B"H 10 Nissan 5767
Precious Jews~
To commemorate the day (10 Nissan) that we bound the Egyptian "lamb"-god and prepared to slaughter it at Pesach, allow me to assure all the "lamb"-god worshippers that still exist today, that we continue to slaughter the "lamb"-god in Jewish hearts and at every God-given opportunity.
It is not possible to continue to answer questions here. For those who desire, they can write to the email address. This blog was originally intended as a short-term venture. It is now closed, but will remain up for viewing, b"H.
With blessings for a Pesach kasher v'sameach for every member of Klal Yisrael. May we yet see the geulah shleimah with Mashiach Tzidkeinu NOW!!
Sharing this from the soon to be published book, "Selected Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane":
Shabbat HaGadol.
Sabbath preceding the Passover, the Sabbath that cries out the basic, the ultimate message of that enormous Exodus from Egypt, of Passover itself. Shabbat HaGadol that gives us the lesson without which Passover, the Jewish people itself, lose all reason for being. Shabbat HaGadol, commemorating the basic lesson of Judaism: Faith, real faith, faith in G-d who really is greater than the mighty Pharaoh, or the regal Reagan or the burningless Bush — Shabbat HaGadol, the Great Sabbath, that began more than 3,000 years ago on a Sabbath in Imperial Egypt. “Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying: On the tenth day of this month they shall take for themselves every man a lamb . . . ” (Exodus 12:3)
It is a special, an awesome commandment, one that is given to every Jew, hence the unique words: “Speak to all the assembly.” Take a lamb and bind it up for four days.
You believe that this is a simple commandment? Hardly. The lamb is more than an animal, it is the very god of Egypt. It is a deity, a hallowed creature before whom the Egyptian bows and whose meat dare not touch his mouth. And the Jews, “every man” thereof, are commanded to take this lamb, this Egyptian god, this deity of their masters, and tie it to their beds, to their posts, bind it up. And when the astonished and outraged Egyptian masters will ask: “What are you doing?” the answer shall be: “We shall soon slaughter this lamb, this deity, your god, and eat it.”
Do you still think this is a simple, bland commandment? It is a commandment fraught with danger to life, a commandment that surely sent fear down the spines of the Jewish slaves, that, without a doubt, led scholars to rush and ponder whether pikuach nefesh, danger to life, might perhaps demand the postponing of this dangerous commandment . . .
Nor does the All Mighty stop there. He insists on a policy of extremism, of goading the gentile. Not content with a commandment that cries desecration of the Egyptian god, that taunts him with the sight of his deity bound up, the G-d of Israel insists that the Jew add salt to the wound.
“And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire . . . . Eat it not partially cooked, nor boiled in water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs, and with its insides complete.” (Exodus 12:8-9) Awake and consider! This is what Passover is all about; only this! This is what Judaism is all about; only this! This is what the duty and the role and the essence of the Jew is all about; only this! To affirm to the world, but first to ourselves, that the L-rd, the G-d of Israel, is. That He truly does exist, that He is the One, the only One, that He, only He, directs the world, the fate of man, the destiny of His people. That whatever will be for the Jew will be only because He so decrees. That the gentile has no relevance to Jewish fate, that the Pharaohs of all time, the ones in Egypt and the ones in Washington are utterly irrelevant to what will be with the Jew.
On the Great Sabbath in Egypt, the L-rd taught us the lesson that we trampled in the dust, the dust of secularism and the dust of the yeshiva-world alike: The lesson that the Jew must raise high, must flaunt the glory and Omnipotence of his G-d. That the world must be compelled to see their deities, their gods and idols, bound up and humiliated and destroyed. That one must goad the gentile in order to raise high the banner of the L-rd. That Kiddush Hashem, the sanctification of the Name of the G-d of Israel, demands an open, fearless, flaunting sacrifice of the idols and deities of the gentiles that deny the uniqueness of the G-d of Israel, His exclusiveness, His Oneness. The lamb is openly tied and those who tremble and whisper: “But we dare not goad the gentile,” are silenced with thunderous contempt. The lamb is slaughtered and roasted whole and fully and openly. It cannot be hastily covered in a pot where it will not be seen. Its identity cannot be disguised by cutting its body into pieces. We cannot escape the danger of the gentile by avoiding confronting and goading him. No. Precisely the opposite!
The same gentile who thundered and thunders: “Who is the L-rd? . . . I know not the L-rd, nor will I let Israel go!” (Exodus 5:2) must be taught the eternal lesson of: “The L-rd is G-d, the L-rd is G-d!” (Kings I 18:39). The gentile does not wish to “know” G-d, to acknowledge His exclusive kingship. He must be taught that lesson in an open and bold and humiliating way. He and his idols must be humbled and broken. The lamb is taken openly. The lamb is slaughtered openly. The lamb is roasted and eaten, openly. And those who cringe in pilpulism and whisper: “But one dare not goad the gentiles . . .” are silenced by the thunder of the L-rd, whose commandment is eternalized by the Rabbis in the Great Sabbath, Shabbat HaGadol.
So let that Sabbath be understood and appreciated and embraced. For without it, there cannot be a Passover, an understanding of what that Passover really is.
Shabbat Shalom u'Mevorach!!
29 March 2007
28 March 2007
Items of Note
B"H 9 Nissan 5767
Great-Grandmothers Make Aliyah Today
Two great-grandmothers are expected to make aliyah (immigrate) to Israel on Wednesday. The two, 91-year-old Freida Weiss and 94-year-old Idit Feldstein, are both from Florida. Once in Israel, they will reunite with family members already living in the country. The arrival of the great-grandmothers was arranged by the Jewish Agency. Jewish Agency head Zeev Bielsky expressed satisfaction, saying that the arrival of the two new immigrants represents the closing of a circle for their families, and symbolizes the importance of family unity on Passover.
Video of Jonathan Pollard at Jerusalem Conference Award Ceremony
On Rosh Chodesh Nissan, Jonathan Pollard was given the "Ohev Tzion" Award at the Annual Jerusalem Conference. A composite video was shown. You can view it here.
The Mitzrim Are Back!
Also on Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the Egyptian Defense Minister visited the Kotel to see for himself the archeological work going on under the Mugrabi Gate. Does anyone else think it's interesting that a Mitzri is in Jerusalem during Nissan?
I was there and took these pictures.
Great-Grandmothers Make Aliyah Today
Two great-grandmothers are expected to make aliyah (immigrate) to Israel on Wednesday. The two, 91-year-old Freida Weiss and 94-year-old Idit Feldstein, are both from Florida. Once in Israel, they will reunite with family members already living in the country. The arrival of the great-grandmothers was arranged by the Jewish Agency. Jewish Agency head Zeev Bielsky expressed satisfaction, saying that the arrival of the two new immigrants represents the closing of a circle for their families, and symbolizes the importance of family unity on Passover.
Video of Jonathan Pollard at Jerusalem Conference Award Ceremony
On Rosh Chodesh Nissan, Jonathan Pollard was given the "Ohev Tzion" Award at the Annual Jerusalem Conference. A composite video was shown. You can view it here.
The Mitzrim Are Back!
Also on Rosh Chodesh Nissan, the Egyptian Defense Minister visited the Kotel to see for himself the archeological work going on under the Mugrabi Gate. Does anyone else think it's interesting that a Mitzri is in Jerusalem during Nissan?
I was there and took these pictures.
FC MESSAGE: Message to America, Tisha b'Av, Aug 7, 2003
It's an older message, but highly relevant for today.
27 March 2007
22 Days and Counting
B"H 9 Nissan 5767
Dear Jews! Good Jews!
Shalom and blessings for a chag kasher v'sameach from Tzion!
Please accept my apologies for not responding sooner to your comments and questions. Thank you for your patience. As no doubt everyone is right now, I am swamped with Pesach preparations. (And remember that I already said I am no blogger!)
Now, I will try to answer some of your questions. Please excuse me if I miss anyone.
As America goes, so goes the rest of the Western world, but because America is the leader, she must be stopped cold in her tracks. Depending on who is counting and how, the number of Jews in America is somewhere between 5 and 7 million---the largest group of the entire Diaspora.
I'm sure most of you have seen the Debkafile report about the possibility of nullifying the Right of Return for Jews. From the world's perspective, if the Israeli government continues to refuse to consider a Right of Return for 'Palestinians,' then it will most assuredly have to give up it's own claim to such a "right."
Pollard may be offered as a sweetener to make this bitter pill go down better. I would look for this to go into effect in the wake of Pollard's release. In my previous post on Logistics, I recommended the following:
As far as I know, there is no cost or obligation involved. Quite possibly, those who already have files open would be allowed in but no new ones would be opened, chas v'shalom! Obviously, then, this would affect every Jew in the Diaspora wherever he might be.
It makes sense with everything else we see going on around us, so I take the warning to heart.
It is now 9 Nissan, Moshe Meir, and JPollard is still in jail and the Yellowstone is still peaceful. I have already mentioned many times throughout the blog---"as I said before I am not 100% WHEN it will take place." But many sources agreed that this Nissan is an auspicious time. As the countdown shows, there are 22 days left in Nissan.
