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A message about 5784 from the Rav

This is a translation of a short letter that Rav Eliezer Berland wrote on Elul 25th, 5783 (September 11, 2023).

It appears in Shivivei Or number 327.

There’s a lot more interesting stuff in that newsletter from the last week, and after Yom Kippur I will translate more, God willing.

But I wanted to get this up before the fast begins.

Enjoy!

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Rosh Hashana 5784 (TShPD), the initial letters of: Tahel Shabbat P’dut David, is the most important, and the most special year since the creation of the world.

Because this year is the year of the revelation of Moshiach ben David,

And in this year, each person will merit to have teshuva shleima v’amitit (complete and truthful teshuva).

And in this year, each and every person will merit to rectify each of their blemishes since the sin of Adam HaRishon, and onwards.

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And also, each and every person will merit to complete the whole SHAS,and all 14 volumes of the Rambam, and all four parts of the Shulchan Aruch.

And all the Turim; and all the Yad Ramah; Kesef Mishnah; Lechem Mishnah; Mishnah LeMelech; Maggid Mishnah, and all the SHACH and the TaZ, Magen Avraham, Sem’ah, Chelkat Mechokek, and Beit Shmuel.

And also, all the Zohars, and all of Etz Chaim, and al the Pri Etz Chaim, and the Seraf Etz Chaim, and the Sha’ar HaKavanot.

And the Shemoneh Prakim, and all the Mesillat Yesharim, Orchot Tzaddikim, Sha’arei Teshuva, Pele Yoetz, Kav HaYashar, Menorat HaMeor.

And all the books of the RAMCHAL, and the awesome ARI HaKadosh.

And all the books of Rabbenu HaKadosh v’haNora [the awesome and holy Rebbe Nachman] – all of Likutey Moharan, and all of Likutey Halachot, and all of Sippurei HaMaasiot, and all Shivchey HaRan, and Chayei Moharan.

And all the books of his holy students, and the students of his students.

And we will merit to only study the holy Torah, from now and forever.

With the blessings of the Torah, and with great love,

Eliezer Berland

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DutchSinse has been banned from streaming on Youtube… he’s only managing to put up messages on his comment page now.

He just put up a message saying there are huge, enormous fires all over Canada again – way bigger than what happened a few months ago, around June 7, with that so-called ‘smoke bomb‘ in New York…

We live in interesting times.

But BH, all this is bringing the whole world to a place of finally doing some real, sincere and complete teshuva, and turning back to God.

And if there is one ‘message’ apt for Yom Kippur, 5784, than this is it.

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Living life with emuna

Shavua tov!

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, and a lot of praying, the last couple of days, on how to deal with ‘life in 2023’.

Very  long story short – it boils down to understanding that God is behind absolutely everything, without any exception to that rule.

If God wants my car hacked into, God forbid – then that is what will be.

And so on and so forth, for all the other ‘potentially scary’ stuff going on all around.

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The corollary to this is:

If God doesn’t want something to happen to me – it can’t, no matter how much other people or circumstances may be trying to make that occur.

And as 99% of what happens in this world is a function of our relationship with God, and our ongoing attempt to make teshuva, improve our bad middot, pray, do good deeds, reveal God’s Kingship in the world and learn Torah, etc, the more I put my time and effort into these spiritual endeavors, the better off I will be, on so many levels.

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Tachlis, after spending a day looking at manual transmission old cars, I realised that I can’t just side-step the challenges here, by trying to ‘buy’ my way out of them.

Once I realised that, I moved some pictures of tzaddikim into the new car, and I spent a fair bit of time praying very sincerely that God should keep me, and everyone else using the car and driving the car safe.

And also, everyone else safe on the roads, in whatever way that needs to happen.

I am also having in mind now ‘hackers’, when I say my tefillot haderech, and also saying that prayer with a lot more kavanot.

This approach has cheered me up immensely.

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Something else I realised, is that all this ‘soul hacking’ stuff has been going on since time immemorial – at least since Ancient Egypt, and probably way before.

Just back then, their ‘tech’ was much more spiritual and not as crass as the tech we have to deal with today.

R Avraham Sutton actually wrote a book about all that, called Spiritual Technology.

Point is: while there are some very challenges things going on right now, they are not NEW in the way they appear to be.

I am thinking of that rabbi from the Gemara, who the witches were trying to cast spells on, using the dust they would gather from under his feet.

He said let them gather the dust!! If God doesn’t want their spell to succeed, they can’t harm me!

This is the paradigm I need to be operating out of, going forward – focussing way more on spiritual solutions, and bringing more of the practical teachings of Rabbenu and the Rav, BH.

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I hope you have a good fast.

And we’ll pick things up again next week.

 

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The ‘sweetening’ begins

I just got off the phone with my husband, waiting in some airport in Poland to get back to the Holy Land.

He told me the border crossings today have been brutal.

People standing in the sun for hours and hours, on a fast day, and lots of people fainting.

There are still some massive, ongoing tests of emuna and middot going on, and every single person who went to Uman this year, with maximum mesirut nefesh, has sweetened the harsh decrees for all of us.

Of course, the same people who are still going on about ‘safe and effective’ are EXACTLY the same people still dissing the kibbutz in Uman on Rosh Hashana, and calling the people who went ‘idol worshippers’ and ‘retarded’, amongst many other choice words.

Do the experiment for yourself.

