More words from the Rav.

It’s not a coincidence that the biggest sports stadium in Jerusalem is called ‘Teddy Stadium’ – after that self-same British spy and hater of religious Jews, Teddy Kollek.

There is literally nothing new under the sun.

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Excerpt of Rav Berland’s shiur, given on the 4th night of Chanuka 5784

The whole war of the Maccabees was against the i-Phones, the smartphones, the Xiomis.

What did the Greeks want? They wanted new technology. They wanted to tameh (make impure, spiritually unfit) Am Yisrael. The whole point was to turn [the Jews] into hellenists.

Already, most of the people were hellenists.

They burned those who were keeping Shabbat – a thousand people who were keeping Shabbat, they burnt them.

Antiochus wanted that each house would have an i-Phone, that each child would have an i-Phone / smartphone / Xiomi.

This was the whole point.

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Now, the new innovation is the Xiomi – this is the new invention.

It has the appearance of a ‘kosher phone’, they understood, they caught on, all the ‘hellenists’ of our days. Since the beginning of the world, since the start of the Jewish people, there hasn’t been a disaster like this, like what happened on Simchat Torah.

After they gave out punches on Yom Kippur [in Tel Aviv] – whoever prayed on Yom Kippur, they recieved blows.

Hashem can’t forgive, anymore.

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Because all of the war [of the Maccabees] was against the stadium.

Here in Jerusalem they held the World Championships. Here, they played football, here, they worked out, boxing – who was going to be the champion of the world.

Jerusalem was the centre of the world.

The Greeks transformed Jerusalem into the centre of the world, because they knew that if they ruled over Jerusalem – they would rule over the whole world.

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The whole world turns its eyes to Jerusalem.

Every king wants to be called ‘The King of Jerusalem’. Every people and every nation wants to rule over Jerusalem.

If they would conquer Jerusalem, and rule over it, and build a stadium, and people would [wrestle] naked – all this is written in Josephus – before the eyes of all the male and female spectators….

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They wanted to strengthen the snake.[1]

And this was the war between light and darkness.

The whole war of Hannukah is the war the snake is waging against the holy Torah.

The snake says: You were born a snake, and the whole of you is a snake!

A person is born with a yetzer hara (evil inclination).

“For the inclination of a person’s heart is evil from his youth.”[2]

He is born a non-Jew. He’s not a Jew at all.

“How does a person merit to be a Jew?”

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The Rebbe used to ask this over and over again.

Even in his last year, Rav Natan saw that [Rebbe Nachman] used to ask with such simplicity: How does a person merit to be a Jew?

The whole focus [of the Greeks] was to uproot yiddishkeit, to rip it up by its roots.

Because Judaism is the ‘war’ against the snake.

Only the Jewish people is fighting against the snake.

The whole rest of the world has capitulated to it – that same snake that caused Adam HaRishoh to sin, it’s obvious that he can also cause us to sin, too….

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Adam HaRishon knew the whole Torah.

He was directly created from the mouth of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. How was it possible to cause him to sin, at all?!  He was directly created by the mouth of Hashem!

He knew what ‘the snake’ is. He wasn’t tempted.

We think that the snake is the ‘yetzer tov’ (inclination for good), but Adam HaRishon knew that the snake was the yetzer hara. He knew this.

But Adam HaRishon calculated[3], as Rashi writes about Yosef HaTzaddik, on Parshat Vayeshev – and this year we are reading this on Hannukah. The Badatz poskened that this year, we read Vayeshev.

Because of the smartphones, and the i-Phones, and this was also the war of Yosef, waged against the smartphones and the i-Phones, and against the Xiomi.

This is what Yosef was fighting against.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] In previous shiurim, the Rav explains that the physical body is the ‘ketunot or’, the garment of skin that Hashem clothed humanity in after Adam’s sin. But that essentially, this ‘ketunot or’ is the skin of the primordial snake, and not something the human being was orginally designed to have.

[2] Bereishit 8:21

[3] The import appears to be that Yosef also deliberately put himself in the way of ‘sin’ with Potiphar’s wife, in order to ‘defeat evil’ at it’s deepest level, in the same way Adam HaRishon deliberately ‘chose’ to eat from the tree.

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Just to keep this real, yesterday, I tried to see if I could get Whats App on my PC.

I tried to volunteer last week, and I got told that if I don’t have Whats App, I just can’t.

Apparently.

