This morning, I went to Netivot, to belatedly celebrate the hiloula of the Baba Sali, zt’l.

It was totally quiet – apart from the large crowds of people still showing up to celebrate the hiloula, that was officially on motzae Shabbat / Sunday.

It was so peaceful and sunny and *enjoyable*, I really started to question all these narratives we are being fed 24/7 about the South still being ‘dangerous’.

Just now, I came home, and I saw this video that’s meant to be from yesterday morning…. with 10 rockets apparently all fired at once being ‘exploded’ over Netivot:

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Sure, that was meant to be yesterday….

But the gap between ‘what the news tells us’ and what I experience myself just continues to grow and grow….

They are lying about everything.

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In other news, I heard that they have so far managed to raise just 10% of the money required to write the Rav’s Sefer Torah for the soldiers, which will hopefully bring a speedy conclusion to the nightmare of the last 3 months (+250 years….)

It’s ‘money’ or it’s ‘blood’.

You pick which version of ‘getting into geula’ you’d prefer.

If you are going for the former:

You can help to write the Rav’s Sefer Torah for the soldiers in the following ways:

20,000 nis – donates a whole section of parchment (including the actual writing), and gets your names transcribed as donors.

5,000 nis – donates a page (parchment and writing).

OR, donate whatever amount you can afford.

In all cases, just go to THIS link, and make it clear in the comments that the donation is for the Rav’s Sefer Torah.

YOU CAN ALSO MAKE A ‘STAGED’ DONATION OVER A FEW MONTHS, IF YOU WANT TO BUY A PAGE ETC, BUT CAN’T AFFORD TO DO IT IN ONE SHOT.

Once again, click:

HERE

And may all the decrees be sweetened very, very fast.

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And if you’re going for the latter option…..

Mamash haval.

For all of us.

The story begins, as these stories so often do, with a chance comment one of the readers here made.

You can see it here on THIS post, about ‘Mr Israel’, the WWF wrestling nephew of the Chazon Ish who was also a member of the (masonic….) ‘Muslim Brotherhood’.

(Again, who can make this stuff up?!)

It was something about how every Halperin / Heilprin they ever met is somehow associated with Chabad.

Hmm.

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The ‘HALPERIN / HEILPRINS’ are right in the middle of this whole dodgy saga.

Some of them – the ones somehow connected to the false messiah ‘Jacob Frank’ – made a big effort to change their name away from HEILPRIN to….PULVEMACHER.

I guess they figured no-one would ever accuse them of changing their name to something so unwieldy. Or something.

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Anyway, I’m tootling around the family trees, and also reading over some of the pages of the LURIE LEGACY, sent to me by a very kind reader, and trying to ‘zero in’ on the HALPERIN / HEILPRIN’s a little more, when I trip over this, on the berdichev.org site:

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It’s a letter from a wealthy HALPERIN banker in Berdichev, to Rothschilds Freres in Paris, from 1842, that appears to have been auctioned off on eBay in the last few years.

I am including the full description below, but please do go and click on THIS link, to see the handwritten original:

DESCRIPTION:

HALPERIN & SONS. Manuscript Letter Signed. 1 page + integral stampless address leaf. Berdytshceff [Berdichev, Tsarist Russia], with Brody and other postmarks, October 22/4, 1842. 9 x 10.5 inches. Horizontal and vertical folds; triangular cut and marginal tear on address leaf, not affecting text; some pencil and ink computations in margin; Good condition overall.

French text. To Rothschild Freres, Paris. A business letter, apparently about large money transfers, mentioning Hammer & Schmidt of Leipzig; Stieglitz & Co., St. Petersburg (sometimes called the “Rothschilds of Russia”, though they were German Jewish converts to Christianity); Jacob Schafnagl; Gagliardo Lazzaro; and Arnstein & Eskeles of Vienna (prominent Austrian-Jewish financiers, patrons of Mozart, whose descendants also converted to Christianity).

The historical sources I’ve consulted have sketchy, and sometimes conflicting, information about the Halperins of Berdichev, even including such spelling variations of the surname as Galperin and Heilprin. The following information is not intended to be historically definitive, merely a guidepost for those with expertise which I lack:

The Halperins were not only the first prominent Jewish financiers of the Russian Ukraine in the early 19th century, but also the most influential lay supporters of Lubavitch Hassidic Judaism.

