23 Iyyar 5781
38 Days of the Omer
05 May 2021
04 May 2021
IMPORTANT: RETRACTION OF ENDORSEMENT - EXPLANATION
23 Iyyar 5781
38 Days of the Omer
UPDATE #2: You can remove the word "interfaith" after the fact but it doesn't change the essence: Interfaith def. - relating to or between different religions or members of different religions.
UPDATE #1: I erred in posting a private email in public without the author's prior consent. For that, I am truly sorry and I ask Rabbi Weismann to forgive me. I have closed the comment section for this post.
The following has now been posted to Ilana Rachel's Telegram account. Had the invitation to the rally come to me in this form in the first place, I would never have advertised it. Chaval for the waste of time and all the confusion and misdirections and error upon error trying to correct it!!
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What did I not get from the title of Rabbi Weissman's email? It clearly said, "International Unity Prayer Rally." I guess I thought it meant JEWS worldwide. I saw there were two videos but I only viewed the first one, which I see is meant for Jewish consumption, while a second one is aimed at a gentile audience.
I also overlooked (and did not check out) the link to the livestream page, but my daughter did not overlook it and she did check it out. And there she saw who is really behind the whole thing...
The last time I encountered this woman was via her video called "Outcry to the World From Israel" which I shared just two months ago, despite my reservations due to the universal aspect brought forth in some of her remarks.*
I guess the cause - preventing the vaccine reaching the children - took over my Meron-addled brain and I missed the fact that while this "unity rally" does not call us to join together with the gentiles, it does call the gentiles to gather in unity with us, which in my mind is one and the same thing.
WE CAN'T PRAY TOGETHER WITH IDOLATERS NO MATTER HOW COMMON OR WORTHY THE CAUSE!!
Looking into Ilana Rachel further, we find that she is so inclusive that her Facebook page displays a favorite quote by Vandana Shiva - an Indian activist who is also Hindu.
Vandana Shiva is a leading Indian activist who is supposedly anti-globalism, anti-GMO and all the other things that can pull in those fighting the tyranny of a New World Order, but if we keep reminding ourselves that the ultimate goal is the destruction of the Jews as a unique and kadosh nation, then we can begin to understand how the forces arrayed against us are playing both sides against the middle.
If Rambam can say it is forbidden to give a gift to an idolater lest he give thanks for it to his false deity, how much more so are we, as faithful, believing Jews, forbidden to pray together with them - us to our God and they to their false gods?
We Jews together can make it better for everybody, but if we pray together "in unity" with gentiles who are at the same time praying each to their own false god, we are just going to bring down God's wrath and judgment on our heads. Instead of fixing the problem at hand, we will create even greater ones.
And this is why I am retracting my endorsement of this event and will no longer be sharing anything from Rabbi Weissman unless or until he corrects this error and rejects these associations.
My sincerest apologies to the readers and my enduring thanks to my daughter who keeps me on track.
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* Excerpted from "Outcry to the World From Israel" - Ilana Rachel Daniel: "...We have a tremendous opportunity to come together as humans - without the questions of religions. They are pushing us so far, they are making this complete reset. We get to actually be just humans, in such a beautiful way. As painful as these divisions that they have made we can actually come together in a way that's how it's meant to be."
03 May 2021
A Possible Key to the Meron Tragedy
21 Iyyar 5781
36 Days of the Omer
How is it possible to know if what happened in Meron was not just a tragic accident or whether it was a malicious act perpetrated upon the religious public? Answer: When the media immediately steps in to contradict eye-witness and survivor testimony and creates an alternative narrative which they then push with all their might. Because it was force-fed to every consumer of the media, that word "stampede" quickly took hold and now it is being used exclusively to portray the event as a bunch of out-of-control people intent on fending for themselves with no regard for others. (Correction: You can add the word "trampling" to that as well.) From sources that I trust outside the mass media, I know that to be a complete misrepresentation.
Sad to say that Yeshiva World News, despite its religious appearance, is just another lackey of the NWO, but most of my readers already knew that. I knew as soon as I saw that word "stampede" on their site yesterday that this would be one of those times that they would not be on the side of the truth. (They pick and choose, I'm sure because of the orders they receive from above. If they always lied, who would ever be fooled by them?) So, their headline story today brings a brand new perspective which "may explain" how it happened and it completely absolves the police.
Someone noted that the words are descriptive of cattle and I added a video of cattle being herded to the slaughterhouse. It did not look a lot different from the chutes and barriers the police set up to control crowds. Think about it. When did the "authorities" begin exerting so much "crowd-control"? Realize, too, that a phrase we've been hearing for over a year - herd immunity - is also a reference to animals. It has also been commented that the Elites of the NWO consider the bottom rungs of humanity to be just so much cattle to them.
