Excerpt of a shiur given on Wednesday evening, 3rd Cheshvan 5784, to people from Ashdod.

(October 10th, 2023).

Everything in italics are direct quotes from the Rav.

Lots of hints here, about what is really going on behind the scenes.

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We are now also in exile, they are firing rockets upon us, they are firing upon us like this.

There are sirens. Yesterday, two rockets exploded above my head, and I head the ‘booms’. All of Jerusalem heard the booms, because in Ramot, there is the Iron Dome.

And the Americans sent us more ‘Patriots’, they sent to us. They sent to us now another 2,000 marines, they sent.

Now, there are ships with two thousands commandos, because Hizballah fires rockets that are accurate, not like Hamas, that when they fire at Israel, they injure themselves – [when the rocket fell] on the hospital.

But by Hizballah, they are accurate, so a captain and two soldiers were killed.

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So, if they continue their attack against Haifa or Tsfat – so ‘marines’ are the commandos. The commandos are called ‘marines’.

They were in Cuba. They were in a lot of the most critical places – in Venezuela, the government there was overthrown.

So, there are two thousand commandos now who intend to enter Lebanon, if the Hizballah even starts to play around a little bit.

They want Eretz Yisrael to be returned [to them].

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“You are robbers!”[1]

This is the only Rashi that they know. Shuvu Banim doesn’t learn this Rashi, but Hizbollah learns this Rashi – and also Hamas.

We will read the first Rashi, and we’ll also start to learn Rashi, it’s not a big deal. Even if you are Shuvu Banim, your allowed to learn this first Rashi, it’s not a sin – not deRabbanan and not deOraita.

So, what does the first Rashi say?

Rabbi Yitzhak says that the Torah shouldn’t begin with Bereishit and the creation of the world, but rather, ‘from this month’ (i.e. The first mitzvah the Jews were commanded to do, to sanctify the New Moon.)

And on top of that – what’s with all these verses? Why is it so lengthy? Say on the first day there was light; on the second day the rakia seperated between [the upper] waters and [the lower] waters; on the third day, the dry land was revealed, grass, plants, and fruit trees put out their fruits; fourth day, sun, moon and stars….

Why do you need to lengthen it out so much?

And after this, the reptiles were created, and winged birds and fish. Two words, one verse, is enough for each day. Why do we need to drag it out?

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[In the description in Bereishit] there are 31 verses here!

And another three, makes 34 verses. What do we need so very many verses for? It’s possible to cover it all in just one verse, that on day one there was light, heaven and earth, and on day two the rakia (firmament) to seperate between water and water, and on day three the earth grows grass, plants and dry ground, and fruit trees produce their fruits, and on day four this is the sun, moon and stars – this is two words, that’s all!

Sun, moon and stars, and afterwards: the Leviathan and it’s partner, and all the birds and the fish – this is day five. After this, man and all the animals [on day six].

It’s enough to give three or four words for each day. Three or four words times six days is 18 words altogether. And you can even fit 18 words into one sentence.

What is all this big lengthening it out, here?

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So, Rashi says that all the extensiveness is only in order to give koach (strength) to His deeds, that are being recounted to His people.[2]

So, twice koach (חכ) is [the gematria] of 784.

Koach times koach – is 5784 [the current Hebrew year].

This is the year of geula.

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Rashi says:

“To give koach (strength) to His deeds, that are being recounted to His people” – to  give them the inheritance of the non-Jews, when the nations  of the world come and will say you are robbers!

This is what the Hizballah are crying out, we are fighting a legitimate war!

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Now in Belarus, they put out an article in the newspapers that we are all with the Palestinians.

Now they quoted all the journalists in the whole world – journalists in Berlin and Paris. So now Belarus, which is the most important place in the whole world, this is ‘White Russia’, Vilna was there, and it’s all the border of Lithuania – so there, they said we are with the Palestinians.

And the Palestinians are right, Eretz Yisrael belongs to them.

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That’s why Biden is coming here, to give Eretz Yisrael to them.

Just, they didn’t come to the meetings. So, what can you do? But his goal was to give them Eretz Yisrael, to evacuate Ashdod, and Ashkelon. Where were they going to evacuate Ashdod to? To Gaza!

They were going to bring the residents of Gaza to Ashdod, and we would go and live in Gaza – like R Israel Najara.

Where did he live? In Gaza. Then, there was still no ‘Ashdod’, there was only Gaza.

The Vizhnitzer travelled immediately after Gaza was conquered [after the Six Day War] to prostrate himself on the grave [of R Israel Najara], and he said all the tehillim there for two hours.

And all the Hamasniks stood around and didn’t touch him, the Rebbe of Vizhnitz… from Haifa.

So, the first thing is we need to do is go and live in Gaza.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] See Rashi’s commentary to Bereishit, below.

[2] Rashi on Bereishit 1:1:

“IN THE BEGINNING OF. R’ Yitzhak said: (God) need not have begun the Torah but from “This month shall be for you” – because it was the first commandment Israel was commanded to perform. What is the reason that it began with the Book of Genesis?

