Avraham Avinu's Final Test

21 Marcheshvan 5785
Erev Shabbat Kodesh
Parashat Chayei Sarah

Sarah's Last Moments - A Deadly Trick
by Rabbi Eliyahu Hoffmann

...Rashi points out the proximity of Sarah’s death to the Akeidah. Quoting a Midrash, he explains that Sarah’s death was a result of the Akeidah. According to this Midrash, the Satan (Angel of Death) was exceedingly perturbed that Avraham was willing to go through with the sacrifice of his son, an act which stands as a merit for his decedents to this day. After repeated attempts at discouraging Avraham failed, the Satan took a different tack. If he couldn’t deter Avraham, at least he could scare Sarah – as they say – to death; literally. He appeared to Sarah and showed her how in the distance, her beloved and only son Yitzchak lay bound upon the Altar. The hand of her husband Avraham, clenching a sharp knife, stretched towards his neck to perform the ritual slaughter. In the moment just before the sacrifice (Avraham was halted at the very last moment), Sarah was overwhelmed by the vision of her son’s slaughter, and in a state of intense shock her soul departed.

It seems like the ultimate irony. Avraham returns home having navigated the most profound test of his life, to find his life-long partner has passed away; he has been left alone. Not only that, but her death was a direct result of his having obeyed Hashem’s command to sacrifice Yitzchak.

One of the other nine tests is that after leaving his homeland and arriving in Cana’an at Hashem’s behest, Avraham encounters a famine, and is forced to abandon Cana’an for Egypt, where food was more plentiful (the famine was restricted to Cana’an). The test was not to question Hashem – that even after having done what he had been told, things didn’t work out the way he might have wished or expected.

Compared to what transpires here, that test seems like child’s play. In Cana’an, the famine was “coincidental” to Avraham’s coming; here Sarah’s death is a direct result of the Akeidah. There, Avraham suffers the temporary inconvenience of prolonged exile; here he loses his spouse forever. Putting oneself in Avraham shoes, were it possible, it is almost unimaginable to not feel even the slightest touch of doubt or misgivings. “How could it be? Where have I sinned, in doing what You told me, that I should lose Sarah as a result?” If there were any test that could top the Akeidah, this was it.

What was the truth? Sarah’s time had come. In a Divine irony, Hashem arranged things so that the (aborted) Akeidah take place at the precise moment that Sarah was meant to pass away. Satan knew this, and grabbed a hold of the opportunity. In a ruse second to none, he played things just-so in order that it should seem to the observer that Sarah’s death was an outcome of the Akeidah, when in truth things were occurring according to the Heavenly plan. Each person is given a certain number of years upon the Earth; Sarah’s were up. No force, not even the Angel of Death, could take from her even the smallest moment of life. Rashi says that the reason the verse repeats, “… these were the years of Sarah,” at the beginning of the sidrah is because her years were perfect and complete – there was nothing missing.

The only thing that could nullify and revoke the merit of the Akeidah, even after it had been performed, would be if Avraham would, G-d forbid, regret have done it. This is what the Angel of Death, in bringing about Avraham’s final test, and his own last hurrah, hoped to accomplish.

Avraham, inimitably, took the incident completely in stride. His calmness as he patiently deals with Efron and the B’nei Cheis over Sarah’s burial plot is obvious. “And Avraham came to eulogize Sarah, and to cry over her (23:2).” The letter kaf in “ve-livkosa – and to cry over her,” is diminutive, to note that although he cried, he did not obsess over her death as one might under such circumstances, inconsolably sobbing over the irony of the loss and his possible role in it. He cried as one must, and he went on in complete faith that such was the Heavenly decree. He pointed no fingers and voiced no concerns. He saw the Satan’s ruse for what it was; a distortion of the truth accomplished by “slight-of-hand” and advanced knowledge of what the future holds. (see Nesivos Shalom and others)

~ SHABBAT SHALOM ~

The World Is Set to Self-Destruct...

 20 Marcheshvan 5785

...While Mashiach Waits in the Wings.

Testing the Nuke Delivery System

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ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

❗INT. CRIMINAL COURT ISSUES WARRANTS FOR PM NETANYAHU AND FORMER DEF. MIN. GALLANT.. "The warrants were issued for crimes against humanity and war crimes.”  Impact: Netanyahu will not be able to go to more than a hundred countries for fear of being arrested.

