EYEWITNESS TO THE ATTACK

Exclusive interview with Bulldozer II survivor Shmuel Sackett

So tell us a little background... where were you when the attack started and what were
you doing? What did you notice first?

SACKETT: I had parked my car about 200 feet from the King David Hotel. I got out of the car, as did my wife
Rhonda and Moshe Feiglin, President of Manhigut Yehudit. We were headed to a lunch meeting with the Chair-
man of the Board of Manhigut Yehudit, who had arrived a few hours earlier and was staying in the King David.
We started walking when – about 10 FEET IN FRONT OF US (no exaggeration) we saw a large bulldozer drop
his huge shovel in an attempt to crush a woman crossing the street. Baruch Hashem, she managed to miss it by
a few inches!

The bulldozer then raced into the middle of King David Street in an attempt to smash into a passing Egged
bus. The driver quickly swerved out of the way yet the bulldozer managed to smash into the rear part See

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HaRav Francis Nataf Shlit”a Educational director of the David Cardozo Academy
Imagine asking someone to give an “elevator summary” of Israeli history and having him re-
spond that, along the way, we built the national water carrier bringing water from the Sea of
Galilee to much of the rest of the country and that later on Ben Gurion died. He would then bid you
farewell.

It may sound preposterous, but it is not that far from a similar summary of the forty years that the Jews spent
in the desert. At the beginning of Parashat Masei, we read of the various encampments of the Jews from the
time they leave Egypt until they arrive at the borders of Eretz Yisrael. Granted, this list of place names is it-
self the true focus of this section. Nonetheless, once we read about the crossing of the Reed Sea in See
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Shmuel Sokol Editor-In-Chief
Recently we have experienced a wave of "Israeli Arab" terror. There was the mas-
sacre at Merkaz Harav, there was the Al-Qaeda cell at Hebrew University, there was
the first tractor attack, there was the shooting of the two policemen at the Lion's Gate,
there was the beating of the Israel Railways employee near Atlit, there were the threats against
Yeshivat Chevron by their Arab worker and finally we saw the copycat bulldozer attack. We have
also seen fireworks in East Jerusalem in celebration of Samir Kuntar’s freedom. In fact, Arutz-7 re-
ported that “Public Security Minister Avi Dichter (Kadima) pointed out that 20 percent of terrorist
attacks in the past five years involved Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem.”

Yet after all of these things, what are we warned against? Jewish terror. That's right, after the clear
beginnings of an Israeli Arab uprising (remember Yom Haatzmaut and the gang of Arabs who
threatened Jews waving Israeli flags?), the authorities are worrying about Jewish violence against
Arabs. After the first bulldozer attack we saw the Israeli media pontificating about Arab fears and
concerns. Now after the second such attack, we see Maj.-Gen. Aharon Franco [Israeli National Po-
lice] warning against "extreme right-wing activists". That's right, he is warning us, not against Is-
raeli Arabs (though he is increasing measures against them), but against Jews.

Maybe the authorities are worried about Jews realizing that their "leaders" are too weak to protect
them, and that they have in fact caused greater danger to Israel's citizens then had previously ex-
isted, and therefore taking matters into their own hands. Frankly, I have seen no indication of this.
Have any cases of reprisals by the national-reli-
giouscommunity been reported in the press? This
is just another excuse for the establishment to bash
the right wing. Consider the fact that both bulldozer
attacks and the Merkaz HaRav massacre were foiled
by armed national-religious men (the ones
you have been warned about)and you will re-
alize the just how ludicrous these allega-
tions are.

