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Verse 18 contains the pivotal maxim: “Love your neighbor as yourself”. In a speech given in 1944 to a gathering of youth groups in Haifa, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion referred to these words as an example of how Judaism serves as a paradigm of a society built on morality, peace and love: “Ours was a tiny nation inhabiting a small country, and there have been many tiny nations and many small countries, but ours was a tiny nation possessed of a great spirit, an inspired people that believed in its pioneering mission to all men, in the mission that had been preached by the prophets of Israel. This people gave the world great and eternal moral truths and commandments. This people rose to prophetic visions of the unity of the Creator with His creation, of the dignity and infinite worth of the individual (because every man is created in the divine image), of social justice, universal peace, and love- “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” This people was the first to prophesy about “The End of Days,” the first to see the vision of a new human society.” Fulfill this Biblical commandment by loving your Israeli neighbor in need of daily sustenance to complete their Godly mission on earth.
You don’t need to speak Hebrew to understand the pride and emotion behind this Holocaust survivor’s speech introducing his grandson – the first IDF soldier to ever appear in the UN in uniform.
Meir Panim, a charity organization which provides food and services to Israel’s poor, is about to embark on one of its most important projects to date: The organization was just awarded a government-funded program called “Food Security Initiative” which will begin this month in the southern Israel town of Dimona.
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Rabbi Tuly Weisz speaks to Holocaust survivors at a Meir Panim branch in Jerusalem. Approximately 390,000 hot meals are served annually throughout Meir Panim's free 'restaurants' across Israel.
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Pastor Jim and Lori talk about President Donald Trump being God’s wrecking ball. With special guest Lance Wallnau.
Quotes
We are fighters in the church now, and we had to be. But somehow we’ve got to be known as compassionate people for God. That people can come to us and follow Christ. – Pastor Jim
We have to have the black and white, Hispanic and Asian, male and female, all with their arms around one another, proclaiming the same truth. – Lance Wallnau
The more voices there are, the more people are reached. – Lance Wallnau
Scriptures
Acts 19:29 NKJV So the whole city was filled with confusion, and rushed into the theater with one accord, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul’s travel companions.
Acts 19:32 NKJV Some therefore cried one thing and some another, for the assembly was confused, and most of them did not know why they had come together.
"Dr. Brown's reason has deserted him," exclaimed one YouTube viewer.
Another opined, "Utter nonsense," while still another added, "Totally faulty logic."
What drew such intense reactions?
It was my new, 60-second video on the regathering of Israel, the first in what will be a new series called "Instant Insight with Dr. Michael Brown."
Others viewers dubbed the video "brilliant" and our "best video yet," with the thumbs-ups ratings outpacing the thumbs-down at roughly 20 to 1.
What's interesting, though, is not that some viewers are reacting to the video so harshly. Instead, it's that they are rejecting the thesis of the video—namely, that, based on biblical truths, the modern State of Israel must be a divine act rather than a human act—without coming up with a better one.
And so, my challenge remains: If the Jewish people were scattered worldwide under God's judgment (as the Bible states repeatedly), and if it impossible for human beings to overturn what God decrees, then how could the Jewish people regather themselves without divine help?
We know that when God blesses, no one can curse, and when He curses, no one can bless. When He opens a door, no one can close it, and when He closes a door, no one can open it.
So, if God scattered Israel in judgment and yet Israel has been gathered again today, there can only be one explanation: God Himself did it.
Take one minute to watch this new, graphics-enhanced video—the first in what will be a new series in the coming months—and see if you agree with those who think my reason has deserted me or with those who call this our best video yet.
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Posted: 06 Feb 2017 Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG
What is going to happen to society when robots are able to do just about everything better, faster and cheaper than human workers can? We live at a time when technology is increasing at an exponential pace. Incredible advancements in robotics, computer science and artificial intelligence are certainly making our lives more comfortable, but they are also bringing fundamental changes to the workplace. For employers, there are a lot of advantages to replacing human workers with robots. Robots don’t surf around on Facebook when they are supposed to be working. Robots don’t need Obamacare, lunch breaks or vacation days. Robots never steal from the company and they never complain. Up until fairly recently, human workers could generally perform many tasks more cheaply than robots could, but now that is rapidly changing. For example, a coffee shop has just opened up in San Francisco that is manned by a robot instead of a human…
Tired of your barista misspelling your name on your morning cup of joe? Perhaps a robot could do better. On Monday, Cafe X opened its very first robotic cafe in San Francisco’s Metreon shopping center. Promising “precision crafted specialty coffee in seconds, the way the roaster intended,” Cafe X thinks that anything a human can do, its machines can do better. Specifically, one very special machine. Nicknamed Gordon, after a Cafe X employee, this robot mans, or robots, two standard professional coffee machines in order to serve up espressos and lattes. In the San Francisco location, customers can grab a cup of coffee with beans from AKA Coffee, Verve Coffee Roasters, or Peet’s. While the coffee itself may not make Cafe X stand out from the competition, the startup hopes that the robot’s efficiency will.
If that coffee shop demonstrates that it can be much more profitable than a coffee shop with human employees, it is just a matter of time before human baristas start to be phased out all over the nation. A similar thing is happening in many supermarkets. Personally, I hate the “self-checkout lines”, but you are starting to see them everywhere these days. And according to the Sun, Amazon is playing around with a concept that would employ hardly any human workers at all…
In the case of Amazon’s automated retail prototype, a half-dozen workers could staff an average location. A manager’s duties would include signing up customers for the “Amazon Fresh” grocery service. Another worker would restock shelves, and still another two would be stationed at “drive-thru” windows for customers picking up their groceries, fast-food style. The last pair would work upstairs, helping the robots bag groceries to be sent down to customers on “dumbwaiter”-like conveyors, a source said. With the bare-bones payroll, the boost to profits could be huge. Indeed, the prototype being discussed calls for operating profit margins north of 20 percent. That compares with an industry average of just 1.7 percent, according to the Food Marketing Institute.