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▪ISRAEL’S PRESIDENT TO THE NATION: "I would like to address some of the events of the hour that worry me the most. We are in the middle of a war. We paid the price of thousands of murdered and wounded. We lost over 800 beloved heroic soldiers. Our sisters and brothers are still kidnapped in Gaza. Thousands of citizens are displaced from their homes.

And what is happening in the meantime? - Disparaging and humiliating treatment towards families of hostages. Accusing of the head of the Shin Bet and the Chief of Staff of treason and an attempted coups, the accusation of the Attorney General being an enemy of the state, and threats of impeachment from morning to evening. Shooting flares at the Prime Minister's house, and repeatedly accusing him of treason.

What the hell is happening to us?! Does this make sense?! Haven't we suffered enough?! Don’t we understand that this harms the security of the state?! Don’t we understand that this is how you break up a country?!

I warn you: you are destroying the country. This madness must be stopped now.”

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19 Marcheshvan 5785

(Part 1) 

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19 Marcheshvan 5785

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In Memory of Rabbi Kahane: The Legacy of Kach

18 Marcheshvan 5785 

34th Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Meir David HaKohen Kahane, ztz"l, Hy"d,
Murdered, Assassinated for Telling the Truth

Background

Kach (Hebrew: כך, lit. 'Thus') was a radical Orthodox Jewish, religious Zionist political party in Israel, existing from 1971 to 1994.  Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971 based on his Jewish-Orthodox-nationalist ideology* (subsequently dubbed Kahanism), the party won a single seat in the Knesset in the 1984 elections, after several electoral failures.  However, it was barred from participating in the next elections in 1988 under the revised Knesset Elections Law banning parties that incited racism.

[*Which just so happens is simply Torah.]

Israel Democracy Institute

Founded in 1971 Kach ("This is the Way") was an extreme right-wing anti-Arab party with outright racist characteristics.*  The party was founded in the early 1970s by Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League, an organization that he had established in the United States a number of years earlier.  Kach's platform called for legislation to transfer the Arab population from Israel before it became a majority and put an end to the Jewish state.  The party also championed the imposition of Israeli sovereignty over all parts of the Land of Israel west of the River Jordan (including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip), a transition to a state governed by Jewish law, and a radical change in the educational system that would emphasize Torah study and religious revivalism.**

[*By whose definition?  Not the Torah's.  **The bias is evident here.  What could be a more "radical" education program for a "Jewish" State than Torah and teshuvah?]

Israel Bans Kahane Party From Election

Oct. 6, 1988

The Central Election Commission today* banned Rabbi Meir Kahane's party from parliamentary elections next month on the grounds that it is racist and undemocratic.

[*Less than one month before the election!]

The commission ruling, on a vote of 28 to 5, was made under a law written three years ago specifically to disqualify Rabbi Kahane's Kach party from elections. Rabbi Kahane, an American emigre, advocates forcible* expulsion of all 2.2 million Arabs from Israel and its occupied territories.

[Rabbi Kahane always said he would first offer financial incentives and a request for the Arabs to leave.  Expulsion would only be a final alternative.  But it suits the bias and the defamation campaign to leave these details out.]

Rabbi Kahane said he would appeal the ban to the Supreme Court.  If the court upholds the commission's ban, the disqualification would be a major boon to the right-wing Likud party of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and could perhaps give the party the edge it needs to form a coalition to control Israel's government for the next four years.

[Netanyahu became the leader of the Likud only five years later.]

...the 10-month-old Palestinian uprising has driven thousands of right-wing voters* farther right, and surveys now show that Kach would get at least 3 seats in the next Parliament.

[All these voters' democratic rights were disenfranchised by the decision to ban Kach.  Some unbiased sources at the time estimated even higher numbers - 10 to 14?]

Mr. Smith said of Likud last week that ''without Kahane, they won't be able to get a majority'' unless present trends change.

...The Election Commission banned Kach from running in the last election, too.  But the Supreme Court overturned that ban, saying there was no law to support it.  So the present Parliament approved the law banning parties that are ''racist' or ''undemocratic,'' specifically so the commission would have a legal foundation for banning Kach this time.

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THIS IS HOW RABBI KAHANE PROVED TO KLAL YISRAEL THAT MASHIACH CANNOT GET ELECTED IN THE FAKE-DEMOCRATIC "JEWISH" STATE.  

MASHIACH WILL ARISE WHEN THE STATE FALLS.  

