An hour before Shabbat, my friend sent me an unconfirmed report that the Rav was in intensive care in Hadassah.

***UPDATE: I managed to talk to a gabbai of the Rav now, and this story is a lie. The Rav is in hospital, but only because he went for a check-up Friday, and the doctors decided to keep him in for more tests. I think it’s more problems with his heart, but that information came from someone else, not the gabbai.***

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According to the newswire she follows on Telegram, the story is that the Rav had been stabbed, somehow, but wasn’t saying who had hurt him.

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The Rav was definitely in Hadassah over Shabbat, at least, and definitely wasn’t at the prayers yesterday night.

The only other place I’ve seen any mention of this tonight is the Daniel Amram Telegram, which is ‘anti’ the Rav.

He covered it in three sentences, and said the Rav had been severely beaten in a violent assault, and arrived at Hadassah covered in bruises.

I am trying to find out what is going on, if I manage to get more verified information, I will tell you.

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In the meantime, please pray for:

Eliezer ben Ettia

to have a total, swift recovery and refua.

Whatever happens to the Rav always has massive significance for what is going on with the Jewish people, whether or not we accept and / or realise that.

So, I don’t know what all this means.

But the madness continues.

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UPDATE:

As mentioned above, this story of the Rav being violently beaten up / stabbed isn’t true.

So again, we have to underline that the media is 100% manipulation – even the more ‘alternative’ popular channels are controlled opposition – and there is nothing to be gained from following ‘the news’.

It just misleads us, depresses us, confuses us, stresses us out even more than we are already….

And because it lies so much about everything deliberately, even the bits that really are ‘true’ can’t be trusted, because most of have no idea what is ‘true’ and what isn’t.

Tov.

I will update more about the Rav’s condition, but keep praying for him in any case.

Even though the sensational lies weren’t true, he is in hospital, or at least, has been up until now.

But it just goes to show, again, just how much the media has lied about the Rav (and so many other things….) in the past, and continues to lie, so brazenly, even now.

Turn it off, and go and do something better with your time.

Yesterday, my kid was standing behind someone she used to work with in the supermarket.

He used to be a construction supervisor.

Then, his son, a soldier in the IDF, was killed on October 7th.

He got so discombobulated emotionally, a month later he was let go from his job, because he just couldn’t do it any more.

Now, he hangs around the building site he used to manage, and people try to give him odd jobs to do.

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The man himself – dati leumi – walks around smiling all the time.

And telling people how important it is to have emuna when hard things strike you.

He starts up conversations with total strangers in supermarket lines, so he can tell them that his son died on October 7th, and how important it is to be happy.

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That’s where my daughter saw him again yesterday, striking up a conversation in the super with the guy in front of him waiting to pay.

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She told me this story, and my heart ached.

My heart literally aches for this man, and for the many hundreds like him, all over Israel.

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In all the ra-ra talk of ‘war’ and ‘conquering Rafah’, and all the rest of the ‘Psyops’ currently happening here in our failed State about how great it is that so many charedim are also signing up to get killed and maimed in the name of the IDF, let’s not forget that each person killed is mamash a whole world destroyed.

But that’s only the beginning.

That ‘world’ has parents, siblings, spouses, children…

Who have to try and carry on having emuna and living life, when they lose a whole world.

It’s such a hard test.

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Maybe it’s just me, but right now, I would say that my patience for a lot of people is at rock-bottom.

Apparently, my kids are feeling the same ‘anti-social’ way right now.

Dealing with most people, and all their ongoing fantasies, assumptions and lies they tell themselves is just too exhausting.

My soul is so tired.

All it wants is the ‘real Hungarian Wine’, and not all these fake brands of yiddishkeit and Torah that is pretty much all you find being pushed out there, in the super-fake, super-fantasy, online world.

Where people happily cheer for more war.

And happily waste so much precious time debating pointless fantasies, and wild speculations, that have no basis in reality or Torah.

And happily demean even our most precious ideas and hopes and beliefs, to keep propping up that oh-so-fragile world of lies they inhabit.

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Tov.

I woke up today, and my heart is still aching from the story of the man who lost his son on October 7th.

I don’t know his name, there’s nothing much I can do for him, except to pray, that the light will return to his life, and he will be able to pull himself back together again very soon, and return to functioning properly in this lonely and lowly world of ours.

