The Simchat Torah Massacre Foretold in 2015?

16 Kislev 5784

But before we get to that, we have to comment on this.

This week's haftarah details the downfall of Edom and here we have a clear sign that the day is very close now.  Washington's warning?  They won't be laughing long.  Evil really thinks it will go on forever.  The world is NOT hefker!!

White House Christmas tree takes a tumble

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Now, I was looking for something else, going through my archives yesterday, and came across a blog post I wrote in the summer of 2015 about HaRav Amram Vaknin, a mekubal from Ashdod whose students claim he periodically speaks to Eliyahu HaNavi and brings back messages.

Here is what was written then...

The message was very hard to hear. Eliyahu HaNavi said to the Rabbi, there is an existing and present danger like the danger of "Haman". (Everyone knows what Haman the Wicked wanted.)  After that, Rabbi Amram asked him from where goes out the coming future decree (from the south, from the north and from the center) spoken of in organizations (ISIS, from Hamas and Hizb'allah) that they're planning to attack us soon.

The Rabbi asked Eliyahu HaNavi "How many will die?" and after a few seconds, he said "thousands" spoken of as thousands of human beings.

The Rabbi asked what do the Jewish people need to do? He said to him tefillah, tzedakah, and ta'anit - prayer, charity and fasting. It's encumbent on all the daughters of Israel to participate in mass prayer in a cry with horns and trumpets and it seems, also a fast.

The Rabbi said "What can be done, I've already sealed it?" He asked of Eliyahu HaNavi, "When shall I tell it, tomorrow?" And it was said to him (Today, now).

Am Yisrael, we are in a danger that if it's required from us a fast, to increase in prayer and charity, then we're talking about a very, very large decree and it was said to the Rabbi that it's planned to break out really soon. Every day that passes without prayer is a danger.

One of his students, Adam,  provided further details...

A very great danger exists for Am Yisrael,...a danger the likes of which no one has ever seen before. The enemy is preparing very, very hard plans for Am Yisrael. People are going to get slaughtered in the streets like chickens. People will be killed on the roads and highways. ...a peril that was never seen in Israel. There's a need to open up a threatening and terrible war...."

And why? According to Adam's report, Eliyahu HaNavi told Rav Amram that there is no choice, because the people will not do teshuvah and will not leave the gashmiut.

I can't help wondering if the mekubalim, as is so often reported, managed to delay it until it simply could not be delayed any longer, because this sounds exactly like what just happened on Simchat Torah.  There's been nothing like it before.

I spent the next bit of time trying to find out where he is now and what he might have been saying since then.  I couldn't find anything.

HaRav Vaknin has a track record, so to speak, as he reportedly foretold the 'Gaza Freedom Flotilla' in May 2010, the deadly fire in the Carmel forest in December of 2010 as well as Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012 and Operation Protective Edge in 2014.