Global Preparation for the Reign of Mashiach

15 Tammuz 5786 

Winds of change are blowing, not just in America and not just in Europe, but across the globe. This change is being fueled by the process of redemption which is going to bring humanity back under the rule of one sovereign - the anointed agent of HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

The United States is widely recognized as the world's oldest continuous modern democracy.  Its democratic tradition began with the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, establishing a system of representative government that has functioned without interruption for over two centuries. (Gemini)

Democratic rule by the people is of recent origin and is not as widespread as people living in them seem to think.

...only about 8% to 12% of the global population lives in a "full" or "liberal" democracy.

...Liberal democracies continue to be the rarest form of government in the world, with numbers falling back to 2009 levels – only 29 in total. (Source)

Furthermore, recent attempts to spread democracy throughout the world have largely failed.

Democracy is under pressure. As authoritarianism tightens its grip, democracies are struggling to maintain public confidence, putting their future at risk. (Source)

In just four days' time, Americans will be celebrating 250 years of their democratic legacy, but even the United States is not immune to this pressure. 

The United States received special attention in the 2025 V-Dem report, which identified the country as undergoing the ”fastest evolving episode of autocratization the USA has been through in modern history”. Although the data and metrics used for the report only extend through the end of 2024, researchers still included alarming findings regarding the U.S. following the election of Donald Trump, who is testing the limits of executive power at an “unprecedented scale”.

The U.S. president has employed several typical autocratic tactics such as expanding executive authority, weakening the power of Congress, launching attacks on independent institutions, undermining oversight bodies and the media, and purging and dismantling state institutions.

Following the report’s publication, US News interviewed Staffan Lindberg, an author and editor of the report, founding director of the V-Dem Institute, and a professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. According to Lindberg, the United States will “definitely” be downgraded and reclassified in next year’s assessment. “At the pace at which it is happening”, he noted , “I would say that before the end of the summer, you no longer qualify as a democracy in the United States”, adding that “it would mean that the rule of law, the constraints of the executive, critically, that they would be gone to such an extent that we can no longer talk about even a constitutional republic.”   (Source)

So, what is the alternative? 

Leading Non-Democratic Forms of Government

Electoral Autocracies: This is currently the most widespread type of authoritarianism globally. While they maintain the facade of a democracy with institutions like parliaments and polling places, the ruling party systematically manipulates the electoral process and media to ensure they remain in power.

Single-Party States: Widely recognized as one of the most durable forms of autocracy. In this system, one political party completely monopolizes the state, and all opposition is legally suppressed. A prominent contemporary example is the People's Republic of China, which is governed by the Chinese Communist Party.

Absolute Monarchies: A system where a single monarch holds unconstrained supreme power. This hereditary rule is highly prominent in the Middle East, with examples including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. (Gemini)

Interestingly, there are 43 sovereign states in the world with a monarch serving as the head of state.  Because multiple nations share the same ruler, these 43 countries are ruled by a total of 28 distinct monarchs. (Wikipedia)

Even more interesting is a growing movement in the United States with monarchist goals...

America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump’s presidency is testing how far it’s come

The 250th anniversary of America’s liberation from a king kicked off with a campaign-style rally on the National Mall by President Donald Trump, whose face already stares down from banners fluttering from federal buildings across the nation’s capital.

The images illustrate how the Republican president has dominated daily life since returning to power and, to some, evoke more the style of a monarch than the leader of the world’s oldest democracy. But it’s also how he has wielded that power that has led to comparisons of an imperial reign.

Since returning to office in January 2025, Trump has nominated one of his personal lawyers to serve as attorney general, ordered the Department of Justice to pursue his political enemies, deployed the U.S. Marines to the nation’s second largest city and leveraged the presidency to enrich himself and his family.

He has demanded that comedians who mock him be fired, has slapped his name on the Kennedy Center, has pushed to seize control of elections, has filed lawsuits against news organizations whose coverage he disliked and has sued his own government seeking $10 billion in taxpayer money.

...When King Charles III visited Trump this year, the official White House X account posted an image of the two men with the caption “TWO KINGS.” At the start of his second term, Trump declared he had ended a New York City transportation program and posted: “LONG LIVE THE KING.” The posts also seemed to indicate a willingness to leverage the label and the reaction it provokes in his critics.

It is no coincidence that the main resistance movement in Trump’s second term adopted the slogan “No Kings.” Ezra Levin of Indivisible said activists were thinking ahead to 2026 and the America 250 celebration when they chose the label.

“It looks like the same kind of tyranny we were rebelling against 250 years ago,....

