The Rav has been speaking very strongly after davening, the last two nights.

The singing has been very loud, his voice has been very ‘strong’ – it’s a good omen, because the Tzaddik HaDor reflects what’s going on with the people, and for months and months, the Rav has been sounding quite ‘weak’.

But not today, BH.

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He gave a few more clues about what is really going on in Gaza.

Again, he emphasised that we are being lied to about everything.

Apparently, the Rav says Gaza has all the water and electricity they need – nothing got turned off.

Also, they have a massive ‘underground city’ in Gaza, with it’s own generators, that give them electricity in a way that’s ‘much better’ than what we have in Israel.

He said the main entrance to this ‘underground city’ can be found hidden in Gaza’s main hospital.

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He also said that Jenin is also full of underground tunnels too.

And the main entrance to Jenin’s tunnels can be found in that city’s main mosque.

Maybe, that explains this headline from two days ago:

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/10/22/jenin-mosque-bombed-in-israeli-air-strike

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I got an email saying this:

IF ONES DOES NOT READ THE NEWS (selectively) ONE WOULD NOT LEARN THAT:

PA armored vehicles agreed to by Israel move into position as Israeli citizens begin taking countermeasures

Are Jewish towns equipped to fend off ‘first strike’ attack by surrounding PA forces?

https://www.frontline.news/post/pa-armored-vehicles-agreed-to-by-israel-move-into-position-as-israeli-citizens-begin-taking-countermeasures

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I asked my kid, who knows a ton of people in the Shomron, if she’s hearing of anything troubling.

She told me no, BH, it’s pretty quiet there.

Here’s what I sent back to my correspondent:

Some vehicles moving into position – disturbing as that might be – is not a ‘takeover of the Shomron’.

All these headlines are just stoking more fear. If there’s important info, it needs to be shared without all these bombastic headlines.

more and more people are just turning it off, because they can’t deal with OTT fear porn.

We need to keep things as real, emuna-dik and ‘low key’ as possible right now, with the emphasis on spiritual solutions, and ein yeoush be olam klal.

More and more, this is beginning to remind of what happened with coronavirus.

Create a ‘problem’, amp the ‘problem’ every chance you get, drive people literally insane with fear about the ‘problem’ – and then provide a ‘solution’ that is a million times worse than the ‘problem’ could ever be, by itself.

Stay in your homes and pray!

I have a bunch of mosques blasting me at 5am every morning, currently really loudly because the arabs think they have the upper hand.

The first week it was very scary – but then I realised that if God wants me dead, then that is going to happen wherever I happen to live or run away to.

And that if God doesn’t want me dead – there is nothing anyone can do to me.

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I do my best to keep mitzvoth, to make teshuva, and to have God in the picture.

If that’s not ‘enough’ because God decided my time here is up and I’ve completed my tikkun – OK THEN!!!

In the meantime, I am not going anywhere.

And I am doing my best to only fear Hashem.

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BH, it’s getting easier to keep doing the sefer Tehillim.

It was pretty heavy in Jerusalem this AM, and I wondered if they’d gone into Gaza, God forbid.

But apparently not yet still.

I got on with finishing the book, and by this evening it’s feeling a bit happier here again – but very up and down and changeable.

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Also, just wanted to flag that the weather is acting very weird here – it’s getting hot at 7pm, when the sun goes down….

So, strange things continuing.

But more and more people starting to realise who are real enemies are, and that you can really only turn to God in the situation we currently find ourselves in.

That’s leading to a massive wave of teshuva here, and things ARE being sweetened a lot.

I’m praying that continues.

We are looking at 1,000 more dead, if they go into Gaza, God forbid.

Personally, I will carry on saying the tehillim every single day for another two weeks, if there is any chance at all of preventing that from happening.

There’s been enough death of young people here to last us a lifetime, already.

And may we just hear good news.

I would love to put more of the clues and hints of the Rav up, properly translated, but I just don’t have the time to do that at the moment.

So, here is a paraphrased breakdown of the main points, from the Rav’s shiurim from a week ago. My own additional thoughts are in [square brackets].