It began like this because it wished to convey the message of the verse “The koach (power) of His acts He told to His people, in order to give them the estate of the nations.”

So that if the nations of the world will say to Israel, “You are robbers, for you conquered the lands of the seven nations who inhabited the Land of Canaan.”

Israel will say to them, “The whole earth belongs to the Holy One, Blessed is He. He created it and He gave it to them, and by His wish, He took it from them and gave it to us.”

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One of my friends summed it up like this yesterday:

I’ve stopped watching the news as much as possible now.

Even the ‘good news’ just makes me feel bad and nervous.

Yup, that about sums things up at the moment.

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I spent three days before during and after the wedding going ‘cold turkey’ on even minimal news consumption.

Monday, I spent an hour surfing around the three sites I still look at – and I quickly came to the conclusion there is no ‘real information’ happening anywhere, anyway.

And what there IS, is just heapings of media manipulation and more lies and disinformation.

Really, Hamas kept a dog ‘hostage’ for 53 days in the Gaza strip?

Really?

That same Hamas that was apparently raping, slaughtering, burning, beheading – and they let a kidnapped girl take her dog with her, and then let the dog stay alive, for 53 days before delivering both back to the Red Cross yesterday?!

Really?

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And all those people going on about how ‘Kaplan Force’ took over the hostage story….

Well then, the ‘Kaplan Force’ also took over every single government building too in Jerusalem, which draped massive ‘Bring Them Home’ signs over their facades. And also Jerusalem City Hall, which flashed up all the hostage pictures on the Old City walls. And the ‘Friends of Zion’ building downtown, too – and also the National Library, which has 260 empty chairs set up in the middle of the reading room with a picture of a hostage on each one.

So, if the ‘Kaplan Force’ took over the hostage story, then the ‘Kaplan Force’ are ALREADY also running the government and its agencies from inside, too.

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The ‘Bring Them Home’ campaign is clearly being funded and organised by the State.

What all this means specifically, I can’t tell you.

But it’s the same government who shoved our troops in Gaza fighting the phony war in the first place who paid for all these hostage families to get flown all over the world to shoot their mouths off about ‘bringing them home’, so they’d have a handy excuse for a cease fire, because ‘America needs the terrorists‘.

And the State needed some sort of lame excuse to explain why we just couldn’t destroy Hamas in Gaza this time, after all….

Sorry guys!

(And especially sorry to all the tzaddikim who gave their lives fighting to try to protect their friends and family from evil… who just didn’t understand where most of that ‘evil’ is actually coming from.)

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‘Bring Them Home’ probably is trying to accomplish many things.

And at least one of them is trying to sway public opinion into supporting draconian new laws to clamp down on ‘internal enemies of the State’.

Today, it’s the families of the hostages who are saying things that are undermining ‘national security’.

And tomorrow?

It’s anyone who doesn’t agree 100% with mandatory shots…. digital IDs…. needing a Smartphone just to send a package via the post office or buy a pot of yogurt….

Don’t be fooled.

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In the meantime, it’s not all totally 100% ‘bad news’.

I am detecting more and more signs that more and more people are finally starting to see past the evils’ paradigm’, to recognise that we are all being played for fools and set up to kill each other so the cabal at the top can continue to divide and conquer.

Have a look at THIS.

The writer sets out 7 ‘mysteries’ about October 7th. It’s the last one that actually gave me a bit of hope that even some of the people who usually just bash Israel and the Jews as being the ‘source of all the problems’ are starting to understand that the Jewish people are being attacked by ‘the evils’ as much as anyone else – (and of course, even more than anyone else….)

Here’s ‘mystery number 7’:

7. Why are Western forces threatening Israel?

The Pentagon has deployed two naval groups, around the USS Gerald Ford and the USS Eisenhower, and a cruise missile submarine, the USS Florida. Haaretz even mentioned a third aircraft carrier. America’s allies (Saudi Arabia, Canada, Spain, France, Italy) have installed fighter-bombers in the region.

These forces are not installed to threaten Turkey, Qatar or Iran, which the Western press accuses of being involved in the Hamas attack, but off the coast of Israel, in Beirut and Hamat. They are encircling Israel. And Israel alone.

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Finally…. even some of the ‘anti Israel’ people are starting to ask some really pertinent questions.

Why ARE Western forces threatening Israel?

Why are they?

If ‘the story’ is that Hamas is financed by Iran, Qatar and Turkey, with some help from Russia – why are all these warships off our coast, threatening us?

Answers on a postcard….

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I have no neat sign off for this post today.

We are in a world of confusion, a world of terrible lies, where dogs are apparently kept hostage by ‘Hamas’ for 52 days before being released with a barrage of PR….

Whatever.

The puppet show can’t continue for much longer.

The cracks in the narrative are starting to show too much.

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In the meantime….

