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		<title>Hag Sukkot Same&#8217;ah..Happy Holiday of Sukkot</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tous mes amis et membres de la famille Bonne fete de Souccotes Hag Same&#8217;ah et Moadim ou Zmanim le Sassone elie]]></description>
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<p><strong>A tous mes amis et membres de la famille</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Bonne fete de Souccotes</strong></p>
<p><strong>Hag Same&#8217;ah et Moadim ou Zmanim le Sassone</strong></p>
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		<title>Souvenirs de ma jeunesse dans la vallee de l&#8217;OURIKA 1947-1964</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo, 1953 Une journee de baignade a la riviere de galets de l&#8217;Ourika.. De gauche a droite, mon frere aine Judex z&#8221;l, ma soeur Georgette et mon frere Charles z&#8221;l Depuis ma naissance a Rabat en 1947, mes parents m&#8217;y amenaient passer un pelerinage de 7 jours tous les ans. La derniere fois que j&#8217;y [...]]]></description>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">Une journee de baignade a la riviere de galets de l&#8217;Ourika..</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;">De gauche a droite, mon frere aine Judex z&#8221;l, ma soeur Georgette et mon frere Charles z&#8221;l</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-392" title="Ourika,le Saint, l'oued 1953, freres et soeur" src="http://ec2fleuves.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Ourikale-Saint-loued-1953-freres-et-soeur.jpg" alt="Ourika,le Saint, l'oued 1953, freres et soeur" width="500" height="487" /></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Depuis ma naissance a Rabat en 1947, mes parents m&#8217;y amenaient passer un pelerinage de 7 jours tous les ans.<br />
La derniere fois que j&#8217;y ai ete c&#8217;etait en aout 1961, et c&#8217;etait l&#8217;annee de ma Bar Mitsvah.<br />
Durant ces 13 annees de visites, mes freres et moi avions explore a pied toute la vallee sur 10 a 20 kms, et il y en avait des montagnes et des cascades,le plus beau coin de mon enfance . Mon grand frere avait fait un long film de famille en couleur du saint, de la vallee et de Marrakech en 1959.Et c&#8217;est le plus beau film de toutes nos collections de films familiaux.A la maison,quand des moments de nostalgie s&#8217;emparent de nous, nous revoyons ce film ancien de 8 mm que nous avons bien sur retranspose sur video, et l&#8217;on se rememore ce paradis de notre enfance.<br />
Au saint,nous dormions des fois dans les petites chambrettes du rez de chausse ou des fois dans la petite salle adjacente a la synagogue au 1er etage. Les services de priere du samedi matin etaient exceptionnels.<br />
En bas pres de la tombe, mon pere s&#8217;assoyait par terre sur des tapis comme beaucoup de pelerins de Marrakech , car il etait tres rare d&#8217;y rencontrer des juifs d&#8217;autres villes ,et tous les Hommes lisaient les Tehilim.<br />
Une fois pendant la nuit,pres de la tombe, c&#8217;etait au debut des annees 50, un grand serpent tomba du plafond au-dessus du mur en face de la tombe du saint et directement pres des jambes de mon frere. Mon pere etait tres apeure, mais les gens du saint qui etaient dans la salle lui dirent de ne pas bouger et que le serpent s&#8217;en irait, et c&#8217;est ce qui se passa,sans aucun incident. Tout etait serein, paisible, un calme spirituel, on pouvait sentir la Chaleur du Tsadik. Les samedis soirs etaient bruyants et pleins des yous yous des femmes, car apres la Havdala l&#8217;on vendait les bougies aux encheres. Les nombreuses femmes se pressaient d&#8217;allumer leurs bougies dans un carre de terre qui se situait sur le cote de la tombe. Il arrivait des fois que de &#8220;l&#8217;eau&#8221; remontait a la surface de ce carre et toutes les femmes se precipitaient de part et d&#8217;autre avec des yous yous, des prieres personnelles et cantonnaient aussi toutes sortes de chansons religieuses car elles disaient que c&#8217;etait la une expression materialisee d&#8217;un&#8221; contact spirituel&#8221; du Tsadik a la congregation qui priait; et la chambre vibrait alors des appels effrenes de &#8220;Haouaja Rebbi Chlomo, Haouaja&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221; cantonnes par toute l&#8217;assemblee.<br />
Un jour, de jeunes gamins qui voulaient leur faire une farce,genre comiques Pim Pam Poum je ne sais pas si tu as connu ce magazine tres rigolo de mon enfance; bref ces gamins ont vide une bouteille d&#8217;eau dans le carre et sont alles appeler les femmes en criant au miracle, evidemment ca a marche et toutes les femmes se sont mises a prier. A ce moment precis les gamins ont eu une sorte de grand remords et ont devoile la supercherie au grand desarroi de nos meres tres croyantes; les gamins se sont fait corriger par leurs peres, mais evidemment il n&#8217;y avait pas grand chose dans le coin pour occuper des enfants pendant 7 jours.<br />
Durant ces annees dans la batisse de terre battue qu&#8217;etait le Saint, il n&#8217;y avait pas d&#8217;eau courante, pas de toilettes, pas d&#8217;electricite, bref a part la presence humaine pas grand chose.<br />