I kind of felt like an anachronistic waste of space after that, so I thought, let’s see if I can get Whats App on the PC instead, and figure it out that way.

Long story short, while other people apparently can do that, God doesn’t want that for me.

And I am actually really, really happy about that.

Whats App is actually one of the biggest curses of our times.

And it’s good, that even for ‘good reasons’, God is not letting me have it.

But I tried.

Excerpt of a shiur given December 11th 5784, 4th night of Chanuka

More hints and insights from the Rav, translated from Shivivei Or 338.

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Now, Yosef comes to Dotan.

He asks the angel,  where are my brothers shepherding? He says to him, Dotan.

They want to kill you, he (the angel) hints to him. He didn’t want to tell him that they want to kill you.

“They conspired to put him to death.”[1]

They passed a death sentence upon him, it wasn’t everyone, really it was just Shimon and Levi.

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“Shimon and Levi are brothers, the tools of Hamas are their weapons.”[2]

They were members of Hamas. (Yaakov said to them before his death, you are Hamasnikim!)

What a curse! What words!

They freed your daughter, (Dina). Say thank you! Dance! Your daughter was kidnapped in Gaza! She was there in some bunker, in some tunnel. They went into the tunnel and they brought your daughter out, so dance, sing!

They brought her out with a miracle, give them a double inheritance!

“And I have given you Shechem – one [portion] more than your brothers.”[3]

What curses you cursed them with. They freed your daughter! Dance, sing, they brought her out via a miracle.

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No, “Shimon and Levi are brothers, the tools of Hamas are their weapons.”[4]

You are Hamasnikim! You are like Hamas!

“Into their design may my soul not enter. With their congregation do not unite… Accursed is their rage, for it is mighty.”[5]

He cursed them with such curses.

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I asked Yaakov, what’s with these curses? They freed your daughter, be happy! Dance!

No, accursed is their rage, for it is mighty, and their wrath, for it is harsh. I will divide them in Yaakov.

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They have no inheritance in the land.

Shimon has no inheritance – he got Dimona, Beer Sheva, Adada and Ziklag. All of this is in the desert, this isn’t ‘in the land’.  This is in the wilderness – that’s where they have their inheritance.

And Levi – nothing.

I will divide you in Yaakov.

Levi was totally deprived, he had no inheritance. He needs to go and stand in the granary and to recieve maaser / terumah (i.e. charity). He has nothing, no inheritance. And he got a few cities of refuge.

This is all the inherited cities of the Levites.

All of this, because they went and slaughtered a whole city.

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But the RAMBAN asks, did they need to wait for Shimon and Levi to free Dina?! On the contrary, Yaakov should have freed Dina!

But Yaakov knew that there was going to be a war with the entire city.

[From previous shiurim, the Rav explained that Yaakov had the question if it was permitted to kill the entire city in order to save her. Therefore, he wanted to get advice from Yitzhak, and that’s why he didn’t act immediately.]

The entire city was protecting Shechem ben Hamor.

Hamor ben Hamor – a donkey, son of a donkey. His father was Hamor, and he was also a hamor. Hamor ben hamor.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Bereishit 37:18.

[2] Bereshit 49:7.

[3] Bereishit 48:22.

[4] Bereshit 49:7.

[5] Ibid.

Excerpt of shiur given on Wednesday, 2nd Kislev, 5784, to the Hoshen Mishpat Kollel in the Old City of Jerusalem

Now we need to travel [to Uman].

Here, he’s organising flights for us, so we can fly to Uman, even three [planes, each containing] 800 people. Every two hours, they get to Uman, there and back, it’s possible to do 10 flights, 10 appearances in one day.

10 flights, [times] 800, this is 8,000 [people] to Uman.

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In the media they publicised that 40,000 people got to Uman [for Rosh Hashana].

The truth is that 20,000 got there, but in the media they announced it was 40,000, and maybe even 50,000. The more you can say [the better]….

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Because Bibi says that you shouldn’t dare to travel, under no circumstances.

They suspected Bibi of being an apikorus (heretic). He didn’t say words of heresy, he just said don’t rely on miracles.

He was talking to the Breslovers. People didn’t understand, they accused him, whoever heard Bibi’s speech two weeks before Rosh Hashana.

So, everyone suspected him of being an apikorus, all the rabbis, all of those…

And they attacked him. How can a Prime Minister say such words of heresy?!