Saving Am Israel, at this point, rests on the shoulders of the Jewish women.

In particular, every effort to strengthen in tznius, and to lengthen the sleeves and hems a little bit, and to cover more of the hair, preferably so no hair is showing at all – all this mamash is saving the lives of our soldiers.

[Usually, the Rav barely talks about the tznius of the women. The last few years, 99% of the emphasis has been on the shmirat eynayim of the men. I was discussing with my husband why the switch in emphasis, and he thinks it’s because it was the merit of the holy women who got us out of Mitzrayim and broke that exile, and so it will be again.

[I will add to that it’s the guys who are going into battle here, and the Rav is probably also trying to avoid arousing a mekatreg upon our soldiers, God forbid.]

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Also, the women saying a book of tehillim every day – this is what is keeping the soldiers out of Gaza, and especially in the merit of the women who are saying three books of tehillim every day.

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The Rav mentioned a few times that the war will last a minimum of 30 days.

In another shiur, he said it will last either 30 days, or 60 days.

[30 days takes us roughly to November 8th, 60 days to December 7th.)

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The Rav is emphasising very strongly that going into Gaza would be a total disaster for us.

He is saying we’d have 1,000 soldiers killed just in the first wave.

And in another shiur, he is talking about 10,000 soldiers killed, if we go into Gaza, God forbid.

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He’s explaining that ‘Hamas’ is praying for a ground invasion in Gaza.

There are no roads, everything is ancient paths that are a meter wide, and everywhere is thousands of Hamas terrorists waiting with all sorts of rockets and grenades.

The Rav is emphasising that going into Gaza WON’T CHANGE THE SITUATION WITH THE ROCKETS AT ALL.

If we get rid of 100,000 rockets, then ‘Iran’ will just make another million to replace them.

But another solution will appear, if we keep up the tehillim and the teshuva, especially women’s modesty.

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The Rav likes to tell ‘Baal Shem Tov stories’, about topics that are particularly sensitive.

For example, he told a long ‘Baal Shem Tov’ story about people getting crushed and killed on stairs like cats and dogs, a month before the Meron atrocity occurred.

(You can read that story in OIAG 3, there’s a whole chapter devoted to it.)

Over the last few months, he’s been giving over a lot of stories about the ‘Baal Shem Tov’ and his daughter Adele and the shamash ‘Reb Tzvi’ getting kidnapped by ‘Heidamaks’ when they were on the way to Eretz Yisrael.

And how those ‘Heidamaks’ want to make the Baal Shem Tov and Adele into ‘shwarma’ and eat them….

I was finding those stories quite strange a few months ago…. but now the penny is starting to drop.

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The Rav returned to that story a week ago, and this is a translation of some of what he said:

And they [i.e. the Baal Shem Tov, Adele and Reb Tzvi] were endangered, in the hands of the bandits.

In the hands of the murderers. In the hands of the Hamas. In the hands of the Jihad.

Back then, there was also Hamas, back then, there was also ‘Jihad’.

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And also Odel’ah, and also the Baal Shem Tov, and R’ Tzvi – all of them were in the hands of the Hamas.

In the hands of the Jihad. And nobody knew [about this].

It was in the heart of the ocean.

[Previously, the Rav talked about this being on an Island between Turkey and Greece…. which points to Cyprus, and the many small islands around it.]

This is a distance of 2,000 kms from Eretz Yisrael.

Who is going to come and save them?!

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And then, the man who descended from the merkavah (literally, chariot – the Rav described is previously as a flying chariot) – put them on the boat, and he by himself oversaw the boat.

They were three, together with this person.

And they got to Istanbul.

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The Rav then segues into discussing Naftali Hirsh Katz, the ‘Semichat Hachamim’, who was a very big Sabbatean, buried in Istanbul.

When Rabbenu went to the grave of the Semichat Hachamim on his way to Eretz Yisrael, he was taken so ill he was bedridden for 24 hours, and couldn’t move.

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Point is…. I don’t think the 212 captives are still in Gaza.