Pour la nourriture, les berberes du coin nous vendaient des poulets,on en mangeait beaucoup.Les gens qui pouvaient se le permettre achetaient un mouton ou une vache. Il y avait toujours un Chokhet en permanence et la Chekhita se faisait a l&#8217;arriere cour a l&#8217;exterieur du saint ,juste apres le mur oppose a la porte principale et perpendiculaire a l&#8217;oued qui coulait plus bas. Evidemment j&#8217;observais le deroulement de la Chekhita comme tous les gamins d&#8217;ailleurs, car ce n&#8217;etait pas une experience accessible a un enfant ,a Rabat et la curiosite etait trop forte. J&#8217;avais toujours le coeur dechire en voyant les yeux tristes de ces betes,et tres gamin j&#8217;etais au bord des larmes; mais enfin il fallait manger et il n&#8217;y avait pas de congelateurs. Le Chokhet etait generalement boucher, et si la bete etait decouverte non cachere et bien c&#8217;etait grande perte et il fallait trouver quelqu&#8217;un pour la lui donner. Je me demande si CARA GEORGES, l&#8217;aubergiste francais a 1 ou 2 kms plus bas sur la route n&#8217;en prenait pas livraison. Pour le pain et la DAFINA du samedi, il y avait une preposee juive berbere qui avait un grand four de terre battue ,aussi a l&#8217;arriere cour, et elle faisait le pain pour tout le monde, genre immense Pita qu&#8217;elle posait a meme la coupole de terre qui etait le toit du four et les pitas y cuisaient constamment durant la journee. La Dafina etait introduite a l&#8217;interieur du four le vendredi apres midi et le four etait ensuite bouche avec de la terre. Je pense qu&#8217;un berbere l&#8217;ouvrait le samedi midi. Enfin toujours est-il que je n&#8217;ai jamais mange de Pitas aussi bonnes et de Dafinas aussi succulentes que celles cuites au Saint Rabbi Chelomo Bel Hens ZSL&#8221;. dans la vallee de l&#8217;ourika. Il y avait aussi un monsieur qui grillait des pepites pour le samedi.<br />
Pour la lumiere et les rechauds, mon pere ramenait de la Societe Nantaise de Rabat qui les vendaient des rechauds, genre &#8220;Primous&#8221; ou &#8220;Luise&#8221; avec meches et comme lampes; la &#8220;Coleman&#8221; de camping, (car c&#8217;etait du CAMPING que l&#8217;on pratiquait) au Kerosene et qui eclairait comme une lampe de 500 watts ou tout simplement des lampes a carbure: 2 contenants a l&#8217;interieur desquels on y introduisait des pierres de carbure et de l&#8217;eau et la reaction chimique produisait un gaz qui sortait par un bec et qu&#8217;on allumait, ca eclairait assez mais ca ne battait pas la &#8220;Coleman&#8221; americaine.<br />
On dormait a meme le sol sur des matelas que l&#8217;on avait auparavant expedies de Marrakech par le car de la CTM de la place Djemma el Fna.<br />
On mangeait beaucoup de mais, car c&#8217;etait la culture principale dans la vallee pres du saint.On mangeait aussi beaucoup de Figues de Barbarie, de Figues vertes , du raisin vert et des noix de grenoble encore vertes avec leur peau qui nous teignait la paume des mains comme du Henne et qui etait impossible d&#8217;oter. Bref c&#8217;etait plus ou moins ce que les berberes cultivaient dans la vallee. Au fait j&#8217;oubliais les fermes francaises dans les bonnes terres et dont les poiriers produisaient les plus grosses poires du pays, geantes et tres douces.. Tous les matins un ami de mon pere , un fermier berbere nous apportait des bouteilles ,genre limonade SIM,remplies de lait encore tout chaud et que ma mere bouillait pour le pasteuriser.Enfin on mangeait tres bien.<br />
Un ete, les scouts EI de Marrakech avaient etabli un camp de 15 jours a l&#8217;exterieur du saint et cette annee la il y eut des celebrations de Bar Mitzvah, l&#8217;Ourika etait inonde de jeunes juifs et c&#8217;etait feerique ,toutes les nuits etaient remplies des chants de chorale scouts, et les matins et samedis les services de prieres etaient officies par les chefs eclaireurs israelites , c&#8217;etait extraordinaire ; d&#8217;ailleurs mes freres ont correspondu plutard et pendant des annees avec ces nouveaux amis rencontres a l&#8217;Ourika, je pense qu&#8217;ils sont meme venus nous rendre visite a Rabat.<br />
En guise de divertissement, c&#8217;etait tout d&#8217;abord les jeux de RONDA, des fois de BELOTTE, mais surtout les baignades dans l&#8217;oued. A a peu pres 4 kms a pied du saint ,en prenant la route , passant CARAGEORGES, et descendant vers la vallee par un chemin raccourci qui longeait un ruisseau dont &#8221; seuls mes freres connaissaient l&#8217;existence&#8221; ( j&#8217;y croyais&#8230;) et qui descendait vers l&#8217;oued, se trouvait &#8220;UNE PISCINE NATURELLE&#8221; avec un pont de bois et de corde, genre film de tarzan. C&#8217;etait un bassin d&#8217;eau du torrent que les soldats americains avaient creuse durant la 2ieme guerre mondiale, car ils avaient etabli un campement militaire temporaire dans le coin et ils avaient donc pour leurs loisirs creuse l&#8217;oued avec leur bulldozer sur une profondeur de 1m50 , une longueur de 15 a 20 m. et une largeur de 10m. et bien sur apres leur depart ils avaient abandonne a notre grande joie cette piscine dans son etat naturel.. Je pense que ce n&#8217;etait que ma famille et Carageorge qui la connaissait car lui et ma famille frequentaient l&#8217;Ourika depuis les annees 40, surtout mon oncle de Marrakech qui y allait dans sa jeunesse avec des amis francais pour y pecher la truite, c&#8217;etait le meilleur coin pour la peche a la truite et l&#8217;auberge Carageorge etait leur base.<br />
Des fois on allait escalader les montagnes avoisinantes ,y prenions quelques photos et y laissions quelques &#8220;souvenirs,memos&#8221; genre notre drapeau pour marquer le sommet et notre passage; je me demande si ils y sont encore aujourd&#8217;hui.<br />