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This is where I really start to sit up – because I’ve literally been ALL OVER the story about Chabad chassidut for about five years now, and this is the very first time I heard about these ‘HALPERINS’ who were ‘the most influential lay supporters of Lubavitch Hassidic Judaism.’

Before we continue, let’s ‘locate’ these CHABAD HALPERINS on that same family tree that includes:

• the Chazon Ish,
• ‘Mr Israel’,
• R Chaim Kanievsky, z’tl,
• Shimon Peres,
• Yitzhak Rabin,
• the Reichmann billionaires of Canada – and probably, a few hundred more interesting people we still haven’t managed to connect up with.

Yet.

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If you go to the (totally messed-up) tree for R YECHIEL HALPERIN [HEILPRIN], the SEDER HADOROTH, (1660-1746), that where you can start to trace a little more of what is going on here.

The SEDER HADOROTH’s tree has numerous very interesting link ups with a whole bunch of people we’ve been talking about here on the blog.

The difficulty is this: I know his tree has been totally messed-around, to try to hide the real truth, so it’s unreliable. At the same time, I also know that because of all the ‘DNA testing’, they still have to find a way of ‘connecting’ in descendants whose DNA show they belong in this tree – without giving the game away too much.

My hat goes off to Kevin Lawrence Hanit, and all the other Geni gatekeepers, who truly have done an outstanding job of keeping the truth hidden in plain sight whilst bamboozling us all with fake personas and mis-matched generations.

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So, let’s start with the HALPERIN BANKERS of BERDICHEV.

Like this:

SEDER HADOROTH > YESHAYE HALPERIN AB’D VITKEV > MOISHE HALPERIN ABD BERDICHEV (aka R MOSHE SLOTVINER) m MINDEL CHAYOT > (1) YOSEF CHARIF HALPERIN AB’D BERDICHEV > (2) ISRAEL ZALMANOV HALPERIN (aka BANKER YISROEL M’BERDICHEV’ > (3) R YAAKOV YOSEF HALPERIN OF BERDICHEV – the CHABAD lay supporter and financier mentioned in this letter.

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Before we move on, MINDEL CHAYOT is the great-granddaughter of the SHACH / SHABTAI TZVI.

Of course.

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Ok, let’s continue with the letter, because now we are going to pick up some more really useful clues, to start to stitch together a bit more of our ‘real Jewish history’:

The founder of the family fortune was YOSEF HALPERIN, who is mentioned in folktales about the famed Hassidic Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev.

This is Number 1, in the descent from the SEDER HADOROTH.

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He was succeeded by a son, who, according to different accounts, was named ISRAEL YAKOVLEVICH or YAAKOV YOSEF. (Perhaps there were two brothers, or one of these was a grandson?) This letter seems to be signed with the initial “J”, but it could also be a capital “I”, and the Rothschild docketing note on the address leaf is also unclear.

‘Israel Zelmanov Halperin’ is number 2, in the descent above, while Yaakov Yosef Halperin is number 3, and is meant to be Israel’s son, not his brother.

But Geni gatekeepers lie about a lot….. So probably the letter is correct, and they were siblings, not father and son.

Let’s continue.

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In any case, when this letter was written, Halperin of Berdichev was a wealthy financier who, unlike other Jewish bankers of the time, had remained true to his faith and was the influential leader of the Jewish community in the western Ukraine….

– So influential that when, in 1843, the Tsarist Russian Government sponsored a small conference of distinguished Jews in St. Petersburg to resolve the bitter dispute over the fate of Jewish education between the Lubavitch Hassidim and adherents of the “Jewish Enlightenment”, Halperin was one of the five distinguished Jews present – and the only one who supported the views of Hassidic Rabbi MENAHEM MENDL SHNEERSON.

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We just learned more in this one paragraph about what was really happening 200 years ago in the Jewish community in Russia than from all the so-called ‘history’ books that have falsified so much of this story.

And again – I have NEVER heard of ‘HALPERIN of BERDICHEV’ being talked about in connection with fighting the ‘enlightment’ in Russia – and I have been all over this story for years.

We hear a ton about the GUNZBURGS (strangely, not mentioned at all here…) and about YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN (strangely, also missing from this discussion….) and ‘NATA NATAN NOTKIN’ son-in-law of the SHA’AGAT ARYEH, guy who got the ALTER REBBE of CHABAD apparently freed the second time he was arrested and business partner of ABRAHAM PERETZ….

None of those people, nor their descendents, are mentioned in connection with the wealthy Jewish bankers of Russia and St Petersburg.

