The rockets aren’t falling near me, but the stones are.   Those "neighbours" of ours are out throwing stones again in our area. Mostly I travel with the bullet - proof Egged bus, but we have lots of families here with private cars and renting  cars with glass windows. My son lives in Ashdod where the bombs are falling. For Shabbas he is with his wife’s family in Emanuel, also not one of the safest places going in and out. 

Yes, the southern part of the country is having its own storm as we all know. 

And  here in the mountains on Metzad, its below zero at night. That means leaving  the tap water running slightly so the pipes don’t freeze and bust .  And I left my warm winter gloves in a taxi today, and my black hat on the Egged bus a couple of weeks ago, and it hasn’t turned up yet... so the mussar haskale is I gotta get my head out of the clouds...

And now for a word of Torah :

What happened in the seconds between the time that Yosef ordered all the Egyptians out of the room, and the time that he revealed himself to his brothers ?  That split second, what could have happened ? What  a chance Yosef was taking ?  Yehuda especially, was ready and waiting for the moment to kill him.  The brothers had already divided the land into 12  sections and each was conquering  a piece.  They thought, when Yosef sent all his people away, "What  a fool, now we will kill him and grab Benyamin and escape back to Eretz Yisroel."