une fois en pleine nuit ,debut 1952-53, etait arrive un groupe de berberes , les femmes avec beaucoup de boucles d&#8217;oreilles et colliers et les hommes habilles en berbere et ressemblant aux autochtones de la region. Ils s&#8217;installerent pres de la tombe , y lirent le talmud et la guemara ,presque du par coeur, et s&#8217;en allerent de bon matin sur leurs anes grimpant la pente de la montagne du Saint aussi furtivement qu&#8217;ils etaient arrives. Mon pere etait tout ebahi, il n&#8217;avait jamais su qu&#8217;il y avait quelque part dans ces hautes montagnes des juifs berberes authentiques et qui recitaient le TALMUD tel que le TSADIK RABBI CHELOMO BEL HENSS ZSL&#8221;qui venait de Palestine le leur avait enseigne au 17ieme siecle.<br />
Ces etes au Saint de l&#8217;Ourika resteront graves dans ma memoire et celle de ma famille comme des moments inoubliables et irremplacables de notre vie au Maroc d&#8217;Antan.<br />
Amities<br />
Elie Cohen<br />
</strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-390" title="Le Saint Rabbi Chlomo Belhenss zatsal dans la Vallee de l'Ourika" src="http://ec2fleuves.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Le-Saint-Rabbi-Chlomo-Belhenss-zatsal-dans-la-Vallee-de-lOurika.jpg" alt="Le Saint Rabbi Chlomo Belhenss zatsal dans la Vallee de l'Ourika" width="734" height="263" /></p>
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		<title>Montagnes de l&#8217;Atlas, heureuse vallee de l&#8217;Ourika, mes jeunes annees..</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Enfance feerique , &#8220;Ma belle vallee&#8221;..Ourika..how green  was the valley of my youth.. Bonjour a toutes et a tous Ce sujet est dedie  a tous mes freres, soeurs, cousins , cousines, et bien entendu a la memoire de mes parents qui nous ont permis de passer pendant des decennies de merveilleuses vacances dans un [...]]]></description>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><em>Enfance feerique , &#8220;Ma belle vallee&#8221;..Ourika..how green  was the valley of my youth..</em></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><em><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-365" title="La vallee de l'Ourika, Haut Atlas , Maroc" src="http://ec2fleuves.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/La-vallee-de-lOurika-Haut-Atlas-Maroc.jpg" alt="La vallee de l'Ourika, Haut Atlas , Maroc" width="666" height="500" /></em><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Bonjour a toutes et a tous</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #006633;">Ce sujet est dedie  a tous mes freres, soeurs, cousins , cousines, et bien entendu a la memoire de mes parents qui nous ont permis de passer pendant des decennies de merveilleuses vacances dans un endroit qui  paraissait  etre  le jardin d&#8217;Eden..</span><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>La Vallee de l&#8217;Ourika a ete pendant pres de 16 ans mon endroit de vacances mais pour mes freres et soeurs aines , eux ont decouvert ce coin de paradis avec mes parents vers  le  milieu des annees 1940&#8242;s.<br />
Effectivement, depuis ma naissance en Decembre 1947 , mes parents m&#8217;avaient toujours emmene avec eux au Saint , au mausolee du R&#8217;bi Chelomo Belhenss, se situant  a plus de 50 kms de Marrakech, sur les  hauteurs du Grand Atlas qui dominaient la ville imperiale. </strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>La toute premiere fois que j&#8217;y suis alle, l&#8217;on m&#8217;a dit  que j&#8217;avais trois mois et c&#8217;etait en plein hiver, en Fevrier 1948. Dans cette grande batisse, construite en terre cuite et poutres primitives de troncs d&#8217;arbres, vieille de plusieurs centenaires, il n&#8217;y avait pas de  chauffage, et la neige, en ces mois d&#8217;hiver, avait recouvert tout le Saint. Le froid, durant mon premier hiver sur Terre et au Haut Atlas, etait glacial et les conditions d&#8217;hebergement au Saint assez rudimentaires..Malgre toutes ces difficultes climatiques, mon pere m&#8217;a dit que cela s&#8217;etait  tres bien passe..et mes joues etaient toujours roses, tout le monde etait en forme, en fait c&#8217;etait un lieu ou les intemperies hivernales etaient &#8220;inexistantes&#8221;! l&#8217;endroit avait un cachet divin, c&#8217;etait un lieu de haute spiritualite judaique et aussi un paradis naturel , montagnes, vallee, torrents d&#8217;eau fraiche, arbres fruitiers, cascades, vignes, troupeaux de chevres, vaches laitieres, brebis, basse-cour..rochers de granite multicolores, gris ecarlates de mineraux formant ces massifs geants. .</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Pour moi , les annees depuis 1948 etaient devenues des attentes pour tous ces mois d&#8217;Aout, lorsque mon papa prenait ses vacances et je pouvais de nouveau me retremper dans mon petit paradis bien a moi, au milieu des vallons du Haut Atlas, courant, me baignant et degustant sans effort, les fruits qui poussaient ca et la, parmi cette foret verte irriguee de tous ces petits canaux d&#8217;eau de montagne, aussi vieux que l&#8217;homme qui les avait traces, des siecles et des siecles auparavant..<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Mes adieux a toutes ces annees de jeunesse belle et joyeuse je les ai tristement faits en Aout 1964..<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong> Cette vallee de l&#8217;Ourika n&#8217;avait aucun secret pour mes freres et moi  puisque nous l&#8217;avions parcourue maintes fois , de fond en comble,  pendant de nombreuses annees . Les montagnes environnantes aussi, nous les avons toutes  escaladees durant les annees 1950&#8242;s, 1960..<br />
