This
coming weekend we will say goodbye to the Jewish year 5775 and welcome 5776
with our traditional wish: "Let a year and its curses end, let a year and
its blessings begin". Unfortunately, events in the Middle East over 5775
portend that the "curses" of this year - masses of refugees fleeing
Syria and Iraq, political instability, ISIS, al-Qaeda, terrorism and Iranian
nukes will not only spill over into 5776, but will grow, strengthen and expand
in ways that, according to many experts and analysts, will change the so called
"world order" as we know it (or think we know it) today. I want to
make it clear at the outset that when I use the phrase "New World
Order" I'm not referring to Illuminati conspiracy theories,
biblical prophesies, Woodrow Wilson's post WWI "fourteen points" or
H.G. Wells' 1940 book of the same name. I'm referring to the geo-politic
changes that are happening right now in the Middle East and Europe, their
causes and ramifications. What is happening? Why is it happening? Can anything
be done? Read Gil Elan’s latest blog at -- http://swjcdallas.blogspot.com/2015/09/5776-new-world-order.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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