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. The World's Oldest Man BITS of INFO RECIPE by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Synopsis of current events from various news sources Homemade cranberry sauce is so much better than Gleaned and Edited by Sherine Levine The Theory of Conservation of Holiness canned, incredibly easy, stress free and make On 11 August 2017, the world's oldest man passed away, just a month short of his 114th birthday - making him one of the ten longest- ahead! Both of these recipes listed below are so lived men since modern record-keeping began. If you knew nothing else about him than this, you would be justified in thinking that he ] Sale of wine from the “West Bank” is being challenged in Canada’s easy to prepare and you can do this ahead of time. had led a peacefulby life, Rabbi spared Ari ofKahn fear, grief and danger.The actual truth is the opposite. The man in question was Yisrael Kristal, Federal Court. After a complaint from David Kattenburg, a university Enjoy! Remember to send your favorite recipes to Holocaust survivor. Born in Poland in 1903, he survived four years in the Lodz ghetto, and was then transported to Auschwitz. In the instructor in Winnipeg, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario sent a [email protected] ghetto, his two children died. In Auschwitz, his wife was killed. When Auschwitz was liberated, he was a walking skeleton weighing a letter to vendors asking them to discontinue selling wine from Psagot . mere 37 kilos. He was the only member of his family to survive. He was raised as a religious Jew and stayed so all his life. When the and Shiloh wineries, claiming the Canadian Food Inspection Agency war was over and his entire world destroyed, he married again, this time to another Holocaust survivor. They had children. They made (CFIA) determined labeling the wines “Product of Israel” was Pineapple Cranberry Sauce (Carlsbadcravings.com) aliyah to Haifa. 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Only then did they allow themselves shipment was organized by Israel’s Foreign Ministry and the Magen because every firstborn became Mine on the day I killed to remember the past. That is what Abraham did in this week's parsha. He had received three promises from God: children, a land, and David Adom. Israel’s deputy ambassador to South Africa said, “Israel 1 large orange, quartered with peel the assurance thatall he the would firstborn be the infather, Egypt. not I thenof one sanctified nation but to of My manyself nations (Gen. 17:4-5). At the age of 137, he had one every firstborn in Israel, man and beast alike, [and] has a long-standing tradition of offering humanitarian assistance and 2 pound cranberries unmarried son, no land, and had fathered no nations. He uttered not a single word of complaint. It seems that he realised that God coordinating relief to alleviate disease, hunger and poverty.” 1 ½ cups white sugar wanted him to act,they not shallto wait remain for God Mine. to do I am the God.work (Bamidbarfor him. So, 3:11-13 when Sarah) died, he bought the first plot in what would become the [Algemeiner] 2/3 cup apricot preserves Holy Land, the field and cave of Machpelah. Then he instructed his servant to find a wife for Isaac, his son, so that he might live to see the first Jewish grandchildren. Lastly, in his old age, he married again and had six sons, who would eventually become progenitors 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained This passage explains how and why the firstborn were ] David Mazouz plays a young Bruce Wayne in the Fox series Gotham . 2 tbsp lemon juice of many nations. initiallyHe did not, sanctified except briefly,with a specialsit and mournholiness: the Onpast. th Insteade night he took the first steps toward building the future. 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Cook and stir over medium heat, until firstborn were saved for a purpose, to serve God in the his rabbis for teaching him “what a moral compass should look like.” Auschwitz, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the Jewish State in our people's ancient homeland, the land of Israel. Had world Jewry sat cranberries just begin to pop, about 10 minutes. Temple, and because they were saved they were He also thanked his parents for instilling in him important values, and passively and weptgranted from then a higher till now status for theof holiness. murdered Why generations was this of European Jewry, it would have been an understandable “Hashem for bringing all of this into my life.” [Algemeiner] reaction. But it didholiness not. It wasforfeited? as if the When Jewish were people the hadfirstborn said collectively, replaced by in the words of King David, "I will not die but live" (Ps. 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