.Yesterday we read 1 Samuel 4- the defeat of  the israelites with more than 10, 000 men lost and the arc lost to the Philistines.  It’s a good reminder that we don’t always win, and we shouldn’t risk everything we have because we think we’re right.  

And on Temple Mount today the men were chanting “Khaibar, Khaibar, ya yahud,”  a reminder of the ‘battle’ of 628 when the Moslem army slaughtered a community of Jews in an oasis in khaibar.

history likes to repeat itself