Voici quelques petites photos que j&#8217;avais en ma possession et qui faisaient , pour certaines d&#8217;entre elles, partie de notre album familial.</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Ce sujet du Saint, je le continuerai durant cet Ete, afin de rester dans le cadre de mes souvenirs de vacances en famille et je ferai aussi un compte-rendu, assez detaille, d&#8217;une de ces annees de pelerinage de 1954-55..qui avait ete magique..</strong></p>
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A bientot et toutes mes amities,</strong></p>
<p><strong>elie cohen </strong></p>
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<span style="color: #800000;">Photo:</span><span style="color: #800000;"><br />
Le Saint , Rabbi Chlomo Belhens zatsal,a l&#8217;Ourika , autour de 1949. Jeune fermier berbere du Haut Atlas, aux paturages..</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #800000;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-368" title="Paysage pittoresque au Saint , valle de l'Ourika autour de 1949" src="http://ec2fleuves.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Paysage-pittoresque-au-Saint-valle-de-lOurika-autour-de-1949.jpg" alt="Paysage pittoresque au Saint , valle de l'Ourika autour de 1949" width="600" height="406" /></span><br />
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		<title>OURIKA: my soul, my young spirituality,mon jeune judaisme..</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: my parents and me going down the stairs to Rabbi Shlomo Belhenss z&#8221;l mausoleum in the High Atlas mountains, August 1959 Hi everyone Here it is a page of my youth, that I had first published five years ago in my old jewish community website called &#8220;Dafina&#8221;.There,in that Internet site, we ,old folks , [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="color: #800000;">photo: my parents and me going down the stairs to Rabbi Shlomo Belhenss z&#8221;l mausoleum in the High Atlas mountains, August 1959</span></p>
<p><strong>Hi everyone</strong></p>
<p><strong>Here it is a page of my youth, that I had first published five years ago in my old jewish community website called &#8220;Dafina&#8221;.There,in that Internet site, we ,old folks , last Jews of Morocco..[after about 2500 years of presence in that part of North Africa]..here , scattered  from all around the world ..from Israel to Europe to Asia to Australia and finally America, we write our collective memoirs of yesterday..the stories of our grand-parents, their parents, our own parents and finally of ourselves: the last of the &#8220;Jewish Mohicans&#8221; in Morocco!</strong></p>
<p><strong>So it is in french, my mother tongue, the one I used as a young little boy to pronounce my first words (my first language had to be Moliere&#8217;s), that I will continue later that subject to reflect the cultural spirit of those years!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Anyhow , may be one day I will have the patience to translate most of those articles but in the meantime and knowing perfectly that my children an my wife, all Canadian born and English speaking from Quebec, will certainly understand most of it, besides it will be a very good exercise for their bilingualism, I will carry that topic as I planned it, meaning in French and partly English where I can..</strong></p>
<p><strong>So here it is:</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ourika or the jewel of my childhood.</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>I was born the 6th day of December 1947 in Rabat, the capital city of then french Morocco, and I first spent two weeks in Ourika , during the month of February 1948.</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The place:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>The dried clay building of Rabbi Shlomo Belhenss, an emissary from the Old City of Jerusalem that came to that part of the world in the years of  the seventeen century a.d.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Why ,in the 17th century, did  that great Rabbi , Jewish Palestinian born, decided to settle for good in the middle of the High Atlas mountains? because after collecting  funds from all Morocco Jewish communities living in big cities such Rabat, Fes, Tetuan, Mogador, Marrakesh, etc. to help secure  the Talmudic Yeshivas located in Tiberias, Safed, Yavne, Jerusalem in old Ottoman Palestine ,he fell in love with the beautiful high mountains of the Atlas rising in the near horizon of Marrakesh.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Rabbi Shlomo Belhenss fell also in love with the scattered Jewish Berbers  men, women and children that had been isolated for centuries from main stream Judaism  Sepharadic and Ashkenaze. During the 17th century there were no roads, neither trails, so to speak..linking those mountains to cities and towns of the kingdom of Morocco.</strong></p>
<p><strong>My parents told me that , back in the first month of a cold 1948 winter,they really were wondering how I will sustain the freezing temperature and the snow in that kind of primitive building with no running water , no electricity and no heat whatsoever..</strong></p>
<p><strong>And here it was, the miracle provided by the divine soul of that Saint: I had a great time and behaved so well, in all aspects, my dad and my mom  were sure </strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>that place was a holy place!</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Rabbi Shlomo Belhenss zats&#8217;al was very famous, in that Berbers world, for  performing miracles during his lifetime spent among them. He is buried in that building where all Jews come to pilgrimage ounce or twice a year, or to celebrate a special event such Bar Mitsvah, etc.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Another day I will recalled some of those summers spent in that beautiful place.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Until then <em>( maybe to-morrow , I will be back..)</em> I &#8216;ll say good-by for now and see you soon.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Regards to all</strong></p>
