30 May 2025

Greatly Beloved by God

3 Sivan 5785
47 Days of the Omer
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Bamidbar - Shabbat Kallah

We begin a new book in the Chumash - Bamidbar...

...Hashem spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai ..., saying: Take a census of the entire assembly of the Children of Israel according to their families, according to their fathers' household, by numbers of the names, every male according to their head count. (Num. 1:1-2).

Tanchuma, Bamidbar, 20, teaches: A man had glass vessels, and he would take them to the market, set them out and gather them back up without ever counting them. Because they were of glass, he did not keep track of them.
He had other merchandise, fine pearls, which he would count before taking to the market, before setting them out and before gathering them back up. Because they were pearls, he loved them.
In the same way, so to speak, G-d said, “I did not count the nations, since they have no importance for Me, as it says, 'all the nations are as nothing before Him, they are accounted before Him as things of naught and vanity' (Isaiah 40:17).
Yet, you, Israel, 'are borne by Me from birth, carried by Me from the womb' (Isaiah 46:3). Therefore, I count you constantly.” Thus it says, “Make a tally of the male firstborn among the children of Israel” (Num. 3:40)...
[Source: Compiled by Tzipora Liron-Pinner from "The Jerwish Idea" of Rabbi Meir Kahane HY"D]

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With regard to the upcoming holiday of Shavuot which will begin on the evening of Yom Sheini...
...Atzeret is the name used by our Sages to refer to [the Shavuot] Festival, connoting that the essence of this holiday is as a concluding eighth day for the seven days of Pesach. The intervening period of forty-nine days is not considered to be an interruption, but is seen as a prolonged chol ha-mo'ed linking the first part of the holiday with its summation. In a sense, it is similar to Shemini Atzeret - the eighth and concluding day of Sukkot - and is therefore referred to as the Atzeret of Pesach.

By right, the concluding day of Sukkot - Shemini Atzeret - should also have been celebrated fifty days after the Festival. However, because of the difficulties of traveling during the rainy season, God did not burden the people by ordaining that they return to Jerusalem a second time (Yalkut Shimoni, parashat Pinchas 782).

There are five Scriptural references to the Festival of Shavuot: ...in parashat Emor...none of [the usual] names are used, for the essence of the Festival...is as a continuation and conclusion to Pesach.   (The Book of Our Heritage by Rabbi Eliyahu Kitov)
By pointing this out, my hope is that this Atzeret of Pesach 5785 might remove the curse of the Atzeret of Sukkot 5784.

~ Shabbat Shalom and Shavuot Sameach ~

29 May 2025

"Let's Make a Deal" (Let's NOT!)

2 Sivan 5785
46 Days of the Omer 


BREAKING NEWS #2... 

Waiting for further confirmation before reporting as it's all contradictory at the moment.  One Israeli site claims an agreement has been reached between Israel and Hamas and Trump will presently address the world with all the details, while someone else speaking for the government says no deal has been made.  There has been no "official" announcement as of 9:35 pm IST.

Note:  The claim that a deal has been made came via Saudi press.  Our reports say no deal yet but still under consideration if gaps can be bridged.

BREAKING NEWS...


IMPORTANT:  On this same Hebrew date, 58 years ago, the UN forced us into a ceasefire to end the gains of the Six Day War.  Will history repeat today?

All this wheeling and dealing is making my head spin and it makes the government look like a hamster running like mad on a wheel forever chasing his tail and never getting anywhere.  That's how this war is being managed.  It's like nobody knows how, or else is too cowardly, to take the initiative and really make the enemy beg for mercy rather then dictate the terms of OUR surrender!

Here is the latest on offer from Court Jew Witkoff...
🎗THE NEW NEW DEAL? Updated Witkoff outline submitted to Israel and Hamas proposes the release of 9 live hostages and 18 dead. 60-day ceasefire for negotiations on ending the fighting, at the end of which Israel can return to fighting if there is no agreement, or continue negotiations in exchange for the release of additional hostages. The IDF will withdraw from the areas occupied since the start of the new operation.

Alternate report, Arab source: The text of the agreement proposed by American envoy Witkoff was conveyed to Hamas last night includes the release of 10 live hostages and 18 murdered, half of them on day 1 and half on day 7. The proposal includes a 60-day ceasefire, during which humanitarian aid will be delivered through several mechanisms, and the IDF will withdraw to withdrawal lines to be agreed upon between the parties.

In exchange 125 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment for murder will be released, 1,111 prisoners from the Gaza Strip who were captured after October 7, and 180 bodies of Palestinians will be transferred. (IRT)
There just are no words.  It speaks for itself as well as for those who entertain such insanity and injustice.  

Since we are lacking, our enemies are going to bring Mashiach...


International Recognition of Palestine

As of March 2025, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 147 of the 193 member states of the United Nations, or just over 75% of all UN members. It has been a non-member observer state of the United Nations General Assembly since November 2012. This limited status is largely due to the fact that the United States, a permanent member of the UN Security Council with veto power, has consistently used its veto or threatened to do so to block Palestine's full UN membership.

The State of Palestine had been officially declared by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on 15 November 1988, claiming sovereignty over the internationally recognized Palestinian territories: the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. By the end of 1988, the Palestinian state was recognized by 78 countries.  (Wiki)

With so much attention being given to Gaza, Yehudah and Shomron have mostly been operating under the radar, so-to-speak.  I think WW3 is the only thing that's going to stop things in their tracks and provide us with the breathing space to do what must be done.  Otherwise, this is what our immediate future looks like...



