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In loving memory of Moshe ben Avraham Zarach

David Ben-Gurion publicly pronouncing the Declaration of the State of Israel, beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, in the old Tel Aviv Museum of Art building, Rothschild St on 14 May 1948. Zoltan Kluger, IGPO, D836-087

1 Sidrah Summary: Shemini

1st Aliya (Kohen) – Vayikra 9:1-16 one of the chatat offerings instead of eating parts The sidrah begins almost a year after the Exodus of it. Aharon defends their actions, based on their from Egypt, on Rosh Chodesh Nissan. After status as mourners (Rashi). Moshe accepts seven days of inaugurating the Mishkan Aharon’s justification (see p.5 article). (Tabernacle), Moshe instructs Aharon to bring two 6th Aliya (Shishi) – 11:1-32 special offerings, an elevation offering (olah) and God teaches Moshe and Aharon some of the a sin offering (chatat). The people are also told to laws of kashrut. Only an animal with completely bring a chatat, two olah offerings and two peace split hooves and which chews the cud is kosher. offerings (shelamim). Aharon approaches the Therefore, animals like the camel and pig, which altar (mizbeach), together with his sons, and they have only one of these characteristics, are begin the process of bringing these offerings. forbidden. Fish are only kosher if they have both 2nd Aliya (Levi) – 9:17-23 fins and scales. The Torah lists forbidden birds Aharon and his sons finish the offerings, after by name. Flying insects are also prohibited food, which Aharon blesses the people with the priestly with limited exceptions (that are today difficult blessing (Rashi). Moshe and Aharon then bless to identify). Kosher animals which die without the people that the Divine presence will rest upon proper slaughter (shechitah), as well as dead them (Rashi). non-kosher animals, transmit ritual impurity (tumah) to one who touches them. 3rd Aliya (Shlishi) – 9:24-10:11 Point to Consider: why do the laws of kashrut A fire comes from heaven and consumes the follow straight after the story of the inauguration offerings on the mizbeach. The people fall to the of the Mishkan? (11:1) ground in praise to God. Nadav and Avihu, two of Aharon’s sons, bring an incense offering 7th Aliya (Shevi’i) – 11:33-47 (ketoret) in a pan, which they had not been The Torah lists some basic laws of how certain commanded to do. A fire descends from God, utensils can become impure (tameh) and how killing them instantly (see p.4 article). Aharon is they need to be treated thereafter. All creeping silent. Moshe asks two of their cousins to remove insects are forbidden to eat. Keeping these laws the bodies. Moshe tells Aharon and his two allows a person to become sanctified and holy. surviving sons, Elazar and Itamar, not to display any mourning in public. God relates to Aharon Question: What is the status of a person who that no one is allowed to do service in touches the carcass of a non-kosher animal? the Mishkan drunk. (11:39) Answer on bottom of page 6.

4th Aliya (Revi’i) – 10:12-15 Haftarah Moshe tells Aharon and his sons to eat the The haftarah is the special reading for Shabbat remaining parts of a special meal offering Erev Rosh Chodesh, from the Book of Shmuel (mincha) that they themselves had brought that (Samuel). It relates how Yehonatan (Jonathan) day, as well as parts of the shelamim offering risked his life to protect his friend David from the which they had also brought. wrath of Yehonatan’s father, King Shaul (Saul). Their initial discussion of how to ensure David’s 5th Aliya (Chamishi) – 10:16-19 safety took place on Erev Rosh Chodesh, the day Moshe criticises Elazar and Itamar for burning before Shaul’s special feast.

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2 From Atzamot to Atzmaut by Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

The question of why Israel is exiles to Israel from right around the world, such an important part of culminating in the Declaration of Independence what it is to be Jewish in in 1948. the 21st century is one that many people are faced with at work, school and That was a journey from ‘atzamot’ to ‘atzmaut’ – university. As we celebrate from the depths of our deepest despair during our 70th Yom Haatzmaut, the Holocaust through to the exhilaration of our surely one of the best answers to this question celebrations of independence. lies in the word ‘atzmaut’ – independence, itself. The skeleton holds the human frame; it is the It is taken from the root ‘etzem’, which means a very structure around which our physical form is ‘bone’. constructed. And isn’t that exactly what the State of Israel is for us today? For 70 years it has been central to our existence. It has been So, what is the connection between a bone and the frame which holds us upright, giving us independence? immeasurable pride.