Take a look at who the most vehement ‘anti-Uman’ people are, the worst ‘anti-Rav’ people, and then go and see what they were saying about ‘safe and effective’.

It’s probably not a total 100% match up – but I guarantee, it’s approaching it.

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In the meantime, here’s some good news I got sent, still unverified, but from a trustworthy source:

The Rav said that there is no din.

The pain endured by not getting to Uman will be instead of much pain that the Jewish people were meant to endure this year.

And the war in which all the nations will go against Israel will either not happen, or if it will happen and no Jewish family will get hurt, and there will be an earthquake in Israel like there was in Morocco (which will destroy the enemies of Israel).

The Rav was felt on Rosh Hashanah in Uman and Uman was felt by the Rav in Yerushalayim.

The Rav’s minyan was packed in the kloiz in Uman and the Rav’s minyan was packed in the Olam in Yerushalayim.

We were all together and felt tremendous tikkunim and cancellation of judgements.

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This is the ‘vibe’ I’ve been getting so far about Rosh Hashana, too, even though it seems a little incredible, if I’m honest.

That somehow, stuff got ‘sweetened’ again, and all the evils’ plans are going to some how fall through again, BH – as we’ve seen happen so very many times already, over the last few years.

At least, for the people who are making even in a tiny bit of sincere teshuva, and making some small effort to stay within the circle of the True Tzaddikim – as we saw recently in Essaouia, in Morocco.

For everyone else…. I really don’t know still, how all this is meant to play out.

Mass teshuva at the last minute, once the penny finally drops?

Let’s hope so.

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I will keep you updated as and when I hear more.

But in the meantime, it’s nice to have some ‘good news’ to share here.

Because we are still heading into choppy waters, at least in the short term.

And we still need to make every effort to keep doing our hitbodedut, making our teshuva, saying our Tikkun HaKlalis and paying our tzedaka, to get the evil decrees to carry on evaporating.

At least, in our own little corner of the world.

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A good Rosh Hashana

Shana Tova v’metuka!

We are now officially ‘on the other side’ of Rosh Hashana 5784, and it seems to me, there will be a lot more sweetness this year then it currently still appears.

There’s a Breslov custom to do vidui on the eve of Rosh Hashana, at the grave of a real Tzaddik, where you go through as much stuff you can remember from the past year, and try to atone for it, before Rosh Hashana begins.

If you’re in Uman – you do that by Rabbenu.

But here in Jerusalem, a lot of the Rav’s people – the wives and kids and others who didn’t make it out to Uman – go to the grave of Shimon HaTzaddik.

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It’s been the minhag for me and my kids to go to Shimon HaTzaddik for a few years now, so Friday morning, we all piled in the car and headed out to Sheikh Jarrah.

Rav Natan Sternhertz, Rebbe Nachman’s main student, actually wrote a book where he set out many of the ‘sins’, alphabetically, to go through.

A lot of that book is geared more towards men, but it’s still a great ‘jumping off’ point, and I find every year that God draws my attention to some other part of the text, where I suddenly remember what a cack job I did in that area, the last 12 months.

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In previous years, some of my kids have been more, and less, into doing vidui at Shimon HaTzaddik.

One year, one of them even skipped it, and that led to yet more ‘avodat hamiddot’ for me, right before Chag, to try not to judge them to harshly, or feel aggrieved and upset about them exercising their God-given right to free choice.

It’s their life, after all, and they will have to abide by the consequences of their decisions.

But this year, I have to say it was a very uplifting, emotional experience for all of us.

By the end, all of us were crying a bit, realising just how flawed we actually are, and how much patience and love and compassion God continues to show us, year after year, when He gives us yet another chance to do a bit better, and to fix a bit more.

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Then the Rosh Hashana whirl-wind descended.

I was having the family of one of my kid’s friends come stay for two days, while the father was also in Uman.

They have a sweet 9 year with Downs Syndrome – and he needs a lot of love and attention.

Let me just pause now, and salute all those parents with Downs kids, and kids with autism, and all the other conditions that require so much constant care and attention from the parents.

By the end of chag, I was so impressed with the mother – and also the rest of the family – and very humbled by the amount of grumbling and whining I’ve done done the years about my own parenting pressures.

But the kid, the naughty, sweet kid, brought so much light into the home over the chag.

It’s hard to describe this properly, but if you’ve ever spent time with a child with Downs in a relaxed environment, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.

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So on the one hand, I went into chag totally consumed by ‘here and now’ issues of making sure beds were made, and food was ready, and cakes were made.

(Boy, were cakes ever made. We were six adult women in the end, and everyone made at least two cakes…. It was the ‘sweetest’ Rosh Hashana I ever had.)

And on the other hand, I went into chag feeling pretty sad that the Rav hadn’t got to Uman, and that there is talk of wars and big earthquakes hitting Eretz Yisrael – I will give more details of this when I get the Rav’s actual words to read, and then BH I will translate what was said.

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Miraculously, I got ready in time for someone to drop me off at the Rav, on Ido HaNavi, for Friday night.

I hadn’t expected to go, so it made things even more of a ‘rush’ than usual, and the first five minutes, I have to admit I just felt a lot of sadness.

It felt like the ‘bad’ had won out, yet again.

But then I clapped a bit with the Rav… sang a big…. jumped a bit with the crowd of mostly women and very, very few men there.

And I started to cheer up.

