Beware the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

4 Nisan 5785 

The Last Bastion Has Been Infiltrated!

‘Our shared nation is under attack’: A Haredi rabbi explains how to draft the ultra-Orthodox

A new IDF combat platoon lets religious women join the fight while keeping the faith

IDF General Admits: “Army Did Not Meet Its Commitments To Chareidim”

The Jewish Faith is Under Attack! - Rabbi Tovia Singer

In A First, Hagaon HaRav Dov Landau Publicly Issues Clear Guidelines To Bnei Yeshivos

"Hostage Forum Take-Over"

3 Nisan 5785 

Hostage Forum Take-Over
Rabbi Richter

"From Darkness Into Light"

1 Nisan 5785
Rosh Chodesh

Excerpted from The Book of Our Heritage by Eliyahu Kitov (Vol 2, p. 467)... 

One who experiences redemption has emerged from darkness into light.  One who has never suffered the oppression of bondage, will not appreciate redemption.  The very essence of redemption is the freedom which has its source in the bondage itself.  Had Israel not been enslaved, they would never have experienced true freedom.  Once they were enslaved, that very enslavement gave rise to their redemption.  From the midst of that darkness - and from nowhere else - light burst forth.  Our Sages taught:  Israel said to God, "Master of the Universe, when will You redeem us?"  God answered:  "When you descend to the lowest level - at that moment I shall redeem you."

The First Commandment: Sanctify the New Moon!

28 Adar 5785
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Pekudei - HaChodesh

From the Stone Edition Chumash Commentary:

Sforno comments that the Tabernacle and its individual parts were of such awesome holiness that they survived intact through time and wars.  Unlike the two Temples that were sacked and destroyed, Moses' Tabernacle remained intact and was never captured or desecrated.  The four reasons for this are alluded to in the first two verses:  (a) It was the Tabernacle of Testimony, where the Tablets, the symbols of God's communion with Israel, were deposited; (b) it was built at Moses' bidding, thus benefiting from his personal majesty; (c) the service of the Levites [who had proven their greatness by their loyal response to Moses after the catastrophe of the Golden Calf] and all the components of the Tabernacle were under the charge of Issamar, a man of great stature; and (d) those who led the work, as represented by Bezalel, were men of distinguished lineage and outstanding righteousness.  Because of all these factors, Sforno explains, the Tabernacle was impervious to time and enemies.  Solomon's Temple, by contrast, was built [in great measure] by non-Jewish workmen.  Consequently, although the Shechinah rested upon it, its parts became worn with time and required repair and replacement.  The Second Temple was built only thanks to the benevolence of King Cyrus, and it never had the Tablets or the Shechinah.  Both Temples fell into enemy hands, were looted, and destroyed.

He comments further that compared to the gold and silver that were used in the Temples of Solomon and Herod, the amounts listed [in the parashah] are insignificant.  Nevertheless, the Tabernacle surpassed both Temples in holiness....  This proves that God rests His Presence not where there is wealth, but where there is righteousness.

~ SHABBAT SHALOM ~
and

~ Chodesh Tov ~

The last of the special haftarot for Adar - HaChodesh - falls on Erev Rosh Chodesh Nisan.  

More from the Stone Edition Chumash Commentary:

...The first day of Nisan was and always remains a historic day for the Jewish nation.  It was the day when the people received their first commandment as a nation: Sanctify the New Moon.  This ritual has a profound spiritual and historic significance.  It is noteworthy that it was one of the three commandments that the Syrian-Greeks, in the time before the Chanukah miracle, attempted to nullify by force.  The other two were Sabbath observance and circumcision.  Clearly, therefore, Israel's enemies understood that the sanctification of the New Moon was basic to the existence of Israel as a nation of Torah.

Rabbi Richter: "Weaponizing The Hostages"

27 Adar 5785

Special Note:  Tonight is recognized in Ramadan as "The Night of Power."  It is described as the holiest night of the year in Islam and commemorates the Quran entering into the world via The Meshuggeneh (per Rambam).  It can be a cause of increased "tensions" between Muslims and the Security Forces on Israel's Temple Mount.

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Weaponizing The Hostages

Sabbatical Cycles of Creation (and Destruction)

26 Adar 5785  

This post goes with the previous one in order to validate the claim of a looming cataclysmic event that Science shows has occurred cyclicly about every 6000 years.

According to Ben Davidson of SpaceWeatherNews (SO)

Those who approach Science without the input of Torah sources are bound to get many of the details wrong, but that doesn't mean they don't get some of it right.  With regard to the concept of cycles of destruction demonstrated by geologic evidence, the following excerpts from the book Immortality, Resurrection, and the Age of the Universe: A Kabbalistic View by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan of blessed memory will be helpful.

The question of the age of the universe has been discussed in Torah circles for more than a century.  The Torah seems to teach that the universe is no more than six thousand years old.  Indeed, many would say that any opinion stating that the world is more than six thousand years old must of necessity contradict the Torah.  However, there appears to be a good deal of observational evidence that the universe is much older than six thousand years.

