What Happened on Pesach?

11 Sivan 5775

UPDATE: Air strikes kill at least 80 in deadliest bombings of Yemen war
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9 Sivan 5775

UPDATE: Yemen rebels suffer setback as militiamen retake southern city
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7 Sivan 5775

UPDATE: Mystery deepens over Iranian cargo ships en route to Yemen

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2 Sivan 5775
Day 46 of the Omer


UPDATE: ...After the Ramadi defeat, the Obama administration’s next major test in the region comes from an Iranian cargo vessel heading, accompanied by two warships, for the Yemeni Red Sea port of Hodeida and scheduled to dock Thursday, May 21. According to Tehran, the ship will unload 2,500 tons of humanitarian aid for Yemen, and the hundreds of passengers who disembark are Red Crescent medical relief workers.

The Saudi, US and Egyptian fleets have imposed a sea and air blockade on Yemen to prevent Iran provding the Yemeni Houthi rebels with fresh arms. Saudi and other regional intelligence agencies are convinced that the “paramedics” are in fact Revolutionary Guards officers and instructors in disguise, sent to strengthen the Houthi revolt.

Washington, Riyadh and Cairo have all vowed to stop the Iranian flotilla from putting into port in Yemen and said that its vessels will be forced to submit to inspections to make sure no illicit weapons are aboard and to confirm the passengers’ identities.

Tehran, for its part has threatened to treat any such inspections as an act of war.

(Source)
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29 Iyyar 5775
Erev Rosh Chodesh
Yom Kippur Katan
Day 44 of the Omer

UPDATE: Iranian ship carries aid, activists into waters off Yemen

An Iranian cargo ship carrying aid and activists crossed into the Gulf of Aden on Sunday and will reach Yemen's Hodaida port on May 21, Iranian media reported, in a challenge to Saudi-led naval forces controlling Yemeni waters.

...Iranian officials last week said they would not allow the Saudi-led forces to inspect the Iran Shahed, which is under military escort, and warned of war if the cargo ship was attacked.

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26 Iyyar 5775
Day 41 of the Omer

UPDATE: Five Iranian boats fire shots in the Persian Gulf
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24 Iyyar 5775
Day 39 of the Omer

UPDATE: Iran warns US against stopping Yemen-bound aid ship

A senior Iranian commander warned the United States that a "fire might start" over an aid ship bound for Yemen on Wednesday after the Pentagon urged it to change course.

Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri said it was Iran's right to deliver relief supplies to Yemen as a humanitarian ceasefire takes hold and rejected Washington's request that aid be taken instead to a United Nations hub to allay worries the cargo might be military.

"I should say frankly that Iran's restraint has a limit," Jazayeri, a deputy chief of staff, told Iran's Arab-language Al-Alam television late on Tuesday.
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21 Iyyar 5775
Day 36 of the Omer


Iran to send cargo ship to Yemen as truce takes effect

An Iranian cargo ship will set sail for the rebel-held Yemeni port of Hodeida Sunday evening, Iran's Tasnim news agency said, in a move likely to fan further tensions with Saudi-led forces blockading the country.
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19 Iyyar 5775
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Day 34 of the Omer

UPDATE: Iranian general: War with the US would be ‘no big deal’
'We welcome war with the US as we do believe that it will be the scene for our success'

 Iran to send aid ship to Yemen

Saudi-led coalition vows to hit Yemen's Houthis despite truce offer
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18 Iyyar 5775
Day 33 of the Omer


UPDATE: Report: Iranian Navy Chases After U.S. Warships

An Iranian naval fleet chased a U.S. warship and military planes through the waters off the southern coast of Yemen late Monday in yet another provocative encounter between the two nations, according to Iranian state media reports.

...The run-in between the United States and Iranian militaries is just the latest in several tense confrontations between the countries near Yemen, where Iran is believed to be smuggling weapons to opposition forces.

Fleeing civilians killed in Yemen's port city of Aden

At least 120 people, including 40 aboard a tug boat, are killed as fighting rages on in the port city of Aden.

...Earlier, in the day, the coalition carried out more than 30 air strikes in northern Yemen, a day after rockets were fired into the Saudi's border town of Najran. 
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14 Iyyar 5775
Pesach Sheini
Day 29 of the Omer

UPDATE: Yemen: Saudi-Led Troops Deployed On The Ground

At least 20 troops from a Saudi-led coalition have entered the Yemeni city of Aden to fight Houthi rebels, militia commanders have claimed.

The masked soldiers, dressed in black, landed between al Mansoura and the airport on a "reconnaissance" mission, and witnesses reported helicopter gunships hovering above the landing area.

According to a government official, another force is en route to Aden, which is located in Yemen's south. This is the first reported deployment of Saudi-led troops on the ground inside the country.