Frankly, I support retaliation. However, I call

upon the authorities to take charge of what-
ever reprisals are necessary, so as to make
private citizens feel safe, and to preclude
Joe-Israeli from (Chas V’Shalom) taking mat-
ters into his own hands. You want to pro-
tect us against extreme elements Mr.
Franco? Then please do me a favor
and do your job properly...and that
goes for Ehud, Tzippi and all of
their ilk as well.
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of the bus on the “passen-
ger” side. The bus smashed into
some guard rails but quickly turned
down Mapu St (by the Dan Panorama
Hotel) to avoid any further attacks by
the bulldozer. (Note: That bus driver was an AMAZ-
INGLY quick thinker and saved MANY lives!!)
The Jerusalem Arab – with an Israeli identity card –
continued driving the bulldozer down King David
Street in the direction of the Inbal Hotel.
What did you do when you realized what was
going on?
SACKETT: I immediately started running after him at
full speed – praying to Hashem that he would not in-
jure any more Jews and that I would have the merit to
personally kill him. He smashed into a parked car on
the left (Baruch Hashem it was empty), then into two
cars in front of him. In the first of those two cars he
pinned a man in, although he was just mildly injured.
The second car he managed to completely flip over
and seriously injure a man. I kept running towards the
bulldozer…
When I was about 20 feet away, a civilian came from
the left. He started shooting into the cabin of the bull-
dozer. Then, from the right hand side, a Border Po-
liceman shot about 7 bullets from his M-16. The
bulldozer came to a stop and the terror was over.
Were you scared to chase after the terrorist?
What was going through your mind?
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SACKETT: There was no time to be scared. At first I
thought it was an accident but quickly realized it was
another Jerusalem Arab trying to kill Jews. I acted as
quickly as I could.
What did you do once he was subdued?
SACKETT: I immediately ran back to the man that
was seriously injured and saw that the lower part of
his leg was severed. I called my friend Dovid Shirel,
who was in the King David Hotel already having lunch
with our Chairman. Dovid is Manhigut’s Educational
Director and also a highly experienced paramedic. He
came flying out of the hotel and was the first para-
medic on the scene. He administered an IV to the
man and helped him until the ambulances arrived.
When I turned around I saw Moshe Feiglin helping
the injured man as well. Moshe spoke to him, found
out his name and also that he was an attorney. Dovid
told Moshe to keep talking to him since that would
help keep him calm. I saw many people crying and
screaming and tried the best I could to help relax my
fellow Jews. It wasn’t easy…
Within minutes, police arrived as did the Israeli SWAT
team. Helicopters flew overhead, police on horses
charged in, ambulances and ZAKA motor-scooters
sped in and the media set up shop to start their re-
porting. Things happened faster than I would have
believed
How are you coping emotionally after the fact?
SACKETT: As crazy as it sounds, I am trying See
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 On the bank of the Yarden, in the land of Mo'av,
Moshe began explaining this Torah… (Devarim 1:5)
In seventy languages he explained it to them. (Rashi,
ad loc)
This intriguing midrash (Tanchuma 2) begs the ques-
tion: why does Moshe Rabbeinu, at the end of the
Jews' fortieth and final year of wandering, need to ex-
pound the Torah in seventy languages, when the peo-
ple who stand before him are all Hebrew-speakers?
One possibility is that Moshe is teaching the lesson
that we must study the Torah at every time, in every
place—even in exile among the nations, when we may
speak another tongue. However, it may also be that
this is meant to teach us that the Torah must be stud-
ied by all of humanity, the children of Noach; indeed,
Bereshit 10 lists seventy original nations, descended
from Noach's sons, throughout the world, and so too
the original languages number seventy.
Similarly, we find a global message at Mount Sinai.
The Gemara (Shabbat 88a) seeks to explain the diffi-
cult phrasing of Tehillim 68:12, which refers to the ex-
perience of hearing the Ten Commandments as
"Hashem gives the word; they notify a great host."
How does the singular "word" become plural? Rabbi
Yochanan explains "Every single statement that came
out of the Mouth of the Mighty One split into seventy
tongues;" Rashi explains, "'A great host'—all the na-
tions." In other words, the message of Sinai went out
to all humanity. Why is this necessary? The Maharsha
