"How to Fight the Evil Regime" - Part 1

 21 Shevat 5781

For those asking about Rabbi Anava, we don't know for sure why he is, so-to-speak, missing in action, but HKB"H knows.  Please ask Him to intervene in whatever way is required to restore our teacher to us.  Rabbi Anava's voice is tremendously needed and tremendously missed.  Be praying for Alon Yehudah Yosef ben Chana Miriam.

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For all those who want to "fight" their way out of the situation we find ourselves in, I have a message for you.  

Face it, we are a prey, and the trap has already been sprung - we are caught.  We can no more "fight" The Powers That Be of the New World Order than we could fight Paro and his army, which would have actually been much easier.  We don't even know WHO is at the top of the NWO pyramid.  How are you going to reach them?  How are you going to affect them?  They are, right now, holding entire governments all around the world in the palm of their hands.  

There IS something you can do, but you can't "fight" this in any traditional way - like storming the Bastille, or blowing up Parliament, or dumping the tea into the harbor.  Do I even have to say that you have no hope of change through democratic elections and that no one cares how many protests you hold or how many people attend?  These things accomplish nothing!  Where is Gush Katif today?  And those who voted in favor of it are ruling here at this moment!

So.  We find ourselves between the proverbial rock and the hard place with nowhere to turn but up.  When every other avenue is blocked, "up" is always open and available.  

Oh, I can already hear the groans - oh ye of little-to-no-faith!!  Prayer is not the last thing on the list after everything else has been exhausted!  It is the FIRST thing on the list so that anything else we do will meet with success. Without Hashem's blessing, we aren't going to get anywhere good.  But in just such a situation, we've already heard the words, "The Lord will fight for you!"  Remember?

We want and need deliverance from the power of evil in this world which has, here at the End of Days, reached its pinnacle of power - right before HKB"H destroys it forever.  

This evil feeds on fear and despair.  To rob it of its power, we have to increase in our emunah.  We can also steal power from evil by increasing in mitzvot, Torah study, and good deeds.  This is how the world is sustained at any given time.  The better job we do in these areas, the better shape the world is in.  So, what does our current situation tell us about what kind of job we've been doing lately?

Practically speaking, mitzvot have become very difficult, if not even impossible at times, to accomplish under the present circumstances.  And why do you think TPTB are attacking us in these particular areas specifically now?  Because they know how effective it is against them!!! 

However, mitzvot performed with the kind of mesirut nefesh (self-sacrifice) that is required today are worth so much more!! Furthermore, the higher our spiritual level, the greater effect our deeds have.  Rabbi Anava says we have to do teshuvah and make a tikkun for the damages we have caused in the past and become holy people.

In his video, The Next Six Weeks Are Crucial!, Rabbi Anava makes the following statements:  

When a person is sad and depressed, he is totally controlled, 100% controlled.  A storm is coming and the survivors will be kadosh (holy).   ...Unholy people are easily controlled. ...Make yourself holy.  No entity can touch you if you are kadosh.  ...Kadosh means separated and that's really our weapon....  People want to know how to fight the evil regime that is coming to annihilate us.  Only if you are holy.  If you are holy, nothing is going to touch you.

 Rabbi Meir Kahane wrote extensively on Kedusha in Or Ha'Ra'ayon:

God is holy.  He is the climax of kedusha. the well from which kedusha flows to the world.  In the world He created, He fixed the extent of kedusha and of separateness.  He gave kedusha to Israel, as it says,  "Be holy people to Me" (Ex. 22:30), "You must be holy" (Lev. 19:2): and, "Your camp must be holy" (Deut. 23:15).  S'forno comments on this last verse, "From impurity and loathsomeness."  G-d decreed that Israel must sanctify themselves.  He, therefore, further decreed separation from the nations and from the profane, because without it, kedusha is impossible, as it states explicitly, "You shall be holy to Me, for I, the L-rd, am holy, and I have separated you out from among the nations to be Mine" (Lev. 20:26).

From the Section of "Preparing For Mashiach" in the book The End Illuminated, Chapter 20: "Separate and Safe at the End of the Galus"...

The Yalkut Shimoni tells us that Hashem says:

I will separate you from the nations to be for Me.  If you separate yourselves from the nations, you are Mine; if you do not, then you belong to Nevuchadnetzar and his friends.

The Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Aharon Kotler zt"l, would say in the name of the Chofetz Chaim zt"l that in the final war, only a true ben Torah*, one who is totally disconnected from the umos ha'olam, will be saved.  Rav Nosson Wachtfogel zt"l repeated this and added that he has a tradition handed down to him from Rav Yehoshua Leib Diskin zt"l that in the last battle before the arrival of Mashiach, all "ehrliche Yidden" will be saved.  Who is defined as an ehrliche Yid?  One who separates himself from the goyim, who has no connection to their culture, their interests, their newspapers, music and books.  Hashem says about him, "This one is Mine," and the non-Jews will have no jurisdiction over him. 

 [*ben Torah - the degree to which one is connected to "Torah values."]

 ...Although the examples given by Rav Wachtfogel were newspapers, music and books, our primary challenge lies in the pervasive technology that surrounds us and the perverted world we live in.  Besides for the serious test that technology poses in the areas of kedushah - the issurim and spiritual destruction that come along with its usage, R"L, and the difficulty with focus that it causes - it causes the absolute breakdown of any barrier between the Yid and, l'havdil, the goy.  Indiscriminate use of the internet causes one to think, desire and act like a goy in all areas, as has become evident in today's society, R"L.

...Chazal teach us that at the time of Yetzias Mitzrayim, the majority of Klal Yisrael were enmeshed in Egyptian culture.  Only a small fraction distanced themselves from the Mitzriyim, and it was these Jews who merited to be redeemed. 

NOTE TO THE WISE:  YOU CAN'T WATCH NETFLIX AND BE HOLY!  You can't watch any movies or shows and be holy.  You can't be immersed in the political shenanigans, especially of foreign countries, and be holy.  You can't be following TMZ and know all the comings and goings of celebrities and be holy.  You can't read novels and be holy.  And keep in mind that holy means "separate."  Separate yourself from every non-Torah influence and you WILL be holy.

Rabbi Alon Anava:  "A storm is coming and the survivors will be kadosh (holy)."

(Continued in Part 2)