1950 Lithograph ART POSTER Tzedakah BLUE TIN BOX Judaica ISRAEL Jewish HEBREW

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: Here for sale is a genuine authentic vintage ca 50 -60 years old ZIONIST LITHOGRAPHIC POSTER which was issued by the JNF ( Jewish National   Fund ) - KKL ( Keren Kayemet Le'Israel ) in the mid-late 1950's up to the mid1960's in Eretz Israel  .  It was issued towards the day of YUD TETH TEVET with the purpose of commemorating and celebrating the ANNIVERSARY - BIRTHDAY of the KEREN KAYEMET LE'ISRAEL - JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ( KKL - JNF )  . The poster depicts a traditional KKL BLUE BOX located in a PLOUGHED FIELD . The poster is named " BIRTHDY OF KEREN KAYEMET " which is written also in ENGLISH , FRENCH and SPANISH .  Designed by L. MORRIS who is also SIGNED in the plate. The LITHOGRAPH printing is of such quality that the poster looks like an ORIGINAL PAINTING rather than a printed one. The poster SIZE is  around 19" x  13" . Printed in LITHOGRAPHIC or Zincography printing on thin stock . Excellent condition. Pristine . ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ) Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
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The poster comes from a KKL- JNF old warehouse and is fully guaranteed ORIGINAL from the mid-late 1950's up to the mid1960's.  Please note that copies of this AUTHENTIC poster are being bought WHOLESALE from my eBay store for RESELLING by the largest and well reputed POSTER GALLERIES in JAFFA ISRAEL and WORLDWIDE . It is NOT a reproduction or a recently made reprint or an immitation , It holds a life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.
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Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael (KKL) was established on December 29, 1901 (9 Tevet 5562) at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basle. To raise funds for it, Haim Kleinman, a bank clerk from Nadvorna, Galicia, soon placed a box in his office and sent off a letter to
Die Welt
, the Zionist newspaper in Vienna, notifying it accordingly:  "In keeping with the saying, 'bit and bitty fill the kitty' and following the Congress resolution on KKL's founding, I put together an 'Erez Israel box', stuck the words 'National Fund' on it and placed it in a prominent spot in my office. The results, given the extent of the experiment so far, have been astonishing. I suggest that like-minded people, and particularly all Zionist officials, collect contributions to KKL in this way."     The rest is history – for dozens of years a Blue Box could be seen in almost every Diaspora home and every Jewish institution in Erez Israel and abroad: a cherished, popular means to realize the Zionist vision of establishing a state for the Jewish People. The funds raised through it (the "
pushke,
" as it was widely known) were an instrument to redeem the land in Erez Israel on which the Jewish home was to rise. But the Blue Box was more than just a fundraising device. From the beginning, it was an important educational vehicle spreading the Zionist word and forging the bond between the Jewish People and their ancient homeland. The Blue Box has changed form many times over the years and often wasn't even blue. It is a symbol. A symbol of KKL-JNF and its efforts to develop the land of Israel, plant forests, create parks, prepare soil for agriculture and settlement, carve out new roads and build water reservoirs. A symbol of connectedness with the land.  A collection of KKL-JNF Blue Boxes is presented in our Educational Center and Museum in Tel-Aviv.   KKL-JNF Blue Boxes are available for a nominal contribution  If you are interested in obtaining one, please contact
The photos are taken from the KKL-JNF Blue Box Exhibition prepared in co-operation with Prof. Shaul Hadani .  A bereavement box found in 1989 in a synagogue in Jerusalem's Old City's Jewish Quarter. Weight: 25 kg.    KKL-JNF – Trustee for the Jewish People on its land   For the first time since the State of Israel was founded, the High Court of Justice has been required to consider petitions that de-legitimize the Jewish People’s continued ownership of KKL-JNF lands. These petitions are, in fact, directed against the fundamental principles on which KKL-JNF was founded and in accordance with which it has acquired land and managed it for the past hundred years, up to the present day. The petitions constitute a demand to deprive KKL-JNF – which serves as trustee for the lands of the Jewish People – of the right to make use of these lands for the continuation of the Zionist enterprise in the Land of Israel.  