A World In Turmoil...

13 Menachem Av 5781 

A World Under Judgment.

...In the era of redemption, Ishmael will rise up and become strong while still hating Isaac, Jacob and their descendants. They will provoke kings and nations, while the world is sinking into a chaos of wars and tragedies. ...All of this will occur in an age of global collapse, which G-d will bring in order to punish the nations, sanctify His profaned name, defeat and eradicate false gods and religions, and publicize His Oneness to all the world. 

(Source: Ohr Hara'ayon, Vol.II, Chapter 29 "The Time of the Redemption" by Rabbi Meir Kahane, Hy"d, ztz"l)

In addition to the political and economic crises and the natural disasters, there have been an incredible number of explosions reported around the world.  Below is a list dated from the beginning of the year.  Notice the sudden increase beginning in June and continuing into July...

(With thanks to geulahgirl for compiling this data.)

January 3, 2021--gas depot explosion Lebanon

January 20, 2021 Madrid gas explosion

January 25, 2021 China mine explosion (9 dead)

February 13, 2021--Fuel Tanker explodes on Afghanistan Iran border

March 3, 2021 Bata military camp ammunitions explosion in Equatorial Guinea

March 29, 2021 Massive fire and explosion at Indonesia oil refinery

March 30, 2021--Cairo garment factory explosion and collapse

April 8, 2021 Ohio paint factory explosion

April 21.2021--explosion at sensitive Israeli missile factory

May 14, 2021--Oklahoma dam explosion (caused by natural gas)

May 23, 2021 explosion at Iran explosives factory

May 25.2021-- explosion on Sri Lankan container ship

June 2, 2021-explosion at  Iran oil refinery

June 6, 2021-explosion at Iran steel company

June 13--Gas explosion in Chinese city

June 14, 2021--Illinois chemical plant explosion

June 14, 2021--Fuel tank explosion in Russia

June 18--Lagos tanker explosion

June 28, 2021--fire and explosion at London train station

June 29, 2021--Gas line explosion in Texas

July 2, 2021--fire breaks out at largest Oil Refinery in Romania

July 3,2021--Gulf of Mexico Pipeline explosion

July 5, 2021 explosion in Caspian Sea near oil field

July 6, 2021-deadly chemical fire at Bangkok plastics factory

July 6, 2021--Iran pipeline gas leak blast

July 8, 2021--explosion on ship at Dubai port

• The cause of the explosion is not yet clear, but its strength suggests the presence of highly flammable materials. The Port of Dubai is also the busiest overseas port for American warships.

July 16, 2021--Gas pipeline explosion in Donesk

July 19, 2021 Explosion in Covid ward of Iraqi hospital (oxygen tank)

July 20, 2021 Aluminum alloy plant explodes in China

- יש דין ויש דיין -

There Is Judgment and There Is A Judge

A WALLER (HAYOVEL) UPDATE

 11 Menachem Av 5781

If by some crazy chance you don't know to whom or what the title refers, please just search this blog.  There are numerous articles, even a series of them, here detailing everything possible about an insidious missionary plot which has met with much success due to renegade, turncoat Jews and their 'rabbis' who have made it all possible.

For years and years, we tried to convince them that Tommy Waller and Hayovel were not what they pretended to be.  They said, "Bring us proof."  When we did, they said it was old information.  "They've changed now," they told us.  Well, here it is 15 years later, and the proof is still there (and current to last month) if anyone cares to know.

And despite his claims to the contrary, Tommy Waller has the same enemies he's always had among the Torah-faithful Jews.  I am very happy to be counted among them.  We detest and condemn the impurity and judgment he brings upon us and on our Holy Land with his idolatrous worship of the Christian god here.  And not only him and his family but also the hundreds and hundreds of other idolaters he is responsible for bringing here throughout all these years.  Now, he wants a million of them to join together in the Shomron and in Jerusalem to pave the way for their anti-messiah who is NEVER coming back.  Who do you think they are going to blame when he doesn't?  Who do they always blame in the end??

WALLER UPDATE

RELATED:  See JEWISH CRITIQUE OF NEW TESTAMENT.

