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Rosh Chodesh Nisan: The Month of Redemption
The month of Nisan is known as the month of our redemption. This refers both to the fact that our exodus from Egypt took place on the 15th of the month of Nisan, and also to our tradition that the month of Nisan will herald the future redemption of the nation of Israel. The month of Nisan is the first month of the year, as it was the month that G-d commanded the children of Israel to count as their first month - this being the first commandment that G-d enjoined the Israelites to perform. This enabled them to prepare for the pascal offering and exodus from Egypt according to the schedule that G-d announced.
The first day of the month of Nisan was the day in which the Tabernacle was dedicated by the children of Israel on the second year of their sojourn through the desert, having left Egypt scarcely eleven and one half months earlier.
The month of Nisan is known as the new year for kings, as the year of a king's reign would be marked from the first of Nisan.
It is also the month that determines on which days all the yearly festivals will fall, as all the festivals are marked from Passover, the first of the festivals to occur during the yearly cycle.
The Israelite slaves in Egypt literally risked it all when each family slaughtered a lamb on the fourteenth day of the month of Nisan. The lamb was considered to be a god by the idolatrous Egyptians, and to dare to inflict harm upon a lamb was to surely invite the wrath of Pharoah upon yourself and your loved ones. Yet the Israelites exhibited a courage that would change the course of human history, and set into motion a series of events that would reveal the glory of the one true G-d of Israel to the entire world, and His revelation of the Torah at Mt. Sinai, to His people - the people of Israel.
This same courage that we read about on the Seder night - the first night of Passover - is required of us today, as the nation of Israel must once again defy the current politically correct idolatries being imposed upon us by the Pharaohs of the world - and emerge from servitude to freedom!
Public Security Ombudsman: "Every Religious Jew is a Potential Terrorist"
reprinted from Arutz Sheva
17:54 Apr 10, '05 / 1 Nisan 5765(IsraelNN.com) Two Temple Mount activists were given a behind-the-scenes look today at the approach Israel's police and government is taking toward Jews who visit Judaism's holiest site.
Rabbi Chaim Richman of Jerusalem's Temple Institute was summoned to a meeting with Mr. Sharon Michael, an investigator at the Office of the Ombudsman of Israel's Department of Public Security today, in order to present complaints about the way Jewish visitors to the site are treated. Rabbi Richman sought to present how difficult the experience of ascending the Temple Mount is for outwardly observant Jews, who are subject to intense harassment at the hands of the police, while tourists are allowed unimpeded access.
Michael told the two that the security measures do indeed target only Orthodox Jews, but said that they are necessary to insure security. He explained that the police receive many warnings from the various security branches that Jews may be planning an attack on the Temple Mount. These warnings are constant, and therefore justify this treatment, he said. Israel Police security procedure concerning the Temple Mount is based on the assumption that every religious Jew is a potential terrorist, and must be treated as such.
At the close of the meeting, Rabbi Richman told the ombudsman the following: "We are confident that the State of Israel will continue to measure up to its security challenges, and that it will survive even the most serious breaches in its security, G-d forbid. But we are greatly fearful that the State of Israel cannot long survive the trampling of the basic tenets of democracy that it suffers at the hands of its own government's policies and attitudes." The official responded by raising his hands, and drawing a pair of quotation marks in the air, repeating with exaggerated contempt the word, "De-mo-cra-cy! We're not interested in democracy - just security."
"The Israeli government's message is clear," said Rabbi Richman after the meeting, "all Jews who are interested in the Temple Mount are considered to be dangerous, and must be stopped at all costs. This message was communicated to us today, in a personal way, which leaves no room for doubt or misunderstanding."
Maranatha!
Deborah
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