יום חמישי, 3 באוקטובר 2013

Yuli Edelstein about Shdema יו"ר הכנסת יולי אדלשטיין על שדמה

Hebrew attached

 

Translation of letter written by Knesset speaker Yli Edelstein

to the organizers of the Shdema mezuzah afixing ceremony

 

Speaker of the Knesset

 

Jerusalem, Monday, 5 Tishrei 5774

September 9, 2013

file no.: 03430413

 

To:

Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover

The Committee for a Jewish Shdema

 

            Our Sages, of blessed memory, established a special blessing for the resettling of Eretz Israel: "On seeing the houses of Israel, when inhabited, one says: Blessed is He who sets the boundary of the widow." Eretz Israel rejoices in the settlement of its sons and daughters, as a widow who sets a boundary and rebuilds her house with her own hands.

 

            The Gush Etzion area has an abundant history of special women who "built the House of Israel." On one side, standing on the main road, is the tomb of the Matriarch Rachel, who weeps and "refuses to be comforted for her children, who are gone." And on the other side stands Netzer, that connects Jerusalem and Tekoa, the place of the woman of Tekoa who acts on behalf of the unity of the people, "that the one who is banished be not an outcast from him."

 

            Israel is redeemed by the merit of righteous women, and by the merit of tenacious and fighting women, who are persistent and experienced in struggles, the women of the Committee for a Jewish Shdema, Shdema will yet develop and become an important and central settlement point.

 

            I congratulate you from the depths of my heart on the affixing of a mezuzah at Shdema. May many mezuzot be affixed in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.

 

Sincerely,

MK Yuli Edelstein

Speaker of the Knesset

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