A number of approaches have been proposed to resolve this problem, some of which were discussed in a book published a few years ago.  Our concern, however, is not merely to resolve the question, but to do so in a manner firmly based on Torah teachings.  That is to say, we seek a solution that is actually found in the classic Torah literature.

The only choice...is to look into our classical Torah literature and determine whether there are any pertinent statements regarding the age of the universe.  Significantly, there is a very important, though not well known, concept that is discussed in the Sefer ha-Temunah, an ancient Kabbalistic work attributed to the first-century tanna, Rabbi Nehunya ben ha-Kanah.  The work discusses the forms of the Hebrew letters and is the source of many of the most frequently cited opinions on this subject in the halakhic literature.  Thus, Sefer ha-Temunah is not an obscure, unimportant work, but one which is relied upon by most halakhic authorities.

The Sefer ha-Temunah speaks about Sabbatical cycles (shemitot).  This is based on the Talmudic teaching that "the world will exist for six thousand years, and in the seven-thousandth year, it will be destroyed."  The Sefer ha-Temunah states that this seven-thousand-year cycle is merely one Sabbatical cycle.  However, since there are seven Sabbatical cycles in a Jubilee, the world is destined to exist for forty-nine thousand years.

There is a question as to which cycle we are in today.  Some authorities maintain that we are currently in the second Sabbatical cycle.  Others maintain that we are currently in the seventh cycle.  According to the second opinion, the universe would have been forty-two thousand years old when Adam was created.  As we shall see, the implications of this are very important.

...According to Sefer ha-Temunah, then, there were other worlds before Adam was created.  These were the worlds of previous Sabbatical cycles.

Significantly, there are a number of allusions to this approach in the Midrash.  Thus, commenting on the verse, "It was evening and it was morning, one day" (Genesis 1:5), the Midrash Rabbah states, "This teaches that there were orders of time before this."

Another well-known Midrashic teaching also appears to support the concept of Sabbatical cycles.  The Midrash states that "God created universes and destroyed them."  One of the important classical Kabbalistic works, Ma'arekhet Elokut, states explicitly that this passage refers to worlds that existed in Sabbatical cycles before Adam was created.  The same source states explicitly that the Midrashic teaching that "there were orders of time before this [creation]" is also speaking of earlier Sabbatical cycles.

A Talmudic passage seems to support this view of Sabbatical cycles.  According to the Talmud, and some Midrashim as well, there were 974 generations before Adam.  ...The Ma'arekhet Elokut states explicitly that these generations existed in the Sabbatical cycles before Adam's creation.

The concept of pre-Adamic cycles was well known among the Rishonim (early authorities), and is cited in such sources as Bahya, Recanati, Ziyyoni, and Sefer ha-Hinnukh.  It is also alluded to in the Kuzari, and in the commentaries of the Ramban and Ibn Ezra. 

The world's elite believe this.  It's why they all have bunkers prepared and why they built a seed vault near the North Pole.  However, if they refuse to acknowledge the sovereignty of the Master of the Universe, HKB"H, nothing they do can help them. 

What's important for the righteous to understand is that while it appears to that the poor and downtrodden will never in any natural way succeed in overthrowing The Powers That Be, HKB"H is going to arise to judge the earth and wipe evil from the world.  They will be as if they never were.  May it truly be soon!

"The Great and Awesome Day of the Lord"

26 Adar 5785 

Do not despair.  The world is not hefker.  HKB"H sees all, knows all and controls all.  Do not lose faith.  Just a little bit longer...

For I know the thoughts that I think about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.  (Yirmiyahu 29.11) 

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain therein. But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be uprooted therefrom.  (Mishlei 2.21-22)

For evildoers shall be cut off, and those who hope for the Lord - they will inherit the land.  A short while longer and the wicked man is not here, and you shall look at his place and he is not there.  But the humble shall inherit the land, and they shall delight in much peace.  (Tehillim 37.9-11)

Arise, O God, judge the earth, for You inherit all the nations.  (Tehillim 82.8)

When God rises for judgment, to save all the humble of the earth forever.  (Tehillim 76.10)

For lo, the sun comes, glowing like a furnace, and all the audacious sinners and all the perpetrators of wickedness will be stubble.  And the sun that comes shall burn them up so that it will leave them neither root nor branch, says the Lord of Hosts.  

And the sun of mercy shall rise with healing in its wings for you who fear My Name. Then will you go forth and be fat as fatted calves. And you shall crush the wicked, for they will be as ash under the soles of your feet on the day that I will prepare, says the Lord of Hosts.  Keep in remembrance the teaching of Moses, My servant - the laws and ordinances which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel.  

Lo, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord, that he may turn the heart of the fathers back through the children, and the heart of the children back through their fathers - lest I come and smite the earth with utter destruction.   (Malachi 3.19-24)

See the entire chapter 59 of Yeshayahu.

It's coming - faster and faster and faster! 

"In its time, I will hasten it."  (Yeshayahu 60.22)

If you are unfamiliar with the cataclysm which is looming on our doorstep, please see my other blog.