But even after Nissan will pass, we see that historically three very important events occurred in Iyyar. On 5 Iyyar, Israel was reborn as an independent nation. On 14 Iyyar, Pesach Sheini takes place. And on 28 Iyyar, Yerushalayim came back into Jewish hands. So, even if Nissan will pass without a decisive event, I will continue to wait and watch and prepare. Even so, let's look at what has already transpired since Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5767:
Dear Jews! Good Jews!
Shalom and blessings for a chag kasher v'sameach from Tzion!
Please accept my apologies for not responding sooner to your comments and questions. Thank you for your patience. As no doubt everyone is right now, I am swamped with Pesach preparations. (And remember that I already said I am no blogger!)
Now, I will try to answer some of your questions. Please excuse me if I miss anyone.
Anonymous said:
You are talking about AmericanJews... but what about Europe, Australia....Any comments?
As America goes, so goes the rest of the Western world, but because America is the leader, she must be stopped cold in her tracks. Depending on who is counting and how, the number of Jews in America is somewhere between 5 and 7 million---the largest group of the entire Diaspora.
I'm sure most of you have seen the Debkafile report about the possibility of nullifying the Right of Return for Jews. From the world's perspective, if the Israeli government continues to refuse to consider a Right of Return for 'Palestinians,' then it will most assuredly have to give up it's own claim to such a "right."
Pollard may be offered as a sweetener to make this bitter pill go down better. I would look for this to go into effect in the wake of Pollard's release. In my previous post on Logistics, I recommended the following:
Number 1! Go to the nearest Jewish Agency office and open a file for aliyah!! You can do this even if you don't plan to make aliyah for a couple of years.
As far as I know, there is no cost or obligation involved. Quite possibly, those who already have files open would be allowed in but no new ones would be opened, chas v'shalom! Obviously, then, this would affect every Jew in the Diaspora wherever he might be.
Anonymous said...
What do you make of Rav Eliahu Leon Levi's R"H Nissan call to Israelis to prepare for an immanent war (published by Tzvi Fishman on Arutz 7)?
It makes sense with everything else we see going on around us, so I take the warning to heart.
Moshe Meir said:
Yerushalmi: Here we are in 4 Nissan, Jonathan Pollard is still in jail and the Yellowstone volcano did not erupt. Care to comment on this?
It is now 9 Nissan, Moshe Meir, and JPollard is still in jail and the Yellowstone is still peaceful. I have already mentioned many times throughout the blog---"as I said before I am not 100% WHEN it will take place." But many sources agreed that this Nissan is an auspicious time. As the countdown shows, there are 22 days left in Nissan.
But even after Nissan will pass, we see that historically three very important events occurred in Iyyar. On 5 Iyyar, Israel was reborn as an independent nation. On 14 Iyyar, Pesach Sheini takes place. And on 28 Iyyar, Yerushalayim came back into Jewish hands. So, even if Nissan will pass without a decisive event, I will continue to wait and watch and prepare. Even so, let's look at what has already transpired since Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5767:
- 1 Nissan---Israel, in cooperation with US military, held an unprecedented nationwide missile attack drill and a major mekubal issued a warning to prepare for an imminent outbreak of war.
- 4 Nissan---US and UK bases and Middle East armies go on high alert when Iran captured 15 British seamen and marines.
- 5 Nissan---the UN Security Council voted to increase sanctions on Iran.
- 6 Nissan---Condoleezza Rice and Ban Ki-Moon both arrive in Jerusalem.
- 7 Nissan---Word of an April 6th planned attack on Iran by the US is leaked by Russian sources
- 8 Nissan---stocks drop and oil prices soar on escalating tensions between both the UK and the US and Iran.
- 9 Nissan---The Arab Summit in Riyadh begins. "Participants at the Summit are expected to re-endorse an Arab-Israeli peace plan proposed in 2002 by Saudi Arabian King Abdullah. "
Things are happening. It's not an exhaustive list, but maybe the most significant. Keep watching, Moshe Meir! And remember that the whole week Moshe Rabeinu argued with HKBH about being the Redeemer, Am Yisrael was slaving away without a clue that their servitude was coming to an end.
18 March 2007
The "Sign" Revealed
B"H 29 Adar 5767
Here it is---Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan.
I remember when we arrived at Erev Rosh Hashanah 5761 and I was wondering if anything dramatic would occur in the very last hours to fulfill the words of the rabbis about the year 5760. We were making all our last minute holiday preparations and reports began to come in of disturbances in the Old City and on the Temple Mount. We had to close the computer and radio for the chag, so we did not know what happened after that.
Then, the next day, in shul, we heard rumors about trouble from the security people. We had barely sat down to dinner at a friend's home when their phone began to ring. Everybody froze. Who would call on Rosh Hashanah? In Israel, even wrong numbers are Jewish and no one would be calling on the phone. It stopped and everyone breathed again and then it began immediately to ring again. This happened a total of seven times. The ba'al habayit did not answer. He said it must be the army calling for his son and since his son was not at home, he saw no reason to pick it up. But if the army was calling people up, then....
And now, we can look back six and a half years and see where it all went. I will never come to Pesach and not remember the Pesach of 2002. I was doing last minute shopping at the shuk and suddenly it began to hail like mad. Everyone was marveling at the hail and then in a few minutes news began to spread that there had been an attack in a supermarket. A security guard was killed preventing a woman bomber from entering in to kill many others. The details are too sad to recount. A few days later, we sat down to begin our seder and suddenly we heard a deafening sound of heavy hail falling on the roof. Only after Pesach was finished did we hear about the Pesach massacre at the Park Hotel in Netanya. Again, too sad to talk about. So many sad, tragic stories and we in Israel know every one and can tell the stories of every one, so many...too many.
As I understand the Ramchal, the purpose of the Pekidah stage of redemption is to cause us to cry out to Hashem to deliver us. When Zechirah begins, Hashem responds to that call by sending us the Redeemer prepared since the foundation of the world. Ramchal says that just prior to the transition from Pekidah to Zechirah, "there is a spiritual awakening in the world." I and others of my aquaintance and still others that I have only heard of have been experiencing what could be termed a spiritual awakening, things similar in character to what Nava describes in her blog.
Now, to return to our focus here. If Hashem is going to get about completing our redemption this Nissan, he is also going to close down the exile for good. That means the Jews MUST return home or risk sharing the fate of the goyim. The prophets are clear that the nations will be punished. It stands to reason that America will go down first, because she has presumed to be Israel's patron and treated the renewed nation of G-d like a vassal. Many, many Jews and non-Jews alike truly believe that were it not for America, Israel would cease to exist. This kind of thinking must be corrected and it will be! We are forbidden to rely upon anyone other than Hashem alone.
Hashem is just. Whether one is willing to admit it or not, everyone who saw the first sign---the collapse of the twin towers---has had seven years to get himself and his family, parents, children, etc out of America and over to Israel. Every Jew has had that chance...save ONE.
Yes, I am talking about Jonathan Pollard.
One of our commenters suggested that it wasn't really fair to American Jews that they had not suffered as other Jewish communities in the world and throughout history. As a result, they were very much unaware of the need to make aliya. I suggest to you that Jonathan Pollard did the suffering on behalf of his community and they should have taken the lesson from what happened to him. And if not him, then what happened to Rabbi Kahane in 1990 or to the WTC in 1993 or the Murrah Federal Building in 1995, right up to the events of 9/11/2001.
The travesty of justice that was allowed to stand in the Pollard case was a flashing neon sign telling the Jews that USA 1986 really wasn't so far removed from 1890s France. Jews may think of themselves as Americans first and Jews second, but to the goyim, they will ALWAYS be a Jew FIRST.
I know it is politically correct to pay lip service to the goyim and say, oh yes, he broke the law and deserved to be punished, but then base a legal appeal on the basis that he has already paid the price for his "crime." However, I believe that when it comes to saving Jewish lives, it would have been a crime against Heaven not to have acted as he did. But, this is all irrelevant to the point at hand. If you are familiar with the case, you must concede that there are too many oddities for Heaven not to have its own hand in it.
I have believed for many years that Pollard stood as a warning to the Jews of America and the day that warning was no longer going to be of any further use, i.e. "time's up" then he would go free. I've watched years come and go and now THIS year, I've felt the best possibility for this to happen and that was before I knew about the end of 6 1/2 years of Pekidah or thought about the end of forty years since the Temple Mount was returned to our hands.
In any case, in Shevat there came a burst of activity on Pollard's behalf, unlike anything I have seen at any previous time and I sensed that a lot of spiritual energy was being invested in this and that it held great promise of success. On Ta'anit Esther, I personally experienced something which further supported that assumption, enough so to go public with an urgent warning to watch for it. I am convinced that he will go free at a predestined time in order to be a banner to the Jews of chu"l that the last moment to leave has arrived.
How would knowing this change anything for anyone there, especially if it is already too late to make arrangements for passports and the like?
This is what I think. I think that a situation may develop in the wake of this event that might put Jews in danger and at some very near point, an emergency evacuation might be offered, either by the US government or the Israeli government or through private means in cooperation with the government or who knows? There is danger inherent in this scenario, too. It is definitely worthwhile to get out on your own beforehand if at all possible. But I do believe that there will be a last opportunity in the wake of Pollard's leaving. It will not be pretty. It will not be fun.
The most important point to be made here, I feel, is summed up in an old adage: "Forewarned is forearmed." Those who know that something is coming are better prepared to face it than those who do not know. My sense is that once that threshold is crossed, events will escalate rapidly. "In it's time, I will hasten it." Even for redemption "in its time," I will hasten it.