The Rav himself looked radiant – mamash like he hadn’t just spent the last week travelling all over Eastern Europe, trying to pass through the border to Ukraine – and the vibe in the crowd was actually very joyful.

Some calm descended inside my turbulent soul, and I went back home in a much better mood than I came out.

God is deciding all this,  I reminded myself.

And God is doing everything for the best – including for the very best for Am Yisrael.

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Before Chag, I’d had a chat with my husband.

He went to Uman via Kerestir, in Hungary, and then the Baal Shem Tov – and he was travelling more than 32 hours, before he actually got there.

After what happened with the foot, the leg, the back, last year, we were both pretty nervous ahead of time that all the travelling could cause more problems, God forbid.

But he told me, he was doing fine, thank God, and that Uman was the busiest he’d ever seen it.

(Official figures say 47,000 men got to Uman this year…. and it’s probably still underestimating the total by a lot. Crazy – in a very good way.)

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Meanwhile, all the usual cr*ppy disinformation sites – including Daniel Amram’s Telegram channel, which I’ve come to the conclusion has turned into more ‘controlled opposition’ at this point – were running scare stories trying to make it sound like something awful was going on in Uman.

There are huge tailbacks at the borders!!!!

(Obviously, these people never shopped at Rami Levi, if they think that’s news.)

There are huge amounts of trash being left on the pavements in Uman!!!

(Like you’d get at any venue or ‘festival’ when tens of thousands of people are there – and that’s the excuse the Ukrainians use for squeezing a ‘tourist tax’ out of every visitor to Uman on Rosh Hashanah….)

A Ukrainian policeman is beating up Jews with a baton, for breaking the curfew!!!!

(And here? Why, policemen beat up Jews with batons all the time – and they don’t even need a pretext.)

But the bottom line is this:

Uman was awesome this year.

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All the travellers’ mesirut nefesh, time, effort and money is fixing things for all of us.

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Back in Jerusalem, I went back to the prayers on Ido HaNavi Shabbat morning, when there was no shofar to hear in any case, so it didn’t matter that I was sitting outside, half-way up some crowded alley.

I did my Shmoneh Esrei…. I did my Mussaf…. and the prayers really spoke to me this  year.

There was so much stuff in there about the ‘fake malchut‘ hatching conspiracies to destroy the Jews and entice them to serve idols, to tear them away from God.

But how in the end, God’s dominion will be clearly and openly revealed, and the kavod of Hashem will spread out to all corners of the earth… 

It gave me so much chizzuk.

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In the meantime, the ‘quiet space’ that I’d tried to carve out for myself to recite Mussaf turned into another test of middot.

Five seconds after I started praying,  a woman with an enormous stroller and five small kids showed up, and arranged her kids’ little plastic chairs in a semi-circle with me in the middle of it.

“And so, instill Your awe, O Hashem our God, within all Your works…”

(Duvey, give Chana the Bamba. Duvey! Come back and give Chana her Bamba!!)

“And so, grant honor, O Hashem, to Your people…”

(Ima, I really need the bathroom….Can you wait a little, chamood?….No, Ima, I need NOW!!!)

“Holy are You, and awesome is Your name.”

(At this point, one of the kids steals the small fold-up chair I’d brought with me to sit on, and I had a massive battle with myself to carry on talking to God, doing the Mussaf of Rosh Hashana, and not just dropping everything to chase my chair down the street.)

“You have chosen us from all the peoples…”

(Does this belong to anyone? Does this jar belong to anyone?) – from the corner of my eye, I could see it was my jar of kombucha, that I’d brought with me from home. Some toddler had ‘found it’ where I’d stashed it under my now missing chair, while I prayed.)

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Tov.

I decided to just try and ignore everything and everyone, and to accept God’s dominion in my life, at least for the next few minutes.

If God wants me to have the chair, I’ll have it.

If He wants me to drink kombucha before the long walk home, I’ll drink it.

If He wants me to keep getting bashed by strollers, my feet trod on by small kids, and continually elbowed by a teen praying and swaying so enthusiastically she doesn’t even feel what’s going on here – fine by me!

When I was done, I found my chair two feet away, and the kombucha had survived it’s mugging as well.

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On the way back home, I was pondering on why the prayers at the Rav so often hit buttons that can lead to some very bad middot surfacing.

But it came to me pretty fast, that this is the whole work to do down here.

We can’t ‘disconnect’ our prayers on Rosh Hashana from our real experiences and reactions as people.

And at the Rav, the two things go firmly hand-in-hand, giving you a clear picture of where you are really holding.

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The next day, I went to hear the shofar blowing at the Sephardi shul up the road.

It was much ‘calmer’ – but in many ways, a little ucky.

One of the main old guys singing the prayers in turn lives with a xtian Phillipino woman, and has a child with her.

He dresses chareidi, but doesn’t keep Shabbat or kosher….

I had a real fight on my hands the whole time, to not keep judging him harshly for being a disgusting hypocrite.

As soon as I heard the Shofar (enough….) I got out of there and came back home, before the urge to ‘judge harshly’ totally overwhelmed me.

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After Chag, my husband told me he’d had the best Rosh Hashana ever, over there in Uman.

I felt the same way, about my Rosh Hashana in Jerusalem.

In my home, where it really counts, there were no arguments this year, no ‘tension’, no eruptions, no harsh words.

And my house was literally packed to the rafters with people (and cake….)

BH, all of Am Yisrael will have a good 5784.

And all the ‘evils’ plans to harm the good people of the world will unravel, and come to naught.