<p><strong>elie cohen</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #800080;">photo: 1948, Rabbi Shlomo Belhenss zatsal,two centuries and a half old building and mausoleum</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-340" title="Ourika-le Saint dans la valle qui porte son nom" src="http://ec2fleuves.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Ourika-le-Saint-dans-la-valle-qui-porte-son-nom.jpg" alt="Ourika-le Saint dans la valle qui porte son nom" width="740" height="500" /></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.Receiving Torah at Mount Sinai was the very beginning of the journey for the people of Israel. Endowed with a covenant with the Almighty, the children of Israel were now on their way to becoming the nation of Israel. Contained within every word of every commandment of this new Torah was the imperative of the [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #993300;">&#8230;.Receiving Torah at Mount Sinai was the very beginning of the journey for the people of Israel. Endowed with a covenant with the Almighty, the children of Israel were now on their way to becoming the nation of Israel. Contained within every word of every commandment of this new Torah was the imperative of the land of Israel. The journey and the fulfillment of the word of Torah would only be possible in the land of Israel. This is no more explicit than in the commandment of the first-fruits:</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8230;&#8221;And it will be, when you come into the land which the L-rd, your G-d, gives you for an inheritance, and you possess it and settle in it, that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you will bring from your land, which the L-rd, your G-d, is giving you. And you shall put [them] into a basket and go to the place which the L-rd, your G-d, will choose to have His Name dwell there. And you shall come to the kohen who will be [serving] in those days, and say to him, &#8216;I declare this day to the L-rd, your G-d, that I have come to the land which the L-rd swore to our forefathers to give us.&#8217;&#8221; (Deuteronomy 26:1-3)</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Happy Shavuot to my family and my friends<br />
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Elie</strong></span></p>
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		<title>JERUSALEM OF GOLD&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRANSLATIONS There are several English translations to the song. Some are closer to the original while others are a freer rendition. Following is a literal translation from the Hebrew prepared by Yael Levine JERUSALEM OF GOLD by Naomi Shemer The mountain air is clear as wine And the scent of pines Is carried on the [...]]]></description>
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<strong> <span style="font-family: tahoma;"> <span style="color: blue;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></strong> <strong><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img src="http://www.jerusalemofgold.co.il/%21cid_000801bedac7$b13d8a60$0100007f@dapa.gif" alt="" align="center" /> </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> TRANSLATIONS</span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong> There are several<br />
English translations<br />
to the song.<br />
Some are closer to the original<br />
while others are<br />
a freer rendition.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong></strong> <strong><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong> <span style="color: blue;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> Following is a literal translation<br />
from the Hebrew <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
prepared by Yael Levine </span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong><strong><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><strong> <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></strong></span></strong></strong></strong> <span style="color: #800080;"><strong><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">JERUSALEM OF GOLD<br />
by Naomi Shemer</span></strong></span></strong></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>The mountain air is clear as wine<br />
And the scent of pines<br />
Is carried on the breeze of twilight<br />
With the sound of bells.</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>And in the slumber of tree and stone<br />
Captured in her dream<br />
The city that sits solitary<br />
And in its midst is a wall.</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light<br />
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>How the cisterns have dried<br />
The market-place is empty<br />
And no one frequents the Temple Mount<br />
In the Old City.</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>And in the caves in the mountain<br />
Winds are howling<br />
And no one descends to the Dead Sea<br />
By way of Jericho.</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light<br />
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>But as I come to sing to you today,<br />
And to adorn crowns to you (i.e. to tell your praise)<br />
