http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285744
The complaint initially drew little media attention, until two men suspected of taking part in the rape were arrested last week.
Now, police say that a total of 11 suspects have been arrested in connection with the case, with investigators working to identify more suspects involved in the rape.
Nine of the suspects now in custody are minors - 17-year-olds - with two adults also in custody.
The arrest of one of the suspects, a 27-year-old resident of the coastal city of Hadera, was extended Sunday by five days.
In addition, police have arrested a woman employed by the hotel on suspicion of obstruction of justice.
“A horrific rape which lasted for hours”
ReplyDeleteTorah thought on this week’s parsha כי תצא. Amazing the Torah permits marriage with a captive beauty. “and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her to wife,” (Deuteronomy 21:11). Torah allows the marriage despite so many signs soldier fellow is making a mistake. Yes, I understand the soldier fellow making such a mistake. Torah commands: “No Israelite woman shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any Israelite man be a cult prostitute.” (Deuteronomy 23:18). Note how the mother of Sisera, the army commander of King Jabin of Canaan, talks: “Through the window peered Sisera’s mother, Behind the lattice she whined: Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why so late the clatter of his wheels? The wisest of her ladies give answer; She, too, replies to herself: They must be dividing the spoil they have found: A damsel or two for each man, Spoil of dyed cloths for Sisera, Spoil of embroidered cloths, A couple of embroidered cloths Round every neck as spoil. So may all Your enemies perish, O Lord! But may His friends be as the sun rising in might! And the land was tranquil forty years.” (Judges 5:28-31).
שופטים ה' ל'
הֲלֹא יִמְצְאוּ יְחַלְּקוּ שָׁלָל רַחַם רַחֲמָתַיִם לְרֹאשׁ גֶּבֶר שְׁלַל צְבָעִים לְסִיסְרָא שְׁלַל צְבָעִים רִקְמָה צֶבַע רִקְמָתַיִם לְצַוְּארֵי שָׁלָל:
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הלא ימצאו יחלקו שלל - והוא מעכבן:
רחמתים לראש גבר - מענים נשים יפות בישראל וכל איש מהם יש לו במטתו שתים ושלש נשים:
Clearly the Torah is warning against treating women like sex objects. “And to the woman He said, I will make most severe Your pangs in childbearing; In pain shall you bear children. Yet your urge shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16).
See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285769
ReplyDelete“For this reason, in the eyes of some, the victim cannot be entirely innocent. This gang rape incident must be “alleged” and not “actual.” In some cases, the trauma causes the victim to blank out and to get some details messed up, and this further reinforces the beliefs of those who seek to deny the victims legitimacy. If the girl had the misfortunate of being drunk during the time of the rape, society reacts to her even less sympathetically than if she was sober at the time of the crime. However, it does not need to be like this. As I wrote in Emerging from the Depths of Despair: A Memoir on Rising Above the Trauma of Childhood Rape, which I am in the final stages of editing, “Rape, like terrorism, is all about obtaining power, dominance, and control over the victims, thus prompting them to feel helpless and weak. Judaism considers rape to be equivalent to murder for the very nature of that crime is that it literally slaughters the soul of the female victim.” Just as Israeli society systematically supports all victims of terror attacks, the time has come for all Israeli society to stand in solidarity with the Eilat gang rape victim. Our condemnation of the perpetrators has to be separated from the fact that she was inebriated. Those that delegitimize her voice do not represent most of Israeli society.”
Beautiful, well argued. Rachel Abraham is against blame the victim mentality. Job in the Bible is a case of blame the victim, as Job’s comforters did. Job said no. Job argued that he is completely innocent: “God hands me over to an evil man, Thrusts me into the clutches of the wicked. I had been untroubled, and He broke me in pieces; He took me by the scruff and shattered me; He set me up as His target; His bowmen surrounded me;
He pierced my kidneys; He showed no mercy; He spilled my bile onto the ground.He breached me, breach after breach; He rushed at me like a warrior. I sewed sackcloth over my skin; I buried my glory in the dust. My face is red with weeping; Darkness covers my eyes For no injustice on my part And for the purity of my prayer!” (Job 16:11-17).
In this week’s parsha כי תצא the captive beauty is a victim. He family is dead and her husband’s hates her. The Torah brings no blame to her!
“If a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated have borne him sons, but the first-born is the son of the hated one—when he wills his property to his sons, he may not treat as first-born the son of the loved one in disregard of the son of the hated one who is older. Instead, he must accept the first-born, the son of the hated one, and allot to him a double portion of all he possesses; since he is the first fruit of his vigor, the birthright is his due.” (Deuteronomy 21:15-17).
Who is to blame in the story of the captive beauty who became the hated wife? The soldier fellow who started up with her is fully to blame. Who is to blame for the horrific rape which lasted for hours? I agree with Rachel Avraham: the perpetrators and not the victim. Blaming the victim is a psychological defense. DT, do you want to elaborate?
See https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-cant-restore-normalcy-11598483215?mod=opinion_featst_pos1
ReplyDelete“Donald Trump Jr. described Joe Biden as the Loch Ness Monster, a lifelong swamp creature. That was patty-cake compared with what Democrats think of and won’t stop saying about Donald J. Trump. Wash away the neurotic personal animus, and the Democratic case for Joe Biden is that by ending the nonstop Trump disruption, or “chaos,” Mr. Biden will restore the country to normalcy. He won’t. Only the most sound-asleep voters can believe that with one day’s voting in November they can melt the Wicked Witch of Trumpland and dance down the yellow-brick road to more temperate times.”