The first time that the term ‘etzem’ is mentioned As we approach this Yom Haatzmaut, we in the Torah is in the Book of Bereishit (2:23) – celebrate that just as Chava became an “Etzem me’atzamai” – God took a bone from independent being in her own right, Israel has Adam and with it he formed Chava (Eve), who overcome unfathomable challenges to become became a separate person in her own right. An a proud, independent country amongst the independent individual. Hence, the connection nations of the world. On this significant between ‘etzem’ and ‘atzmaut’, a ‘bone’ and anniversary, we celebrate the journey from ‘independence’. darkness to light, from exile to redemption and from ‘atzamot’ to ‘atzmaut’.

In one of the most evocative Biblical passages, the prophet Yechezkel (Ezekiel ch. 37) describes a remarkable, graphic vision of a valley of dry bones. It is his prophecy of the ingathering of the exiles in which bones rise from beneath the ground, flesh appears upon them and then those very people become clothed and begin to march towards the Land of Israel.

Was this not the story of the 1940s? Among the most disturbing images of the Holocaust are those of the piles of skeletal victims and of the starving and emaciated survivors wondering how they might begin the process of rebuilding their lives. And yet, within just a few years, we saw the most miraculous ingathering of Jewish

In memory of Yaakov Yehoshua ben Ephraim Hirsch 3 Don’t Drink and Sacrifice by Rabbi Yonosan Golomb, Sheffield United Synagogue

At the first service of the God. This is the “fire that came out from before newly-inaugurated Mishkan God and consumed them”. In simple terms, their (Tabernacle), two of Aharon’s intoxication was in order to assist this departure sons, Nadav and Avihu, took from the physical so as to come close to the it upon themselves to bring shechina; this is exactly what happened – they offerings on the mizebach became one with God’s presence and ceased haketoret (altar of incense). living in the realm of the physical. Perhaps that is This was not a response to what Moshe meant when he said they were a Divine instruction and the result was that “greater than us”. “A fire came out from before God and consumed them and they died before God” (Vayikra 10:2). However, the overall impression one gets from the Torah’s verses is that it was not right. It might If their intentions were to honour God through say a lot about Nadav and Avihu’s lofty spiritual their offerings, what was their transgression? level, but in the final analysis, this is not what God wants. Rashi (d. 1105) cites two reasons. Firstly, they should have verified all matters of law with God wants us to live in this world and to make Moshe, who was the authority in charge. this world a holy place. Many mitzvot require Secondly, they had drunk wine before performing using something material and turning it into a Temple service. Rashi seems to emphasise the something sacred. Animal skin makes a Sefer second reason, noting that in the following Torah, wax candles draw down the presence verses, God warns the Kohanim not to serve in of Shabbat and matzah from flour must be eaten the Mishkan after drinking wine (ibid. 10:8-11). to celebrate the Seder. Divorcing oneself from the material world is not what God wants for us. Why did Nadav and Avihu make the mistake of On the contrary, He wants us to use this physical becoming intoxicated in the first place? Surely it world for spiritual endeavours. In the words of the was obvious that being drunk while performing Rambam (Maimonides, d. 1204): “A person might ritual service was hardly appropriate, especially say… I won’t eat meat or drink wine or marry or for such exalted individuals. live in a nice house or wear nice clothes… this is a bad path… and he who follows [this path] is In fact, even after their death, they are referred to called a sinner”. as exalted by no less than Moshe, who after witnessing the entire event, remarked to Aharon, We must strive to serve God in this world, with “I always knew that the Mishkan would be this world. sanctified with God’s chosen ones. I thought it would be either me or you, but now I see that that they (Nadav and Avihu) are greater that you and me” (see ibid. 10:3 with Rashi). What made them greater?

