The only protection

Things are pretty bad here in Israel right now.

Jerusalem is quiet, thank God.

Things are still being ‘sweetened’ here.

But what happened yesterday is awful beyond words.

Do you think it was just an ‘accident’, a ‘security failure’?

Please go and read THIS.

There is a news blackout on a lot of the details still.

For many reasons, I am choosing to stay away from discussing ‘details’ of what’s going on here, but if you talk to God for even just five seconds about what really happened yesterday, and who let it happen, you will get your answer.

We only have God to rely on.

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So, what can we do in this horrible situation we now found ourselves in?

Pray.

Say as many tikkun haklalis as you can.

Talk to God in your own words, as much as you can, and beg Him to finally eradicate this evil from the world – and to protect all the good Jews, all the good people.

Make teshuva.

Especially the teshuva required for pushing God out the picture, and relying on the ‘might and strength of our own hands’.

The ‘Iron Sword’ is the weapon of Esav.

And it’s being used against the Jews all the time, obviously and less obviously.

Give tzedaka.

Because tzedaka still cancels out the harsh decrees – money for blood.

And even if that tzedaka, those pidyonot, can’t ‘sweeten’ it for everyone – they can at least ‘sweeten’ things for you and your family.

And finally – get with the real Tzaddikim.

The people who told you what was going to happen, if they didn’t get to Uman for Rosh Hashana this year, to sweeten the terrible decree of war.

And that decree is still unfolding as we speak, God forbid.

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I am going to start posting some snippets here about the power of the Tikkun Haklali and the Torah to protect us.

And I have stuff from the Rav to translate too, which I hope to get on with today and post up here.

This first snippet, though is from the One in a Generation Book, Volume I, and was given over many years ago:

THE TORAH IS PROTECTING ERETZ YISRAEL

On another occasion, Rav Berland commented:

“Everyone is talking about what would happen if there was no army. Who would protect Eretz Yisrael then? But really, there’s nothing to be scared of, as it’s only the Torah that’s protecting us.”

When Israel began deploying its Iron Dome rockets across Israel in the face of regular rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, the Rav returned to the subject of what was really protecting the nation of Israel from its enemies.

“We don’t really need the Iron Dome, because all the Torah that people are learning and all the times they recite Tikkun Haklali is what’s really protecting us.

“And even if Iran does decide to try and attack us with a nuclear bomb, all the words of Torah that we’re learning here are going to fly up in the air and create so much confusion and crosscurrents that the Iranians’ rocket is going to change direction and end up falling back on those who sent it.”

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And this is another snippet, given over in 2015:

ROCKETS RAIN DOWN ON ERETZ YISRAEL

About a month after rockets started raining down on Eretz Yisrael, in the days immediately following the discovery of the three kidnapped boys’ bodies, one of his followers contacted Rav Berland to ask him if he had any words of wisdom, or chizuk, to share about the rocket attacks.

The Rav said the following:

“Tell everyone not to be afraid, and not to start running away from one city to the next.

As soon as the siren sounds, take your Tikkun Haklali out of your pocket and start to read it slowly, word by word, and if you do this, you have nothing more to worry about, and there will be miracles, with God’s help, and the rocket won’t fall anywhere near you.”

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Also, pray for our soldiers to be protected.

And for all of Am Yisrael to finally wake up, make teshuva, and return to God as ‘one man with one heart’.

Because there is No-one else to rely on to get us out of the terrible situation we are now in.

As the days go by, more and more people are going to understand the true depth of the betrayal that happened here.

And is still happening here.

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The Invisible Gorilla

For anyone who is wondering why so many people aren’t ‘seeing’ the same things they are.

(Shmirat Eynayim friendly.)

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Dealing with avoda zara

I have decided that I need to stop writing ‘from myself’ at the moment, and just bring you words of wisdom from the Rav and Rebbe Nachman.

This is a translated snippet of a shiur given by Rav Eliezer Berland, on the evening of the 25th Av 5783, the week of Parshat Shoftim.

Enjoy!

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Evening of 25th Av 5783, Parshat Shoftim

So it’s written: “The place which Hashem will choose to reveal” (i.e. The place of the Beit HaMikdash), “in the direction of the sunset.”[1]

Har Gerizim and Har Eival.

And who is the first, Shimon. Reuven on Har Klala (the Mount of the Curses) and Shimon on Har Bracha (the Mount of the blessings). Only Shimon made teshuva so quickly.

It’s a sign that Shimon did real, sincere teshuva, because 24,000 died.

Because everyone who touched a girl, died on the spot.

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A man touches a girl [in an intimate way, that he’s not permitted to touch] – he’s liable to death on the spot.

It was like this for 50 years in Boston. There was a law that whoever touched a girl, they stoned him, like it’s written in the Torah: “and you shall pelt them with stones, so that they will die.”[2]

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[The first settlers in America] They went against Christianity.

