10 Menachem Av 5777 For all the talk about building the Third Temple, the majority don't really want to build the Temple of Hashem with all the complications that would entail. What they really want is a synagogue on the Temple Mount. And not for Hashem's honor, but for their own - as a demonstration of their sovereignty, not Hashem's. They say we have to prove something to the nations of the world. No! We have something to prove to HKB"H! That we have have done sincere and complete teshuvah. And that we are ready to follow Mashiach's lead and not argue with his instructions. "When will Mashiach come? TODAY - if we will heed his voice." Why would Hashem send Mashiach if no one is going to listen to him? His first order of business will have to be to clean house. We can't welcome the Shechinah to a Holy Temple rebuilt in the same city alongside a "Pride Parade"...
Date of the 2017 Jerusalem Pride March was announced: August 3rd.
[Will Women in Green, Yishai Fleisher, Ari Fuld and the other hundreds of people who joined the March Around the Walls and who ascended to Har Habayit on Tisha b'Av also join the protest against this "March" - this very public desecration of G-d's Name and Jerusalem's holiness? Because this is a first step towards building the Third Temple.]
Any such "Temple," which will welcome also all religions inside it, will be a Temple to avodah zarah, G-d forbid! What god will be served there? The "All-love" Xian god? The "All-hate" Muslim god? Or the ONE GOD of the Jews Who is "All" with no divisions? Just like there is no forgiveness without repentance and there is no reward without punishment, there is no love without hate. Those who love Hashem are required to hate evil. Those who greet Mashiach with love and joy will have one common trait. They will fear nothing except HKB"H, because anything that you fear more than God, whether it be the authorities, public opinion or the loss of your life, is already set higher in your mind and heart than HKB"H and this is what you really worship as god. Avraham Avinu proved in his ultimate test of faith that he did not even value his own beloved and long-awaited son's life above obedience to Hashem. This is the legacy that he passed down to all his offspring. Every real Jew has within himself the capacity to reach this level of emunah and very soon - too soon for most - we will be called upon to demonstrate it.
10 Menachem Av 5777 Who goes to war with their brothers while trying to mount a rebellion against a formidable foreign power? The misguided nationalistic (it's all up to us) Jews of the Second Temple period who refused to listen to da'at Torah.
9 Av 5777 In my previous post, I wrote about the root problem that caused Tisha b'Av to become a fast day. Whenever a person has any doubt regarding HKB"H's goodness (lack of emunah), it opens the door to rebellion which leads to exile. Chavah listened to the serpent and believed that Hashem would withhold good from her by denying her the tree at the center of the Garden. In her lack of faith and trust in HKB"H, she disobeyed and the end result was exile from Gan Eden. Am Yisrael listened to the Erev Rav and believed that Hashem would deliver them from Egypt just to leave them leaderless in the midbar. In their lack of faith and trust in HKB"H, they allowed the Golden Calf to be built as a substitute for Moshe. Yet again, Am Yisrael listened to the ten spies and believed a bad report against HKB"H, that the Land of Israel really wasn't the great gift G-d claimed it was, that He had done all the miracles just in order to bring them to this horrible land to die in a horrible way, chas v'shalom. If you examine the reasons for why the two Batei Hamikdash were destroyed, you will see that it always goes back to lack of emuna and bitachon in Hashem. The yetzer hara tells us that HKB"H really does not have our ultimate good at heart, chas v'shalom, so we must turn to substitutes and take matters into our own hands. Avraham Avinu passed the ultimate test of emunah when he did not hold even Yitzchak's life above obedience to G-d's command. Do you wonder how he could do it? He absolutely believed in Hashem's goodness, that He would not ask him to make the sacrifice capriciously, but had only their ultimate good and blessing in mind. Am Yisrael demonstrated this level of faith and trust when they slaughtered the lambs and put the blood over their doors in Mitzrayim and again when they plunged into the Red Sea. But, keep in mind that they did so in obedience to G-d's commands. It wasn't something they thought up on their own and then offered it to G-d. This account in Shmuel Aleph, perek 15 is instructive. The prophet Samuel is speaking to King Saul regarding his failure to destroy Amalek...
...the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, 'Go, and you shall utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and you shall wage war against them until they destroy them.' Now, why did you not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but you flew upon the spoil, and you did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord?"