The same people who ‘flew in’ just after they arranged this whole horrible thing to begin with apparently have taken those hostages on ships out of Gaza, to somewhere else.

It could be ‘Istanbul’, or it could be somewhere like Cyprus.

But what’s left of our honest security services (if such people actually exist….) should start looking for ships that left Gaza shortly after the attack on the South, if they are serious about finding our captives and trying to return them.

And in the meantime – another reason to ‘invade Gaza’ has gone.

The captives aren’t there any more.

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I will try to put some more stuff up, as I can.

What I can tell you is that things are being sweetened radically, even though the situation in Israel for many people is pretty difficult, day-to-day.

300,000 people are in the reserves….

Many thousands more got ‘evacuated’ from the South, and also some from the North (although I’m not clear if the people who moved from the North did so because they were scared, or because they were told to get out with no choice.)

In any case, still not easy times at all.

But there was a feeling this morning that something else is starting to shift….

So keep the prayers going.

And don’t feel bad that BH, our boys didn’t go into Gaza yet.

If we can keep them OUT of Gaza, it will be the best thing, at this point.

This post is made up of snippets I got in my inbox today.

Snippet 1: More prayers from the Rav describing exactly what is going on now, written many many years ago.

(From HERE):

In light of the war of the ‘Iron Swords’ currently occurring in the Holy Land, we are bringing a number of prayers that Moreinu HaRav, Eliezer Berland, Shlita wrote a few years ago to read and instruct us:

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PRAYER TO RESCUE AM YISRAEL IMMEDIATELY FROM THOSE WHO SEEK OUR DESTRUCTION

Ribono Shel Olam, the merciful and compassionate Master of the World, Who is full of compassion.

We pour our hearts before you like water, about the Jewish blood that was spilt like water.

The Victor of all victors, the Hero of all the heroes, the Strongest of all the strong ones.

Please, see via our eyes, and come and fight our battles, because we were delivered over for mockery and derision before the eyes of all the nations.

And we were left ‘ownerless’, given over to strangulation, burning, murder and stoning.[1]

And each and every day, the nations of the world place amongst us devouring, blood-thirsty wolves, and sentence us to be slaughtered, burnt, strangled and stoned.

And each day, the curse is multiplied from the previous day.

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And it’s already close to 2,000 years that we are wandering from exile to exile, to captivity, amidst hunger and disgrace.

And in the days of the Inquisition, they burnt us at the stake.

And in the time of the Holocaust, they put us in ovens.

And still, the nations of the world aren’t satiated with our flesh and blood, and they are still eagerly seeking after Jewish blood, and are bringing upon us aggressive, destructive wars.

Similar to the bloody crusades that happened in the era of Rashi, Rabbenu Tam and the Baalei Tosfot.

And the blood of Israel is being poured out in the streets day and night, at every hour of the day, and from every corner we are hearing the cries of widows and orphans, and of bereaved parents, and almost entire families are being annihilated from one week to the next.

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The stench of death is rising up to our windows, and our enemies are stopping us from walking in our streets.

And every heart is melted like water, and our blow is mortal.

For the plague has reached to Yehuda, the affliction has reached to the gate of my people, until Jerusalem.

“For this I will lament and wail; I will go about delirious and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals and mourning like owls.”[2]

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God, don’t be silent! Don’t be deaf! And don’t be still, God!

For behold, Your enemies are in an uproar, and those who hate You have raised their head.

Against Your people they plot deviously, they are holding counsel against those sheltered by You!

They said, ‘Come, let us cut them off from being a nation, so the name of Israel won’t be remembered any longer!’

For they take counsel together as one, they strike an agreement against You.

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The tents of Edom and the Ishmaeilites; Moab and the Hagrites; Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.

Even Assyria joined with them, they became the strong arm of Lot’s sons, Selah.

Do to them what was done to Midian, and to Sisera, and to Jabin at Kishon Brook, who were destroyed at Ein-dor, and they became dung for the earth.

Make their nadivim (nobles, but also means benefactors) like Orev and Zeev, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.

Who said, We will conquer the pleasant habitations of God for ourselves.

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O my God!