Pole Shift Acceleration About To Happen:
Government Is Tracking It

 

The Unbridgeable Divide

25 Adar 5785 

What more will it take for God-fearing Jews to understand that we can't live with these people.  Literally!!  They are killing us slowly, bit by bit - destroying our souls, bit by bit.  And they admit freely and openly that this is their goal.  Don't be fooled.  "Kahanism" in their minds is just another word for Torah Judaism.  The Shin Bet admits that its "job" is to root it out wherever it dares to raise its head.  And this is also the goal of bringing yeshivah bachurim into the army.  They speak of the threat of civil war, but we are already in a civil war.  For some reason, instead of fighting back and fighting to take control away from them, we are closing our eyes and wishing it away, like a child confronting a monster from his nightmares.

Face the facts, People!!

I don't believe for one minute that the Prime Minister "didn't know."  His denials are getting really old.  Either he knew everything and was complicit, or he has proved himself, through his gross ignorance, to be unworthy of his office.  If he really had any character, he would resign with such an admission.  The fact that he won't speaks volumes.

HKB"H is going to reveal His Anointed One (sooner than you think) and only those who are willing to go the distance with him are going to have any chance of survival.  There is no fixing this failed system.  It has to be replaced, and the evil that has enabled it up until now must go the same way as the Gazan population, because there is no coexistence between Torah and anti-Torah in Eretz Yisrael.

“Earthquake:” Shin Bet Led Secret Probe Of Ben-Gvir, Police

In recent months, the Shin Bet conducted a covert investigation against the police and the minister in charge of it, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, on suspicion of “undermining the foundations of government and the democratic regime,” Channel 12 News reported on Sunday evening.

According to the report, a secret document compiled by the Shin Bet stated: “We have marked the spread of Kahanism to law enforcement institutions as a dangerous phenomenon, the prevention of which is part of the Shin Bet’s mission. Given the involvement of the political echelon, this must be carried out with great care and caution.”

Bar’s people were instructed to gather information secretly and come up with some “findings,” with the document stating: “Continue to collect evidence and testimony of the political echelon’s involvement in the actions of the security echelon in the direction of using force in a manner contrary to the law, and come up with some findings.”

The Shin Bet initially confirmed the report, even claiming that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was informed of the investigation, but then retracted the statement and denied the existence of such a probe.

Ben-Gvir responded by saying: “This is an earthquake. Now it is even clearer why Ronen Bar must not be left as the head of the Shin Bet for even a minute. The head of a secret organization who initiates investigations and gathers materials against elected officials, while defining the goal in advance, ‘to collect evidence and testimony of the political echelon’s involvement’, is an immediate danger to democracy, who must be removed from any position immediately.”

According to reports, a stormy scene took place on Sunday evening when Ben-Gvir, who heard about the Shin Bet probe from his advisors, burst into a meeting of the cabinet and shouted at Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, saying: “Are you behind this?”

Bar responded: “A lie. I never ordered an investigation against you. They’re always telling lies about me.”

Ben Gvir then left and returned with the documents and presented them to the participants at the meeting, saying to Netanyahu: “This is a lying Shin Bet chief, a criminal whose place is in prison, a head of a secret service who spies on the political echelon, orders the collection of incriminating material on them, and tries to carry out a coup. It is simply unbelievable that a security organization in Israel is undermining the government and conducting a political investigation in order to carry out a political coup against the will of the people.”

Netanyahu’s office responded to the report on Sunday evening, stating: “The Prime Minister is not aware of this investigation and was not updated about it by the Shin Bet chief.”

His office published another harsh statement against Bar on Monday morning, stating: “The claim that the Prime Minister authorized Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to collect evidence against Minister Ben-Gvir is another lie that has been shattered.”

The statement added that “the document that was published – which shows an explicit directive from the Shin Bet chief to collect evidence against the political echelon – is reminiscent of dark regimes, undermines the foundations of democracy, and was aimed at overthrowing a right-wing government.”

“The Prime Minister was never updated by the Shin Bet chief that he intended to collect evidence on the political echelon behind his back, and did not authorize this. On the contrary, at a working meeting on June 19, 2024, when the Shin Bet chief raised a claim about the entry of Kahanist elements into the police, the Prime Minister unequivocally instructed the Shin Bet chief to present him with evidence to support this claim, to raise it directly and immediately before the Minister of National Security, and in no way to act behind the Minister’s back. The Shin Bet chief pledged to the Prime Minister to do so, but did not keep his commitment.”

On Monday morning, Ben-Gvir demanded that a criminal investigation be opened against Bar, writing on X: “Ronen Bar is a criminal and a liar, who is now trying to deny his attempt to conspire against elected officials in a democratic country, even after the documents were revealed to the public and the world. I will not be satisfied with his dismissal, he must face criminal charges for attempting a coup and attempting to overthrow democracy.”

Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har Melech stated: “Now it is clear where the Shin Bet was – instead of focusing on the war on terror and protecting the security of Israeli citizens, it invested resources in the political persecution of elected officials and the persecution of Jewish settlers.

“A Shin Bet chief who conducts a political investigation against the political echelon while setting a goal in advance – to provide evidence against the government – has crossed a dangerous red line. This is not national security – this is a governmental coup under the guise of a secret organization. Ronen Bar must end his term immediately.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)