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The whole trick with this stuff is trying to figure out ‘who are the real people’ and ‘who were the fake personas, invented to help forge a different version of Jewish history’.

A rough rule of thumb is that anyone mentioned in a Chabad ‘tale’ or story is usually a persona. (But there are some exceptions – as we’ll see below.)

Let’s continue with the letter:

Shneerson wished to win Russian Government approval to maintain traditional, private Jewish schools and Yeshivot, while the reformers favored state-sponsored Jewish schools where primary study of Talmud would be supplanted by reading more modern texts.

That “reform” was probably favored by the Government, and the fact that the outcome of the conference was something of a compromise between the diametrically opposing positions may have owed a great deal to the political and economic clout of Halperin.

As this letter testifies, he had wide financial contacts throughout Europe which counter-balanced the claim of the reformers to a more “worldly” outlook than tradition-bound Hassidim.

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Of course, the Frankist-Freemasons weren’t about to let him continue to ruin their plans to totally subvert the Jewish youth from within, and uproot the Torah.

The letter continues:

Halperin’s stand cost him dearly. His anti-Hassidic opponents, having first attempted unsuccessfully to prevent his attendance at the conference by quietly discrediting him in the eyes of the authorities, went on to explicit denunciation which led to his financial ruin.

He was ultimately locked away in a debtor’s prison and his firm was dissolved.

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These people play hard-ball to get their opponents out the way.

They still do.

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OK, so before the wealthy CHABAD HALPERIN’s got taken out of action, his kids married into a lot of the families that became ‘chassidic royalty’.

For example, his son DAVID HEILPRIN of VASLUI married LEAH FRIEDMAN – the daughter of ISRAEL OF RUZHIN, aka MOSHE ZVI WERTHEIMER of SAVRAN – the leading Rebbe of his day, who literally hired hit men to try and kill R NATAN of BRESLOV in his bed.

(The reason it failed is because the killer got the wrong guy called ‘Natan’, who was found murdered in his home…..)

And in turn, ‘R ISRAEL OF FRIEDMAN OF RUZHIN’ was married to SARA EFRATI – whose father was one MOSHE HALEVI EFRATI, the ‘rosh yeshiva’ of BERDICHEV.

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Because these people just kept on marrying each other over and over again, I am willing to bet good money that the ‘MOISHE HALPERIN ABD BERDICHEV’ who married MINDEL CHAYOT in the CHABAD HALPERIN family tree is exactly the same guy as this ‘MOSHE HALEVI EFRATI’, ‘rosh yeshiva’ of BERDICHEV.

That family then also spun-out into ‘enlightened Frankist-Freemason-ness’, and at least one branch of it became known as the EFRUSSI bankers of Berdichev – who were off marrying Rothschilds, non-Jewish aristos – and the direct descendents of ‘Jacob Frank’.

(More about them another time, maybe. But Clifford Shack is convinced that Maurice EPHRUSSI fathered STALIN….)

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There is so much to tell you, about who else is in this family tree.

Like, that exact same SONIA SARA RATNER (DISKIN) – married to ELIYAHU ZALMAN HALPERIN some time before she married YEHOSHUA LEIB DISKIN, and who had the famous Z-ist commie either as a son or stepson, called MICHAEL HALPERIN (1860-1919)

But I’m still unpicking a bunch of very interesting stuff about who these people really were, in the real world. So in the meantime, let’s just take a closer look at some of the other Russian bankers mentioned in this letter, above.

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Here’s that paragraph again:

Hammer & Schmidt of Leipzig;

Stieglitz & Co., St. Petersburg (sometimes called the “Rothschilds of Russia”, though they were German Jewish converts to Christianity);

Jacob Schafnagl;

Gagliardo Lazzaro; and

Arnstein & Eskeles of Vienna (prominent Austrian-Jewish financiers, patrons of Mozart, whose descendants also converted to Christianity).

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ARNSTEIN AND ESKELES link us directly into the heart of the Frankist-Freemason project – and also directly to ‘JACOB FRANK’ (Eskeles….) himself.

But I have to say, I’ve never heard of the other four names here before.

Apart from ARNSTEIN and ESKELES, the only other name that turns up anything in the Jewish community is ‘STIEGLITZ.

I found a bunch of ‘Baron Steiglitzs’ who converted from Judaism to xtianity and then set up the Russian National Bank over HERE.

