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Holy Land
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Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
"Your friend in Karmiel"
February 27th 2026 -Volume 16 Issue 19 10th of Adar 5786
Hands Up!
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You can't just do regular Shalach Manos these days any more. It used to be a small little bottle of wine, a big one for someone that you really wanted to impress, and some home baked hamantash. Maybe throw in some candies and chocolate for the kids and boom you were done. Life was good. People were happy. It wasn't hard. It was sharing and bringing joy. But not anymore.
Like most things in the world that changed since my simple childhood, we've made it more complicated to be "frum", To be happy. Candy and hamantash just don't cut it anymore. It's like serving herring and cake for a kiddush. Even throwing in Chulent and kugel for a hot kiddush on a special occasion isn't good enough. You gotta have meatboards, sushi, 5 different scotchs, fancy cakes for the ladies. Little paper cutout chain decorations aren't good enough for your Sukka. You need chandeliers and fancy laminated posters of great Rabbis- and don't leave anyone out because you need to show achdus. I'm not even going to get into Jewish weddings, Bar mitzvas, Brises and Shalom Zachors. It used to be a nice three course meal, a small kiddush, bagels and lox and some arbis and nuts and a few cakes from the neighbors. It was affordable. People were happy. It wasn't the show. It was the Simcha.
Try doing that today and from what I understand one risks their daughters not getting married or accepted in the right schools or seminaries. It's almost as bad as using paper dishes or a plastic table cloth at your Shabbos table. The newest thing, according to what I read that authoritative Jewish weekly of all things frum, Mishpacha magazine, is catered "vachnachts" and upsherins. If you don't know what those rather new important life cycle events are, just nod your head and don't tell anyone, especially if you have kids to marry off. You're a baal teshuva, which ranks you just slightly above the African American rap singing convert, on your eligibility to be full integrated in our once diverse nation. (I love you Nissim 😊).
Yup, we've gone crazy. And so plain Shalach Manos are not good enough anymore. You need to have a theme. You need to have a poem, explaining your complicated theme. You have to have colors. Fancy bottles. Strange shapes. Packaging. Most recently I've seen that a market has opened up by photographers that specialize in taking family pictures in costumes to add in to your Shalach Manos- like Xmas/ New Years greeting cards. Because you know someone's Purim is not going to be complete unless they throw the picture of your adorable children in the garbage. And no, we don't feel less guilty doing that because you put them on a fridge magnet. My fridge is full. I can barely find the handle or door to open it anymore. There's no room for your kids there. So keep the magnet and send me another meat board.
Now, the Schwartz family is not innocent when it comes to this trend. I've gotta do the theme thing as well. I have children to marry off. And to be honest I kind of like the challenge of coming up with something original and different and even witty. My wife made this job harder for me than for most. Because she usually gives me a $3.00 budget per Shalach Manos. She's really good at calculating this thing out. So I've got to make it funny, witty, cheap and different. It also has to connect to something going on in the world, the community, politics, or controversial, or even in our personal Schwartz family life. Because unlike everyone else in the world, I know that every really cares about what's going on in MY life. Right?
I don't remember all of our themes. But we certainly had lots of Trump stuff, War stuff, Virginia things, Iowa I think we had a corn theme. One year we did a whole black shvartza- get it? Schwartz/Shvartza. I think when Purim falls out on Sunday we did a leftover Chulent theme. A Friday Purim had a to'ameha thing. We did a money one when I had a big campaign going on. A marriage one and of course an Aliya one. Even a stomach surgery one. That's how morbid and desperate I am. Lots of stupid ones too. The main thing is they all fit into the budget. Generally they never had too many good things to eat. It's not about the food anymore. It's the theme. It's the joke. It's brilliant wittiness. It's standing out. It's being unique. And to be honest, it's a real pain in the neck. Just give me a hamantash and I'm done. I think that's what I'm doing this year. It's throwback Tuesday. Chadeish Yameinu Ki'kedem- renew our days like old. Maybe I'll throw in some Kedem wine to make that point… Hmmm… And there I go again…
Well it's not just me or us, you see. Our Kabbalists tell us that Hashem as well has themes. Each Jewish month has a theme. Each holiday has a hidden related deep idea, expression, emotion, connected to it. Reaching the essence and experiencing the depth of the holiday and month means finding and tapping into that secret; that theme. On a broad view, we know some of them. Pesach is freedom. Tishrei is judgement, Chanuka is light. Shavuos- Torah. Although if you're really yeshivish then all of them have to be and connect to Torah. Shvat is renewal. The summer is sad, mourning. You gotta give the Litvaks their time as well. Lag Ba'Omer is fire. Rising out of the ashes. Counting Omer. Cheshvan is recovering from all the holidays. And paying off your expensive Sukkos in Israel vacation tour guiding bill to Rabbi Schwartz.
