessary for HaShem
to teach people, along with giving the Torah, that they, as a nation that did a
lot of sinning as is obvious from this week’s sedra and other holy works and
gemoras. </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
above gemora says that HaShem deliberately planned two terrible sins from
people who were extremely remote from sin. One was King David who took Bas
Sheva against her will. The other was the Jewish people at Sinai who achieved
an incredible level of perfection from hearing the Ten Commandments spoken by
HaShem and explained by Moshe. Hashem did this to teach everyone that if an
individual sins, but HaShem accepted his penitence, then any individual knows
they can repent to HaShem. If a community sins, HaShem proves from the Jews at
Sinai that penitence will even save an entire people who did a terrible sin.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">For
HaShem’s plan to work the Jews had to be confused about the day of Moshe’s
return. Now all of the questions are answered.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
only remaining question: Do we all know the teaching of the gemora to be sure
that our penitence will be accepted? And if we repent, will we do as King David
did, to devote his life in the Book of Tehilim to atone for his sin? And
another question is: Do we imitate King David who once boasted, “My heart is
still inside of me” meaning I cannot sin? HaShem spoke to David and said, “Is
that so? I assure you that you will one day sin with a woman who is married to
another man.” David trembled when he heard this, and when he saw Bas Sheva and
felt a terrible desire, he realized immediately that this was now the test
HaShem had promised him. He knew that he was able to conquer his evil
inclination with great effort, but to do so would insult HaShem, who told him
he would sin. To avoid that, he sinned.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This
itself produced an uproar and HaShem was asked how he could forgive David who
had stolen a married woman. HaShem answered that all of the husbands engaged in
open battles wrote a document of divorce to their wives. Otherwise, maybe they
would be captured or killed and no witnesses would know where they were buried
to free their wives. To assure the wives, all husbands, privately got witnesses
watch them give their wives a GET. It happened that Basheva’s husband was
killed in a serious battle so David did not take Bas Sheva until she was
divorced properly.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
Jews themselves at Sinai began the tradition that all Jews repent on Yom Kippur
and many other times. And especially today when everyone learns Musar,
penitence is part of life, as is asking forgiveness.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<div align="center" style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Poem
about a Special Shabbos</span></div>
<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Dovid
Eidensohn</span></i></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Oh! What a lovely Shabbos
when my son from Israel visited us with his family,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And my two children in
America came for Shabbos to meet him,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And brought their children
along.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And, to get things
moving here, I am a grouch.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Now, I am not a grouch
when I talk to you. But if you would be a child, say two years old, </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I would pretend I was a
lion. And they loved it even as they ran away from the ‘lion.’</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">On this Shabbos when the
house was filled with young children and some not so young,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I was busy roaring and
chasing and the house was just popping with good will.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">My son came from Israel
only for a tiny visit. He is perhaps the leading expert on children in the
world</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And countries around the
world pay him ridiculous sums to visit their schools and help with children,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And I his father was
thrilled at the opportunity to talk to him about my ideas,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Which had to do with
publishing my ideas on family and marriage</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Because even secular magazines</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Want my material.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Our lovely Shabbos came
to an end,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And my son prepared to
return home</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And while finishing his
packing, I approached him,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">To show him my treasured
Olympus,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">A device which allows me
to copy music, or sing my own music, or make audios.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">He quickly understood
how it worked, </span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And was especially interested
in its ability to play music.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I have hours of music on
my Olympus and computer,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And he, who travels
around the world regularly in his task of helping Yeshiva children,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Needed some music and
material to listen to while flying.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Then my son produced his
surprise.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">He showed me a device
which cost five times what my Olympus cost</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">He took it and copied my
material</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And my voice boomed out.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">So Shabbos came to an
end,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">A lovely day packed with
food brought by all who visited</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Meaning the three family
of children who live in America</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And my son packing after
Shabbos indicated</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">That he was returning
home the next morning.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I spoke several times at
the table on Shabbos</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And emphasized that when
my children were young</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I would speak on Shabbos
for an hour or two</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">About the greatness of a
mother who has children and raises them.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And these children grew
up in a small house,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Packed with boxes from
my wife’s business,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And that small house was
packed with boxes,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And a growing family of children
who loved each other and their parents.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Today I have daughters
in Israel who are regularly paid large sums of money</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">To speak on “What it was
like to be raised in the Eidensohn family.”</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">One of the stories was
when my son, who now travels the world to help Yeshiva students</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Asked me for permission
to sleep at night underneath the kitchen table.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">This Shabbos he and the
other children gushed forth with happiness for those times,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And for their success
with their own children, which is considerable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Once at a grandson’s
wedding, I, the grandfather, was honored with the first call to pronounce the wedding
blessings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">When I finished and
turned to leave, the leader asked me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Give a blessing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I was stunned. I devoted
my life to making happy family and children,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">But just what kind of berocho
should I give?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Then heaven helped me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I said “May the couple
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I then walked quickly
from the Chupah into a New York sidewalk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And somebody asked me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">What blessing did you
give?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I told him, “May you be
jealous of your children.”</span></div>
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Talmud says,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Nobody is jealous of their
children and their disciples</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">But if somebody is jealous
of his students and disciples,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">It is because they are
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קדש לאהרן אחיך לכבוד ולתפארת<a href="file:///C:/Users/me/Documents/Problems_for_a_Cohen_to_marry.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[1]</span></b></span></span></span></a></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">דוד אליהו
אידנסון</span></i></b></div>
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תצוה שענינו עבודת הכהונה בקדושה ובטהרה, ובפרט הכהן הגדול מאחיו שיש לו שמונה בגדי
תפארת, גורם להעלות הכהן הגדול למעלה מכל ישראל. וכל כהן הוא מיוחד ונבדל מאחיו
מחמת רוב קדושתו ומחמת שהוא לבד שייך לדור בבית המקדש או המשכן ששם שורה השכינה
ממש. האמנם הכלל בכל התורה בכל העולם ובכל הדורות שאם יש אור וקדושה יש שטן
ההיפוך, ואם הכהן הגדול או הכהן הדיוט מיוחד בישראל, וכולם חייבים לכבדו ולפארו,
הכלל הולך ומאיר, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>שתוך הגדולה והתפארת יש
ח"ו הההיפוך. ופה נביא ראיה לזה.</span></b></div>
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אבן העזר יש אריכות בענין הכהונה שפסולים להם איזה נשים.<a href="file:///C:/Users/me/Documents/Problems_for_a_Cohen_to_marry.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span dir="LTR" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[2]</span></b></span></span></span></a>
וז"ל הש"ע – כהן אסור מן התורה בגרושה זונה וחללה ואסור בחלוצה מדרבנן.
לפיכך אם עבר ונשא ספק חלוצה אין צריך להוציא. אבל גרושה אפילו אינה אלא ספק גרושה
צריך להוציא כו' עכ"ל ואני מכיר איזה כהנים שקשה להם מאוד להשיג שידוך והם
באים בשנים ולא זוכים להנשא, הגם שהם מצד עצמם חוץ מן הכהונה אנשים טובים ואוהבים
ויראים מהשם בתכלית, בכל זאת קדושת הכהן מעכב מאוד בשידוכים. וכאשר אני פוגע בכהן
כזה אני מצטער מאוד. ולידיד אחד שהוא כהן אני תמיד מזרזו שילך לארץ ישראל ואולי יש
תקוה. והוא מודה שאולי צריך לעשות זה ואומר לי שהרבה פעמים כבר היה בארץ ובכל זאת
לא זוכה להשיג שידוך.</span></b></div>
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לענ"ד מחמת זה הכהן צריך להנשא על ידי ההורים שלו ככל האפשר קודם שיגיע לשנים
שאין בהם חפץ, שהם מה שאיתא בפרקי אבות מי שעובר עליו שנת יח' עד כ' שבאותו הזמן
שהוא כבר בן כ' נתקיים בו הצער של תפח עצמותיו. שודאי קל הוא לאדם שאינו מבוגר כל
כך לישא אשה ואילו מי שכבר הגיע לשנת כ' קשה לו. וכהן הוא סובל יותר מכולם שאסור
לו בגרושה וזונה וחללה מן התורה ואסור בחלוצה מדרבנן. ואסור לו בהחלט לישא אשה האסורה
לו, ואם לקח אשה האסורה לו מן התורה אפילו ספק גרושה צריך להוציא.</span></b></div>
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לכהונה. אבל לישראל יש תורה אחרת. ע' ש"ע אבן העזר סימן ב' שמתחיל שישתדל כל
אדם לישא אשה הגונה. ושם בסעיף ה' וז"ל משפחה שנתערב בה ספק חלל כל אשה כשרה
שנשאת לאחד מאותה משפחה ונתאלמנה אסורה לכהן לכתחלה. </span></b></div>
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הבאנו שבש"ע שם שהכהן אסור לישא מן התורה גרושה זונה וחללה. ובש"ע שם
סעיף ח' וז"ל איזהו היא זונה כל שאינה בת ישראל או בת ישראל שנבעלת לאדם שהיא
אסורה לינשא לו איסור השוה לכל או שנבעלה לחלל אע"פ שהיא מותרת לינשא לו כו'
עכ"ל</span></b></div>
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אשת כהן שנבעלה אפילו באונס אסורה לו עכ"ל.</span></b></div>
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אשת ישראל שנאנסה אע"פ שמותרת לבעלה אסורה לכהן עכ"ל</span></b></div>
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כהן שקדש גדולה או קטנה ואחר זמן בא עליה וטען שמצאה דרוסת איש נאסרת עלילו מספק
שמא קודם קידושין נבעלה או אחר קידושין עכ"ל</span></b></div>
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ז' דין אשה שנשבית ואיזה היא נקראת חללה. סעיף א' שבויה שנשבית והיא בת ג' שנים
ויום אחד או יותר אסורה לכהן מפני שהיא ספק זונה שמא נבעלה לכותי כו'. ובבית שמואל
שם וז"ל אסורה לכהן - ואם היא נשואה לכהן תצא ממנו עכ"ל ע"ש
אריכות.</span></b></div>
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סעיף יב' איזו היא חללה זו שנולדה מאיסורי כהונה כגון כהן הדיוט שבא על הזונה או
הגרושה וכהן גדול שבא עליהן או על האלמנה או שנשא בעולה ובא עליה הרי אלו נתחללו
לעולם עכ"ל</span></b></div>
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שיש רוב קדושה יש באותו הקדושה צער גדול מפעם לפעם כגון אם בא הכהן לישא אשה
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המעשה של איש אחד שנכנס לבית הכנסת ושמע איזה איש צועק ובוכה לפני הארון הקודש,
נכנס וראה שזו שצועק ובוכה הוא החפץ חיים זצ"ל. והיה אומר "רבונו של
עולם! אני כהן! והכהן יכול להיות בכעס. עזרני שאנצל מן הכעס."</span></b></div>
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צדיק הדור והדורות, שמי שהוא כהן ונכנס בו רוב הקדושה, עדיין צריך לצעוק ולהתפלל
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">How can I talk about curse when I
talk about a poem?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">But there is for everything a
time, a moment of its own,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">When we see what we see,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">And are stunned, and we groan,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">How did this happen?</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">How did somebody so respected and important,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Jump into hell?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Ask not me, but Yechiel Kailish
and Simcha Felder,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">For years shining lights battling
evil and winning,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">And both of them, when it came
time to choose between heaven and the Assembly of a powerful government,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Chose to be an Assemblyman in
hell.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">The newspapers around the country
trumpeted the news.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Outrage and ferocious attacks
followed,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">More and more,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">And things are going to get worse,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Not better.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">One question I ask of the two of
