Yiddishe Mamme

Maybe we can start to have a clue:

From Blogger  Yeranen Yaacov The  last verse in Parshat Shemot is :  וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה, עַתָּה תִרְאֶה, אֲשֶׁר אֶעֱשֶׂה לְפַרְעֹה:  כִּי בְיָד חֲזָקָה, יְשַׁלְּחֵם, וּבְיָד חֲזָקָה, יְגָרְשֵׁם מֵאַרְצוֹ . And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand shall he let them go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.' Notice that this verse speaks about the first redemption of the Jewish people. When taking the gematria of this entire verse including the numerical value of the 2 Mem-sofit letters as 600 each, one gets to 5708, the year the State of Israel was established, a major stage in the Redemption process. The verse has 17 words.  If we combine אֶל-מֹשֶׁה because a Makaf connects them, we have 16 words.  If we then add the 3 Samechs that is often used to denote the end of the Perasha (like  here ), we get 19 words.  If we add those 19 words to our 5708 ...

Cecil (Shimon) Emanuels 3 1 december 2014 / 10 Tevet 5775 Today is not just the end of 2014 but also Asarah beTevet, a fastday. The fasting commemorates the  siege of Jerusalem  by  Nebuchadnezzar II  of  Babylonia —an event that began on that date and ultimately culminated in the destruction of  Solomon's Temple  (the First Temple) and the conquest of the Kingdom of  Judah  (today southern Israel). Today is also Opa Cecil’s (Shim’on ben Awraham’s) Jahrzeit. It is already 15 years ago that he passed away, in 1999. We remember him as a very special man,  an honest man, a loving father, a proud grandfather, a man with Chessed and Humor and above all a man with full belief in Hasheem. With the absolute knowledge that Hasheem was revealing himself to him, even during his lifetime. But Opa Cecil had to discover that all by himself. This past Shabbath we read the Torah portion Wayigash 45.3 The 11 brothers of Joseph ar...