But, however much we believe that the tragedy that occurred in Meron on Lag BaOmer was not an accident, but was something orchestrated by those whom we already identified as wanting to destroy Torah Judaism and those who embody it, we also know that they could not have succeeded without the permission of the Master of the Universe. So, that brings us to the bigger, and most important, question: Why did HKB"H let it happen?
I noticed that there is a common theme, if you will, running through the major events of the last, at least, year and a half. And it is not unique to me. I have heard others pondering the same thing. How many times and how many ways and in how many diverse situations have we heard this phrase repeated...
"I CAN'T BREATHE."
From COVID patients on ventilators, to excessive and inappropriate police force, to mask mandates, and yes, even to the killing field at Meron, where it is reported that people begged the police to open up the gates because people could not breathe, some fainting and falling for lack of air, the dead falling victim to asphyxiation.
I think this has to be the key to an ongoing, unrelenting warning emanating from Shamayim.
Everyone said this was going to be the first large-scale event to take place in Israel since the lifting of Corona restrictions, i.e. a huge step toward returning to "normal" for the religious public. But what if HKB"H isn't ready for that to happen, isn't ready for the fear to fade completely, because it has been serving a greater purpose in preparing us for another reality?
You can't judge from the victims. By all accounts, they were pure and unblemished korbanot and all you have to do is look at their faces in the pictures to know that is true. But what of the rest of us who are still in the game, still making choices, still determining our eternity? Are we really ready to receive our Mashiach, to ascend to the level of Har Sinai and come into the actual presence of the Shechinah?
Can we even have any clue about what it is going to take to bring us - all of us - to that level? Clearly, the vast, vast majority of humanity can't survive it, but for the sake of the few more who will make it in because of these Divine wake-up calls, the warning bells are still sounding - whether they be missile alerts or the sirens of ambulances in a mass-casualty disaster, or something yet unseen.
I don't know how many are aware, because the mainstream news sources are not covering it, but the Arabs are continuing to riot and perpetrate attacks which are increasing daily. They are back to gathering at the border fence along the Gaza Strip and sending incendiary devices across that then set fire to property on the Jewish side. The IDF and police are warning about a pending escalation due to the convergence of several things: the final days of Ramadan, the eviction of 25 Arab families from the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood in Jerusalem, the cancellation of PA elections, and the 'celebration' of Al Quds Day.
On the Iran front, the US has made a deal. Israel will most certainly be sold out. WiIl this finally push Binyamin Netanyahu to act? Will political desperation?? If, God forbid, we do finally come to an outbreak of open warfare with Iran, this "We Can't Breathe" theme has me conjuring images of gas masks and gas attacks, r"l, lo aleynu! Hashem have mercy on His children!
Maybe it's as simple as the fact that when HKB"H created us, the Torah says, He breathed life into us. Maybe this is all about telling the world that we have sunk so low that we no longer have any right to breathe on this earth - much like the state of the world before the Deluge - and the day is coming when the breathe will be sucked right out of the vast majority of humanity if we don't all of us do teshuvah for everything we can think of right now.
02 May 2021
"The State of Israel: G-D's Hand or Satan's? "
21 Iyyar 5781
36 Days of the Omer
New From Rabbi Yehudah Richter...
The State of Israel: G-D's Hand or Satan's?Why Are They Suddenly Calling It a "Stampede"?
20 Iyyar 5781
Day 35 of the Omer
I'll tell you why the media is suddenly calling the Meron tragedy a "stampede." They are pushing a new narrative that is meant to shift all the blame to the victims.
Sampling of headlines as of 10:30 am...
Yeshiva World News: List Of Niftarim R”L Killed In Meron Stampede Released
Ynet News: 10 boys and teens among the dead in Israel festival stampede
Jerusalem Post: Mount Meron tragedy: These are the victims of the stampede
Israel HaYom: Israel grieves for Lag B'Omer stampede victims
Various YouTube video titles...
While it Happened: Crowd Fleeing Chaotically in Deadly Stampede in Meron
Israel stampede: 45 killed, over 100 injured in stampede at Mount Meron
Israel: "People were completely crushed" - emergency worker on deadly Meron stampede
The list goes on and on. I did not come to the end of it. The second video title captures the mental image that accompanies the word "stampede" - "crowd fleeing chaotically." That is certainly not what was being reported from the scene in the initial aftermath. Unusually, the Times of Israel seems to have taken a more truthful turn and offered a more accurate description in its headline.
A "crush" more accurately reflects the facts coming out initially from those who were there and is actually just the opposite of a "stampede." This picture shows the actual place where the "crush" occurred...