them,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">What do their children and families
say to them?</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Are they still on speaking terms?</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Or when they speak,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Do they tell it like it is?</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">As I do when I talk to them or
about them.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Two people with everything: honor,
money, prominence,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Whose future was only about more
honor, more money, more prominence,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Now walk into the Assembly with
the pace of a warrior,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">And return home to children and family.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">And?????</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">To conclude, <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>on a fact,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">If either or both of them, Kailish
and Simcha, become gay,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">That will be an improvement.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Because <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>people will at last realize that no rabbi can
believe in heaven,</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">and deny the passages in Vayikro18
and 20, that sodomy is a capital crime.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; margin: 0px;">Rabbi Eidensohn is a winner of national
and international poetry contests for other poems. This poem was written just
today.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Refusal
of Torah Jews to Fight Cuomo: Refusal of Torah Jews to Fight Invalid Gittin and
Mamzerim: Why?</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Dovid
Eidensohn<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><u><span style="color: #0563c1;">eidensohnd@gmail.com</span></u></a></span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>845-578-1917</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">I have written often of
the catastrophe of Cuomo in Albany creating hideous laws. One is to allow
people to poison a pregnant woman who wants her baby. The fetus dies and the
husband has no punishment. He killed a fetus which according to Cuomo may be
murdered with no punishment. Of course, if the husband damages the mother with
a knife for instance, he is a murderer. Where are the thousands of Orthodox
Jews many of them Torah scholars who are silent?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">New York State has long
had a GET Law which allows a woman to force a GET. A forced GET says Rambam
beginning the laws of divorce, (and the poskim in Shulchan Aruch Even Hoezer
77.2) <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>forbid forcing a GET. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But nobody cares about the many mamzerim who
are springing up in New York. Also, throughout America, senior ‘rabbis’ are
telling women to force a GET from their husband. Some tell her to remarry with
no GET on the ridiculous grounds that husbands who had children with the wife
are not of a status to merit Torah marriage. One senior Rosh Yeshiva who did
this is descended from a great Gadol HaDor from Europe who surely would never
approve of such a thing. And when the scandal erupted, basically from me and my
brother Rabbi Dr. Daniel on our blogs, a senior ‘Rosh Yeshiva’ got involved to
get the monkey out of the tree. Then that mamzer maker was restored to his
previous status as a pillar of a major ‘Torah’ organization. That is part of
the reason I despise and attack that ‘Torah’ organization and don’t recognize
it.</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Let us tell a story about
the Baal HaTanyo and a very wealthy Jew who refused to give charity. If he
gave, it was a mere pittance. The time came when a couple needed money to
marry. In those days the poverty was terrible and getting married was not
always possible without large sums of money. In a particular town the leaders
pondered the problem and had no solution. Finally, the Baal HaTanyeh volunteered
that he takes the responsibility for raising the money, on the condition that
he decides who to visit for it. With no alternative, this was accepted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">There was in that
community an extremely wealthy Jew who gave tiny amounts to charity. The Baal
HaTanyo chose to go to him, which shocked everyone. The Baal HaTanyo rapped on
the man’s door and was admitted. He asked for help so the couple could marry
and the wealthy man gave, as he was wont to do, a very small donation. Usually,
such would arouse in the person who asked for the money outrage. But now the Baal
HaTanyo thanked the man profusely and gushed blessings upon him. The man had
never seen such an attitude. He always saw the opposite. In shock, he escorted
the Baal HaTanyo out of his house and watched him descend the steps. Suddenly,
he called out, “Rabbi! Don’t leave. I want to increase my contribution.” The
Baal HaTanyo returned to the house with the man, and took the now larger
donation. Again, the Baal HaTanyo didn’t criticize the amount given which was still
not what was needed. Instead he gushed blessings on the man and thanked him
profusely. The Baal HaTanyo left, and soon, he was again summoned back to the
wealthy man’s house. This kept up until the entire sum needed was given by the
wealthy man. The Baal HaTanyo departed from the man gushing blessings on him
and assured him that the couple now able to marry will be noticed in heaven. This
will bring great blessings and happiness to the donor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The question, however
is, why did nobody else think of such a strategy with a very wealthy man? Was
it the holy spirit of the tsadik or what? I don’t know. But I can surmise as
follows. The Rov of Brisk Reb Chaim Brisker in the period that he served as a
major leader of Vollozhner Yeshiva, was once commanded by the head of the Yeshiva
to get money from a wealthy man. Reb Chaim travelled to him and explained the
crisis in the Yeshiva and how much money it needed, a very large sum. The gevir
immediately agreed and went to his safe and pulled out a huge sack of money. He
began counting it out, but only counted very small coins, one at a time. This
went on and on. Finally, Reb Chaim, who was losing all of this time when he
should have been learning with students in the Yeshiva, asked the gevir if
perhaps he had large coins. He replied, “When I prepare to give for a mitsvah,
the Soton comes to me and begins to complain and tells me not to give the money.
When that happens, and he is banging away with his complaints, I have a strong temptation
to keep the money for myself. But I respond to him, “NO!” And I keep counting
the money, tiny coin by tiny coin, to utterly confound and destroy the attack
of the Soton.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">A wealthy man once
promised a million dollars for a Yeshiva and everyone was sure he meant it. But
he never gave the money and nobody knew why he changed his mind. It was obvious
that he really wanted to give the money. Then a prominent scholar said, “Yes,
he surely wanted to give that large sum of money, but he did not have the merit
to do so.” And so it was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Is this why we have tragedies
with governments destroying lives and few protest? Is his why we have many ‘rabbis’
who give invalid divorces and the wife remarries with an invalid GET and her
child from the next husband is a mamzer and few protest?</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Perhaps, if the people
who do nothing about tragedies would summon their souls and fight back, and
begin, even with one small step to improve and achieve the ability to fight,
they would do more and more until we saw them out on the street with signs and
songs and ferocious complaints, and surely, there would be hope.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>torahhalacha.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06717567438021118860noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506243205036161192.post-72567921811955434592019-02-11T07:32:00.001-08:002019-02-11T07:34:48.427-08:00Do Yeshivas in New York State have a future?<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Rabbi Responds to Attack on Yeshivas by New York
State</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">David Eidensohn</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">First, we begin with
an article in the Lohud Journal News of Rockland New York and other New York
State environments, attacking the present Yeshiva system based on laws passed
years ago but never enforced until the Cuomo administration. For the first time
with a Democratic majority, it has passed hideous laws permitting killing
fetuses and not being challenged by the government. The attack on Yeshivas is
in line with this new attempt to do away with biblical values for all people
and much of respect for woman and children. Here we present from me, David
Eidensohn, a defense, not on all of the hideous murderous inventions of Albany
which began on Jan 22, ’19 anniversary of abortion law Roe vs Wade, but on this
article attacking Yeshivas in New York State. Cuomo’s Democrats did not invent
this law which has been law for many years, but they have insisted on enforcing
it, and there is great fear that their efforts will spill out into great
changes in that very law similar to what they did with the abortion law. Here
is the article of the Journal News which simply explained that all of this was
state law, and my defense of those who opposed it.</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">From Journal News</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">It was clear that
state Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia was going to have a hard time
producing private-school curriculum guidelines that would meet state law and
satisfy the Orthodox community, especially those protective of Hasidic
yeshivas.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">But who could
anticipate the wrath directed at Elia and her </span></b><b><span style="color: #1990e5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.nysed.gov/nonpublic-schools/substantial-equivalency"><span style="color: #1990e5; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">updated guidelines</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"> for enforcing
that academic instruction at private schools is "substantially
equivalent" to public schools? The timing of the release, just before
Hanukkah, fed numerous comparisons of Elia and the state Education
Department to the Syrian-Greeks, who tried (and failed) to Hellenize the
Jews in the Hanukkah story.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Grand
Rebbe Aharon Teitelbaum of the Satmar Hasidic movement, for one,
has declared war against Elia. In a major speech before thousands of
followers in Brooklyn, he said his community "will not bow down or
surrender to the wicked, not even before the Commissioner of
Education." </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Almost 55,000
people </span></b><b><span style="color: #1990e5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/500-000-students-vs-state-education-department"><span style="color: #1990e5; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">have signed an
online petition</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"> opposing the new state guidelines and rejecting Elia's
"attempt to impose her curriculum on our yeshivas."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Attacking from another
front, the New York State Council of Catholic School
Superintendents, which represents about 500 Catholic schools, also rejects
the new guidelines. The group opposes having Catholic school instruction
reviewed by local public school officials, with whom they say they are in
competition for students.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1990e5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2018/11/20/updated-private-school-guidelines-yehshivas-secular/2065552002/"><span style="color: #1990e5; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">THE
GUIDELINES: Yeshivas could face closure, eventually, if academics fail</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Much of the vitriol
directed at Elia and "her system," though, is way off base. Critics
seem determined to ignore the reality that Elia is trying to enforce
existing state law, which is her job. She did not create
instructional rules for private schools; nor did she design a system to
inspect what private schools teach. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">But blaming her is an
easy out. Comparing her to Jewish oppressors of yore is nonsense.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The simple truth is
that state law — since at least 1947 — has required that academic
instruction at private schools be "substantially equivalent" to what
public schools teach. </span></b><b><span style="color: #1990e5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sss/lawsregs/3204.html"><span style="color: #1990e5; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Section 3204 of
state Education Law</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"> has also required that public school districts
be responsible for making sure that private schools within their
boundaries teach what they're supposed to teach.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The law, by and large,
has been ignored. Until now.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Two years ago, Elia
decided to update state guidelines for enforcement of the law. Why she did so
is one point of conflict. Many Orthodox critics insist she was unduly
influenced by an advocacy group they don't like, Young Advocates for Fair
Education or YAFFED. State Education Department officials told me they received
requests to clarify requirements by many, including public schools, private
schools and BOCES.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Ruminating on Elia's
motivation is just a distraction. The law is the law, and Elia is doing the
right thing, the only thing, by trying to enforce it. Wishing she would look
the other way, as her predecessors did, is not a credible position. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">End of Journal News
Article. Now is my defense of Yeshivas. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">My Defense of Yeshivas in New York State</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"> by Rabbi David
Eidensohn</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The above article from the Journal News simply describes
government law in New York State and the article seems to be accurate. My
response is that any governmental force on religious people to violate their
religion is not only anti-religious but also a violation of a Supreme Court
ruling in </span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Wisconsin v.