The first week of this war in Israel, the Jerusalem town hall decided to start shooting lazer beam lights into the sky all over the city.

When I was pondering out loud just how retarded you would have to be to start lighting up parts of your main city in the middle of a massive war, my daughter told me these lazer lights were being done to ‘remind us all about the hostages’.

Uhuh. Yup. Whatever.

Looks to me like ‘operation blue beam’ is in full swing now in the Holy City.

And that the fake alien invasion / holographic yoshki can’t be too far way from being activated.

So, keeps your eyes peeled, your mind out of the news, and your heart and prayers firmly with Hashem and the true tzaddikim.

The rollercoaster ride isn’t over yet.

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You know, there is a small amount of real truth starting to sprout in the world.

I am not in ‘full on writing’ mode this week still, until we’re done with the sheva brachot, (and btw, thanks so much for everyone’s lovely brachot for the happy couple, it’s really appreciated.)

But…. this video just came across my radar, where Whitney Webb is discussing the origins of zism (I’m typing it like this, as wordpress started doing weird things when I had it fully typed out) – which actually start way before Herzl was even born, with what she calls Puritans and ‘a bunch of xtian zists’…. many of whom were actually leading Freemasons.

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The interesting bit starts at the 1.07 hour mark (it’s all time stamped, you can get straight to it)  not totally shmirat eynayim friendly for any of the dwindling band of holy souls who care about that.

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Webb (who I actually still suspect may just be another high level spook operating the ‘controlled opposition’ from even further back, because that’s just how it is these days….) also wrote an interesting article covering much of the same ground called:

The untold story of Christian Zism’s Rise to Power in the United States

It has a lot of very interesting info in it – but of course, everything still has to be carefully evaluated and considered, because the truth is still mixed up with lies and omissions.

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Here’s a few of the things that she said in the interview that had me perking up my ears:

1. The idea of ‘forcing the end of days’ by giving the Jewish people their own nation state in what the world was then called ‘Palestine’ (i.e. Eretz Yisrael) predates Herzl by at least 250 years.
2. That idea first surfaced amongst ‘xtian zists’ (more on who these people may really be, below).
3. It was then picked up by the first ‘zionist Rabbi’ called R Zvi Hirsh Kalisher. This guy is the grandson of our very own false messiah, Jacob Frank Eskeles. The Frankist movement is of course all over so many of the secret societies that we will generally refer to as ‘Freemasons’.
4. Kalisher is meant to have been writing letters to the (fake name…) Rothschilds, to have got them to pressure the UK government to ultimately come up with the Balfour Declaration.
5. (Really, the fake name Rothschilds were just more of the same deeply compromised Frankists, who were already working for the Royal families and other non-Jews who are at the top of the chain of the secret societies we will call ‘Freemasons’.)
6. The founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Charles Taze Russell was also writing letters to the Rothschilds, pushing for a political nation state of the Jews in Eretz Israel.

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Let’s pause just to take a closer look at Charles Taze Russell.

The first question has to be: was he a mason?

If you go HERE, you’ll find a Jehovah’s witness site desperately trying to debunk any idea that their founder was actually a secret society spook charged with juicing up the ‘xtian zism’ project for the masons, any way he could.

But here is what they are up against:

Charles Russel the founder of the Witnesses died in 1916 he was buried with a marker a few fe[e]t away by his tomb sculptured as a large pyramid five to six feet high, with the Mason logo embossed on it and remains to this day for all to see.

Although putting up a smoke screen by writing articles in the Watchtower magazine that he was the editor of, against the Masons, evidence shows without a doubt he was greatly influenced by them, as well as into Egyptology as can be seen by the design and presentation of his books and the information used.

If you do not believe me then check it out. 

(2) “Why was Charles Taze Russel buried in the Masonic Cemetery, under a pyramid with Templar inscriptions?”

 (3) “1872 Charles Taze Russell, Founded International Bible Students Association. Forerunner to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Known as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Was a Knights Templar Mason of York Rite, in Allegheny Pa. Confirmed Mason. Also Russell had a secret Rosicrucian membership with the Quakertown, PA group of Rosicrucian’s, as revealed by the pyramid he ordered erected over his grave site.” 

(4) An examination of some of the publications of Charles T. Russell, the founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, would indicate that he had ties with the Masons. He used Masonic symbols. The Watchtower drawing that graced early publications right up to a couple of decades ago was pure Masonic. Russell was buried under a cross and a crown, again Masonic. Other Masonic symbols were used frequently on his publications.

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(Apparently, this got so ’embarassing’ someone decided to remove the Freemason-pyramid grave thing back in 2021….)

The point is, the ‘masons’ always have their people in power, and acting as the movers and shakers on the world scene.

It’s backwards, to wonder if ‘that important person who affected history so much is a mason’.

At this point, there is probably no-one important on the world stage in any shape or form who ISN’T a mason, or deeply compromised by them and so under their control.