Sometimes, the ‘pain’ in the air here in Israel is palpable.

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So no, I’m not cheering on more war in Rafah.

Or more ‘war’ at all.

I’m praying that the real Moshiach is revealed openly, so the evil can finally be eradicated from its roots, and the world can be conquered for God and good, without even another shot being fired.

Exactly as Rabbenu said.

But that depends on us – you and me – coming out of world of lies, and starting to sober up from all the mind-numbing, soul-destroying rubbish we’re currently immersed in.

It’s going to be an uphill battle.

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Usually, I would stop writing here, on that powerful but ‘down’ note.

But in my own dalet amot, the birds are chirping, the sun is shining, the garden is blooming, the Shabbos food is cooking.

Life is good.

Even, very good.

For me and those in my close dalet amot, BH.

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I have absolutely no doubt that my life is this good only and solely because of all the tzedaka we pay to Shuvu Banim, in various ways.

And all the teshuva the Rav continually encourages us to make, about working on our bad middot, and especially, our arrogance and ideas that ‘we know stuff’.

And all the prayers and the Tikkun HaKlalis he asks us to do every day, and all the dancing and clapping we do down on Ido HaNavi, at the evening prayers.

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And, all the advice we try to follow from Rabbenu, Rebbe Nachman, about going to Uman.

And doing an hour a day of hitbodedut a day.

And most of all, understanding that God owes us nothing at all, and that God is only and ever good to us.

Even when it doesn’t look like that, or feel like that.

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But the heart still aches for the man who lost his son.

And I’m still praying that Moshiach is revealed very, very soon, so that the ‘revealed good’ can be experienced by all of us now.

And that man can finally get the ‘comfort’ his soul so badly needs.

Confusing times, isn’t it folks?

Every blogger and their donkey is putting up stuff claiming to know who Moshiach is.

(I’m also in that category, with the stuff I’m posting up here from Rav Elmaliach – with the difference that he’s actually one of the hidden tzaddikim, getting stuff straight from the Tzaddik HaEmet she be dor, Rav Berland himself.)

But, let’s put all that to one side for the moment, and assume that I’m just as whacked-out and ‘blinded to reality’ as the rest of those bloggers and other online commentators, furiously speculating away about who is moshiach?

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This short clip in Hebrew is from a month ago.

It’s Rav Shalom Arush being interviewed about how to know ‘who is really moshiach’ – given all the fakers, all the ‘publicity stunts’, all the false messiahs that have plagued us for millenia already.

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Rav Arush has been extremely ill the last couple of years, and you can see he is struggling to speak properly, so everything is subtitled. (May he have a speedy and complete refuah. It’s a little hard to see him so weak, to be honest.)

But this is what he is basically saying:

  1. We don’t ‘mix in’ to any discussions about ‘who moshiach is’ until we hear from the True Tzaddikim in our generation, who will tell us clearly ‘this is moshiach’.

  2. Those True Tzaddikim are the ones who will merit to have a revelation of Eliyahu Hanavi, who will tell them – and not plebs like us – this person is the moshiach.
  3. Anyone who has real emunat tzaddikim just has to wait for these real tzaddikim in our generation to make the announcement.
  4. Rav Arush then says two names of two tzaddikim: R David Abuchatzaira of Nahariya (the Baba Sali’s grandson) and Rav Dov Kook of Tiveria.

That’s all, folks.

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Of course, not everyone believes in the true tzaddikim.

So for those people, the pointless speculation will continue ad infinitum until they either understand the error of their ways, or they get taken out the world.

Miskenim.

For everyone else – just wait and see, quietly.

Do your own hitbodedut, because without some basic effort to connect to God, and to clean up our own bad middot, especially the arrogance that is keeping us far away from God and the truth and the True Tzaddikim, we won’t even get to the basic level of emunat tzaddikim required to do what Rav Arush is telling us to do.

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Me personally, I have a job to do here on the blog, which is to continue to share the Rav’s light, and the words of Rav Elmaliach, and the Torah of Makor Chochma.

And even me, I’m really mostly translating Rav Elmaliach, at this point, because I went through a bout of excrutiating illness a month ago, and I got the message that for whatever reason, God has given me this job to do and I can’t duck it.