The Quasi-Jewish State, attached to Edom, has been performing the role of Mashiach ben Yosef as regards the ingathering of the exiles and fighting the wars of God, providing the physical infrastructure in which the Kingdom of Israel has been developing. 

In my opinion, the linkage of "Make America Great Again" and "Make Israel Great Again" is a clear sign of the attachment spoken of by the Maharal (see link above) and will guarantee that as America goes, so goes Israel - that is, the State as it is today, which has become a mortal threat to the Jewish future.  

INEVITABLY AMERICA AND ISRAEL (THE TWINS) WILL FALL TOGETHER.

It's possible that this inevitable "fall" will be the event which is described in Zechariah 12:10-14 which causes mourning throughout the Land.  

...they shall look to Me because of those who have been thrust through.

All of the sacrifice of the soldiers and the victims of terror and the physical destruction across the land will all be seen as having been for naught as the State appears to stagger and fall in battle.

...and they shall mourn over it.

National mourning over a nationwide loss is described.  When they launched their war against the Torah, the ruling regime lost all rights of leadership; however, they will never willingly abdicate.  HKB"H will wrest it from them and give it to Mashiach.

Imagine.  Had Rabbi Kahane succeeded and been able to employ his "transition" plan, there never would have been an Oslo, or a Second Intifada, or 30 years of terror in the streets, or an expulsion from Gush Katif, or rockets on Israel, or an October 7, 2023.  There would be no hostages underground in Gaza today!!!!  No soldiers' funerals!!!!!!!   

ALL OF THESE ATROCITIES

ARE THE LEGACY OF LIKUD!

THE ONLY SOLUTION NOW

 IS REGIME CHANGE!!

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Rabbi Meir Kahane speaks after being

disqualified for the 1988 Knesset elections

PS: To anyone who wants to say Otzma Yehudit's inclusion in the current coalition is a sign things have improved since then, I insist it's really much worse off as a result. I'm still waiting for someone to answer a question I posed on this blog before. How is it that Baruch Marzel, Dr. Michael Ben Ari and Ben Tzion Gopshtein can be disqualified from the party by the Court, but it is allowed to run with Itamar Ben Gvir at the head?  (See more here.)

Decree for World Destruction

 17 Marcheshvan 5785

(See updates in the comments...)

Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Flood which came to renew the world and cleanse it of evil in the days of Noah.  HKB"H promised never again to destroy the entire world with water, but He didn't rule out other ways.  Some sources indicate a future mass destruction event that will come through fire.  

In light of that, today's news takes on an ominous quality...

Excerpt from Israel Realtime Updates:

❗MAJOR WORLD NEWS.. the US, France and UK have released Ukraine to use their weapons deep in Russia.  Russia has previously stated that doing so would implicitly mean those countries are directly joining the war against Russia, and Russia would respond appropriately.  Putin in a past interview: "It will significantly change the very nature of the conflict. This means that NATO countries, the USA, European countries, are at war with Russia.”

Today might go down in history as the actual beginning of WW3!! 
Hashem yerachem!!

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UPDATE: More from Israel Realtime Updates wrt Lebanon ceasefire...

One condition of the ceasefire calls for:  "...the establishment of an American-French-British international committee with an Arab country (it is not clear at the moment which country this is) whose role it is to directly monitor the implementation of Resolution 1701 by both sides."

The same ones who up above are to be targeted by Russia, very likely with nukes.  Perhaps Russia will take on NATO in Europe and leave the US for China or Iran.

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The Plan in detail from Israel Realtime Updates...

🔸LEAKED LEBANON / HEBZOLLAH CEASEFIRE TERMS..

- ceasefire

- Implementation of Resolution 1701

- Hezbollah's retreat beyond the Litani River

- withdrawal of Israeli forces from the villages they occupied

- the return of the displaced Lebanese

- The return of the Israelis to the north

The draft includes the strengthening of the Lebanese military forces and UNIFIL and the establishment of an American-French-British international committee with an Arab country (it is not clear at the moment which country this is) whose role it is to directly monitor the implementation of Resolution 1701 by both sides.

This includes granting the right to self-defense to both sides, while granting Israel extensive freedom in the interpretation of "right" to the point of military intervention to deal with any violation of the resolution by Hezbollah south of Litani that may also extend to Lebanese territory, in addition to the activation of UNIFIL forces and the Lebanese army to prevent Hezbollah from re-arming .

🔸THE PROCESS

.. Tomorrow US envoy Amos Hochstein lands in Beirut and meets with Lebanese speaker Navia Berry and Prime Minister Mikati.