(Chiddushei Aggadot, ad loc.) explains: "So that the
non-Jews will not have an excuse in the future: had
we heard it in our mother tongue, we would have ac-
cepted it!" However, we find a mitzva mentioned below
(Devarim 27:8) to build a stone altar on Mt. Eival and
to write on it the entire Torah "well-explained (ba'er
heitev)," also explained by the Rabbis (Mishna, Sota
7:5) as the seventy languages—which the nations
of the world copy (ibid., 35b). This implies that the
motivation is more than subverting a claim; rather,
the Torah is really meant for the nations as well.
Indeed, we find that the Tanakh has been printed in
all of the world languages, more than any other
book; the first book ever printed in the world was
the Tanakh in Latin! We are witnesses to the
Tanakh's tremendous influence upon all humanity—
although they have absorbed the words, for the
most part, through distortion.
This may help us understand the words of Rabbi Yish-
ma'el's student, further down in the same passage in
Shabbat (88b). He expounds the verse (Yirmeyahu
23:29) "'Are my words not so,' says Hashem, 'like a
fire and like a hammer that shatters rock?'" in the fol-
lowing way: "just as the hammer produces many
sparks, every single statement that emerges from
Hashem's mouth splits into seventy languages." We
may ask: did Rabbi Yishma'el not precede Rabbi
Yochanan? Why is he mentioned afterwards? It ap-
pears that Rabbi Yochanan's words teach us some-
thing, and Rabbi Yishma'el limits it. Rabbi Yochanan
speaks generally of the influence of the Torah on the
nations of the world, and Rabbi Yishma'el's student
qualifies this: only sparks of Torah have fallen into the
hands of the nations—reflections, facets, imitations of
the genuine article.
In fact, we find many instances wherein the nations of
the world take Torah concepts to opposite extremes.
For example, the Torah recognizes the beauty of art,
but it prohibits making statues of human beings or rep-
resentations of angels; we now find Muslims forbid-
ding any painting or sculpture except for geometric
forms and flowers, while Christians glory in human
and angelic forms. The Jew drinks wine for Kiddush,
Havdala, and celebrations; meanwhile, Christians
drink until intoxication, and Muslims are teetotalers.
The non-Jew builds monasteries opposite nightclubs,
while the Jew strives to live a life of sanctity and
meaning.
Thus, there are sparks of Hashem's words in the
Torah that reach the nations perverted or distorted. It
is our duty to teach the world its obligations in a
proper and truthful manner.
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I have just returned from a
five week trip to the US. While there I dedicated half of
my time to family and the rest of the time to lecturing
about Israel and Aliyah and meeting with American
Jews who want to take part in building the Jewish
State - the most important project of the Jewish peo-
ple in two thousand years.
While my speeches hit their mark and the meetings
went well, I had to contend with a constantly recurring
question: "What's going to be with Israel's govern-
ment? Are the people of Israel going to allow them-
selves to be lead off a cliff?" This question came at me
from every corridor and only then did I realize how
hard it is for an American Jew to break out of the
American Galut. From America, Israel seems like a
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crazy place of endemic instability, full of enemies from
within and without. Add to that sentiment the amazing
attraction of America, its convenience, its wide roads,
its philo-Semitic tolerance, and its wealth and you end
up with one thought: "There is no way in heck I'm
leaving America for Israel."
I assured the people who asked me this question that
as a Jew living in Israel and taking part in the building
of our country daily, I am even more concerned by the
policies of my government and am embarrassed by
them. I told these questioners that it will take people
like them and people like me to change our reality for
the better and that we have no right to abdicate our
responsibility to Israel in these hard times. I told them
that we did not wait two thousand years to watch a re-
born Israel go down the tubes, G-d forbid.
But there was another point that I had to make: I ex-
plained to American Jews that they are locked in a
media loop in which their only information about our
beloved homeland comes from reading the papers
or watching the news. The media is notoriously neg-
ative, not just against Israel, but in general. I asked
American audiences to relate the last time they saw
something positive about America in the press?
They could not recall the last time. I continued: I,