That's What It's Really About

10 Menachem Av 5781 

"...הֲשִׁיבֵ֨נוּ יְהֹוָ֤ה אֵלֶ֨יךָ֙ וְֽנָשׁ֔וּבָה"

We want our Holy Temple back so HKB"H will return His Presence to our midst and so that we can come as close as possible to Him in this world.  What it will look like when it happens...

Yechezkel, Chapter 43

1   And he led me to the gate, a gate that faced eastward.  [Sha'ar HaRachamim]

2   And behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east, and its sound was like the sound of abundant waters, and the earth shone from His glory.

3   And it was like the appearance of the vision that I saw, as the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city, and visions like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar, and I fell upon my face.

4   And the glory of the Lord came to the House by the way of the gate that faced eastward.

5   And a spirit lifted me and brought me to the Inner Court, and behold the glory of the Lord filled the House.

6   And I heard Him speaking to me from the House, and a man was standing beside me.

7   And He said to me, Son of man, this is the place of My throne and this is the place of the soles of My feet where I shall dwell in the midst of the Children of Israel forever, and the House of Israel will no longer defile My Holy Name, they and their kings with their harlotry, and with the corpses of their kings in their high places.

8   By placing their threshold with My threshold and their doorpost beside My doorpost, and the wall was between Me and them, and they defiled My Holy Name with their abominations which they committed, and I destroyed them with My wrath.

9   Now they shall distance their harlotry and the corpses of their kings from Me, and I shall dwell among them forever.

10 You, Son of man, describe the House to the House of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; let them measure its plan.

11 And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, let them know the form of the House and its scheme, its exits and its entrances, and all its forms, and all its laws and all its teachings, and write it down in their sight so that they keep the whole form thereof and the laws thereof, and do them.

12 This is the teaching of the House; Upon the top of the mountain, all its boundary round about shall be most holy; behold, this is the teaching of the House.

13 And these are the measurements of the altar in cubits; the cubit, one cubit and one handbreadth, but the base one ordinary cubit, and such a cubit also for the breadth; and likewise on its border, going one span to its edge all around, and equally so the very top of the altar.

14 And from the base on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits; and the breadth, one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the greater ledge, four cubits; and the breadth, one cubit.

15 And the altar hearth shall be four cubits, and from the altar hearth and above, the horns shall be four.

16 And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits in length by twelve cubits in breadth, square to its four sides.

17 And the ledge, fourteen cubits in length by fourteen cubits in breadth, to its four sides, and the boundary around it half a cubit, and its base a cubit all around, and its ascent will look towards the east.
 
18 And He said to me; Son of man, thus says the Lord God: These are the ordinances of the altar on the day when it will be made, to offer burnt offerings thereon and to sprinkle blood thereon.

19 And you shall give it to the priests, the Levites, who are of the seed of Zadok, who are near to Me, says the Lord God, to serve Me, a young bull for a sin-offering.

20 And you shall take of its blood and place it on its four horns and on the four corners of the upper edge and to the border around, and you shall purify it and make it fit for atonement.

21 And you shall take the bull of the sin-offering, and he shall burn it at the end of the House, outside the Sanctuary.

22 And on the second day you shall offer a he-goat without blemish for a sin offering, and they shall purify the altar as they purified it with the bull.

23 When you have completed the purification, you shall bring near a young bull without a blemish and a ram without blemish from the flock.

24 And you shall offer them before the Lord, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and offer them up to God as a burnt offering.

25 For seven days shall you make a he-goat for a sin-offering every day, and a young bull and a ram from the flock without blemish shall they make.

26 For seven days shall they effect atonement for the altar, and purify it and dedicate it.

27 And when they have completed the days, then it shall be that on the eighth day and thenceforth, the priests shall make your burnt offerings and your peace-offerings on the altar, and I will accept you with satisfaction, says the Lord God.

