Any help in purchasing new toys and upgrading the play center will be graciously appreciated.
To help go to "Ways to Bless Itamar"
Friday, December 31, 2010
Story Hour for The Children Of Itamar
Any help in purchasing new toys and upgrading the play center will be graciously appreciated.
To help go to "Ways to Bless Itamar"
Another Visit to Joseph's Tomb
Friday, December 3, 2010
Happy Chanukah
Chanukah is proof that the Hellenistic culture can not prevail against the light of the Torah and Am Yisrael!
Enclosed is picture of an ancient Greek-Roman
bath house an example of this extinct culture.
G-d's covenant with Israel is ETERNAL!
Friday, November 19, 2010
Celebrating A New Yeshiva Dining Room
Rabbi Ideles, the head of the school and Itamar's mayor Rabbi Goldsmith placed a Mezuzoth on the new doors.
May the Yeshivah continue to grow and prosper
Brit Milah Noam Oren Odeser 2010 Nov Com.avi
Celebrate with the Odeser family and the Itamar community on the brit milah of their grandson.
Genesis 17:10-14
Friday, November 12, 2010
Itamar Youth Celebration com.avi
This was a very special Shabbat for the youth group Bnei Akiva movement. It is called the Shabbat Irgun where all the different youth tribes get together for a big celebration which includes eating the Shabbat meals together, and making plays, and displays on the theme of the year.
This year the theme is Aliyah from the inside. In other words how does one enhance his spiritual growth!
We wish our wonderful youth tremendous success in their spiritual accent
This year the theme is Aliyah from the inside. In other words how does one enhance his spiritual growth!
We wish our wonderful youth tremendous success in their spiritual accent
Friday, November 5, 2010
Babies on Itamar
Mazal Tov to Dudi and Efrat Giladi on the birth of their sixth son (in a row) we with them many more happy events and Nachat from all their children.
Mazal Tov to Amichay and Yiscah Azulai on the birth of a daughter! May Hashem continue to bless them with many more Simachot!
Mazal Tov to Shlomo Zuckerman on his first chicken bone. (Rabbi Moshe and Leah's Grandson)!!! What a little doll.
Mazal Tov to Amichay and Yiscah Azulai on the birth of a daughter! May Hashem continue to bless them with many more Simachot!
Mazal Tov to Shlomo Zuckerman on his first chicken bone. (Rabbi Moshe and Leah's Grandson)!!! What a little doll.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Civic News From Itamar
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| Sunset On The Mountains Of Itamar |
re-election as mayor of Itamar.
Mazal Tov to David Shushan, Matanyah Ben Shitrit, Shmuel Raykanati, and Nissin Aydan on their election as council members.
With the many great challenges that face Israel today we bless them that Hashem give them the wisdom and strength to lead the community of Itamar to new horizons and great prosperity.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
A Beautiful Stone Ark for a Hilltop Shul
Asaf has also built the ark in Itamar's Yeshiva High School Chitzim. He has also used his gifting to build an altar for the Tempe Institute in Jerusalem
Exodus 35:1 - 36:2
Itamar Celebrates New and Growing Families
Mazal Tov to the Ronski family upon the marriage of their son Oded. May they continue to celebrate many more Smachot!
Mazal Tov to Achinoam and Shlomi Cohen on the Brit Milah of their son. Another third generation Itamar resident joins our community!
Mazal Tov to the Teneh family on the birth of son . It is their first child and we wish them a lot of happiness and success as their young family grows.
Mazal Tov to Achinoam and Shlomi Cohen on the Brit Milah of their son. Another third generation Itamar resident joins our community!
Mazal Tov to the Teneh family on the birth of son . It is their first child and we wish them a lot of happiness and success as their young family grows.
New Homes in Itamar
Thank G-D over the last year 23 new houses have been built in our community. With G-d's help many more will be on the way.
Once again, the children of Israel put down their roots in the Land promised to them.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Succoth Preparations in Itamar
With the Succoth holiday at our doorstep Itamar is in a rush to get the last minute preparations in.
The feeling of Simcha is in the air. It goes without saying that all our dear friends who are visiting Israel for the holiday are welcome to visit during Chol Ha'Moed (the weekdays of the Festival)
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| Sukkah Preparations |
With the Succoth holiday at our doorstep Itamar is in a rush to get the last minute preparations in.
The feeling of Simcha is in the air. It goes without saying that all our dear friends who are visiting Israel for the holiday are welcome to visit during Chol Ha'Moed (the weekdays of the Festival)
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| Our time of Joy! |
Yom Kippur 2010
Itamar Celebrated Erev Yom Kippur at a special ceremony on Mt. Grizim overlooking the tomb of Joseph commemorating ten years since its destruction.