too, see and hear the painful dark headlines in Is-
rael. However, when I walk past the Jewish kinder-
gartens in Israel I see them full of kids, when I drive
into Jerusalem I marvel at its granduer, when I walk
into the general store I see it packed with Israeli
products and fresh food! My image of Israel is fun-
damentally different because I am not enslaved by
the media's negative proclivities, nor do I think that
my government's suicidal policies are the end all/be
all of what Israel is really all about. I can see the big-
ger picture and I will not allow the media and others
to minimize and trivialise our efforts.
When Balak king of Moab wanted to fight the Jews
he called in the evil prophet Bilaam to curse the
Jews and thereby weaken them. We read in Num-
bers 23:13
"Then Balak said to him [Bilaam], 'Please come with
me to another place from where you may see them,
only their edge you will see and you will not see the
whole of them; and curse them for me from there.'"
What is going on here? If I were to curse a See
nation I would want to see the whole Page 9
 In our last shiur, we intro-
duced the concept of the ger toshav, a non-Jew who
spurns idolatry and settles in Eretz Yisra'el, focusing
on where he may reside. However, a more basic
question remains: what exactly is required to become
a ger toshav?
Who is a ger toshav? "Whoever accepts upon himself
before three fellows not to worship idols"—the words
of Rabbi Me'ir. The Chakhamim say: "Whoever ac-
cepts upon himself the seven commandments which
Benei Noach accepted upon themselves." Others say:
"These have not come to the category of ger toshav;
rather who is a ger toshav? A ger who eats carcasses;
he accepts upon himself to fulfill all of the mitzvot in
the Torah, except for the prohibition of carcasses."
(Avoda Zara 64b)
The final opinion (attributed to Rabbi Yehuda in the
minor tractate Gerim, 3:1) is based on Devarim 14:21:
"Do not eat any carcass; give it to the ger in your
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towns, and he will eat it." Since this prohibition (to eat
animals which have not been properly slaughtered) is
the only one from which a ger toshav is explicitly ex-
empted, we must assume that he is obligated in all
others as is a ger tzedek, a convert. At the other ex-
treme, Rabbi Me'ir takes a very minimalist approach.
The Chakhamim take the middle road, requiring the
ger toshav to accept the seven commandments bind-
ing on all descendants of Noach (i.e., all human be-
ings): the obligation to establish courts and the
prohibitions of idolatry, sexual immorality, murder,
blasphemy, theft and eating live animals.
Whom does the halakha follow? The Rambam states
clearly (Hilkhot Avodat Kokhavim 10:6) that a non-Jew
"cannot pass through our land until he accepts the
seven mitzvot which Benei Noach are commanded;"
on the other hand, the Sefer Ha-chinnukh (#94) rules,
"If they abandon idols, even though they had initially
worshipped them, they are permitted to reside in our
land, and this is what is called a ger toshav." This has
major halakhic ramifications: if, for example, a non-
Jewish adulterer who shuns idols wants to become a
ger toshav, the Rambam would reject him, while the
Chinnukh would welcome him.
It is unusual, but not unprecedented, for the Chinnukh
to differ with the Rambam. However, is that really the
case here? If we look at the Rambam's Sefer Ha-
mitzvot, we find that Prohibition #51 reads: "If a non-
Jew wants to stay in our land, he is not permitted to do
so until he accepts not to worship idols, and then it is
permitted for him to reside—and he is called a ger
toshav"! How can the Rambam rule like Rabbi Me'ir in
Sefer Ha-mitzvot, but like the Chakhamim in Hilkhot
Avodat Kokhavim?
The answer appears to lie in another source in Mish-
neh Torah: Hilkhot Issurei Bia 14:7. There, the Ram-
bam says, "Who is a ger toshav? A non-Jew who
accepts upon himself not to worship idols, along with
the other mitzvot that Benei Noach are commanded,
without circumcision or immersion." Why does the
Rambam single out idolatry? It is clear that there is
still a special significance to it.
If we contrast the words of Sefer Ha-mitzvot and Sefer
Ha-chinnukh, we notice a subtle distinction: according
to the former, renunciation of idols allows a non-Jew
"to stay in our land;" according to the latter, it Next
permits him or her "to reside in our Page
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bunch of them splayed out in front of me and then let 'em all have it! Why does Balak offer Bi-
laam a tiny glimpse of the nation in an attempt to help the evil prophet issue forth a diabolical
curse? Shouldn't it be the opposite?