Jonas Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, is the case in which the United States Supreme Court
found that Amish children could not be placed under compulsory education past
8th grade. The parents' fundamental right to freedom of religion was determined
to outweigh the state's interest in educating its children. The case is often
cited as a basis for parents' right to educate their children outside of
traditional private or public schools. Cuomo government violation of this is a
direct contradiction to Federal Law and the Supreme Court that voted 7-9 that
religious right of an organized religious group trumps state power to change
it. Incidentally, the two justices who were not part of the 7 who voted for it,
did not oppose the idea that religion trumps the state, but for other reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">This is not about judicial issues for
which I am not an expert on American law. This is about religious law, and how
the religious community of all religions is upset with a secular government
creating new ideas that are anathema to major sectors of that country. New York
State and many states have very large amounts of deeply religious people. These
anti-biblical and anti-family laws have now taken place in England and other
countries. A senior rabbi in England declared that now religious people will
have to leave England. What about the thousands of religious New Yorkers?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Let us now turn to the religious Jews
who instigated forced change in policy mentioned above where Yeshivas are under
attack for not spending the time that public schools spend in teaching various
subjects. These religious Jews follow a history of “our destroyers come from
us.” One of them, a deeply pious Jew, caused the destruction of the Second
Temple. They always know better than the senior rabbis of the generation. And
the rabbis whose Yeshivas are heavily populated by believers surely don’t want
the atheists of Cuomo telling their children about atheism. This is a capital
crime.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The greatest rabbis in the world
going back a few generations made it clear that forcing a woman by the
government for any reason is a capital crime. I heard this from a relative who
was the one who trained the present Stoliner Rebbe; Reb E. Brizel, the grandfather
of my daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The greatest rabbis in the world held
that any governmental pressure on women for any reason is a capital crime. These
rabbis are Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Yitschok HaLevi
Soloveitchik, and other major Torah personalities.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The Brisker Rov Rabbi Yischok haLevi
Soloveitchik says that the sin of forcing a Torah woman even to join a social
program not the army and to help people in nursing homes is a capital crime.
Rabbi Brizel told me further that a Jewish woman must be guided only by
her husband and parents. To force Jewish boys and girls into a school where
they will be taught things that are against the Torah is a very serious sin. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">I conclude by saying that if Cuomo
fulfills his dream of becoming President of the United States, there is a great
fear that America, the only friend of Israel, will force Israel to accept its
policies that Cuomo believes in very strongly or lose its help from America.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The only hope is to stop Cuomo now,
especially when all biblical and family people will publicly pronounce their
opposition to destroying religion and family. There is a letter I have from Reb
Moshe Feinstein commanding everyone to do this and to attend governmental
decisions on toeivo and protest.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Cuomo is a murderer and a great hater of heaven and family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
Mishneh in Sota 49 that before Moshiach the world will be led by people who
reject heaven</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Dovid
Eidensohn</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The above Mishneh is a
lengthy description of the Destruction of the Temple and subsequent deaths of great
rabbis which led to great decline. Earlier in the Mishneh, the decline and
death of great rabbis led to a situation where prominent Jews were ashamed to
go among people because the dominant attitude was even among Jews a negative
feeling towards those who truly worshipped HaShem. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The end of the Mishneh
prophesied that just prior to the arrival of Moshiach the leaders of the world
would be deniers. That today, has taken place throughout the world. England and
Canada have turned against biblical and family people. A senior rabbi in
England has said that now Jews must leave England. New York State and New
Jersey have openly declared a policy of murder in certain instances. It is
getting worse all of the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">There is, however, in
this lengthy agony, a ray of light. The Mishne says, “And we have no one to
turn to other than our Father in Heaven.” The senior disciple of the Chofets
Chaim, Reb Elchonon Wasserman, explained that this is not a call to despair.
HaShem controls the world. When he sees pious people turning to Him, He is sensitive
to their efforts. Ultimately, Rambam says, in the Messianic Era, even gentiles
will turn away from their idols and beliefs and worship HaShem. When he was
being led by the cursed Germans to be slaughtered, he spoke to his students and
told them, “If we die, heaven is watching. In our merit of giving our lives for
HaShem, the Torah will come to America.” Reb Aharon once repeated, in America,
the belief from Vollozhner Yeshiva, run by the senior disciple of the Vilna
Gaon, that the process of Moshiach will go first to America and then to Israel.
This has happened to some degree, but Moshiach is not yet here. But we see so
many miracles that we have hope. HaShem’s holy fingers are on the wall, and
revealed every day in every newspaper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The rule is that from
darkness comes light. This world is filled with sin. But people repent and
HaShem forgives them. Angels don’t sin, and their light is less than the light
of people, who struggle with darkness to find HaShem. The Messianic era is a
time of revealing the greatest heavenly light, and the end of darkness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The process of Moshiach,
the greatest light, began, as was necessary, with the greatness darkness.
Hitler killed six million Jews. The war ended in 1945, and the State of Israel
was declared in 1948. True to form, the people who founded the State of Israel,
the Zionists, were not<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>heavenly people,
not at all. The senior leader of Jews in Israel was David ben Gurion. He was
completely irreligious. So where was the light? His greatest general was Moshe
Dayan, so removed from heaven that he stole from treasures in graveyards, and
confessed that he was ashamed that he had a daughter. Where was the light? But
Ben Gurion who was absolutely not religious, and Moshe Dayan, also completely
not religious, both trusted in heaven. Ben Gurion spoke of<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>his trust in miracles, and Moshe Dayan, when
urged to force Yeshiva students into the army to fight, replied, “They do their
share.” He knew from his army experience, that success of the Jewish army was a
mighty miracle lit by HaShem’s determination to save the Jewish people and
bring Moshiach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">When the State of Israel
was founded in 1948, the Arabs declared war and determination to destroy the
Jews living in Israel. They strongly outnumbered the Jews in the best weapons
purchased from the British who formerly controlled Israel and soldiers
thoroughly trained by the British to shoot and to fight. The Jews were mostly
Holocaust survivors who when given a gun they had never used would end up killing
their fellow Jews.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">A major American
general, the senior advisor to President Roosevelt, told a friend of the Jews, “I
hope that you win your war with the Arabs. But as a military person, I don’t
believe it is possible for you to do this.” Ben Gurion, who knew better than
this General that it was impossible to defeat the Arabs, launched a war with
them that achieved with miracles which nobody believed was possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">For instance, there were
two mighty and huge Arab armies, bristling with the best tanks, weapons and
skilled and ferocious fighters. The Jews had few weapons, few good soldiers,
and nothing that made sense to stop the Arabs. But Ben Gurion said, “We have
faith and we will win.” First there was the problem with two mighty armies of
Arabs pounding on a small army of broken Jews who didn’t know how to use weapons,
even the simple and primitive ones that they had. The Jews had the ability to
be clever. They approached the general of one of the armies of Arabs, and asked
him, What do you think of the general of the other Arab army? The Jew who asked
this question knew the answer, that the two hated each other. The Arab general
asked this question readily admitted that he hated the other general. The Jew
then asked, “And if we kill him, what will you say?” “I will say, go ahead full
steam with my good wishes.” The first general promised not to get involved in
the fighting with the second general. The Jews slaughtered the second army and killed
the general. They then continued on to destroy the first general and his army.
Here was faith and heavenly light shining in the worst darkness. It will
continue to shine until Moshiach will do away with hate and evil for all
humans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The terror in the world
in England, Canada, New York State and New Jersey, is a terror of the darkness
before the coming of Moshiach. But those Jews who jump into the war before
them, and fight, merit a light from heaven. I began fighting and asked advice
from people who were experts and things started to move. Amazing changes came
about. We need many more people to get involved because we a few Jews are
fighting a whole world that hates Jews. But the light of Moshiach is surely shining.
Those who leap into the war as did Nachshon ben Aminodov will merit to see that
what in his time will be done in their time. He saw the miracle of HaShem to
split the water and the Jews marched over in peace. Then HaShem destroyed the
entire Egyptian army. One person did that. If you are that one person to fight
darkness, HaShem is watching you. Do it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Regarding the Recent Decision in Trenton, NJ, to permit two witnesses to testify that somebody in a Nursing Home should die and one of them can be the owner of the home. This is murder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">David Eidensohn</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4fatr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: static; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="direction: ltr; position: static; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>I am a Monsey rabbi who studied under the greatest Israeli and European rabbis in the past generations. They taught me that the world is filled with anti-biblical ideas and we must turn to heaven to survive them. I have been doing this all of my life. I merited that my children and grandchildren are just like me. I live in New York and the new laws which will affect religious people of all religions are terrifying many people, especially those with children. Many of the hideous and murderous teachings of Cuomo in Albany are terrifying women with babies who want them born, and anybody can slip her a pill that will destroy the baby and in NY it is not against the law.</b>
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</span></span><b><span data-offset-key="5piba-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: static; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="direction: ltr; position: static; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the goverment of New Jersey has produced the murder of people in Nursing Homes using the owner of the home as one of the two witnesses required that the person should be murdered such as allowing the murder of people who have never expressed an interest in dying.</span></span><span data-offset-key="4sspm-0-0" style="direction: ltr; position: static; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="direction: ltr; position: static; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">People who see these laws and are silent will be judged by heaven and they may go to great suffering in this world or a hot place in the other world.
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Unfortunately, many of those who do nothing are religious people. And they will suffer much more than people who don't practice religion. Some of this disinterest has already arrived in New York State and the suffering will be intense if it is ever revealed. </b>
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<b>There is a law in New York State called the GET Law, which permits a woman to force a Jewish religious divorce against her husband. If she remarries, her new children are mamzerim, and may not marry a Jewish woman. These children will ask their mothers why it is that nobody will marry them. Who can know their anguish, but it is probably less than the anguish of the mother.
