Showing posts with label flag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flag. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Israel Photo Trivia ✡ "According to His Flag"

The Children of Israel shall encamp, each man according to his flag.

NUMBERS (2:1)
 

אִישׁ עַל דִּגְלוֹ בְאֹתֹת לְבֵית אֲבֹתָם יַחֲנוּ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל

במדבר ב:א


eesh al dig-lo b'-o-tot l'-bayt a-vo-tam ya-kha-nu b'-nay yis-ra-ayl

Today's Israel Inspiration

As the Children of Israel encamped in the desert, each tribe had a flag with unique insignia. Do you know the symbolism of the modern day flag of Israel? At the First Zionist Congress back in 1897, the organizers wanted an original flag, when one man said, "We have a flag — and it is blue and white. The Tallit (prayer shawl) with which we wrap ourselves when we pray: that is our symbol. Let us take this Tallit from its bag and unroll it before the eyes of Israel and the eyes of all nations." So he ordered a blue and white flag with the Shield of David painted upon it, and that is how the national flag came into being. Today, the insignia of Israel's national blood bank is known to all as providing life-saving blood to all Jews and non Jews in medical need.
 

Blood for the Soldiers

Hear from an Israeli soldier whose life, almost extinguished by Hezbollah, was ultimately saved with 10 units of blood. Heart to Heart supplies 97% of Israel’s blood, and all of the blood of the Israel Defense Forces.
 

Anti-Semitic Hatred Fuels Child Violence

On Christmas day, Ayala, an 11-year old Jewish Israeli girl and her father were driving when their car was targeted, and took a direct hit, by a Molotov cocktail. Contrast that with Israel's life-saving treatment of every person in need, including a Palestinian baby last week.
 

LAST CHANCE: 2015 Israel Calendars $5 & Free Shipping

Our Israel365 Calendar provides daily inspiration with fantastic scenic photos of Israel accompanied by meaningful verses. Last chance to get one, now $5 and FREE shipping.

Israel Photo Trivia

Grace and Rick Knelsen's fantastic photo of a craftsman in his Safed studio. Take a guess at what he's weaving! Send me an email or check out our Facebook page.
 

Thank You

Today's Scenes and Inspiration is sponsored by Rowena Wareham from Arnold's Cove, NL, Canada. Toda Raba!
 

“You Are Awakening Feelings of a Homeland”

It’s great to hear from so many of you - stay in touch and let us know where in the world you are enjoying Israel365!
 
Dear Rabbi Tuly, Your e-mails are quite inspiring. I look forward to the day when I too would be able to visit the Holy Land. Israel has been in my heart since the age of twelve years. I pray daily for the Holy Land, the peace of Jerusalem and the safety of the Jewish people. Once again thank you for your e-mails. Ursula, Benoni-South Africa

Just a small note to say thank you. You are awakening feelings of a Homeland that I dreamed of since I was a child.- Karen Willis
Shalom,
Rabbi Tuly Weisz
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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Love Shared from Sweden -"A LOVE BEYOND ALL LIMITS - JESUS"


A LOVE BEYOND ALL LIMITS - JESUS

The title He got was criminal.
The royal crown was made of thorns.
The life in aboundness 
Was His garments divided.
The palace He went to 
Was the cross.

The honor He was shown 
Was people turning away.
Their faces in contempt 
and a suffering unto death.
He was willing to give up it all - 
because of love
He did it for you!

Isaiah 53, John.3:16

Eva H. 
Sweden


Sweden's flag

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

July 4th - Christian Quotes of the Founding Fathers

This is what they really said. And they didn't "separate" church and state. Steve Martin, Editor




Christian Quotes of the Founding Fathers - Quotes on Christianity, Faith, Jesus and the Bible

By Mary Fairchild, About.com Guide


Declaration of Independence Image: Photodisc / Getty Images


No one can deny that many of the founding fathers of the United States of America were men of deep religious convictions based in the Bible and their Christian faith in Jesus Christ. Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, nearly half (24) held seminary or Bible school degrees.

These Christian quotes of the founding fathers will give you an overview of their strong moral and spiritual convictions which helped form the foundations of our nation and our government.

George Washington
1st U.S. President


"While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
--The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.

John Adams
2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence


"Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God ... What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be."
--Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9.

"The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite, and these Principles only could be intended by them in their address, or by me in my answer. And what were these general Principles? 

I answer, the general Principles of Christianity, in which all these Sects were United: And the general Principles of English and American Liberty, in which all those young Men United, and which had United all Parties in America, in Majorities sufficient to assert and maintain her Independence.

"Now I will avow, that I then believe, and now believe, that those general Principles of Christianity, are as eternal and immutable, as the Existence and Attributes of God; and that those Principles of Liberty, are as unalterable as human Nature and our terrestrial, mundane System."
--Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, excerpt from a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

"The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. 

It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever."
--Adams wrote this in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776.

Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence


"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; 

That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event."
--Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.

"I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ."
--The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385.

John Hancock
1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence


"Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ... Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us."
--History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229.

Benjamin Franklin
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Unites States Constitution


"Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

"That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.

"As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see;

"But I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. 

I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure."
--Benjamin Franklin wrote this in a letter to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University on March 9, 1790.


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Monday, May 20, 2013

Nazi flag flies south of Jerusalem


Nazi flag flies south of Jerusalem

Monday, May 20, 2013 |  Israel Today Staff  
Residents of the Arab town of Beit Omar between Jerusalem and Hebron strung up a large Nazi flag adjacent to their local mosque on Monday in a clear message to the Jews living nearby.
A resident of the nearby Jewish communities of the Etzion Bloc said the incident was very jarring. "I felt we were going back 75 years, losing our hold on the land," he told the Tazpit News Agency. "The Arabs no longer feel the need to hide their murderous intentions, announcing out loud that they wish to annihilate us."
The Israeli army was notified about the Nazi flag, and sent in a team to remove it.
The Nazis and Adolf Hitler have long been idolized in much of Palestinian society. Hitler's "Mein Kampf" remains one of the 10 bestselling books in the Palestinian Authority-controlled territories today, and has a local distributor.
During World War II, the Palestinian leader in the Middle East, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was a close confidante of Hitler, and actively recruited fellow Muslims to the Nazi cause.