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The Lamed Vav Tzaddikim

There are 36, and some say 72, ‘secret Tzaddikim’ in whose merit the whole world continues to stand.

This isn’t ‘happy clappy’ Breslov.

It’s not even ‘chassidut’.

It’s straight Gemara.

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Sanhedrin 97b; Succah 45b:

There are no fewer than 36 righteous people in the world who greet the Shekhinah in each generation.

Although as mentioned, the precise number of these ‘hidden tzaddikim’ is disputed in the Gemara.

From Chullin 92a:

“A homer of barley, and a letech of barley” (Hosea 3:2) – [this refers to] 45 righteous who cause the world to be sustained …

30 in the land of Israel and 15 here [in Babylonia]. 

Abaye said: And most of them can be found in the synagogue, under the upper room [i.e. among the unhonored masses].

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The Baal Shem Tov is also meant to have said this about the 36 hidden tzaddikim sustaining the world:

“Just as there are 36 hidden tzaddikim, there are 36 revealed tzaddikim.”

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Point is, while the details and numbers are disputed, the fact these hidden Tzaddikim exist, and that the world is sustained in their merit, it not up for argument.

One of the commentators here made the classic ‘Korach’ argument that essentially ‘all Am Yisrael are holy’, and they don’t need ‘Tzaddikim’ exalted above them.

On the one hand – Korach was totally correct, that all of Am Yisrael is indeed holy of holies.

We aren’t xtians, were one guy shows up and ‘fixes’ everything and everyone else all by himself, like some sort of ‘mini-eloke’, walking around in a human body.

But on the other hand…. we can’t do it all by ourselves, and there are, and always have been, elevated Tzaddikim in our midst, whose prayers reach those areas the rest of us just can’t quite get to.

And if we don’t recognise that this is an integral part of authentic yiddishkeit, then the ground will probably open all round us…. And you already know how that story ends.

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So far so good?

Great, let’s continue laying things out a bit more clearly here.

While no-one knows ‘for sure’ who these ‘Lamed Vav’ Tzaddikim are, they are aware of each other’s identities.

And usually, after they pass on, they are revealed as being one of the ‘Lamed Vav’ Tzaddikim – because to be revealed openly in their lifetimes can cause them a lot of spiritual problems, and can even result in their death, God forbid.

So now, this message from a ‘Lamed Vav’ is from 2017 – Rav Elazar Mordechai Menzer, the Lamed Vav in question, passed away a few months after delivering this:

Here’s what Rav Menser wrote in the letter:

“On Thursday night, before dawn, at 4.29am, after I’d finished davening ma’ariv, with the niggunim and the nusach of the holy days, I received permission from Heaven to reveal what I’m about to tell you.

“On the eve of the 17th Tevet, the yahrtzeit of the famous Tzaddik of the previous generation, who would be visited by many of the Tzaddikim of the previous generation at his home, the Rav Ezra Prachia Cohen, ztl, the father of Rabbenu, the Rav Chaim Cohen, shlita, the Milkman, the Tzaddik foundation of the world…

“Rav Ezra, ztl, came down on the day of his yahrtzeit and told his son, the Tzaddik, foundation of the world, shlita, ‘My son! My son! My son! Who is so dear to me and to the Creator of the worlds. I request from you very much, come with me Upstairs to Gan Eden. They have prepared a place for you there which is very good. Why stay here? [I.e., in this world.] Now that the holy Shechina and all of the Tzaddikim together with her are crying, when they see the lowliness of this generation?’”

Rav Menser continues: “After he said this, he then went on to speak at length about the zealots in the community, whose ‘loftiness in their mouths, and who hold a double-edged sword in their hands.’

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[Rav Ezra] then continued and said the following to his son:

“You are also being slandered, and also the other true Tzaddikim of the generation [are being slandered], and also the Tzaddik, foundation of the world, Rav Eliezer Berland, shlita, who fled into exile [is being slandered], and no-one paid any attention.

“I REQUEST FROM YOU [MY SON], THAT YOU HAVE MERCY ON ME. FROM ABOVE, I’M UNABLE TO CONTINUE WATCHING YOUR SUFFERING, AND THE SUFFERING OF THE REST OF THE PERSECUTED TZADDIKIM, WHO ARE BEING TRAMPLED ON. AND THE GEDOLEI YISRAEL WHO DON’T FOLLOW IN THE PATH OF THESE PERSECUTORS, THEY ARE ALSO BEING PERSECUTED.

“The Shechina and the Tzaddikim above, in Heaven, are crying and are suffering [from this]. Only the Satan and the accusors are happy and dancing about the fact that they’re besting the Shechina and the Tzaddikim above, whilst also lengthening this terrible, bitter exile.”

Rav Menser continues: “[Rav Ezra] then continued to speak about different matters, and in the end he concluded by saying: ‘More than this, I don’t have permission to reveal to you now.’”

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This article is six years old…. but it’s still as pertinent as ever, for what is going on today, in 2023, Erev Rosh Hashana 5784.

It continues:

A little while after this occurred, Nachman Salmonovitch from Shuvu Banim was visiting the Tzaddik Rav Menser, shlita, who permitted him to publicize the content of this letter, and also added the following astounding message:

“You should know, that all of this persecution [of Rav Berland] is born out of jealousy. I have no doubt that if these persecutors would have been living in the generation of Rabbenu HaKadosh, Rebbe Nachman, that they would have also been persecuting him….

