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Shabbat.com visits Israel

Shabbat.com Visits Israel! Rabbi Grossman, the Tzaddik of Migdal HaEmek passionately urges everyone to be involved and sign up for Shabbat.com. Shabbat.com is the Jewish website connecting Jewish people in 95 countries for...

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Frogs and the Shema a Dvar Torah by Rabbi Elchanan Shoff

Gather and listen, sons of Yaakov; listen to Israel your father.

Bereishis 49:2

When Yaakov was close to death, he called for his sons. “‘Maybe after I die, you will begin to worship other gods?’ They said to him, ‘Hear, O Israel: Hashem our God, Hashem is the one and only,’ and Yaakov whispered back, ‘Blessed is the name of His glorious kingdom for all eternity.’”(Pesachim 56a; Dvarim Rabbah 2:34. See also Targum Yonason, Bereishis 49:3) The Talmud (Nedarim 41a) records the story of the scorpion and the frog. The frog could not sting, and the scorpion could not swim. So the frog took the scorpion on its back, at great personal sacrifice. After all, the scorpion could bite the frog at any moment. They crossed the river where the scorpion proceeded to fatally bite the man whom Hashem had condemned to death.

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