I hope that I have adequately summarized the key points here. I will not be at my computer for the next two days, but your comments and questions are always welcome. I do not currently see any reason to continue posting here. I've said all I can think of on the subject. Now we wait and see and continue to prepare.
Do teshuva every minute!
And like the Rambam: "I believe with perfect faith in the coming of Mashiach. However long it takes, I will await His coming every day."
I thought this post was finished, but just when I completed it and went to see the news which I had not read since early this morning, look what I found:
[Note: I will be away the next two days serving Hashem and my People. Please be patient and I will try to answer everyone's letters and comments after that time. Also, if I have offended anyone, I assure you it was purely unintentional. I beg your forgiveness.]
Here it is---Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan.
I remember when we arrived at Erev Rosh Hashanah 5761 and I was wondering if anything dramatic would occur in the very last hours to fulfill the words of the rabbis about the year 5760. We were making all our last minute holiday preparations and reports began to come in of disturbances in the Old City and on the Temple Mount. We had to close the computer and radio for the chag, so we did not know what happened after that.
Then, the next day, in shul, we heard rumors about trouble from the security people. We had barely sat down to dinner at a friend's home when their phone began to ring. Everybody froze. Who would call on Rosh Hashanah? In Israel, even wrong numbers are Jewish and no one would be calling on the phone. It stopped and everyone breathed again and then it began immediately to ring again. This happened a total of seven times. The ba'al habayit did not answer. He said it must be the army calling for his son and since his son was not at home, he saw no reason to pick it up. But if the army was calling people up, then....
And now, we can look back six and a half years and see where it all went. I will never come to Pesach and not remember the Pesach of 2002. I was doing last minute shopping at the shuk and suddenly it began to hail like mad. Everyone was marveling at the hail and then in a few minutes news began to spread that there had been an attack in a supermarket. A security guard was killed preventing a woman bomber from entering in to kill many others. The details are too sad to recount. A few days later, we sat down to begin our seder and suddenly we heard a deafening sound of heavy hail falling on the roof. Only after Pesach was finished did we hear about the Pesach massacre at the Park Hotel in Netanya. Again, too sad to talk about. So many sad, tragic stories and we in Israel know every one and can tell the stories of every one, so many...too many.
As I understand the Ramchal, the purpose of the Pekidah stage of redemption is to cause us to cry out to Hashem to deliver us. When Zechirah begins, Hashem responds to that call by sending us the Redeemer prepared since the foundation of the world. Ramchal says that just prior to the transition from Pekidah to Zechirah, "there is a spiritual awakening in the world." I and others of my aquaintance and still others that I have only heard of have been experiencing what could be termed a spiritual awakening, things similar in character to what Nava describes in her blog.
Now, to return to our focus here. If Hashem is going to get about completing our redemption this Nissan, he is also going to close down the exile for good. That means the Jews MUST return home or risk sharing the fate of the goyim. The prophets are clear that the nations will be punished. It stands to reason that America will go down first, because she has presumed to be Israel's patron and treated the renewed nation of G-d like a vassal. Many, many Jews and non-Jews alike truly believe that were it not for America, Israel would cease to exist. This kind of thinking must be corrected and it will be! We are forbidden to rely upon anyone other than Hashem alone.
Hashem is just. Whether one is willing to admit it or not, everyone who saw the first sign---the collapse of the twin towers---has had seven years to get himself and his family, parents, children, etc out of America and over to Israel. Every Jew has had that chance...save ONE.
Yes, I am talking about Jonathan Pollard.
One of our commenters suggested that it wasn't really fair to American Jews that they had not suffered as other Jewish communities in the world and throughout history. As a result, they were very much unaware of the need to make aliya. I suggest to you that Jonathan Pollard did the suffering on behalf of his community and they should have taken the lesson from what happened to him. And if not him, then what happened to Rabbi Kahane in 1990 or to the WTC in 1993 or the Murrah Federal Building in 1995, right up to the events of 9/11/2001.
The travesty of justice that was allowed to stand in the Pollard case was a flashing neon sign telling the Jews that USA 1986 really wasn't so far removed from 1890s France. Jews may think of themselves as Americans first and Jews second, but to the goyim, they will ALWAYS be a Jew FIRST.
I know it is politically correct to pay lip service to the goyim and say, oh yes, he broke the law and deserved to be punished, but then base a legal appeal on the basis that he has already paid the price for his "crime." However, I believe that when it comes to saving Jewish lives, it would have been a crime against Heaven not to have acted as he did. But, this is all irrelevant to the point at hand. If you are familiar with the case, you must concede that there are too many oddities for Heaven not to have its own hand in it.
I have believed for many years that Pollard stood as a warning to the Jews of America and the day that warning was no longer going to be of any further use, i.e. "time's up" then he would go free. I've watched years come and go and now THIS year, I've felt the best possibility for this to happen and that was before I knew about the end of 6 1/2 years of Pekidah or thought about the end of forty years since the Temple Mount was returned to our hands.
In any case, in Shevat there came a burst of activity on Pollard's behalf, unlike anything I have seen at any previous time and I sensed that a lot of spiritual energy was being invested in this and that it held great promise of success. On Ta'anit Esther, I personally experienced something which further supported that assumption, enough so to go public with an urgent warning to watch for it. I am convinced that he will go free at a predestined time in order to be a banner to the Jews of chu"l that the last moment to leave has arrived.
How would knowing this change anything for anyone there, especially if it is already too late to make arrangements for passports and the like?
This is what I think. I think that a situation may develop in the wake of this event that might put Jews in danger and at some very near point, an emergency evacuation might be offered, either by the US government or the Israeli government or through private means in cooperation with the government or who knows? There is danger inherent in this scenario, too. It is definitely worthwhile to get out on your own beforehand if at all possible. But I do believe that there will be a last opportunity in the wake of Pollard's leaving. It will not be pretty. It will not be fun.
The most important point to be made here, I feel, is summed up in an old adage: "Forewarned is forearmed." Those who know that something is coming are better prepared to face it than those who do not know. My sense is that once that threshold is crossed, events will escalate rapidly. "In it's time, I will hasten it." Even for redemption "in its time," I will hasten it.
I hope that I have adequately summarized the key points here. I will not be at my computer for the next two days, but your comments and questions are always welcome. I do not currently see any reason to continue posting here. I've said all I can think of on the subject. Now we wait and see and continue to prepare.
Do teshuva every minute!
And like the Rambam: "I believe with perfect faith in the coming of Mashiach. However long it takes, I will await His coming every day."
I thought this post was finished, but just when I completed it and went to see the news which I had not read since early this morning, look what I found:
Ken, yehi ratzon!!!!!Nationwide Activities for Pollard Continue
"... a yeshiva high school class is setting off on a three-day march to Jerusalem this week, calling for [Pollard's] release.
...We'll be starting out on the first day of the month of redemption - Nissan; there is no reason that Pollard should not be home in time for the holiday of redemption, Passover, which falls in the middle of Nissan." "The students feel that it seems now to be an et ratzon - a time of good will - given the several projects that are underway on Pollard's behalf," Rabbi Golan said. "Now is the time to wake up the country to demand that our government submit an official request to the US for his release."
...The high school march, entitled "From Bondage to Freedom," is scheduled to begin near Petach Tikvah, and will end 85 kilometers (52 miles) later, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
[Note: I will be away the next two days serving Hashem and my People. Please be patient and I will try to answer everyone's letters and comments after that time. Also, if I have offended anyone, I assure you it was purely unintentional. I beg your forgiveness.]
Edom's Treachery
B"H 29 Adar 5767
Dear Jews! Good Jews!!
There have been entire books written on this subject.
Compared to what other lands offered the Jews throughout history, America has been exceptional. But let's not ignore the fact that anti-semitism exists in America and that it exists in very high places from which it is having a devastating effect in Eretz Yisrael.
We don't have to go very far back in history to find a few telling examples:
In 1967, during the Six Days War, the US sent a spy ship (the Liberty) to monitor Israeli military communications and report them to Egypt.
In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, the US held up critical arms shipments for an entire week causing needless death and injury to Israeli soldiers.
In 1979, Washington sponsored Camp David 1 which resulted in the loss of the Sinai to Egypt.
In 1984, the US withheld vital information about Iraqi WMD capabilities which it was obligated under treaty to share with Israel. (This is what JPollard made available to the Israeli government.)
In 1990, the US withheld identifying codes from the Israeli Air Force so they would not launch a retaliatory attack against Saddam Hussein's scuds. Without the codes, Israeli jets would have been viewed as enemy combatants by the Americans and shot down.
In 1991, the US sanctioned the concept of "Land for Peace" at the Madrid Conference.
In 1993, the US received Arafat at the White House and brokered the Oslo Peace Treaty which led to thousands of Israeli deaths and injuries.
In 1997, the US sponsored the giving away of 13% of Yesha and Hevron, the City of the Patriarchs.
From then until now, the US has armed, financed and given international recognition to a terrorist State hell-bent on Israel's utter destruction and continues to pressure the all too eager to comply heretical government into deeper and deeper concessions on land and security.
The G-d of Israel "neither slumbers nor sleeps." Payday is coming. What do you think they have earned?