It might sound like "Trump Derangement Syndrome" to many, but it's not just in America...

...there are monarchist movements in most European countries, even those that did not exist with their current borders or names when there were thrones to sit on. Sometimes these movements are dangerous, as the Reichsburger movement in Germany, which sought to overthrow the government several years ago, demonstrates. Others are incredibly niche. The Danubian Restoration Movement (DRM), for example, is a youth-led organization of students in the United States, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, and Austria that seeks to resurrect the Austro-Hungarian empire by organizing Habsburg descendants. They might not march through Paris, but they do organize on Discord, a gaming and messaging board app, on Facebook and Reddit, and advertise on YouTube via “The Monarchist Channel.”

And now these European movements, which seek to resurrect a glorious past over the tumultuous present, have been joined by a growing number of American monarchists. These groups are seeking to install a kingly (or Caesar-like) ruler in the Land of the Free. Though the historical contrast with Europe is striking, American monarchists have also found a good number of historical, legal, and political precedents to work with. That, combined with anarcho-capitalist visions of a decentralized, federalist state, gives the monarchist movement in the United States a distinctly—and terrifying—American character all of its own.

...Curtis Yarvin and Neoreaction 

No one has a better claim to having kick-started the American wing of modern monarchism than tech-advocate and far-right blogger Curtis Yarvin (sometimes better known by his old pen name, Mencius Moldbug). Yarvin, who has catapulted into mainstream political discussion over the last 10 years, started out as a blog writer in the early 2000s by discussing the downsides of modern culture, rejecting democracy in favor of monarchism, and advocating for the necessity of embracing corporatization and technological revolution as a means of fixing global politics. The impact of his ideas on the New Right is hard to overstate. Most notably, the concept of “the Cathedral,” which he argues is the amalgamation of mainstream liberal news media, universities, politics, and national institutions, has become a powerful rhetorical construct within the illiberal right’s lexicon. “The Cathedral” has been echoed by now powerful Silicon Valley tech giants like Peter Thiel, and politicians like Vice President J.D. Vance, who have cited Yarvin as an influence, and are currently working hard to dismantle the ephemeral “deep state” that “the Cathedral” embodies.

His early writings, which were picked up by and expanded on by far-right figures like accelerationist Nick Land, became the foundation of the “Dark Enlightenment” philosophy that has swept its way across the intellectual milieu of Western right-leaning political thought. The advancing wave of “postliberal” thinkers, who espouse a variety of illiberal ideals, both draw on and influence the broad umbrella of “Dark Enlightenment” thought that people like Yarvin helped craft. Patrick Deneen, a prominent postliberal thinker, has recently articulated a vision for how a techno-populist (or DOGE-MAGA) alliance might work.

It goes on.  I highly recommend reading the article in its entirety here:  Modern Monarchists and the Roots of American Illiberalism.

Further to the above...

The Dark Enlightenment is an anti-democratic political philosophy that emerged in the early 2010s. It is also known as the Neoreactionary Movement (or NRx).

Core Ideology

Anti-Democracy: It completely rejects democracy, viewing it as an unstable, inefficient system that leads to societal decay.

Pro-Autocracy: It advocates for a return to authoritarianism, traditional absolute monarchies, or corporate-run city-states.The "Cathedral": It claims media, academia, and government form a unified liberal entity that enforces political correctness and controls public thought.

Techno-Absolutism: It proposes that society should be run like a technology company, with a CEO-like dictator or "sovereign" maximizing efficiency.

Anti-Egalitarianism: It rejects the idea of human equality, instead embracing strict social hierarchies and biological determinism.

Not exactly the pattern presented by the prophets and kings of ancient Israel, nor the one we are expecting from our righteous Mashiach, but it's a step in that direction and demonstrates how these winds of change really are blowing in this day and time and that they are bringing with them the restored Kingdom of God with its Davidic ruler.  The world is being prepared and it won't be in vain.

It Costs a Lot of Money NOT to Win a War

14 Tammuz 5786 

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The Answer to the War on Torah Learning

14 Tammuz 5786

The answer to the war on Torah learning is to increase Torah learning!! 

HaRav Landau: “Protests Are Not Our Derech And Cause A Chillul Hashem”

HaGaon HaRav Dov Landau spoke on Thursday night at a gathering at his home of dozens of Roshei Yeshivos from across Israel.

HaRav Landau said: “The Chazon Ish wrote in a letter that ‘the country of Poland, where the yeshivos are established and where the saintly Chofetz Chaim and other Gedolei haTorah reside, has the din of Eretz Yisrael, while the other countries have the din of Chutz L’Eretz.’