Make them like the whirling chaff, like stubble before the wind!

Like a fire burning the forest, and like a flame that sets mountains ablaze!

Like this, pursue them with Your tempest and terrify them with your storm!

Fill their faces with shame, and then they will seek Your name, Hashem.

Let them be shamed and terrified forever, then they will be disgraced and they will perish.

Then they will know that You – Whose name is Hashem – are alone, Most High, over all the earth.[3]

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For one day in Your courtyards is better than a thousand (elsewhere).

I would rather stand exposed at the threshold of my God’s house than to dwell securely in the tents of wickedness.

For a sun and a shield is Hashem, God. Favor and glory does Hashem bestow.

He withholds no goodness from those who walk in perfect innocence.

Hashem, Master of Legions!

Praiseworthy is the man who trusts in You.[4]

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And fulfill within us the verses:

“Comfort, comfort My people, says your God.

‘Speak consolingly to the heart of Jerusalem, and tell her that her time [of exile] is up, and that her sin has been forgiven, for she has been given double for all of her sins, from Hashem’s hand.

A voice calls out in the wilderness, clear the way for Hashem, make a straight path in the desert, a road for our God!…[5]

Go up on a high mountain, O herald of Zion, raise your voice strongly, O herald of Jerusalem.

Raise it, don’t be scared!

Say to the cities of Yehuda, ‘Behold, your God! Behold, my Lord Hashem will come with His strength, and His arm will overpower for Him.

Behold, His reward is with Him, and His wage is before Him.

[He is] like a shepherd who grazes his flock, who gathers the lambs in his arm, who carries them in his bosom, who guides the nursing ewes….[6]

Every valley will be raised and every mountain and hill will be lowered.

The crooked will become straight and heights will become valley.

The glory of Hashem will be revealed, and all flesh together will see that the mouth of Hashem has spoken.[7]

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] These are the four types of death that can be prescribed by a Bet Din, a Jewish Court of Law, for transgressors.

[2] Micah 1:8 – the Prophet then continues: “For her wound is grievous, for it has come to Judah, it has extended to the gate of my people, up to Jerusalem.”

[3] Tehillim 83.

[4] Tehillim 84:11-13.

[5] Isaiah 40:1-4.

[6] Isaiah 40: 9-11.

[7] Isaiah 40: 4-5.

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Snippet two, from a reader:

Direct quote from the Rav from One In A Generation pg. 8

In the Midrashim, it’s written that:

In the days that the Moshiach comes, there will be a terrible war.

People will be chopped and sliced into bits, because everybody will have done so many transgressions, that it’s impossible to atone for any other way.

Snippet three, from a friend who’s son is one of the soldiers doing duty in the South:

On Tuesday he had the chance to be on a foot patrol through one of the massacred kibbutzim. He sent us pictures, which are chilling enough but when I spoke with him today, he mentioned the stench, the flies of being in a place like that.

He also said it was like being in one of the Polish shtetls we were in not even a year ago, where the entire Jewish population was slaughtered, except that now it wasn’t 80 years ago, but only a few days.

I am so waiting for that tsunami to show up….

BH, b’karov mamash.

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PS: My neighbor downstairs told me that the Army here is asking people to say ‘Shema Israel’ at 8pm every night now.

And also, that Channel 14 here is sending out perek tehillim for their viewers to say.

BH, things are finally starting to move at least a little in the right direction – of only trusting God.

You probably remember that a few long weeks ago, I posted up some stuff here about the importance of the Rav getting to Uman for 5784.

If you don’t, there is a good translation of some of the warnings that R Shalom Arush and the kabbalist R Shlomo Elmaliach gave over TWO WEEKS BEFORE ROSH HASHANA, about what was going to happen, if the Rav didn’t get to Uman for Rosh Hashana this year.

Go HERE for the full article, this is a snippet:

Everyone saw the suffering and persecution which Rav Berland took onto himself over the entire past decade.

All of this was in order so that the redemption would come with mercy “and not in the sign of the Akrav [Scorpio – i.e the month of Cheshvan] with rivers of blood,” in the words of Rav Berland shlit”a.