Do you imagine that this had anything to do with the grand royal reception Trump received in the Arab world during his recent trip there?  The Arabs know how to make a deal, too.

Saudi Arabia - his host - is the co-chair of this UN Conference on the Two-State Solution coming up on June 17, 2025.  

How soon we forget that Trump already said he gave some good things to Israel during his first term and now it would be the turn of the Palestinians.  The constant swinging back and forth of the Gaza pendulum and now all of the uproar over Iran, even the Houthis, it's all a  smoke screen for the coup de grâce.

This just in as a final point on the "deal" under consideration:  "The US, Egypt and Qatar will be guarantors of the ceasefire, and Witkoff will arrive in the region to finalize the deal’s details."

Hashem have mercy on His children and count all our sufferings as a perfect korban and bring the geulah shleimah immediately!!  And so shall it be His will.

28 May 2025

The Mask Is Definitely Off - Destruction Looms

1 Sivan 5785
Rosh Chodesh
45 Days of the Omer

Only HKB"H knows how far and how deep runs American control of/in Israel, but their overweening pride and unshakeable confidence in their own power and self-righteousness have caused the mask of "friendship" to fall and reveal the true face of mastery.  Hashem yerachem aleinu!

The United States is no longer a mediator or facilitator of bilateral talks between Israel and Hamas. Israel is now on the sidelines (not even in the room!) while the US and Hamas negotiate Israel's future between themselves. (US negotiating Israel-Gaza ceasefire with Hamas through American in Doha, source says)
The US has been talking with Hamas through an American intermediary in Doha this week in hopes of brokering an Israel-Gaza ceasefire agreement, according to a source familiar with the matter, as US officials say President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Israel’s handling of the conflict.

The talks have been led on the US side by Bishara Bahbah, the American-Palestinian who led the group “Arab Americans for Trump” during the 2024 presidential campaign and who has been working on behalf of the administration, the source said.
After their abject failure, about a year ago, with trying to provide aid to the Gazans via a pier/docking facility which they imported, built and attempted to operate along the coast there, they are back in the form of something called The American PMC.
American Private Military Companies (PMCs) are businesses that provide military services, such as security, training, and intelligence collection, to clients, often governments or private entities. They offer a diverse range of services, including combat operations, logistical support, and strategic planning. PMCs have been particularly prominent in conflict zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, where they've been used to supplement US military operations.

The first distribution center opened yesterday, but I don't think it will fare any better than the pier fiasco.  The headlines tell the story...


However, as bad as it is, this is child's play compared to what they are doing to us vis a vis Iran.  I'm sure my readers are all aware already about Trump's sudden turn toward a "diplomatic" solution to the nuclear existential threat Iran poses to the State of Israel.  

Once again, The Orange Messiah attempts to save us from ourselves and liberate us from our destiny by ripping the matter right out of our hands and intervening to negotiate the non-negotiable directly! 
President Trump warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call last week not to take any steps that might disrupt sensitive U.S. negotiations with Iran over a new nuclear agreement, according to Axios. The message was reinforced during a Sunday meeting in Jerusalem between Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Noem emphasized that Trump is moving quickly and won’t allow the talks with Iran to extend for weeks or months. “Give us a week,” she reportedly told Netanyahu. She also stressed Trump’s desire for close coordination with Israel, saying, “I asked the prime minister to work with President Trump to make sure we are taking wise decisions together. He wants Benjamin Netanyahu to be on the same page with him.” (Israel Realtime)

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...The New York Times revealed in April that Israel had planned to attack Iranian nuclear installations as early as this month but was deterred by Trump, who preferred continued negotiations with Tehran. Netanyahu has persistently advocated for military action without US support, The New York Times reported.

Israel does not participate in the negotiations between America and Iran, The New York Times noted. The core tension between Netanyahu and Trump stems from their contrasting views on how to capitalize on Iran's current vulnerability.

In October, Israel eliminated crucial components of Iran's strategic air defense system that protected the nation's nuclear facilities, The New York Times reported. This would allow Israeli aircraft to approach Iran's borders without fear of being targeted.

...Israel has also weakened Hezbollah and Hamas, which receive Iranian funding, weapons and rockets, according to The New York Times. By damaging Hezbollah particularly, Israel eliminated concerns about the group threatening Israeli aircraft en route to Iran and retaliating with missile attacks following any strike.

Netanyahu has contended that Iran's weakness will not persist, making this the optimal time for an attack, The New York Times reported. Trump has argued that Iran's weakness creates an ideal opportunity to negotiate an end to Iran's enrichment program, supported by the threat of military action if discussions fail.

...To prevent negotiations from collapsing, Witkoff and Oman, serving as mediator, are exploring creative alternatives, The New York Times reported. These include a possible regional joint venture to produce nuclear reactor fuel involving Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations, plus some US participation. However, the location of actual enrichment remains undetermined.

...One concern for American officials is that Israel could decide to strike Iran with minimal warning, The New York Times reported. US intelligence has estimated Israel could prepare to mount an Iran attack in as little as seven hours, leaving insufficient time to pressure Netanyahu into canceling it.

But the same American military assessment questioned how effective a unilateral Israeli strike would be without American support, according to The New York Times. Some Israeli officials close to Netanyahu believe America would have no choice but to assist Israel militarily if Iran counterattacked.