When the Israeli army evacuated the holy site it was desecrated and burnt to the ground by hostile Muslim extremists. Rabbi Hillel Lieberman, a devoted student of the yeshiva at the tomb of Joseph, after hearing that the tomb was in flames ran in concern towards the holy site and on the way was attacked and murdered. A short time later, our great Rabbi and teacher Rav Binyamin Herling was murdered on the Succot holiday while hiking on Mt. Eval. We will never forget these great Tzaddikim who were so influential in building the land of Israel.
Yartzeit of Morris Krantz on Erev Yom Kippur
A special gathering was held in the Goldsmith home on Erev Yom Kippur commemorating the Yartzeit (Anniversay of the Death) of Morris Krantz, the father of Leah Goldsmith who passed away on Yom Kippur 17 years ago.
Morris was a holocaust survivor who was saved by righteous gentiles. Morris was a very great man and spent his life lecturing about his personal story and about the holocaust in general. He is the author of the book "Death March".
When the Israeli army evacuated the holy site it was desecrated and burnt to the ground by hostile Muslim extremists. Rabbi Hillel Lieberman, a devoted student of the yeshiva at the tomb of Joseph, after hearing that the tomb was in flames ran in concern towards the holy site and on the way was attacked and murdered. A short time later, our great Rabbi and teacher Rav Binyamin Herling was murdered on the Succot holiday while hiking on Mt. Eval. We will never forget these great Tzaddikim who were so influential in building the land of Israel.
Yartzeit of Morris Krantz on Erev Yom Kippur
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| Erev Yom Kippur at the Goldsmith's |
Morris was a holocaust survivor who was saved by righteous gentiles. Morris was a very great man and spent his life lecturing about his personal story and about the holocaust in general. He is the author of the book "Death March".
Friday, September 17, 2010
May You Be Sealed In The Book Of Life
Dearest friends, Leah and I want to wish you all a Gmar Chatimah Tovah!
Let it be a great year for am Yisrael! A year of happiness and success.We want to thank all of you for standing behind Itamar. May Hashem bless you with all the special blessings on earth!
Shalom
Moshe and Leah Goldsmith Itamar Israel
Let it be a great year for am Yisrael! A year of happiness and success.We want to thank all of you for standing behind Itamar. May Hashem bless you with all the special blessings on earth!
Shalom
Moshe and Leah Goldsmith Itamar Israel
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Releasing Vows
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| Releasing Vows Prayer On Itamar |
Hatarat Nedarim or absolution of vows, is practiced before Rosh Hashanah. This ritual enables one to come before God on Rosh Hashanah and into a New Year, with a clean slate - without any unfulfilled promises
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Leah's Thoughts For The New Year
Rosh Hashana – The Time of Your Life
If Pesach's design is to set one's house in order and remember leaving Egypt, the ten Days of Repentance beginning with Rosh Hashana and culminating on Yom Kippur have us cleaning slates too while we leave the past. It's a time for making a lot of things, food (endless meals) making decorations for the Sukkah, but most of all- for making amends. It is the "Time of your life" as your redemption day comes closer and your thoughts are full of acknowledgement. This is the time we go in for a spiritual X-ray. We can actually step out of ourselves and see our intentions and aspirations as we come closer to the Day of Judgment, Yom Kippur.
It's a time you are usually more mindful of others, more tactful and well meaning. You want to start the New Year on the right foot. It's a time to climb the Mount of Blessing, to do the right thing. But it really doesn't matter where you are when it comes to teshuva because you really are in the realm of thought more than any other time of the year. Rabbi Nachman of Breslov said "wherever your mind is- that's where you are!" (meaning you are – NOT what you eat but what you THINK!) This is the first sphere of Keter – and we count ten till we reach Malchut. Obviously a person has to put his thoughts to practical use but like the new year- it is the first step on the ladder that you have to take. Thoughts are running up and down the ladder all the time, like the angels on Jacob's ladder- but it all depends on the attitude you take when faced with creative challenges. We will no doubt have to come to grips, call someone's bluff, and lay it on the line in the forefront of this coming time and place.
Hashem takes great pleasure in our good thoughts!
It is also a time for forgiveness, first from G-d, then from the people in our lives. It is the time that Hashem gives us the spiritual strength to see the truth as we enter the Days of Judgment. Then the entire soul of the one House of Israel and the entire world is rectified. This is the time we return to Hashem. This is not a time for tearfulness but a time to shout Halleluya as you yell yourself hoarse "making a joyful noise unto the Lord."
It's like doing a high five with G-d.
After all of this emotional and thoughtful stuff is over we enter G-d's arms into the snug and cozy Sukkah. There He gives us a special hug.
I would like to bless all of our friends with best wishes for the New Year- for health, happiness and thoughts of many good things to come!