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Rabbi Responds to Attack on Yeshivas by New York
State</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">David Eidensohn</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">First, we begin with
an article in the Lohud Journal News of Rockland New York and other New York
State environments, attacking the present Yeshiva system based on laws passed
years ago but never enforced until the Cuomo administration. For the first time
with a Democratic majority, it has passed hideous laws permitting killing
fetuses and not being challenged by the government. The attack on Yeshivas is
in line with this new attempt to do away with biblical values for all people
and much of respect for woman and children. Here we present from me, David
Eidensohn, a defense, not on all of the hideous murderous inventions of Albany
which began on Jan 22, ’19 anniversary of abortion law Roe vs Wade, but on this
article attacking Yeshivas in New York State. Cuomo’s Democrats did not invent
this law which has been law for many years, but they have insisted on enforcing
it, and there is great fear that their efforts will spill out into great changes
in that very law similar to what they did with the abortion law. Here is the
article of the Journal News which simply explained that all of this was state
law, and my defense of those who opposed it.</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">From Journal News</span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">It was clear that
state Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia was going to have a hard time
producing private-school curriculum guidelines that would meet state law and
satisfy the Orthodox community, especially those protective of Hasidic
yeshivas.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">But who could
anticipate the wrath directed at Elia and her </span></b><b><span style="color: #1990e5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.nysed.gov/nonpublic-schools/substantial-equivalency"><span style="color: #1990e5; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">updated guidelines</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"> for enforcing
that academic instruction at private schools is "substantially
equivalent" to public schools? The timing of the release, just before
Hanukkah, fed numerous comparisons of Elia and the state Education
Department to the Syrian-Greeks, who tried (and failed) to Hellenize the
Jews in the Hanukkah story.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Grand
Rebbe Aharon Teitelbaum of the Satmar Hasidic movement, for one,
has declared war against Elia. In a major speech before thousands of
followers in Brooklyn, he said his community "will not bow down or
surrender to the wicked, not even before the Commissioner of
Education." </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Almost 55,000
people </span></b><b><span style="color: #1990e5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.change.org/p/500-000-students-vs-state-education-department"><span style="color: #1990e5; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">have signed an
online petition</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"> opposing the new state guidelines and rejecting Elia's
"attempt to impose her curriculum on our yeshivas."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Attacking from another
front, the New York State Council of Catholic School Superintendents, which
represents about 500 Catholic schools, also rejects the new guidelines. The
group opposes having Catholic school instruction reviewed by local public
school officials, with whom they say they are in competition for students.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1990e5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2018/11/20/updated-private-school-guidelines-yehshivas-secular/2065552002/"><span style="color: #1990e5; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">THE
GUIDELINES: Yeshivas could face closure, eventually, if academics fail</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Much of the vitriol
directed at Elia and "her system," though, is way off base. Critics
seem determined to ignore the reality that Elia is trying to enforce
existing state law, which is her job. She did not create
instructional rules for private schools; nor did she design a system to
inspect what private schools teach. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">But blaming her is an
easy out. Comparing her to Jewish oppressors of yore is nonsense.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The simple truth is
that state law — since at least 1947 — has required that academic
instruction at private schools be "substantially equivalent" to what
public schools teach. </span></b><b><span style="color: #1990e5; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sss/lawsregs/3204.html"><span style="color: #1990e5; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Section 3204 of
state Education Law</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;"> has also required that public school districts
be responsible for making sure that private schools within their
boundaries teach what they're supposed to teach.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The law, by and large,
has been ignored. Until now.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Two years ago, Elia
decided to update state guidelines for enforcement of the law. Why she did so
is one point of conflict. Many Orthodox critics insist she was unduly
influenced by an advocacy group they don't like, Young Advocates for Fair
Education or YAFFED. State Education Department officials told me they received
requests to clarify requirements by many, including public schools, private
schools and BOCES.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Ruminating on Elia's
motivation is just a distraction. The law is the law, and Elia is doing the
right thing, the only thing, by trying to enforce it. Wishing she would look
the other way, as her predecessors did, is not a credible position. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">End of Journal News
Article. Now is my defense of Yeshivas. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">My Defense of Yeshivas in New York State by Rabbi David
Eidensohn</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The above article from the Journal News simply describes
government law in New York State and the article seems to be accurate. My response
is that any governmental force on religious people to violate their religion is
not only anti-religious but also a violation of a Supreme Court ruling in </span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Wisconsin v. Jonas Yoder, 406 U.S.
205, is the case in which the United States Supreme Court found that Amish
children could not be placed under compulsory education past 8th grade. The
parents' fundamental right to freedom of religion was determined to outweigh
the state's interest in educating its children. The case is often cited as a
basis for parents' right to educate their children outside of traditional
private or public schools.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Cuomo government violation of this is a direct
contradiction to Federal Law and the Supreme Court that voted 7-9 that
religious right of an organized religious group trumps state power to change
it. Incidentally, the two justices who were not part of the 7 who voted for it,
did not oppose the idea that religion trumps the state, but for other reasons.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">This is not about judicial issues for
which I am not an expert on American law. This is about religious law, and how
the religious community of all religions is upset with a secular government creating
new ideas that are anathema to major sectors of that country. New York State
and many states have very large amounts of deeply religious people. These
anti-biblical and anti-family laws have now taken place in England and other countries.
A senior rabbi in England declared that now religious people will have to leave
England. What about the thousands of religious New Yorkers?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Let us now turn to the religious Jews
who instigated forced change in policy mentioned above where Yeshivas are under
attack for not spending the time that public schools spend in teaching various
subjects. These religious Jews follow a history of “our destroyers come from
us.” One of them, a deeply pious Jew, caused the destruction of the Second
Temple. They always know better than the senior rabbis of the generation. And
the rabbis whose Yeshivas are heavily populated by believers surely don’t want
the atheists of Cuomo telling their children about atheism. This is a capital
crime.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The greatest rabbis in the world going
back a few generations made it clear that forcing a woman by the government for
any reason is a capital crime. I heard this from a relative who was the one who
trained the present Stoliner Rebbe, Reb E. Brizel, the grandfather of my
daughter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The greatest rabbis in the world held
that any governmental pressure on women for any reason is a capital crime. These
rabbis are Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Yitschok HaLevi
Soloveitchik, and other major Torah personalities.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The Brisker Rov Rabbi Yischok haLevi
Soloveitchik says that the sin of forcing a Torah woman even to join a social
program not the army and to help people in nursing homes is a capital crime.
Rabbi Brizel told me further that telling a Jewish woman must be guided only by
her husband and parents. To force Jewish boys and girls into a school where
they will be taught things that are against the Torah is a very serious sin. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">I conclude by saying that if Cuomo
fulfills his dream of becoming President of the United States, there is a great
fear that America, the only friend of Israel, will force Israel to accept its
policies that Cuomo believes in very strongly or lose its help from America.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">The only hope is to stop Cuomo now, especially
when all biblical and family people will publicly pronounce their opposition to
destroying religion and family. There is a letter I have from Reb Moshe Feinstein
commanding everyone to do this and to attend governmental decisions on toeivo
and protest.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 120%; margin: 0px;">Cuomo is a murderer and the greatest
toeiva in the world.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">בפרשת תרומה
ועשו לי מקדש ושכנתי בתוכם ע"כ הרי שבהמקדש בעולם הזה בעולם מלא רע, מאיר אור
עליון מהשם בבית המקדש. ובבית המקדש ובעזרה יש כמה ענינים כמו קרבנות שמבאים קדושה
גדולה להעולם. ובצד השני הכהנים והיהודים שנכנסים לשם צריכים מאוד ליזהר מן המקדש
ומן השכינה השוכן שם. ומי שח"ו פושע יכול ליענש. וכבר ראינו בתנ"ך מעשים
שהיו כהנים ויהודים שנכשלו ויצא מה שיצא ר"ל. ובזמן עלי הכהן חטפו הפלשתים
הארון הקודש במלחמה ומתו בני עלי שהיו עושים איזה קילקלה במקום הקדושה. ומצד השני מי
ששומר קדושת המקדש אשרי חלקו שזוכה לאור השכינה בעולם הזה.</span></b></div>
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הזה שיש בו רע וגם מאיר בו אור עליון למי שראוי אליו גורם לחלק העולם לב'. יש רוב
העולם שקרובים לחטא ויש צדיקים גדולים. עוד, שיש וחושך יכסה ארץ ויש חדות השם היא
מעוזכם. וענין הזה הוא הסוד של שיר השירים שצועקת האשה שחורה אני ונאוה. דהיינו
שהיא דבר והיפוכו. היא שחורה שפירש האר"י ז"ל שהיא סובלת מכל החטאים
שעושים בעולם הזה. ונאוה והיופי שלה אחרי שמאיר האור העליון בזכות הצדיקים. </span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">וענין הזה
מסבירו רבי משה חיים לוצאטו שהקב"ה ברא בעולם הזה י' ספירות קדושות כתר חכמה
בינה חסד גבורה תפארת נצח הוד יסוד מלכות. הכתר אסור לומר שהוא מציאות שהוא קרוב
לשמים שלא שייך לבשר ודם. והמלכות היא אשה של שיר השירים שסובלת מכל העבירות
שעושים בעולם הזה. ואמר הגאון שכל זה הוא סוד גדול, שהכתר והמלכות שהם ראשית
ואחרית כדאיתא בדברי אליהו הנביא שאומרים בתפלה, הם חד! שהכתר מתקשר עם המלכות
ראשית עם אחרית והיא עולה עם העבירות ומעבירים הכל למעלה בשמים והקב"ה מטפל
עם העבירות ומחזירם נקיים ונעשה ונאוה. וכן בפסוק בשיר השירים שהאשה אומרת שהיא
בעונות הדור שחורה ובכל זאת היא נאוה וכל זה על ידי שעולים המלכות והכתר עד שהעבירות
של העולם הזה עולים אצל הקב"ה ויורדים נקיים ויפים ואז המלכות נעשית נאוה. ע'
האר"י ז"ל בשיר השירים שם.</span></b></div>
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בחומש במעשה בראשית. בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ. שמעשה השם בבריאת העולם
שיש שמים שהוא כולו קודש ויש הארץ שהוא ההיפוך. והנה תיבה הראשונה של התורה בראשית
שהוא בראשית ברא קשה שבראשית תמיד הכונה בתחלת מה נעשה כך וכך. ופה בראשית ברא אבל
לא מפרש מתי היה זה שבראשית אין לו סיום לברר מתי היתה זאת. והיה צריך להיות לא
בראשית ברא אלא בראשונה ברא. ויש בזה סוד גדול. שהעולם הזה עם כל הרע<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>והבילבול וחסרון שאין זו שמים עדיין ברא
הקב"ה אדם קדמון שענינו כח להאיר למטה ומי שהוא צדיק זוכה לראותו ולקבל אורו.</span></b></div>
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שהצדיקים בזמן שקשה להם הגמרא או בעניני העולם היו קובעים שעה ללמוד והיו זוכים להבין
הגמרא או מה עליהם לעשות. זהו בראשית בלי סיום ולא נודע כלל מהו הכונה בפסוק. אבל
זה גופא שיש בילבול בפסוק וגם בילבול באנשים שלא יודעים פירוש הגמרא או מה לעשות
באיזה ענין, גורם שצריך לעיין היטב במה שרוצה להבינו. ובזכות התורה והעבודה יאיר
אליו אור העליון אפילו בעולם הזה.</span></b></div>
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שיש שמים וארץ ויש אור וחושך יש ג"כ ב' פרשיות של בריאת העולם. יש פסוק
הראשון בראשית ברא אלקים. הוא השם אלקים המורה על מדת הדין. ויש אחרי כן שהתחיל
התורה מחדש המעשה בראשית ביום עשות השם אלקים ארץ ושמים. עכשיו משנה השם אלקים
שהוא דין להשם אלקים שהוא תחלה הוי' שהוא חסד ורק אחרי כן אלקים שהוא דין. </span></b></div>
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אלה דין, וחסד עם דין, הוא סוד מחלוקת הגדולה בין השם להלבנה. שהיא היתה מצד הדין
הקשה שחשבה שכל חסד הוא חילול השם שכל רשע יקבל רחמים. והקב"ה רצה שהחוטא
יעשה תשובה כדאיתא בע"ז דף ד ע"ב וה ע"א.</span></b></div>
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הלבנה תבעה מן הקב"ה אין ב' מלכים יכולים להשתמש בכתר אחד, הקב"ה אמר לה
לכי ומעטי את עצמך. אז נעשה בילבול ,שלא רצתה הלבנה לעשות כן. אמר הקב"ה בסוף
הבילבול שעליו לעשות תשובה בראש חודש והוא תמוה ביותר האחד שהקב"ה לא הצליח
לגזור על הלבנה לעשות מה שהוא רוצה אלא אדרבה הקב"ה הסכים עם הלבנה ואמר על
עצמו שהוא יעשה תשובה על מיעוט הלבנה והוא תמוה ביותר.</span></b></div>
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אומרים בפירוש וברמז שעד היום הזה מבקשים שתחזיר הלבנה לגדולתה להאיר כאור השמש.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">וכן ראינו
במעשה מרדכי ואסתר בשושן הבירה שמרדכי הרגיז להמן הרשע והחליט המן להרוג למרדכי ומרדכי
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השם. והקב"ה בדלית ברירה הסכים לזה ועל כן אמר עלי להביא כפרה שמעטתי את
הירח.</span></b></div>
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S00240 Summary:</h3>
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<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 90px;">BILL NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">S00240</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SAME AS</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span>SAME AS UNI.<span> </span><a href="https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?term=2019&bn=A00021" style="color: #385697; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;">A00021</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SPONSOR</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">KRUEGER</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">COSPNSR</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">STEWART-COUSINS, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, BIAGGI, BRESLIN, BROOKS, CARLUCCI, COMRIE, GAUGHRAN, GIANARIS, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KAMINSKY, KAPLAN, KAVANAGH, KENNEDY, LIU, MAY, MAYER, METZGER, MONTGOMERY, MYRIE, PARKER, PERSAUD, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SAVINO, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, STAVISKY, THOMAS</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">MLTSPNSR</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Add Art 25-A §2599-aa, rpld §4164, Pub Health L; rpld §6811 sub 8, Ed L; rpld §§125.40 - 125.60, §125.05 subs 2 & 3, §125.15 sub 2, §125.20 sub 3, amd Art 125 Art Head, §§125.00 & 125.05, Pen L; amd §700.05, CP L; amd §673, County L; amd §4, Judy L</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Enacts the reproductive health act; revises provisions of law relating to abortion.</td></tr>
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S00240 Floor Votes:</h3>