Israeli officials have told their American counterparts that Netanyahu could order an Iran strike even if a successful diplomatic agreement is reached, The New York Times reported. (7-hour notice: US on edge over Netanyahu Iran threat)
Ok, so all of that is out in the open, but there is still plenty going on behind the scenes that we rarely, if ever, hear about and who knows how much more there is.  We were sold out by our own spineless, black-hearted, lily-livered governments.  Some background before I update you...


The Office of the Security Coordinator was established in March 2005. The original purpose was to transform and professionalize Palestinian armed groups following the Second Intifada (2000-2005). The office has since worked with the stakeholders to achieve security conditions stipulated in the Oslo Accords (1993/1995):

...The Palestinian Authority now have an increasingly effective and professional set of security institutions, capable of protecting and serving Palestinians in the West Bank. The office remains focused on coordinating institutional reform, facilitating security cooperation, and setting security conditions for a peace agreement.


...The Office of the Security Coordinator is a joint, international, and interagency team. It is headquartered in Jerusalem and led by Lieutenant General Michael R. Fenzel. The office is the lead U.S. government agency for synchronizing international support efforts and commitment to an enduring partnership between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

...Our coalition efforts benefit from the contributions of nine NATO members including Bulgaria, Canada, Italy, Greece, Poland, Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States. Our staff consists of military and civilian security experts who specialize in operations, plans, logistics, and the rule of law.

As mentioned earlier, Lieutenant General Michael R. Fenzel is the incumbent Security Coordinator.
United States Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority United States Embassy – Jerusalem

Lieutenant General (LTG) Michael R. Fenzel assumed his position as the United States Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority in November 2021

Prior to his arrival in Jerusalem, he served as Vice Director for Strategy on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon and previously as Military Deputy to the Special Envoy for Afghanistan Reconciliation at the U.S. Department of State. LTG Fenzel has also served as Director of Strategy for U.S. Forces Afghanistan and NATO’s Resolute Support Mission after holding positions as Deputy Commanding General, Chief of Staff, and Brigade Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. 

LTG Fenzel received his Ph.D. in Security Studies from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, advanced degrees from the Naval War College and Harvard University, and earned a B.A. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University, where he was also commissioned as an Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army in 1989. He is a White House Fellow, Asia Society Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Leadership Fellow, and a Life Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. LTG Fenzel is married to Lisa Campeau-Fenzel who is from Montreal. They have four children.

Yesterday was the first time I'd ever heard of this person and the first time I'd ever seen this Feb. 8, 2024 Tablet article as well. 

In early November of last year, barely a month after Hamas terrorists breached an internationally recognized border, murdered more than 1,200 Israelis, and kidnapped hundreds more, Michael Herzog attended a meeting on Capitol Hill. Israel’s ambassador to the United States, accompanied by his military attaché, likely hoped that the briefing would focus on the Jewish state’s efforts to defend itself from the heaviest blow it had ever sustained.

But the conversation took a very different tack. Instead of focusing on Hamas or Hezbollah, the lawmakers in attendance, sources told Tablet, including senior-ranking senators from both parties, wanted to focus on the risks posed by Israel—specifically, by roving bands of allegedly violent settlers in the West Bank. Lawmakers pressed the Israeli officials, going so far as to assert that uniformed IDF soldiers were escorting Israeli settlers to attack Palestinians.

Much of the information that these lawmakers were citing came from a single, ostensibly impartial source whose words carry weight in Washington in part because of his rank: Lieutenant General Michael R. Fenzel, a three-star general who currently serves as the U.S. security coordinator to Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC). The USSC is well-known for its regular, sometimes daily briefings and reports about “extremist settlers,” which it provides to members of Congress, policy hands, Israel-related advocacy groups, as well as to foreign countries’ forces in Israel.

According to sources in and out of the U.S. government familiar with Fenzel’s reports and advocacy, nearly every claim presented by the USSC as fact seems to have been lifted directly, sometimes verbatim, from the websites of highly partisan pro-Palestinian organizations, including the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA) and the far-left Israeli NGO B’Tselem, which accuses Israel of apartheid and receives vast support from European governments and from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.

In the past 12 months, 13 Israelis were murdered by Palestinians in Jerusalem and 17 in the West Bank—not counting those slaughtered on Oct. 7, 2023—while doing nothing more provocative than driving home or stopping for gas. The number of Palestinian civilians who have been killed by Israelis under such conditions over the same time period is zero.

But the story the administration has been telling anyone who will listen is very different. By scrubbing any mention of the daily violence directed by Palestinian terror operatives against Jewish civilians living in the West Bank from his reports, Fenzel has eliminated the clear retaliatory motive for the vast majority of attacks by Israelis against West Bank Palestinians. Thinly laundered reports from expressly anti-Israel organizations, designed to support an illusion of innocent Palestinians being violently attacked by bloodthirsty Israelis, paint a picture of an Israeli equivalent to the Palestinian atrocities of Oct. 7, lending itself an easy “both-sides” posture meant to ease the way to creating a new Palestinian state in both the West Bank and Gaza. With an executive order now in place, the Biden administration has all the tools it needs to crack down on any form of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria, and on anyone, in Israel or stateside, who supports it.

According to sources, the meeting with Herzog was designed as an escalation in a campaign to curb the so-called “extremist settlers,” which the Biden administration wants to isolate as a major threat to regional stability....

[The indictment goes on.  To continue, see HERE!]
Despite the proven impossibility of "coexisting side-by-side with our Palestinian 'brothers and sisters' in peace and prosperity," the Western Powers That Shouldn't Be are planning to force it down our throats and hope we choke to death on it.