And Saul said to Samuel, "Yes, I did hearken to the voice of the Lord. I did go on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and I brought Agag, the king of Amalek alive, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. And the people took from the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the ban, to sacrifice to your God in Gilgal."
And Samuel said, "Has the Lord (as much) desire in burnt offerings and peace-offerings, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than a peace-offering; to hearken (is better) than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Since you rejected the word of the Lord, He has rejected you from being a king."
We would not be honest with ourselves if we did not ask "what is the point of fasting all these years?" The point is to make us aware of what we are lacking and I'm not talking about the obvious answer "we're missing our Beit Hamikdash, of course." The missing Bayit is a symptom, not the illness itself. We lack the Temple, because we lack faith and trust in HKB"H. As I've written here before on more than one occasion, Rabbi Kook brought down the Rambam that there is a clear order to the restoration of our nation: 1) we must appoint a king; 2) we must destroy Amalek; 3) we must build the Temple. It's a very logical progression. Once we have a Torah government, we can destroy the enemy who prevents the rebuilding. But, ignorant and faithless people propose to do it all backwards and so are doomed before they even start. If we truly want to rebuild the Holy Temple on Har Habayit, we are going to have to be willing to obey HKB"H to the letter of this order. We have to be willing to replace democracy with monarchy, to give up dreams of coexistence and be willing to annihilate Amalek, and to build the Third Temple in accordance with all the strictures of the Torah. There will not be a temple to avodah zarah here!!! Only once we have repented for the lack of emunah which leads to rebellion (failure to obey G-d's will), then will come the test to see if the repentance is sincere. If it is found to be so, then forgiveness and redemption will arrive hand in hand. However, there is first going to be a very, very big test of that repentance - a test of our faith in HKB"H - to see if it is really sincere and only those who pass the test will remain in this world to enjoy the messianic era. Secrets of the Greatest Emunah Test
9 Av 5777 I urge everyone to recall the root of all our troubles on this date. It started on the 17th of Tamuz with the fear that Moshe would not return as promised, so the Golden Calf was built to be his replacement and to lead us back to Egypt. Then, the next big thing which happened on Tisha b'Av itself was the result of the bad report by the spies about the Land of Israel which made Am Yisrael cry from fear and refuse to enter the Land. Fear resulting from lack of emuna in Hashem led to disobedience and rebellion against Hashem. This was the root of our problems then and it remains the root of our problems today. Until this problem is solved, nothing will ever change. If we do not solve it ourselves, Hashem will force His own solution, but it will be much better and easier for us if we do it ourselves. That is why the delay has been so long. But, Hashem won't wait forever.
Lack of faith and trust in HKB"H ---> Fear ---> Disobedience to G-d's will ---> Exile
Faith and trust in HKB"H ---> No Fear ---> Obedience to G-d's will ---> Redemption
4 Av 5777 BS"D Facilitated Communication with Binyamin Jerusalem, 12 Tamuz 5777 There Aren't A Lot Like These I'm very excited, very, very excited. Because I feel that the end is approaching in giant steps! I'm fearful, and I'm happy, but it's scary to think what could be in the very near future. All of us see already that there are wars in our world, very difficult wars, the most violent, murderous wars. Of death in a horrible manner, of lacking love for humanity, of murder of women and children... Oy! What can I tell you, something horrible and awful, and no one can stop it. And those who cry out against it - they also are murdered... from both sides... And we Jews living in Eretz Yisrael, and here in Eretz Yisrael - a huge danger. Millions upon millions of enemies surrounding us, but the time has come for a still larger, still scarier war which will affect the whole world. And not only that, it will collapse the economy, too. I don't know at all how the world economy is still standing, because in all the Western countries the evildoers have stolen most of the money in the banks. It all operates on "thin air", on "make-believe", there's almost no money at all in the banks. It's all numbers moving from computer to computer. And it has to collapse. How can it be that there is actually some economic progress in America?! What has Trump done until today to repair the damage that Obama did? Destruction that another two hundred years can't fix, just to destroy and rebuild anew. Here and there he does something, but it's not enough. It will take a hundred years just to repay the debts of America the Great and Powerful. And Europe - same story. And Australia - same story, and China - same story, and all of them, Russia, for sure same story, and we 'idiots' who believe in the evildoers, who believe in the doctors, who believe in the lawyers, and judges who sit in the courts of the goyim, and even in Israel which is pretend courts of Jews. We believe that they will help us, the