However, wicked spiritual powers, which Rav Elmeliach calls the “Satan,” entered into their messengers and they mamash ran amok with the most extremist behavior, as if Rav Berland coming to Uman would be the most terrible thing….

To our great sorrow, the messengers of the Satan succeeded in thwarting all Rav Berland’s efforts to make it to Uman on Rosh Hashanah 5784.

The Tzaddikim and Kabbalists were horrified, since all of them understood that Rav Berland’s coming to Uman at such a time of a spiritual war was critical. Thousands of Rav Berland’s followers — Breslov Chasidim and Tzaddikim from Israel and around the world — attempted to sweeten the decree by saying Tehilim and screaming to Heaven.

To our grief, the messengers succeeded and in fact a harsh decree like no other came down on our heads.

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Man, did it ever.

They’ve stopped publicising the numbers of murdered, but I have a feeling it is going to climb well over 2,000 – just the people from Simchat Torah.

And there are still 3,000 wounded, some very seriously, plus the hostages.

Plus there are now hundreds of thousands of soldiers who left their homes, families and jobs to sleep in tents with very basic amenities, as a precursor to risking their lives, mamash, to fight for the Jewish people.

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The Rav told us all, repeatedly over the last few days, that we need to turn off all the lying news, all the distracting (at best…) social media and just concentrate on saying a whole book of tehillim a day, if we’re women, while the men need to be aiming for 10 pages of Gemara a day.

And if they can’t do that, then a book of tehillim, which can be fitted in around work calls, and recited while travelling on buses to work etc.

That is what the Tzaddik HaDor is now telling us is required, to save the Jewish people from the ongoing harsh decrees that he knows way more about, than we do.

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This morning, I got this email:

Hi. The reason I said about Rav Berland and about Uman that it doesn’t matter if he gets there or not is that I believed totally that moshiach was going to be here last year.

All the predictions I read pointed to that.

I still can’t get over the fact that he didn’t come. I’m trying my hardest to do the right stuff and I know other pple who r doing the same I’m just afraid that as time goes on pple will get used to the new reality and lose focus on bringing moshiach.

If weeks or months go by pple might get too sad and give up. I can totally see that happening. Thanks.

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This is what I wrote back to my correspondent:

The main thing here is to stop thinking we know better than the real tzaddikim.

It’s an inyan of humility, that’s all. What do any of us know?

So much misinformation, false leaders, deliberate lies and our own biases clouding the issues…. what do any of us know?

The Rav said now to do a book of tehillim every day – I’m doing my best to do that not because I enjoy, but just because the Rav said that is what is required now.

Maybe, try to get a group of women together over there, if you didn’t already, and get as many people as possible doing tehillim.

Just because the Rav said.

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I just spent ten seconds looking at a couple of so-called ‘geula’ blogs, which are just continuing to waste their time and everyone elses with more pointless ‘speculation’ about Moshiach coming.

Anyone who lives in Israel right now, and who is really connected to what is going on here, is living the REALITY of geula, the essence of it, which is to make God a felt reality in our lives, humble ourselves and make a lot of real teshuva.

Great, that there are people in chul who apparently have so much time to waste on yet more of those ‘predictions’ that stopped at least one of my readers from doing what the Rav asked for, before Rosh Hashana 5784, i.e. really joining in the prayers and other efforts to get him to Uman, to sweeten the decrees.

Personally, I’ve been spending the last few days attending funerals, shivas, saying tehillim 4 1/2 hours a day, going to the Rav’s prayers every night, trying to put out as much ‘light’ to others here, who are doing a fantastic job of keeping things together as their husbands and sons and fathers disappear to the Gaza border, while we continue to being rocketed.

I have zero time for all these pointless ‘predictions’ of when Moshiach is meant to be coming, because I am actually trying to spend my time productively, following what the Tzaddik HaDor is telling us needs to be done now, to prevent more tragedies occurring.

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No-one in Israel is ‘forgetting’ about geula – we are living that reality every single second right now.