The UN has scheduled a high-level conference on the two state solution to take place on June 17-20, 2025 in New York. As detailed below, the main aim of the conference is to obtain recognition of a Palestinian state from UN member states.

...On September 18, 2024, the UNGA adopted resolution A/RES/ES-10/24 titled Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences arising from Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and from the illegality of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This was one of 17 resolutions adopted by the General Assembly against Israel in 2024 with only 6 on the entire rest of the world.

Resolution ES-10/24 endorsed the flawed July 19, 2024 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice declaring the Israeli occupation to be unlawful under international law and demanding that Israel unilaterally withdraw from the so-called Occupied Palestinian Territory (i.e., the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza) — “Israel is under an obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible.” Resolution ES-10/24 goes even further than the advisory opinion, setting a deadline of 12 months from the adoption of that resolution for Israel to “end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”

In furtherance of that demand, resolution ES-10/24 decided to convene “an international conference under the auspices of the [General] Assembly for the implementation of the United Nations resolutions pertaining to the question of Palestine and the two-State solution…” On December 3, 2024, the General Assembly adopted Resolution A/RES/79/81 titled Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine adopted on December 3, 2024, which welcomed the decision in resolution ES-10/24 to convene that conference and sets out the modalities for the conference in an annex.

According to the modalities in the annex, the conference will be entitled High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution. It will take place in June 2025 in New York, is to be co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, and is open to participation by all UN member states and observers, as well as UN entities. The Secretary-General and UNGA President “are encouraged to give the highest visibility to the Conference.”

The modalities state that the conference “will adopt an action-oriented outcome document” the purpose of which is to “urgently chart an irreversible pathway towards the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine and the implementation of the two-State solution.”
GoguMagog started at the close of Hoshanah Rabbah just as our sources predicted.  This is another phase of that same war and it's only 20 days away on 21 Sivan 5785 - the second Tuesday in June, America's Pride Month.  This chillul Hashem that they force upon us every year at this time - in 2025, scheduled for June 5th in Jerusalem and June 13th in Tel Aviv - should be accounted for them as gross unrighteousness and bring final judgment upon their heads!!

The United States has been at the head of all of these efforts since accepting the mantle from Nazi Germany in 1945.  (Where Germany failed to eliminate the Jews through extermination, America has succeeded through assimilation.)  When we reach the end of the Oslo Line, that will be the end of the West as well.  You can count on it.  Destruction is looming over the West!!!  And that will be a happy day in Eretz Yisrael.
"Mount Zion shall rejoice; the daughters of Judah shall exult for the sake of Your judgments."  (Tehillim 48:12)

~ CHODESH TOV ~

26 May 2025

Redeeming the Inner Aspects of Kedusha

29 Iyyar 5785
Yom Kippur Katan - Erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan
44 Days of the Omer

Just wanted to share some critical information from last week's parshah commentary...

Ramchal on the Parsha - Behar: Redeeming More Than the Land

...The Torah proceeds to outline the various procedures with regards to selling and redeeming fields.  The fields are considered the outer aspects of kedusha which have fallen into the tumah and must be redeemed.  The loftier inner aspects of the kedusha are represented by the houses inside the walled cities.

And a man who sells his house in a walled city can redeem his property until the conclusion of one year.  If he does not redeem his house before a full year has passed his house which is in the walled city will be established for perpetuity as the possession of the buyer for generations, it will not be released in the Jubilee (Vayikra 25:29-30).

The houses within a walled city represent a loftier inner aspect, thus the Torah encourages the seller to redeem the property as soon as possible. To motivate the seller, the Torah states that if the property is not redeemed within the first year then it would remain sold without the option of redemption.  Houses located in fields, however, are given the status of the fields themselves, which if not immediately redeemed will be returned in the Yovel to the original owner.  Why does the Torah grant additional motivation to the seller of houses in walled cities, and not to one who sells fields or houses in fields?

Houses represent spiritual roots and when given over to the tumah great efforts must be expended in order to extricate them.  Their lofty nature requires them to be returned to kedusha as soon as possible.  If Bnei Yisroel do not take appropriate steps to extract these aspects of kedusha from the tumah they will be unable to awaken this trend in the upper spiritual realms either.  The Torah therefore attempts to motivate man with these warnings.  The houses within walled cities represent the inner aspects of the kedusha, while fields as well as houses situated in fields represent outer aspects of kedusha When the inner aspects are elevated and redeemed, the outer aspects will automatically be elevated and redeemed as well, as alluded to in the pasuk:

And the houses in the open cities which do not have walls around them will be considered like fields of the land, they will have redemption and they will be released in the Jubilee (Vayikra 25:31).

These properties revert back to the original owner even without any action on the part of the seller to redeem them.

How do we awaken the redemption of the inner aspects of the kedusha, which will elevate Bnei Yisroel and the Shechina from the tumah of exileThe only way to accomplish this is by learning Torah and observing mitzvoth.  Malachi, last of the prophets, therefore admonishes Bnei Yisroel:

Remember the Torah of Moshe My servant, which I commanded him at Horeb for all of Israel - decrees and statutes (Malachi 3:22).

The prophet is informing us that by learning Torah and observing mitzvoth we are able to being about the redemption of the inner aspects of kedusha.  When Bnei Yisroel do so, then Hashem will respond by sending the מלאך הברית, "the angel of the covenant" to complete the redemption of the outer aspects of the kedusha as well.  The end result will be the complete and Final Redemption as the prophet continues:

Behold I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of Hashem, and he will turn back the hearts of fathers with their sons and the hearts of sons with their fathers (Malachi 3:23-24).

