8 Tishrei 5778
Jews have been making aliyah from love of the mitzvah yishuv ha'aretz for a very long time. I'm afraid that time is now coming to an end to be followed by a relatively short period of aliyah from fear. HKB"H prefers that we respond to Him from love, but He'll accept fear as a motivator if that's what it takes.
It is unfortunate that the consequences in the aftermath of these natural disasters are not as well publicized as the lead-up to them. Take this account for example...
A friend had this posted on their page from a friend of theirs who’s on Puerto Rico. Think it would be any different in most cities?
“My family has lost everything. My uncle with stage 4 cancer is in so much pain and stuck in the hospital. However conditions in the island are far worse than we imagined and my greatest fear has been made reality. The chaos has begun.
The mosquitos have multiplied like the plague. Dead livestock are all over the island including in whatever fresh water supplies they have.
My family has been robbed and have lost whatever little they had left. The gang members are robbing people at gun point and the island is in desperation. People are shooting each other at gas stations to get fuel.
They’re telling us to rescue them and get them out of the island because they are scared for their lives. We’re talking about 3.5 million people on an island, with no food, no drinking water, no electricity, homes are gone. Family if you have the means to get your people out, do it.
This is just the first week. Imagine the days and weeks to come.
These are bad people doing bad things to our most vulnerable. Imagine a few weeks with no resources and the most vulnerable become desperate.
What are you capable of doing if your children are sick and hungry? We have to help.”Multiply this by the millions suffering in the wake of similar disasters in recent weeks - all over the globe. Whether due to storm, flood, or earthquake, the survivors are lacking the most basic supplies to sustain life - food, water, and sewage disposal. They are being plagued by insects, hungry packs of roaming animals, disease-infested and chemical-tainted water. There is no relief from the heat. The jobs disappeared into the rubble left behind. And to top it all off, they must contend with fellow human beings who are taking advantage of the situation for their own evil desires.
This is not the end. It's just the beginning of greater horrors to come - worse disasters spread over a greater area and affecting even more people. Don't be like the obstinate people of Noah's day who refused to heed the warnings.
Yalkut Reuveni: "...the depths will rise up and flood the world, and there will remain the Land of Israel, which will be like the Ark of Noah."Get on board the ark while you still can because one day not so far off, the door will close and HKB"H will seal it shut. Does the idea scare you? I hope it does. I hope the fear motivates you to do the right thing and does not paralyze you into immobility.
Choose right. Choose life. And HKB"H will help!
Quoting Or Hara'ayon...
ReplyDeleteThe worlds collapse and the wars that take place in it during the final redemption shall present a shocking scenario. Our sages said (Pesikta Rabati, 1): "When will the messianic king come?" R. Elazar said, "Near the messianic era, ten places will be swallowed up, ten others overturned, and ten others annihilated."
Has anyone else noticed how often the media is using the phrase "mass exodus" to describe the evacuations ahead of the storms and volcanoes and wildfires? Mida k'neged mida, the world wants to uproot Am Yisrael from its land and in return they are being uprooted.
ReplyDeleteAmericans are particualrly susceptible considering that their government leads the pack: ‘PM to settler leaders: US told Israel not to be a pig on settlement building’
"Netanyahu also told settler leaders that he believes US President Donald Trump will soon present a plan for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks."
And Greenblatt is back this week.
See also Anonymous - We Have Never Seen Anything Like This Before!
Puerto Rico is a very very evil and filthy place and look at many of the puerto ricans who moved to the united states how they do such horrible things and even kill! We should not feel for them and they deserve every bit of suffering that they received. This is a sign that the evil side of red (edom) is finally crumbling and the golden calf is following with that and the Jews and good gentiles had better get with the program.
ReplyDeleteIt is not over yet but this is certainly a big process that is already bringing us to the final redemption l-rd willing this year and if this is really the case, then there is already no time so ready or not, it is coming. Whichever Jews are not ready for the new world and want to wallow around in their imaginary LA LA land, woe to them and those who missed the train because moshiach and redemption will not delay one extra second.
Jack
Unfortunately the modern human doesn't connect disasters to his behaviour vs the will of G-d. So there is no way for teshuvah for them. It's sad, that the world has to be destroyed so much. Hashem gave us such a nice place and the people are destroying it.... lets hope, that there is Rachmanus on Eretz haKodesh bc of all the holy people that learn torah and do mitzvos as it should be. May Hashem save us!
ReplyDeleteA lot of gasping and using biblical phrases, but they still don’t get it!
ReplyDeleteWhat will Shamayim do next?