[TA] Toras Aish - Mishpatim

[Yitz Weiss]

Sorry I'm late - got bogged down a bit with tax season! Please read below for an urgent mitzvah opportunity...

Have a great shabbos!

Yitz
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Got this as a forward from both the NCYI and Agudah - please take a moment to read

February 10, 2010

To Friends and Constituents of the National Young Israel movement:
As you may or may not know, a Jewish man is slated for execution in Florida next Tuesday.
Martin Grossman was convicted of killing Margaret Parks, a Florida Wildlife Officer, in 1984, when he was 19 years old.
He did so while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, and in an act of panic, not premeditation.
He has conducted himself as a model prisoner since his incarceration some 25 years ago and has shown profound remorse and regret for his actions.
National Council of Young Israel has joined other Orthodox Jewish groups including Agudath Israel of America and the Orthodox Union, in asking Florida  Governor Charlie Crist to grant clemency , from the death penalty to life in prison, to Mr. Grossman, and we have also requested a meeting in person with Governor Crist to discuss the matter.
But it is important that the Governor hear from the grassroots as well - certainly from people who live or spend significant time in Florida, but even from non-Floridians.
His e-mail address is Charlie.Crist at myflorida.com , his phone number is 
(850) 488-7146 and he can be faxed at 850-487-0801.

Letters and calls should be polite to the Governor to take into account Mr. Grossman's youth and impairment at the time of the crime and his good behavior and remorse in the years since.
And the request should be that Mr. Grossman be permitted to serve his debt to society by serving the rest of his life in prison. 
May we have happier occasions to demonstrate our achdus and ahavas Yisroel.                                                      

"Even those who strongly support capital punishment would limit it to recidivists or people who ?commit the most heinous of crimes.  Martin Grossman fits neither of those categories.  He does ?not belong on death row.  His crime, committed when he was a teenager, was unplanned, ?unpremeditated and impulsive-the product of a serious mental illness, that can now be proved ?by medical technology that was unavailable at the time of his sentencing.  He has been in prison ?for more than a quarter of a century, during which time he has been a model prisoner who has ?shown great remorse for what he did.  All that he is seeking now is a 60 day postponement of his ?execution, so that his supporters can martial the evidence and present his case for clemency.  No ?one should be rushed to execution while doubts remain unresolved.  Justice demands that he be ?given the 60 days to prove that he does not deserve to die at the hands of the state."  ?- Alan M. Dershowitz ? 
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Please say some tehillim for Amichai ben Devorah Steinmetz who went missing in India on 7/22 (details here: http://tinyurl.com/mao37b) 
Please take out a few moments and say some tehillim (psalms) for the Israeli chayalim (soldiers) & for everyone living in Israel. Please also same some tehillim for the captive Israeli soldiers:

Gilad ben Aviva (Shalit), captured just outside Gaza on June 25, 2006;
Guy ben Rina (Hever), disappeared near the Syrian-Israeli border in the Golan Heights in August 1997;
Tzvi ben Pninah (Feldman), Yekutiel Yehuda Nachman ben Sarah (Katz), and Zecharia Shlomo ben Miriam (Baumel), all captured at the Sultan Yaaqub battle in Lebanon on June 11,1982.

Also please keep in mind the three Yeshiva students who were jailed in Japan:
Yosef ben Ita Rivka
Ya'akov Yosef ben Reizel 

Yoel Ze'ev ben Mirel Risa Chava 

If you need some suggestions for which Tehillim (Psalms) to say, I'd suggest # 20, # 130 & # 21

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If you haven't checked it out yet, please check out www.dovslist.org - GREAT site for organizing tehillim and prayers for the sick created by my sister & her husband in memory of their son Dov.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS LINK AROUND!
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Any names on our mishebayrach list over a month old will be deleted unless I'm told otherwise. Please say mishebayrach for:
Yonatan ben Malka
Yosef Adam ben Elke


Issur ben Yocha (1/15)
Ben Tzion Tzvi ben Faiga (1/15)
Yaakov Akiva ben Malka Leah (1/15)
Esther bat Gohar (1/22)
Mia Berit bat Leah Miriam (1/22)
Mitra Chaya bat Helene (1/29)
Azriel David ben Leah (2/12)
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Names added:
Zvi Moshe ben Miriam Rachel (2/12)
Mordechai Tzemach ben Mazal (2/12)
Ariella Ellana Chaya bas Malka (2/12)
Shalva Yakira bas Yardena Meira (2/12)
Yaakov Shalom ben Tamar (2/12)

Names removed:
Binyomin Leib ben Pesha (1/22)
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