Unless we learn the Torah, we have no clue what we are supposed to do, but if we only learn and do not put into practice what we learn, we have not accomplished the job and therefore will not reach the goal.  That's why the Sitra Achra gives so much attention to disrupting Torah learning and persecuting Torah learners.  

When redemption feels very far away, it's time to double up on learning and performing!!  

May the learning of this Torah result in increased observance which will serve to redeem the inner aspects of kedusha and hasten the Final Redemption.

25 May 2025

Rav Richter Is Back!!

28 Iyyar 5785
Yom Yerushalayim
43 Days of the Omer

 Deep State, Fact or Fiction??


Wonders Never Cease

27 Iyyar 5785
42 Days of the Omer
Malchut sheb'Yesod

Call me a cynic, but I never expected to hear this from these rabbis.  Kol hakavod!  

In honor of Yom Yerushalayim, which begins tonight... 


A number of senior religious Zionist rabbis, including Rabbi Tau, Rabbi Aviner and Rabbi Nebenzel, issued a call to avoid ascending the Temple Mount in the shadow of the war, out of reverence for the sanctity of the place and fear of its desecration. According to them, entering the Mount at this time does not help the struggle against the enemies, but rather weakens sovereignty and violates our rights in the holiest place for the people of Israel.

The elders of religious Zionism, including Rabbi Zvi Israel Tau, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzahl, Rabbi Amiel Sternberg, and others, issued a call not to ascend the Temple Mount, "In these great days, when our people stand alone in a difficult and long campaign, facing many and difficult enemies, we must return and remember the source of our strength, the holy place, and from it draw strength and power."

In the letter they published, they read: "The wicked of the world who have risen up against us to swallow us, from the south and the north, they and their supporters throughout the world, draw strength, stubbornness and inspiration from their false belief that they are fighting for the honor of their sacred place. In their murderous tunnels they have drawn the shape of their mosque. But not like all the Gentiles, the House of Israel. We stand before the mountain of the house of our God, "high above the first place of our sanctuary", in terror, awe and holy adoration, and in the utmost protection of its holiness and its teachings.

"Maran Rav Kook, zt"l, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, would publish his warning before every holiday and festival against entering the Temple Mount.  Fifty-eight years ago, when we were blessed and by the grace of God, the Holy Mount was once again in our possession and ownership, the Chief Rabbis of Israel at that time, and all the great men of Israel from all denominations and circles joined them, published their severe warning against entering the Temple Mount: "For generations, we have been warned and refrained from entering the entire area of ​​the Temple Mount... We repeat and warn that no man or woman should enter the entire area of ​​the Temple Mount."

According to them, "From that time until today, the Chief Rabbinate has continued throughout its generations, and with it the great rabbis of recent generations, to repeat and warn with all force and at every opportunity about the severe prohibition of entering the Temple Mount, which is associated with serious concerns of the prohibition of karet, violating the commandment of fear of the Temple, and desecrating the Temple and its holy places, about which our master Bar Yochai said that it is "the most severe of all offenses in the Torah" (Tosefta Shavuot, Chapter 1)."

They wrote: "How terrible this place is"! The Temple Mount is not a place for settlement, residence, trips and photography. Strengthening sovereignty on the Temple Mount will not be done by wandering around and demonstrating in person, not by group photos and family events, not by 'establishing facts on the ground' and children's pranks in front of the police. On the contrary, all of these only weaken our hold on it, and as the book of Hasidim says: "Gentiles did not act frivolously and contemptuously in the House of God until Israel acted in it."

"We are not afraid of the Arabs who stare at the Mount, but of the One whose terrible name dwells there, of the One who commanded us to fear Him. Entering the Temple Mount today not only does not help us win the war with our enemies, but on the contrary only diminishes our rights and harms our belonging and ownership of our holy place - and as a result also weakens, harms and harms our war against our enemies."

In conclusion, they read: "Our soul longs and longs for the courts of the Lord, but to the sorrow of our hearts - we cannot ascend and be seen and bow before Him and do our duties in the house of His choice, because of the hand that was stretched out in His sanctuary. Precisely out of our longing and longing for the place of our life's home, we stand at a distance, in His awe and compassion and in holy fear, lest we offend G-d in His sublime holiness. We must be careful not to desecrate or diminish, in our actions and thoughts, the holy fear that is fitting in our relationship to the holy place.

"Full of expectation of salvation, full of courage and heroism, full of awe and holy fear, we stop and stand in front of the Western Wall, from which the Shekhinah has not moved, and we pray to the One who stands behind our wall, that He may raise us higher and higher, to be worthy to enter His house, that He may quickly build it there. And by virtue of the commandments of fear of the sanctuary, and preserving the sanctity of Har Habayit chayeinu, we will merit and that G-d will give us strength and might to defeat our enemies, until they are destroyed."  (May 23, 2025 - 1:00 pm)



Dozens of rabbis, including well-known heads of yeshiva from the national religious community, published a letter this evening (Tuesday) in strong protest against the initiative of the Minister of Heritage, Amichai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit), to hold government-funded guided tours of the Temple Mount.