I am the smallest of the youngest of your children (i.e. the least worthy of doing so)<br />
And of the last poet (i.e. of all the poets born).</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>For your name scorches the lips<br />
Like the kiss of a seraph<br />
If I forget thee, Jerusalem,<br />
Which is all gold&#8230;</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze, and of light<br />
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>We have returned to the cisterns<br />
To the market and to the market-place<br />
A ram&#8217;s horn (shofar) calls out (i.e. is being heard) on the Temple Mount<br />
In the Old City.</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>And in the caves in the mountain<br />
Thousands of suns shine -<br />
We will once again descend to the Dead Sea<br />
By way of Jericho!</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><strong><strong><strong>Jerusalem of gold, and of bronze and of light<br />
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.</strong></strong></strong></strong></span></p>
<p><strong><strong><strong><strong>A translation by Chaya Galai<br />
is posted on the official site<br />
of the Israel Ministry<br />
of Foreign Affairs. </strong></strong></strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-327" title="hazranou-el-borot-hamayimyerushalyim-chel-zahav-venehoshet" src="http://ec2fleuves.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hazranou-el-borot-hamayimyerushalyim-chel-zahav-venehoshet.jpg" alt="hazranou-el-borot-hamayimyerushalyim-chel-zahav-venehoshet" width="478" height="637" /><br />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following are the Hebrew lyrics to Jerusalem of Gold in English transliteration. JERUSALEM OF GOLD by Naomi Shemer Avir harim zalul kayayin Ve-rei&#8217;ah oranim Nissa be-ru&#8217;ah ha&#8217;arbayim Im kol pa&#8217;amonim U-ve-tardemat ilan va-even Shvuyah ba-halomah Ha-ir asher badad yoshevet U-ve-libbah homah Yerushalayim shel zahav Ve-shel nehoshet ve-shel or Ha-lo le-khol shirayikh Ani kinnor. Eikhah yavshu [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Following are<br />
the Hebrew lyrics<br />
to </span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>Jerusalem of Gold</em></span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
in English transliteration. </span></span></span></strong></p>
<p style="padding: 0in 0in 0.03in; margin-bottom: 0in; border: medium medium 1.1pt none none double -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color #000000;" align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
JERUSALEM OF GOLD<br />
by Naomi Shemer</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Avir harim zalul kayayin<br />
Ve-rei&#8217;ah oranim<br />
Nissa be-ru&#8217;ah ha&#8217;arbayim<br />
Im kol pa&#8217;amonim</strong></p>
<p><strong>U-ve-tardemat ilan va-even<br />
Shvuyah ba-halomah<br />
Ha-ir asher badad yoshevet<br />
U-ve-libbah homah</strong></p>
<p><strong>Yerushalayim shel zahav<br />
Ve-shel nehoshet ve-shel or<br />
Ha-lo le-khol shirayikh<br />
Ani kinnor.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Eikhah yavshu borot ha-mayim<br />
Kikkar ha-shuk reikah<br />
Ve-ein poked et Har ha-Bayit<br />
Ba-ir ha-attikah</strong></p>
<p><strong>U-va-me&#8217;arot asher ba-selah<br />
Meyallelot ruhot<br />
Ve-ein yored el Yam ha-Melah<br />
Be-derekh Yeriho</strong></p>
<p><strong>Yerushalayim shel zahav<br />
Ve-shel nehoshet ve-shel or<br />
Ha-lo le-khol shirayikh<br />
Ani kinnor.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Akh be-vo&#8217;i ha-yom la-shir lakh<br />
Ve-lakh likshor ketarim<br />
Katonti mi-ze&#8217;ir bana&#8217;ikh<br />
U-me-aharon ha-meshorerim</strong></p>
<p><strong>Ki shemekh zorev et ha-sefatayim<br />
Ke-neshikat saraf<br />
Im eshkakhekh Yerushalayim<br />
Asher kullah zahav</strong></p>
<p><strong>Yerushalayim shel zahav<br />
Ve-shel nehoshet ve-shel or<br />
Ha-lo le-khol shirayikh<br />
Ani kinnor.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Hazarnu el borot ha-mayim<br />
La-shuk ve-la-kikkar<br />
Shofar kore be-Har ha-Bayit<br />
Ba-ir ha-attikah</strong></p>
<p><strong>U-va-me&#8217;arot asher ba-selah<br />
Alfey shemashot zorhot<br />
Nashuv nered el Yam ha-Melah<br />
Be-derekh Yeriho</strong></p>
<p><strong>Yerushalayim shel zahav<br />
Ve-shel nehoshet ve-shel or<br />
Ha-lo le-khol shirayikh<br />
Ani kinnor. </strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jerusalem Day : יום ירושלים Day of celebration: 28 Iyar Friday May 22, 2009 Yom Yerushalayim is an Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in June 1967.The Chief Rabbinate of Israel declared Jerusalem Day a minor religious holiday [...]]]></description>
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<h3>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</h3>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" dir="rtl"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Jerusalem Day</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" dir="rtl"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong> : <span lang="he-IL">יום ירושלים</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" dir="rtl"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Day of celebration: 28 Iyar<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" dir="rtl"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Friday May 22, 2009<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" dir="rtl"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>Yom Yerushalayim</em> is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_holiday#New_Israeli.2FJewish_national_holidays">Israeli national holiday</a> commemorating the reunification of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> and the establishment of Israeli control over the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_City_%28Jerusalem%29">Old City</a> in June 1967.The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Rabbinate_of_Israel">Chief Rabbinate of Israel</a> declared Jerusalem Day a minor religious holiday to thank God for the 6-day victory and for answering the 2,000-year-old prayer of &#8220;Next Year in Jerusalem&#8221;.</strong></span></p>