R’ Salmonovitch explains: “It’s known that Rav Menser, shlita, only says the words that Hashem puts into his mouth, when people ask him questions. At 2am that morning, he told me that he’d just received another message from Heaven, and that I should give it over in his name. The message from Rav Menser was as follows:

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‘They don’t punish a person unless he’s first been warned, therefore I’m now warning you.

Tosfot in Masechet Sotah [which quotes Rabbi Yochanon, who brings the words from Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai] says that: ‘It’s better for a person to throw himself into a fiery furnace, than to embarrass his friend in public.’ And also Rabbenu Yonah [writing in Shaarei Teshuva, the Third Gate, 139, where he explains that we’re speaking about the ‘dust’ of murder, because the person who shames another causes the red blood to drain from the face of the person he embarrassed] – explains that one who embarrasses another in public, it’s like one of the three cardinal sins that a person should rather die than transgress.

(The three cardinal sins are murder, sexual profanity and idol worship.)

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‘From now on, anyone who opens his mouth against Rav Berland, shlita, he’s considered to be a deliberate transgressor, and he should know that he’s playing with fire.

And he fulfills the words of the following verse in Pirkei Avot that states:

Warm yourself beside the fire of the Sages, but beware of their glowing coals, lest you be burnt. For their bite is the bite of a fox, their sting is the sting of a scorpion, their hiss is the hiss of a serpent, and all their words are like coals of fire.

‘Also, a person who only thinks bad thoughts against Rav Berland, shlita, should know that these thoughts are considered to be idol worship, and that he needs to use all of his strength to expel these thoughts [from his mind].

‘WHOEVER HAS ALREADY SPOKEN AGAINST RAV BERLAND, SHLITA, HAS NO REMEDY, EXCEPT TO GO TO TWO TRUSTWORTHY JEWS, AND TO TELL THEM THAT HE TAKES IT UPON HIMSELF THAT WHEN THE RAV, SHLITA, IS RELEASED, BH, HE WILL GO TO HIM TO APPEASE HIM, UNTIL HE HEARS FROM HIM [RAV BERLAND] THAT HE’S BEEN FORGIVEN.’

R’ Salmonovitch concludes: “This is what the holy Tzaddik Rav Elazar Mordechai Menser, shlita, told me.”

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To spell this out: the real ‘Lamed Vav’ tzaddikim in the world already know who Rav Eliezer Berland really is, and how holy he really is.

‘Pure’ makes ‘pure’ – which is why the followers of a truly sincere, God-fearing ‘rabbi’ and influencer, even if they don’t know themselves 100% what is going on, they take the steer from their own Rav, on what to think  about what is going on ‘about the Rav’.

Simply connecting to someone ‘pure’ can make ‘pure’ – especially in areas as convoluted and deliberately distorted as this.

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To spell this out even more – the people who are ‘against’ the Rav are totally disconnected from truly sincere, God-fearing leaders and influencers, and for sure aren’t connected to a truly holy ‘Lamed Vav’ – or anything approaching it.

Not knowing is not a sin.

It’s very hard to ‘know what’s true’, especially in our world of lies, especially about the Rav.

But when you don’t really ‘know’ anything other than what you read on government propaganda sites like A7 and YWN, but you still feel free to shoot your mouth off about things you truly know nothing about, and even to go so far as to slander very holy people like Rebbe Nachman and the Rav…. then you have a lot of teshuva to make.

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LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE.

It always has, it always will.

Think about this carefully.

Rav Berland is Holy of Holies, mamash.

If you read OIAG 1, 2 and 3, you will find tens of direct quotes from known holy tzaddikim – many of whom have no passed on – clearly and unequivocably pointing this out.

And there are still some ‘hidden tzaddikim’ saying the same things today, in ways that are not so hidden, for the people who have enough zchut to catch their not-so-subtle hints and clues about what is really going on.

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Remember, we aren’t xtians.

We don’t believe some ‘rebbe’ is the physical incarnation of an elok on earth, God forbid, who fixes everything hey presto, while we sit and polish some buttons.

But also remember, we aren’t Korach, who says that we don’t need a Tzaddik HaDor, and that ‘all the nation is holy’, and can do it without any pesky Moshe Rabbenu, and his 40 day fasts, and his tremendous prayer-a-thons to prevent the Jewish people from being totally annihilated….

It’s a very narrow bridge.

And the cost of falling off it, on either side, is going up all the time now – and will continue to do so, the closer we get to geula.

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Am Yisrael is currently facing a lot of danger – and also the world generally.

As I type this, they are bringing back ‘shots’ in Israel after Sukkot… apparently.

The war drums are going up again – but who knows if the ‘war’ is going to be waged via loaded syringes, or fake alien invasions, or the more standard ‘Iran has a nuke’ – I have no idea.

But one thing I can tell you:

Only the people who were following Moshe Rabbenu got out of Egypt.

And the rest didn’t.

So, give some careful thought to who that ‘Moshe Rabbenu’ of our lowly, pathetic generation actually is.

And then beg God to make sure you got the right answer.

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The Rav is refused entry to Uman

I heard this privately, but now it’s also up on A7, so I guess the ‘secret’ is out.

HERE is the news story on the propaganda site called Arutz 7.

It’s not the news we wanted to hear, but what I can tell you is that this is probably the last slap in the face these people get to aim at the Tzaddik HaDor.