The holiday/month theme thing as well connects to and perhaps is even based on the Zodiac astrological signs. Each month has a different sign that reveals the essence of the month. Where a certain power of the universe is shining and can be tapped in to. In fact almost every Shul from the times of the Mishna and Talmud that we have discovered here in Israel had a Zodiac on the floor. They wanted to make sure that people were always aware of the upcoming month and theme so they could make he proper preparations. It's also something cool to look at it while the Rabbi is giving his speech.
OK. Where am I going with all this? It's the Rabbi's drasha. I need to give you something to think about. It's the month of Adar. It's Purim. It's Parshas Zachor. It's Tetzave. There's a lot happening. And yes, there's a theme here. It hit me while I was reviewing the parsha of Zachor. It slapped me in the face. It's mind blowing. It kind of works except for one problem. But I think we have a fix. Stick with me here, because it is life-changing and you will say it over to everyone on Purim and you don't even have to say it in my name. So here we go.
It started off with me wondering about this whole battle with Amalek thing that we will read about. The essence of the battle, and it is an eternal one we are told, is that Moshe is sitting on a rock and Aharon and Chur are holding his hands up. Whenever his hands are up we are winning, when they're down we're losing. It's strange. What's this all about? Who looks up at hands on a mountain while fighting a war? Why would he put his hands down? What is the symbolism of these hands? It's a simple stupid question. And I really don't think all of the previous ideas and answers really addressed them head on. What's with the hands?
Yet, from there, I noticed that the truth is hands are all over this story. The parsha begins with the Torah telling us that this battle takes place in Refidim. The torah doesn't always tell us where wars take place. It does so here so there must be something behind its name. The center of the word Refidim, non-coincidentally enough, is in fact Yad- hand. Our sages pick up on that and tell us that it symbolizes the cause of the battle which is rafu yedei'hem min ha'torah (or min ha'mitzvos according to some versions). Their hands weakened from Torah and Mitzvos. Many of us/you have heard that famous Chazal. But the question is really what does that mean. What does their hands weaken mean? Why not just say, they stopped doing mitzvos? They stopped being frum. What's this weakening hands? And as well, why do we even say that? Where do we see that? They just got the Torah. They just left Egypt and saw miracles. We just said Na'aseh V'Nishma. What happened. Sure we kvetched a bit about lack of water and food. But that's not weakening of hands from mitzvos, that's just Jews being hungry and wondering when kiddush, lunch or the next food stop is. What's with the hands?
It doesn't just start there though. The end of the parsha as well cryptically tells us that The battle against Amalek is eternal because yad al keis k-ah- The hand (or Hand) is on the throne of Hashem as an battle from generation to generation. Whose hand? Rashi and many commentaries describe it as being the Hand of Hashem that takes an oath on His throne that this will be an eternal battle. Other's say it's Amalek's hand that is stretched out and preventing the throne of Hashem from being complete. Others even suggest it is our hands that need to fight all the way up to the throne of Hashem to redeem it and avenge the disgrace that Amalek has against Hashem. The one thing they all have in common. There's hand thing going on here.
In case I haven't convinced you yet. Take a guess what day Purim falls out on? Ya"d Adar- the 14th day of Adar. Hand in gematria. Oh, do you know what astrological sign the month of Adar is? Dagim- fish. Dag is 7 in Gematria. Two Fish-dagim, plural, is 2 x7 = yup, you got it; 14. Do you know what the main mitzva of Purim is kol ha'posheit yad nosnim lo- whoever stretches out their hand to you, we are obligated to give him. To give him what? A hand. In fact there is probably no holiday that is more hand's on oriented. We give Matanot l'evyonim. We start off with giving half shekels. We give Mishloach Manot. We wave, bang and spin our graggers. We lift up our cups and drink bottle after bottle. L'chayim! Hashem it seems is really in to this theme thing too, I guess. And the theme of Adar, Purim and Amalek is all about the hands.
