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The prime minister was at Agudath Is-
Speaking to a friendly and making his second speech to rael of Madison
enthusiastic congressional au- Congress, and his remarks were Zichron Chaim
dience, Israeli Prime Minister frequently interrupted by stand- Tzvi, 2122 Av-
Benjamin Netanyahu on Tues- ing ovations from the U.S. law- enue S in Flat-
day gave his vision of the Middle makers. He stressed the need bush. Shacharis
East, based on a strong Israel ir- to support the pro-democracy will be 8 AM,
revocably linked to the United movements that have swept followed by re-
States and willing to make some, through the region and called freshments. At
but not all, sacrifices for peace for efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear 9 AM, Rabbi
with the Palestinians.”Israel has no better friend ambitions which he said was a direct threat to Israel. Yisroel Reis-
phoTo gallery 49
than America, and America has no better friend Netanyahu also outlined his hard-line vision of man, Shlita,
than Israel. We stand together to defend democ- a two-state solution, one Jewish, the other Palestin- Rav of Agudath Israel of Madi-
racy,” Netanyahu said, in a key theme he repeated in ian. It is the Palestinians, he insisted, who refuse to son, will speak on “Sefer Tehilli-
different forms in his 45-minute speech. accept a Jewish state while Israel is willing to accept lm: The Songs of Dovid HaM-
“Israel is not what is wrong about the Mideast,” the Palestinians. He said he was willing to give up elech.” At 10 AM, Rabbi Moshe
Netanyahu told a joint meeting of the two houses of some things to win a peace but defended the growth Tuvia Lieff, Shlita, Rav, Agudas
Congress. “Israel is what is right about the Mideast.” of Israeli settlements and the need for Israel to pro- Yisroel, Bais Binyomin, will
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Rabbi Frand on the Parsha
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rabbi yissocher frand, with permission from artscroll/mesorah
professionaL computer traininG center Parshas Bamidbar: Danger Inspires Devotion
Since
Under the directorship of Mrs. henny Frankel
1989 Th e tribe of Zevulun — and the leader of gracious individuals. Th ey were willing to
• Monsey, New York • Brooklyn, New York the tribe of Zevulun is Eliav son of Chelon. work hard and split their hard-earned prof-
In describing the journey of Klal Yis- its with Yissachar. Shouldn’t they have mer-
rael in the wilderness, the Torah states that ited an enjoyable, simple, safe occupation?
o f when the encampments rested, the Mishkan Why didn’t Hashem provide them with
e a r s traininG centers stood in the middle of the encampment and a living through offi ce work? Why not let
“ 2 1 Y s s f u l wshaesv sautirmro u(tnrdibeeds )o ne naclla fmoupre sdid oens, weaicthh tshirdeee. tehaernm t ghoe iirn ktoe etph,e a onffid csep floitr i ta wfeiwth h Yoiussras cah daary?,
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S u c c g ” now in monsey Each group of three shevatim consisted of a Rav Dovid Feinstein explains this
n leading shevet — listed fi rst in that group in through Chazal’s teaching that most sail-
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T r a i the Torah — and two “associate” shevatim. ors are pious (Kiddushin 82a). Rashi ex-
anD BrookLyn Th e Torah connects each associate shevet to plains that sailors are constantly in peril,
the shevet before it with the conjunctive let- and they have no option but to call out to
ter vav. Hashem frequently.
Th e only associate shevet that does not Hashem deliberately arranged that
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begin with a vav is Zevulun. Th e Torah Zevulun’s livelihood should derive from
links Yissachar to its leader Yehudah with an occupation in which he would have to
a vav, but then omits the vav between Yis- call out to Hashem oft en, says Rav Dovid
Now for
sachar and Zevulun. What is unique about Feinstein, because he pledged to support
Zevulun? Yissachar. If Zevulun would have worked
Th e Baal HaTurim explains this based in a nice air-conditioned offi ce, eventu-
on Yissachar and Zevulun’s renowned part- ally he would have begun to believe that his
summer courses nership: Yissachar devoted all his time to mounting profi ts were the outcome of his
Torah study, and Zevulun went to work own hard work, and not a result of Divine
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and split his earnings with Yissachar. Th is Providence. A person who is convinced that
l Beginning July 5, 2011 partnership lasted a lifetime, and beyond. he earned his money through hard work
Death did not end the relationship between begins to think, “I work hard for a living,
U Yissachar and Zevulun — Zevulun enjoys why should someone who sits in the beis
the same reward in Olam Habah as Yissa- midrash all day enjoy the money that I work
char does. day and night to earn? Let him go out to
d Similar partnerships are in existence un- work and make his own money!”
til this very day. Kollel fellows are supported If Zevulun would have had an easy life,
by generous donors, and the supporters are he would have kept his pledge to support
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even draw up a contract to substantiate would have stopped.