Prepared from creation for a day and an hour:
If you see the BBC docudrama about the effects of an eruption of the Yellowstone super-volcano, you will understand how it will stop flights coast to coast...permanently; how it can cause a complete darkness to fall; and send up a pillar of smoke and ash high into the atmosphere. No telling how long it would be visible.
This is how Hashem repays those who hurt His children. If you are His child, He wants you to go home!! He does not intend you to share in the punishment of His enemies!!
Dear Jews! Good Jews!!
There have been entire books written on this subject.
Compared to what other lands offered the Jews throughout history, America has been exceptional. But let's not ignore the fact that anti-semitism exists in America and that it exists in very high places from which it is having a devastating effect in Eretz Yisrael.
We don't have to go very far back in history to find a few telling examples:
In 1967, during the Six Days War, the US sent a spy ship (the Liberty) to monitor Israeli military communications and report them to Egypt.
In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, the US held up critical arms shipments for an entire week causing needless death and injury to Israeli soldiers.
In 1979, Washington sponsored Camp David 1 which resulted in the loss of the Sinai to Egypt.
In 1984, the US withheld vital information about Iraqi WMD capabilities which it was obligated under treaty to share with Israel. (This is what JPollard made available to the Israeli government.)
In 1990, the US withheld identifying codes from the Israeli Air Force so they would not launch a retaliatory attack against Saddam Hussein's scuds. Without the codes, Israeli jets would have been viewed as enemy combatants by the Americans and shot down.
In 1991, the US sanctioned the concept of "Land for Peace" at the Madrid Conference.
In 1993, the US received Arafat at the White House and brokered the Oslo Peace Treaty which led to thousands of Israeli deaths and injuries.
In 1997, the US sponsored the giving away of 13% of Yesha and Hevron, the City of the Patriarchs.
From then until now, the US has armed, financed and given international recognition to a terrorist State hell-bent on Israel's utter destruction and continues to pressure the all too eager to comply heretical government into deeper and deeper concessions on land and security.
The G-d of Israel "neither slumbers nor sleeps." Payday is coming. What do you think they have earned?
Yeshayahu 34:1-5 "Nations, come near to hear, and kingdoms, hearken. The earth and the fullness thereof, the world and all its offspring. For the Lord has indignation against all the nations and wrath against all their host. He has destroyed them; He has given them to the slaughter. And their slain ones shall be thrown, and their corpses-their stench shall rise, and mountains shall melt from their blood. And all the host of heaven shall melt, and the heavens shall be rolled like a scroll, and all their host shall wither as a leaf withers from a vine, and as a withered [fig] from a fig tree. For My sword has become sated in the heaven. Behold, it shall descend upon Edom, and upon the nation with whom I contend, for judgment."
Prepared from creation for a day and an hour:
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - significant activity continues beneath the surface. And the activity has been increasing lately, scientists have discovered. In addition, the nearby Teton Range of mountains, in a total surprise, is getting shorter. The findings suggest that a slow and gradual movement of a volcano over time can shape a landscape more than a violent eruption. The 45-by-30-mile Yellowstone caldera bulged and deflated significantly during the past 17 years, resulting in a series of small earthquakes that produced 10 times more energy than would occur if the ground were to move suddenly in a large eruption. "We think it's a combination of magma being intruded under the caldera and hot water released from the magma being pressurized because it's trapped. I don't believe this is evidence for an impending volcanic eruption, but it would be prudent to keep monitoring the volcano." From 2004 to 2006 the central caldera floor rose faster than ever, springing up nearly 7 inches during the three-year span. "The rate is UNPRECEDENTED, at least in terms of what scientists have been able to observe in Yellowstone." One of the largest supervolcanoes in the world lies beneath Yellowstone National Park, which spans parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent.
If you see the BBC docudrama about the effects of an eruption of the Yellowstone super-volcano, you will understand how it will stop flights coast to coast...permanently; how it can cause a complete darkness to fall; and send up a pillar of smoke and ash high into the atmosphere. No telling how long it would be visible.
Yeshayahu 34: 8-9 "For it is a day of vengeance for the Lord, a year of retribution for the plea of Zion. And its streams shall turn into pitch and its dust into sulfur, and its land shall become burning pitch."
This is how Hashem repays those who hurt His children. If you are His child, He wants you to go home!! He does not intend you to share in the punishment of His enemies!!
Q & A
B"H 28 Adar 5767
Anonymous #1 commented:
I also thought of Pollard. From a friend who visited him this past week, sounds like American security officials from the top down, are ready to release him - if the Eruv Rav here would only ASK!!!
Since when do the Americans let the want of asking prevent them from doing whatever it is they want to do? Did the Iraqis ask then to come and liberate them from Saddam Hussein? No. I am not defending the evil regime, but if the Americans WANT to do this, lack of asking will not stop them.
The fact is that this matter, like all other matters, is in the hands of Hashem and if there is a lack of asking, it is OUR lack of asking from HASHEM. However, when the time comes that Hashem wants it, even if the Americans DON'T want, it will happen, which is why I do not believe that there is danger in speaking of it. It is already a matter of such importance that HASHEM alone will determine when and if it occurs. Just like with Yosef---he went out at the pre-ordained time, not a minute before and not a minute after, despite requesting help from the chief cupbearer.
Shayna commented: BS"DAm i to understand according to what you are writing that there are still Chas V'Shalom another 61/2 years until Moshaich will come? Is it very possible for Moshiach to come or it it really another 61/2 years of waiting?
As ALWAYS, dear Shayna, Mashiach can come at ANY MOMENT. This is because no one but Hashem knows how He figures our cheshbon. I hope to address this further in another response, so please read on. About the pekidah/zechira issue. As I understand it, the Ramchal says that all redemptions have followed this pattern. During our enslavement in Mitzrayim, the zechira stage was the point at which Hashem sent Moshe to be the redeemer.
I personally expect Mashiach to be revealed very, very shortly in accordance with this pattern, but we have to expect that since we are living out the b'ita scenario, it may not be so obvious. In "geula b'ita," everything comes the hard way. Not everyone is going to realize that Mashiach IS Mashiach. We have a tradition that if a leader arises and wins all Israel's wars, he is b'chezkat Mashiach, suspected of being Mashiach, but only if he rebuilds the Holy Temple is he then known for certain to be Mashiach. Remember that even when Moshe first arrived back in Egypt and went to Paro, the servitude suddenly got much worse before it got better. The people despaired of ever being redeemed even with their redeemer right in front of them. We must prepare ourselves for these tests and strengthen our faith to a very great degree.
Trust Hashem to provide where you are lacking, Shayna. Hold onto Him and don't let go. He truly provides for every need. He longs very much to deliver us at every moment.
Anonymous #2 commented: ... You would think his release would be a good sign, not a negative or frightening one.
It is meant to be a good sign for ALL the Jews. Since our destiny puts us at odds with the goyim, what is good for the Jews at this stage in history is a bad sign for the goyim and consequently for the Jews who choose to remain among them. Those who truly have no choice must continue to simply trust Hashem.
Sabzi Aash commented: ...I don't understand this business about Jews being unable to return to Israel because they've waited too long.
I gave for an example,that after the Six Days War in 1967---for the last FORTY YEARS---the only obstacles to fulfilling the mitzva to live in Eretz Israel were our own fears and base desires. All "good" things must come to an end and the exile is a big chillul Hashem that MUST come to an end. To ask that Hashem prolong His own suffering so we can continue our "good" life in America is something I don't even have a name for!
Isn't it one of Moshiach's tasks to gather in the Jews?
In a manner of speaking, "he" has been doing so for almost sixty years already! There is both a person who is Mashiach and a process that is Mashiach. The State of Israel has functioned since its inception as a type of Mashiach ben Yosef---the process of MBY, if you will---rising to power, fighting the wars, providing for the physical needs of the Jewish people, bringing in the exiles through its aliyah programs and funding, developing the infrastructure which will eventually be turned over to the hands of Mashiach ben David.
(When you look at the new light rail and all the improvements being done around the Old City, you can't help but think that all of this is preparing the way for the pilgrims who will flock to see the rebuilt Temple and Mashiach.)
Some people will have a very difficult time thinking in these terms. They will point to the "evil" acts of the government against the religious and say this is not possible. However, we know from sources that had the effort not been weighted in favor of the secular, the Sitra Achra would have stopped at nothing to destroy it while it was still too weak to survive on its own. Obviously, this is how things have to work when the Jewish people do not merit Redemption in haste. Also, the religious did not flock home in droves. If they had, the picture might have been very different.
Even if there's a period where they're stuck in Galut, won't they be able to come later?
It is the nature of this world, that there is an END after which it is not possible to do things that were possible before. There are innumerable examples not only in nature but in history. That's just the way life is. The exile is ending. The choice before us is to get on the bus and go where it takes you (EY) or stand in front of it and get run over.
And it seems unfair to the Jews of America, ....
This comment does not merit a response.
Even if you want to do something, sometimes you need a push ... so why haven't the American Jews had such a push? Even the sign being predicted here is only supposed to affect those who are already very sensitive to these things and prone to interpret them in a particular way ... surely a small segment ... and even then it will be too late? What gives?
This will be addressed more fully in my final blog posting. Watch for it.