Because otherwise, they would just kill these people standing in their way, overturn their rule, or find some other way of sidelining them to the margins, where they can’t stand up to them or slow them down.

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OK, a few more points from Webb’s interview:

7) The Blackstone Memorial.

What’s astounding to me is that I’ve been wading in this murky swamp of ‘real Jewish history’ for years, already, and I never heard about this before.

HERE is the Wiki page, and this is a couple of snippets:

The Blackstone Memorial of 1891 was a petition written by William Eugene Blackstone, a Christian Restorationist, in favor of the delivery of Palestine to the Jews.

It was signed by many leading American citizens and presented to President Benjamin Harrison.

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Say what?!

Let’s quote some more from the Wiki page, we’ll learn a lot.

First, here is what the ‘Blackstone Memorial’ said (again, note the name. Pretty darned similar to today’s ‘BlackRock‘, the company that ‘owns the world’….)

“Why not give Palestine back to [the Jews] again? According to God’s distribution of nations it is their home, an inalienable possession from which they were expelled by force.”

“Why shall not the powers which under the treaty of Berlin, in 1878, gave Bulgaria to the Bulgarians and Servia to the Servians now give Palestine back to the Jews? These provinces, as well as Roumania, Montenegro, and Greece, were wrested from the Turks and given to their natural owners. Does not Palestine as rightfully belong to the Jews?”

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Remember, this pre-dates Theodor Herzl and his pamphlet by at least five years.

If we start to look at history with more realistic eyes, it seems that Mr Herzl became the ‘figure head puppet’ for the xtian zist project for the real ‘powers behind the throne’ – i.e. the masons – who wanted it to happen.

Herzl’s Der Judenstaat, “in which he elaborated his visions of a Jewish homeland” was only published in 1896, and the First Zist Congress was held (where else?) in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897.

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Webb also mentions that one of Herzl’s leading non-Jewish patron is someone called William Hechler, who was working out of the British Embassy in Vienna – and was a big Freemason.

Here’s what it says about him on Herzl’s Wiki page:

On 10 March 1896, Herzl was visited by Reverend William Hechler, the Anglican minister to the British Embassy in Vienna.

Hechler had read Herzl’s Der Judenstaat, and the meeting became central to the eventual legitimization of Herzl and Zism.

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Let’s take a closer look at William Hechler, shall we?

All these details just come from his Wiki page – but once you know what to look for, you start to make a lot more of the connections hidden in plain site.

We learn he’s a German-Brit who becomes a big xtian missionary in London.

This trajectory happened with so many of the Frankists, it’s actually passé .

He also spends a lot of time in ‘spook central’, Basel, Switzerland.

And he gets a job with an organisation called:

The London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews

(Which is later renamed as the Church’s Ministry Among Jewish People.)

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There were literally HUNDREDS of former Jews from Frankist strongholds (and from really famous Jewish families with ‘big yichus’…) working for this organisation in the late 19th century.

It you have been following the history of ‘Frankism’, this should come as no surprise – Frank famously converted to catholicism in 1756, already, with a few thousand of his leading followers in Poland.

And that sowed the seeds for the Frankist-Reformers social climbers to go ‘full xtian’ within the next 50 years, at a crazy pace.

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On the Jewish side of the equation, these people’s ‘famous families with yichus’ who decided to remain Jewish basically scrubbed them out of the history books, as a shonda.

But all our leading ‘Jewish families’ were deeply intertwined with these externally xtian masons on a number of levels.

Just that all got covered up and hidden.

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Long story short… that organisation is still going today.

And still operating in Eretz Yisrael, pushing its missionary creed on the Jews who live here.

Maybe we’ll return to it another time.

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Back with the BLACKSTONE MEMORIAL, we learn a bit more about who actually signed that thing:

The Memorial petition was circulated in five major cities: Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, and Chicago.

It was signed by 431 prominent citizens from those cities: financiers John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, future President William McKinley, and Chief Justice Melville Fuller; many members of Congress; the editors of all major newspapers in those five cities, including the still-extant The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Washington Post; and a long list of university and seminary presidents, mayors, and leading businessmen.

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Yeah, you read that right.

JP Morgan and John D Rockefeller threw their weight behind it, amongst many, many others.

How clear does all this need to get?

Type in: “John D. Rockefeller Masonic Creed”, see what you turn up.

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Wiki then tells us that:

The Memorial was presented to President Harrison with little result.

The Blackstone Memorial was turned over to the State Department archives for safe keeping.

It has been lost since.

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Yeah, right.

And then CO-IN-CID-ENTALLY, less than five years later, Herzl shows up with his pamphlet and the xtian z project took off like a rocket….

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Of course, nothing has really changed.

To underline that, take a look at this glowing piece of propaganda written about William Hechler on the xtian missionary ‘news’ site, Israel Today.

The point is to make it look as though Hechler, who was very closely linked to the Prussian royal family, was working for Herzl and the Jews.

Really, it’s totally the other way around.