In a remarkable comment, the Or Hachayim (Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar d. 1743) explains the motivations of Aharon’s sons. They were filled with the soulful desire to experience the delight and beauty of spiritual closeness to the Divine presence, to come close to God to such an extent that their souls would abandon the physical world, leave their bodies and ascend to

In memory of Mordechai Avraham ben Nechemia 4 Solutions in the Sidrah: The Applause of Laurence Olivier by Rabbi Yoni Birnbaum, Hadley Wood Jewish Community

Laurence Olivier was widely instructed, on the grounds that the permission considered to be one of the to continue with the service, despite the most outstanding actors of bereavement he had suffered, did not extend his generation. One evening, to the consumption of the regular Rosh following his performance Chodesh offering, only to the special two of Othello, he received offerings brought in honour of the dedication. sustained and continuous Moshe accepted Aharon’s explanation (see applause. Even the actors Vayikra 10:16-20 with Rashi). applauded him off stage, which is rare in theatre. Ostensibly, the inclusion of this dialogue in the Torah seems difficult to understand. What At the show, there was a young, new member message does it contain for future generations? of the cast. After the show had ended, he followed Olivier to his room and was astonished However, based on the anecdotal story to see him throw off his costume and remove regarding Laurence Olivier’s frustration at not his make-up, clearly irritated at what had understanding why he had received more transpired. The young actor plucked up the applause than usual that evening, perhaps we courage to ask Olivier why he was angry – he can understand the inclusion of this episode. had just received the greatest personal Great people often strive to understand their accolade of his career! “Yes”, Olivier responded, own actions, as this enables them to learn from “but I don’t know why!” their experiences on future occasions. It reflects Olivier’s greatness that he was upset that he In this week’s sidrah, a perplexing dispute knew he had done something special to receive between Moshe and Aharon is recorded. the accolade, but was unaware of exactly what. According to Rashi (d. 1105), the dispute surrounded a particular aspect of the Mishkan Aharon was able to successfully defend his (Tabernacle) service on the day that Aharon’s conduct when challenged, because he was sons tragically passed away. In a departure from acutely aware of the rationale behind his every normal practice for a mourner, Aharon had been single action. The message this story leaves for instructed to continue the service as normal. us is to put the same measure of forethought However, there were three offerings brought that into all we do in life, so that we are never left day. Two were unique to the period of the wondering ‘why’ in the aftermath. dedication of the Mishkan – the dedication offering itself and the offering brought on behalf of the prince of the tribe of Yehuda. The third, in contrast, was the regular Rosh Chodesh offering, brought for the first of Nissan. In respect of this last offering, Aharon had decided to burn the offering rather than consume the parts usually eaten by the Kohanim.

Moshe challenged Elazar and Itamar for this apparent deviation from the instructions that Moshe had issued to proceed as normal with the service. Yet Aharon was able to successfully defend their actions, which he himself had

In memory of Tzemach ben Yisrael 5 Return to the Biblical Land and the Focal Point of Mitzvot by Rabbi Gideon Sylvester, United Synagogue Israel Rabbi

My father grew up in I still recall a Bible class in which we studied the the heart of the English Akeidah, the story of the binding of Yitzchak. As establishment, but he was we came to the passage in which Avraham and deeply affected by the Yitzchak set off on their three-day journey to Holocaust. I remember as Mount Moriah, Rabbi David Walk pointed a child walking hand in through the window to the Path of the Patriarchs hand with him through in the Judean Hills: "Do you see that footpath the gardens in Netanya. over there? That is the route that Avraham and Glancing at the elderly people chatting together Yitzchak may have taken". It was an exhilarating on the benches and the children playing on the moment in which the Torah came to life. In Israel, lawns, he would murmur to me, "This is a people the Torah is not only our spiritual guide, but our not for burning". His words echoed the biblical national history. prophecies of Zechariah, whose description of In Israel, we can keep many of the Torah's laws the wondrous return to Zion so closely matches which do not apply outside its borders. Moshe, our reality today in the State of Israel: the Talmud says, did not just pray to enter the “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Once Land because of its beautiful scenery and again men and women of ripe old age will sit delicious fruit, but in order to fulfil the totality in the streets of Jerusalem, each of them with of the Torah (Sotah 14a). cane in hand because of their age. The city Beyond that, the Promised Land is imbued streets will be filled with boys and girls with an inherent holiness, which is why our playing there’. This is what the Lord Almighty Sages loved it so much, kissing its cliffs and says: ‘If it will be marvelous to the remnant of abandoning their studies to repair its roads this people at that time, then it will it also be (Talmud Ketuobot 112b). Rabbi Avraham wondrous in My eyes…’" (8: 4-6). Yitzchak HaKohen Kook (d. 1935) certainly felt As we celebrate Israel's achievements, we are that way. He once told a travelling companion, also prompted to consider the State’s religious "I could kiss every stone in this land – and even significance. the mules on the way". At the early Zionist Congresses, Theodor Herzl Extracted from the 'From Exile to Redemption raised the possibility of fulfilling the urgent need Machzor', published by the US and Koren for Jewish security by settling Jews elsewhere in Publishers Jerusalem. the world, but he was persuaded that this would not be acceptable to most of the delegates. These Jews had a powerful sense of their history and heritage. They recognised that the Torah contains the story of God's promise of the Land of Israel to our ancestors, our sojourn in Egypt and the 40-year journey to return to the Promised Land under the leadership of Moshe and Yehoshua (Joshua). They knew of our subsequent battles to hold on to the Land, our exile at the hands of Babylon and Rome and the prophecies of our eventual return. 2000 years after the expulsion by the Romans, the desire to return to the land that God had promised to Netanya, Israel

Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov excited the early Zionists, and it still excites us today. evening that until impure remain they Answer:

In memory of Frida Mirel bat Chaim Simcha 6 The Significance of Israel to Jews Today by Rabbi Chaim Kanterovitz, Senior Rabbi, Borehamwood & Elstree United Synagogue

We are blessed and life. According to Rabbi Yehudah Halevi (d. 1141) privileged to live in a the Jews’ neglecting to return en masse to the generation where the Land to rebuild and re-establish a Jewish state State of Israel is a given. was “our greatest disgrace”. According to some Our children and indeed Rabbinic commentators, this may have been many of us have never the transgression that evoked Divine wrath and known anything different. allowed for Haman’s subsequent plan to destroy Yet it was not long ago that the nation to be set in motion. there was no Jewish homeland to go to; being a Jew in the world must have felt very different. Rabbi Yehuda Loew (known as the Maharal of Prague d. 1609) writes that the unfolding inner The State of Israel, like all other democracies, is being of the nation of Israel is only possible in our far from perfect. Yet not to have it would be own country, under our own rule. Indeed, his inconceivable. Whilst it is certainly true that a contemporary, the great commentator Rabbi Jew can endure without a State, as we did for Shmuel Eidels (known as the Maharsha d. 1631) generations, nevertheless the State of Israel further taught that the national state of freedom has become a physical and spiritual focal point can only come about once the Land of Israel of our national existence. returns to our hands and we achieve international standing as a nation. Rabbi Mordechai Greenberg (Rosh Yeshivah of Kerem B’Yavneh in Israel) once told the story of It is a great honour to be able to stand before the the great Chassidic master Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Almighty and praise Him for allowing us to Alter, known as the Chidushei Harim (d. 1866). witness that which our ancestors yearned for. The year was 1863 and the Poles had raised Our return to Zion and the ongoing success their flag in rebellion against their Russian rulers. of the State of Israel, echoes Rabbi Avraham That Shabbat the Chidushei Harim took his Yitzchak HaKohen Kook’s (d. 1935) vision, prior kiddush cup in his hand and sighed deeply. even to the founding of the State: “I am concerned”, he told his grandchildren, “that in heaven there will be a great indictment “This state is our state, Medinat Yisrael (the against the Jewish people. The Polish people State of Israel), the foundation of God's Throne are willing to rise up and fight for their country in the world, whose whole desire is that and pay a heavy price whilst we are complacent God be One and His Name One. This is, in truth, and remain in exile”. the ultimate happiness”.

This may have been true in 1863, but not so today. Young men and woman dedicate themselves to protect the State of Israel with enormous devotion.