They were called Puritans – these are people who were against Christianity. They desecrated the festival of xmas, because he [i.e. Yoshki] wasn’t born – he had no birthday to celebrate.[3]

They stam invented a date, they didn’t find his birth certificate, they didn’t find anything. Maybe they’ll manage to wring one out [of somewhere] in due course, from the excavations next to the Kotel.

Maybe, they’ll manage to find his birth certificate…

In any case, he didn’t have a birth certificate – no!

So they announced that they need to set some date.

All of this he brings in ‘Dvar B’Ito’

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So, in the year 333, which is called Tz”G, it was called the years of the 4th millenium, Tz”G. Yes, so they announced that they had to set a date – the 25th of December, the date that from then, the day starts to lengthen out (i.e. The winter solstice).

They call this ‘the Festival of Fire’ around the whole world.

By the followers of avoda zara (idol worshippers), this is the ‘Festival of Fire’, because then is when the dusk starts to extend out again….

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And so, Adam HaRishon saw that the day was starting to lengthen out.

Because he fasted from the time when he ate from the Etz HaDaat (the Tree of Knowledge, which was on the first of Tishrei. The first of Tishrei – the Sixth Day of Creation. He fasted until ‘Zot Chanuka’ (the eighth day of Chanuka). He fasted until then.

On Zot Chanuka, he stopped fasting. Because he saw that the [time of the] sunset was starting to lengthen out.

Up until then, he thought that this [i.e. That the days were getting shorter] was called ‘die, you will die.’[4]

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Because if it was just written ‘you will die’ – this means immediately.

But ‘die, you will die’ – this could also mean in another 1,000 years.

Hashem gave him a thousand years. Hashem saw that he wasn’t doing anything. The generation started to worship avoda zara, and he didn’t managed to prevent it’s decline.

So, Hashem said, Leave 20 [70] years to King David, and he will stop the [spiritual] decline.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Devarim 11:30.

[2] Devarim 17:5.

[3] The Rav is making a play on words. In Hebrew, xmas is called ‘Chag HaMolad’ – the festival of the birthday.

[4] Bereishit 2:16

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Time to dance

Excerpt of Lesson 1:2, Likutey Moharan

The main weapon of the Moshiach is prayer, which corresponds to the nose, as the verse says: “It is my praise to draw out My breath for you.”[1]

That [i.e. Prayer] is the main life-source of the Moshiach.

And all the wars he will wage and all the conquests he will make will all be with that power [of prayer]….

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Every person should focus his attention during his prayers to bind himself to the tzaddikim of the generation, for the tzaddik of each generation represents Moshe-Moshiach.

We find this in that the tzaddikim call each other ‘Moshe’, as in:

“You have spoken well, Moshe,” (Tractate Shabbat 49:10)

And Moshe represents the Moshiach, as the verse says: “Until Shiloh arrives” (Genesis 49:10) [SHiYLoH  has the same gematria as MoSHeH] = Moshe-Moshiach.

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Each and every prayer that each person prays is an aspect of a ‘limb’ of the Shechinah, and thus, the ‘limbs’ of the Mishkan (Tabernacle).

No individual Jew is able to place each and every beam in its proper place except for Moshe.

Therefore, all prayers must be brought and bound to the tzaddik of the generation, as the verse says:

“They brought the Mishkan to Moshe”[2]

He knows how to place each and every beam and to make it into a complete structure, as in:

“Moses erected the Mishkan.”[3]

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Tonight, Monday evening October 2, 2023, it’s the hiloula of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.

Traditionally, Breslovers celebrate with a LOT of music and especially dancing tonight, to ‘sweeten’ all the harsh judgements.

If you can’t get out somewhere ‘Breslov-y’ to celebrate and dance, than whack this on instead and dance mindfully.

(I’m not a Na Nach myself, but they seem to do by far the wickedest dance mixes of Breslov music.)

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Dancing mindfully means have whatever ‘harsh decree’, whatever evil you want to see eradicated from the world; bind yourself to the true tzaddikim, including Rebbe Nachman of Breslov – and then go and stomp that ‘evil decree’ into the ground.

Smash it to pieces.

Stomp until there is nothing left to stomp.

And then, watch what surprising ‘sweetening’ happens next.

(At the very least, you’ll burn off at least some of the Sukkot cake you’ve been stuffing in the last few days….)

Moadim L’Simcha

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Footnotes:

[1] Isaiah 48:9

[2] Exodus 38:33)

[3] Ibid.

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PS: Watch the ‘Rabbenu Effect’ in action on the Gaza border, from nine years ago:

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And here it is from Uman Rosh Hashana, last year, 2022:

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When we are united, dancing together, connected to our true Tzaddikim – nothing can touch us.

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