תודה לך, השם, על כאב העבר.

תודה לך על אורך.

תודה לך על השלווה הפנימית שאתה נותן לי.

תודה לך על תורתך.

תודה לך על חברים אמיתיים.

תודה לך על הרגישות שלי לטוב.

תודה לך על כל מחשבה צלולה.

תודה לך על היותך אתה.

Danke Hashem für die Schmerzen der Vergangenheit,

Danke für dein Licht,

Danke für den inneren Frieden, den du mir schenkst.

Danke für deine Torah.

Danke für wahre Freunde.

Danke für meine Empfindungsfähigkeit für das was Gut ist.

Danke für jeden klaren Gedanken.

Danke dass es dich gibt.

https://thestatueof.poetry.blog/2025/01/04/to-be-a-jew/

We must keep our capacity for remembrance alive.

The victims murdered in the Shoah would die a second time if we were to forget them.

Just as today’s perpetrators project their own evil onto Israel, it is our duty not to let ourselves be drawn into arguments with antisemites—into a pseudo-debate that drains our energy and our yearning for truth, justice, and peace. Let us honor Jewish life—always and everywhere—even if it means tearing the masks off hypocrites and those who repeat the crimes of history.

Wir müssen unsere Erinnerungsfähigkeit wach halten.

Die Ermordeten der Shoah würden ein weiteres mal sterben, wenn wir Sie vergessen.

So wie die Täter von Heute, ihr eigenes Böses, projektiv Israel unterstellen, ist es unsere Pflicht uns nicht in Diskussionen mit Antisemiten verwickeln zu lassen und damit in eine Scheindiskussion die unsere Kräfte und Verlangen nach Wahrheit, Gerechtigkeit und Frieden aufzehrt. Ehren wir jüdisches Leben – immer und überall, auch wenn dies bedeutet, dass wir Heuchlern und Wiederholungstätern der Geschichte die Maske vom Gesicht reißen müssen.

⭕️ Gaza — Netanyahu Warns Hamas: Stop the Kites, Balloons and Drones or Israel Will Escalate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz held an urgent security assessment this evening over the renewed threat of drones, balloons and kites being launched from Gaza toward Israel.

The meeting included IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the National Security Council chief and senior IDF officials.

Israel has now issued a direct warning to Hamas:

Stop the launches immediately — or the IDF response will escalate.

Israel says it will increase targeted strikes against those responsible and evacuate civilians from areas in Gaza being used to launch kites, balloons and drones toward Israeli territory.

The warning follows several kites believed to have crossed from Gaza into Israeli border communities, reigniting fears among residents who remember both the incendiary-kite campaigns and the catastrophic failures preceding October 7.

Netanyahu made the new policy explicit:

“There will be no return to the state of affairs prior to October 7.”

📌 Israel will no longer allow seemingly limited threats along the Gaza border to become routine before acting.

Source:Prime Minister’s Office

Straight talk from Munich: >> A Muslim—of all people—the Emirati political writer and journalist Amjad Taha (see photo), issues an urgent warning to the West. Excerpts from an open letter to the public:

„Stop confusing cowardice with tolerance. What you call illegal immigration is a premeditated invasion of your country—without tanks or soldiers.

There are countries that have recently poured billions of pounds into Muslim Brotherhood terrorists who have become activists and citizens in your nations. Their mission is to defend every criminal, to act as counsel for every rapist, and to ensure that those residing in the country illegally gain legal status—eventually becoming governors, members of parliament, or even prime ministers. This is a long-term plan.

They use democracy like an Uber to take them to power, only to complain about the destination once they arrive.

Look around you. They are now protesting against you and your Western civilization. They label you ‚Islamophobic‘ if you dare to mention Muslim Brotherhood terrorists—such as Hamas terrorists or the Muslim Brotherhood-led army in Sudan, which is alleged to have claimed the lives of over 2 million Christians and 500,000 African Muslim women and children.

They will control your democracy through dictatorial rules.

They have discovered your greatest weakness: your tolerance can be weaponized against you.

They exploit your freedom of speech to defend Muslim Brotherhood terrorists.

They use your courts to shield Hamas and Iranian networks.

They wield accusations of ‚Islamophobia‘ to intimidate critics.