After the destruction of the First Temple, many Jews in Shushan under the rule of King Achashverosh did not follow the earlier, official proclamation of King Cyrus allowing them to return from their exile and re-establish a second commonwealth in Israel. They remained embedded in the Persian way of

7 The ‘35’ and the fall of Gush Etzion in 1948 by Rabbi Z M Salasnik, former Rabbi of Bushey & District United Synagogue

Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s was compromised. While military logic Memorial Day) provides suggested evacuating the settlements, future an opportunity to Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion opposed commemorate the painful evacuation, unless forced to do so, as it would story of the Gush Etzion have left the Jewish community feeling region in the run-up to demoralised. Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948. The 35 However, the isolated settlements needed Recently, I joined a Rabbinical Council of supplies. Convoys were attacked by armed America visit to Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem, Arabs. On Wednesday 14 January, hundreds of where we saw a film about the fall of that region Arabs attacked Etzion. That Thursday night, 35 in 1948. Seated in an auditorium, as one scene members of the Haganah, mainly students at the concluded, we moved to another room to watch Hebrew University, led by Danny Mass, set out the next scene, passing artefacts on the way that on foot with medical and other supplies to Gush related to the history. All in all, we watched the Etzion. They intended to reach there before light, film in about 4 segments. but the loads they were carrying delayed them. In the early hours of Friday morning, it is The present kibbutz of Kfar Etzion in the Gush understood that they were seen by two Arab Etzion region, close to Route 60 between women who raised the alarm. A battle ensued Jersualem and Hebron, is the fourth and by far against the greater Arab forces until every one of the longest-lasting on its land. The first was the 35 had been killed. named Migdal Eder. It was established in 1927 on land bought by the Zichron David society, a A different explanation was also offered, that the group of 160 Orthodox Jews from Meah Shearim 35 had encountered a lone Arab shepherd and in Jerusalem and some Yemmenite Jews. This let him go, only for him to betray them. This led settlement was destroyed by Arabs in 1929. In to the moral discussion of ‘Purity of Arms’, of 1934, Shmuel Tzvi Holtzman of Rechovot, having taking a moral standpoint even when it is against bought the land, established a settlement. one’s military interests. However, it was abandoned following the 1936 Arab Uprising. The 35 are commemorated by Kibbutz Netiv HaLamed Hei (h”l is the numerical equivalent of In 1943, Keren Kayemet LeYisrael, the Jewish 35), founded in 1949 in the Elah Valley, a short National Fund, settled another religious group in distance from Gush Etzion close to the 1949 Kfar Etzion as the central kibbutz in the Gush. Israel-Jordan border, and a road in Jerusalem This kibbutz was joined by 3 other kibbutzim, named Rechov HaLamed Hei. After the War of Massuot Yitzchak (named in honour of the then Independence, when Gush Etzion was in Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Dr Isaac Herzog) in 1945, Jordanian hands, their bodies were brought for Ein Tzurim in 1946, both of which were also burial on Mount Herzl, initially through the efforts religious, and Revadim, a secular kibbutz, in of Rabbi Shlomo Goren, then the Chief Rabbi of 1947. the Israel Defence Forces. The detail of where each person was initially buried had been lost. Following the United Nations vote on Partition on Because the Arab forces had mutilated the 29 November 1947 and the resulting Arab bodies, it was impossible to identify 12 of the attacks, the safety of small isolated settlements men.