UPDATE: U.S. Employs Navy Destroyer in New Tensions With Iran
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12 Iyyar 5775
Day 27 of the Omer

UPDATE: Yemen rebels attack Saudi border, dozens dead

Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Arabia said its forces killed dozens of Iran-backed rebels from Yemen who launched their first major attack on the kingdom since Saudi-led air strikes began last month.
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11 Iyyar 5775
Day 26 of the Omer

UPDATE:Iran says warships at entrance to key Yemen strait

Tehran (AFP) - Two Iranian destroyers, sent to the Gulf of Aden to protect commercial ships, have reached the entrance of Bab el-Mandab, a strategic strait between Yemen and Djibouti, Iran's navy said Thursday.
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10 Iyyar 5775
Day 25 of the Omer

UPDATE: Iran plane breaches Yemen no-fly zone

Coalition forces have carried out a bombing raid on the runway at Sanaa airport on Tuesday, to prevent an Iranian civilian plane from landing there, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.

The raid took place after the plane defied the coalition-enforced no-fly zone over Yemen entering the airspace from Oman.
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9 Iyyar 5775
Day 24 of the Omer

UPDATE: Saudi-owned TV says Iran detains U.S. cargo ship in Gulf

DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said an Iranian "force" seized a U.S. cargo ship after opening fire on it in the Gulf on Tuesday and directed it to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

A Pentagon spokesman said Iranian forces had boarded a Marshall Island-flagged vessel, the MV Maersk Tigris, in the Gulf. He said the boarding occurred after Iranian patrol boats fired shots across the vessel's bow and ordered it deeper into Iranian waters.

The ship had no U.S. citizens aboard, the spokesman said, contradicting Al-Arabiya's report which said there were 34 U.S. sailors on board. He said it was traveling through the Strait of Hormuz when the incident occurred.

There was no immediate word from Iranian officials.
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8 Iyyar 5775
Day 23 of the Omer

UPDATE: Saudi-led airstrikes hit Yemen rebels in capital, south

The Sunday airstrikes began just after midnight, officials said, hitting a military base known to be an arms depot on the outskirts of Sanaa, as well as sites near the presidential palace where weapons were being moved. Fierce street battles in the central city of Taiz killed some 20 civilians and wounded dozens, they added, with mortar rounds fired indiscriminately and landing near a hospital at one point.
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3 Iyyar 5775
Day 18 of the Omer

UPDATE: Iranian Warships Arrive Near Yemen

A fleet of Iranian warships arrived near the southern coast of Yemen on Wednesday in a move likely to add greater tension in a developing U.S.-Iranian standoff in the region, according Iranian military leaders.
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2 Iyyar 5775
Day 17 of the Omer

UPDATE: US Moves to Block Iranian Convoy

In a stepped-up response to Iranian backing of Shiite rebels in Yemen, the Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the waters off Yemen to beef up security and join other American ships that are prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the Houthi rebels.

...Navy officials said Monday that the Roosevelt was moving through the Arabian Sea. A massive ship that carries F/A-18 fighter jets, the Roosevelt is seen more of a deterrent and show of force in the region.

The U.S. Navy has been beefing up its presence in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Arabian Sea in response to reports that a convoy of about eight Iranian ships is heading toward Yemen and possibly carrying arms for the Houthis. Navy officials said there are about nine U.S. warships in the region, including cruisers and destroyers carrying teams that can board and search other vessels.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ship movement on the record....
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30 Nisan 5775
Day 15 of the Omer
Rosh Chodesh I

UPDATE: Here are the latest developments in the ongoing "proxy-war" between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen which might turn into WW3. We will watch and see what happens there and keep you informed here, iy"H.

Iranian ship convoy moves toward Yemen, alarming US officials

U.S. military officials are concerned that Iran's support for Houthi rebels in Yemen could spark a confrontation with Saudi Arabia and plunge the region into sectarian war.

Iran is sending an armada of seven to nine ships — some with weapons — toward Yemen in a potential attempt to resupply the Shia Houthi rebels, according to two U.S. defense officials. 

Officials fear the move could lead to a showdown with the U.S. or other members of a Saudi-led coalition, which is enforcing a naval blockade of Yemen and is conducting its fourth week of airstrikes against the Houthis.

Iran sent a destroyer and another vessel to waters near Yemen last week but said it was part of a routine counter-piracy mission.

What's unusual about the new deployment, which set out this week, is that the Iranians are not trying to conceal it, officials said. Instead, they appear to be trying to "communicate it" to the U.S. and its allies in the Gulf.

...Officials fear a naval confrontation between Iran and Saudi Arabia could escalate what has become a proxy war between the two countries.

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23 Nisan 5775Day 8 of the Omer


Menachem: "...On Pesach - it's not clear to me exactly when, but there will be something very frightening on Pesach, but don't be afraid! ...Don't worry! ...On Pesach, something will happen, on Pesach - it still won't be the redemption, but something will happen that will change the whole world, the whole world will change. You'll see...." (8 Nisan 5775)


Personally, I don't know too many people who are frightened by the news, but they should be. Frankly, I don't think very many people are even paying any attention at all to what is going on. How can they be afraid of something they don't even know is happening?