A survey commissioned by KKL-JNF reveals that over 70% of the Jewish population in Israel opposes allocating KKL-JNF land to non-Jews, while over 80% prefer the definition of Israel as a Jewish state, rather than as the state of all its citizens. The following is KKL-JNF’s response to the petitions that have been submitted to the Supreme Court in connection with the case regarding its rights over lands acquired for and by the Jewish People. The Perpetual Property of the Jewish People  In 1901 the Fifth Zionist Congress met in Basel. The Zionist Movement, under the leadership of its visionary leader, Dr. Binyamin Zeev Herzl, progressed from the declaratory to the practical stage of its activities: redeeming land in Zion. The Congress established a Jewish National Fund to act as purchaser of lands that would be “the perpetual property of the Jewish People,” i.e. property that would never be expropriated from them      KKL-JNF was appointed trustee and custodian of this land on behalf of the Jewish People. These are not State lands. All KKL-JNF land has been legally purchased and paid for in full. Remember the little blue collection box? Tens of thousand of Jews all over the entire world used it for decades to save cent after cent. They did this so that these funds could be used to acquire land in the Land of Israel and so that this land could be maintained and prepared for use by the Jewish People. This means that KKL-JNF was a trustee on behalf of the Jewish People only. It was created for their sake, and it acts in their interests.KKL-JNF continued to perform this function after the State of Israel was founded, too. The distinction here is very clear: the State owns over 80% of Israel’s land. This land is available for use by all residents of the State, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. KKL-JNF owns over 10% of Israel’s land, and the rest is either in private hands or owned by public or religious bodies. The Muslim
waqf
, for example, holds about 3% of Israel’s land, and this is available for use only by Muslims.      KKL-JNF was appointed trustee and custodian of this land on behalf of the Jewish People  These are not State lands. All KKL-JNF land has been legally purchased and paid for in full. Remember the little blue collection box? Tens of thousand of Jews all over the entire world used it for decades to save cent after cent. They did this so that these funds could be used to acquire land in the Land of Israel and so that this land could be maintained and prepared for use by the Jewish People. This means that KKL-JNF was a trustee on behalf of the Jewish People only. It was created for their sake, and it acts in their interests.These are not State lands. All KKL-JNF land has been legally purchased and paid for in full. Remember the little blue collection box? Tens of thousand of Jews all over the entire world used it for decades to save cent after cent. They did this so that these funds could be used to acquire land in the Land of Israel and so that this land could be maintained and prepared for use by the Jewish People. This means that KKL-JNF was a trustee on behalf of the Jewish People only. It was created for their sake, and it acts in their interests  KKL-JNF continued to perform this function after the State of Israel was founded, too. The distinction here is very clear: the State owns over 80% of Israel’s land. This land is available for use by all residents of the State, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. KKL-JNF owns over 10% of Israel’s land, and the rest is either in private hands or owned by public or religious bodies. The Muslim
waqf
, for example, holds about 3% of Israel’s land, and this is available for use only by Muslims.     These are not State lands. All KKL-JNF land has been legally purchased and paid for in full. Remember the little blue collection box? Tens of thousand of Jews all over the entire world used it for decades to save cent after cent. They did this so that these funds could be used to acquire land in the Land of Israel and so that this land could be maintained and prepared for use by the Jewish People. This means that KKL-JNF was a trustee on behalf of the Jewish People only. It was created for their sake, and it acts in their interests. KKL-JNF continued to perform this function after the State of Israel was founded, too. The distinction here is very clear: the State owns over 80% of Israel’s land. This land is available for use by all residents of the State, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. KKL-JNF owns over 10% of Israel’s land, and the rest is either in private hands or owned by public or religious bodies. The Muslim
waqf
, for example, holds about 3% of Israel’s land, and this is available for use only by Muslims.   KKL-JNF continued to perform this function after the State of Israel was founded, too. The distinction here is very clear: the State owns over 80% of Israel’s land. This land is available for use by all residents of the State, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. KKL-JNF owns over 10% of Israel’s land, and the rest is either in private hands or owned by public or religious bodies. The Muslim