.. Wednesday Arrival of Amos Hochstein in Israel with the draft signed by the Lebanese (but NOT by Hezbollah or Iran).

.. Thursday Amos Hochstein arrives in Paris, meets with President Macron, holds a press conference and announces a ceasefire.

🔸DETAILS THAT MATTER

2 generals are supposed to monitor the implementation.

The expansion of the clause that allows Israel to "attack in Lebanon" if it detects an incident related to the Hezbollah organization that requires a response IS that this will not happen immediately.  

That is, Israel will not be able to attack immediately however it discovers a violation of the agreement, but Israel will have to transfer to those generals that there is a violation of the agreement and they will have to examine it, each violation individually, only after they declare it a violation will Israel have the right to respond.

🔸ANALYSTS SAY

.. A lot of capability remains in the hands of Hezbollah.

.. With these terms it will be impossible to stop Hezbollah from re-arming.

.. As soon as the agreement is signed, Hezbollah forces will return right up to the border.  The Israeli residents of the north are not clear if they will return as we return to pretend peace in preparation for the next round.

.. While the IDF has demolished much of the Shiite villages near or overlooking the border that were being used as attack or launch platforms, Iran has already offered to fund their rebuilding - returning to the current situation.  

🔸THE HEZBOLLAH GAME

The Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper (affiliated with Hezbollah) reports that Hezbollah has decided to follow the strategy of "positive ambiguity" in everything related to the agreement.

That is, positive to move towards an agreement and in the next step details - opposition to Israeli freedom of action, determining the mandate of the supervisory committee, opposition to the role of Britain and Germany, in addition not only to opposition to Israeli freedom of action but also to active action of international bodies (aka UNIFIL or others).

I predict that there won't be a ceasefire agreement or if there is, it will signal the end of the Erev Rav regime.  

Who Are the "Un-Humans"?

17 Marcheshvan 5785

JD Vance blurbed a book by a conspiracy theorist that argues people on the left aren't even human

In his latest “weird” endorsement, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, blurbed a book that claims people on the left are subhuman and engaged in an “Irregular Communist Revolution” against the United States.

“Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them),” co-written by right-wing conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec and professional ghostwriter Joshua Lisec, is an attack on the left posing as a history of revolutionary “abuses.”

The book argues that throughout history there has always been a group of people on the left who “hate and kill.” A better name for those people? “Unhumans.”

...The book was also endorsed by right-wing political commentator Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.

...Throughout the book, Posobiec and Lisec argue that democracy “has never worked to protect innocents from the unhumans." They praise dictators such as Francisco Franco, who overthrew the Spanish Republic in the 1930s, and Augusto Pinochet, who led a coup in Chile in 1973 and "disappeared" thousands of his opponents, The New York Times reported.

Can there really be among my readers a person who never heard of the Untermenschen?

Despite this, Jews actually voted for Hitler and they did so primarily in response to the perceived threat of communism.  (See Assoc of German National Jews.)  

Don't you see?  The entire program of  "The Left," including the choice of Kamala Harris as the "Democratic" candidate was planned far in advance and implemented in order to scare the population into running to the other extreme - dictatorial powers for the president.  

This Chr*stian vision began to be implemented at least as early as 1980 because that is when I encountered it and participated in it until its true nature became apparent to me and I moved on in my search for ultimate truth.

Christian Nationalism On The Rise

 

Quick ending note - "Miraculously" surviving an assassination attempt is not a sign of righteousness or unrighteousness.  Hitler, y"sh "miraculously" survived 42 plots and 6 actual attempts to take his life.  There is no question that he was chosen to be a tool in HKB"H's hand, but recall that when Heaven finds the need to release "evil" on the world, a person bent on evil is chosen to fulfill that task.

"All of Our Ancient Enemies Return at the End of Days"

16 Marcheshvan 5785
Shavua Tov!

In case I failed to communicate my main message in my recent blogposts, let me make it more succinct.  Any American promise of annexing Yehudah v'Shomron is a trap for Jews expecting it to be a coup for religious Jews in Israel.  

The people behind it are not interested in a Jewish Israel, but a Chr*st-conquered Israel made up of "Messianic" (Chr*stian) Jews and Chr*stian Arabs with imported Western Chr*stians like the Wallers, etc.  The settler leaders who are big fans of Trump and his crew have been lulled into believing they are friends and allies.  They are gonna do what they are gonna do, but we should at least be honest and truthful about the agenda behind it.  It's not meant for our benefit.  The readers should be properly prepared for what is coming.