Now…. it’s going to be interesting.

Remember, staying close to the True Tzaddikim, working on our bad middot, LEARNING TORAH LISHMA, and not just to get kavod, money or influence, sincere teshuva and tzedaka all cancels the evil decrees.

God knows 100% what needs to be happening right now, there is nothing to fear except Hashem.

And from here on in, BH, God is really going to start showing the evils in the world Who is really the ba’al ha’bayit here.

And it’s not them.

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I will update more when and if I hear more.

B’sorot tovot.

 

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HaYom HaGadol

This is an old song by Binny Landau, but the words seem very appropriate for now.

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HaYom HaGadol – look, it’s coming!…

And Hashem’s honor will be revealed in the world.

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While I was looking for this song, this flashed up from Dutchsinse, from about an hour ago:

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Here’s what he’s saying:

I’ve been blocked from commenting on youtube fully (greyed out not allowed to comment or reply to anyone), on all accounts and sub accounts. Browser and computer don’t matter, even blocked on the youtube app too. This is very serious.

So it would appear something big is going down (about to go down). Just letting you know. It doesn’t show signs of stopping, and I brought some corn for popping……

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I’ve been following him for a few years, he’s usually right about most things.

Could be another massive quake is about to hit….somewhere.

The weather in Jerusalem is super weird – that same chemtrail induced ‘cloud coverage’ we’ve seen in past months, when they are about to launch some other new ‘drama’ for us all to deal with…

All the cars are covered with the ‘mud rain’ that if I could be bothered to check, would probably mostly stick to any magnet you care to run over it.

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I am still waiting to hear if the Rav has been let in to Uman.

God willing it will happen, maybe even last minute, because I have to admit to feeling a little scared about what will be, otherwise.

Big things going on in the world all over….

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But the merit of the True Tzaddikim can save the people who are trying to stick close to them!

Here’s what a friend just sent me, in connection with the earthquake that hit Marrakesh:

🌟*The miracle of the earthquake in Morocco*🌟

The first Google photo shows the extent of the impact of the earthquake. By magnifying this, you will notice a strip of land in untouched Essaouira.

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The 2nd photo is the zoom of this strip of land The 3rd photo is a *precise* zoom of this area which represents 1km2 and indicates 💢the end of the impact zone in red

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Then the location of 💢*the house of the Tsadik* Rabbi Haim Pinto,

💢*The grave* of Tsadik Rabbi Haim Pinto

💢*The tent* where we were nearly 2300 people dancing and praying for the Shabbat of Hiloula 🔥*H…., By the Zchout of the Tsadik and the fraternal Union that we had at that time, created a barrier to nature to protect us* 🔥

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Well, talk about a clear example of how staying close to the True Tzaddikim saves us from the ‘shaking of the world’….

In Sichos HaRan (translated into English as ‘Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom’, by the Breslov Research Institute), Rebbe Nachman tells us the following:

“It’s written about the time of Moshiach (Job 38:13): ‘To grasp the ends of the earth and shake the wicked from it’. However, one who comes close to a true Tzaddik, [he] can grab hold of him, and not be cast off.

When we hold on to the Tzaddik, we can stay firm.”

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If you haven’t done your pidyon nefesh ahead of Rosh Hashana yet, go HERE to do it on the Shuvu website in Hebrew, or HERE for English.

I’ll update if I hear anything else in the meantime….

And may we just hear good news.

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Kilauea erupts again, and spiritual ‘insurance’

First, Kilauea in Hawaii has started erupting again, massively.

You can see a live stream of the lava here – it’s the Kilauea crater vent camera:

https://www.youtube.com/@DoingHawaii/live

This is a screenshot from around 8.30am Israel time:

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Second, on one of the 3 Telegram channels I still check in with, someone put up this video of them magnifying a 100 Euro bank note under a microscope:

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It appears to show the 100 EURO note is crawling with spaceships and ‘alien-demon’ figures.

Yah, that ‘fake alien invasion’ has been in the pipes for a very long time, and double yah – we are living in a world of allusion, where 99% of the ‘news’ is actually just brainwashing baloney to divide and control the general public.

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Third, related to the sentence above, is this from the Uncensored Israel Telegram channel, from Bezalal Smotrich:

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Whoever controls the army, controls the State.

So now the question is: who is controlling the army?

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Four: spiritual insurance for the coming year – do a pidyon nefesh ahead of Rosh Hashana and / or kaparot before Yom Kippur with a real Tzaddik, not just a rabbinic faker.

HERE is where you can do that with Shuvu Banim.

BTW, just to make it clear, I have never recieved so much as a penny from Shuvu Banim, I don’t write these things as some ‘influencer’ on a commission, and I also give a lot of my money to Shuvu Banim, because I get brachot from doing that.

My husband is off soon to Uman, and we’re both a little nervous about that.

Yesterday, we gave quite a large amount of tzedaka as a ‘pidyon’ to a Shuvu Banim cause, at least, tagged as a ‘pidyon’ in our own minds, as the Rav is now forbidden by the courts here from receiving any donations personally, or having anything to do with ‘money’.

That, together with saying the Rav’s prayers to go and come back safely to Uman is our histadlut for the trip.

Whatever happens next – we did our bit.

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And for anyone thinking ‘but why go to a war zone just because Rebbe Nachman said to be by his grave on Rosh Hashana’….

A few days ago, two people got stabbed by a terrorist barely 10 minutes walk away.

