And you (the Jewish people) shall love Adonai your G-D with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I (that is, G-D) command you today shall be in your heart. And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall speak of them when you sit at home, and when you walk along the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 8:18
V-haya im shamoa tish'mu el mitzvotai
asher anochi m'tzaveh etchem ha-yom, l-ahavah et Adonai Elohaychem,
u-l-avdo b-chol l'vavchem u-v-chol nafsh'chem.
V-natati m'tar artzchem b-ito, yoreh u-malkosh;
v-asafta d'ganecha, v-tirosh'cha v-yitzharecha.
V-natati aysev b-sad'cha li-b'hem'techa; v-achalta v-savata.
Hishamru lachem, pen yifteh l'vavchem,
v-sartem va-avadtem elohim achayrim, v-hishtachavitem lahem.
V-charah af Adonai bachem, v-atzar et ha-shamayim v-lo yihyeh matar,
v-ha-adama lo titayn et y'vulah;
va-avadtem m'hayrah mayal ha-aretz ha-tovah asher Adonai notayn lachem.
V-sam'tem et d'varai ayleh al l'vavchem v-al naf'sh'chem;
u-kshartem otam l-ot al yedchem, v-hayu ltotafot bayn aynaychem.
V-limadtem otam et b'naychem l-daber bam
b-shivt'cha b-vaytecha, u-v-lecht'cha baderech, u-v-shachb'cha u-v-kumecha.
U-ch'tavtam al m'zuzot baytecha u-vi-sharecha.
L'ma'an yirbu y'maychem vi-y'may v'naychem al ha-adamah asher nishba Adonai
la-avotaychem latayt lahem ki-y'may ha-shamayim al ha-aretz.
And it shall come to pass if you surely listen to the commandments
that I command you today, to love the Lord your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and all your soul,
That I will give rain to your land, the early and the late rains,
that you may gather in your grain, your wine and your oil.
And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle and you will eat and you will be satisfied.
Beware, lest your heart be deceived,
and you turn and serve other gods, and worship them.
And anger of the Lord will blaze against you, and he will close the heavens and there will not be rain,
and the earth will not give you its fullness,
and you will perish quickly from the good land that the Lord gives you.
So you shall put these, my words, on your heart and on your soul;
and you shall bind them for signs on your hands, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
And you shall teach them to your children, and you shall speak of them
when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
In order to prolong your days and the days of your children on the land that the Lord promised
your fathers that he would give them, as long as the days that the heavens are over the earth.
Please bear in mind that I disagree with the following:
"Living outside of Israel is viewed as an unnatural state for a Jew. The world outside of Israel is often referred to as "galut," which is usually translated as "diaspora" (dispersion), but a more literal translation would be "exile" or "captivity." When we live outside of Israel, we are living in exile from our land."
"Outside of our land"? With all due respect, I am an American as well as a Jewish person. America is also "our land"; we have every right to live here, as well as the Christians and the Muslims and the Buddhists and the Pagans and the Shintoists and the Native Americans and the Hindus. I don't consider myself an exile or a captive. I was born here, and it's probably friendlier sod than the Levant will ever be, even if it IS the Jewish homeland. This is what happens when empires have a fondness for overrunning the same chunk of real-estate over and over and over: folks get kicked out, and the upshot is a seething, hostile melting-pot. At least the Jewish people were NOT a Big Empire.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 8:36
JEWS
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An American Jew2007-01-14 8:37
Nonetheless, the Jewish people only truly owns one country - that little land on the eastern side of the Mediterranean and the western side of the Muslim Arab desert.
Here's the Israeli national anthem:
Kol od baleivav p'nima
Nefesh Y'hudi homiya
Ul'fa-atey mizrach kadima
Ayin L'Tziyon tzofiya
Od lo avda tikvateynu
Hatikva bat sh'not alpayim
Lih'yot am chofshi b'artzenu
Eretz Tziyon v'yirushalayim.
Lih'yot am chofshi b'artzenu
Eretz Tziyon v'yirushalayim.
As long as deep within the heart
The Jewish soul is warm
And toward the edges of the east (that is, from Europe eastwards)
An eye to Zion (that is, Jerusalem's stronghold) looks
Our hope is not yet lost,
The hope of two thousand years
To be a free people in our own land
In the land of Zion and Jerusalem (your "al-Quds").
To be a free people in our own land
In the land of Zion and Jerusalem (your "al-Quds").
