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Haredi Jews overlook the Western Wall & Temple Mount in East Jerusalem.
(Photo Credit: Assi Dvilanski)
"About the value of Israel's life, it simply seems that the life of Israel is worth more than the life of a gentile, and even if the gentile does not intend to hurt Israel, it is permissible to hurt him in order to save Israel...
In a situation in which there is a danger - even remote - that the gentile will operate (even if indirectly) to hurt Israel, there is no need to care about him and "thou shalt kill the best of the gentiles."... We are consequently taught that the war referred to is not necessarily a real battle, but even a situation of national conflict justifies such killing. Those who may later help another [killer], when forced by the ruler, deserve to be killed."
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg, "Baruch HaGever," in Michael Ben Horim (ed.),
Baruch HaGever (Jerusalem: Special Publication, 1995), pp. 27, 28 (Hebrew)
This is an example of racism. It is sad that our even the authorities of our Torah, the Rabbis, will resort to racism. Racisצ is in complete contrast to Judaism, and his citing of the Talmudic dictate is distorted.
8.4.2009: north side of the nave, 1205-1215 and 1876, Chartres Cathedral, France. The central panels here are 19th cent. replacements.
Residents of Gush Katif and Israeli soldiers alike pray, hoping for a miracle from Heaven during the expulsions from Gush Katif during the summer of 2005.
(Photo Credit: Israel Bardugo)
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, the leader of the Lithuanian non-Hasidic Haredi community in Israel, brings in the Shabbos in Jerusalem.
Mourners bring Rabbi Avraham Shapira's body to rest on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Rabbi Avraham Shapira was one of the most revered leaders in Religious Zionism.
These are some of the greatest Rabbis of the Land of Israel. Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu (הרב מרדכי אליהו שליט''א) and Rabbi Meir Alfasi (הרב מאיר אלפסי שליט''א).
Illustration from "La Sainte Bible : Ancien Testament . . . / Compositions par J.-James Tissot"; with preface by Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges (1863-1948), introduction by Maurice de Brunoff (1861-1937) and the translation into French of Isaac-Louis Lemaistre de Saci (1613-1684). 2 volumes. Paris: M. de Brunoff & Cie, 1904. The illustrations were originated by James Tissot (1836-1902) who sketched as he read Scripture.
The edition, of which 561 copies were printed, contains 360 mounted colour, black-and-white and duo-tone illustrations in the text and 40 plates in three states: sepia-tone, partly hand-coloured, and finished coloured state. The plates are protected with captioned tissue-guards. The paper size is 15.75 x 13 ins; image size varies (circa 8.5 x 5.5 ins).
The paintings for all 400 Illustrations were based exclusively on the complete sketches (the inspiration being entirely Tissot's). The first 200 illustrations covering the Book of Genesis through to the story of Jephthah's daughter in the Book of Judges were painted by Tissot. The last remaining 200 illustrations were painted after Tissot's death in 1902 by Henri Bellery-Desfontaines, Auguste François Gorguet, Charles Hoffbauer, Louis van Parys, Michel Simonidy and Georges Bertin Scott.
Photos by Philip De Vere: Tissot's Last Oblation
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