The evil ones on this Earth have a well developed sense of cunning and these two bad guys
were no exception. They knew the secret of the Jewish people: the united totality of the Jewish people is un-
beatable and the big picture of Jewish history is the revelation of G-d's providence and kindness. However, if
you focus in at the small picture you may find some dirt, some criminality, some all-too-human weakness that
will darken the image. That is why Balak offered Bilaam to see only the edge of the Jews - if Bilaam could only
zoom in on some negative aspect of the Jews and disregard the big picture, maybe then he could muster the
venom needed to curse G-d's people.

That type of zoom-in to the darker side of today's Israel is exactly what our enemies want. They want us demor-
alized, they want us to turn away from Israel. However, we, lovers of Israel, cannot allow ourselves to be mini-
malist observers who become dissuaded when we hear that our country is going "off the derech" - off the right
path. On the whole, the Jewish project of rebuilding our homeland is moving forward at lightning speed. Israel is
soon going to be the home for the majority of the world's Jews, and is already far and away the cultural center
of Judaism. All of our enemies and even our sick government cannot derail the forward momentum of this proj-
ect - unless we let them!

So let us not fall victim to our enemies' dark de-

sires to see the edge of the Jewish people with a
focus on negativity. Instead, let us see the grand
vision of Israel and the nearer-then-ever horizon
of destiny. Once we get our vision in order we
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land." Thus, we may say that the Ram-
bam makes the following distinction:
we must evict any active idolaters from the land
of Israel; but as long as a non-Jew does not
worship idols, though he may violate other
Noahide laws, we do not violate a negative
command by letting such a person remain in
the land. However, if a non-Jew wants to "pass
into our land"—i.e., he is at the border and re-
questing entry—we cannot admit unless he
commits to all the Noahide laws. Indeed, this
dovetails with the Rambam's view (Hilkhot
Melakhim 8:10-11) that the Torah entrusts the
Jewish nation with the ultimate goal of bringing
every human to accept the seven Noahide
commandments—and become a ger toshav.