Among the rabbis who state that this is a severe prohibition according to the halakhah are the head of the Ateret Yeshiva, Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, the head of the Ramat Gan Yeshiva, Rabbi Ben Zion Algazi, the head of the Western Wall Yeshiva, Rabbi Baruch Vider, the head of the Hesder Yeshiva in Sderot, Rabbi David Pendel, as well as the minister's uncle, Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu, who heads the Beit Midrash for the Training of Rabbis founded by the Rishon LeZion, Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu. Other signatories include Rabbi Zvi Kostiner - the head of the Mitzpe Ramon Yeshiva, the rabbi of the Old City, Rabbi Avigdor Nebenzel, and the head of the Shavei Hebron Yeshiva, Rabbi Hananel Etrog. (August 27, 2024)

Under conditions as they exist today, there is a massive chillul Hashem and chillul Makom Mikdash.  Not the least of which is massive Chr*stian intrusion into everything connecting Jews to Har Habayit.  The so-called Chr*stian Zionists are pressuring the nationalist Jews to renew the red heifer service so the temple can be built - in their own words "the anti-Chr*st temple" - because this is a prerequisite for the false god's "return"!

Arutz Sheva and Israel365 All In
With "Pastor Mark Biltz"


Nationalizing and normalizing avodah zarah on the Temple Mount.

I just saw a video of a Chr*stian woman from Indiana in a tour group on Har Habayit, praying openly and audibly, praising the false god, referring to him as such, and asking for the conversion of all the Jews and Arabs in the area.

If you really want to make kiddush Hashem rather than chillul Hashem, find a way to replace this regime with one which will outlaw this activity and enforce halachah at this holiest of sites, then we'll be in the right place, physically and spiritually, to rebuild the Holy Temple.  May that time arrive speedily and in our days!!

23 May 2025

Very Auspicious Days Ahead

 25 Iyyar 5785
40 Days of the Omer - Hod sheb'Yesod
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Behar - Bechukotai/ Mevorchim

[Traditional Shabbat post can be seen HERE.]

UPDATE: Iran-US Nuclear Talks End With Limited Progress

The fifth round of indirect nuclear talks between Iran and the United States ended on Friday in Rome with limited progress, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said.

He said, "The fifth round of Iran US talks have concluded today in Rome with some but not conclusive progress."

Albusaidi added: "We hope to clarify the remaining issues in the coming days, to allow us to proceed towards the common goal of reaching a sustainable and honourable agreement."

No decision has been made on scheduling a sixth round of talks, according to Iranian media.
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The fifth round of talks on a nuclear agreement between the US and Iran were supposed to begin an hour and a half ago in Rome.  As we wait to see what the outcome will be, there is a sense of it being make-or-break time.  Hence it's worth noting the historical significance of these days.

The Six Day War began 5 June 1967.  It was 26 Iyyar 5727, the 41st day of the Omer - Yesod sheb'YesodShabbat - tomorrow - is 26 Iyyar 5785.  Fifty-eight years on!

What we celebrate today as Yom Yerushalayim, commemorating the liberation of East Jerusalem and the Old City, including the Temple Mount, occurred on 7 June 1967.  It was 28 Iyyar 5727, the 43rd day of the Omer - Chesed sheb'Malchut!!

The Six Day War ended with a UN-mediated ceasefire on 10 June 1967.  It was 2 Sivan 5727, the 46th day of the Omer - Netzach sheb'Malchut!!!

Will the talks break down?  Will Israel launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran over Shabbat - a first strike like the Six Day War?  Will this be a continuation of that war to finish conquering the Land?  To get the Temple Mount back in our hands?

Interestingly, the Prime Minister was quoted yesterday as saying if Israel goes to war with Iran, he expects it to last a week.  Will it be during the final week of the Omer count again?  Will malchut return to us during the week of Malchut?  

If there is any news before Shabbat comes in, I'll update it in red at the top of this page, iy"H.

Reported 3 pm IST...


Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Rome on Friday for the fifth round of indirect nuclear talks with the United States.

The talks were scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Iran time, with Araghchi negotiating indirectly with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff. Oman is mediating the discussions.

The negotiations seek a new deal that would prevent Iran from producing nuclear weapons while easing international sanctions.

However, little progress has been made, with both sides taking tough public stances on uranium enrichment.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Friday, “It is natural that every round has its own sensitivities, especially in light of contradictory statements by U.S. officials and the new wave of sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic."

He added, “I must emphasize that the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is seriously and firmly fighting for the rights of our country - for the peaceful use of nuclear energy and the lifting of brutal sanctions."

Witkoff has said that the United States will not accept “even one percent” of enrichment capacity in any agreement, arguing that enrichment paves the way for acquiring nuclear weapons.

“We have one very, very clear red line, and that is enrichment. We cannot allow even 1 percent of an enrichment capability,” Witkoff said.

On Wednesday, Araghchi stated that uranium enrichment would continue inside Iran regardless of nuclear negotiations with the United States.

“Our position is completely clear - enrichment will continue with or without an agreement,” Araghchi told reporters at a memorial ceremony for officials killed in last year’s helicopter crash.

His statement follows U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s insistence that Iran should import enriched uranium rather than produce it domestically.

“If parties want transparency regarding Iran’s peaceful program, we are ready, but in return, sanctions must be lifted,” Araghchi said.

“We have never abandoned diplomacy. We will always be present at the negotiating table, and the main reason for our presence is to defend the rights of the Iranian people,” Araghchi added. “We stand against excessive demands and rhetoric at the table.”

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rejected U.S. demands on Tuesday, calling restrictions on enrichment “a big mistake.”

The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran now enriches uranium to 60 percent purity and has stockpiled enough material that, if further enriched, could fuel six nuclear weapons.