Here is the nominee for US Ambassador to Israel, again, on the peace plan which he advocates...

Mike Huckabee:  "The best thing to happen for Israel would be that the gospel would take hold in both Israelis and in Arabs and that the common ground to bring peace to the Middle East would not be something that diplomats would have a clue about.  It would be something that would happen not at a peace table but rather, at the foot of the cross."

In other words, all the residents of the Middle East should be converted to Chr*stianity and that will bring peace.

While laying a ceremonial brick at new construction in a Judean community, Huckabee said: “I’m building because I one day might want to purchase a holiday home here in Efrat,”....

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Here is the nominee for US Secretary of Defense with similar ideas for conquering the Middle East for Chr*st...

Pete Hegseth:  Prominent Tattoo of a Templar Cross (among other questionable things like Yeshu's name in Hebrew).

"While the Jerusalem cross is a symbol dating back to the 13th century and the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Crusades, it has since been viewed as controversial in modern times due to its links to Christian nationalism."

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Hegseth also has a cross and sword tattooed on his arm, which he says represents a New Testament verse. The verse, Matthew 10:34, reads, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”

He later added “Yeshua,” or Jesus in Hebrew, under the sword. ...He told Media Ink that he got the tattoo while in Bethlehem, Jesus’ birthplace, which is located in the present-day West Bank, where he was reporting for Fox Nation.

“Israel, Christianity and my faith are things I care deeply about,” Hegseth told Media Ink.

...Hegseth opposes the two-state solution and supports exclusive Israeli sovereignty in the Holy Land. He has also said the idea of rebuilding the biblical Temple on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount is a “miracle” that could happen in our lifetimes. Doing so would require the razing of the Dome of Rock, a mosque located on one of Islam’s holiest sites.

...there’s no reason why the miracle of the reestablishment of the Temple on the Temple Mount is not possible. (Source)

The man is really enamored with Crusader imagery

For those who need a short refresher course on Medieval history: 

The Crusades in 5 Minutes.

 

How the Crusades Affected Medieval Jews in Europe and Palestine

Jews got entangled in the Christian quest to recapture the Holy Land from Muslims.

by Joshua Levy 

 ...In 1097, the crusaders left Constantinople and marched towards Jerusalem, which fell in 1099. The goal of the Crusade had been achieved. In celebration, the crusaders ruthlessly slaughtered all of the Muslim inhabitants of the city. The Jewish community in Palestine was forced to surrender to the new rulers, or face execution.

...Urban II’s call for the Crusade did more than arouse interest in the armies that went to Jerusalem. Two other groups formed, both of which harmed the Jews: itinerant preachers and bands of German peasants. For the most part, the itinerant preachers were only interested in exploiting the Jews financially, demanding money for provisions. The peasant groups were much more dangerous. These bands coalesced around a charismatic leader and engaged in spontaneous violence against Jews.

In the early stages of the Crusade, these latter groups destroyed the Jewish communities in Speyer, Worms, and Mainz. There are accounts of these peasants ruthlessly slaughtering defenseless people, attacking Jews while in synagogue, and storming royal buildings to massacre the Jews.

...These anti-Jewish attacks reveal an interesting trend in medieval Jewry: the willingness of the Jews to die for their faith. This act, known as kiddush ha-shem (sanctification of the Divine Name), was quite common, according to the three extant Hebrew chronicles of the First Crusade. These chronicles report Jewish parents killing their children in a manner similar to Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac and Jews examining knives to ensure that the killing of their brethren was done according to the laws of kashrut. In some instances, Jewish martyrs insulted their Christian attackers before being killed as a way of displaying their ultimate faith in God.

The United States is literally moving in here.  They have bases and troops and materiel and their leadership wants to take control of the land for themselves.  Any Jew who is willing to assimilate into the Judeo-Chr*stian "One New Man" will be allowed to stay, the others not so much, as they say all will bow before their King Messiah (meaning accept Chr*stian rule), the rest will perish.  They are also intent on conquering the Temple Mount and building a Church-Temple (House of Prayer for all Nations) on it.

What I've shown you is a bare tip of the iceberg.  Just enough to prove the threat is real.  Just enough to ensure that you begin to view this "friendship" in its proper perspective, so you won't be fooled or surprised.  We are a lowly and weak generation.  

God, help us remain faithful and loyal to You and Your Torah!