By the way, just to tie it into the parsha we always read before Purim, Tetzave after completing the story of the building of the Mishkan of last week with the clothing of the Kohen in this week's parsha, then jumps ahead non-chronologically to the day of the inauguration of the Mishkan. But not just to the sacrifices that were brought, that will be discussed in Bamidbar, but rather to just one aspect of it. The miluim- the filling of the hands of Aharon and his children in the service. U'mileisa es yadam- and we should fill their hands. The hands that were weak. The hands that held Moshe's up. The hands that will destroy Amalek. Those hands will be filled and the Bais Ha'Mikdash will be built. It's the parsha that has the word yad in it the most in the entire Torah.
Convinced? Good. But now for the problem. See the Ari"zl and the Sefer Yetzira which divide the holidays up into body parts. Have a different take on Adar. They see the holidays as part of our body. Tishrei is the head. Rosh Hashana. Cheshvan neck. Kislev Chanuka is eyes- the light of the Menora. Pesach is mouth or outstretched right arm of the strength. Iyar is the left arm. Waving and counting the Omer. Sivan/Shavuos is heart where we stood as one man with one heart. Tamuz and Av are the lower feet and thighs. It's mourning. It's restricted movement. And finally Adar, the last month is feet. The bottom of the rung. Yeah… it's not what I was hoping for. But I believe that there's something to this as well.
See Purim is flipping from the feet and turning them into the hands. The feet represent movement. It's not just doing, hearing, seeing. It's action. Pesach is a lot of talk. It's Peh Sach. It's Hashem that does all the action. We just watch the show and talk and sing about it. Purim on the other hand- excuse the pun, we become the hands of Hashem. We move and become one with Him. We kill Amalek. We wipe out Haman. We're not just the kol kol Yaakov- the voice and prayer and Torah of Yaakov anymore. We turn it around. We actually take over the yadayim of Esau. We are the hands of Esau and fight and conquer and destroy them. The kol- the voice connects with the hands and becomes one. The throne of Hashem is complete when we do that. The Geula comes when we connect Adar and Nissan redemption to redemption. The redemption of Hashem happens in Nissan when we redeem ourselves over Purim.
When we daven we are masmich geula to geula. We take three steps back and forth. We use our own feet. In the old days they would then lift up their hands in prayer. Just like Moshe. The feet became the hands. The body is complete. The Mishna Berura brings down that we don't lift our hands in prayer in anymore because that became the power of Esau. The Christians do that. So we stopped. We don't have that power through our exiles.
Fascinatingly enough, Rav Moshe Shapiro notes, that we still bow and even prostrate, even though the goyim and certainly our "cousins" bow. As well he notes that Reb Shimon Bar Yochai would say that he always raises his hands in prayer. He suggests that bowing though is different. That's nullifying one's self to Hashem. That we can still do. But the power to actually act, and be the hands of Hashem, that's Messianic. That's only in the final days. That's when we are finally strong enough, spiritually and perhaps even politically, to overcome and take Esau's weapons. When we don't need to come to them and beg them for missiles and tanks and money for our army. When we realize that we have all we need in our hands. Reb Shimon Bar Yochai had that always. He never felt he was under the Romans. Moshe Rabbeinu had that also. We have that power on Purim each year as well.
The first battle with Amalek takes place in Refidim. Do you know what it means that our hands were weakened or slipped from the Torah and the Mitzvos. It's not that we left Torah and Mitzvos, but rather it's the opposite. The Ksav Sofer writes that the Jews left Sinai and felt that perhaps it was enough to be a Jew in the heart. I don't need to really do anything. I just have to love Hashem. I just have to perhaps study and learn Torah. But what about action? What about taking a gun and waging war? What about killing our enemies? What about liberating Eretz Yisrael and conquering our land. Hashem was quite clear, He wasn't going to blood, frogs, lice, darkness, first born them. He wasn't going to be the Hands going into Israel. We would need to be His Hands. And the Jews were rafu mi'zeh.