<pre style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-spacing: 0px; width: 706px;"><caption style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: left;"><span style="padding-right: 5px;">DATE:</span><span style="padding-right: 10px;">01/22/2019</span><span style="padding-right: 5px;">Assembly Vote</span><span style="padding-right: 170px;"> </span><span><span> YEA/NAY: 95/49</span></span></caption><tbody>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Abbate</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Crespo</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Gantt</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">ER</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">LiPetri</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Perry</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Simon</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Abinanti</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Crouch</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Garbarino</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Lupardo</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Pheffer Amato</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Simotas</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Arroyo</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Cruz</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Giglio</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Magnarelli</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Pichardo</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Smith</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Ashby</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Cusick</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Glick</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Malliotakis</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Pretlow</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Smullen</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Aubry</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Cymbrowitz</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Goodell</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Manktelow</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Quart</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Solages</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Barclay</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Davila</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Gottfried</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">McDonald</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Ra</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Stec</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Barnwell</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">ER</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">De La Rosa</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Griffin</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">McDonough</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Raia</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Steck</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Barrett</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">DenDekker</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Gunther</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">McMahon</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Ramos</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Stern</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Barron</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">DeStefano</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Hawley</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Mikulin</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Raynor</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Stirpe</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Benedetto</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Dickens</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Hevesi</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Mill B </td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Reilly</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Tague</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Bichotte</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Dilan</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Hunter</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Mill MG</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Reyes</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Taylor</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Blake</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Dinowitz</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Hyndman</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Mill ML</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Richardson</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Thiele</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Blankenbush</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">DiPietro</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Jacobson</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Montesano</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Rivera</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Titus</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Brabenec</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">D'Urso</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Jaffee</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Morinello</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Rodriguez</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Vanel</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Braunstein</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Eichenstein</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Jean-Pierre</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Mosley</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Romeo</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Walczyk</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Bronson</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Englebright</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Johns</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Niou</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Rose D </td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Walker</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Buchwald</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Epstein</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Jones</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Nolan</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Rose L </td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Wallace</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Burke</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Fahy</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Joyner</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Norris</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Rozic</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Walsh</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Buttenschon</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Fall</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Kim</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">O'Donnell</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Ryan</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Weinstein</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Byrne</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Fernandez</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Kolb</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Ortiz</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Salka</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Weprin</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Byrnes</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Finch</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">ER</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Lalor</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Otis</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Santabarbara</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Williams</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Cahill</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Fitzpatrick</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Lavine</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Palmesano</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Sayegh</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Woerner</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Carroll</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Friend</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Lawrence</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Palumbo</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Schimminger</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">ER</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Wright</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Colton</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Frontus</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Lentol</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">ER</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Paulin</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Schmitt</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">NO</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Zebrowski</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
<tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Cook</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Galef</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Lifton</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">ER</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Peoples-Stokes</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Seawright</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Mr Spkr</td><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;">Y</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-weight: bold;"> STATE OF NEW YORK</b></span>
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S. 240 A. 21
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="font-weight: bold;"> SENATE - ASSEMBLY</b></span>
<b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">(Prefiled)</u></b>
January 9, 2019
___________
IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, STEWART-COUSINS, BAILEY,
BENJAMIN, BIAGGI, BRESLIN, BROOKS, COMRIE, GAUGHRAN, GIANARIS,
GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KAMINSKY, KAPLAN, KENNEDY, LIU,
MARTINEZ, MAY, MAYER, METZGER, MYRIE, PARKER, PERSAUD, RAMOS, RIVERA,
SALAZAR, SANDERS, SAVINO, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS, THOMAS -- read
twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
Committee on Health
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, GOTTFRIED, LUPARDO, HEAST-
IE, PEOPLES-STOKES, JAFFEE, TITUS, SIMOTAS, L. ROSENTHAL, O'DONNELL,
CAHILL, SOLAGES, ABINANTI, ARROYO, BARRETT, BARRON, BICHOTTE, BLAKE,
BRAUNSTEIN, BRONSON, BUCHWALD, CARROLL, COOK, CYMBROWITZ, DE LA ROSA,
DenDEKKER, DILAN, DINOWITZ, D'URSO, ENGLEBRIGHT, FAHY, GALEF, GANTT,
HEVESI, HUNTER, HYNDMAN, JEAN-PIERRE, JONES, KIM, LAVINE, LIFTON,
MAGNARELLI, MOSLEY, NOLAN, OTIS, PAULIN, PERRY, PHEFFER AMATO, PICHAR-
DO, PRETLOW, QUART, RODRIGUEZ, ROZIC, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, STECK, STIRPE,
THIELE, WALLACE, WEINSTEIN, WEPRIN, WILLIAMS, WOERNER, WRIGHT, NIOU,
ORTIZ, FERNANDEZ, GRIFFIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. EPSTEIN --
read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the
reproductive health act and revising existing provisions of law
regarding abortion; to amend the penal law, the criminal procedure
law, the county law and the judiciary law, in relation to abortion; to
repeal certain provisions of the public health law relating to
abortion; to repeal certain provisions of the education law relating
to the sale of contraceptives; and to repeal certain provisions of the
penal law relating to abortion
<b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-</u></b>
<b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">bly, do enact as follows:</u></b>
EXPLANATION--Matter in <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">italics</u></b> (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;"> </s></b>] is old law to be omitted.
SA LBD05658-02-9
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1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds that comprehen-
2 sive reproductive health care, including contraception and abortion, is
3 a fundamental component of a woman's health, privacy and equality. The
4 New York Constitution and United States Constitution protect a woman's
5 fundamental right to access safe, legal abortion, courts have repeatedly
6 reaffirmed this right and further emphasized that states may not place
7 undue burdens on women seeking to access such right.
8 Moreover, the legislature finds, as with other medical procedures, the
9 safety of abortion is furthered by evidence-based practices developed
10 and supported by medical professionals. Abortion is one of the safest
11 medical procedures performed in the United States; the goal of medical
12 regulation should be to improve the quality and availability of health
13 care services.
14 Furthermore, the legislature declares that it is the public policy of
15 New York State that every individual possesses a fundamental right of
16 privacy and equality with respect to their personal reproductive deci-
17 sions and should be able to safely effectuate those decisions, including
18 by seeking and obtaining abortion care, free from discrimination in the
19 provision of health care.
20 Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature to prevent the enforce-
21 ment of laws or regulations that are not in furtherance of a legitimate
22 state interest in protecting a woman's health that burden abortion
23 access.
24 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 25-A to
25 read as follows:
26 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">ARTICLE 25-A</u></b>
27 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT</u></b>
28 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">Section 2599-aa. Policy and purpose.</u></b>
29 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">2599-bb. Abortion.</u></b>
30 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">§ 2599-aa. Policy and purpose. The legislature finds that comprehen-</u></b>
31 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">sive reproductive health care is a fundamental component of every indi-</u></b>
32 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">vidual's health, privacy and equality. Therefore, it is the policy of</u></b>
33 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">the state that:</u></b>
34 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">1. Every individual has the fundamental right to choose or refuse</u></b>
35 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">contraception or sterilization.</u></b>
36 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">2. Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to</u></b>
37 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">choose to carry the pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child, or to</u></b>
38 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">have an abortion, pursuant to this article.</u></b>
39 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">3. The state shall not discriminate against, deny, or interfere with</u></b>
40 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">the exercise of the rights set forth in this section in the regulation</u></b>
41 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">or provision of benefits, facilities, services or information.</u></b>
42 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">§ 2599-bb. Abortion. 1. A health care practitioner licensed, certi-</u></b>
43 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">fied, or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting with-</u></b>
44 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">in his or her lawful scope of practice, may perform an abortion when,</u></b>
45 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">according to the practitioner's reasonable and good faith professional</u></b>
46 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">judgment based on the facts of the patient's case: the patient is within</u></b>
47 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an</u></b>
48 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the</u></b>
49 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">patient's life or health.</u></b>
50 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">2. This article shall be construed and applied consistent with and</u></b>
51 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">subject to applicable laws and applicable and authorized regulations</u></b>
52 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">governing health care procedures.</u></b>
53 § 3. Section 4164 of the public health law is REPEALED.
54 § 4. Subdivision 8 of section 6811 of the education law is REPEALED.
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1 § 5. Sections 125.40, 125.45, 125.50, 125.55 and 125.60 of the penal
2 law are REPEALED, and the article heading of article 125 of the penal
3 law is amended to read as follows:
4 HOMICIDE[<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">, ABORTION</s></b>] AND RELATED OFFENSES
5 § 6. Section 125.00 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
6 § 125.00 Homicide defined.
7 Homicide means conduct which causes the death of a person [<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">or an</s></b>
8 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">unborn child with which a female has been pregnant for more than twen-</s></b>
9 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">ty-four weeks</s></b>] under circumstances constituting murder, manslaughter in
10 the first degree, manslaughter in the second degree, <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">or</u></b> criminally
11 negligent homicide[<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">, abortion in the first degree or self-abortion in</s></b>
12 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">the first degree</s></b>].