The negotiations, mediated by Oman, aim to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the easing of U.S. economic sanctions.

President Trump has repeatedly threatened to strike Iran’s nuclear sites if no agreement is reached.

In response, Iranian officials have warned that they may pursue the development of a nuclear weapon using their current stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.

The fourth round of indirect nuclear talks between Iran and the United States concluded in Muscat earlier this month. Iran’s Foreign Ministry described the discussions as “difficult but useful.”

After roughly three hours of talks, ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei echoed that sentiment, calling them “difficult but useful talks to better understand each other’s positions and to find reasonable and realistic ways to address the differences.”

Update and Follow-up...

25 Iyyar 5785
40 Days of the Omer
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Behar - Bechukotai/ Mevorchim

[Traditional Shabbat post can be seen HERE.]

Like One For Israel, Chosen People Ministries is a missionary organization in Israel dedicated to converting Jews to Chr*stianity.  It appears that they "caught" Sarah Milgram in their net, a Reform Jewess who was raised in the Kansas Reform milieu.  Baptism is normally done at the time of conversion - the first step after a declaration of faith.



When David Boskey first met Yaron Lischinsky at a small Hebrew-speaking congregation in downtown Jerusalem, he saw someone who was “soft-spoken, but not timid. Always smiling. Always volunteering.” They were like brothers, Boskey said — one older, one younger — drawn together by faith, questions of identity, and a shared commitment to Israel.

Now Boskey, 39, is mourning the loss of that friend. Lischinsky, 30, was one of two Israeli Embassy staffers killed Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., in what authorities are investigating as a possible hate crime. The gunman opened fire outside the Capital Jewish Museum, where Lischinsky and his girlfriend, Sarah Milgrim, had just attended an American Jewish Committee event.

...“It’s beyond tragic,” said Boskey, 39, who now lives in Kentucky, where he is studying at Asbury Theological Seminary and getting a Ph.D. in biblical studies. “He was a mensch.”

...Lischinsky, born in Germany to a Jewish father and Christian mother, moved to Israel at 16 and found a spiritual home in Melech Ha’Mlachim — “King of Kings” in English — a Messianic congregation near Jerusalem’s bustling Mahane Yehuda market. There, he translated sermons for English-speaking visitors and regularly stayed after services to talk about his future with Boskey, who led the youth group.

...Messianic Judaism is a religious movement made up of people who identify ethnically and culturally as Jewish and believe that Jesus — whom they call Yeshua — is the promised Messiah. [And God in the flesh!!]

...Still, Lischinsky’s religious identity has stirred confusion in the wake of his death. Ronen Shoval, dean of the Argaman Institute in Jerusalem, where Lischinsky participated in a yearlong program, described him to The New York Times as “a devout Christian” who “tied his fate to the people of Israel.” Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, also referred to him as Christian in a tribute posted to social media.

But Boskey pushed back on that framing. He said that Lischinsky, like others in their congregation, saw himself as a Jew who believed Jesus was the Messiah — and that this belief did not negate his Jewish identity.

Professionally, Lischinsky worked at the Israeli Embassy in D.C. as a research assistant, where he was passionate about the Abraham Accords and interfaith dialogue. He held a master’s degree in diplomacy. He served in the Israel Defense Forces (mandatory under Israeli law). His LinkedIn bio called him “an ardent believer” in peace-building.

...[Sarah] Milgrim, 26, who also worked at the embassy, shared that passion. Raised in the Kansas City suburbs — where her family belongs to Congregation B’nai Jehudah, a Reform synagogue... joined the board of the University of Kansas Hillel and traveled to Israel on Birthright.

In Washington, she became known as a skilled event planner who helped the Israeli Embassy partner with marginalized communities. Josh Maxey, executive director of Bet Mishpachah, a local LGBTQ+ synagogue, recalled working with her on several events.

According to an Israel HaYom article...

Before joining the embassy, she went for a long visit to Israel as a master's student and immersed herself in Israel's Neve Shalom Tech2Peace program to study how friendships between Israelis and Palestinians can pave the way for peace.

Ironically, the AJC program was "focused on how to promote humanitarian aid despite the ongoing conflict,"  i.e., to Gaza!!

There is no such thing as "Messianic Judaism."  It would be more accurate to call it Judeo-Chr*stianity.  There is only one authentic Judaism and that is Torah Judaism.   

This is the horrific situation now of Diaspora Jewry and it has flooded into Eretz HaKodesh via olim with an agenda - a Chr*stian agenda!

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A program for the event called it the "Secretary of Defense Christian Prayer and Worship Service." It was held at the Pentagon's auditorium and was broadcast throughout the building on its internal cable network.

While Hegseth made an opening prayer, the majority of the service was run by the defense secretary's personal pastor from a Tennessee church whose leaders have a documented history of advocating for male-led Christian authority over society.

Standing behind a podium bearing the logo of the Defense Department, Hegseth declared that "this is precisely where I need to be, exactly where we need to be as a nation, at this moment in prayer, on bended knee, recognizing the providence of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ," according to an audio recording of the event obtained by Military.com.

A video of the service was also posted online by the Defense Department.

Hegseth proceeded to add that the prayer service was voluntary but encouraged those in attendance to "let those you work with know about it."

Meanwhile, the pastor, Brooks Potteiger, prayed for the Pentagon to "become a place where Christians come together to do just this, and we see you move in power, not just through the Pentagon, but through our nation's capital and down throughout this great nation."
Diaspora Jews believe that Chr*stians are their allies against a common enemy - Islam - but one thing never changes:  "Eisav soneh et Ya'aqov."  The most radical of them - like Hegseth here - pose the most dangerous threat to the future of American Jews.  WAKE UP!!!

