What does this Torah portion have to do with Marty’s new grandson?…

And…Kosher Jewish Names…Fact or Fiction?…

Plus…Winners, losers, rabbinic curses, Peres and Peretz…
All this and MORE…

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New Jewish Life in Israel

Our Father, Abraham Avinu

The Holy Land of Israel

Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital

Amir Peretz
Newly-Elected Head of the Labor Party

Shimon Peres
Ex-Head of the Labor Party

Four dead and scores injured as another murderous Islamic human bomb detonated himself in front of a packed Tel-Aviv club on Friday night.

All this and MORE…

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More proof (if you REALLY needed it) that the relative calm, the relative peace is only by virtue of the professional work of Israel’s security forces….

NOT any decrease of desire by Israel’s Arab enemies to murder as many Jews as possible…

and the recent decrease in SUCCESSFUL terror attacks is MOST CERTAINLY NOT due to any increased effort on the part of the newly-elected palestinian leadership!!!

The originally planned topic for tonight’s “Marty Roberts Show” was to be related to the Weekly Torah Reading, this week being the episode of The Golden Calf. Due to the immediacy of current news needs, Marty was only able to weave the lessons of this historic incident into today’s headlines.

The rest will, of necessity, have “to be continued”…..

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner Emphasizes the Sanctity of The Land of Israel and It’s Unity

Also…Who Did The Creator Choose to Lead Israel Alongside of Moses Himself?

Is There a Lesson for Today???

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Rabbi Shlomo Aviner: Bet El’s Rabbi, Head of the Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva, Jerusalem

“Hear O Israel! Hashem is our G-d. Hashem is One.

Hear O Israel! This land is ours. This land – this one land.

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand lose its cunning.

If I forget you, O Gush Katif, and obviously Northern Samaria.

Jerusalem and all of Eretz Yisrael are one.

So say the holy nation who dwell in Zion.

So holds the fine nation with the warm heart.”

“The wisdom of their wise men has perished; “The prudence of their prudent men is hidden” (Isaiah 29:14).

Our Prime Minister is locked in on an immoral mission impossible.

Our government is deaf and blind.

It cannot see that after 2,000 years of exile We have risen from the dust, We have risen to rebirth!

It is a blind government That knows not what is happening in Katif

A government suffering mental disengagement.

The Menorah From The Holy Temple…Subject of This Week’s Torah Portion – Behaalotecha

The Torah Portion of the Week always speaks to us on MANY levels…

The Jewish Police (Capos??) – Assistants to the Egyptian Taskmasters

Why is it THESE JEWS that The Creator chose to assist Moses in the leadership of the Jewish People?

It was their Love of the People of Israel…

They REFUSED to carry out the evil orders of the Pharaoh…

They ASSISTED their brethren, the Jews, instead of oppressing them…

A message for today???

Parshat “Terumah” – Exodus XXV

Donations……It’s 10 PM……Do you know where YOUR money is going?????

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As usual, after a restful Sabbath in Israel, Marty devotes most of his “Post-Sabbath” program to issues that are relevant both in today’s world and connected to the Torah/Bible. Tonight, interesting insights about the Jewish Priestly Class.

Also, donations…..for better or for worse.

Food for thought, and your comments are welcome!!!!!!

This and more, in this 25-minute long edition of “The Marty Roberts Show”.

In the Torah portion “Yitro” (Jethro, who is the father-in-law of Moses), we learn of the Jewish People receiving The Law, The Torah (the Ten Commandments) from The Creator. Moses ascends Mount Sinai and communicates directly with The Almighty One.

The sages comment upon the fact that the millions of Jews encamped at the base of Mount Sinai were unified, as one man. From this we learn the virtue of unity of the Jewish Nation. But does this mean unity at all costs?

The Marty Roberts Show looks at this question in greater depth.

Torah Reading

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It is SUCH a pain in the tush (butt) for a Jew to keep kosher…the Jewish dietary laws mandated by the Torah. So many yummy foods that a Jew may not eat…seafood, bacon, not to mention cheeseburgers and meat with a creamy French sauce.