They use democracy as a ladder to power, then attack the very values ​​that made that ladder possible in the first place.

Yesterday, the Muslim Brotherhood ideology demanded a platform. Today, it demands political influence.“ Tomorrow, it will demand your silence.

Stop confusing cowardice with tolerance.

Investigate the Muslim Brotherhood. Ban terrorist organizations. Prosecute the financing of crime and terrorism. Deport non-citizens who can be legally expelled due to serious crimes or terrorism, and never allow extremists to use citizenship as a weapon against the country that took them in.

Your children should not inherit a country that is too afraid to defend its own laws, freedoms, and civilization.

Democracy is not a suicide pact. Tolerance does not mean capitulation. Freedom does not mean handing extremists the means to destroy freedom.

Wake up. Defend your country. Defend your children. Defend your civilization before those who despise it become powerful enough to determine its future…

May God bless your beautiful civilization and protect it from extremism, terrorism, and backwardness.

Today, at the start of a new day, I engage with the words of our Torah. It is the Parashah Ki Tavo that will be read publicly for everyone this coming Shabbat…

Ki Tavo translates roughly to „When you come,“ and it begins with sentences that speak to me personally and touch me deeply…

It is the opening sentence of the Mishneh Torah (Deuteronomy/Devarim):

„And it shall come to pass, when you come into the land that the Eternal your God gives you as a possession, and you take possession of it and dwell therein…“

It is important to understand that this refers not merely to a state of consciousness, but also to the actual Land of Israel.
It is also crucial to grasp and recognize that it is the Eternal Himself who gives this land and entrusts it to us as a possession. God is the Owner, and we are His stewards. He entrusts the land to us, and we are called upon and obligated to treat it accordingly and to shape our own conduct so that we prove worthy of it.

I ask myself: what does it mean, „and you dwell therein“?!!

Our consciousness must find rest and establish a state of harmony with the Creator—much like settling into a home where one feels at ease, making it the center and starting point for all of a Jew’s activities.
We must acknowledge that the Book of Deuteronomy (Sefer Devarim) is a retrospective account. This means that these words—promising the land—were first addressed to the Jewish people a very, very long time ago. Right there in Chapter 26, verse 2, there is mention of the first fruits of the soil that each individual (note the use of the singular „you“) brings in from „your land.“

The land as a state of consciousness given by the Eternal. The land as a state of consciousness that is brought forth.

I do not wish to expose myself further by discussing the subsequent words in a public forum; yet it is significant that we are instructed to speak to the priest: „Today I declare to the Eternal, your…“ „…to the land that the Eternal swore to our fathers He would give us.“

It is important to understand that this refers to „our fathers“—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—and, at the same time, to all the generations of Jews who came before us, whose legacy we uphold and to whom we are accountable.

God gives the land to US—not to individuals, groups, or privileged elites.

Shavua Tov!

Hendryk M. Broder puts it in a nutshell:

„The artificial distinction between Islam and Islamism is like distinguishing between alcohol and alcoholism.“

Note:

21st-century Islam is violent, intolerant, and destructive. We cannot ‚wait‘ for it to reform itself slightly over the coming centuries.

Therefore, here and now, we must identify and push back against its actors, those responsible, and its supporters, and subject them to the rule of law of civil society; Huntington was right—we are witnessing a clash of civilizations, only it is even worse:

Islam is expansionist, and as soon as it is able to establish parallel Sharia-based values ​​within immigrant-receiving societies, it will do so. The values ​​that make this possible will then be gradually replaced and abolished.

Tyranny does not begin with a Muslim state, but with the naivety and defenselessness of societies that fail to recognize this and remain idle. The reasons for this are manifold. Manipulation and instrumentalization take place; institutions are infiltrated; and alliances are formed with parties that likewise aim for the disintegration and decline of the social order.

This also explains the Islamist-Leftist alliances in the USA, Germany, England, Scotland, and elsewhere.

The growing support for far-right parties is therefore not the problem, but rather a symptom of the transformation that is already well underway.

If centrist, mainstream parties—wherever they may be—fail to consistently address this complex situation using all legal means available, and fail to articulate and communicate this transparently (often due to short-term considerations), radicalization within the public mindset and society will accelerate rapidly, further fueling the divisive processes that lead to their own decline.