Regarding the account of a tradition that there would one day be a contest between the People of Israel and their enemies, in which it would appear that Hashem had rejected Am Yisrael's "sacrifice" and accepted that of the reshaim:
There is a story about a King who had to punish his son with a very large rock which could seriously injure or even kill him, G-d forbid! To solve this problem, the king ordered the rock broken up into little pebbles and these were thrown on the king's son little by little so as not to cause him serious injury.
We do not know how Hashem figures His cheshbonot, but overall when it concerns His "son" He acts with great mercy. It may be my own wishful thinking, but I believe that Hashem allowed Gush Katif to be "sacrificed' for the sake of Yerushalayim.
Unless you are here, I don't know that one can have a proper perspective on how devastating it was to those Jews from all over the country who with much mesirut nefesh worked and prayed and had faith until the very end that Hashem would spare Gush Katif, to then see failure and see our enemies rejoicing in victory over us; destroying every holy thing and then using it to launch further attacks against us. If this does not fulfill the essence of the "tradition" that you cite here, then there is no understanding what happened on Tisha b'Av 5765.
js commented: Play it out. Why and how would Pollard's release signal the pending closing of borders?
Please see my final blog post later tonight.
Many thanks to everyone who has written comments.
Anonymous #1 commented:
I also thought of Pollard. From a friend who visited him this past week, sounds like American security officials from the top down, are ready to release him - if the Eruv Rav here would only ASK!!!
Since when do the Americans let the want of asking prevent them from doing whatever it is they want to do? Did the Iraqis ask then to come and liberate them from Saddam Hussein? No. I am not defending the evil regime, but if the Americans WANT to do this, lack of asking will not stop them.
The fact is that this matter, like all other matters, is in the hands of Hashem and if there is a lack of asking, it is OUR lack of asking from HASHEM. However, when the time comes that Hashem wants it, even if the Americans DON'T want, it will happen, which is why I do not believe that there is danger in speaking of it. It is already a matter of such importance that HASHEM alone will determine when and if it occurs. Just like with Yosef---he went out at the pre-ordained time, not a minute before and not a minute after, despite requesting help from the chief cupbearer.
Shayna commented: BS"DAm i to understand according to what you are writing that there are still Chas V'Shalom another 61/2 years until Moshaich will come? Is it very possible for Moshiach to come or it it really another 61/2 years of waiting?
As ALWAYS, dear Shayna, Mashiach can come at ANY MOMENT. This is because no one but Hashem knows how He figures our cheshbon. I hope to address this further in another response, so please read on. About the pekidah/zechira issue. As I understand it, the Ramchal says that all redemptions have followed this pattern. During our enslavement in Mitzrayim, the zechira stage was the point at which Hashem sent Moshe to be the redeemer.
I personally expect Mashiach to be revealed very, very shortly in accordance with this pattern, but we have to expect that since we are living out the b'ita scenario, it may not be so obvious. In "geula b'ita," everything comes the hard way. Not everyone is going to realize that Mashiach IS Mashiach. We have a tradition that if a leader arises and wins all Israel's wars, he is b'chezkat Mashiach, suspected of being Mashiach, but only if he rebuilds the Holy Temple is he then known for certain to be Mashiach. Remember that even when Moshe first arrived back in Egypt and went to Paro, the servitude suddenly got much worse before it got better. The people despaired of ever being redeemed even with their redeemer right in front of them. We must prepare ourselves for these tests and strengthen our faith to a very great degree.
Trust Hashem to provide where you are lacking, Shayna. Hold onto Him and don't let go. He truly provides for every need. He longs very much to deliver us at every moment.
Anonymous #2 commented: ... You would think his release would be a good sign, not a negative or frightening one.
It is meant to be a good sign for ALL the Jews. Since our destiny puts us at odds with the goyim, what is good for the Jews at this stage in history is a bad sign for the goyim and consequently for the Jews who choose to remain among them. Those who truly have no choice must continue to simply trust Hashem.
Sabzi Aash commented: ...I don't understand this business about Jews being unable to return to Israel because they've waited too long.
I gave for an example,that after the Six Days War in 1967---for the last FORTY YEARS---the only obstacles to fulfilling the mitzva to live in Eretz Israel were our own fears and base desires. All "good" things must come to an end and the exile is a big chillul Hashem that MUST come to an end. To ask that Hashem prolong His own suffering so we can continue our "good" life in America is something I don't even have a name for!
Isn't it one of Moshiach's tasks to gather in the Jews?
In a manner of speaking, "he" has been doing so for almost sixty years already! There is both a person who is Mashiach and a process that is Mashiach. The State of Israel has functioned since its inception as a type of Mashiach ben Yosef---the process of MBY, if you will---rising to power, fighting the wars, providing for the physical needs of the Jewish people, bringing in the exiles through its aliyah programs and funding, developing the infrastructure which will eventually be turned over to the hands of Mashiach ben David.
(When you look at the new light rail and all the improvements being done around the Old City, you can't help but think that all of this is preparing the way for the pilgrims who will flock to see the rebuilt Temple and Mashiach.)
Some people will have a very difficult time thinking in these terms. They will point to the "evil" acts of the government against the religious and say this is not possible. However, we know from sources that had the effort not been weighted in favor of the secular, the Sitra Achra would have stopped at nothing to destroy it while it was still too weak to survive on its own. Obviously, this is how things have to work when the Jewish people do not merit Redemption in haste. Also, the religious did not flock home in droves. If they had, the picture might have been very different.
Even if there's a period where they're stuck in Galut, won't they be able to come later?
It is the nature of this world, that there is an END after which it is not possible to do things that were possible before. There are innumerable examples not only in nature but in history. That's just the way life is. The exile is ending. The choice before us is to get on the bus and go where it takes you (EY) or stand in front of it and get run over.
And it seems unfair to the Jews of America, ....
This comment does not merit a response.
Even if you want to do something, sometimes you need a push ... so why haven't the American Jews had such a push? Even the sign being predicted here is only supposed to affect those who are already very sensitive to these things and prone to interpret them in a particular way ... surely a small segment ... and even then it will be too late? What gives?
This will be addressed more fully in my final blog posting. Watch for it.
Regarding the account of a tradition that there would one day be a contest between the People of Israel and their enemies, in which it would appear that Hashem had rejected Am Yisrael's "sacrifice" and accepted that of the reshaim:
There is a story about a King who had to punish his son with a very large rock which could seriously injure or even kill him, G-d forbid! To solve this problem, the king ordered the rock broken up into little pebbles and these were thrown on the king's son little by little so as not to cause him serious injury.
We do not know how Hashem figures His cheshbonot, but overall when it concerns His "son" He acts with great mercy. It may be my own wishful thinking, but I believe that Hashem allowed Gush Katif to be "sacrificed' for the sake of Yerushalayim.
Unless you are here, I don't know that one can have a proper perspective on how devastating it was to those Jews from all over the country who with much mesirut nefesh worked and prayed and had faith until the very end that Hashem would spare Gush Katif, to then see failure and see our enemies rejoicing in victory over us; destroying every holy thing and then using it to launch further attacks against us. If this does not fulfill the essence of the "tradition" that you cite here, then there is no understanding what happened on Tisha b'Av 5765.
js commented: Play it out. Why and how would Pollard's release signal the pending closing of borders?
Please see my final blog post later tonight.
Many thanks to everyone who has written comments.
Putting the Clues Together
B"H 28 Adar 5767
Here are the clues given so far:
"A VERY BIG and OBVIOUS sign"
"...hint, it is found in the Festival of FREEDOM."
"The sign will appear first in the US and then move toward Israel where it will rest. This is to be understood plainly and literally. It will be a physical occurrence that everyone can see. It will be much discussed, particularly among the Jews. "
"...the sign of which I have spoken is not a missile, a falling star or a pillar of smoke. It will not be anything supernatural from a normal human perspective. Those who look with faith will understand what a miraculous thing it is, just like there are those who blame Hurricane Katrina on global warming while others look at each individual "mida k'neged mida" aspect and declare it must be the handiwork of G-D. If I told you today what the sign is, you would not believe it. Only after the fact is there a chance you will accept it."
"I believe that a certain event will occur which will signal the very end of safety for Jews in America and quite possibly the last opportunity to exit America's borders. This event is what I am referring to when I say "sign." It involves a person---someone who has been standing all along as a very important sign for the Jewish people, but they have paid it as much heed as they did the words of all our holy prophets."
Here are some new clues, which will be more explicit since the time is fast approaching:
1. Yosef Hatzadik, who was unappreciated and sold out by his brothers, was "remembered" on Rosh Hashanah. Tishrei is the Rosh Hashanah for the world, but Nissan is the Rosh Hashanah of the Jewish people. (From Nissan we count our months. )
2. The Dreyfus Affair was such a sign to the Jews of "enlightened" Europe, yet so many did not comprehend it.
3. Yeshayahu 1:27-28 "Zion shall be redeemed through justice and her penitent through righteousness. And destruction shall come over rebels and sinners together, and those who forsake the Lord shall perish."
A Question:
Someone asked why I had said previously that I would look for this sign up until the end of Pesach.
My Answer:
Shvi'i shel Pesach is connected to Mashiach and after all, this was the day that Yam Suf split for us to walk over on dry land and Egypt met its destruction. The entire period of Adar through Nissan is auspicious for Redemption. Korban Pesach can be brought in Iyar if one was unable to bring it in Nissan and we have already seen two foreshadowings of Redemption in Iyar---the War for Independence that established the Third Jewish Commonwealth in Eretz Yisrael and the Six Days War which saw the return of Judea, Samaria and Holy Jerusalem into Jewish hands.