Every day here – and also, WHERE YOU LIVE – people are dying in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways.

We don’t control the world – God does.

And whatever He decides, that’s what will be.

It’s the same argument you get from people who tell you should work on Shabbos, because otherwise how will you make enough money, and you should definitely skip paying 10% of your income to tzedaka (minimum…) because otherwise, how will you pay all your bills?!?!

All totally rational arguments that make a lot of sense.

But still completely and utterly wrong.

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I am waiting for the update as to whether the Rav has made it into Uman yet, BH.

As soon as I hear, I will let you know.

But in the meantime, I’m not planning on posting much else before the chag begins, baring an update on what’s happening in Uman.

So, I bless everyone with a sweet, healthy, holy, happy New Year, and may we all be signed in the book of life.

Amen.

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UPDATE:

This is a brand new, short video from Rav Ofer Erez, from his BRESLEVTUBE website, explaining the importance of doing a pidyon nefesh before Rosh Hashana:

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More quakes on the way

The last couple of weeks, Rav Berland has been talking about an earthquake hitting Israel.

In particular, the Haifa area, near the ‘Stella Maris’ Monastery, where the xtian church took over the grave of Elisha the prophet and have been barring access to frum Jews in recent months.

Speaking a couple of weeks ago, the Rav made a comment that there will be an earthquake after Rosh Hashana.

Then he segued back into what he’s said in the past, that we are totally forbidden from touching any churches and mosques.

The implication appearing to be that God will make them fall down, all by themselves, without any help from people.

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At this stage of the game, the Rav is pretty much the only person I pay attention to, when it comes to ‘predictions’.

He was talking about earthquakes in the same manner a few weeks before that massive quake hit Turkey, back on February 6 – which was ‘meant’ for Israel, but got moved a few hundred miles to Ankara instead.

Ankara was one of the main centres of so-called ‘Pauline xtianity’, where the Torah got trashed and villified, and the Jews cast as the permanent ‘villain’ in the whole made-up religion concocted by the Romans to turn the Jewish urge for Moshiach and geula permanently against them.

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Yesterday, it was Morocco’s turn.

With the epicentre close to Marrakesh.

The Jews of Morocco had it better than many other countries, in many ways – but there was still tremendous discrimination, violence and anti-semitism in Morocco.

My father’s family is from there, and it seems my grandfather, who was a shochet, was murdered by his Arab ‘helpers’ who wanted to steal his kosher stamps.

He was bundled out the back of a moving car and died a couple of days later.

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So on the one hand, there is tremendous loss of life occurring in Morocco now, and that is always sobering and upsetting.

But at the same time, to not lose sight of the fact that nothing happens ‘for nothing’, and that Hashem is the Cause of all Causes.

And it seems that Hashem is starting to pay down some of those ‘old debts’ accumulated over the centuries, and the old mosques and churches are bearing the brunt:

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One more thing that comes to mind about Morocco.

My brother in the States told me last week that he was looking into doing a ‘Sukkot program’ in Morocco this year with his family.

Since Morocco normalised ties with the State of Israel last year, it seems that ‘Jewish tourism’ is going through the roof there, in so many ways.

But if you track the most popular destinations for Israeli tourists – which includes places like Turkey, Greece and now Morocco – you’ll see that all of these places are being hit with absolutely devastating natural disasters.

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And then we have Uman.

These days, Uman has also been ‘closed down’ as a ‘stam holiday’ destination.

Today, it’s returned to being a place you go for sincere reasons based on fulfilling the words of a true Tzaddik, who requested his followers to be by his grave for Rosh Hashana, for exalted spiritual reasons that most of us are a million miles away from ever really grasping a tiny part of.

But what’s amazing, is that I heard on the grapevine that this year, they are expecting 50,000 people for Rosh Hashana.

That’s double the 27,000 that made it out last year, almost exclusively from Eretz Yisrael.

And it made me very happy to hear that so many people are overcoming their fears to go and be by Rabbenu for Rosh Hashana 5784.

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Stuff is definitely starting to move in the world.

Remember, what Rabbenu taught us about how to survive the ‘shaking of the world’:

In Sichos HaRan (translated into English as ‘Rebbe Nachman’s Wisdom’, by the Breslov Research Institute), Rebbe Nachman tells us the following:

“It’s written about the time of Moshiach (Job 38:13): ‘To grasp the ends of the earth and shake the wicked from it’. However, one who comes close to a true Tzaddik, [he] can grab hold of him, and not be cast off. When we hold on to the Tzaddik, we can stay firm.”

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I live very close to the fault line that runs through Jerusalem, that is meant to ‘cleave’ Har Zeitim in two, when geula really starts to happen.

That’s kind of disconcerting.

So, I am doing my best to stay ‘grabbing on’ to a true Tzaddik, while the world continues to shake all around us.

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On that note, one more thing:

If you haven’t already, consider doing a pre Rosh Hashana ‘pidyon nefesh’.

Here is Rav Ofer Erez, with English subtitles, from 2017, explaining more about that:

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I’m sure he’s doing a pidyon in Uman before Rosh Hashana this year too – HERE is his website:

Or, you can do it with Shuvu Banim, HERE.

Give whatever you can afford, it doesn’t have to be the suggested amount (although clearly, if you are feeling like you are under a lot of harsh judgements, donating 5p as a pidyon is not going to do much to sweeten that…. it’s our ‘money’ instead of our ‘blood’.)

