Month: April 2009

How is it to live in Rocket City?

Matan and Jonathan Update

We had a chance to visit Matan while he was home for Shabbat. The hospital allows him to come home for Shabbat Friday afternoon and then he goes back to the hospital on Sunday morning. The first thing we saw as we entered their home was a wheelchair outside Matan’s.
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Volunteers

This week we have had two visitors come to Hope for Sderot. Wim comes to us from Australia. He has a heart to help and serve with us here in Sderot. He will be with us for a few weeks. At eighty years old he is helping us pack food.
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Soup ?

Miriam runs a local soup kitchen here in Sderot. Due to economic hard time, she has not been able to provide food for those who come to the soup kitchen to eat. One of the major supporters from Jerusalem has had to close their door and consequently that lack of.
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Deuteronomy 10:12

"And now, Israel, what does the L-RD your God require of you, but to fear the L-RD your G- D, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the L-RD your G- D with all your heart and with all your soul.” The word “requires” is.
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“IF”

Becoming one looks at life from two different vantage points… Becoming one with each other and more importantly becoming one with the L-RD G-D of Israel. “If” appears in Torah 884 times. The first time in Geneses 4:7 "If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you.
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Lag b’Omer

Many Jews celebrate Lag b'Omer. To understand why, one must first know the definition of an Omer. An omer is a measure of barley. In Biblical times, on the second day of Passover, it was a mitzvah to bring barley the size of an omer to the Temple in Jerusalem.
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Pesach In Sderot

The first night of Pesach was wonderful. It was a time to remember what G-D has done for us, how He delivered His people out of Egypt from slavery and bondage.  We had many invitations to spend the Seder with those we have met and have become friends with. We.
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Cease Fire Update

Smuggling tunnels are still being built, weapons and supplies are still making there way to Gaza. Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah admitted that the Lebanese terror group was smuggling arms into the Gaza Strip through Egypt. Yet an Egyptian official said Saturday, “Egypt is not a building without a doorkeeper," But.
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1 Chronicles 16:31

“Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; and let them say among the nations, "The L-RD reigns." The L-RD reigns! And because He does, the earth and all of us who live on it can rejoice and be glad. Rejoice because He reigns from on high! Rejoice.
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“Going Down”

As I was leaving my apartment the other day with an old television I was taking to the trash, I remembered how hard it was to carry it up the three flights of stairs when it was given to me and I brought it home, (only to find out it didn’t.
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