13 § 7. The section heading, opening paragraph and subdivision 1 of
14 section 125.05 of the penal law are amended to read as follows:
15 Homicide[<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">, abortion</s></b>] and related offenses; [<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">definitions of terms</s></b>]
16 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">definition</u></b>.
17 The following [<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">definitions are</s></b>] <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">definition is</u></b> applicable to this arti-
18 cle:
19 [<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">1.</s></b>] "Person," when referring to the victim of a homicide, means a
20 human being who has been born and is alive.
21 § 7-a. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 125.05 of the penal law are
22 REPEALED.
23 § 8. Subdivision 2 of section 125.15 of the penal law is REPEALED.
24 § 9. Subdivision 3 of section 125.20 of the penal law is REPEALED.
25 § 10. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 8 of section 700.05 of the criminal
26 procedure law, as amended by chapter 189 of the laws of 2018, is amended
27 to read as follows:
28 (b) Any of the following felonies: assault in the second degree as
29 defined in section 120.05 of the penal law, assault in the first degree
30 as defined in section 120.10 of the penal law, reckless endangerment in
31 the first degree as defined in section 120.25 of the penal law, promot-
32 ing a suicide attempt as defined in section 120.30 of the penal law,
33 strangulation in the second degree as defined in section 121.12 of the
34 penal law, strangulation in the first degree as defined in section
35 121.13 of the penal law, criminally negligent homicide as defined in
36 section 125.10 of the penal law, manslaughter in the second degree as
37 defined in section 125.15 of the penal law, manslaughter in the first
38 degree as defined in section 125.20 of the penal law, murder in the
39 second degree as defined in section 125.25 of the penal law, murder in
40 the first degree as defined in section 125.27 of the penal law,
41 [<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">abortion in the second degree as defined in section 125.40 of the penal</s></b>
42 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">law, abortion in the first degree as defined in section 125.45 of the</s></b>
43 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">penal law,</s></b>] rape in the third degree as defined in section 130.25 of the
44 penal law, rape in the second degree as defined in section 130.30 of the
45 penal law, rape in the first degree as defined in section 130.35 of the
46 penal law, criminal sexual act in the third degree as defined in section
47 130.40 of the penal law, criminal sexual act in the second degree as
48 defined in section 130.45 of the penal law, criminal sexual act in the
49 first degree as defined in section 130.50 of the penal law, sexual abuse
50 in the first degree as defined in section 130.65 of the penal law,
51 unlawful imprisonment in the first degree as defined in section 135.10
52 of the penal law, kidnapping in the second degree as defined in section
53 135.20 of the penal law, kidnapping in the first degree as defined in
54 section 135.25 of the penal law, labor trafficking as defined in section
55 135.35 of the penal law, aggravated labor trafficking as defined in
56 section 135.37 of the penal law, custodial interference in the first
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1 degree as defined in section 135.50 of the penal law, coercion in the
2 first degree as defined in section 135.65 of the penal law, criminal
3 trespass in the first degree as defined in section 140.17 of the penal
4 law, burglary in the third degree as defined in section 140.20 of the
5 penal law, burglary in the second degree as defined in section 140.25 of
6 the penal law, burglary in the first degree as defined in section 140.30
7 of the penal law, criminal mischief in the third degree as defined in
8 section 145.05 of the penal law, criminal mischief in the second degree
9 as defined in section 145.10 of the penal law, criminal mischief in the
10 first degree as defined in section 145.12 of the penal law, criminal
11 tampering in the first degree as defined in section 145.20 of the penal
12 law, arson in the fourth degree as defined in section 150.05 of the
13 penal law, arson in the third degree as defined in section 150.10 of the
14 penal law, arson in the second degree as defined in section 150.15 of
15 the penal law, arson in the first degree as defined in section 150.20 of
16 the penal law, grand larceny in the fourth degree as defined in section
17 155.30 of the penal law, grand larceny in the third degree as defined in
18 section 155.35 of the penal law, grand larceny in the second degree as
19 defined in section 155.40 of the penal law, grand larceny in the first
20 degree as defined in section 155.42 of the penal law, health care fraud
21 in the fourth degree as defined in section 177.10 of the penal law,
22 health care fraud in the third degree as defined in section 177.15 of
23 the penal law, health care fraud in the second degree as defined in
24 section 177.20 of the penal law, health care fraud in the first degree
25 as defined in section 177.25 of the penal law, robbery in the third
26 degree as defined in section 160.05 of the penal law, robbery in the
27 second degree as defined in section 160.10 of the penal law, robbery in
28 the first degree as defined in section 160.15 of the penal law, unlawful
29 use of secret scientific material as defined in section 165.07 of the
30 penal law, criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree
31 as defined in section 165.45 of the penal law, criminal possession of
32 stolen property in the third degree as defined in section 165.50 of the
33 penal law, criminal possession of stolen property in the second degree
34 as defined by section 165.52 of the penal law, criminal possession of
35 stolen property in the first degree as defined by section 165.54 of the
36 penal law, trademark counterfeiting in the second degree as defined in
37 section 165.72 of the penal law, trademark counterfeiting in the first
38 degree as defined in section 165.73 of the penal law, forgery in the
39 second degree as defined in section 170.10 of the penal law, forgery in
40 the first degree as defined in section 170.15 of the penal law, criminal
41 possession of a forged instrument in the second degree as defined in
42 section 170.25 of the penal law, criminal possession of a forged instru-
43 ment in the first degree as defined in section 170.30 of the penal law,
44 criminal possession of forgery devices as defined in section 170.40 of
45 the penal law, falsifying business records in the first degree as
46 defined in section 175.10 of the penal law, tampering with public
47 records in the first degree as defined in section 175.25 of the penal
48 law, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree as
49 defined in section 175.35 of the penal law, issuing a false certificate
50 as defined in section 175.40 of the penal law, criminal diversion of
51 prescription medications and prescriptions in the second degree as
52 defined in section 178.20 of the penal law, criminal diversion of
53 prescription medications and prescriptions in the first degree as
54 defined in section 178.25 of the penal law, residential mortgage fraud
55 in the fourth degree as defined in section 187.10 of the penal law,
56 residential mortgage fraud in the third degree as defined in section
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1 187.15 of the penal law, residential mortgage fraud in the second degree
2 as defined in section 187.20 of the penal law, residential mortgage
3 fraud in the first degree as defined in section 187.25 of the penal law,
4 escape in the second degree as defined in section 205.10 of the penal
5 law, escape in the first degree as defined in section 205.15 of the
6 penal law, absconding from temporary release in the first degree as
7 defined in section 205.17 of the penal law, promoting prison contraband
8 in the first degree as defined in section 205.25 of the penal law,
9 hindering prosecution in the second degree as defined in section 205.60
10 of the penal law, hindering prosecution in the first degree as defined
11 in section 205.65 of the penal law, sex trafficking as defined in
12 section 230.34 of the penal law, sex trafficking of a child as defined
13 in section 230.34-a of the penal law, criminal possession of a weapon in
14 the third degree as defined in subdivisions two, three and five of
15 section 265.02 of the penal law, criminal possession of a weapon in the
16 second degree as defined in section 265.03 of the penal law, criminal
17 possession of a weapon in the first degree as defined in section 265.04
18 of the penal law, manufacture, transport, disposition and defacement of
19 weapons and dangerous instruments and appliances defined as felonies in
20 subdivisions one, two, and three of section 265.10 of the penal law,
21 sections 265.11, 265.12 and 265.13 of the penal law, or prohibited use
22 of weapons as defined in subdivision two of section 265.35 of the penal
23 law, relating to firearms and other dangerous weapons, or failure to
24 disclose the origin of a recording in the first degree as defined in
25 section 275.40 of the penal law;
26 § 11. Subdivision 1 of section 673 of the county law, as added by
27 chapter 545 of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
28 1. A coroner or medical examiner has jurisdiction and authority to
29 investigate the death of every person dying within his county, or whose
30 body is found within the county, which is or appears to be:
31 (a) A violent death, whether by criminal violence, suicide or casual-
32 ty;
33 (b) A death caused by unlawful act or criminal neglect;
34 (c) A death occurring in a suspicious, unusual or unexplained manner;
35 (d) [<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">A death caused by suspected criminal abortion;</s></b>
36 <b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">(e)</s></b>] A death while unattended by a physician, so far as can be discov-
37 ered, or where no physician able to certify the cause of death as
38 provided in the public health law and in form as prescribed by the
39 commissioner of health can be found;
40 [<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">(f)</s></b>] <b style="font-weight: bold;"><u style="color: green;">(e)</u></b> A death of a person confined in a public institution other
41 than a hospital, infirmary or nursing home.
42 § 12. Section 4 of the judiciary law, as amended by chapter 264 of the
43 laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
44 § 4. Sittings of courts to be public. The sittings of every court
45 within this state shall be public, and every citizen may freely attend
46 the same, except that in all proceedings and trials in cases for
47 divorce, seduction, [<b style="font-weight: bold;"><s style="color: red;">abortion,</s></b>] rape, assault with intent to commit
48 rape, criminal sexual act, bastardy or filiation, the court may, in its
49 discretion, exclude therefrom all persons who are not directly inter-
50 ested therein, excepting jurors, witnesses, and officers of the court.
51 § 13. Severability. If any provision of this act, or any application
52 of any provision of this act, is held to be invalid, that shall not
53 affect the validity or effectiveness of any other provision of this act,
54 or of any other application of any provision of this act, which can be
55 given effect without that provision or application; and to that end, the
56 provisions and applications of this act are severable.
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1 § 14. This act shall take effect immediately.