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Parashat Masei, the Torah inter-
sperses this list of encampments with
only two events – the lack of water en-
countered at Refidim and the death of Aharon.
It is not at all clear why the Torah only mentions these
events; there are many others that it would make
sense to mention as well. Furthermore, if the Torah is
going to be as terse as possible in the enumeration of
historical events along the way, are there not more
significant events, such as the receiving of the Torah,
which should take precedence?
In the context of Sefer Bemidbar, which deals a great
deal with the limitations of the Jewish people in the
desert, it could be that the listing of the encampments
is meant to give us greater insight into their failings.
As a result, it gives us a description of the trek
markedly from their perspective. Perhaps the Torah
wants to temper our judgment of this generation by
trying to make us realize just how different their per-
spective of things might have been.
Thousands of years later, when we judge the giving of
the Torah to be more important than the lack of water
or the death of Aharon, we are basing ourselves on a
rich historical and theological perspective that the
Jews going through it did not have. This is not to claim
that we are smarter or more religious. I doubt the for-
mer and am convinced of the incorrectness of the lat-
ter. It just means we have more information at our
disposal with which to coherently evaluate the relative
importance of the various events that transpired in the
journey through the desert. Indeed, in the Jews’ col-
lective consciousness, the shock of not having any
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water to drink and then being relieved by a Divinely
revealed source of water may have been a most criti-
cal event. It introduced them to a new type of exis-
tence that was neither the regular and mundane
religious life that they had known for most of their time
in Egypt, nor was it the fire-and-brimstone existence
they had encountered during the plagues and the
splitting of the sea. (It actually was a stronger version
of the previous episode at Marah where they encoun-
tered bitter water. There too, their shock seems to be
reflected in the unusual description of the next en-
campment at Elam that we read was a place of wells.)
From now on, they would see God challenging them
with events that were a bit less clear – and yet always
being there to see them through.
Likewise, the death of Aharon may have been even
more traumatic to the Jews than the decree that they
would die in the desert. That Aharon and not Moshe
was the people’s leader is quite clear in rabbinic tradi-
tion and certainly has a strong basis in the Biblical text
itself. Losing Aharon was akin to losing their whole ex-
istence. It was on him whom they depended for this
radical new enterprise upon which they had em-
barked. They were literally left like orphans in the
desert. On an emotional level, then, this could well
have had a more profound effect than the aforemen-
tioned decree.
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the Torah names 42 places that the Jewish people
camped, from the time they left Egypt until their arrival
at “Kadesh Barneah” prior to entering the land of Is-
rael. Rashi explains the need for mentioning all these
“stations” of the Odeyse in the desert with the follow-
ing parable: “This is similar to a King whose son was
sick and he had to take him to the doctor. On the way
back he reminds his son: “here you had a head ache,
here you were in pain, here you were thirsty”. Thus the
Jewish people upon reaching the final stage of their
journey are being reminded of the stations that they
went through on the way.
However, the holy “Ohr Hachayim” asks on this: why
does the Torah emphasize the “travels” of the Jewish
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nario just outlined should make us wonder. It should
also make us question our own perspective on con-
temporary events.
Indeed, what would we say are the watershed events
of recent Jewish history? We might be certain that the
pullout from Gush Katif and the Second Lebanon War
would rank at the top of the roster. Indeed, these
events have truly shaped the attitudes of many Jews
about how they should seek to influence the course of
future Israeli policy, and even how they feel about the
Zionist project altogether. But if we had prophets
today, are we so sure that this would be their focus?
Not having prophecy, I cannot be sure, but my gut tells
me otherwise.
Perhaps we would find out that the quiet establish-
ment of religious Zionist yeshivot in towns that had
been formerly abandoned to the secular, such at
Tel Aviv, Eilat and Carmiel, would be that semi-
nal event that we had so easily overlooked. Or
maybe, a contemporary equivalent of Yermiyahu
would tell us that over the last few decades we
have all accepted a lifestyle of cell phones,
malls and surrogate performance of mitzvot that
is bankrupt at its very core. Again, not being a
prophet, my list of what a prophet might say is
people? – the
name of the Parsah “Masei” is travels!
The Torah should have emphasized that it is mention-
ing the places they stopped and camped and over-