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Yalkut Shimoni Remez Yishayahu 499: Rabbi Yitzchak said: In the year that Melech HaMoshiach will be revealed, all the kings (leaders) of the nations will be struggling against each other. The leader of Persia will contest with the leader of Arabia, and the leader of Arabia will go to Edom to get council from them. The leader of Persia will respond and destroy the entire world. All the nations of the world will be trembling and shaking and falling on their faces. They will be seized by pains like labor pains.

The Jewish people will be trembling and quaking and saying: "Where can we go? Where can we go?" And [Hashem] will say to them: My children, do not fear! Everything I did I did only for you! Why are you frightened? Don't be afraid--the time of your redemption has arrived!"

"The leader of Persia will respond and destroy the entire world."

This is what I think happened over Pesach. It started then, but it hasn't finished yet...


8 April 2015
Report: Iran sends navy vessels near Yemen amid airstrikes

Iran dispatched a naval destroyer and another vessel Wednesday to waters near Yemen as the United States quickened weapons supply to the Saudi-led coalition striking rebels there, underlining how foreign powers are deepening their involvement in the conflict.

9 April 2015
US warns Iran on backing Yemen rebels, Tehran defiant 

Washington warned it would not stand by while Tehran supports Shiite rebels in Yemen, as Iran's supreme leader denounced Saudi-led air strikes in the country as "criminal acts".

Iran, Saudi Arabia in tense buildup opposite Yemen’s Gulf of Aden shore

Saudi-Iranian saber-rattling over Yemen has reached a dangerous peak, Thursday, April 9, the Saudi army spokesman, Brig. Gen. Ahmad Al-Assiri, warned: “Iranian ships have the right to be present in international waters, but won’t be allowed to enter Yemeni territorial waters.”

This was Riyadh’s rapid-fire riposte for the Iranian decision to deploy its navy’s 34th Flotilla, consisting of the Alborz destroyer and the Bushehr helicopter carrier warship, in the Gulf of Aden opposite the Yemeni coast.

The Saudi general noted that Iran had not evacuated any of its citizens from Yemen because, he said, “they are all involved in training and arming the Houthis.”

...Tehran decided to send its most effective naval force to the Gulf of Aden when it realized that Riyadh would not heed its warnings to back off Yemen. Its presence substantiated the threat of direct Iranian intervention in the Yemeni conflict should harm come to the elite IRGC force aiding the rebels.

...The new 13,000-ton vessel carries 12 Iranian strike helicopters, a crew of 200 and has a range of 8,000 nautical miles that reaches the US coast. There are five landing spots on its decks and four parking spots, as well as SM-1 and SAM anti-air missiles and 40-mm Fath-40 AAA anti-air cannon. Tehran invested $800 million in its first helicopter carrier.

If Tehran is not scared off by the Saudi threat and does order the Bushehr to sail into Yemeni territorial waters, its guns and missiles would be in range there to strike targets in neighboring Saudi Arabia to the north.

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Yaaros Dvash - Rabbi Yonasan Eibshetz, ztvk"l -"At certain moment the time will come when Moshiach should have already arrived but the redemption has not yet come. The Moshiach will ask how it could be that the time for redemption has arrived and he still undergoes sufferings? The response that he will receive is that he must wait for nine months. Why? In order to wait for the fall of Persia at the hands of Edom, and then the final redemption will come."

Amos 1:11-12

Thus said the Lord:

For three transgressions of Edom,

For four, I will not revoke it:

Because he pursued his brother with the sword

And repressed all pity,

Because his anger raged unceasing

And his fury stormed unchecked.

I will send down fire upon Teman,

And it shall devour the fortresses of Bozrah.

Teman is Yemen and Bozrah is Edom's capital city. The way I'm reading it, whatever develops out of what is happening in Yemen today is going to blow back big-time on Washington, DC and then they will attack Iran and that will all result in Mashiach - changing the world forever.

See here...

Yirmiyahu 49:20-22

Hear, now the plan which the Lord has devised against Edom, and what He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman:

Surely the shepherd boys

Shall drag them away;

Surely the pasture shall be

Aghast because of them.

At the sound of their downfall

The earth will shake;

The sound of screaming

Shall be heard at the Sea of Reeds.

See, like an eagle he flies up,

He soars and spreads his wings against Bozrah;

And the heart of Edom's warriors in that day

Shall be like the heart of a woman in travail.

And here...

Ovadiah 1:9

Your warriors shall lose heart, O Teman,

And not a man on Eisav's mount

Shall survive the slaughter.

Clearly, Teman is intimately bound up in the ultimate destruction of Edom. Could the reference to the "Sea of Reeds" be a clue to when this course will be locked in - Pesach?? As Menachem said, we'll see.