And our current bunch of puppets are just following in Herzl’s footsteps, fronting the xtian zist project for the masons, who really, really want WW3.

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Let’s end with this, the letter written by one of the chief American Freemasons in the 19th century, Albert Pike.

The Daily Mail site I linked to here is trying to spin the letter as some sort of ‘mysterious hoax’. But if you read the story carefully, you’ll see there is no hoax involved, and no mystery.

Pike wrote the following in 1871, to his fellow mason and Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini, and a copy of his letter was actually on display in the British Museum until 1977 – when it was strangely removed and probably also ‘lost’.

You can see the full text of Pike’s letter HERE on the internet archive.

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Here’s some screenshots:

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Let’s all pray for the current war to end right now.

For peace to return to Eretz Yisrael, and for all our soldiers, and hostages, to return home safely, with no more loss of life.

Because the masons are really itching for ‘World War 3’ to start happening, already.

And what is going to stop them, and their awful plans for humanity, is our prayers and sincere teshuva.

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PS: Hechler was the last person to see Herzl before he died, apart from his immediate family.

This last snippet is from Hechler’s wiki page:

In 2010, the forgotten unmarked gravesite of Reverend William Henry Hechler was rediscovered in London.

Led by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation and the British Christian Zionist Movement, an appropriate graveside memorial was erected on 31 January 2011.

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When you click that link, it takes you through to a whole page discussing this xtian zist organisations in the UK.

Here’s a snippet:

Exploits Ministry is one of the London organizations which promotes Christian Zionism.

Other organisations are:

• Christian Friends of Israel, UK, the Church’s Ministry Among Jewish People (The Israel Trust of the Anglican Church)

• Intercessors for Britain (IFB),

• Prayer for Israel (PFI),

• Derek Prince Ministries,

• Christians United for Israel UK,

• Beit Yeshua,

• North East Messianic Fellowship,

• Bridges of Peace,

• C L Ministries,

• Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary,

• Hatikvah Film Trust,

• International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, UK,

• Messianic (Christian) Educational Trust,

• Paul Heyman International Ministries,

• Revelation TV,

• the Israel Britain Evangelistic Association and

• Christian Zionists for Israel UK.

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The Tomer Devorah blog has been doing some excellent investigative journalism into what some of these organisations are currently up to in Eretz Yisrael.

The more of us start to wake up to what is really going on here, the better it will be for everyone.

Yesterday, I went to the evening prayers of the Rav, and he wasn’t there.

Someone thought he’d gone to Tel Aviv or something – but he had definitely left Jerusalem.

This last week, the Rav’s been keeping his comments after the evening prayers pretty short, just repeating how ‘tznius’ and smashing i-Phones are the key to getting the war to end with no more Jewish lives lost.

I am still going through his comments from 2-3 weeks ago, and if I have time I will put some more of them up soon.

But the stuff that’s already gone up here should be enough to clue us in to the following basic ideas:

• All of politics, the world over, is a sham, a stage-managed farce full of ‘actors’ who pretend they are the ones deciding policy and laws.
• All these wars all over the world are being ‘stage managed’ from behind the scenes, by the cabal who actually profits from all this death, suffering and hatred.
• That cabal is run from the shadows, by the people at the very top of all these ‘secret societies’ – the names of which don’t actually matter so much, as they are connect straight back to demonic forces, and transcend country, faith and people.

• The real war is the one being fought between ‘good’ and ‘evil’.

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If you want to carry on wasting your time and energy and ‘soul power’ arguing over politics, decrying the puppets for acting as though they are not actually working for the best outcome for the Jewish people (like, duh!) – that’s your choice.

You won’t change anything real like that, and you’ll probably just end getting very bitter, depressed and despairing about the state of the world.

That’s why the Rav – and other genuine Jewish leaders – have been putting the emphasis right on the start on us upping our own game, spiritually.

That means more tehillim, teshuva, tznius, mitzvot – and of course, understanding that only the people who were listening to the instructions of Moshe Rabbenu actually got out of Mitzrayim, regardless of all the other good stuff they were engaged in.

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Right now, you and me have no idea what is really going on.

And don’t think that listening to Army Radio, or watching Channel 14 news 24/7 is going to change that – it’s just going to give you a headache and make you even more stressed and worried.

But there are a group of our holy leaders who have been fully aware of this evil, and fighting it, for decades.

If you do your best to identify who the really holy people are, and to do what they say, you’ll get through this OK, God willing.

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In the meantime… life continues in Israel.

Weddings are still happening, BH, (I will tell you more about what a rollercoaster ride that has been, the last few weeks, once the happy couple actually get hitched, BH.)

People are still going down to the Kotel.

There is still food in the shops, and sales in the malls for ‘blue November’.

Kids are back in school, mostly.

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And more and more people are now understanding that we only have Hashem to rely on.

If they didn’t figure that out when our corrupt government spent millions of shekels chasing the Rav all over the world a decade ago….