Allow me, my letter today:
3.Clearly Judge Prus and Susan knew very well that I divorced Susan 2/17/1993 in an Israeli Rabbinic Court with Susan plaintiff and Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag a principal. Exhibit A: Judge Prus Final Order November 18, 2016 contains lies. It is a lie: “The papers are replete with statements, letters, and materials that have no bearing on the application or the underlying matrimonial proceeding and its resolution.” My papers were clear, brief, direct and argued well and supported with documents.
4.It is a lie: “The defendant's opposition lays out the long and tortured history of this case and the seemingly endless litigation she was subjected to by Mr. Aranoff.” Susan's package of October 21, 2016 was replete with statements, letters, and materials that have no bearing on the legal issues involved: the $25,000 fines against me and TIAA paying her 55% of my pension. It is a lie that I subjected Susan to endless litigation. Truth that Susan subjected me to endless litigation.
5.It is a lie: “The time to object or appeal the pension award or any other award to the plaintiff has long since passed.” It is a lie to call paying Susan 55% of my TIAA pension a pension award. A pension falls under the ERISA rules.
6,It is a lie: “Consequently, Mr. Aranoff's claims are time barred and at this late stage are nothing short of frivolous.” The legal issues outstanding are the $25,000 fines against me and paying 55% of my TIAA to Susan in violation of ERISA.
7.It is a lie: “The plaintiff is certainly free to contact the agency to enforce her rights under the Judgment of Divorce pursuant to it's rules and guidelines.” Susan gained no rights under the September 10, 2013 Judgment of Divorce that she could contact the USA Social Security Administration to take from my USA social security.
8.The September 10, 2013 Judgment of Divorce had the lie: “the Separation Judgment dated March 7, 1995 an original of which is on file with this Court along with a transcript of the proceedings and Order of the Supreme Court Kings County by Judge Rigler and incorporated herein by reference.” My SCOTUS docket numbers 18-7160 and 18-9390 focused on the lie of the fake/phony March 7, 1995 Rigler order of separation.
you seem to believe that your legal campaign will normalize in the same sense as voting Trump out of office!
ReplyDelete“A horrific rape which lasted for hours” Ten times in Deuteronomy sweep out evil. ראה 13:6, שפטים 17:7, 17:12, 19:13, 19:19, 21:21, 22:21, 22:22, 22:24, 24:7
ReplyDeleteHertz Chumash quotes Talmud death sentence once in 70 years. My theory. Torah wants us to be terrified to sin. I agree with Rabbi Yaacov Shapira
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/286105
“Ramban notes that a ben sorer u’moreh has violated the precept of “kedoshim tehiyu” which mandates that a Jew must not only follow the letter of the law, but also strive to understand what the Torah really wants of him. When a young boy devotes so much money and energy to eating meat and drinking wine, he is showing a flagrant misunderstanding of what Torah life is all about. More than anything else, a person needs to refine himself and be receptive to spirituality and sensitive to the Divine. This is the basic infrastructure of an individual who aspires to live a life of Torah. The ben sorer u’moreh’s behavior demonstrates that he is tragically missing this foundation.”
Soncino Zohar, Shemoth, Section 2, Page 87b
“Hew (pesal) thee two tables of stone (Ex. XXXIV, 1), interpreting thus: Thou shalt not hew unto thee another Torah, which thou neither knowest [from books], nor hast learnt from thy master; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and shall punish thee in the world to come when thy soul shall long to enter into the spheres of glory and stand before My Presence. How many emissaries will then be ready to frustrate its desire and thrust it into Gehenna! [Tr. Note: Al. To hiss at it and to gaze at it in Gehenna.] According to yet another interpretation, this commandment includes the prohibition against the profanation of the sign of the Abrahamitic covenant, which sign is a symbol of the Holy Name. By means of this sign Israel entered into the first Covenant and union with the Shekinah, and he who brings it into a foreign domain is false to the Holy One Himself. THOU SHALT NOT BOW DOWN TO THEM NOR WORSHIP THEM. As R. Eleazar was once walking in company with R. Hiya, the latter said: It is written: When thou goes: out to war against thine enemies... and seest among the captives a beautiful woman... thou shalt bring her home to thine house (Deut. XXI, 10, 11). How can this be? Is not intermarriage with heathens prohibited? R. Eleazar replied: This only applied to the seven nations [Tr. Note: v. Deut. VII, 7.] when they were independent in their own land. But mark this. There is no woman among the heathen nations who is free from taint. Therefore the section concerning the captive woman is immediately followed by that of the rebellious son, to indicate that children born of such a union are far from good, the impurity of idolatry inherited by the mother being difficult to remove; all the more so if she has been already married, as the taint of her husband cleaves to her. Hence the command of Moses to exterminate the Midianite women who were the cause of Israel's downfall in the wilderness (Num. xxv, 1-9; XXXI, 15-19). Blessed is the man who keeps in purity this heritage (the Covenant), for in this holy possession he unites himself with the Holy One, blessed be He, especially if he keeps the commandments of the Torah!”
If Torah says stoning for the wayward and rebellious youth who hasn’t yet sinned, anyone who has sinned will be terrified. Torah wants us to be terrified to sin as a way of Kedoshim tehiyu.