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ליקוטי שמואל — Vayechi 5785

Выпуск: ליקוטי שמואל — Vayechi 5785. Темы: не определены автоматически. ‫אפשרות לקבל כל עלון בכל שפה כמעט שתרצו בתרגום של ווארד‬ The Blood of the Maccabees The story of a flower that connects ancient Jewish history to modern Israel NATAN SLIFKIN When an Israeli committee decided to pick a flower as a symbol for Memorial Day in 1955, they deliberately avoided the poppy. Eisikovits Eisikovits1@gmail.com 2 ‫הגיליון מופיע באתר 'לדעת' וכן ניתן לקבלו לאימייל מדי שבוע על ידי‬ eisikovits1@gmail.com‫ל‬, .‫שליחת בקשה‬ 058-4852-443 ‫ אשמח לקבל‬.‫אודה לכם אם תעבירו את העלון לאנשיכם או כתובות של נציג בעלון‬ / ‫ לחלק‬/ ‫ גם רשות להדפיס‬. In the letter, he mentions Modi’in, the town from which the Maccabees originated, and explains to the young men how the blood of the Maccabees flows through their veins, and how it is this blood which sometimes brings life to the land: “In the Diaspora our blood was shed like water for many generations, for hundreds of years - in all the lands, in all the environments, but no plant grew out of our blood, no flower flowered, only puddles remained, puddles of blood from lead. “Here we wandered on the paths of Israel, we breath the air of Modi’in, we have seen the landscape of the bare hills, we climbed the cliffs, we ascended and descended on the paths and the trails on which the Maccabees walked… The spirit of the Maccabees became the Maccabean strategy, and we knew how the few can fight against the many, how they knew when to prevail over the camps. In 1917, botanist Ephraim Hareuveni coined the Hebrew name for this species, dam ha-maccabim, which means “blood of the Maccabees.” The plant’s stem culminates in a cluster of reddish balls, resembling drops of blood. They sought to remind their audiences that the blood of the brave Jewish fighters of two thousand years earlier, who had help miraculously restore Jewish sovereignty, was still to be found in the Jews of modern times. ‫הערות מחכימות ובל"נ אשתדל להתייחס אליהם‬ ‫ בשעת הצורך הרשות נתונה לאמור מהדברים שבעלון אף שלא‬- .‫ לשמור‬/ ‫להעתיק‬ ‫ כמו כן יש‬.‫ יביא גאולה לעולם‬.‫ אבל הבא להדפיס וידפיס בשם אומרו‬.‫בשם אומרם‬ . It will grow in the fields of wheat, barley and cereal, in the fields which are sown with tears 4 and are harvested with song, and if necessary they are also watered with blood... It blossoms each year in April during the season of Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, b

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ליקוטי שמואל
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10 января 2025 г.
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