waqf
, for example, holds about 3% of Israel’s land, and this is available for use only by Muslims.  KKL-JNF continued to perform this function after the State of Israel was founded, too. The distinction here is very clear: the State owns over 80% of Israel’s land. This land is available for use by all residents of the State, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. KKL-JNF owns over 10% of Israel’s land, and the rest is either in private hands or owned by public or religious bodies. The Muslim
waqf
, for example, holds about 3% of Israel’s land, and this is available for use only by Muslims.  KKL-JNF was appointed trustee and custodian of this land on behalf of the Jewish People. These are not State lands. All KKL-JNF land has been legally purchased and paid for in full. Remember the little blue collection box? Tens of thousand of Jews all over the entire world used it for decades to save cent after cent. They did this so that these funds could be used to acquire land in the Land of Israel and so that this land could be maintained and prepared for use by the Jewish People. This means that KKL-JNF was a trustee on behalf of the Jewish People only. It was created for their sake, and it acts in their interests.KKL-JNF continued to perform this function after the State of Israel was founded, too. The distinction here is very clear: the State owns over 80% of Israel’s land. This land is available for use by all residents of the State, Jewish and non-Jewish alike. KKL-JNF owns over 10% of Israel’s land, and the rest is either in private hands or owned by public or religious bodies. The Muslim
waqf
, for example, holds about 3% of Israel’s land, and this is available for use only by Muslims.  All KKL-JNF land was paid for in full with money contributed by Jews all over the world.The issue of KKL-JNF land, which has been the subject of extensive debate recently, proves, unfortunately, that some people in this country have short memories. It is sad to see the unbearable ease with which people sling mud at an organization whose signature is all over the State and its history and which, for many people, constitutes a symbol of national unity. Zionism, which celebrated its hundredth anniversary a number of years ago, again finds itself rejected and under attack by people whose memories have simply let them down. Zionism is not the mark of Cain, and there is no reason why it has to justify itself again in a country that calls itself Jewish and democratic. On the contrary – Zionism and its objectives continue to play a central role in the ideological infrastructure of the State. This is a Jewish State that belongs to the Jewish People and serves as a Jewish center, and it is also the State of all its citizens. The State may be under an obligation to treat all its citizens equally before the law. Equality is in the interests of Jews and Arabs alike. This common interest makes it incumbent upon the Jewish majority to allow minorities to integrate into the life of the State. The non-Jewish minority, for its part, has to acknowledge that Israel is a Jewish state and understand that the struggle for equal rights does not entail abrogating the definition of Israel as a Jewish state. Just as the majority respects the symbols of the minority, so must the minority respect those of the majority. There is no contradiction between the State’s obligation to set a land-use policy based on equality as far as State land is concerned, and the right of the Jewish People to safeguard its assets, which, as we mentioned earlier, have become an essential symbol of its unity.  A state is obliged to abide by the principle of equality but a people does not give up its assets. KKL-JNF is an organization that belongs to the Jewish People and it serves as its trustee for land purchased over the course of a hundred years with money contributed by Jews in Israel and throughout the world. This money was dropped cent by cent into the little blue box. The State of Israel officially recognized KKL-JNF’s unique role in the covenant it signed with the organization in 1961, which granted KKL-JNF special independent status, and thus its ownership of its lands is independent of and separate from the State. KKL-JNF’s main objective, which is mentioned both in the covenant and in its company regulations, is Jewish settlement – on KKL-JNF land, of course. This goal is a direct extension of the Law of Return, which also applies only to Jews, and it is designed to strengthen the Jewish State.  