Here are the clues given so far:
"A VERY BIG and OBVIOUS sign"
"...hint, it is found in the Festival of FREEDOM."
"The sign will appear first in the US and then move toward Israel where it will rest. This is to be understood plainly and literally. It will be a physical occurrence that everyone can see. It will be much discussed, particularly among the Jews. "
"...the sign of which I have spoken is not a missile, a falling star or a pillar of smoke. It will not be anything supernatural from a normal human perspective. Those who look with faith will understand what a miraculous thing it is, just like there are those who blame Hurricane Katrina on global warming while others look at each individual "mida k'neged mida" aspect and declare it must be the handiwork of G-D. If I told you today what the sign is, you would not believe it. Only after the fact is there a chance you will accept it."
"I believe that a certain event will occur which will signal the very end of safety for Jews in America and quite possibly the last opportunity to exit America's borders. This event is what I am referring to when I say "sign." It involves a person---someone who has been standing all along as a very important sign for the Jewish people, but they have paid it as much heed as they did the words of all our holy prophets."
Here are some new clues, which will be more explicit since the time is fast approaching:
1. Yosef Hatzadik, who was unappreciated and sold out by his brothers, was "remembered" on Rosh Hashanah. Tishrei is the Rosh Hashanah for the world, but Nissan is the Rosh Hashanah of the Jewish people. (From Nissan we count our months. )
2. The Dreyfus Affair was such a sign to the Jews of "enlightened" Europe, yet so many did not comprehend it.
3. Yeshayahu 1:27-28 "Zion shall be redeemed through justice and her penitent through righteousness. And destruction shall come over rebels and sinners together, and those who forsake the Lord shall perish."
A Question:
Someone asked why I had said previously that I would look for this sign up until the end of Pesach.
My Answer:
Shvi'i shel Pesach is connected to Mashiach and after all, this was the day that Yam Suf split for us to walk over on dry land and Egypt met its destruction. The entire period of Adar through Nissan is auspicious for Redemption. Korban Pesach can be brought in Iyar if one was unable to bring it in Nissan and we have already seen two foreshadowings of Redemption in Iyar---the War for Independence that established the Third Jewish Commonwealth in Eretz Yisrael and the Six Days War which saw the return of Judea, Samaria and Holy Jerusalem into Jewish hands.
17 March 2007
My "Dream"
B"H 28 Adar 5767
I have received some well-meant warnings to be careful of revealing dreams, that if one does, one may lose the ability to see the future in dreams. I want you to know, that NOTHING of what I am posting here is coming from dreams.
The information I am putting here is coming from a combination of Torah knowledge, analysis of current events, direct experience of hashgacha pratit, an ability to focus on the Big Picture, and a little bit of intuition which has proved reliable in the past.
I must say again, it is NOT 100% sure. Only time will tell, but I feel that a preponderance of the evidence strongly suggests that the appointed time has arrived; enough so as to issue a warning to watch for the "sign" that I believe will signal the final opportunity for Jews to leave America.
However, even those who do not have prophetic dreams can have a "vision" of how events may develop. This is mine...
From the Torah reading for Parshat HaChodesh, the reading prior to the New Month of Nissan:
May we all awaken to the conscious "dream"..the vision of Mashiach and Redemption in OUR days!!
I have received some well-meant warnings to be careful of revealing dreams, that if one does, one may lose the ability to see the future in dreams. I want you to know, that NOTHING of what I am posting here is coming from dreams.
The information I am putting here is coming from a combination of Torah knowledge, analysis of current events, direct experience of hashgacha pratit, an ability to focus on the Big Picture, and a little bit of intuition which has proved reliable in the past.
I must say again, it is NOT 100% sure. Only time will tell, but I feel that a preponderance of the evidence strongly suggests that the appointed time has arrived; enough so as to issue a warning to watch for the "sign" that I believe will signal the final opportunity for Jews to leave America.
However, even those who do not have prophetic dreams can have a "vision" of how events may develop. This is mine...
From Zohar III Balak 212b: "...the Holy Land will shake for 45 miles from all around until the place of the Temple. An underground cave will become revealed, and from that cave will go out a fire that will burn the world."
On Rosh Chodesh Nissan, after a week of heavy rains have fully saturated and weakened the earth and stones of the Temple Mount, making it ripe for structural failure, an earthquake brings it all crashing down. The "destruction" uncovers the hiding place of the Ark of the Covenant, the most recognizable antiquity from Biblical lore, proving to the entire world the Truth of the Holy Torah and the legitimate claims the Jews have to the Temple Mount.
From the Torah reading for Parshat HaChodesh, the reading prior to the New Month of Nissan:
Shemot 37:1-9 "Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. And he overlaid it with pure gold from inside and from outside, and he made for it a golden crown all around. And he cast four golden rings for it upon its four corners, two rings on its one side and two rings on its other side. And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold. And he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark. And he made an ark cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. And he made two golden cherubim he made them of hammered work, from the two ends of the ark cover, one cherub from the one end and the other cherub from the other end; from the ark cover he made the cherubim from its two ends. The cherubim had their wings spread upwards, shielding the ark cover with their wings, with their faces toward one another; [turned] toward the ark cover were the faces of the cherubim."The world is too stunned and awed to react as Jewish zealots prepare to cleanse the Mount for Pesach. An authoritative figure steps forward and issues a call to all the Jews faithful to Hashem to come up to Yerushalayim to offer the korban Pesach. The willingness or unwillingness to comply will take the measure of the faith of every Jew. It will be the final birur. Those who come up to offer the korban Pesach, exactly as on the first Pesach will receive Divine Protection, while those who refuse will be subject to whatever destructive force (perhaps even a nuke from Iran) goes forth on that night....
Yeshayahu 37:32 "For from Jerusalem shall come forth a remnant, and survivors from Mt. Zion; the zeal of the Lord of Hosts shall do this.' "
May we all awaken to the conscious "dream"..the vision of Mashiach and Redemption in OUR days!!
Shavua Tov!
B"H 28 Adar 5767
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By now, everyone knows that there was a red (blood?) moon on Purim night. But did you know that there is to be a partial eclipse of the sun on Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan, a day also called Yom Kippur Katan?
I don't know how often the sun is darkened and the moon appears to have blood on its surface within the same month, but it can't be very often. I can't help wondering if it might be a fulfillment of the prophet's words...
DO NOT DEPEND ON MIRACLES!!
Much better you should arrange your affairs to allow you to come home to Eretz Yisrael as soon as possible and be here to greet Mashiach upon his arrival.
Jews needing to travel to chu"l from Eretz Yisrael should ask a shayla from a trusted rabbi before taking any trips, especially before or during Pesach.
Note! We are not looking for the end of the world, but for the beginning of a better one!!!
(Note that the comments function has been reinstated.)
By now, everyone knows that there was a red (blood?) moon on Purim night. But did you know that there is to be a partial eclipse of the sun on Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan, a day also called Yom Kippur Katan?
I don't know how often the sun is darkened and the moon appears to have blood on its surface within the same month, but it can't be very often. I can't help wondering if it might be a fulfillment of the prophet's words...
I'm not suggesting anyone abandon their responsibilities, dispose of their possessions and go sit on a hill somewhere to wait for the end of the world. What I am suggesting is that you begin or continue to order your lives as if Mashiach could come on any day and call you home to Eretz Yisrael; as if your ability to respond positively to that call depends upon yourself and whatever advance preparations you have made with G-d's help.Joel 3:4 " The sun shall turn to darkness, and the moon to blood, prior to the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord."
DO NOT DEPEND ON MIRACLES!!
Much better you should arrange your affairs to allow you to come home to Eretz Yisrael as soon as possible and be here to greet Mashiach upon his arrival.
Jews needing to travel to chu"l from Eretz Yisrael should ask a shayla from a trusted rabbi before taking any trips, especially before or during Pesach.
Note! We are not looking for the end of the world, but for the beginning of a better one!!!
16 March 2007
Shabbat Shalom~
B"H 26 Adar 5767
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Shabbat shalom u'mevorach!
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Shabbat shalom u'mevorach!
15 March 2007
Something Else is Coming!
B"H 26 Adar 5767
Dear Jews! Good Jews! Hashem's special, chosen nation!
Never has such a time period in all of human history held so much potential for the Final Redemption. Look at this...
From the Ramchal's Ma'amar Hageulah:
From R' Avraham Sutton's translation of the Zohar, Parashat Vayera (1:119a):
Now, we already know from other sources that techiyat hameitim must begin no later than 210 years before the year 6,000 (i.e., 5790) and that kibbutz goliyot begins forty years before that (i.e., 5750 or 1990!) Granted, "sixty years" could refer to any 60 year period of time, but if it in fact refers to the sixtieth year of a hundred year cycle within the sixth millenium, 5760 was the last possible opportunity for this to be fulfilled.