<p style="padding: 0in 0in 0.03in; border: medium medium 1.1pt none none double -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color #000000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong> The day is marked by state ceremonies, memorial services for soldiers who died in the battle for Jerusalem, parades through downtown Jerusalem, reciting the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallel">Hallel</a> prayer in synagogues, lectures on Jerusalem-related topics, singing and dancing, and special television programming. Schoolchildren throughout the country learn about significance of Jerusalem, and schools in Jerusalem hold festive assemblies.The day is also marked in Jewish schools around the world</strong></span></p>
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		<title>Israel the beautiful, Israel 61 magnificient years old..</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date: 29 April 2009 Israel was created in November 29 1947 by the majority of its members in the United Nations forum located in New York ! So gone are those 2,000 years of bitter herbs , food the chosen people had eaten in its misery.. Now , following his forefathers, following the same call [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Date: 29 April 2009</strong></p>
<p><strong>Israel was created in November 29 1947 by the majority of its members in the United Nations forum located in New York !<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong>So gone are those 2,000 years of bitter herbs , food the chosen people had eaten in its misery..</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now , following his forefathers, following the same call as Abraham ,Moses and David..Israel returned home for good!</strong></p>
<p><strong>And so it is with a joy in my heart..</strong></p>
<p><strong>A joy deep, spiritual and fulfilled by my belief in destiny..</strong></p>
<p><strong>A  joy of thanksgiving to my Almighty G.od, the G.od of my father and his fathers, </strong></p>
<p><strong>That I am here, well and alive, to witness my personal miracle, the one we waited 2,0000 very long and terrible years, </strong></p>
<p><strong>The miracle to celebrate, enjoy and be extremely happy  to have a country for us , Jews!</strong></p>
<p><strong>A land with its blue and white flag to worship, to love, to care for, with whom we are now , finally.. complete!</strong></p>
<p><strong>To celebrate the day of Independence for the State of Israel is a miracle, a veracity of our promise, a day when the entire history of the Jews is one with the history of their G.od!</strong></p>
<p><strong>We , Jews, as a people cannot be whole without the land where we came from, without the land where our forefathers met their call , their divinity, their essence as human beings!</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Jewish people without their Erets Israel is an orphan , a people wandering without any focus!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Our destiny is the destiny of the entire earth peoples..a destiny put forward by forces beyond us, to meet the challenges of life itself; to show the better way to live a human life..</strong></p>
<p><strong>And so Israel , 61 years ago today, was declared by all his people , free , new from his past, founded by the will of all great nations, to begin a new page of human history..</strong></p>
<p><strong>We wish the State of Israel a very long journey , eternal voyage with the other nations , filled with harmony, happiness and goodwill.</strong></p>
<p><strong>e.c.</strong></p>
<div class="PhorumReadBodyHead"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Date: 29 April 2009</strong><br />
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<strong>Aujourd&#8217;hui  Yom Revihi &#8220;Hei Be Iyar&#8221;!</p>
<p>Aujourd&#8217;hui Mercredi le 5 du mois de Iyar..</p>
<p>Il y a soixante et une annees, des fois longues, des fois tragiques, des fois miraculeuses, des fois ou l&#8217;on pense que nous vivons encore un fabuleux reve.., a debute la phase nouvelle du peuple juif.</p>
<p>L&#8217;Etat moderne d&#8217;Israel existe, il est vibrant, il respire toute la vie de la planete entiere; presque toutes les differentes parties du monde y sont representees..<br />
En un mot, la decision des Nations Unies de creer un Etat Juif pour les Juifs en ce jour extraordinaire du 29 Novemvre 1947 a ete pour les Israelites en exil depuis le temps des temps, disperses sur deux mille ans de diaspora et de galoute amere, la journee divine!<br />
Le jour ou finalement D.ieu s&#8217;est souvenu de son peuple et l&#8217;a ramene chez lui..pour y vivre en paix avec toutes les autres nations..</p>
<p>Nous , aujourd&#8217;hui , celebrons cet evenement!</p>
<p>Nous souhaitons a Israel et a tous ses habitants, un joyeux anniversaire, un jour de celebration longuement meritee !</p>
<p>Commemoration de la  Journee d&#8217;une Independance Nationale puissante et remplie d&#8217;espoir et de bonne route..</p>