You can see how people are hemmed in on both sides and constrained by those in front of and behind them. Initially, it was being reported that this flow of people was managing, albeit with difficulty, to keep moving forward but at the end of the passageway, police had barricades creating a bottleneck and that they inexplicably stopped the line exiting. The momentum from behind could not be stopped and those sandwiched in between were being squeezed tighter and tighter until, left with no more room to stand upright, some began to be pushed over onto others and pile up.
There were immediate complaints about the police and just as immediately, attempts began to deflect those accusations. This endless repeating of "stampede" today is surely part of a major effort to counteract the early reports. Clearly, any "stampede" was impossible and there are no videos of people running wildly and chaotically, trampling others underfoot.
Nobody heard of a "stampede" until now.
Interestingly, the police at this scene were at the same time hosting a delegation of Ukrainian police led by their top cop. They were reportedly going to demonstrate how they handle crowds of religious Jews as an instruction for how the Ukrainians might improve their handling of the Uman crowds.
I have to say further, that I am sickened to the core of my being by the blatant attempts to collect political capital off the tragedy before the dead were even buried.
Mount Meron disaster solidarity emphasizes importance of Abraham Accords
HASHEM YERACHEM!! The following was uploaded to Twitter on Friday. It was not accompanied by any explanation so I don't know if it had any connection to Meron, but the police attitude toward Chareidim is very evident in their actions.
[UPDATE: Rivka Levy says, "It's definitely inside Rashbi's tomb in Meron."]
30 April 2021
BD"E
18 Iyyar 5781
Erev Shabbat Kodesh - Parashat Emor
Day 33 of the Omer
Day 33 of the Omer
There will be much more to say about the heart-breaking tragedy in Meron after Shabbat. All we can do now is pray for the peace of the holy Shabbat to envelope the injured and the grieving with Divine healing and comfort. And may we see the final end of all sorrows and be reunited speedily with all our loved ones at techiyat hameitim!
29 April 2021
AND THE WAR GOES ON
17 Iyyar 5781
Day 32 of the Omer
We've heard over the past few days how one missionary family from America was able to infiltrate a close-knit, Torah-committed chareidi community in the heart of Jerusalem for literally years. But, they did not do it alone. They had a lot of help. Like all planted terrorist cells, they had the help of other locally entrenched Christian organizations, as well as a large bankroll from sponsoring "ministries" abroad. What's worse, however, is that they also received an inordinate amount of assistance from their victims, who are even now having a very difficult time accepting that designation as well as their own part in perpetuating the deception for so long.
After attacking the Torah and chipping away at it for so many years, our enemies - both within and without - have gone full-scale after Judaism itself. And they are doing it in the name of truth and justice, love and tolerance. In my very sad experience, most of our troubles begin with Anglo Jews in Anglo communities. One of the very worst offenders is located in a well-known primarily Anglo yishuv led by an even more well-known Anglo rabbi - R. Shlomo Riskin (who also has close ties to the Vatican) in Efrat located in Gush Etzion. His Ohr Torah Stone education organization has been at the forefront of chipping away at the Torah and as a consequence, Torah Judaism. We can't call it "Orthodoxy" any more because that word has lost all meaning - within today's "Orthodoxy" one finds all the other non-Orthodox and un-Orthodox of Judaism at large.
Not surprisingly, they are a bastion of "Orthodox" Feminism and have been trying for years to find a path toward ordaining women as rabbis. Today, they are celebrating their latest accomplishment in this regard.
An Orthodox synagogue in the West Bank settlement of Efrat has appointed a woman to be the community’s sole spiritual leader, the first time that a woman has held such a position in an Israeli Orthodox community.Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis was nominated with the support of 83 percent of the Shirat Hatamar synagogue’s voting members earlier this week, the synagogue announced in a statement Tuesday.Though other women have served as spiritual leaders in Orthodox communities in Israel, in the past it was only alongside a man who was the community’s rabbi....Mirvis admitted that there are “tensions” in her way of life — as a feminist woman in an Orthodox world that nonetheless will not recognize her as a rabbi or grant her the same rights as men — but that she feels she is choosing the way of life she wants.She said that while abroad she was, for the first time, exposed to Reform communities where she saw women taking on roles and activities not accepted in the Orthodox world. The sights, she said, did lead her to question some of the limitations placed on women in Orthodoxy, but she stressed that while there are aspects that bother her, she is consciously choosing the framework she lives in and that is what matters most to her.Rabbanit Shira Marili Mirvis, in April 2021 was chosen to be the spiritual leader for the Shirat Hatamar synagogue in Efrat. (Courtesy) Mirvis said that her rise to lead the community in the Tamar neighborhood of Efrat, began in a spontaneous natural way with people asking her questions of Jewish religious law because they knew she was studying the subject. From there she began to also teach Talmud and give sermons in the synagogue.For the past five years, Mirvis has been a student at the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership, a division of the Ohr Torah Stone institute, which runs a course for women in communal leadership and halacha, the body of religious thought prescribing Orthodox life.According to the synagogue statement, the course aims to parallel the Israeli Rabbinate material studied by men in order to become rabbis....“There is no doubt that this is a large step both for her, personally, but also for the place of female Torah leadership in Jewish communities in Israel and worldwide,” said WIHL director Rabbanit Devorah Evron.The head of the Efrat municipal council Oded Revivi also praised her appointment saying it is “a natural and welcome process” and that other women will follow her lead.The founding Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Shlomo Riskin, a leading figure in the Orthodox Zionist community, also gave his support to the development, the Kipa website reported.