Remember the Yalkut Reuveni: "In the (Jewish) year of 5760, the depths will rise up and flood the world...." The Chesed L’Avraham, (written around 200 years ago) saw 5760 as the year in which G-d will "remove the spirit of impurity from the land." (Zecharia13:2)
Notice the wording again: " [This 6 1/2 year period (Pekidah) will come] after 60 years of the 6th Millennium." Precisely in the very closing hours of Erev Rosh Hashana 5761, after 60 years of the seventh century of the sixth millenium, the Al Aksa Intifada broke out and a "flood" of terrorism and 'natural' disaster rose upon the earth.
People of Israel, 6 1/2 years later is Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5767!!
Furthermore, we have many sources which all agree that just as the first redemption took place in Nissan, so would the final redemption take place in Nissan.
Rabbi Mordechai Nissim commenting on the Ramchal, states:
A lot of people are reporting a deep sense of something like this, particularly since Purim. The way I described it to someone was that it was as if the extra soul we get on Shabbat decided to stay on at Leil Purim and not leave.
The Ramchal again:
Time to connect the dots. The Al Aksa Intifada was so named by Divine decree. Our own leaders would not link this war in any way to the battle for 'Jerusalem,' but this is exactly what it was and has been from the very beginning. The rape of the Temple Mount for the building of an underground mosque was an act of war. These reports from today's news detail more acts of 'war.'
PA Chief Justice: Moses was a Prophet of Islam
(IsraelNN.com) Muslim clerics and many Arab leaders, who have denied that the First and Second Temples ever existed and that Ishmael and not Isaac (Yitzchak) was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice, have added a new idea: Abraham. Moses and Jesus actually were prophets of Islam.
Sheikh Taysir Tamimi, chief Palestinian Authority (PA) Justice and one of the most influential Muslim leaders in Israel, told Aaron Klein of Worldnetdaily, "Your Torah was falsified. The text as given to the Muslim prophet Moses never mentions Jerusalem. Maybe Jerusalem was mentioned in the rest of the Torah, which was falsified by the Jews." Tamimi added that the Jewish forefathers, Moses and Jesus were "prophets for the Israelites sent by Allah as to usher in Islam."
Concerning the Old City, he stated, "There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews invaded in the 1880's. About these so-called two Temples, they never existed, certainly not at the Haram Al- Sharif [Temple Mount].
"The Western wall is the western wall of the Al Aqsa Mosque. It's where Prophet Muhammad tied his animal which took him from Mecca to Jerusalem to receive the revelations of Allah."
Turkish Inspectors Due Next Week
(IsraelNN.com) A team of Turkish experts are set to arrive in Israel next week to inspect the site of the Israel Antiquities Authority dig being carried out near the Rambam (Mughrabi) Gate at the entrance to the Temple Mount.
The dig is being carried out in conjunction with repair work on a broken footbridge leading to the Temple Mount which has caused an uproar in the Muslim world. Islamic clerics contend that the work is damaging the nearby Al Aksa Mosque.
A recent visit by a team of UNESCO inspectors documented the fact that no damage has been caused.
Rav Dahan has in the recent past spoken of something important being uncovered in the area of the Temple Mount.
Let me remind you of something else. Why are they digging there right now??? Because a few years ago, some snow and rain and a small earthquake caused a wall to collapse and the land to slide away on this hill. What is happening here in the capital of the Jewish people? ...right now?? ... today??? Only four days before Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5767???? It has been raining for days! And not just rain, but rain and hail and snow and thunder and lightning and high winds all at the same time!! Water has flooded the streets and sidewalks of hilly Jerusalem. All of this is a very rare event, especially in the month of March! Surely Hashem measures it out until it is just exactly what is needed to bring 'cleansing' to his Most Holy Place. And if a little shake is needed to complete the job the weather has begun, that can be arranged, too!
In addition to the sign of Eisav's impending downfall, will Hashem also give us a sign that we have truly transitioned into the Recollection stage? If, as the Ramchal teaches, this stage is all about revealing what has until now been concealed, what might be uncovered? ...and how might it affect the rest of the world??... and us???
B'ezrat Hashem, on motzaei"sh, I hope to relate some of what has been discussed here to the original subject and prepare to complete its revelation. There is no more time now. The Shabbat Queen is already on her way. The remaining hours until then must be devoted to preparing for her arrival. So many beautiful privileges have been granted to the people that Hashem cherishes!! Enjoy them!!!
Shabbat shalom u'mevorach!!!!!!!
Dear Jews! Good Jews! Hashem's special, chosen nation!
Never has such a time period in all of human history held so much potential for the Final Redemption. Look at this...
From the Ramchal's Ma'amar Hageulah:
"It should be known, that the redemption has two appointed stages. We find this in the redemption from Egypt and in the redemption from Babylon, and it is known to us that it will be so in the future.... Regarding these two appointed times...the first stage...is called 'safeguarding' (Pekidah)...the second stage...is called 'recollection' (zechirah)."
From R' Avraham Sutton's translation of the Zohar, Parashat Vayera (1:119a):
Rabbi Shimon opened his discourse: "And I have remembered My covenant with Yaacov" (Vayikra 26). Yaacov is written here in its full form [i.e. with a Vav]. Why?... This verse refers to Israel’s [last] exile. When they are in the midst of that exile, they will be Recalled [i.e. Pekidah, i.e. a partial redemption, associated with Mashiach ben Yoseph] in the mystery of the Vav [of the Holy Name], in the 6th Millennium.
This Recollection [Pekidah] will take place in the mystery of Vav-Aleph-Vav [i.e. when the letter Vav is spelled out Vav-Aleph-Vav, it attains the numerical value 13]. It will last for a period of 6 1/2 moments [i.e. years] [i.e. half of 13]. [This 6 1/2 year period will come] after 60 years of the 6th Millennium [which correspond to the final Vav of Vav-Aleph-Vav, and parallel the sefirah of Yesod, embodied by Mashiach ben Yoseph] have passed.
...At that time, the G-d of Heaven will arise to Recall [Pekidah] the Daughter of Jacob [the Shechinah and the Nation of Israel]. From that time [of Pekidah] till Zechirah [full Remembrance, full Redemption, Mashiach ben David], 6 1/2 years will pass. After that, another 6 years will pass. Altogether these [60 plus 6 1/2 plus 6] total 72 1/2.
...At that time, all the nations shall unite together against the Daughter of Jacob in order to annihilate her from the world. Concerning that time it is written, "It will be a time of crisis for Jacob, but he shall be saved from it" (Jeremiah 30:7).
Now, we already know from other sources that techiyat hameitim must begin no later than 210 years before the year 6,000 (i.e., 5790) and that kibbutz goliyot begins forty years before that (i.e., 5750 or 1990!) Granted, "sixty years" could refer to any 60 year period of time, but if it in fact refers to the sixtieth year of a hundred year cycle within the sixth millenium, 5760 was the last possible opportunity for this to be fulfilled.
Remember the Yalkut Reuveni: "In the (Jewish) year of 5760, the depths will rise up and flood the world...." The Chesed L’Avraham, (written around 200 years ago) saw 5760 as the year in which G-d will "remove the spirit of impurity from the land." (Zecharia13:2)
Notice the wording again: " [This 6 1/2 year period (Pekidah) will come] after 60 years of the 6th Millennium." Precisely in the very closing hours of Erev Rosh Hashana 5761, after 60 years of the seventh century of the sixth millenium, the Al Aksa Intifada broke out and a "flood" of terrorism and 'natural' disaster rose upon the earth.
People of Israel, 6 1/2 years later is Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5767!!
Furthermore, we have many sources which all agree that just as the first redemption took place in Nissan, so would the final redemption take place in Nissan.
Rabbi Mordechai Nissim commenting on the Ramchal, states:
"...at a certain moment in creation there is a divine awakening that shifts the world from Safeguarding (Pekidah) into Recollection (Zechirah). At that moment, ... there is a spiritual awakening in the world, and it is as if God Recalls His pact with mankind. "
A lot of people are reporting a deep sense of something like this, particularly since Purim. The way I described it to someone was that it was as if the extra soul we get on Shabbat decided to stay on at Leil Purim and not leave.
The Ramchal again:
"...the impasse, which occurred because of the exile, is opened up...and there is no concealment anymore. ...In the Recollection stage all is in a revealed manner, and not a hidden one, and regarding this it says,'Who is this that comes from Edom' (Isaiah 63,1). From then on Israel will rise up and exit from the exile...."
Time to connect the dots. The Al Aksa Intifada was so named by Divine decree. Our own leaders would not link this war in any way to the battle for 'Jerusalem,' but this is exactly what it was and has been from the very beginning. The rape of the Temple Mount for the building of an underground mosque was an act of war. These reports from today's news detail more acts of 'war.'
PA Chief Justice: Moses was a Prophet of Islam
(IsraelNN.com) Muslim clerics and many Arab leaders, who have denied that the First and Second Temples ever existed and that Ishmael and not Isaac (Yitzchak) was offered by Abraham as a sacrifice, have added a new idea: Abraham. Moses and Jesus actually were prophets of Islam.
Sheikh Taysir Tamimi, chief Palestinian Authority (PA) Justice and one of the most influential Muslim leaders in Israel, told Aaron Klein of Worldnetdaily, "Your Torah was falsified. The text as given to the Muslim prophet Moses never mentions Jerusalem. Maybe Jerusalem was mentioned in the rest of the Torah, which was falsified by the Jews." Tamimi added that the Jewish forefathers, Moses and Jesus were "prophets for the Israelites sent by Allah as to usher in Islam."
