[Avodah] nidche

[Lisa Liel]

I don't get what nes happened on Yom HaAtzmaut.  That a declaration was 
read?  Yom Yerushalayim, I get.  It's the actual day that we retook 
Yerushalayim.  But honestly, 16 Kislev makes more sense than 5 Iyyar for 
the day that the nations of the world passed the partition plan.  The 
war itself ended on different days for Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, 
so that doesn't seem like a useful date.

I realize there's a desire to commemorate the birth of the State of 
Israel, but what specific thing can you point to that merits being 
called a nes?  As far as Yom HaShoah is concerned, if I understand 
correctly, the Knesset asked the Rabbanut to create such a day, and the 
Rabbanut replied that it wasn't necessary, since we have Tisha B'Av.  I 
understand that with people who actually lived through the Shoah still 
alive, there's a need for something separate, but in the long term, how 
do we justify raising the Shoah al rosh aveiluteinu?  Yom HaShoah was 
created by the Knesset itself, and shouldn't have any halakhic 
significance.  IMO.

Lisa

On 4/17/2012 1:21 PM, Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:
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> _http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2012/04/rav-rosen-argues-against-changing.html_ 
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> i am not  sure  what  'classical' sources/gdolim  would  have  to say 
> about  this  issue,  since  mistama  they  would  not  hold  by any   
> either 5 iyar or  28 iyar  as  being anything  other than tachanun 
> days.    but  maybe the gdolim of the DL/RZ  world  will chime in .   
> eg  if  israel celbrates on a day other than 5 iyar,  should  those 
> who say hallel  follow  israel, or the day of  the original perceived nes?
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