Or, when our corrupt government then went ‘full fascist’ with Covid lockdowns and green passports…

Or, when 45 people got deliberately murdered at Meron….

Or even, when our whole security establishment ‘went to sleep’ that horrible morning of Simchat Torah (and also, three months beforehand when Hamas were training for the attack right next to the fence….)

Now, they are finally starting to get it.

Which means that soon, very soon, all this WILL turn around for the very best.

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So, going forward, some recommendations for how to maintain optimal emotional equilibrium in this very difficult situation we still find ourselves in:

1. Turn off the news, and stop engaging with the ‘puppet theatre’ that is politics. No marches, demonstrations, hasbara, or ranting about Biden, Hamas or anyone else is going to achieve anything positive – and actually does the opposite. The forces of evil actually ‘feed off’ all those negative emotions of fear, despair, anger, hatred etc, that the corrupt media is so good at inducing in us all.
2. Chuck out your smartphone and switch online stuff to a computer or tablet that stays in your house, and doesn’t come with you every where like a digital ball-and-chain.
3. Keep going with the prayers and tehillim – aim for an hour of day of talking to God in your own words, which you can combine with walking, washing dishes, sitting with a cup of tea etc.
4. In times of war, the attribute of Heavenly Judgement focusses in especially on kedoshim tiyehu – you shall be holy! Hence, the Rav’s massive emphasis on more modest dress and behavior, and getting the sources of pritzus out of dalet amot.
5. Keep updated on the ravberland.com site, or if you read Hebrew, shuvubanimint.com site – that last one has the Shivivei Or newsletters with the Rav’s weekly shiurim in PDF format, that you can print out and read in the original.
6. In past years when there were times of war in Israel, the Rav asked people to contribute ’98’ in their local currency a month, as a global pidyon for the Jewish people. He is now forbidden from saying anything about money or pidyonot at all, so I’m extrapolating that what held then, still holds now.

Do some hitbodedut, come to your own conclusions.

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In the meantime, here’s the headline of another of the latest translated shiurim from the Rav, from the ravberland.com website, which basically spells out exactly what is really going on here:

The Whole World Regrets that Hitler Didn’t Finish Off the Jews” – R’ Eliezer Berland Shlit”a

The Rav has been saying this for years, and honestly, I used to think he was exaggerating a little.

But not anymore.

And may we see with our own eyes, how all this turns around very, very soon for the best.

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These are comments from October 17th, 2023.

Before our troops went into Gaza, and there was apparently an offer from Hamas to free at least some of the captives.

There are a ton of ‘hints’ here about real Jewish history. 

After the Rav’s comments, I will try BH to unpick some of them.

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In 5611 (1851), the Shvi Shel Pesach (R Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhin) said that in another 70 years from then, there would be a declaration about the founding of the State, like there was the proclamation of Koresh [for the Jews to return to Israel and rebuild the Second Temple].

There was an old man who at that time was 20 years old, so after 70 years he was 90 years old [at the time of the Balfour Declaration]. He said:

I was alive at the time he said this, it was the Shvi Shel Pesach in 5611. And then, he announced that in another 70 years, there would be a declaration, like Koresh’s declaration.

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And then this was accepted by Baron Rothschild, Hertz Rothschild.

He recieved the [Balfour] Declaration on paper, written out and stamped with the signature of the English government.

The English government obligated themselves to set the [Jewish] people up with independence – to give Ashdod to the Jews, and to give Ashkelon to the Jews.

Haifa was totally an Arab city. Whoever used to live in Haifa, so there is Wadi Nisnas, Wadi Selim. From the [Haifa] City Hall down, everything belonged to the Arabs.

From the City Hall on, the lower city already begins – and everything was the Arabs’. Half of Haifa belonged to the Arabs. (The Jews stam came and stole half the city….)

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The Palmach stood on the quay in order to stop the Arabs from leaving.

I have a picture that the Palmach made a chain, in order to try and stop them [the Arabs] from leaving the city. This was before Pesach TAF SHIN HET p 17. And the Arabs broke through the chain, [and said]:

Let’s get on the boats, we won’t stay here with murderers!

They weren’t prepared to stay with such a murderous nation, so they got on the boats going to Beirut.

This is what Hajj El Amein promised them – he was the Mufti – so he promised them that now, they are going to erase Haifa, to blow it up.

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Like they are now doing in Gaza, taking down another house and another house, because it’s impossible to enter Gaza.

It’s not something ‘suitable’ [for the Jews to do] at all. This is 1,000 [soldiers] killed with the first blow. Everything there is narrow alleys, each path is a metre [wide]. It’s 30km from Ashdod, 20km from Ashkelon.

Already, 400,000 people waited a fortnight, and each time they push it off, because they first need to take down all the buildings, so it will be possible to enter.

Everyone is hiding themselves in the tunnels. The whole of Gaza. There is a whole city underground. So, until they take down all the buildings [it’s impossible to enter].

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So he promised – Hajj Al Amein promised – that he was going to take down all the buildings in Haifa.