And there is a lot of sadness here about what happened – but also so much emuna and strength and teshuva, that you can FEEL that at least for the people in Eretz Yisrael, who are doing what they are meant to be doing right now, this is all going to come good, hopefully with very few additional ‘sacrifices’ required.

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Bottom line:

Stop wasting your time on pointless blogs, social media commentators and journalists that know nothing, at best – assuming they aren’t being paid to manipulate and decieve you on purpose – and just get with the Tzaddik HaDor and what he is telling us to do.

Sure, you didn’t take it seriously before Rosh Hashana that the Rav needed to get to Uman, and you were wrong about that.

So now, make teshuva and don’t make the same mistake again.

God has a lot of patience for us all, but at some stage, we have to have the humility to admit we don’t know anything – at all!

And the Tzaddik HaDor has given us a big job to do to get all this sweetened.

So turn off all that pointless ‘geula blog’ stuff you are reading, and pick up your Sefer Tehillim, and do something real and constructive to bring geula and moshiach the sweet way.

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May we have good news very soon.

Someone sent me this – it’s very good.

It’s Rav Ofer Erez, from a day ago.

He’s explaining that the main ‘war’ is inside of us, to keep coming back to emuna and bitachon, and to know that God is running the world, the whole world.

He also talks about a lot of other things that give a lot of chizzuk – if I have time after I’ve done my tehillim today I will try to translate some of it.

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Bottom line:

He is emphasising that the main response here has to be spiritual – tehillim, Torah learning, teshuva, all the stuff we’ve been talking about.

He brings a source in the mishna that ends that in the time of the Footsteps of the Moshiach, the Tanna ends by saying WE ONLY HAVE HASHEM TO RELY ON – and this is halacha!

He’s also talking about how each time we overcome the ‘war’ within ourselves – to keep having emuna and bitachon, and belief in God etc, and to stay out of fear, despair, sadness, all those bad middot that the news is EXCELLENT at bringing out in us all – that this is the real ‘war of Gog and Magog’.

And each time we ‘win’ this internal war of Gog and Magog, to keep bringing things back to understanding WE ONLY HAVE HASHEM TO RELY ON – we are helping every other Jew in a very real way, to also win the war of Gog and Magog.

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Then he moves on to talking about the people who were killed al kiddush Hashem.

Bottom line:

He explains that he knew many of the people who were killed at the Nature Party, and that many of them were in some process of ‘teshuva’ – but were finding themselves totally trapped by the allure of ‘this world’.

This way, Hashem kind of ‘rescued them’, and took them to the highest possible place spiritually.

He also said that the others killed were similarly ‘stuck’ in a terrible klipa of Western ‘values’, and were the epitome of tinok she nishba.

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Rav Ofer emphasises that dying al kiddush Hashem is actually a zchut – this is what the Torah teaches us.

No-one should be scared of anything.

God is doing everything, and everything is for the good.

We need to be very careful to limmud zchut on the whole of Am Yisrael, and to have a good eye for all of our fellow Jews.

How we ‘judge’ others, is how Hashem judges us.

There is a huge spiritual awakening process going on now.

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He also mentions that people who are killed al kiddush Hashem actually don’t suffer.

They feel no pain or very little pain, and are immediately surrounded by tremendous spiritual light and love, as they ascend to the highest place in shemayim.

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The above is my rough paraphrasing of what he is saying – if I’ve mis-quoted anything, please do let me know.

This shiur gives so much chizzuk and strength and peace.

From here on in, turn off ALL THE NEWS, literally, take your book of tehillim, your gemara and get on with doing a book a day, plus 10 pages of Gemara if you are a man.

Work on strengthening bitachon and emuna.

And on seeing ‘the good’ in our fellow Jews – especially the ones who are so different from us.

And only fear Hashem.

Not rockets, not terrorists, not Amalek, not Hamas….

Just Hashem.

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Last week, the Rav said this is going to last for at least 30 days.

And the real war is internal – to keep pushing away the despair and the fear and the anxiety and all the rest of it, and to keep pushing towards emuna, bitachon, love of ourselves and other Jews, and a real, felt experience of Hashem in our lives.

May God help us all to do this.