Snippet:

ALEXANDER STIEGLITZ was born in Saint Petersburg to banker Baron Ludwig von Stieglitz who was a founder of the banking-house “Stieglitz and Co”.

After the death of his father, Stieglitz inherited the banking-house and succeeded as a banker of the Emperor.

In 1840–1850 he successfully sold six 4% government loans to finance the construction of the Moscow – Saint Petersburg Railway and secured a significant foreign loan at the height of the Crimean War….

On 31 May 1860 Emperor Alexander II established the State Bank of the Russian Empire and Stieglitz became its first governor.

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You will be shocked – SHOCKED!!! – to hear that these STIEGLITZ xtian-Frankist-Freemason-bankers in Russia descend from that same bunch of SCHIFFs and GANS’ that we always seem to come back to here, on the blog.

Or to put it another way, half a century before JACOB SCHIFF is off helping to embed the Central Bank, or ‘FED’ in the US, his close family member Baron Alexander von Stieglitz was doing exactly the same sort of thing back in Mother Russia.

(And you can also spell ‘GANS’ – who first gave us the ‘star of David’ – as GANTZ….)

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I also found a R ZECHARIAH MENDEL STEIGLITZ who kind of appears out of nowhere, who marries EIDEL HOROWITZ, first cousin of the CHOZEH OF LUBLIN, around the time these other STEIGLITZs started converting out and become big Russian financiers.

That could be something, it could be nothing.

(The Chozeh of Lublin is another huge mess, genealogically. BH, we will figure out more of what that is one day.)

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But for now- I have left the best until last.

Let me draw your attention back to this paragraph, above:

[I]n 1843, the Tsarist Russian Government sponsored a small conference of distinguished Jews in St. Petersburg to resolve the bitter dispute over the fate of Jewish education between the Lubavitch Hassidim and adherents of the “Jewish Enlightenment”,

Halperin was one of the five distinguished Jews present – and the only one who supported the views of Hassidic Rabbi MENAHEM MENDL SHNEERSON.

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Pay close attention here:

There are five ‘distinguished Jews’ attending that conference in 1843 – HALPERIN, and four other Jews who favor the Russian government’s reforms and are ‘enlightened’, so-called.

So of course, I spent a bit of time trying to find who these other four ‘enlightened’ reforming ‘distinguished Jews’ actually were.

The answer was very enlightening.

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If you go to the Chabad main website HERE, you’ll find an article called:

The 1843 Battle Over Jewish Education

Strangely, for an historical piece from Chabad, it’s actually full of real names and people who can be independently verified to show they actually did exist in the ‘real world’.

That article lists who the four ‘enlightened’ reformers were, or maskilim, who were arguing against ISRAEL HALPERIN, the Berdichev banker and disciple of the TZEMACH TZEDEK.

Snippet:

The commission took place over the summer months from May until August of 1843.

Those in attendance included:

the Tzemach Tzedek,

Rabbi Itzeleh of Volozhin, 

Israel Halperin (a businessman with traditionalist leanings) and 

Bezalel Stern, a maskil who was empathetic to the traditionalist perspective.

In addition, the maskil Aryeh Leib Mandelstam served as the official translator, and [Max] Lilienthal and various officials were also present.

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What?!?!

What is ‘Rabbi Itzeleh of Volozhin’ doing in this list of ‘enlightened reformers’?!

Remember, he’s the son of that same, mysterious, ‘CHAIM OF VOLOZHIN’, leading student of the GRA – and also the ancestor of SHIMON PERES and YITZHAK RABIN (amongst many, many other people you’ve probably heard of, who are still pulling the strings here in the Holy Land.)

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I want to quote another couple of pertinent snippets from that piece on the CHABAD site, as it directly ties-in to some other people I am currently researching.

Shortly after [the Tzemach Tzedek’s] return [to Lubavich], he was visited by a delegation of Lithuanian rabbis—Rabbi David Luria of Bichov, Rabbi Shlomo Lifschitz of Minsk, and Rabbi Yehezkel Beininson of Slutsk.

They discussed the Petersburg conference and potential countermeasures to the Haskalah movement. 

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We met ‘R SHLOMO LIFSCHITZ OF MINSK’ (the CHEMDAT SHLOMO) previously, when we were trying to track down who Sonia Ratner and YEHOSHUA LEIB DISKIN really were.

Read more about the CHEMDAT SHLOMO in Hebrew HERE – we will be coming back to him, BH.

