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The ritual of the “
sotah” the faithless wife is without a doubt the most bizarre ritual in Judaism. If a husband believes that his wife is having an extramarital affair, he may warn her not to seclude herself with her suspected lover. If she is caught defying his warning, she is forced to drink the “bitter waters” that will supernaturally determine whether or not she is guilty of adultery. If she is guilty, then she will die a horrible death reminiscent of a well-known scene in the movie “
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Three thousand four hundred years ago, in the year 1412 BCE, we received the Torah and its commandments at Sinai (the year 2,448 in the Hebrew calendar). Of all those many years, over just one hundred years, the mitzvah of counting the Omer has been radically altered twice. This altering has been so serious; we often forget what the original form of the Omer days looked like and why they have changed. Many of these changes have remained a secret for generations, often to be discovered centuries later.
FARHUD massacre 1941: upto 1,000 dead, 2,000 injured. Major players: Ex-Mufti al-Husseini, his al-Futuwwa gang; Nazi propagandists, et al
The guilty:
- Ex-Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini;
- Iraqi police/army
180, 780 or 1,000 died and 1,000 to 2,000 injured.
At locations near river or wells, kids were thrown into the water in front of their parents eyes.
Scenes included smashed babies organs, mass rape. Patients and medical sraff were targeted at the attack on the Jewish hospital.
(Iraqi Jews were not Zionists at the time).
The Jews of Iraq: A Forgotten Case of Ethnic Cleansing, 2003, p.12 The official Iraqi Government report concerning the Farhud laid the blame for the slaughter on six sources.