mechanic will help us, the technician will help us, they are all helping us, we depend on them, but they are liars, and they can't save us. No one can save us, not 'Social Security', not Bituach Leumi, and no government office, no one, just HKB"H. Nothing will help us, only those who have very great trust in HKB"H will get through the near future relatively easily, only with absolute trust. The world we have now is so evil, since Hashem has returned to the world all the wicked who ever lived, with all the terrible things they do, with all their idolatry, they're all here right now. And we see a world full of evil that is impossible to describe. We see a huge lack of holiness, you could vomit from the lack of holiness that exists in our world today, and especially also among the Jews, and even Jews like Chareidim. The whole world is disgusting, wanting to go against nature, with everything. They are trying to make new creations to make another nature. They're taking the human body and trying to turn it into something else. They even have a plan to connect human beings to parts of machines, which will be half human and half machine. They've made a lot of films about it, so that people will get used to this whole idea, it's sick, it's sick, it's going against the nature that G-d created, woman - woman, man - man. Everyone has a role, woman - it's mother, it's wife of her husband, she makes the home, the husband - he works and he learns Torah, and he comes close to Hashem together with his family, and they make a home of modesty, of holiness, of Torah and mitzvot, and etc., holidays and etc. That's our role in Olam Hazeh, and never go out to make all kinds of careers, in stupid things, no! The world is becoming something anti-HKB"H, Hashem yishmor. But, don't worry, Hashem will finish them. All the evildoers will completely disappear. And those faithful ones who trust in Hashem will remain. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid! Whoever is with Hashem - Hashem will be with him. Whoever loves HKB"H - Hashem will be with him. Don't be afraid. But, it's not enough to not be afraid, we have to believe, we have to make a connection with HKB"H and start now if we have not started yet. Begin now to come closer and closer to Hashem, until we find Hashem, until we feel how Hashem caresses us and loves us and sends us only good. This is what we need to do in order to prepare for the near future. Because without this kind of preparation, we will suffer very, very much. I pity the Jews abroad because there it will be so much worse, But every Jew who understands that we need to come close to Hashem, and will begin now, this moment, to do it - every Jew who believes with all his strength that whatever HKB"H does is for our good, every Jew like this will be saved. And every gentile who believes in HKB"H, not oto ha'ish [JC], but in the name of Hashem alone - he also will be saved. There aren't very many gentiles like this, and there aren't very many Jews like this. Questions? Q. What do you say about everything that's going on now between North Korea, South Korea, and the US... A. It's all preparing us for war, if you're thinking there won't be a war - I'm sorry to tell you there will be a war. I don't know how long it will be - because the star will also arrive. And we are already entering into a difficult situation, everyone needs to hold tight, so to speak, to HKB"H, strongly, very strongly. Q. What about the prayers rabbis and tzadikim are doing in all kinds of places?... A. They feel and know that we are in very great danger, I only hope that a lot of people will go with them, because it is most important, ah, what would have happened before WWII, if only the Jews had prayed, if they had run to the kivrei tzadikim, and Europe was full-full, until today it's full of tzadikim, the graves of tzadikim. If only they had done this, if only they had made large assemblies, and returned in repentance, it wouldn't have been, the Nazis would not have had the power to do what they did to the Jews, but each one was more interested in his "business as usual." Therefore, no one prayed especially, and did not fear especially until the bombs began to fall. Then suddenly they were scared. And then they started to run. But, in Hungary, they sat quietly after everyone knew more or less what was happening, and did not flee, they simply continued like nothing - until they arrived, until the Nazis came. If only they had gone in large groups and cried and done teshuvah together - the whole Shoah would have vanished!
4 Av 5777 The US State Department says the Arabs are attacking Jews in Israel because they lack hope. An Israeli pundit said the same thing in a recent interview. Let me assure everyone reading here that there is absolutely no hope for Arab aspirations in Eretz Yisrael. Of course, those Western-minded Arab sympathizers are thinking hope for an independent, democratic state where they will be masters of their own fate - an end to "occupation." But, those who understand the enemy know that it is the hope of pushing every last Jew in Eretz Yisrael into the sea (or under the ground) that drives them. And in this regard, there is no hope for them. There is no hope of Jewish annihilation that will ever come to fruition. There is no hope that our enemies' plans will succeed in driving us off our land. Because they are not fighting the Jews, they are fighting Almighty G-d! No, there is no hope for them.