And they promised him 100 planes from Saudi Arabia, and he was waiting. Until today, he’s still waiting for this… Maybe, they’ll receive this today. I don’t know exactly when they’ll get this, they’ve already been waiting for those planes 75 years, since 1948.

He said we are going to take all of Haifa down, to erase it! Everyone should leave immediately!

All the people were obedient, everyone was disciplined. They left Haifa and they got on the boats and the ships.

They brought boats, and the Palmach and the Haganah stood on the quay in Haifa and didn’t let them get on. [But they] managed to break through the checkpoints.

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[This occurred on] Wednesday in the morning. Then it was Pesach on Shabbat.

So on Wednesday morning, I was a child of ten, and I got up in the morning on Shabbat – and there wasn’t a single Arab left in the whole city.

We lived opposite Arabs, my house was opposite the Arabs, they fired on our house. We lived more inside, so the bullets didn’t really harm us, except for just one bullet. But those who lived at the front, they house was riddled with bullets – because it was really on the frontlines, our house….

We weren’t going to give it up under any circumstances.

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Biden had a plan to give [the Arabs] Wadi Selim and Wadi Nisnas, to ‘give back’ all the Arab neighborhoods.

But Abu Mazen didn’t come to the meeting, poor guy. He got a terrible fright at the last minute. And also, the King of Jordan, and not the King of Egypt – they didn’t come to the meeting.

He (Biden] wanted to meet everyone, but no-one showed up. So they left Biden empty-handed.

Instead of getting Ashdod and Ashkelon and Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem – Jerusalem is also a half-Arab city. The whole of the Old City used to be the Muslim Quarter.

We were the first ones who conquered the Old City. And Ateret Cohanim – Ateret Cohanim also ‘conquered’. They started to buy houses, everything, to buy the houses of the Jews, and everything was bought with cash.

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All the writings say to live in Jerusalem.

Because the moment that it’s possible to live in Jerusalem, then a person is obligated to live in Jerusalem. It’s only permitted to live in Ashdod ‘in the meantime’, as though it’s just a sort of ‘waiting station’.

Whoever was born in Ashdod, whoever has parents in Ashdod – this is something else.

But whoever wasn’t born in Ashdod, and who doesn’t have parents in Ashdod, they have no reason to live in Ashdod.

All the writings say to live in Jerusalem.

Here in Jerusalem, nothing can happen. Here, they won’t fire rockets, here there are no sirens, here there are no [….]

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Now they fired a rocket, and it almost damaged Al Aqsa, the rocket.

Like how they damaged the hospital [in Gaza], but only 20 were killed. They said that we killed 500, it got up to 500, and there were demonstrations in Berlin, and demonstrations in all of the world.

And they attacked the Israeli Consulate in Jordan, and almost blew it up. And now in Turkey, they almost broke into the Consulate – and it’s all because they said that the Jews had killed 500 babies.

This is 500 children! All this was just revenge for the poor children who were murdered now on Shabbat Simchat Torah!

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For 20 hours, there was no army.

There was nothing.

They [the terrorists] walked around, they went and came back, they dragged away people, some of them were killed, some of them were taken. Now, they got to 250 captives. It’s got to, it will get to, 300.

They themselves haven’t counted how many. Some of them [were captured by] the Jihad, some of them were taken by citizens [of Gaza], some of them were taken by Hamas. They themselves still haven’t counted up all the hostages.

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Now, we need to free them.

You live in Ashdod, that’s really very close. It’s not a problem to get into Gaza. So now we’ll maybe sort out a few buses, go into Gaza and get the captives freed. This is before anything else, it comes before doing battle, it comes before you start a war.

The first thing is to get them freed.

This is everything.

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Ad kan, from the Rav.

The first place I checked into a little more is ‘R Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhiner‘, who apparently such tremendous ruach hakodesh about the founding of the State of Israel.

HERE is his Wikipedia page, here are a few snippets that caught my eye:

The Ruzhiner Rebbe was a charismatic leader known for his aristocratic demeanor.

He set a regal tone for his court, living in a palatial home with splendid furnishings; riding in a silver-handled carriage drawn by four white horses; being accompanied by an entourage of attendants; and wearing a golden yarmulke and stylish clothing with solid-gold buttons.

His children, too, dressed like nobility and were attended by servants in livery.

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Another snippet:

The Rebbe’s extravagant lifestyle and prestige aroused the envy of Tsar Nicholas I and the ire of the Jewish maskilim (members of the Jewish Enlightenment movement); the latter continually plotted to bring about the Rebbe’s downfall.

In 1838, at the height of a two-year investigation of the murder of two Jewish informers, the Rebbe was arrested by the governor-general of Berdichev on the accusation of complicity in the murders.

He was brought before the Tsar, whose own agents told him that the Rebbe was trying to establish his own kingdom and was fomenting opposition to the government. The Tsar had the Rebbe jailed in Donevitz for seven months, and then placed in solitary confinement in prison in Kiev for fifteen months, pending a decision on exiling him to the Caucasus or Siberia.

