Day 18 of the Omer
Rabbi Alon Anava...
The final war - What has been is what will be - The fall of the new world order
With no doubt we are heading towards the redemption. But on the way there will be a force, an evil power that will do anything to stop it... You need to WAKE UP and recognize who we are dealing with and what is their agenda!
"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun..." - Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 1/9
All I am offering is the Truth... The truth that is not so easy to hear...
And remember: Truth can only be seen by others with truth within them!
He who does not have truth in his heart will always be blind to truth!
Re: the sneak preview - WOW!
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Devash, i wonder if there's answers to the below anywhere.
ReplyDeleteMan was created again his/her will. Some men/women have rebelled, and are doomed to destruction. So why destroy sinners at End Times in a painful prolonged way which is =ALSO= against their will (such as months of starvation, ISIS, asteroids),
....unless they had acted precisely that way during life?
And even regarding that, i was always perplexed by the concept of nisyonot, and nahama dichsufa. Children don't feel "chsufa" and neither would I, not from my Creator, rather only from fellowmen. Given that, WHY place a "michshol" in front of someone who will fail it, but wouldn't have felt "chsufa" without the nisyonot to begin with?
Aside from that, if a G-d of rachmanut foresaw that people would commit atrocities, why not kill them sooner/quickly, rather than a long-painful death - post-atrocities?
As for those destined to exist in olam haba, why can't they just have the type of life there which would give them menuchat hanefesh? Not everyone has such high mental energy conducive to thriving in a spiritual plane.
M.M.
The soul is a part of God to which He gave self-awareness. That soul is pure and its will is that of the Creator to whom it is attached. That's why it is wrong to say people are created against their will. Their will is their Creator's will before they descend to this world and take on flesh.
DeleteOnce a soul is enclothed in a body, the body exerts a certain influence on the soul, as does the yetzer hara, and the generation into which one is born, the environment, etc. This world is not true reality. It is more like a holographic virtual reality set up as a learning/testing and building/repairing station. This level of existence is called Asiyah - the place of doing. That's why a body is required as a vehicle for accomplishing the doing, which falls into the categories I mentioned above.
Most souls probably do get side-tracked or even completely lost somewhere along the way in this world, but are given another chance through a gilgul to correct their errors and missteps. Only God has all the facts to make determinations about each person's life experiences and rewards or punishments.
To think we can look from the outside at any person and think we can judge how the Creator has treated them is the worst kind of chutzpah.
Part of having faith in God's goodness is believing without any doubt that all He does is for the best of each individual. After each soul has made the ultimate choice about whether he wants to serve the Creator or rebel against him, he either goes on to Gan Eden or to Gehinom for cleaning the soul of sin that still adheres to it. Irredeemable souls - those who would rather rule in hell, so to speak, rather than serve in Heaven, will lose their self awareness and that soul will return to its Maker as it was before it was given individual consciousness.
That is the only eternal damnation that there is. They no longer exist with independent awareness of individual consciousness.
Anyway, that's what I have learned over time, if I have understood correctly. Read the Ramchal's Derech Hashem (The Way of God).
Those who get Olam Haba receive it as a reward for hard work and life accomplishments. Hashem set it up that way for our benefit since human beings feel shame when they receive something as a gift, as if it were charity, rather than something they have earned by their own efforts.
M.M. @8:45 pm: First, these reshaim which are being described (watch Rabbi Anava's video) have since the time of Nimrod been at war with G-D Almighty and have never stopped. Only when 'Moshiach Tzdkeinu' comes, they will all be totally vanquished and that is a very, very good thing which every decent human being should be praying for. This world is the world of illusion and the test (trial) period before the world of Olam Habah. It's all a parable. Also, every Jewish neshamah has a portion in the World to Come and so will the righteous of the nations, but these evil doers will be finished for good. There is no Olam Habah for them!
ReplyDeleteHere are the footnotes from Rabbi Alon Anava's lecture.
ReplyDeleteActually it does state in pirkei avot "al korchacha ata notzar etc." And even if the concept of feeling shame (chsufa) if reward isn't earned, is oft-cited as a reason for nisyonot - that isn't the case with me!
ReplyDeleteSorry but i really can't relate. My experience (or shall i say hologram) has been too different.
M.M.
To refuse, to reject Hashem's Chesed, Loving Kindness and insultingly call it, nehama dkesufa, bread of shame, indeed was the horrible sin of the 974 generations before Adam. It was indeed the rejection of the perfect Creation and therefore, the Creator.
ReplyDeleteThese evil creature - souls could not bear that they were not G*d!
We, am yisrael, simple Jews, are not like that and want only that our Father in Heaven take care of us and there is no greater virtue, odd as that may seem at first.
Somewhat hard to write today, Yom Hazicharon. We are taught
not to be big philosophers at the Graveside.
Yet if there is a role to the filth of evil, it to recognize it for the evil that it is and that we learn and know to war total war against it. In that way we grow and become stronger until we fulfill Hashem's purposes and design.
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ReplyDeleteTo Anonymous 1:32, the point is, that while i don't know for sure what my attitude may have been prior to Adam's creation, the fact is, that in my current incarnation I wouldn't feel "bread of shame" vis-a-vis G-d, even if G-d would not give me nisyonot. So why was it necessary to impose such unremitting nisyonot in my current incarnation?
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M.M., you don't really expect anyone here to have an answer to that, do you?
DeleteExcuse me, but when i compare the laid-back, sleepy, non-competitive world which i witnessed as a child, when we used to travel out-of-state to visit my aunt & uncle,
ReplyDelete...when i compare that kind world to the world which i lived in, peopled by zillions of know-it-alls in the community always at the ready to dole out their two-cents about halacha, kashrut, and you name it, while constantly interrupting and never truly bothering to know where you're at, or to have the patience to grasp your point (like the Mad Hatter tea party),
...I will choose the relative "ignorance" of my aunt's and uncle's old-fashioned milieu ANY time. And I assure you that milieu had alot =less= nisyonot and competition, but guess what? They were all the nicer for it. Sorry if this disagree's with anyone's "lofty ideals" - but for crying out loud, someone has gotta call a spade a spade!!
M.M.
With all respect, M.M., you can hold whatever opinion you want, but all that really matters in this life is HKB"H's will which He revealed to us in His Torah. When we measure ourselves against other people, we tend to choose those whom we feel we can look down upon and then, we feel pretty good about ourselves. But, all that really counts is how we measure up to the Torah.
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