8 About the Lamed Hei, David Ben-Gurion On their release after the ceasefire, they famously said: “I doubt whether any other re-founded Massuot Yitzchak, Ein Tzurim and battalion in the Israeli Defence Forces or any Revadim in sites further to the southwest army in the world ever assembled such splendid of Israel, closer to Ashkelon. manpower, pure bravery and spiritual fervour as these men, who will always be emblazoned in the Kfar Etzion was not re-founded then, although a annals of our people by the name of the Thirty number of the survivors who had been previously Five”. evacuated set up Nir Etzion in the Carmel district. During the following 19 years until Gush Etzion The Fall of Gush Etzion came under Israeli control during the Six-Day War of 1967, the families of those killed would The children of the Gush had been evacuated to stand by the border and gaze at the giant lone Jerusalem on 5 January 1948. In late February, oak that marked the kibbutz. the Jewish Agency offered to relocate the married men to another settlement to reunite with their wives and children. The men declined to In 1967, soon after the Six Day War, Kfar Etzion leave the Gush and their single comrades there. was re-founded by, among others, some of the children who had been evacuated from there in Following several attacks, the British-led and January 1948. Over the years it has been joined trained Arab Legion finally stormed the gates of by other towns such as Alon Shvut and Efrat. Kfar Etzion and the other kibbutzim in the Gush in May 1948. The defenders surrendered. In On the same day that the Gush fell, David Ben- Kfar Etzion, some defenders were assembled Gurion in Tel Aviv declared the founding of the together for what they were told was a State of Israel, a bitter-sweet combination. photograph before captivity; instead, they were Subsequently, Ben-Gurion eulogised the fallen of fired on and killed. Kfar Etzion was destroyed on Gush Etzion and declared that “if there exists 14 May 1948. Only four of the defenders a Jewish Jerusalem, our foremost thanks survived. The last radio message from Kfar Etzion go to the defenders of Gush Etzion”. broadcast the bitter news, “hamalka naf’la” (the Queen – the codename for Kfar Etzion – has fallen). Then there was silence. May God continue to shelter the souls of all those whose lives we commemorate on The defenders of the three neighbouring Yom Hazikaron and may no more people kibbutzim were taken into captivity in Jordan. need such commemoration.

9 Israel 70: Building Idealism 70 Years On by Rabbi Aharon Herskovitz, Rav Shaliach, JAFI Emissary to Bnei Akiva and Mizrachi UK

This Yom Haatzmaut, we Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein (d. 2015) suggests celebrate the founding that a central idea to be cultivated today by of the State of Israel, 70 Diaspora communities is the concept of Derishat years ago. Bnei Akiva Zion (seeking out Zion). This means that Israel and Bachad (today better should not be just a ‘hotel’, a place to advocate known as ‘Friends of for and support, nor even just seen as a place in Bnei Akiva’) in the United which we are blessed to have a second home. Kingdom were extremely Rather, we must also work hard to forge a deep active during the 1940s, from helping to absorb emotional bond with the Land of Israel, a bond children who had been saved from Nazi Germany that is central to our lives and foremost in our through the Kindertransport, to setting up svivot consciousness. This bond has been central to (community branches) in many Jewish the Jewish experience for centuries, from our communities in the United Kingdom and Ireland. remembering of Jerusalem at weddings to stating each and every year at the end of the Chanichim (members, literally ‘apprentices’) were Seder: “Next year in Jerusalem”. trained to work the land while learning Torah, especially at the well-known Thaxted ‘Kibbutz’ Additionally, through aiming to connect youth to Farm in Essex, with many of them making aliyah, the ideal of Derishat Zion that extends beyond serving in the IDF and establishing communities, individualism and the here and now, focusing especially agricultural kibbutzim, in the newly instead on the collective and on the history that founded State. It was a period of great fervour, goes back millennia, we can also achieve the commitment and excitement. The cause of objective of connecting Jews to Judaism, filling establishing and developing the fledgling State of them with a sense of vitality and purpose. Youth Israel was one which provided countless young movements can have a major role to play in people with a mission in life, one to which they Diaspora communities that are sometimes could fully devote themselves, to the exclusion of beset by assimilation, indifference and cynicism. almost everything else. Particularly the youth movements that are capable of connecting young people to a Today, 70 years on, the reality has changed. The Judaism that looks both backwards and forwards contemporary State of Israel is by no means in time, with strong ideals as their bedrock. perfect, and work still needs to be done to help They can often accomplish incredible educational shape it as a “light to the nations” (see goals. Yeshaya/Isaiah 42:6) and the epitome of what a state should be. Yet the relative stability of life in Even as Israel changes, the concept of Israel, and the move away from a kibbutz lifestyle, Derishat Zion remains and must be applied can sometimes make it difficult to arouse the to contemporary circumstances, inspiring same sense of idealism and commitment that Jews young and old with a sense of idealism characterised the young Bnei Akiva participants for Israel and the Jewish people. of 70 years ago. May we all continue to serve God by aiming This challenge is one that is felt by many of those to connect with the State with which He has who feel a strong sense of commitment to Israel: blessed us, and to endeavour to make it one is there a role to be played besides moving to that helps His Name to be sanctified in this world. Israel, such as supporting the country financially or visiting frequently?

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