The events of this week should point up the importance of monitoring who is claiming what for themselves inside our communities, especially as it concerns positions of authority, responsibility or leadership - someone claiming to be a rabbi, a Cohen, a teacher, etc. The higher the stature of the person in the community, the more scrutiny they must bear. That's not "racist" - it's prudent!
And the same goes for having the right to ask a person involved in Jewish life and life-cycle events, "Are you Jewish?" That is the saddest reality of coming to a "Jewish State" with the hopes of living a Jewish life and finding it infiltrated on every side by goyim and idolaters, legal or not.
...Last week, ITIM, the Jewish life advocacy organization I direct, filed a lawsuit in an Israeli regional labor court on behalf of an Ethiopian-Israeli mikveh (ritual bath) attendant discriminated against by a municipal rabbi. The rabbi, who is responsible for supervision of Jewish law in the municipality and is a state employee, directly challenged the mikveh attendant’s Jewish identity, and urged women not to use her services because of her Ethiopian ethnicity....In November 2016, the municipal rabbi called the plaintiff and asked if she had assisted women in the mikveh that evening. Yes, she said, she had. Next, he asked if she was Ethiopian. Yes, she said, she was. And had she converted to Judaism? No, she said, she had not converted to Judaism.She had no reason to convert, because she was Jewish when she immigrated to Israel.
Despite the misleading information in this article that the Chief Rabbis of Israel had accepted the Ethiopian Community as having a Jewish identity, they also required them to convert "from doubt" so there would be no question. The fact remains that tens of thousands of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel are Christians and this is well-known, hence the question.
They want to fix it so that Jews don't even have the right to question whom they are dealing with in this religiously pluralistic democratic system which allows everybody to call themselves whatever they want - even to a man claiming to be a woman and thereby having a right to enter the women's mikveh itself!!
And there is literally NO PLACE to go to escape this intolerable situation. If a Jew can't follow the Torah unmolested in the State of Israel, it's high time this political system be replaced with something that nurtures and protects it. NOW!!! There is no more time to waste!!
28 April 2021
NO COMPASSION FOR THE CRIMINALS
16 Iyyar 5781
Day 31 of the Omer
It has come to my attention that there is a lot of controversy right now on social media regarding the missionary family who infiltrated the community in French Hill. Some examples include urging rachmanus for the sake of the children and expressed upset over the idea of exhumation of the woman's body since she was buried in the Cohanic section of a Jewish cemetery, among other things.
Where is the outrage over the damage done to Jews? The father and even the deceased mother of these children are criminals! They perpetrated a fraud for years and swindled countless Jewish victims. These crimes will reverberate for years! By one report, an 8-yr-old Jewish child has already had to undergo a second brit!
The kindest thing that can be done is to deport the entire family immediately, including the exhumed body of the mother/wife, although the father really should be prosecuted. Stop already with the misplaced mercy. This man spent years harming Jews with no regret at all and his family were his willing and enthusiastic accomplices.
And don't tell me they thought, in their warped way, that they were doing a good thing, according to their religion. You can make the same claim for every goy that ever persecuted or murdered a Jew! And don't let me hear anyone ever again say, "we have nothing against Christians or Christianity." If you really don't, consider yourself a willful violator of the Torah.
ALL FALSE RELIGIONS ARE EVIL AND ALL WHO FOLLOW THEM ARE ENEMIES OF THE ONE GOD OF AVRAHAM, YITZCHAK AND YA'AQOV.
Nothing else comports with the Divine teaching of the Holy Torah!! Nothing of them will be left in the World of Truth.
I want the mercy and compassion to be reserved for this fraudster's Jewish victims and more than that, I want justice to be done as well.
And I'll add one more thing. I have nothing but utter contempt for the Jews who knew and kept silent for YEARS! No excuse is acceptable!
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