During the recent presidential campaign, much was made of the fact that we have shipped millions of good paying jobs overseas over the past several decades. We can certainly try to make some laws that would keep American workers from losing jobs to foreign workers, but pretty soon workers all over the world are going to be losing millions of jobs to technology, and it is going to be just about impossible to make laws to prevent that from happening. Just check out what is happening in China. Many big firms had moved manufacturing to China because labor was much cheaper over there, but now a lot of those cheap Chinese workers are being replaced by robots…
Apple’s iPhone manufacturer, Foxconn, in fact, has already begun automating certain work that was previously done by hand. A Chinese government official told a Hong Kong newspaper in May that Foxconn had replaced 60,000 workers with robots at one factory there. And the company is receiving incentives north of Shanghai in the eastern-central Jiangsu Province to accelerate investments in robotics to replace human labor, according to Chinese state media organization Xinhua.
Sadly, this is just the beginning. According to one study, 49 percent of all activities currently performed by human workers could already “be turned over to some sort of machine or robot”…
About 49% of worker activities can be turned over to some sort of machine or robot, increasingly helped along by artificial-intelligence software, according to consultancy McKinsey. About 58% of CEOs plan to cut jobs over the next five years because of robotics, while 16% say they plan to hire more people because of robotics, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.
And Carl Frey of Oxford University has determined that some professions have more than a 90 percent chance of becoming automated in the coming years…
The revelations that dependable office jobs such as insurance workers and real estate agents have a more than 97% chance of becoming computerised could now spark fears among the middle class workforce.
‘While low-skilled jobs are most exposed to automation over the forthcoming decades, a substantial number of middle-income jobs are equally at risk.’ Frey told The Times.
Other jobs that feature high on the ‘risk list’ are credit analysts who have a 97% chance of losing their jobs to robots, postal service workers at 95% and lab technicians who have an 89% chance of seeing their role become automated.
So what in the world are we going to do with billions of human workers around the globe that are no longer needed when technology takes virtually all of our jobs? Some have suggested that the idea of “work” will become a thing of the past, and that society will evolve into a socialist utopia where everything we need is provided for by the government. In fact, the concept of a “universal basic income” is already being promoted in Europe and elsewhere. But others see a dystopian future where the gap between the “haves” and the “have nots” grows greater than ever before. Humanity has always been plagued by poverty and greed, and everyone agrees that the gap between the very wealthy and the rest of us has been growing very rapidly in recent years. Where there is nearly universal agreement is on the fact that big changes are coming. Workers are going to be displaced by technology at an accelerating rate in the years ahead, and this will present a tremendous challenge for us all.
What would have happened to the church if Donald Trump hadn't been elected?
Lance Wallnau tells Jim Bakker the progressive left would have taken every opportunity to shut down God's people for good—and their cunning strategies are anything but benign.
"You would've seen the progressives stifling our religious liberties," Wallnau says. "And then what's worse is, the way the game is set up, is big media and big Hollywood and big universities—academia, entertainment and media—are under the control of principalities right now."
Wallnau says those demonic spirits would act swiftly to vilify the church.
Watch the video to see more.
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Reforested hills along the road from Jaffa to Jerusalem, near Bab el-Wad, or Sha'ar HaGuy (circa 1930)
Reposting Tu B'Shvat features from February 1912.
The Jewish National Fund was established in 1901 to purchase and develop land in the Holy Land.
Planting trees on the barren hills on the way to Jerusalem (circa 1930)
A government tree nursery on Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem (circa 1930)
One major activity of the JNF, or in Hebrew the Keren Kayemet LeYisrael, was the planting of trees on Jewish-owned land in Palestine. Many a Jewish home had the iconic JNF blue charity box, or pushke, in order to buy trees. In its history, the JNF is responsible for planting almost a quarter of a billion trees.
The photographers of the American Colony recorded the JNF's efforts.
"Afforestation sponsored by Keren Kayemeth" (circa 1935)
Reforested hillside along the road to Jerusalem. "Demonstrating reforestation possibilities" (circa 1930)
The day chosen for school children and volunteers to go out to the fields and barren hilltops to plant trees was Tu B'Shvat, the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat, a date assigned thousands of years ago in the Mishna for the purposes of determining the age of a tree and its tithing requirements.
Indeed, the date usually coincides with the first blossoms on the almond trees in Israel.
Today, Tu B'Shvat is commemorated as a combination of Arbor Day, environment-protection day, a kibbutz agricultural holiday, and, of course, a day for school outings and plantings.
Postscript
Ceremony of planting the King's tree (1935) at Nahalal
In 1935, the Jews of Britain and the JNF established a "Jubilee Forest" near Nazareth. According to the Jewish Telegraph Agency's account at the time, an "oriental cypress tree presented by King George V of England to the Jubilee Forest in the hills of Nazareth will be formally planted by High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope on December 19."
"The Jubilee Forest is British Jewry's mark of loyalty and devotion to the throne, expressed on the occasion of the royal couple's twenty-fifth jubilee. It will cover a large area of desolate and barren land on the hills of Nazareth which in ancient times were famed for their forest beauty. The forest constitutes the most important effort in reforestation of the Holy Land."