No formal charges were ever filed against him, and no trial was ever held.

On 19 February 1840 (Shushan Purim 5600), the Rebbe was suddenly released. But he was still subject to the allegation of opposing the government and was placed under police surveillance at his home, which made it increasingly difficult for his Hasidim to visit him.

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Long story short, the Ruzhiner Rebbe was forced to move from Russian territory to Sadigur in Austria, where he built an even more luxurious palace for himself.

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Interestingly…. the life story of the Ruzhiner Rebbe overlaps a great deal with what we are told about the Savraner Rebbe, who was persecuting Rabbi Natan of Breslov, Rabbenu’s main student, to the point of wanting him dead.

The ‘Savraner Rebbe’ at the time of R Natan was also apparently called ‘Yisrael’…. and he also fell afoul of the Czar Nikolai and was implicated in the murder of Jewish informers.

The following is from page 452 of ‘Through Fire and Water’, the biography of R Natan Sternhartz:

“The Savraner, as one of the leading rabbinical figures in the generation, felt it his obligation to solicit the intervention of the authorities so as to have this [Breslov] sect eradicated…

However, before the Savraner’s letter reached the governor, he had already seen the complaint submitted by the family of the informer [who the Savraner had just arranged to have killed].

When the Savraner’s chassidim brought their letter to the governor, he was incensed.

“This individual wants to make his own rules in this country? On his own initiative, he has a man killed?…There are laws in this country!”

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Fire and Water says ‘the Savraner’ died in 1838.

I’m not sure he actually did.

That’s the exact same year ‘the Ruzhiner’ was:

“[J]ailed in Donevitz for seven months, and then placed in solitary confinement in prison in Kiev for fifteen months, pending a decision on exiling him to the Caucasus or Siberia.”

Before he actually escaped to Austria, where he ‘adopted’ the identity of a dead Austrian citizen of Sadigur, so he was allowed to become an Austrian citizen and avoid being extradited back to Russia.

Lots to unpick there… (as usual).

But one thing I can tell you, is that the opponents of real Breslov and the real Breslov tzaddikim have never been on the ‘right side’ of history.

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OK, now a quick look at what was going on in Haifa in 1948.

At this stage, I’m not sure – at all  – what the Rav is hinting to.

But HERE is an ‘official account’ of what is meant to have happened between the Arabs of Haifa, and the Palmach and Haganah.

Snippet:

Throughout the Haganah made effective use of Arabic language broadcasts and loudspeaker vans.

Haganah Radio announced that ‘the day of judgement had arrived’ and called on inhabitants to ‘kick out the foreign criminals’ and to ‘move away from every house and street, from every neighbourhood occupied by foreign criminals’. The Haganah broadcasts called on the populace to ‘evacuate the women, the children and the old immediately, and send them to a safe haven’…

Jewish tactics in the battle were designed to stun and quickly overpower opposition; demoralisation was a primary aim. It was deemed just as important to the outcome as the physical destruction of the Arab units. The mortar barrages and the psychological warfare broadcasts and announcements, and the tactics employed by the infantry companies, advancing from house to house, were all geared to this goal.

The orders of Carmeli’s 22nd Battalion were ‘to kill every [adult male] Arab encountered’ and to set alight with fire-bombs ‘all objectives that can be set alight. I am sending you posters in Arabic; disperse on route’.

John Kimche also describes the “psychological blitz on Arab quarters” until “the Arab nerve broke and the flight from the town assumed panic proportions”.

Honestly…. it really doesn’t sound so different from what is going on right now.

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UPDATE:

There’s a bunch more interesting stuff about the Ruzhiner on the Chabad website (of course).

Like for example, the same story of him authorising the death of Jewish informers in the local bath house, as happened with the ‘Savraner’.

And also, that he apparently believed he was the ‘Moshiach’ of his generation.

Snippet:

Once, the Ruzhiner sent a messenger to all the Chassidic rebbes of his time, wherein he asked them to agree for him to be Moshiach.

Many agreed, but one (Reb Uri of Strelisk) said, “He has all the right qualities, but we don’t want a young man to be Moshiach.”24

This story illustrates that the Ruzhiner was potentially King Moshiach, which would explain his majestic lifestyle.

His son, Rebbe Dovid Moshe of Chortkov said,

“All great tzaddikim (including the Apter Rav and Reb Mordechai of Chernobyl) said that our father has the neshamah of Moshiach.”25

Once, the wealthy Reb Yaakov Yosef Halprin, whose son had married the daughter of the Ruzhiner, wrote a letter to the Ruzhiner on a torn piece of scrap paper.

The Ruzhiner grabbed the peyos of his son-in-law, Reb Dovid Halprin, and said, “How could your father write me a letter on a quarter of a page? Doesn’t he know who I am? I have the neshamah of King Hezekiah!

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Nice middot…. not.

TBC