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The other two are still being researched – but the RADAL links us to some very interesting stuff, even by my standards of interesting.

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Here’s a last snippet from that Chabad post:

A year or so after these events, in the summer of 1845, Lilienthal mysteriously left Russia, abruptly abandoning his grand plans for reform.….

Shortly after leaving Russia, Lilienthal made his way to the shores of America, where he became one of the founding leaders of the Reform movement.

(If you are bored, go and research how many of these ‘proto-reform rabbis’ in the USA, particularly, were also 32nd and 33rd degree masons. The answer is most enlightening.)

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But, to keep this straight: Reb Itzele of Volozhin was on the same side as Max Lilienthal, one of the ‘founding leaders of the Reform movement’.

The Volozhin Yeshiva was not, at all, what we have all been brainwashed into believing.

And dafka, it’s the Volozhin Yeshiva that has so many murky connections to all these secret societies in the so-called frum world – and particularly where that intersects with Eretz Yisrael.

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R’ REFAEL SHAPIRO, the Rosh Yeshiva of VOLOZHIN (1837-1921) also shows up in the SEDER HADOROT’s family tree, BTW.

Along with people that connect us straight to the RADAL and the so-called ‘LURIE LEGACY’ – and the RIVLIN family.

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Let’s end this monster piece by taking a brief closer look at ‘R ITZELE OF VOLOZHIN’s’ descendants – whoever that guy really actually was, in real life.

This description of him comes from the eilatgordinlevitan site:

Reb Itsele knew languages.

Like his father he spoke Russian and Polish fluently.

He was Interested in medicine, he was able to read and to understand Latin. He would even check his students and tell them which medications to take.

However he did not inflate his expertise. In the case of a serious eyes illness of his favorite student the writer Kalman Shulman, he sent him to Vilna to the renowned Professor Poritshinski with an introduction letter, where the patient eventually recovered.

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He sounds like a total maskil – remember that at this time, even Max Lillienthal, the notorious maskil referred to above was still wearing tzitit in public, albeit very small ones.

These snippets are from the Valozhyn Jewish Gen page HERE:

Rabbi Itzele of Volozhin had two sons-in-law: Rabbi Eliezer Yitzchak Fried and Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin (the Netzi’v)

The Berlins intersect with the Zeitlins and the Frumkins – and the Shachors.

In fact, it looks like the Shachors / SHORS (does that name ring a bell? And it can also be spelled S-H-A-W….) changed their name to ZEITLIN.

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Last thing for now comes from the WIKI page on the NETZIV, HERE:

Berlin did initially accept some secular studies rather than shut down the [Volozhin] Yeshiva completely.

However, the requirements became more and more onerous with the government eventually stipulating that: “All teachers of all subjects must have college diplomas … no Judaic subjects may be taught between 9 AM and 3 PM … no night classes are allowed … total hours of study per day may not exceed ten.”

Faced with these restrictions, Berlin chose to close the Yeshiva [in 1892].

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In other words… The NETZIV was also a maskil, just a more moderate one.

And Volozhin Yeshiva was not the bastion of yiddishkeit we all got brainwashed into believing it was.

Which explains a heck of a lot…

I have a lot more research to do now.

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PS: No-one talks about what happened to ISRAEL HALPERIN, aside from that description on the letter, that says he apparently ended his days in a debtor’s prison.

He’s not mentioned anywhere else, not even on the Chabad site – which is kind of weird, as he is described as the leading lay supporter of the TZEMACH TZEDEK.

Let’s add it to the pile of ‘things that need to be clarified more, one of these days’.

But in the meantime…. The birur continues.

Just got this from my Chabad friend.

And I’m posting it up, then continuing my small break.

I asked a friend about the tunnels under 770, unfortunately it’s all politics and fighting inside the community.

Since the Rebbe passed away, 770 slowly was taken over by “mashichistim” – people who deny that the Rebbe died.

They are trying in every possible way to gain full control over the building.

During Covid, when the shul was officially closed down, they dug a tunnel from mikve , which is behind the building to the shul in order to continue praying there.

So now the tunnel was finally discovered and it was supposed to be filled with cement, but the group of violent mashichists started breaking the wall in an attempt to connect the tunnel in an official way to the shul as an “expansion “.

Whatever, long story, so sad that Jews can not coexist…

Ultimately, only God is behind everything…. whatever else is going on.

Recently, there’s been an uptick in media manipulation of ‘stay in Gaza’ stories.