He didn’t say, he said that in the holocaust there weren’t miracles, and also now, there won’t be  miracles for you.

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He was talking to the Breslovers from a place of ‘concern’.

He said, I’m worried about you. Me, I have my mamads (security rooms). Me, I have my bunkers…

That’s what he wrote, that’s what he said.

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And there was one Mizrachi (dati leumi) woman who said that the State needed to forbid the Breslovers from travelling to Uman.

[Ed. note: this was Orit Struk].

It’s pikuach nefesh (saving a life), they are irresponsible people, people who are prepared to die. It’s forbidden for us to let them do it! We need to forbid these trips, and to stop them at Lod [airport], and not send them out.

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And Bibi gave a whole speech against the Breslovers.

This was against the Breslovers, coming from a place of tremendous ‘love’. Because he loves them so very much.

After all, he did a brit milah in the Breslov Shul for his grandson. His daughter is a Breslover. The daughter he has from his first wife, she’s a Breslover.

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Everyone today is Breslov.

Breslov is already more than Chabad, than everything else. Already, everyone left Chabad, gomarnu (it’s over).

What’s left is the prayers at the Ohel [of the Rebbe].

There needs to be prayers in Uman, not prayers in the Ohel – the Ohel in Montefiore [cemetery, in NYC].

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You were in New York once, but did you see Montefiore [cemetery]?

It’s between Flatbush and Borough Park, there is an enormous cemetery. I used to go past it each day. I’d go from 20th Avenue with Chaim Shlomo Rottenburg, we’d go on foot to pray in Borough Park, and we’d go via Montefiore [cemetery].

We saw all the tombstones.

[Sir Moses] Montefiore built it. He bought the plot, and that’s where they buried the Rebbe from Chabad. There, they buried all the very biggest rabbis of New York.

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So, there was a prayer in the Ohel [of the Lubavitcher Rebbe].

People came from Eretz Yisrael to pray there, in the Ohel, and lots of families from those who were kidnapped, from their representatives.

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King David was also kidnapped.

They abducted him, so they turned to the UN, they went to Biden, and then he was successful.

In the end, Avishai came, Avishai. Avishai was such a pere adam (wild man), he was so hyperactive, how he knew how to jump…

He jumped from Jerusalem to Gaza, he had kfitzat haderech (a miraculous shortening of the road), and he got there, and he saw David fly in the air.

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Ad kan from the Rav.

I was hoping to have a lot more translated, but I just haven’t had the yishuv ha’daat to do it.

A few weeks’ ago, the Rav was telling the story of how the ‘Brits’ fought the ‘Ottomans’ in WW1 for Eretz Yisrael, and they took out the Ottoman base by dropping a bunch of ‘poisoned cigarettes’ close by, that the ‘Ottoman soldiers’ than smoked and it made them ‘fall asleep’.

It was another clue.

Look at this, from yesterday:

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If you go HERE, to the Mapping the Massacre site, you’ll see exactly where that base was located.

Here’s the snippet from there:

Over 40 Hamas terrorists infiltrated a military base near Nahal Oz, executing a meticulously orchestrated assault that left significant destruction and caused many fatalities among the stationed troops.

Armed with firearms, grenades, and bomb-dropping drones, they killed guards, set fire to the command center, killing the majority of the soldiers who were trying to hide, and captured at least six female soldiers.

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Meanwhile, this is a snippet from the story about the ‘poison gas’, on the VINN site:

According to a report published by Channel 12, the main findings of the investigation indicated that an unspecified but toxic flammable substance was apparently thrown through the entrance of the building which housed the soldiers’ command center.

One of the soldiers at the entrance to the building attempted to extinguish the flames but was unsuccessful and the fire continued to spread.

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Then it says this:

One of the officers climbed up to the [bathroom] window and smashed it, allowing him, five other officers and one surveillance soldier to escape the toxic inferno.

The other fifteen soldiers in the command center died  apparently asphyxiated by the noxious fumes. Six other soldiers from the base were taken hostage.

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I’m curious how these six officers (!) – not even regular soldiers, but ‘officers’ – managed to escape being shot dead or captured by the 40 Hamas terrorists that apparently had the base surrounded, as they slowly squeezed out that bathroom window.

And I’m also curious how it was those ‘Hamas terrorists’ managed to approach the base in the first place, and do all this, without any of the ‘observer soldiers’, or anyone else, apparently noticing them.

And without the alarm being raised.

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Continue to think for yourself.