Non-Kosher Food...Tasty, But Dangerous for the Jewish Soul

Then there’s all the trouble you have to go through to make sure that your meat is slaughtered properly, even if it IS of a kosher species, and that, of course, makes it much more expensive. Now, once you have your properly slaughtered kosher meat, you’ve got to go through the long process of ridding it of blood…salting and on and on. And do NOT get me started on liver…hardly worth the trouble required by the Torah to prepare just to enjoy a little chopped liver.

Oh, yeah, and then, since Jewish dietary law forbids mixing milk and meat, you have to have two sets of everything…dishes, utensils, pots, pans, dishwashers, sinks…talk about burdensome! Not to mention that you have to wait six hours after eating meat before you can eat a dairy product. What, am I expected to go around with a stopwatch? What did they do before every watch had a digital timer on board? And it sure would be nice if I could eat in any old restaurant that my non-Jewish or non-religiously observant friends choose for our night out, or that required attendance business lunch.

So, why bother? Why do I, just because I was born Jewish, have to jump through all these hoops just to have a little nosh? And don’t give me that “health” answer…no pork because of trichinosis centuries ago, it’s more healthy, yadda yadda yadda…none of which is true OR the reason we Jews have to keep kosher.

Bottom line is…Jews have to observe the dietary laws of kashrut (kosher) because G-d said to…period…
But if maybe this is not enough for you, my thinking friends, there is a whole world of spiritual reasons, none of which make any rational sense, as to why a Jew may not eat certain foods or certain mixtures of foods, and on and on with the minutiae of kashrut…their is something special about the Jewish “Soul”, or Spirit, that which turns our body from a lifeless blob of flesh into a living, talking, thinking human being…This special Soul is damaged by taking in non-kosher food. Non-kosher food is spiritually unhealthy for a Jewish Soul…but there is absolutely NO way that you can understand this on a rational level.

I did, however, run into something interesting as I was studying the Torah reading for this Sabbath, the portion of Shemini, where, among other topics, the basis for the Jewish dietary laws is laid out.

On the verse that tells us, “these are the living things that you may eat”, the medieval Torah commentator, Rashi explains the following…To what can this idea be compared? (the idea of dietary laws that limit and proscribe what a Jew may or may not eat and how)

Rashi says, it is like a doctor who tells a sick person to go ahead and eat whatever he wants…it doesn’t matter anyway…your case is hopeless…nothing can save you anyway, so you might as well enjoy it while you can…as opposed to the OTHER sick person, who DOES have hope of being saved…cured of his illness…HE is ordered by the same doctor to partake of a strictly controlled diet, only eating certain foods and mixtures of foods, consuming certain special medicines and avoiding at all cost other, harmful foods…all in the interest of restoring and preserving good health…

Jewish dietary laws…kosher…Mandatory universal Jewish health insurance…THAT is how G-d is insuring the spiritual health of his Chosen People, the Jews…

Food for thought…

Will we be seeing it any time soon?…We learn about the building of the Ark of the covenant by Moses in this week’s Torah reading, Terumah…But what has the Ark been doing since then?…A history of the travels and tribulations of the Ark of the Covenant from Moses until the present…Where is it now?…Why has it not yet been revealed?…When will the Ark be revealed to us?…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…

So says the wise King Solomon…That’s what seems to be happening here, in Israel…Marty explains…Goodwill gestures to palestinian arab terrorists?…Why???…Also…How the Torah teaches about personality traits…Jacob and Esau…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…Listen to the show below…

We’re NOT talking about Moses getting the Ten Commandments, either!…Hamas has conquered a substantial portion of Egypt, and nobody is doing ANYTHING about it!…Not the US, not Egypt, not Israel…The border between Egypt and Gaza no longer exists…The Multi-national force monitoring Sinai is nowhere to be found, either…What are the implications of the happenings in Sinai?…Plus…Terror continues in an Israeli high school yeshiva…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”……Listen to the show below…