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an American Jew2007-01-14 8:43
"Early Zionists were so desperate for a refuge at one point that they actually considered a proposal to create a Jewish homeland in Uganda. Alaska and Siberia were also discussed. But the only land that truly inspired Jewish people worldwide was our ancient homeland, at that time a part of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire known as Palestine... During World War I, the Zionist cause gained some degree of support from Great Britain. In a 1917 letter from British foreign secretary Lord Balfour to Jewish financier Lord Rothschild, the British government expressed a commitment to creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine. This letter is commonly known as the Balfour Declaration. Unfortunately, the British were speaking out of both sides of their mouth, simultaneously promising Arabs their freedom if they helped to defeat the Ottoman Empire, which at that time controlled most of the Middle East (including the modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq, as well as significant portions of Saudi Arabia and northern Africa). The British promised the Arabs that they would limit Jewish settlement in Palestine mere months after the Balfour Declaration expressed support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."... Many Arab leaders were initially willing to give Palestine to the Jews if the rest of the Arab lands in the Middle East were under Arab control. However, the Arabs living in Palestine vigorously opposed Jewish immigration into the territory and the idea of a Jewish homeland. It is around this time that the idea of Palestinian nationality (distinct from Arab nationality generally) first begins to appear. There were many riots in the territory, and the British came to believe that the conflicting claims were irreconcilable. In 1937, the British recommended partition of the territory... The Holocaust brought the need for a Jewish homeland into sharp focus for both Jews and for the rest of the world. The Jews who tried to flee Nazi Germany were often turned back due to immigration limitations at the borders of every country, including the United States, Britain and Palestine. Many of those who were sent back to Germany ended up in death camps where they were systematically murdered... The British were unable to come up with a solution that would satisfy either Arabs or Jews, so in 1947, they handed the problem to the newly-founded United Nations, which developed a partition plan dividing Palestine into Jewish and Arab portions. The plan was ratified in November 1947. The mandate expired on May 14, 1948 and British troops pulled out of Palestine. The Jews of Palestine promptly declared the creation of the State of Israel, which was recognized by several Western countries immediately... However, the surrounding Arab nations did not recognize the validity of Israel and invaded, claiming that they were filling a vacuum created by the termination of the mandate and the absence of any legal authority to replace it. The Arabs fought a year-long war to drive the Jews out. Miraculously, the new state of Israel won this war, as well as every subsequent Arab-Israeli war, gaining territory every time the Arabs attacked them."
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Anonymous2007-01-14 9:30
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest.
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest.
I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah.
I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah.
I bear witness that Muhammad is Allah's Messenger.
I bear witness that Muhammad is Allah's Messenger.
Come to the prayer, Come to the prayer.
Come to your good, Come to your good.
Allah is the greatest, Allah is the greatest.
There is no deity but Allah.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 9:31
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH
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Anonymous2007-01-14 9:31
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH
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Anonymous2007-01-14 9:32
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH
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Anonymous2007-01-14 9:32
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH
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Anonymous2007-01-14 9:33
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH
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Anonymous2007-01-14 9:33
PRAISE BE TO ALLAH
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Anonymous2007-01-14 9:42
How perfect and glorified Allah is and all praise be to him.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 9:50
DO IT FOR ALLAH
*BOOOOOOM*
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Anonymous2007-01-14 20:06
Glory be to Allah; Praise be to Allah; there is no god but Allah; and Allah is most great, is dearer to me than everything on which the sun rises.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 20:43
JEWS
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:38
MUSLIMS > jews
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:38
MUSLIMS > jews
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:38
MUSLIMS > jews
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:38
MUSLIMS > jews
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:39
MUSLIMS > jews
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:39
How perfect and glorified Allah is and all praise be to him.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 21:56
JEWS
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Anonymous2007-01-14 22:19
How perfect and glorified Allah is.
All praise is for Allah.
None has the right to be worshipped except Allah.
Allah is the greatest.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 22:36
Bismillahi wa 'ala baraka-tillah.
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Anonymous2007-01-14 22:54
KIKES
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Anonymous2007-01-14 22:57
lol arabs
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Anonymous2007-01-14 23:01
'cause arabs and muslims are the same. there's no such thing a jewish arab or christian arab. AMITITE???
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Anonymous2007-01-15 0:03
>>79
HE IS TIGHT, I FOUND THAT OUT LAST NIGHT. GOOD AND TIGHT, HE IS.