came their difficulties? He explains that the Kabbalists
said that the purpose of the wonderings of the Jewish
people in the desert was to uncover the holy sparks
that were left in the desert and trapped their, and to
bring them with them to the land of Israel. He explains
that this is the reason the Torah also describes the
Jewish nation that travels: “… that left the land of
Egypt, according to their camps”. The forefathers did
much spiritual work in the desert but could not col-
lect these sparks as it was necessary that it Next
should be done by the entire nation as Page
not really the point. What is the point is the
need to second-guess ourselves. We are
too easily convinced of the centrality of our
communities’ agendas.
A newspaper editor is required to decide what stories
are most important and thus deserving of inclusion –
and what to leave out. There, the editor’s warped per-
spective often speaks for itself. What is so transparent
to us about some newspapers, however, needs to be
brought home.
Had we lived in the desert, we certainly could have re-
flected on the sui generis significance of the receiving
of the Torah. But we would have had to second-guess
the prevalent perception of the community suggested
earlier. And that is something that far too few of us are
prepared to do.
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to turn this latest act of terror – which happened in
front of my eyes – into something positive. This Arab
from Jerusalem has energized me to work even
harder for strong and proud leadership in the State of
Israel.
What lessons can we learn from what happened?
SACKETT: The Arabs are strong today because the
Jews are weak, and the Jews are weak because their
leadership is scared, timid and virtually non-existent.
Changing that leader-
ship is what I have
dedicated my life to.
This country needs a
leader who is con-
nected to our Father
in Heaven and whose
goal is a proud, strong
and authentic JEW-
ISH State… not a
“state of all its citi-
zens”. When that day
comes – and it is on
its way – Jewish bull-
dozers will not destroy
houses in Gush Katif
or shuls in Tapuach
and Kiryat Arba. Arab
bulldozers will not kill
Jews in Jerusalem or
anywhere else. Instead, these same bulldozers will
build Israel as it has never been built before so that
every Jew in the world has a place to come home to!
What message would you like to give to our read-
ers in connection with what happened?
SACKETT: Don’t focus on the symptom. Don’t scream
about contractors who hire Arabs. Don’t demand more
police protection in Jerusalem. Channel all of your en-
ergy into the source of the problem; the lack of Jewish
leadership in this country. In the not-too-distant past, it
was rocks on the road and then drive-by shootings.
Then came shopping malls that blew up, followed by
busses, coffee shops and hotels. Now it is bulldozers.
If you want to make sure that this list does not con-
tinue, the direction of the leadership needs to be
changed NOW!!! No more leaders who care more
about world opinion than the safety of their own peo-
ple. No more leaders who wouldn’t know a Jewish
concept if they tripped over one! The time has come
for a “Manhig Emuni” - a leader filled and directed by
his Emunah in the eternal and all-powerful Jewish G-
d. When you see a leader like that -
grab onto him and help him succeed.
At the present time, I know of only one
such person; Moshe Feiglin, and I work
and pray for his success 24 hours a
day.
What can you add to our knowledge of what hap-
pened that we may not have heard or seen on TV...
SACKETT: At the scene, people asked if anyone was
killed and when I an-
swered “no” – they imme-
diately said “Baruch
Photo Credit: Shmuel Sackett
Hashem” and put on a
happy face. While it is
true that we must thank
Hashem for the fact that
there were no fatalities,
we must NEVER FOR-
GET the injured. This
young attorney – Shuki
Kramer (Yehoshua ben
Esther) - lost his leg. He
is currently in Shaarei
Zedek and his life has
been changed FOR-
EVER!!!
In addition to that there
are people who suffered
trauma, went into shock, and are now afraid to walk
the streets of our holy city. With leaders like we have
today who will do nothing to solve this problem, can
you blame them???
How did the security forces and MDA react and
were you happy with their response?
SACKETT: MDA was great while the security forces
were “too little and way too late”. The last 3 terror at-
tacks by Jerusalem Arabs were ended by private Jew-
ish citizens… so where are these “security forces”?
While in this particular attack, a border policeman shot
the Arab, it was not until AFTER he was already shot
by a simple Yid from the settlement of Sussia. Funny
thing how Israeli police are everywhere when you try
to pray on Har HaBayit, build a caravan in Yitzhar and
plant some olive trees in Shilo…
Do you think that the Merkaz, Jaffa Street and bull-
dozer II attacks, all foiled by armed citizens from
the National-Religious community have a connec-
tion and that there is a lesson that can be
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 Yom Kippur, Sukkot and the Geula Dr. Mordechai Attal
Dvar Torah based on the com- mandments. Torah has the ability to destroy the ko-
mentary of the Radak. chot hatumah.