And continue to spot the ‘clues’ they are shoving out in front of us, in plain view, just with a spun cover story to explain the details away, when that CCTV footage from the bases finally gets made public.

And may God save us from the evil.

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Or to give it it’s proper Jewish term, midda kneged midda.

From the beginning of this ‘war’, it seems to me that Hashem’s hashgacha pratit has been far more pronounced, than in the past.

Without going into details, all the people who have lost loved ones that I knew personally, in some way, I could kind of see the hashgacha pratit clearly, as to why specifically these families were in the frame.

Again, without going into details, but I noticed from the first few days that many of the families having sons killed in Gaza seem to have very close links with the government.

State Comptrollers….Teachers who were mamash hated by their students… People with very tight links to ‘anti Rav Berland’ factions in the so-called religious world….and of course, even ministers and former Chiefs of Staff of the IDF.

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If you go to the Jewish Press site HERE, you’ll find an article from April 2023 called:

General Brik: The IDF Not Ready for All-Out War

Here’s a snippet:

“There is nothing more grotesque than the idle statements of the political and security echelons about preparedness in all sectors before tensions break out,” General (Res.) Yitzhak Brik wrote in Maariv Thursday.

He blames, above all else, former Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who only recently spoke about the IDF’s preparedness, when, in reality, he was one of the chief architects of the IDF’s lack of readiness for the coming all-out war.

“As Chief of Staff, Gantz decided to cut hundreds of tanks and other units from the Ground Forces, crossing a red line that must not be crossed. Under his leadership, the threat surrounding Israel intensified to dimensions we had not known before: hundreds of thousands of missiles and rockets around Israel, tens of thousands of enemy fighters equipped with anti-tank weapons and artillery, and pro-Iranian Shiite militias that are gaining great power in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq.”

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The same people who helped make the mess are the same people pretending to lead us out of it…. on all sides of the (pretend…) political divide.

Point is, Gantz was then replaced by G. as Chief of Staff.

If you go to G.’s Wiki page, HERE, you read this:

In August 2016 [he] was awarded with the Commander of the Legion of Merit by general Joseph Dunford.

The award was given due to [his] “exceptionally meritorious service as chief of the General Staff of the IDF” and his “contribution to the strategic cooperation between the United States and Israel will have a lasting effect on both countries“.^[24]

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I would love to know what that ‘contribution’ was, that saw him being given the ‘Commander of the Legion of Merit’ by the States.

HERE is the Wiki page for that, and this is a picture of that ‘Commander’ medal. What do you notice?

Yeah, how about that ‘star of David’ in the middle?

In our upside-down world, they will tell you that this shows how ‘Jews’ took over the States.

Really, it’s the exact opposite.

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The medal was presented by the former Chief of Staff under both Obama and Trump (because as I keep telling you, the political divide everywhere is ‘fake’), Joseph Dunford.

Awww, so sweet.

The IDF gave him a medal back in 2017.

THIS is an image on Flickr, showing Yvette Lieberman shaking hands with him.

The medal he got back was called ‘Chief of Staff Medal of Appreciation’, and was only given 10 times since it was created, back in 1981.

Here’s a list of all the people (and ‘things’) it was ever given to. What do you notice?

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So much to say, but as the censorship is just going to continue spiralling up and up…. it’s really time everyone learned how to start thinking for themselves.

If you’re bored, spend a few minutes taking a look at our ‘leaders’ here, especially in the military, and see if you can spot how many tight links they have to the American deep state and the spooks.

And then, work out for yourself who is really running the country.

Regardless of who anyone votes for in the elections.

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There are some suggestions that ‘something big’ might be happening on Zot Chanuka.

I don’t know what.

I’m hoping that whatever it is, it’s going to be something that is sweetening what is going on here, and not making it more bitter.

But we live in very strange times.

If you didn’t already, you need to ramp your emuna up to the max, connect strongly to God and His true tzaddikim, and switch your focus into praying, tzedaka and working on overcoming bad middot and bad habits.

I will try to keep posting here, but it seems to me that the efforts to close down the blog are going up, and if it gets too much, then I’ll stop.

I’m not a ‘glutton for punishment’ like that, and I am not going to carry on writing if I see it’s really getting dodgy to continue.

Ultimately, each person will have to connect back to their souls, and then connect their souls back to God and His real tzaddikim.

The ‘shortcuts’ are all being closed down, it seems.

And may we just hear good news.