Spread the news -It's ok to be sad sometimes

Note : this list is a bit boring , so you are welcome to skip the first part ,and read the last paragraph

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It is now that time of the year, in which observant Jews mourn the destruction of the temple. For three weeks , Weddings and celebrations do not take place, observant Jews do not listen to any instrumental music, or buy new clothing , and there are other customs ,which I can't think of at the moment

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Starting the first day of the month of Ab, which was last Wednesday, certain people will not eat meet (Unless on a Shabbat - Saturday), or enjoy a good shower . It is said that a short shower with cold water is allowed , which is what I do anyway considering the weather. Pious Jewish men will not shave their beard - not shaving your beard in the Jewish calture is also a sign of mourning. And all of that is because many many years ago there was a temple,and it was destroyed .Twice .The first temple was destoyed and burned by a cruel Babilonian king ,. The heavenly reason was because the Jews were corrupted. They worshiped idols , shed blood ,and fornicated - which means ,they had sex other than with their wives , or before they were married, as is common in our day and age. The second temple was destroyed by a Roman leader ,but this time the reason was SINAT CHINAM. It is basically means hatred in vain . I confess , that I find myself hating people who think differently than I , on certain issues .Sometimes when I feel threatened by someone's success , I feel this naughsty feeling too.

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what is hate?

according to The book , hating is when you are disengaged from someone, when you on purpose ignore him ,or don't care about him - this is hate. The book's definition of hatered is much more suttle than what you would think.

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Shy Dromi a Jewish farmer , who killed an Arab intruder - innocent

Shy Dromi is an Israeli farmer who lives in the Negev . On January 2007 he shot thieves that broke into his farm.It was in the wee late hours of the night. One of them died ,the other one was badly wounded. The case braught up a public debate , weather it was a moral thing to shoot a thieve , an invader into one's house. Shy Dromi was found innocent of a murder charge ,but guilty of killing and of holding weapon without a license . The Israeli court let him go free.

I'd like to share here , my own little story :as a Jewish person who lives in Israel - my home town is my one and only home in this big planet. I live in a nice neighbourhood . I don't sleep well at nights. The truth is , I'm a real night bird . Even when I do sleep , it is usually a light sort of sleep. Over the past 10 year there have been about four breaking entries into our house . The first time ,they broke ,they stole among other things a cellular phone . Appearently they used some kind of smoke or gas to numb people. Luckily I wasnt' there . I was at the time 27. When a member of my family called them, they laughed at his face(They stoll his doctor kit and fled in his car) , their accent left no place for mistake. They were Arabs from a nearby village. That was the first time...then there were a few others . Some when we weren't home . Other's we could stop . Luckily they weren't violent. These are not considered to be falonies based over differences of nationality , but in fact they are.

We always get the police's sympathy -this is where it ends. No policeman would dare going into certain Arab villages .

I know of one farmer who had great losses time and again , when Arabs kept stealing his cattle . One time he and a friend decided to ambush the thieves .When he caught the thieves , he and his partner stripped them naked ,and coloured them green. Then they reliesed them near thier village. That man spent 10 month in an Israeli prison ,with criminals and people of dubious deeds.

But even if the robbers are not Arabs . We live in a state that does not defend innocent people from criminals. I have never heard of one person who got his property back . So , yes I have a stand in this matter. I am on Shy Dromi's side.