“In recent generations, the center of Torah has been in Eretz Yisrael,” HaRav Landau continued. “Bnei Torah from Chutz L’Eretz come to study Torah in Eretz Yisrael, and the center of Torah in Eretz Yisrael spreads Torah to every location.

“The burning Ahavas HaTorah that we saw in America and throughout the world (during the Rosh Yeshiva’s Keren Olam HaTorah trip) is inspiring. Their hearts and hands were open to support Lomdei Torah in Eretz Yisrael. These generous supporters understand well that if, chalila, Limmud Torah in Eretz Yisrael—the world’s center of Torah—would diminish, Limmud Torah elsewhere will also be diminished.

“Avreichim are the crown of creation, and the finest of Lomdei Torah. Certainly, in such a difficult time, avreichim in Eretz Yisrael must be mechazeik even more in their limmud, for they are the elite Lomdei Torah in the world’s center of Torah.

“And I have heard that the leading Roshei Yeshivos are calling to avreichim to be mechazeik themselves by studying Torah continuously, and there is no doubt that every chizzuk of Limmud Torah will help counter all the decrees.”

“All kinds of other forms of protest that we never heard from our Rabbanim of previous generations are not our derech. Very often, these protests cause a Chillul Hashem, rachmana litzlan.”

“And must also remember that the most important thing of all is complete immersion in Limmud Torah—laboring in Torah, iyun, and delving deeply into Torah. This is how Lomdei Torah continue to grow and elevate themselves. This is the greatest Kiddush Hashem, and the highest form of deveikus to Hashem—through Limmud Torah b’iyun, with depth and true toil.”

“May it be Hashem’s will that He quickly save us from all our troubles, and may we merit the complete redemption speedily in our days. Amen.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

Know This: There Is a Judge and There Is Judgment!

14 Tammuz 5786 

These are the traditional depictions of Jews and Chr*stians and if you wander around the Old City of Jerusalem, you will see that it's not caricature.  It's very true to life.  But, just like the Jews are represented in many other groups distinguishable by a wide gamut of style and dress, so, too, the Chr*stians.  Some of them even go so far as to wear cowboy attire.  Don't let it fool you though.  There is still one essential element which creates an unbridgeable divide between Jews and Chr*stians and that is the cursed cross which represents everything that is ugly and perverse and alien in that God-forsaken religion.  That will never change!!  It applies in all cases for all times.

For years this blog has documented the rise of the Hayovel Chr*stian Ministry from the beginnings at Har Brachah where they misled (according to him) the rabbi of the yishuv, claiming to be righteous gentiles, up to the blessed day when HaRav Dov Lior issued a psak din forbidding Jews to have any relations or involvement with this organization.  

Now, there is no more Hayovel.

With the deceit typical of Chr*stian Ministries, they rebranded themselves as The Israel Guys and the next generation inherits the spoils taken in contravention of Torah Law.  Here is the latest iteration of their sordid saga.  Note the logo remains the same...

Like the klipot they are, they only reap success through the auspices of Jews to whom they have attached themselves.  Every non-Jewish enemy successfully settled on our Land, has done so via the kedushah inherent in the Jews who have enabled them.  Those reshaim gamurim have much to answer for and they will most certainly be called to account.  No amount of money, kavod or "friendship" with the idol-worshipers can ever make up for what is coming their way... and soon!

The Only Person Saying Anything Worth Hearing

13 Tammuz 5786  

And not afraid to say it!!

A Critical Week Ahead

13 Tammuz 5786 

The anniversary of the Second Lebanon War is coming up on the 16th of Tammuz.  Here we are twenty years later, repeating the same mistakes, expecting a different outcome.  

...On 11 August 2006 [Av 17], the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 (UNSCR 1701) in an effort to end the hostilities, which called for disarmament of Hezbollah, Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, and for the deployment of the Lebanese Armed Forces and an enlarged United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in the south. The Lebanese Army began deploying in Southern Lebanon on 17 August and the blockade was lifted on 8 September.  On 1 October, most Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon, although the last of the troops continued to occupy the border-straddling village of Ghajar.

Both Hezbollah and the Israeli government claimed victory, while the Winograd Commission deemed the war a missed opportunity for Israel as it did not lead to disarmament of Hezbollah.

The Parashah for the week when the war broke out was Pinchas, whose haftarah [Yirmiyahu 1.1 - 2.3] famously includes these words:  "From the north the misfortune will break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land."