I thought it was interesting that the Forward article quotes a Chr*stian from Kentucky, while this one on Hegseth refers to his pastor from Tennessee.  Both of these states were pummeled last week by tornadoes with 28 fatalities recorded and an estimated $5 billion in damage.

~ SHABBAT SHALOM ~

The Source of All Our Troubles - The Broken Covenant

25 Iyyar 5785
40 Days of the Omer
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Behar - Bechukotai/ Mevorchim
"According to Alshich, the Torah relates the observance of Shemittah to Israel's arrival in the land that I give you to counteract the normal human feeling that someone's property is his alone, especially the land that he works with sweat and travail. The Torah emphasizes, therefore, that it is God who gives the land." (Torah commentary on Parashat Behar)
Interestingly, it is on the very verse (v. 10) which deals particularly with HaYovel - the Jubilee year - that the commentary states...
"The Jubilee laws bring home to people that the land and freedom are Divine gifts and that ownership reverts to whom He wills it."
After a long discourse on the laws concerning HaYovel, the Torah says...
"For the Children of Israel are servants to Me, they are My servants, whom I have taken out of the land of Egypt - I am HASHEM, your God. You shall not make idols for yourselves,...for I am HASHEM your God." (Vayikra 25.55-26.1)
This is followed immediately by Parashat Bechukotai and the chilling tochachah...
"This Sidrah begins with the idyllic blessings that await the Jewish people if they live up to their covenant with God, and are thus worthy of God's esteem. It then proceeds to the tochachah, Admonition, a sobering account of punishments, frustrations, and curses that will be the inevitable outcome of any attempt to destroy the covenant. Indeed, though God's underlying mercy prevents all of these curses befalling Israel in any one unbearable instant, a careful reading of Jewish history - and perhaps the twentieth century in particular - shows that they have taken place at intervals, before and during the exiles. Just as the curses have come, however, so the final blessings will come, for the final words of the Admonition are God's irrevocable oath that He will remember His covenant with the Patriarchs and redeem His children." (Torah Commentary)
And if anyone remains in doubt, for those who believe that they can set aside the Torah and put their own reasoning ahead of God's clear commands, our haftarah gives some strong advice...
So says HASHEM: "Accursed is the man who trusts in people and makes mortals his strength, and turns his heart away from HASHEM.* He will be like a lone tree in the wilderness and will not see when goodness comes; he will dwell in the arid desert, in a sulfurious, uninhabited land. Blessed is the man who trusts in HASHEM, then HASHEM will be his security. He will be like a tree planted near water, which will spread its roots alongside brooks and will not see when heat comes, whose foliage will be ever fresh, who will not worry in years of drought and will never stop producing fruit." (Yirmiyahu 17.5-8)
[*If a man puts his trust in people, his heart will turn away from Hashem.]

Yirmiyahu HaNavi then makes an interesting observation: "The heart is most deceitful of all and it is fragile; who can know it?" (Yirmiyahu 17.9) Good Jews can go wrong because their hearts lead them astray. They feel misplaced mercy and compassion where the Torah demands justice and reason. They choose the heart over the mind: "I, HASHEM, plumb the heart and test the mind; to give a man according to his ways, like the fruit of his deeds." (Yirmiyahu17.10)

Reward and punishment, the curse of exile and the promise of redemption. And the war for hearts and minds. That is our parashah this week. 

~ Shabbat Shalom ~ 

22 May 2025

Jews in the News - For Better and For Worse

24 Iyyar 5785
39 Days of the Omer 

Today's biggest news story and the facts that may not be so apparent...


Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were named on Thursday morning as the victims of the Wednesday night shooting at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC.

Lischinsky and Milgrim were both employees at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. According to Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, the two were about to be engaged and Lischinsky had purchased a ring this week with the intent to propose next week in Jerusalem.

Tal Naim Cohen, a spokesperson for the embassy, said the two were shot at close range while attending a Jewish event at the museum.

...Lischinsky, 28, moved to Israel from Germany at the age of 16. He moved to the US in September 2022 to work in the political department of the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

According to the bio on his Times of Israel blog, Lischinsky had a master’s degree in Government, Diplomacy & Strategy from Reichman University and a bachelor’s in International Relations from Hebrew University.

He wrote on his LinkedIn page: “I’m an ardent believer in the vision that was outlined in the Abraham Accords and believe that expanding the circle of peace with our Arab neighbors and pursuing regional cooperation is in the best interest of the State of Israel and the Middle East as a whole. To this end, I advocate for interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding.”

...Milgrim worked in the public diplomacy department at the embassy. She held a master’s degree in international studies from American University and an additional master’s degree in natural resources and sustainable development from the United Nations University of Peace.

“My passion lies at the intersection of peacebuilding, religious engagement, and environmental work,” Milgram wrote on her LinkedIn page. “While working with Tech2Peace in Tel Aviv, Israel, I conducted comprehensive research on peacebuilding theory, emphasizing grassroots initiatives in the Israeli-Palestinian region.
 
The event the couple were attending last night when a man yelling "Free Palestine" shot them to death was sponsored by the AJC.  Here is a further look at the "Capital Jewish Museum" where the AJC event was taking place.  It appears that it is a favorite event venue in DC. 

I can't imagine what made this locale such a target...