h • Graphics • Graphics advanced their Yissachar–Zevulun arrangement. A person whose vocation poses serious
All other shevatim were exclusive enti- risk to his life realizes that his continued
adobe inDesign Layout ties that had to be “joined” to one another existence is dependent solely on Hashem.
c with a conjunctive vav, explains the Baal Such a person is more likely to follow the
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HaTurim. Yissachar and Zevulun are part- Torah and mitzvos faithfully, and will con-
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ners, however, inseparable both in this sider his support of those studying Torah as
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world and the next, so they do not require a a merit for his continued good fortune, not
vav to be connected to one another. as a burden. Interestingly, I fi nd a similar
R We also read that each shevet had a fl ag phenomenon in today’s day and age.
that symbolized it in one way or another. Let us oversimplify modern commerce
Many of the symbols were derived from for a minute by splitting those in the work-
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office Yaakov Avinu’s berachos to the shevatim. force into two simple categories: those who
Yehudah, from whom the king of Klal own businesses and never know whether
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aDministration: Yisrael would herald, had a lion — king of they will have a profi table day, week, or year,
the animals — on his fl ag. Yosef was com- and salaried employees who know exactly
pared to an ox in Yaakov’s blessing, and his what fi gure will appear on their paychecks
M • word processing • spreadsheets fl ag had a picture of an ox. at the end of the week.
Zevulun’s fl ag bore a ship, to symbolize I fi nd that those who are constantly on
microsoft word microsoft excel his role as a merchant marine who would their toes to earn a living tend to be far more
U travel the seas in order to make a living, generous. Th ey view tzeddakah as an oppor-
as foretold by Yaakov Avinu in the words, tunity to demonstrate to Hashem — upon
• computerized Bookkeeping
“Zevulun shall settle by seashores. He shall Whom they rely day in, day out; night in,
S be at ship’s harbor” (Bereishis 49:13). night out — that they realize that they are no
QuickBooks premier In Parashas Vezos Haberachah, Moshe more than treasurers of His funds, and that
Rabbeinu hints that Zevulun would earn they know how to share those funds fairly.
enough to support Yissachar only by sailing Ironically, people who take home a fi xed
the high seas: “Rejoice, O Zevulun, in your salary paid by a boss are oft en likely to feel
excursions, and Yissachar in your tents” that they are the ones who earn their keep.
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(Devarim 33:18). Sometimes they may forget Who decides
and registration, please call: Sailing the high seas is usually not a how much they receive and therefore may
pleasurable experience. A person who trav- be less likely to support Torah study or help
845•425•0884 els over a major body of water is considered those in need.
to be in mortal danger, to the extent that Had Zevulun taken home a nice pay-
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• • when he lands safely, he must recite the be- check at the end of each week, he prob-
rachah of HaGomel to thank Hashem for ably would not have kept up his support of
• Separate classes for men and women • sparing his life during his journey. Yissachar. Th e danger of traveling the seas
. . . training for success Th is leads us to a question. Th e mem- ensured that Zevulun remained devoted to
bers of shevet Zevulun were obviously very the pact.
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rabbi avi shafran
the Helicopter Left Behind
ing the compound on the other helicopter, to rescue the Americans then held cap-
apparently concerned that the Pakistanis tive in Tehran, one crashed en route; one
might learn some secrets from the cutting- turned back; one malfunctioned; and, the
I think that now, weeks since the mor- to the jubilation seen in some places fol- edge technology of the now-abandoned mission aborted, yet another plowed into a
tal remains of this generation’s most re- lowing Bin Laden’s killing; there are moral aircraft. transport plane, killing eight soldiers. The
viled mass-murderer were offered to fish grounds for celebrating the demise of evil. But there is something valuable in the servicemen involved in the mission were
and crustaceans, it’s safe to bring up an What may not have received sufficient wreckage from which we might all learn— from Delta Force, the Army’s equivalent at
important Jewish thought that should have contemplation was something else: the he- or, at least, be reminded of: Things can go the time of “Seal Team Six.”
occurred to us all in the wake of the opera- licopter left behind. wrong. And in fact, in an interview last week,
tion at Abbottabad. Two Black Hawks were reportedly That was a thought that surely rever- Mr. Obama admitted being struck with
No, nothing to do with its ethical merit employed in the raid on Bin Laden’s com- berated in the minds of President Obama the fear of failure. “You think about Black
or legality; formal procedures and qualms pound in Pakistan. One experienced some and his advisors as they awaited word of Hawk Down,” he said, referring to the 1993
have no place when it comes to removing sort of trouble and made a hard, damag- how things had proceeded during the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, in which
a clearly dangerous object, animal, or per- ing, landing. The commandoes tried to raid. After all, when Jimmy Carter sent eighteen U.S. Army soldiers lost their
son from the world. Nor is it with regard destroy the damaged chopper before leav- helicopters to the Iranian desert in 1980 lives. “You think about what happened
with the Iranian rescue. And I am very
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