The Day That Will Live in Infamy - 9 AV

9 Av 5781
Tzom Tisha b'Av

The Sages taught, "Any generation in which the Temple is not built, it is as if it had been destroyed in their times" (Yerushalmi, Yoma 1a). The same lack of merit resulting in its destruction has resulted in its not being rebuilt. In fact, the Midrash states a frightening outcome of not yearning for the rebuilding of the Temple, "All the communities that fell, it is only because they didn't inquire after and demand the Beit HaMikdash" (Midrash Socher Tov, Shmuel 31). What can we do to demonstrate our interest in, and increase our merit that the Temple be rebuilt? The Rabbis taught, "Those who study about the Temple, it is as if the Temple was built in their days" (Menachot 111a).  [Source] 

Rome and Jerusalem at War - 
The destruction of the Jewish Temple

 

A VERY SPECIAL DAY IN MANY WAYS

 7 Av 5781

Erev Shabbat Kodesh

Erev Erev Tisha b'Av

Parashat Devarim - Shabbat Chazon

(Excerpted from the Stone Edition Chumash Commentary)

The Uniqueness of Deuteronomy / Mishneh Torah 

...R' Hirsch explains that Deuteronomy was Israel's introduction to the new life it would have to forge in Eretz Yisrael.  Once they crossed the Jordan, the people would no longer see God's constant Presence and daily miracles, as they had in the Wilderness.  They would plow, plant, and harvest.  They would establish courts and a government.  They would forge social relationships and means to provide for and protect the needy and helpless.  They would need strong faith and self-discipline to avoid the snares and temptations of their pagan neighbors and false prophets.  To stress these laws and values and exhort Israel to be strong was the function of Deuteronomy, its laws and Moses' appeals.  Thus, Deuteronomy is not merely a review of the earlier four Books of the Torah, since "of the just over a hundred laws which are contained in this Book, more than seventy are completely new."  Rather, in his final weeks, Moses reviewed and taught all the laws of the Torah and the entire history of Israel - but in this Book, the Torah records the parts of his teachings that were most relevant for Israel's new life in its Land.

Haftaras Devarim

This Haftarah, the final one of the "three of affliction," is always read on the Sabbath that precedes Tisha b'Av.  As R' Mendel Hirsch points out, the prophet does not lament because the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed; rather, he laments over the underlying causes of that destruction.  And this annual lesson serves to focus the national mourning of Tisha b'Av not to the past but to the present.  It is not enough to bemoan the great loss suffered by our people with the Destruction of our Land, our Holy City, and our Holy Temple.  We must use our mourning as a way of initiating an examination of our present-day feelings, thoughts, and deeds.  What have we done to eliminate the attitudes and practices that thousands of years ago sent our ancestors into exile - not once, but twice?  How have we improved our approach to the Divine Service as a way of life, a life devoted to duty rather than a substitute for it?  Are our verbal offerings, like the animal-offerings described by the prophet, merely perfunctorily performed rituals, never internalized, never spoken from the heart, just from the lips and outward?  And, as R' Hirsch puts it, "Is our Jewish contemporary present already so deeply imbued with the Jewish spirit, so filled with the Jewish way of thinking, with knowledge of Judaism, with knowledge of the all-comprising and deep contents of the Torah that it could form a worthy environment for a Temple of God to be erected in our midst?  Does not the gulf between Israel and its God yawn perhaps wider that ever?"

~ SHABBAT SHALOM ~

Yad Hashem: You Gotta Love It!

6 Av 5781 

Can you  hear Hashem laughing?  Laugh along with Him.

Knesset speaker flubs vote, killing coalition bill for rabbinical court reform

A bill that would have reformed the system for appointing rabbinical court judges failed to pass in its third and final parliamentary vote Thursday morning because the Knesset speaker accidentally voted against it.

The “no” vote by Yesh Atid’s Mickey Levy gave the Knesset a 51-51 tie. Parliamentary procedure holds that a tie is tantamount to a defeat, killing the bill until it can be reintroduced again at a future Knesset session. Coalition sources said they would try again to get it approved next week.

Levy attempted to get special permission to change his vote after realizing his mistake, but the Knesset’s legal adviser ruled that he could not cast another ballot and the vote stands.

“Due to the fact that I cannot change the vote, my vote, there is no majority for the third reading of the bill and the bill does not pass,” Levy announced after the decision.

...Ahead of the vote, Levy appeared somewhat confused, calling lawmakers to cast their votes for the second reading instead of the third. When the 51-51 tie was displayed on a large screen, the plenum erupted into bedlam as Levy admitted that he had made a mistake and asked the lawmakers to be patient.

The vote took place just before 10 a.m. following an all-night debate in the Knesset plenum that began at 1 a.m.