Concerning the Old City, he stated, "There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews invaded in the 1880's. About these so-called two Temples, they never existed, certainly not at the Haram Al- Sharif [Temple Mount].
"The Western wall is the western wall of the Al Aqsa Mosque. It's where Prophet Muhammad tied his animal which took him from Mecca to Jerusalem to receive the revelations of Allah."
Turkish Inspectors Due Next Week
(IsraelNN.com) A team of Turkish experts are set to arrive in Israel next week to inspect the site of the Israel Antiquities Authority dig being carried out near the Rambam (Mughrabi) Gate at the entrance to the Temple Mount.
The dig is being carried out in conjunction with repair work on a broken footbridge leading to the Temple Mount which has caused an uproar in the Muslim world. Islamic clerics contend that the work is damaging the nearby Al Aksa Mosque.
A recent visit by a team of UNESCO inspectors documented the fact that no damage has been caused.
Rav Dahan has in the recent past spoken of something important being uncovered in the area of the Temple Mount.
Let me remind you of something else. Why are they digging there right now??? Because a few years ago, some snow and rain and a small earthquake caused a wall to collapse and the land to slide away on this hill. What is happening here in the capital of the Jewish people? ...right now?? ... today??? Only four days before Rosh Chodesh Nissan 5767???? It has been raining for days! And not just rain, but rain and hail and snow and thunder and lightning and high winds all at the same time!! Water has flooded the streets and sidewalks of hilly Jerusalem. All of this is a very rare event, especially in the month of March! Surely Hashem measures it out until it is just exactly what is needed to bring 'cleansing' to his Most Holy Place. And if a little shake is needed to complete the job the weather has begun, that can be arranged, too!
In addition to the sign of Eisav's impending downfall, will Hashem also give us a sign that we have truly transitioned into the Recollection stage? If, as the Ramchal teaches, this stage is all about revealing what has until now been concealed, what might be uncovered? ...and how might it affect the rest of the world??... and us???
B'ezrat Hashem, on motzaei"sh, I hope to relate some of what has been discussed here to the original subject and prepare to complete its revelation. There is no more time now. The Shabbat Queen is already on her way. The remaining hours until then must be devoted to preparing for her arrival. So many beautiful privileges have been granted to the people that Hashem cherishes!! Enjoy them!!!
Shabbat shalom u'mevorach!!!!!!!
Is Time Running Out?
B"H 26 Adar 5767
Dear Jews! Good Jews! The people beloved by Hashem!
Some people have the idea that this is a new topic and wonder why they haven't heard anything about it until these last moments. This is NOT new!
Rabbi Meir Kahane, ztz"l, Hy"d began warning about the dangers of a rising anti-semitism and rampant assimilation in America in the 1970's (possibly even earlier). In his very last speech in November 1990, he was calling for "EMERGENCY" aliyah of American Jews to Israel. That was 17 years ago!!
Rabbi Pinchas Winston wrote a book in early 2001 (before 9/11) called Not Just Another Scenario. It is his idea, based on the Torah sources he learned, of how the end days might play out. In this story, Jews who waited too long to get out of America are prevented from leaving after a certain point because the Arabs embargo the oil and there is no fuel to fly the planes. Rabbi Winston has spoken all over America and Canada about the need for Jews to come home to Eretz Yisrael.
Beyond all of this are the volumes written by our sages (not even to mention the prophets!), books like the Kuzari and Eim Habanim Semeichah and many more, all testifying to the advisability and desirability of Jews returning to and living in our ancient homeland. If we don't respond from love, then Hashem brings the stick and causes us to respond out of fear.
Yasher koach and B"H that you and your family woke up when you did! Shoshana, this is not a sign that will wake people up, not like 9/11. When (if) the sign appears, it will already be too late for those who yet remain unprepared and ready to leave on very short notice.
This will be a "sign" only to those who are anxiously peering down the "road" of world events looking for the approach of Mashiach Tzidkeynu. They alone will recognize it for what it is. It will hold meaning only for them.
To summarize:
As I stated before, when Eisav goes down, Yisrael arises---this is geulah, people!! I believe that the spiritual energy is moving precisely in that direction---to bring Eisav DOWN. I believe that a certain event will occur which will signal the very end of safety for Jews in America and quite possibly the last opportunity to exit America's borders. This event is what I am referring to when I say "sign."
It involves a person---someone who has been standing all along as a very important sign for the Jewish people, but they have paid it as much heed as they did the words of all our holy prophets.
Dear Jews! Good Jews! The people beloved by Hashem!
Some people have the idea that this is a new topic and wonder why they haven't heard anything about it until these last moments. This is NOT new!
Rabbi Meir Kahane, ztz"l, Hy"d began warning about the dangers of a rising anti-semitism and rampant assimilation in America in the 1970's (possibly even earlier). In his very last speech in November 1990, he was calling for "EMERGENCY" aliyah of American Jews to Israel. That was 17 years ago!!
Rabbi Pinchas Winston wrote a book in early 2001 (before 9/11) called Not Just Another Scenario. It is his idea, based on the Torah sources he learned, of how the end days might play out. In this story, Jews who waited too long to get out of America are prevented from leaving after a certain point because the Arabs embargo the oil and there is no fuel to fly the planes. Rabbi Winston has spoken all over America and Canada about the need for Jews to come home to Eretz Yisrael.
Beyond all of this are the volumes written by our sages (not even to mention the prophets!), books like the Kuzari and Eim Habanim Semeichah and many more, all testifying to the advisability and desirability of Jews returning to and living in our ancient homeland. If we don't respond from love, then Hashem brings the stick and causes us to respond out of fear.
Shoshana said...
...My family made Aliyah last summer like we were running home. Like Avraham Avinu, lech lecha- we left our homes, the place of our parents, our past. My DH and I knew on 9/11 that it was time to go home. We had seen many signs, but did nothing until after then.
It is possible, not so hard (but not so easy either!) and we feel like we won a big battle. ...I am worried our fellow Jews in the USA, and chutz l'aretz, who have absolutely no intent to move here. We are "radical" to them. People consider us nuts.
There are so many signs... so many. why is this sign going to be the clincher- if the others are overlooked?
Stocks are going nuts, due to the decline in the US economy, the UN is already in Israel, the leadership are all upside down and make no sense. Chutzpah is overwhelming. Torah and it's scholars are degraded. There is plenty but the prices are inflated. We could go on... but is this sign going to be so undeniable that all these things will be small in comparison? Will this finally wake people out of their deep slumber?
Yasher koach and B"H that you and your family woke up when you did! Shoshana, this is not a sign that will wake people up, not like 9/11. When (if) the sign appears, it will already be too late for those who yet remain unprepared and ready to leave on very short notice.
This will be a "sign" only to those who are anxiously peering down the "road" of world events looking for the approach of Mashiach Tzidkeynu. They alone will recognize it for what it is. It will hold meaning only for them.
To summarize:
As I stated before, when Eisav goes down, Yisrael arises---this is geulah, people!! I believe that the spiritual energy is moving precisely in that direction---to bring Eisav DOWN. I believe that a certain event will occur which will signal the very end of safety for Jews in America and quite possibly the last opportunity to exit America's borders. This event is what I am referring to when I say "sign."
It involves a person---someone who has been standing all along as a very important sign for the Jewish people, but they have paid it as much heed as they did the words of all our holy prophets.
ANNOUNCEMENT
B"H 25 Adar 5767
I am in the process of writing two or maybe three very important new posts. I am juggling this with my job, but b'ezrat Hashem, I will try to get them finished and up by tonight. Watch for it!
Hershel commented below:
My question is...what's stopping you from bringing them, too?? Surely if the whole family comes, they wouldn't want to remain behind.
The Kumah aliyah website features the following picture from Dec 2004's arrivals:
Sisters Irma Haas, 97 and Hilde Meyer, 94, Holocaust survivors, admire Kumah's "I'm Making Aliyah" pins as they are on the way to finally making their lifelong dream a reality.
I am in the process of writing two or maybe three very important new posts. I am juggling this with my job, but b'ezrat Hashem, I will try to get them finished and up by tonight. Watch for it!
Hershel commented below:
I cannot adequetely begin to convey my yearning to be in Eretz Yisroel. I have the zechus of having one of my children in Yeshivah there and I just visited him 2 months ago. But I have B"H aging parents, ad be'as goel tzedek. They are survivors of Auschwitz, in their 80's(until 120).
They are incapable of making such a journey. How can I leave them???? I'm certain that my wife, children and grandchildren would come. But, again, HOW can I leave my parents to certain doom? Avrohom Ovinu z"l was given a direct command by HKB"H, no hints, no ifs ands or buts. "Lech L"cho". Even if I want to rely on a hint, that STILL doesn't solve the problem of my dear parents. I'm certain that I'm not the only one in this "sandwich" generation with aging parents who survived the Nazis y"shm. How do we deal with this???
My question is...what's stopping you from bringing them, too?? Surely if the whole family comes, they wouldn't want to remain behind.
The Kumah aliyah website features the following picture from Dec 2004's arrivals:
Sisters Irma Haas, 97 and Hilde Meyer, 94, Holocaust survivors, admire Kumah's "I'm Making Aliyah" pins as they are on the way to finally making their lifelong dream a reality.
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