Why do we celebrate Sukkot
after Yom Kippur and not after
Pesach?
We make every victory over the enemies of the Jews
into a holiday. On Pesach we celebrate the downfall of
the Egyptians who enslaved us. On Channukah we
celebrate the defeat of the Syrian-Greeks, and on
Purim we celebrate the death of the wicked Haman
and the subsequent salvation of Am Yisrael.
On Shavuot we celebrate the giving of the law. The
Torah enables us to achieve the victory of life and in-
telligence against the forces of evil and death (cherut
mimalech hamavet) through the fulfillment of its com-
Sukkot, known as the time of our happiness, is a cele-
bration of the ultimate victory in the war of Gog U’Ma-
gog in the last days. Our enemies will come against
Jerusalem and will be defeated. This is the reason
why the Haftorah on the last day of Sukkot deals with
Gog U’Magog.
The day of Mashiach’s arrival will be a special day and
we will see miracles on the level of those which oc-
curred during the exodus from Egypt. On this day we
will see the destruction of Gog U’Magog. The sefira of
Keter will be ascendant during this time.
Miracles of this sort come about through intense re-
pentance on the part of the people of Israel Next
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The Travels of Bnei Yisrael Continued...

up and move. There were 42 moves. That
pain did not stop the Jewish people from
reaching the land of Israel. The difficulties of
conquering and dividing the land will not deter us ei-
ther. We shall overcome!
This D”t is dedicated to all the Jewish hurt by the latest
terror attacks in Jerusalem and elsewhere.
Shabbat shalom,
Haim Perlmutter

Sackett on the Bulldozer Attack Continued...

drawn from this? Hashem and connected to His values and concepts
will control the future of this country and turn Israel
SACKETT: There is a definite connec- into a strong, proud and REAL JEWISH STATE!
tion! Those that attached to the land are
given the power to defend the land. The dati-leumi Shmuel Sackett is the co-founder of both Zo Artzeinu and
communities know what they are doing here, raise Manhigut Yehudit. Together with Moshe Feiglin, he is
many children here and are prepared to sacrifice their spearheading a campaign to rise to the leadership of Is-
lives as well. The only thing this sector has not done rael with an ideology based on Jewish identity and val-
is lead the nation. We must change that immediately! ues. He has spoken in 500 USA cities and universities in
The dati-leumi sector is first in the IDF, first in educa- the last 5 years. His website is: www.JewishIsrael.org His
tion, first in settling the land and LAST in influencing email is: Shmuel@jewishisrael.org
the political situation. You know why that
is? Because WE (yes, I am one of them!)
have always left the leadership of this
country to others. We have focused on
our little settlements, our Yeshivot and
even our IDF units – while leaving the
most important thing of all – LEADER-
SHIP OF THE STATE – to people whose
kids don’t serve in the IDF and probably
don’t even live in Israel!!! This is what
needs to be changed. With the help of

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Hashem – plus everybody reading this
article – leadership that is faithful to

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which will be activated by processes set in motion by Sukkah, both of which symbolize
Mashiach Ben David, the
prior to his arrival. di-
vine
On Yom Kippur, every- protection that Israel will
one fasts and prays will enjoy during the war of
intense concentration Gog U’Magog.
and thus purify them-
selves. This is why dur- After the total victory of
ing Neilah, the high Am Yisrael over their ene-
point and crescendo of mies, the remnants of the
the day, the sefirah of nations will be obligated to
Keter becomes come every year and cel-
stronger in the world ebrate in sukkot the Jew-
and erases the trans- ish victory over Gog
gressions of Israel, U’Magog.
thus making Am Yisrael
ready for the geula. Translated from the
French by Chava Sokol.
This is the reason that
we build a sukkah as soon as Yom Kippur is over. In Dr. Attal is a French lecturer on gematria, kabbala and
order to juxtapose the sefirah of Keter and the chassidut.

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