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
Sedra of Teruma: Kabbala Insights</span></div>
<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Dovid
Eidensohn</span></i></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The
Sedra of Teruma begins with the vessels of the Beis HaMikdash, surely something
of the greatest sanctity. The beginning of the passages there contains, “And they
shall make for me a Sanctuary, and I will dwell in their midst.” This is a
mighty statement, that HaShem, who lives in the highest heavens, commands us to
prepare a Sanctuary where He may shine His holy light among a Sanctuary created
by mortals and served by mortals. We know that people are not like angels who
have no sense of evil but who devote all of their time to singing songs of
glory to Hashem in the highest heavens. People are always doing sins and these
sins are incredibly described in the Talmud. And these descriptions are
developed in the holy works by the great rabbis. A very strong book on this subject
is Mesilas Yeshorim, from one of the greatest Kabbalists, Reb Moshe Chaim Lutsatto
zt”l. Who was he?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Vilna Gaon lived
around the time of Reb Moshe Chaim Lutsatto. He said that although he never
merited to actually meet Reb Moshe Chaim Lutsatto, if he had realized who he
was in time, he would have walked the great distance to his house to merit to
talk to him. Why? The Vilna Gaon is known, perhaps uniquely, not so much as Rav
Eliyohu which was his name, but as the Gaon, unlikely others of the very great
rabbis who are known by their names or books. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Why is this?</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">In his youth, the Vilna
Gaon was already known as a mighty scholar and Kabbalist. As a very young child
his father noticed that on Succose he was very happy. The father asked him why
he was so happy. He refused to answer. The father then said, “I decree upon you
with the authority of a father to tell me why you are so happy.” The young
Eliyoho replied, “I was learning in the Succah and Yaacov came and kissed me.”</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">When Eliyohu matured and
became known as a great Torah scholar, the Gadol HaDor, the Shaagas Aryeh, came
to Vilna with a question. He had a tradition that a great scholar was in the
world and he sought him out. He came to Vilna and went to the rabbi and told him
a difficult question. The rabbi could not answer it. The Shaagas Aryeh was then
advised to go to Reb Eliyohu. He did and asked him the question and Reb Eliyohu
answered immediately. The Shaagas Aryeh declared, “This is a Gaon!”</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Just then, the Rov came
and heard the question. He, too, replied, the exact answer said by the Vilna
Gaon. He then asked the Shaagas Aryeh, “Am I also a Gaon?” The Shaagas Aryeh
replied, “A Gaon darf kennen gleich.” (A Gaon must answer immediately.)</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">The Vilna Gaon once said,
“He and I in the revealed Torah. I and he in Kabbala.” Meaning, the Shaagas
Aryeh is greater than me in the revealed law. And I am greater than him in
Kabbala.” And the Vilna Gaon also said, if he had realized who Reb Moshe Chaim
Lutsatto was in time, he would have walked great distance to merit to speak to
him.”</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">My rebbe in this world
and the next, the Kabbala Gaon of Jerusalem, wrote eighteen Kabbala books
described by the senior Kabbalist Rav Kaduri as surely one who wrote with Ruach
HaKodesh. He is always quoting Reb Moshe Chaim Lutsatto and the Vilna Gaon.
Their Kabbala is not designed for plain people like me, unless we want to
struggle until we get dizzy. But if we plunge into their works, and attempt to
penetrate higher worlds, we are not ignored. Let us attempt now to return to
Teruma and the Mikdash and the Aron HaKodesh.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">HaShem told Moshe, in
the discussion about building the Mikdash, about the Aron HaKodesh. He said, “And
you shall place into the Aron the Aduse [the Ten Commandments] that I will give
you.” That is, HaShem will prepare the Ten Commandments on stone Himself. “And
HaShem said to Moshe, ‘Come to Me on the mountain, and I will give you the
tables of stone, and the Torah and the mitsvah which I wrote to teach them.’”</span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">Thus, the Tablets and
the Mikdash were heavenly lights. The Cohanim were entrusted with care of the
Mikdash. But Cohanim were humans and some of them had evil inclinations. Thus
we find that in the history of the Beis HaMikdash people often committed great
sins. This eventually led to the destruction of the First and Second Temples. </span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">One of the sins was about
the Aron which contained the luchose. It was led by two Cohanim who did serious
sins. When these Cohanim the sons of Eli the Cohen Gadol sinned in the Temple itself,
HaShem punished them with death, and the Jewish people lost a battle with the Pelishtime
who then captured the Aron of HaShem. HaShem then unleashed great suffering on
the Pelishtime who eventually returned the Aron. But when they did, the Jews
who noticed this made jokes.<a href="file:///C:/Users/me/Documents/Kabbala_and_a_dark_world.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> Thus, we see the problems of
human beings dealing with HaShem.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">And that is a problem
central to us all, may we merit to repent. Because although almost all people,
even pious, people sin, HaShem made such a world, for two reasons. One, light
from darkness is greater than light from light. Therefore, people who are prone
to sin and then repent are greater before HaShem than the angels who never sin
and their light is less than that of the Jews.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0px 0px 10.66px; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">We live in a time
predicted in Sota 49 that just prior to the coming of Moshiach, heads of state
will become deniers, family will become battlegrounds, but our eternal hope and
faith and success is when we turn to HaShem. Yes, even in such a time, when New
York State and major countries have turned away from HaShem and family values,
those few people who truly trust in HaShem and serve him with penitence, love
and fear, merit the highest light.</span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/me/Documents/Kabbala_and_a_dark_world.docx" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"> See
Shmuel 1.4</span></div>
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BREAKING: Trump blasts Democrats’ abortion extremism in State of the Union
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WASHINGTON, D.C., February 5, 2019 (<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews</a>) – President Donald Trump used his <a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/trump-state-of-the-union-2019-live-fact-check-transcript-2/5/19/" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">State of the Union address</a> Tuesday evening to deliver an affirmation of the right to life and a forceful denunciation of recent extreme actions and statements by pro-abortion Democrats in New York and Virginia.</div>
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“We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential, as we begin a new Congress,” he began his speech, which came a week later than typical as a result of last month’s government shutdown. “Millions of our fellow citizens are watching us, gathered in this great chamber, hoping we will govern not as two parties, but as one nation.”</div>
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“We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution, and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good,” he declared. “We must choose between greatness or gridlock, results or resistance, vision or vengeance, incredible progress or pointless destruction. Tonight, I ask you to choose greatness.”</div>
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After honoring several guests including a trio of World War II veterans and astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and discussing issues such as the economy and government regulations, Trump cast partisan obstructionism in Congress as an obstacle to progress. He called for a “new era of cooperation,” starting with “finally confirming the more than 300 highly qualified nominees who are still stuck in the Senate, in some cases years and years waiting.”</div>
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Following remarks on illegal immigration, female employment, trade policy, healthcare, and education, the president turned his attention to recent abortion scandals.</div>
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“There could be no greater contrast to the beautiful image of a mother holding her infant child than the chilling displays our nation saw in recent days. Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments before birth,” he said. “These are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share their love and dreams with the world. And then, we had the case of the governor of Virginia where he stated he would execute a baby after birth.”</div>
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Trump was referring to video that <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-virginia-democrat-squirms-defending-bill-allowing-abortion-as-woman-i" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">went viral last week</a> of Democrat Del. Kathy Tran admitting her bill to liberalize Virginia’s late-term abortion laws would allow abortions just as a woman is about to give birth, followed by Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/virginia-gov.-supports-infanticide-of-babies-born-alive-after-failed-aborti" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">suggesting</a> that a born-alive “infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired.” He <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1090707530370768902" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">later claimed</a> he was only referring to cases such as a “nonviable pregnancy” or “severe fetal abnormalities.”</div>
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Tran’s bill has already been tabled, but the controversy intensified a discussion of the extremes at which Democrats and their allies have arrived on abortion, which was already underway in response to New York’s <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/snopes-denies-new-yorks-radical-abortion-law-allows-unrestricted-abortion-u" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">recently-enacted law</a> declaring a “fundamental right” to abortion and erased the state’s recognition of preborn babies as potential homicide victims.</div>
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“To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother's womb,” the president said. “Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life. And let us reaffirm a fundamental truth: all children—born and unborn—are made in the holy image of God.”</div>
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“Once again President Trump has proved he is our nation’s most pro-life president ever and he is keeping his promise to the voters who fueled his victory. The contrast between President Trump’s vision for the future and that of the Democratic Party, now dominated by abortion extremists, is stark,” Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser reacted. “Senate Democrats had the chance yesterday to prove they are not the party of infanticide, and instead they doubled down on a radical agenda of abortion on demand through birth and even beyond. That position that is simply irreconcilable with the values of the American people.</div>
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“We ask Congress to heed President Trump’s request, and to send the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to his desk without delay,” she continued. “This popular, compassionate legislation would protect unborn babies after five months – more than halfway through pregnancy, and a point at least by which these children can feel the pain of abortion.”</div>
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It was <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-expected-to-reaffirm-pro-life-commitment-at-state-of-the-union-addres" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">reported</a> before the address that the president would use it as an opportunity to discuss abortion, a focus NARAL <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/02/05/trump-to-go-after-dems-on-late-term-abortion-during-state-of-the-union-address-n2540803" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">preemptively condemned</a> as a “race to the bottom of their most depraved and devastating ideologies.” Trump <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/05/state-of-the-union-2019-trump-preview-1147208" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">reportedly expressed</a> particular disgust for Northam’s infanticide comments Monday evening during a White House briefing with pro-life and pro-family leaders.</div>
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As Trump delivered his remarks tonigh, Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen listened in the audience, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/5/leana-wen-planned-parenthood-president-nancy-pelos/?fbclid=IwAR3OudqSHZ5bjoRhPUFtror36f3SxLdnGrIBr2jT3VvkYi28Epci6XxkwW4" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">attending as a guest</a> of Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Chosen to succeed Cecile Richards partly on the theory that her medical background could help reinforce Planned Parenthood’s narrative that it’s a “healthcare” provider, Wen instead <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/planned-parenthood-ceo-leana-wen-declares-abortion-is-her-orgs-core-mission" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">undermined that message last month</a> by admitting the group’s “core mission is providing, protecting and expanding access to abortion and reproductive health care.”</div>
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Abortion survivor: Had I been born in Gov. Northam’s world, I could be dead now
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RICHMOND, Virginia, February 5, 2019 (<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">LifeSiteNews</a>) – A woman who was born alive after a failed abortion 41 years ago indicated that had she been born under Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposed abortion regime, she might not have survived. </div>
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“There was an argument as to whether medical care would be provided to me,” said Melissa Ohden in an exclusive video interview with LifeSiteNews.</div>
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“I’m that child, that baby that everybody’s talking about,” Ohden said in reference to the national uproar that ensued after Democrat Gov. Northam <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/virginia-gov.-supports-infanticide-of-babies-born-alive-after-failed-aborti" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">made comments during a radio interview</a> in support of infanticide last week. </div>
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Northam told a radio show host: "So in this particular example, if the mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen: The infant would be delivered; the infant would be kept comfortable; the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desire, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.” Northam was speaking about a bill introduced by state Delegate Kathy Tran (D), who admitted in a hearing that her bill would allow abortion even at the moment of birth. </div>
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Commented Ohden: “I take Gov. Northam’s words really really seriously.” </div>
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Ohden related how when a saline abortion failed to kill her in 1977, she was “accidentally born alive.” A nurse took pity on her after seeing the 2 lbs. 14 oz baby gasping for breath and brought her to a neonatal ICU where she recovered and survived. </div>
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“There are many stories like mine,” Ohden said. “We’re not talking about hypothetical cases. We’re not talking about ambiguous circumstances. We’re talking about human beings.”</div>
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“So as frightening and disgusting as it is to hear these things, I do take hope in the fact that it's not hidden from plain sight anymore. We know what we're dealing with here – and now we can fight," she said. </div>
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Responding to radical abortion laws approved or proposed throughout the country, Ohden said that “it almost feels like we're living in the Twilight Zone. I know I'm not the only one that feels that way.” </div>
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“We live in what I would call a throw-away culture, a throw-away society where the value of life is very subjective,” said Ohden, who added that in such a culture “no one is ever safe.” The standards for the value of life thereby varies. If some people are deemed less valuable than others, Ohden said, “we need to be concerned about that.”</div>
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Speaking about the approval of New York’s radical pro-abortion Reproductive Health Act, which repealed requirements for doctors to provide life-saving care to babies born alive, Ohden said that pro-abortion forces have always sought to start momentum for late-term abortion in one state to affect other states. “The fact that it is not being hidden,” she said, “is what’s most surprising.”</div>
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Ohden survived a late-term saline infusion abortion at St. Luke’s Hospital in Sioux City, Iowa in 1977. <a href="https://melissaohden.com/about/" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">She has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives </a>and the Australian Parliament about abortion and life issues. Formerly an outreach activist with Feminists for Life, she founded the <a href="http://www.theabortionsurvivors.com/" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">Abortion Survivors Network</a> in 2012. Ohden is also the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Carried-Me-Daughters-Memoir-ebook/dp/B01N9SV4PJ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549395128&sr=8-1&keywords=You+Carried+Me%2C+A+Daughter%E2%80%99s+Memoir." style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007eac; text-decoration: none;">You Carried Me, A Daughter’s Memoir.</a></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that state
income tax revenues plummeted by $2.3 billion since he introduced his <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/01/15/cuomo-unveils-178b-budget-in-state-of-the-state-address/"><span style="color: #cc3333; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">new budget plan last month</span></a>— a
bombshell that will force him to curb spending.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Cuomo attributed the revenue drop in December
and January largely to the new federal tax code, as well as volatility in the
stock market and other uncertainties.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“That’s a $2.3 billion drop in revenues.