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‘Controlled opposition’ works by riding the wave of public opinion, but turning it in a direction that actually just serves the agenda of the Controllers.

Keeping this war going is only going to kill and maim a whole bunch more of our soldiers.

Yesterday, there were reports of a terrible ‘accident’ in Gaza that killed a whole bunch of soldiers, and injured some more.

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On a totally separate note, remember this, comments from the Rav, from right at the beginning of the war?

All those that drove to Gaza, so the soldiers got confused.

They didn’t know what is a ‘terrorist’, and what is an ‘Israeli’.

They fired on whole battalions.

There are many Jews who were destroyed just by ‘friendly fire’.

Just two days ago, a few soldiers were killed, and a few police said that terrorists were coming to the beach. So, they saw a few soldiers were walking around outside, so they fired on them. They thought that these were ‘the terrorists’.

But really, they were Jewish Israelis.

So, there is a danger that a few thousand will die from ‘friendly fire’.

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As always, think for yourselves.

The rule of thumb is: the Evils want war, all the time, and everywhere.

If you remember that, it gets way easier to start to figure out what is really going on here.

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Before we get to the reminder, one of my readers asked me to point out that it’s also possible to pay a donation for the Sefer Torah to ‘stop the war’ with tashlumim – staged payments.

That’s what they did, to donate a page – they are spreading the payments out over a few months.

Am Yisrael is so gorgeous, so amazing….

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REMINDER:

You can help to write the Rav’s Sefer Torah for the soldiers in the following ways:

20,000 nis – donates a whole section of parchment, and gets your names transcribed as donors.

5,000 nis – donates a page.

OR, donate whatever amount you can afford.

In all cases, just go to THIS link, and make it clear in the comments that the donation is for the Rav’s Sefer Torah.

And may all the decrees be sweetened very, very fast.

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UPDATE ON THE ACCIDENT THAT KILLED 6 AND INJURED ANOTHER 3:

I am putting this up ‘out of order’.

It’s another excerpt from the Rav’s shiur on December 20th, (first part HERE), but it really spoke to me a lot, and I think it may speak to you too, dear reader.

It gives so much chizzuk, for all those people (like me….) who have made so many efforts to ‘move forward’ in so many ways – only to keep getting blocked, or for things to fizzle, or for all the ‘achievements’ to apparently just turn into dust.

But that’s just how it looks down here, in the ‘upside-down’ world.

Spiritually, things are very different.

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Also, as always, there are a ton of hints about what is really going on with getting the ‘decrees of caesar’ sweetened in our days, too.

See if you can figure it out.

Lastly, I am just sticking up a reminder (which I will do as a footer on all subsequent posts here for the next little while) that you can help to write the Sefer Torah for the soldiers in the following ways:

20,000 nis – donates a whole section of parchment, and gets your names transcribed as donors.

5,000 nis – donates a page.

OR, donate whatever amount you can afford.

In all cases, just go to THIS link, and make it clear in the comments that the donation is for the Rav’s Sefer Torah.

And may all the decrees be sweetened very, very fast.

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Excerpt of the Rav’s shiur from December 20th, 2023, in Bet Shemesh:

Nachum Ish Gamzu, he was a loafer.

I’m sorry to have to tell you this story, but we need to tell you the truth. A big loafer.

He had a chest filled with diamonds – halavi, I should also have. Then, we’d already pay off all the yeshiva’s debts.

He went to Rome with a chest filled with diamonds, but he didn’t know how to guard the chest. They took the biggest drifter. Now, he went out to the field to do hitbodedut, and he left the chest under the bed.

So the owner of the hotel saw that he left the room, he went into the room to check what was there, found the chest full of diamonds.

Wow, what a merit! What a mitzvah! What joy!

This much joy he’d never seen in his whole life. He started to dance for three, four hours, until he [Nachum Ish Gamzu] returned from the field. Then he filled the chest up with dirt.

And he came back from the field, and he saw a chest that was filled with dirt. They’d touched the chest…

[But he decided to continue on to Rome with the chest full of dirt, anyway.]

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I would have gone home, I wouldn’t have held firm.

I’m telling you – I’m sorry I have to tell you this. But I’m saying, I would have returned home, shut the windows, and the curtains, so no-one could see me, and not get out of my bed for a years, from all the despair.

What, they stole a chest full of diamonds from me!