...The defeat marks the latest in a series of setbacks for the government.

Interesting that a "Levy" was the one manipulated here. Hashem has His eye on EVERYTHING! And HE is the One ultimately in charge. This is just a reminder for us to maintain our faith in Him and His hashgacha no matter how dire things may appear to be.

Teshuvah and Atonement Will Rebuild the Beit HaMikdash

5 Av 5781 

Our Sages have a saying:  "If the nations had known what the Holy Temple meant for them, they would have posted guards around it to protect it."  So it stands to reason that if the Jews only understood what the lack of our Holy Temple means for the world today, nobody would be asking why we still need to fast on Tisha b'Av.

But what does fasting really accomplish you may ask.  If it's seen as just a way to make us feel sad over what happened in the past, probably not much.  

The only other 25-hr fast on our calendar is Yom Kippur.  On that day, we already understand that "afflicting" ourselves - suffering - provides an atonement for our sins.  If we look at our fasting, and other forms of abstinence, on Tisha b'Av the same way, then we will see that it is a way of atoning for the sins that not only brought about the destruction of both batei mikdash, but continue to prevent its rebuilding in our days.  

If the Jews, as well as the nations, could just grasp what the rebuilt Holy Temple would mean for the world, we would all be willing to do whatever it takes to ensure its reconstruction.

Imagine that your teshuvah and the atonement you can make via your own self-sacrifice of fasting on Tisha b'Av would create a stone brick which would be dedicated to building the Third Holy Temple.  Imagine that over all these years, all the bricks created by all the Jews fasting every Tisha b'Av have been accumulating and when there are enough in the stockpile to complete it, Hashem will give the order to rebuild.  Now, imagine that this year, your stone brick is going to be the final one - the one that all of creation has been waiting for these past 2000+ years!  Imagine the pure joy that will erupt in Shamayim!  That's how Tisha b'Av becomes a holiday.

Hashem, may all of our suffering be accepted as a kapparah in atonement for the sins which removed Your Presence and Your Holy House from our midst.  And may we merit out of the abundance of Your kindness and Your mercy to see the return of both, speedily in our days.  Amen!

A THIRD HOLY TEMPLE: What Does Judaism Teach about the Rebuilt 3rd Temple in Jerusalem? Rabbi Skobac

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 RELATED: Secular Israelis: Do you want to build the Jerusalem Third Temple?

Another Disaster in the Making? G-d Forbid!!

 4 Av 5781

Danger at the Kotel Hama'aravi

See also: MK Miri Regev: 'Writing is on the wall' for Temple Mount bridge collapse

Clearly, the Erev Rav regime does not have the will to ensure the safety of Jewish lives as it does not have the will to ensure Jewish religious practice.  If the truth would be known, any access at all is likely more dependent on the pressure from Christian organizations and the need to maintain some appearance of adhering to "democratic" norms.  But this is even less than a fig leaf!

There is no need to wait for the will, the money and the time to build another ramp.  There is another gate very nearby which could serve immediately in place of the Mugrabim Gate and that is the Chain Gate.  The Muslim Guards do not allow Jews to enter through this gate, but I know from firsthand experience that they have no problem at all with Jews leaving through that gate.  Therefore, there is no religious reason to forbid it.  It's political.  It's just meant to demonstrate Muslim control.  

The government has the authority and the power to immediately close the Mugrabim Gate, dismantle the dangerously weak ramp, and immediately designate the Chain Gate as the new access point for non-Muslims.

Short of that, the Chief Rabbi of the Western Wall Plaza should issue an order to close and block the entrance via the ramp due to pikuach nefesh.  In addition, the religious authorities are going to have to act to block off those areas of the women's section which pose a danger to them should the ramp collapse over their heads!  

Will people be upset and cry out in protest?  I sincerely hope so!  I sincerely hope it shakes up the status quo so that people stop sleep-walking through life and take notice of what is happening under their very noses.  I sincerely hope that especially in these days, of all days, leading up to Tisha b'Av 5781, that people will get upset and cry out over our sad state without our Beit Hamikdash - I hope they cry out to Hashem with all their hearts to bring us the geulah shleimah and the rebuilt Beit Hamikdash.