They wimped out of that. They wimped out min ha'torah. They wimped out because of the Torah. Learning Torah is spiritual enough. Rafu min ha'mitzvos. Doing mitzvos is enough. I can make a sukka and seder in the desert. In America. In Lita. I have good yeshivos there. I'm a Jew in my heart. I learn all day and all night. I can even spin my finger in lomdus and knaytch with my thumb. But I'm not moving anywhere. My feet are staying in the same place. I don't have Adar Feet. I'm waiting for the hands of Hashem to act, cause I'm not strong enough to be His Hands.
The halacha and mitzvos of Purim are all about using our hands. Being the hand of Hashem. Kol Ha'posheit yad nosnim lo- doesn't only mean that someone who stretches out their hand we need to give them. But a posheit yad is like in Hebrew we say to be posheit regel- to go bankrupt. To remove one's hand. When someone pulls their hand back. We need to give them a hand. We need to give it to them on the head. Nosnim lo. We need to show them how they do have a hand. They can fight. They do have the power to not only daven and learn. But to act. To be the Hands of Hashem. We do this by handing out money. We do this by the half shekel. We do this by giving food and gifts and being just like Hashem stretches out his hand- posayach es yadecha- but we are the yadecha on Purim. We are being masbia l'chol chai ratzon- we are giving everyone what their hearts desire is.
Rashi tells us that Hashem tells Moshe to command Yehoshua about the eternal battle of Amalek when we come to the land. This is a commandment that Moshe will not be able to fulfill, because he was nit'atzel- he was lazy or delayed about the mitzva. That's a pretty crazy Rashi and Midrash, that you might've missed. How was Moshe lazy? How did he not fulfill this mitzva? Why is this the reason he can't come into the land? I thought it was because he hit the rock? The Sifsei Chachamim suggests it was because Moshe didn't personally appoint the soldiers. Others on a simpler understanding see it as when he put his hands down. When they became too heavy.
Yet on the most basic of levels- which one can never do when trying to understand a sin or mistake of Moshe. It's perhaps because Moshe represents Torah. His power comes from our acceptance of Torah. When he lifts up his hands and we look at the Torah as being the hands of Hashem that we are drawn to and want to be, then we have strength. Then he has strength. The lifting up of one's hands in war can symbolize two opposite things. On the one hand when one has a clenched fist and raises it, it's a sign of victory. It's Trump after they tried to assassinate him. That's the way the Rashbam sees it. On the other hand, and there's that pun again, It's also a sign of surrender. Hand's up. Who are we surrendering to? To Hashem. It's how we become one with Him. It's how we become His Hands. As long as we look up to that Hand on throne we can become the hands of Esau. We can conquer Amalek. We can build the Bais Ha'Mikdash. We can fill the hands of Aharon and his sons and restore the service.
But when we look down. When we worry about the world will say. When we subjugate ourselves to Esau. To Edom. To Trump. To the nations of the world who really are just waiting for us to unite and stop just weakening Amalek but eradicating them. When we're the one uniting the Nations rather than Amalek. Then Hamas. Then the enemies of Hashem. When we refuse to move. When we don't have feet. When don't have Adar. We don't turn it all around from the bottom up. When we say dai- it's enough. We've done enough. They're weakened. We have enough. We're good enough "here". When we don't turn around the word dai to yad. When we're not vi'nahapoch hu. (that's cool isn't it?) Then the throne is not One. The Name of Hashem is not One. Then we're still wandering in the desert. Then our hands are weakened perhaps even because of the Torah we feel so good about studying but are not connecting to the Throne. Because we're only using our voices and our prayers but not our feet. Our hands. Our guns. Our nuclear spiritual and physical weapons, Hashem has finally blessed us with. Then we're dead fish. Dead fish stink.
Do you know what's cool about fish? They don't have feet. They're the only creatures that don't. They have a tail. But all animals do. But no feet. They propel themselves with their fins. Their hands. But those hands are propelled by their mouths. By their breath. Their tails just direct them. The mouth the breath they take, that they inhale from the sea of Hashem, that's what makes them move. Adar we become fish. We use our hands and we are immersed on the ruach Hashem. Amalek attacks the tail. Va'Yizanev Becha kol ha'necheshalim acharecha- they hit the weak tails who don't use their hands. We win when we raise our hands up to Hashem. When we surrender to Him and when we then raise those hands we've taken from Esau and bring him to Yaakov. When we wipe out until the end the forces of Esau that want to destroy us. When we finally make it home.