Chag Sameyach, Shana Tova U'metuka- Shabbat Shalom
Leah Goldsmith
If Pesach's design is to set one's house in order and remember leaving Egypt, the ten Days of Repentance beginning with Rosh Hashana and culminating on Yom Kippur have us cleaning slates too while we leave the past. It's a time for making a lot of things, food (endless meals) making decorations for the Sukkah, but most of all- for making amends. It is the "Time of your life" as your redemption day comes closer and your thoughts are full of acknowledgement. This is the time we go in for a spiritual X-ray. We can actually step out of ourselves and see our intentions and aspirations as we come closer to the Day of Judgment, Yom Kippur.
It's a time you are usually more mindful of others, more tactful and well meaning. You want to start the New Year on the right foot. It's a time to climb the Mount of Blessing, to do the right thing. But it really doesn't matter where you are when it comes to teshuva because you really are in the realm of thought more than any other time of the year. Rabbi Nachman of Breslov said "wherever your mind is- that's where you are!" (meaning you are – NOT what you eat but what you THINK!) This is the first sphere of Keter – and we count ten till we reach Malchut. Obviously a person has to put his thoughts to practical use but like the new year- it is the first step on the ladder that you have to take. Thoughts are running up and down the ladder all the time, like the angels on Jacob's ladder- but it all depends on the attitude you take when faced with creative challenges. We will no doubt have to come to grips, call someone's bluff, and lay it on the line in the forefront of this coming time and place.
Hashem takes great pleasure in our good thoughts!
It is also a time for forgiveness, first from G-d, then from the people in our lives. It is the time that Hashem gives us the spiritual strength to see the truth as we enter the Days of Judgment. Then the entire soul of the one House of Israel and the entire world is rectified. This is the time we return to Hashem. This is not a time for tearfulness but a time to shout Halleluya as you yell yourself hoarse "making a joyful noise unto the Lord."
It's like doing a high five with G-d.
After all of this emotional and thoughtful stuff is over we enter G-d's arms into the snug and cozy Sukkah. There He gives us a special hug.
I would like to bless all of our friends with best wishes for the New Year- for health, happiness and thoughts of many good things to come!
Chag Sameyach, Shana Tova U'metuka- Shabbat Shalom
Leah Goldsmith
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Rabbi Moshe's Thoughts on the New Year
Itamar wishes a happy and healthy New Year to all its wonderful friends!
This new Hebrew year is spelled Taf Shin Ayin Alef – an acronym for – Tihiyeh Shnat Aliyah Artzah.
Let it be a year of going up to the land of Israel!
L'Shana Tova!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Dedication Of A New Torah Scroll
A dedication of a new Torah scroll for Itamar's Yeshivah high school was celebrated this week.
The Torah scroll was donated by Harav Eshel from Kedumim in memory of his brother, sister and father may they rest in peace.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Itamar Is Becoming Known in America
This past week Moshe & Leah Goldsmith have traveled with me sharing about their deep faith, love for Israel and the community they live in. People in Texas, and New Mexico have been touched greatly by our message and have learned so much about Itamar.
In New Mexico, we learned about the Jewish community during the Spanish Inquisition. One man who has found that he is a Sephardic Jew, showed me a Catholic church that still to this day has the Star of David on the arches. What is amazing, is they probably don't know what these symbols are today, but as you read the history of this church, you read of embattlements, change of hands and some destruction but what has lasted since 1793 is this arch that you see in the photo with the two Magen David's! Amazing!
People through out this area are finding Jewish symbols and discovering their heritage! I stand in awe of Hashem. Now of course Moshe & Leah could not enter this church because of their faith, but we did take this picture to show them.
I am so humbled to watch Moshe and Leah who are orthodox Jews share their faith, and keep to the commands they are given. They are truly taking Torah to the Nations. Thank you Moshe & Leah.
Fruitfulness and Fullfilled Prophecy
The grape vines of Itamar are ripening enjoy the picture of one of the seven species of the land of Israel! Prophecy is coming true!"
Again you will plant vineyards On the hills of Samaria; Jeremiah 31:4
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Wedding of Avi and Naamah Barda August 2010
Mazal Tov to Rabbi Tzvi and Sarah Pereg and Shimon and Sarah Bardah on the marriage of their children Naamah and Avi that took place in the town of Mitzpeh Jericho right outside Jericho on August 6 2010.
Shimon and Sarah are one of the founding families of the Town of Itamar back in
1984. We wish them all continued happiness and success! Enjoy a short clip of the wedding celebration.
Shimon and Sarah are one of the founding families of the Town of Itamar back in
1984. We wish them all continued happiness and success! Enjoy a short clip of the wedding celebration.
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