They collected this together from the whole of Am Yisrael. Every person donated something – this one gave 10 agarot, this one 10 prutot (coins), that’s how it went.

Today, it’s forbidden to receive tzedakah.

[Otherwise] We would have arranged something already, we would have organised such a chest…

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B’kitzur (briefly), what happened is that instead of just going home and getting all depressed, Nachum Ish Gamzu said no! No!! I am going to bring the dust to the king!

This dust – it’s worth more than the diamonds!

There are no ‘coincidences’ in the whole world! That I went and did hitbodedut in the field – so because I went to do hitbodedut, they stole all the diamonds from me?! This just can’t be!

It’s a sign that the dust is worth more than the diamonds!

Because the issue is that a person believes that dust is worth more than diamonds.

So, I will bring this to the king.

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OK, they get to the king, open the chest, and he says: Judea is mocking me!

The Jews are laughing at me, they are humiliating me, they are degrading me – death to all the Jews!!!

The first thing, the very first thing, is to hang Nachum Ish Gamzu! Put him in shackles, then put him up on the tree. Tomorrow, put him [on the gallows] in the main city square, ‘Rome Square’ – this was in Athens….

It was already Romans then, so in ‘Rome’ [Square]. We will put him in Rome, we will hang him in Rome, in the city square, on Capitol Hill. We will hang him on a high tree, 50 amot tall.

And we will annihilate all of the Jews! 10 harsh decrees upon every Jew!

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What did Nachum Ish Gamzu say?

Gam ze le tova! This is also for the good! It’s wonderful!

He said this about everything, that it was ‘wonderful’. Gam ze le tova! This is also for the good! Gam ze le tova!

What ‘good’ are you talking about?! They are going to murder all of the Jews, and hang you!

Gam ze le tova!

He was happy, he danced the whole night.

Gam ze le tova!

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Eliyahu Hanavi came, but he appeared to them as though he was one of the ministers.

He said: I am a big warlord, I am a general, I came from Gaul, or from England, I just came.

So he [Eliyahu HaNavi] was one of the generals in England there. So, a big minister came – this was Eliyahu HaNavi. He said to them:

You don’t know what sort of dust this is. This is the dust of Avraham Avinu!

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If a person says ‘Elokai Avraham, Elokai Yitzhak v’Elokai Yaakov” – he can conquer the whole world.

A person needs to say a bracha. He needs to say: ‘Elokai Avraham, Elokai Yitzhak v’Elokai Yaakov”.

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[The king’s servants] Took the dust.

He [Eliyahu HaNavi] said take it and throw it!

They threw it and it became swords and sabres, and the straw became arrows.

So, they filled the chest up for him [Nachum Ish Gamzu] with diamonds.

It turned out that the [initial] diamonds were worth dust.

If he would have brought diamonds [to Caesar], he wouldn’t even have got a thank you note – because he already had a load of diamonds.

But he brought dust.

So, he received diamonds.

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If a person sees that everything turns to dust – that everything got turned into dust for him, everything that he does – it’s lost. Turned to dust.

So, he should know that now, they are building the Beit HaMikdash for him!

That is the ‘diamonds’ now!

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We are learning this now, on the 10th of Tevet, after Chanukah, that they didn’t have anything.

[The Maccabees] didn’t have guns, they didn’t have arrows, they didn’t have swords – nothing. They didn’t have anything.

And this is Chanukah! That the reshaim fall into the hands of the tzaddikim.

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In this world, the ‘bad cows’ swallow up the good ones.

After all, everything is totally upside-down and backwards here. The reshaim swallow up the tzaddikim, and not the tzaddikim the reshaim – there is no such thing as this.

Always, the reshaim succeed.

The chilonim win [in this world].

The chilonim dished out blows on Yom Kippur – so immediately, there was a shoah (disaster).

[But] Hashem already couldn’t suffer it any more. They gave out blows on Yom Kippur, they said there will be no Hakafot HaShniot[1].

The hakafot cancel out the hatkafot (being attacked).

By way of the hakafot, this is cancelled.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] The Hakafot HaShniot were cancelled in Tel Aviv even before the attacks that occurred on Simchat Torah.

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MY NOTES:

“Dust” is connected to humility.

‘Diamonds’ is connected to bizayon.

Read lesson 1:272 in Likutey Moharan.

‘Accepting an insult with love saves 1,000 Jews.’

But all those ‘diamonds’ in the chest got taken away….

Now, see what ideas bubble up, from the story above.

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