<p>Le trajet d&#8217;Israel est comme la mer et sa houle..souvent calme, souvent pleine de hautes vagues, souvent bleue et magnifique, souvent haute et grise..mais toujours pleine de vie..!</p>
<p>Israel, cet ocean de peuples, Israel mer profonde et riche, d&#8217;azur et de couleurs, spirituelle et laique, belle , fermee mais ouverte au monde..Israel pour la Terre entiere a decouvrir et aimer..</p>
<p>61 ans qui nous ont ouvert une porte vers un avenir sain, nouveau ..</p>
<p>L&#8217;homme juif rencontre sa destinee, l&#8217;homme suit le chemin de ses peres, l&#8217;homme rentre chez lui.</p>
<p>Amour, prosperite, bonheur et harmonie avec tous les peuples qui t&#8217;entourent ..Israel nous te le souhaitons.<br />
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elie cohen</em></strong></span></p>
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		<title>Time-out in the United States of America, let&#8217;s reflect on issues</title>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">President Obama 100 days</span>..<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Well apparently since FDR , this mark has to be acknowledged somehow..</strong></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>First 100 days presiding over 330 millions Americans in the USA is a date for reflection.<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Today , thinking of president Obama one cannot stop remembering all those many trillions dollars in his budgets and stimulus packages!<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>The first big one was to prevent AIG , that monster of insurance company, to go belly out..Why? Simply because that smart company did in fact insured all big western countries against any losses in their sub-prime and real estate investments!</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>After the huge collapse of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae">Fannie Mae</a> and Freddie Mac , basically all banks went bankrupt!<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>So America has to give to the major banks of Germany, France and so on..billions and billions of US Dollars, that was the deal , that was what AIG had to pay from its empty coffers!<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>President Obama  second agenda after so much money wasted was to cover all Americans by his own Health Care insurance!</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Where does he find that colossal mountain of dollars to pay for it?<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>He does not have it ! the USA does not have it! So let&#8217;s print it..but that will be forbidden by any rule of good governing..</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>What then? </strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>According to some analysts..President Obama said last week that some adjustments have to be made in correcting some expenditures! And basically the savings in Health Care spending in an universal coverage has to come from the removal of proper medical care to OLD PATIENTS. In other words since the most expensive medical bills a person had to pay for his or her survival is in their last six months of  life, the idea is to prevent or reduce those expenditures. How? Simply by extending indefinitely the waiting list for crucial tests, MRI, Scans, and preventing “unnecessary” procedures such heart, kidneys, hip transplants..type of surgery  usually  very costly..</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>In other words , and it does make accounting profitable, since old men and women lifespans are short , what is the benefit to prolong it? WHY CARING FOR SICK OLD PEOPLE?</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Why adding such  tremendous expenses to the universal health care system? Is it   “logical” for the good of the many young and healthier citizens to  pay big premiums for their old people medical expenses?</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>Is that thinking morally acceptable?<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>And ..here we are ..!</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>A lot of old taxpayers having paid 65% of their incomes in various taxes to the State throughout their active lives, will be denied good care when they will be the most vulnerable, during their retired years!</strong></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Hope and Morality are excellent virtues!<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Balancing budgets are also great virtues!<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Giving hope to millions of people and not having the money to pay..that is a great problem to reconcile!<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>So ..100 days of change..100 days of  ambiguity ..100 days that seem so long and so costly&#8230;!<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Let&#8217;s hope that the next ones will be more..realistic!<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Let&#8217;s the dream of the first American to settle in the USA carry on..<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Let&#8217;s the freedom of choice to the American be secured.<br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Let&#8217;s the USA and its Allies enjoy democracy in secured borders and harmony!</span><br />
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><strong>e.c.</strong></p>
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