Guest Post: "A Short Vignette"

1 Tammuz 5785
Rosh Chodesh Bet
Erev Shabbat Kodesh 

Guest Post by Anonymous.

Feeling worn out?  Blue?  A bit played?  A bit gaslit?  There are reasons for your feelings, no doubt.

A short vignette...

For a few weeks before the attack on Iran, next to Highway 40, just outside of Mitzpe Ramon, and near the Southern Aerial Monitoring Unit (YABA), a makeshift base sprang up. Electronic equipment was brought in, the likes of which the average observer had never seen, an airfield was suddenly paved, light stands, tents, trucks, helicopters, shelters - an amazing array of equipment and a testament to the labor of our soldiers.

Every time an attack occurred, the base was used for helicopters, who whirred like giant locusts in the air, protecting the terrified but stoic citizens, swarming in the air around the incoming missiles.

On Tuesday, 25 June Trump made the “historic” announcement that we were all to have a ceasefire, from 7 am until 7 pm the IRGC would prove their ability to hold to it, and then afterward the IDF would have 12 hours to prove their forbearance until 7 am the following day. And if it all holds for 24 hours, it would hold forever and we could declare peace, so said Trump.

On the evening of June 25, a mere 12 hours into this situation, our Home Front Command suddenly declared that all prohibitions on work, travel, school, etc. were lifted and life was "normal" again.

It did seem a bit cavalier, especially considering the five deaths that occurred in Beersheva just seconds before this ceasefire experiment began, and no doubt caused much of the cognitive dissonance that many of us are feeling.

On the morning of June 26, not yet 24 hours into this ceasefire experiment, the impromptu helicopter base outside of Mitzpe Ramon was dismantled and disappeared.

The helicopters were gone, the light stands were gone, and everything else was being removed.

Let that sink in for a moment.

And now let it sink in for another moment.

Could this dismantling not have waited for 48 hours or perhaps 72 hours, just to be sure?

What responsible government would dismantle their defenses so quickly, given that five deaths happened in Beersheva less than one day earlier? Unless….

Yes, unless… Don't put a leash on that thought. Follow it through to its logical conclusion.

Could it really be that we were just unwilling players in a deadly theater show staged by uncaring persons only concerned with their larger agenda?

Could it be that our government has allied itself to the larger agenda, the agenda of reorganising the Middle East for the aims of others, consolidating their power, sending a warning shot to all fundamentalists (malignant varieties in Iran and later benevolent ones in Israel), keeping Israeli citizens scared and stressed as the financial burden of the war and damages trickles through their economy, and, like on Oct. 7, with willingness to sacrifice their own citizens while doing so.

Silly people!

Did you really think the head of the snake will be cut off, and you will live in peace?

You will, of course, but not through the actions of this or the US government.

Could it really be that this is Olam Hasheker.?  In technicolor?

Could it really be that nothing is true, except Hashem and our relationship to him.

Yes, it appears we have reached this moment.

Embrace it.  Savor it.  Swim in it.

This is the moment that will save you, if you can dive into it deep enough. Do an astral breaststroke through the universe, striving toward the Creator, Baruch Hu. He is there, waiting for you.

Really waiting for you, even if you have been a Baal/at Teshuva for years.

Now is the time to “get it” that none of this around us means a hill of beans, and the sooner we can stop believing in any of it, the sooner we can get on with believing in the only thing that matters.

In case it wasn't evident, this is a positive message. 😊

Breathe. The next contraction will come, and we will birth a new reality, and will be born anew ourselves.

~ SHABBAT SHALOM & CHODESH TOV~