This is also the week of Parashat Pinchas, as well as the Fast of Shivah Asara b'Tammuz on Thursday [Yom Chamishi], culminating with America's 250 anniversary celebration, the 4th of July on Shabbat Kodesh!!

Speaking of Shabbat, the War on Torah is ongoing with more forced Shabbat desecration.  It never ceases, even for a day, and especially not for Shabbat. Furthermore, they care not that it is a northern city under missile and drone alerts...

Hundreds Rally in Tzfas to Protest Public Bus Service on Shabbos; Six Arrested

...Participants included observant Jews from across the spectrum of Torah-observant communities in Tzfas, who gathered to express their pain over the public operation of transportation on Shabbos and to call on the relevant authorities to halt the service.

Organizers said the protest remained orderly throughout. Demonstrators sang Shabbos songs and voiced their opposition peacefully, despite several attempts by individuals opposed to the demonstration to provoke confrontations.

...Following the demonstration, organizers issued a statement expressing satisfaction with the turnout.

“We are filled with satisfaction over the tremendous success of the gathering of such a large ציבור to cry out publicly before all that our holy Shabbos will not become trampled in the streets of the city, and over the kiddush Hashem that atones for the sin of chillul Hashem. Our intention is to continue these demonstrations and increase the number of participants as long as the transportation lines continue to operate.”

At the same time, local community activists have opened discussions with the relevant government officials in hopes of reaching an agreement that will end the ongoing Shabbos bus service in the city.

In advance of the protest, large notices posted throughout Tzfas called on residents from all of the city’s kehillos to participate in the demonstration.

In related news...

Government Secretary Pushes Bill to Freeze Arrests of Yeshivah Bochurim, Warns Israel Is ‘Approaching Civil War’

... Government Secretary Yossi Fuchs has urged Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman MK Boaz Bismuth to fast-track emergency legislation that would suspend for three months the arrests and criminal proceedings against yeshivah bochurim and bnei Torah subject to military conscription. Fuchs warned that the ongoing arrests are deepening tensions with the chareidi community and could lead to an unprecedented national rift.

In a letter sent to Bismuth, Fuchs argued that arresting bnei yeshivah has failed to advance enlistment and is instead producing the opposite effect.

“These arrests of Torah learners do not advance enlistment among the chareidi public; rather, they distance enlistment, and there is a real concern of severing the bond with the chareidi public to the point, chalilah, of reaching a civil war, and this less than a week before the beginning of the Bein HaMetzarim period,” he wrote.

Fuchs said recent developments have shown growing unrest even among chareidi families whose sons already serve in chareidi military frameworks, including combat units and chareidi hesder yeshivos. According to him, many parents had previously accepted military service by some of their sons as long as other children were able to remain in yeshivah learning. Now, however, the prospect that full-time bnei Torah could be arrested at any moment has caused many of those same families to oppose additional enlistments.

In other news...

We Are Heavy on Reward But Light on Punishment

11 Tammuz 5786

Erev Shabbat Kodesh

Parashat Balak 

I've said this before, but it's worth repeating.  

The laws of giving the benefit of the doubt and the concept of tinokot shenishbu, as well as the laws forbidding lashon hara are not fully understood and are often erroneously applied.  We lean too far to the side of chesed and shy away from judgment.  

We see this played out in the real world by the massive floods that occur all over the planet - unrestrained, destructive water is a perfect image of unbounded chesed.  It indicates an imbalance in the world.  Maybe this is what is behind the idea of justice being represented by scales, something that traces back to ancient Egypt.

The Torah shows no hesitancy, however.  This parashah describes how King Balak of Moav hired the gentile prophet Bila'am to curse Klal Yisrael.  When HKB"H would not allow that, Bila'am had to settle for explaining to King Balak the facts of life - entice Klal Yisrael to sin, rupturing the covenantal relationship with HKB"H and His wrath would fall upon them.  They would lose their Divine Protection and become vulnerable to attack and defeat.

Let's look at how it plays out at the end of Parashat Balak (Bamidbar 25.1 - 9)...

Israel settled in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of the Moabites.  They invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and prostrated themselves to their gods.  Israel became attached to Baal Peor, and the anger of the Lord flared against Israel. 

The Lord said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and hang them [the idol worshipers] before the Lord, facing the sun, and then the flaring anger of the Lord will be removed from Israel. 

Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you shall kill the men who became attached to Baal Peor.  Then an Israelite man came and brought the Midianite woman to his brethren, before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of the entire congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. 

Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the kohen saw this, arose from the congregation, and took a spear in his hand.  He went after the Israelite man into the chamber and drove [it through] both of them; the Israelite man, and the woman through her stomach, and the plague ceased from the children of Israel. 

Those that died in the plague numbered twenty four thousand.

Justice, weighted towards mercy, is HKB"H's way of dealing with His world and we are bidden to imitate His ways and pursue justice.  When justice is too weak or is even missing altogether from man's society, the result is pure disorder and chaos, just like a flood washing through and destroying everything in its path.  If you need a concrete example, just look to the tsunami of unchecked immigration across Europe.  Way too much chesed!!!

Haftarat Balak (Micah 6.8)...

He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord demands of you; but to do justice, to love loving-kindness, and to walk discreetly with your God.

~SHABBAT SHALOM ~ 

When Injustice Is Normalized - Doom Awaits

10 Tammuz 5786

We are one week out from the Fast of 17th Tammuz - the beginning of the Three Weeks countdown to Tisha b'Av.  You can feel the pressure and the darkness that wants to spread over us.  

I'm not sure how many people are really taking in how unjust this "draft" persecution has become.  I imagine that the vast majority of the Israeli public thinks the students deserve what is happening to them simply because they personally have never understood or agreed with their exemption from military service in the first place. 

I wracked my brain trying to think of an analogy most people could identify with and the following is the best I could come up with.  

Private car ownership is not afforded to every citizen of Israel, but there is ample public transportation available.  Now don't confuse the issue with whether citizens should even be allowed to own private cars when the roads are so overcrowded.  

Imagine that you are a new car owner and you wake up one day and the government has decided to disallow private vehicle ownership retroactively to the beginning of the calendar year.  The media reports that "road hogs" have been stealing time and space from the public by clogging up the traffic.  Overnight, you have become a criminal in the eyes of your neighbors and countrymen and are condemned to financial penalties through the loss of the car and fines imposed until proof is given that it has been disposed of.  And if you are caught continuing to drive, you will be immediately hauled off to prison.  

The State has given and the State has taken away.  What is legal today can be criminalized tomorrow.  Yesterday's yeshivah students on legal deferrals are suddenly today's "draft dodgers' or "draft evaders" and the hatred against them, through no fault of their own, is being raised to heretofore unimagined heights.

Tax Authority to Move Against Yeshivos, Threatening Tens of Millions in Lost Funding

A new Israeli government initiative targeting the Torah world is expected to begin in the coming weeks, as Israel’s Tax Authority prepares to strip tax benefits from chareidi nonprofit organizations that support yeshivos attended by students classified by the military as draft evaders.

ANTI-CHAREIDI INCITEMENT: Violence Erupts Against Chareidi Protesters Returning From Convoy Demonstration

A series of violent incidents targeting chareidi participants in Wednesday’s nationwide convoy protest has intensified concerns over rising anti-chareidi hostility, with several confrontations reported across the country and one particularly disturbing altercation taking place on Highway 1 as demonstrators returned home.

The most serious incident occurred Wednesday evening when a motorist was filmed attacking a vehicle carrying chareidi protesters traveling on Highway 1 toward Tel Aviv. Video footage circulated online shows the enraged driver smashing a side mirror and attempting to assault those inside the vehicle

Warning Issued Against “Middlemen” as Organization Says 48 Yeshivah Bochurim Are Currently Held in Military Prison

The head of an organization that assists bnei yeshivah in dealing with Israel’s military authorities warned Wednesday night that attorneys and self-described fixers are exploiting the distress of yeshivah students and their families, charging large sums of money while often leaving the bochurim in even greater legal jeopardy.

I'm afraid they are coming for the the religious girls' exemption next...

Several haredi rabbis protesting women in IDF tank units skip meeting with IDF chief Zamir

...In general, Zamir and the IDF have sought to reach out for a dialogue with the opposition rabbis. But to date, these rabbis have made cutting off contact regarding the issue part of their strategy and a sign of their resolve to resist the change.

Regarding the rabbis present, Zamir told them about the IDF’s desperate need for additional soldiers, from any sector of society, noting that women are a critical part of the pool for soldiers within Israeli society.

Hundreds of female IDF officers to Zamir: ‘Exclusion of women threatens national security’

Officers warned pressure from outside religious actors is damaging military discipline and operational effectiveness, while Zamir told rabbis army needs every combat soldier, male and female, to meet its operational needs.

I can hear it now from the Moderns, the Zionists, and the Western advocates, so what is wrong with that?

May HKB"H have great mercy upon us and send us Mashiach NOW!!!

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