This year is the year, when there is only one theme. The Megilla has been playing out in front of our eyes. The ruler of Hodu/ India was here this week. It's Hodu till Kush. It's 127 nations. It's Persia. It's Amalek. It's the red headed- Melech Tipeish- crazy king of Edom, who changes his mind. Who know one knows what's coming next from. Who loves Jewish women. Whose got plenty of Mordechais next to him. We have an army that believes in Hashem. They're our Kohanim. They took swords and said Mi La'Hashem eilai, like their ancestors of the tribe of Levi did. We just need to fill their hands. To be their miluim. We have a prime minister who's an Ish Yemini- He's a right winger and his name is Benjamin, the same tribe as Mordechai and Esther. You can't make this stuff up. It's there. The Baal Shem Tov says whoever reads the Megilla li'mafre'ah retroactively, backwards, as a story of the past and just our history, is not yatza- he not only hasn't fulfilled his obligation. But he hasn't been yatza- He hasn't left and gone out of his the contzeptzia of the past. He hasn't realized that we have hands. He hasn't really celebrated. He's still not redeemed.
Back then after the story of Purim, not all Jews came back to build the Temple. Their hands were rafu min ha'torah once again. They stayed in Bavel. Only a small group came back. They spoke with their feet and not their hands. They remained the tails. The final redemption, Hashem promises will not be that way. We're all coming home. We're all going to be redeemed. All hands will be on deck. That's the theme of this year's Purim. Let the festivities begin.
Have a mind-blowingly Amalek destroying celebratory Shabbos,
Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz
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YIDDISH PROVERB OF THE WEEK
" Mit fremdeh hent iz gut feier tsu sharren.- Mit fremdeh hent iz gut feier tsu sharren.
RABBI SCHWARTZ'S COOL VIDEO OF THE WEEK
https://soundcloud.com/ephraim-schwartz/techelet-mordechai – I just visited the Techelet Factory this week and it was amazing. We're learning Techelet in Daf yOmi the week of Techelet Mordechai! This was my first Purim song. The concept is that it's all about Techelet of Mordechai coming together. It's what makes the Yeshua La'Netzach! Yitz Berry on arrangements an vocals!
https://soundcloud.com/ephraim-schwartz/yiddelach - My Last years Purim release- best Purim song ever… especially the Rap at the end… you gotta listen till the end. Who knew Dovid Lowy could rap my song..?
https://soundcloud.com/ephraim-schwartz/layehudim - Getting into the Purim mode? Put on our dancing Shoes for my amazing La'Yehudim composition arranged and sung by Dovid Lowy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9BzfDfzF14 – Carlebach and Purim Bus drivers… funny..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO9jywNy22w – Sochi V'Nahapoch Hu latest TYH release for Purim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eFoy6RjHmQ – Baruch Shalom gorgeous Keli Keli for Purim
RABBI SCHWARTZ'S TOUR GUIDE EXAM QUESTION OF THE WEEK
answer below at end of Email
22. The aqueduct, whose remains can be seen near Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot, was built in
the ______ period.
What is the name of the Muslim site located near Apollonia National Park?
A. Sidna Ali
B. Nabi Rubin
C. Nabi Musa
D. Sidna Omar
RABBI SCHWARTZ'S ERA’S AND THEIR PLACES AND PEOPLE IN ISRAEL OF THE WEEK
The sons of Haman? - 372 BC- Well, it's Purim this week and guess what like what happens often in this column, with really no effort of mine, Hashem works out that it ties in to what this column is all about. We left off last week with the Jews having returned to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Temple began. It starts off with the altar that they brought sacrifices upon and then for an entire year they worked with Levi'im singing once the foundation was built every day as we toiled to finally fulfill our 70 year exile dream. Our neighbors though in Israel were not too happy.
See, when we were exiled there were Kuthim that lived there in Yehuda and Shomron. Also known as Shomronim. They were not happy about the Jews returning. They didn't want to see the Temple returned. They knew that once we were back things would change for them. Little did they know that we Jews really didn't have big ambitions. We were happy with a small building to daven to Hashem to. We didn't have the guts to go back and declare ourselves a sovereign country. We were happy being a vassal state to Persia, to Iran and let all religions worship freely there. They didn't buy that. And to be honest Hashem wasn't too happy either. So what did they do? They first tried to infiltrate our nation. They offered to work for us. To be involved in our construction project. Arabs are better than Jews at that. It's what's going on today. Except back then they were smarter and refused to let them have that power, that privilege, that connection.