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And may we just hear good news.

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PS: I had an email from one of my C**N watching readers last week that they had turned back on, and things were going crazy in the world again.

That same day, I had another email from another reader telling me they’ve noticed an uptick in people dropping dead from heart attacks again….

Maybe, all this is just a CO-IN-CID-ENCE.

But maybe it isn’t.

Either way, God is behind it all, and He for sure wants our sincere teshuva heading into 5784.

It’s going to be a big year.

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Virtual reality

I had a couple of days off and went ‘kever hopping’ with a friend in Tsfat.

Tsfat is such a strange place, for so many reasons.

Now I am understanding way more of the real history of Tsfat – and the people who lived there – I am picking up a much heavier ‘vibe’ there, especially in the Old City.

What I used to think was just ‘peaceful Tsfat-y zoned-out-ness’, I would now characterise as deep, deep spiritual despair – despair that has been gathering there for centuries.

There is a deep sadness settled into the bones of Tsfat, and you especially feel that, and also the ‘heaviness’ of all the kabbalah that’s been practised there, especially by the practical-kabbalists-cum-sorcerers.

On every wall, billboard and ‘back-of-street-sign’ in the Old City of Tsfat you find massive pictures of the Rebbe staring back at you, informing you that ‘Moshiach has already come’….

And his portrait even pops up on the walls of the bakeries.there.

At this stage, I really don’t like it.

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But the Ari, and many other truly righteous Tzaddikim, are still buried in the ancient graveyard there.

So there are still many reasons to visit… and many clues to pick up.

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BH, we will return to the subject of ‘clues picked up in Tsfat’ shortly.

In the meantime, I got home yesterday night and decided to throw out 80% of the ‘family trees’ I’ve been working on over the last three years.

Why?

Firstly, because I have come to understand that most of the people we’re taught about in ‘official history’ either didn’t exist with the names we are told they had, or existed as ‘composite characters’ with multiple names and multiple functions – many of them totally contradictory.

For years, I’ve had those scrolls of fake family trees collecting dust in a suitcase under the bed, and yesterday, I got the koach to throw them out, and turn the page, somehow.

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The other 20% are the more recent ones, where real people and real names are coming into view.

Those I’m still working on, at least for now.

The second reason I threw them away is because I am feeling so much like I want and need a new start at the moment.

It’s Elul, it’s Rosh Hashana, the ‘new start’ is in the air and around the corner, in some way.

BH, there will be a way more fundamental ‘new start’ happening soon, in a good way, as the geula process steps up another level.

One of the commentators sent in a link to this video, in Hebrew, where some of the hidden tzaddikim are saying this is ‘the last Rosh Hashana’.

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I haven’t heard of these particular rabbis before, so I’m not vouching for what they are saying.

But this time around, I’d already heard something similar from a source that’s usually (but not always 100%) more on the button.

And that source was also talking about a big earthquake hitting at least parts of Eretz Yisrael after Rosh Hashana, 5784 – and particularly affecting the churches and mosques.

We’ll see.

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In the meantime, there are also rumours of a ‘big revelation’ from the other side – possibly another ‘false moshiach’ – being geared up soon.

I am not speculating on what all this means, just putting it out there that it’s imperative to keep talking to God every day in your own words, and to keep asking Him to show us what is true, because we are coming down to the wire in this battle between ‘truth’ and ‘falsehood’ now, and we all know that evil kicks the hardest, when it’s about to be totally taken out of the picture.

So, hold strong!

Remember Rav Natan’s test of real ‘truth’ – is it bringing you closer to Hashem and at least respecting His Torah, or pushing you further away?

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Let’s end with a clip of what happened at the end of a recent Lana Del Rey concert in Mexico, that my daughter sent me because it reminded her strongly of another weird ‘collapse of people’ that happened in Israel a couple of years ago:

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The net is buzzing that all this happened due to ‘demonic spirits’.

 It’s definitely demonic.

But the answer to what is going on there is to be found in deep physics…. practised by demonically-scientists.

Keep your eyes open!

But don’t fear anyone or anything except Hashem.

Ultimately, the only test to past here is one of emuna.

And the way to get the passing grade on that test is just to keep ‘seeing Hashem’ behind absolutely everyone, and absolutely everything.

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PS: I just found a very interesting article, entitled Chabad’s Lost Messiah, that you can read HERE.

Snippet:

Unlike the rebbes who preceded him, Menachem Mendel was not content simply to foster vague messianic hopes among his followers. On the contrary, he outlined a detailed metaphysical plan, based on kabbalistic ideas, for hastening the redemption.17 As scholar of Chabad Hasidism Alon Dahan has maintained, the Rebbe’s was a “radically apocalyptic” messianism, one that viewed:
the linear and historical progression of time as a continuum of mostly tragic events, whose significance could be perceived if and only if they were interpreted according to the concept of the “dwelling below” [dira batahtonim, a mystical term that describes the infusion of the material world with the divine]. The messianic end grants these tragedies and catastrophes—and the Holocaust in particular—an optimistic dimension.18
The Rebbe therefore continued on the path paved by his predecessor, who declared redemption to be just around the corner. All that was left to discern, then, was the identity of the long-awaited messiah.

In other words, the question was not when, but who.

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Lots to think about in that article, especially in light of more of the real facts on the ground we have been uncovering here, about who was really trying to ‘force redemption’ by re-settling Eretz Yisrael….

TBC

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