That’s as serious as a heart attack. This is worse than we had anticipated,”
the governor said in Albany.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“This reduction must be addressed in this
year’s budget.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">In a rare joint appearance with Cuomo, state
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli confirmed the deteriorating finances.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“This is the most serious revenue shock the
state has faced in many years,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">He urged Cuomo and the Legislature to sock
more money away in the state’s rainy day fund to prepare for the worst.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Cuomo had planned to spend $176 billion —
including about $100 billion in federal funds — in the new fiscal year that
starts on April 1.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Cuomo’s preliminary analysis claims much of
the impact is coming from a drop in revenues from the state’s highest income
earners most impacted by the loss of write-offs of state and local tax
deductions, known as SALT.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">The federal law approved by President Trump
and the then-GOP controlled Congress limited SALT deductions to $10,000.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">The loss of revenue from New York’s wealthiest
puts New York in a bind because the state relies on a progressive income tax
system that taxes the rich at a higher rate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">One percent of the state’s top income earners
provide 46 percent of the state’s personal income tax revenues, officials said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Cuomo said Albany can’t go to the well and tax
the wealthy again because that would only worsen the situation, citing
“anecdotal” evidence that high-income New Yorkers are already fleeing the state
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">LifeSiteNews.com Reveals Terror in
Abortion Battle and Murdering children in New York and elsewhere – Scandal from
a Democrat in Congress in Washington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">David Eidensohn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">From LifeSite News: </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/topics/abortion"><b><span style="color: #007eac; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">Abortion</span></b></a>,
<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/topics/politics"><b><span style="color: #007eac; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">Politics - U.S.</span></b></a></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">Mon
Feb 4, 2019 - 6:56 pm EST</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"> </span></div>
<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 28.5pt; margin: 0px;">BREAKING: Democrat Patty Murray blocks Senate bill
banning infanticide after failed abortions </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/abortion"><span style="color: white; margin: 0px;">abortion</span></a>, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/ben+sasse"><span style="color: white; margin: 0px;">ben
sasse</span></a>, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/born-alive+abortion+survivors+protection+act"><span style="color: white; margin: 0px;">born-alive abortion survivors protection act</span></a>, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/infanticide"><span style="color: white; margin: 0px;">infanticide</span></a>, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/late-term+abortion"><span style="color: white; margin: 0px;">late-term abortion</span></a>, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/patty+murray"><span style="color: white; margin: 0px;">patty murray</span></a>, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/ralph+northam"><span style="color: white; margin: 0px;">ralph northam</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">WASHINGTON,
D.C., February 4, 2019 (<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/"><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px;">LifeSiteNews</span></a>) – Sen. Patty Murray, D-WA,
blocked the unanimous passage of the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/130/text"><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px;">Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act</span></a>
today, a bill which would have required doctors to provide medical care to
babies born alive during failed abortions.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">This
was a unanimous consent vote, a mechanism <a href="https://www.senate.gov/reference/glossary_term/unanimous_consent.htm"><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px;">under which</span></a> the bill passes the U.S. Senate if
no senator objects and individual senators’ positions are not recorded.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Murray
objected to the motion, claiming there are already laws against infanticide.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“This
is a gross misinterpretation of the actual language of the bill that is being
asked to be considered and, therefore, I object,” said Murray.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">After
Murray objected to the bill, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-IA, lamented on the Senate
floor that this body “can no longer unanimously condemn murder.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“There
is nothing great, there is nothing moral, or even humane about the discussion
that we have before us today,” said Ernst. “Over the past week, we have
witnessed the absolutely ugly truth about the far-reaching grasp of the
abortion industry and its increasingly radicalized political agenda.
Politicians have not only defended aborting a child while a woman is in labor,
but have gone so far as to support the termination of a child after his or her
birth. A child. A baby. Rationality, decency, and basic human compassion have
fallen by the wayside.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Majority
Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-KY, called the Act “legislation that ought to be
the very definition of something that receives unanimous consent in this body.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“It’s
harrowing that this legislation is even necessary,” said McConnell. “It was
even more disturbing when last week, a Democrat Governor was unable to simply
state that of course – of course – these newborn babies have human rights that
must be respected.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">It’s
now up to McConnell to decide whether to force a roll call vote on the
anti-infanticide bill at a later date. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Sen.
Ben Sasse, R-NE, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ben-sasse-seeks-unanimous-support-for-protecting-newborns-who-survive-abort"><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px;">brought the measure to the floor</span></a> after
“morally repugnant” comments Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat and
pediatric neurologist, made last week about infanticide. Sasse suggested
after Murray’s objection that he will fight to force a roll call vote on
the bill.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Video <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-virginia-democrat-squirms-defending-bill-allowing-abortion-as-woman-i"><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px;">went viral last week</span></a> from a subcommittee
hearing in which Democrat Del. Kathy Tran takes questions about her bill to
repeal regulations on late-term abortions. Republican Del. Todd Gilbert asked
how late in the third trimester a physician could perform an abortion and
whether that includes when the mother “has physical signs that she is about to
give birth.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“I
don't think we have a limit in the bill [...] my bill would allow that, yes,”
Tran answered.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Northam
then defended Tran’s bill, saying in a radio interview: “So in this particular
example, if the mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen:
The infant would be delivered; the infant would be kept comfortable; the infant
would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desire, and then
a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">He <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1090707530370768902"><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px;">later claimed</span></a> he was only referring to cases
such as a “nonviable pregnancy” or “severe fetal abnormalities.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Sen.
Steve Daines, R-MT, the chair of the new Senate Pro-Life Caucus, read Northam’s
comments aloud on the Senate floor today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“The
word ‘evil’ comes to mind,” he said of Northam’s comments. “These comments the
governor made pull back the curtain on an extreme and dangerous abortion agenda
that shows callous disregard for human life. What the Virginia governor is
defending and what these ghoulish abortion-up-to birth laws enable is the free
reign of brutal killers like Kermit Gosnell. Babies who survive the violence of
an attempted abortion must not be subject to further violence and neglect.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Northam’s
comments “turned the stomachs” of people around the world, Sasse said tonight.
He called the Virginia governor a “disgraced coward.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“Just a
few years ago, the abortion lobby was really clear in its talk about hoping
abortion would be…safe, legal, and rare,” he continued. “Now we’re talking
about keeping the baby comfortable while the doctors have a debate about
infanticide.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“You’re
either for babies, or you’re defending infanticide…please, don’t let Governor
Northam define you,” Sasse pleaded with his Democrat colleagues.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">READ: </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/new-york-celebrates-legalizing-abortion-until-birth-by-lighting-one-world-t"><b><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">New York
celebrates legalizing abortion until birth by lighting One World Trade Center
pink</span></b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">The
bill was co-sponsored by more than three dozen Republican senators.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Sen.
Mike Lee, R-UT, shared the story of <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/tags/tag/gianna+jessen"><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px;">Gianna Jessen</span></a>, who survived a late-term saline
abortion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“Triumphantly,
defiantly, and against all odds, Gianna Jessen entered this world after her own
abortion,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“Providing
life saving care to an infant who survives an abortion is an issue that
everyone should be able to agree on but that's not the case in the United
States Senate,” said Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council.
“Senator Murray went to the floor this evening and blocked a vote on
legislation that ensures babies born alive after a failed abortion are treated
with the equal care given to babies born at the same gestational age.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">He
continued, “Infanticide is unacceptable in a civilized society, regardless of
what one may think about abortion itself. Whether it's by negligence or with
intentionality, the killing of a baby who has been born alive – even if he or
she survives an abortion – is abhorrent. This atrocity must stop. America must
be better than this.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; margin: 0px;">‘We’re
talking about...infanticide’</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ben-sasse-seeks-unanimous-support-for-protecting-newborns-who-survive-abort"><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px;">On Thursday</span></a>, Sasse said on the Senate floor,
“I’m going to ask all 100 senators to come to the floor and be against
infanticide. This shouldn’t be complicated.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">Of
Northram’s comments, Sasse said, “Let’s really be clear about what we’re
talking about here. We’re talking about fourth-trimester abortion, or what
anyone in the normal world calls ‘infanticide.’”</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“We're
talking about killing a baby that's been born,” he said. “We're not talking
about some euphemism, we're not talking about a clump of cells. We're talking
about a little baby girl who’s been born and is on a table in a hospital or a
medical facility and then a decision or a debate would be had about whether or
not you could kill that little baby. We're talking about the most vulnerable
among us and we have a public official in America out there again and again
defending a practice. This is infanticide that we're talking about. This should
be so far beyond any political consideration. We're talking about a little
baby. A baby with dignity. An image bearer.”</span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">“Everyone
in the Senate ought to be able to say unequivocally that killing that little
baby is wrong. This doesn't take any political courage. And, if you can't say
that, if there's a member of this body that can't say that, there may be lots
of work you can do in the world but you shouldn't be here,” Sasse argued.
“There should be no politics here that are right vs. left, or Republican vs.
Democrat. This is the most basic thing you could be talking about.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">It is
not likely that the House version of the bill would pass in the
Democrat-controlled House, if even allowed to be voted on. This is despite the
fact that the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/107th-congress/house-bill/2175"><span style="color: #007eac; margin: 0px;">Born-Alive Infants Protection Act</span></a>, which
defines infant survivors of abortion as “human beings” entitled to all the
rights in the U.S. Constitution, was passed by both Democrats and Republicans
in 2002 and signed into law by then-President George W. Bush. The Born-Alive Abortion
Survivors Protection Act would build on that law.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; margin: 0px;">In
2015, only five House Democrats supported the Born-Alive Abortion
Survivors Protection Act, which then-President Barack Obama said would have a
“chilling effect” on “access to care.” </span></div>
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