The Jews told the Arab, Kutim that this was not going to work. Only Jewish labor would be used to build the Temple. This was Hashem's house. We were His nation. We didn't need them or even want them. That got them mad. What did they do? They wrote letters to this fickle King Koresh and told him that we were getting ready to rebel. That we were fortifying the walls of Jerusalem. Which we weren't. It was fake news. They told him that we would stop paying taxes. That's what Jews always did. That's what Chizkiya did back in the first Temple and so did the later Kings of Yehuda. They knew that tariffs and taxes and rebellion was Koresh's weak point. He heard what they said and called a halt to the construction. It was paused. We were told no more settlements. No more building. The game was over.
Who started all of this? You'll never know, but check it out. It was the ten sons of Haman. Yup. That's what the verses and our sages tell us. The Purim story starts here. That's why they had to be hung. That's why Haman gets so much power. That's where Amalek comes from and shows his face. It's why Shushan Purim is a holiday that is meant for walled cities to remember Jerusalem. It all starts with the walls of Jerusalem being halted from being built. Pretty cool. Hopefully this year, we may finally learn that lesson we are never meant to forget and we will see Jerusalem built once again.
RABBI SCHWARTZ’S TERRIBLE HAND JOKES OF THE WEEK
When is a hand a foot? When it is 12 inches long (or on Purim if you read my E-Mail and didn't just skip to jokes…)
I got a new pair of gloves today, but they're both 'lefts' which, on the one hand, is great,
but on the other, it's just not right.
What has 5 fingers, but isn’t your hand? My hand.
Why should you never brush your teeth with your left hand? Because a toothbrush works better.
The other day I saw a one hand man in a second hand store...I went up to him and told him that I don't believe they have what you're looking for.
In a freak accident I lost all the fingers on my right hand. I asked the doctor If I would still be able to write with it.
He replied "Probably, but I wouldn't count on it"
A man from Saudia Arabia got caught stealing a hand sanitizer. He won't be needing it anymore
I can count the number of times I've been to Chernobyl on one hand. It's seven
What happened to the handy man when he lost his hands? He became an army man.
What kind of tree fits in your hands? A palm tree
You gotta hand it to short people. Because they can't reach it on their own.
What do you call a spice vendor who refuses to wash his hands? Someone with too much thyme on his hands.
Why do Iranian women make sandwiches with their left hands? Because they have no rights.
You know what has 8 legs 8 hands and 8 eyes? 8 Hezbolla terrorists after Israel beepered them.
Wife: I have blisters on my hands from using the broom all day.
Husband: Well next time take the car then silly
My wife handed me two kayak paddles and asked, "Which one do you want?"
I said I'd take either/oar.
The nurse hands a man his newborn and says "I'm sorry, but your wife didn't make it."
He responds "well give me the one my wife made."
I steal candy bars using slight of hand...You could say I have a few Twix up my sleeve
I found a used football in a second hand store and I picked it up and took it to the counter.
"How much is this?" I asked
"That'll be $5" said the owner. "Would you like me to pump it up for you?"
"Of course, thanks a lot!" I replied.
So, he got a small pump from under the counter and in a few seconds the ball was as good as new.
"Ok, all done" he said. "That'll be $10 please".
"$10!!!??!!" I replied. "But you said $5 just now".
He looked up and said "Sorry. Inflation".
Yesterday and today I stuck my hand inside feather pillows. Is it normal that I'm feeling down?
"Hand me downs" - Apparently not the right way to ask the wife to hand me our disabled baby. (oyshhh I was hoping that you wouldn't make it to this joke…)
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The answer to this week's question is A–A good one this week. I got it right, although part B was just a good guess coin flip. The first part I knew as I pass it all the time on the way up from Akko to Rosh HaNikra. It's of course an Ottaman Turkish Awauduct that brought fres water to Akko from the springs miles away in the Western Galile Hills. They're pretty amazing to see. Part B. I have no clue. But I knew NEbis Musa is by dead sea. And There's no one called Rubin. It sounded too Jewish. SO it was a coin flip between Ali and Omar. I went with Ali and got that right! So building a streak here with a new score of Rabbi Schwartz having a 15.5 points and the MOT having 6.5 points on this latest Ministry of Tourism exam.