KKL-JNF belongs to the Jewish People. It came into being at the Zionist Congress and united Diaspora Jews from all over the world. For 2000 years Jews lived scattered in exile, with no property rights and no safe haven, at the mercy of anti-Semitism, massacres, expulsions, riots, pogroms, injustice and discrimination. The establishment of the State of Israel was intended to right the historical injustice perpetrated against the Jewish People. Every nation deserves to have a country of its own, the Jewish People included. In the sixth decade of its existence, the State of Israel is still in a process of formation.  A state in the process of formation has a moral right to take extraordinary measures to ensure its future existence. The Law of Return and specially designated use of the land owned by the Jewish People are two examples of such measures, and their moral admissibility cannot be called into question. Therefore, we must not be ashamed of our ownership of land designated for the purpose of Jewish settlement. The Jewish People has a right to its own land within the Jewish State.    The petitions submitted to the High Court of Justice recently seek to remove KKL-JNF lands from the ownership of the Jewish People and turn them into State land like any other. In other words, the petitioners want the State of Israel to turn its back on KKL-JNF land’s role in the service of the Jewish People over the generations. Dr. Herzl, when he envisioned the Jewish State, most certainly never imagined that one hundred years later that State’s High Court of Justice would be called upon to express an opinion on the constitutional legitimacy of KKL-JNF’s ownership of its lands as the trustee of the Jewish People. The existence of land reserves held by the Jewish People in perpetuity and used for purposes of Jewish settlement is a fundamental part of our legal system. If the Jewish State does not permit a Zionist organization to own land and designate it for purposes of developing Jewish settlement, what is the point of its existence? All land owned by KKL-JNF was paid for in full with money contributed by Jews all over the worl  KKL-JNF owns approximately 2.5 million dunam of land (one dunam equals around a quarter of an acre). About one million dunam were acquired by KKL-JNF by means of money contributed by Jews all over the world before the State of Israel was founded. Another million and a quarter dunam of land were purchased by KKL-JNF in the early years of the State and paid for in full, again by means of donations from Jews throughout the world. These were regular property deals in every way, on the strength of which full and complete ownership of this land passed into the hands of KKL-JNF, and the State has no part in it or right of possession over it. State-owned land, as we pointed out before, must be at the disposal of all citizens. But land owned by KKL-JNF is the property of the Jewish People and is designated for the attainment of its following objectives: ensuring the existence of a Jewish State and strengthening, developing and preserving the Jewish character of that State. The historical facts have fallen victim to those who promote a "post-Zionist" agenda. These people believe that Israel was presented to the Jewish People on a silver platter, and that the curtain has come down on everything that happened in the past. Unfortunately, however, the struggle to establish the State of Israel as a Jewish state in the Middle East is not over: it has yet to allow Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and enjoy official recognition of its Jewish character. KKL-JNF and its lands are a cornerstone of this struggle.   KKL-JNF – A Green Glob -JNF’s extensive activities are carried out in the name of the Jewish People for the benefit of the public as a whole and for all sectors of its population, whatever their religion or ethnicity. These activities include strengthening peripheral communities, acting as custodian for national land and preserving its beauties, conserving the landscape and nature, improving the environment and raising the public’s level of ecological awareness for the sake of future generations. Since its foundation in 1901, KKL-JNF: Planted more than 220 million treeMaintains 40,000 hectares (100,000 acres) of natural woodlanRedeemed 280,000 hectares (700,000) acres of lanReclaimed 100,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of land for farming in 1000 rural communities.Forged 7000 kilometers of roads & forest trails.Prepared infrastructure for thousands of new homes.Developed more than 600 recreation areas, many of them accessible to the disabled.Built of 175 water reservoirs for water conservation and recyclingRehabilitates rivers and other water sources.Restores archeological and historical sites.Educates  hundreds of thousands of young people in Israel and worldwide.Supports and implemented R&D projects with global implications.Promotes love of Israel and its environment, creating an enduring bond between people and the land.Improves the environment throughout the country and fights global warmingCombats desertification - pushing back the boundaries of the desert.
The tzedakah box - a symbol of a highly important act The tzedakah box is a means for a Jewish person to perform one of the most important acts of Judaism. According to the ancient sages, the commandment of giving charity is equally important to all other Jewish commandments. The High Holiday prayers state that God judges all who have sinned. But, teshuvah (repentance), tefilah (prayer) and tzedakah can reverse His decision. There are no exemptions  The duty to give is considered so important in Judaism that even the recipient is obligated to give something back to others. The only stipulation is that one should not give to the point where he himself becomes needy.  The act is also linked to ancient times  According to some sources, giving tzedakah is considered a replacement for the animal sacrifice carried out in ancient times. This act was meant to express thanks to God and ask His forgiveness. Let's move on and take a look at the personal aspect:  When you give, you gain something back as well… The giving of charity can often be just as rewarding to the giver as to the receiver. The spiritual reward for giving can often just as great as the benefit the receiving party will gain. When a person gives to charity, he has the opportunity both to appreciate the good that he has and to share it with others – a person like that is lucky in my book…  Now what about the meaning of the word? The word tzedakah comes from the Hebrew word tzedek, which means righteous. In the Bible, the word tzedakah refers to justice, kindness and ethical behavior. In Modern Hebrew, it refers to charity - giving to those in need.  This is consistent with the Jewish approach Judaism considers charity to be an act of justice more then an act of good faith. According to tradition, people in need have a right to food, clothing and shelter – this right must be honored by others more fortunate. So you see, giving tzedakah is not voluntary, it's considered an act of justice. According to some, there are also different levels of tzedakah – let's see what they are!  The different levels of charity The RAMBAM (Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon), a 12th century Jewish scholar, wrote a code of Jewish law saying that not all acts of charity are equivalent - some are considered better then others. In the text below, you can see how he ranked them, from the most meritorious to the least meritorious:  Giving and enabling the recipient to become self-reliant Giving when neither party knows the other's identity Giving when you know the recipient's identity, but he doesn't know yours Giving when you don't know the recipient's identity, but he knows yours Giving before being asked Giving after being asked Giving less that you should, but giving it happily Giving begrudgingly  There is also an accepted way to determine the recipient  When giving charity, you should consider the person or organization you plan to help out. According to Jewish tradition, there are some recipients more preferred than others. They are ranked below in order of priority, from the highest to the lowest:  Family and close relatives  Local Jewish community Jewish community in Israel  Jewish communities worldwide Local community in general International assistance to needy people The occasion on which we give also has an importance In Judaism, there are occasions in which it's considered more appropriate to give to others. Giving is considered a great way to celebrate a happy occasion, commemorate a deceased loved one or mark the Holy Days. It's also traditional in Jewish families to give the children money each week, before the, to place in the tzedakah box by this teaching them the act of tzedakah.  Where can we find the tzedakah boxes? Tzedakah boxes are often found in public places but also in many Jewish homes. Most synagogues have tzedakah boxes as well - this is to enable people who come to worship and celebrate to carry out an act of righteousness. Will you recognize it when you see it? Let's take a close look at the box The tzedakah box can take almost any shape and form. There are round boxes, square boxes, long ones and flat ones. They can be made of all sorts of materials. For example, glass, ceramic, silver, pewter, wood and even papier maché. The boxes are usually decorated with Jewish motifs or general motifs such as nature. Once, I even saw a tzedakah box for sports lovers, it was designed like a basketball!  Spread the joy of giving The tzedakah box makes a great gift. If it's of high quality it can even last for ever and maybe be passed on as a family heirloom. Giving it as a gift is most appropriate on almost any occasion: Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, new babies, weddings, birthdays or even when visiting friends and family.  The giving of Tzedakah (charity) is a fundamental Mitzvah in Jewish life. Being a cornerstone of Judaism, no Jewish home is complete without a Tzedakah Box. There are many wonderful Tzedakah Boxes here, you are sure to find one that will help to beautify the preformance of this important Mitzvah.    ebay678