Personally, I for sure believe that the Rav is the MBD of our generation.

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(As for discussions of ‘MBY’ – it’s another very interesting subject that maybe we’ll get into at some point, that ‘MBY’ seems to have been a chiddush of the Sabbateans, who were seeking ‘Torah-based pretexts’ for why they could still claim he was a ‘moshiach’ even when he didn’t fulfill the job – and even though he was actually a kohen, so he could NEVER have been an actual MBD.

And before them, this same idea was used by the minim in biblical times, as a justification for why ‘yoshki’ (whoever that actually was…) hadn’t completed the job. And that historical ‘yoshki’, whoever he really was, could also have been a kohen, if you read all the stuff describing him and his extended family, especially his brother ‘James’.)

Always the same old story.

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So.

Sit tight, and wait for more of our real tzaddikim to tell you this is moshiach.

(If you’ve been following what’s been going on with the Rav as long as I have, and if you’ve been reading the OIAG books, you’ll see that many of our generation’s true tzaddikim have been dropping big hints about the identity of the real MBD, for a very long time…)

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Also, go back and read this prayer again, that the true tzaddikim should be revealed without suffering.

I know, I know.

A ‘real moshiach‘ would be giving fiery interviews on Youtube about Israeli politics, and not wasting his time writing such precious prayers for Am Yisrael and spending hours in prayer and Torah, visiting kivrei tzaddikim, and encouraging literally tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Jews to make some real teshuva.

Wouldn’t he?

Think for yourself. It’ll save you a lot of grief, going forward.

 

This is my translation of R Elmaliach’s shiur, based on a megillah he recieved from the Rav, written down by the tikshor method, shortly before this last Shvi’i shel Pesach.

The stuff in square brackets is R Elmaliach’s own comments. I have bolded the Rav’s words, to make it easier to tell what is actually him.

Join me at the bottom, for a little more discussion (if you can be bothered….)

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Rav Elmaliach begins by bringing the following chiddush in the name of the Chatam Sofer:

[The souls of all the biggest reshaim (evildoers) are drawn from the world of Atzilut, and are very big souls.

And it’s in the zchut of these ‘reshaim’, the Chatam Sofer writes, that we actually have our holidays.

Pesach – is also in the merit of Pharoah.

Purim – is also in the merit of Haman.

If you didn’t have a Haman, you wouldn’t have a ‘Mordechai’.]

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R Elmaliach then starts reading the section of ‘Megillat HaGeula’ that was written for this Shvi’i shel Pesach.

He explains that it is called this by Rav Berland himself. It begins:

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And in order to reach the level of the redemption (geula) of Israel, [you / we / they] need to connect to Eretz Yisrael, as the Shechina is found within it.

[The whole of Eretz Yisrael is called the ‘beit’ – home – of the Shechina, not just the Temple.]

And it’s necessary to draw down the air of Eretz Yisrael to every place where a minyan of Jews dwell, in order that they should be included in the geula of Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael.

[Rav Elmaliach now brings the idea from the ‘Chacham Menashe’[1] about synagogues flying to Eretz Yisrael in the time of the geula].

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And the souls of Am Yisrael who didn’t sin during the chet of Adam HaRishon.

[Who are these Jews who didn’t sin at the time of Adam HaRishon], they are the Jews who guide / direct Am Yisrael in this time [on the path of / towards] Moshiach Tzidkenu, to bring the flock to the rebuilt Jerusalem.

[Rav Elmaliach says that these are the people who encourage their fellow Jews to believe in the True Tzaddik, at the time of the geula, and the people who did this didn’t taste from the tree of good and evil at the time of Adam HaRishon.]

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And through the connection of all the souls with the soul of Moshiach, they connect to / join together with the Shechina that protects them, and brings down shefa upon them.

[All those who draw closer now to Melech HaMoshiach and connect with him, he’s connecting with the Shechina HaKodusha, and the Shechina protects and brings down shefa upon him.][2]

And by way of connecting to Hashem Yitbarach and the Torah of Moshe Rabbenu, peace be upon him, at this time, and also to the True Prophet, who are from the aspect of the Menorah, [who light up the mochin (minds)] then all the souls of Am Yisrael will be filled with the light of the Menorah, which is the Or HaGanuz.

By way of the Tzaddik HaEmet of the generation, who is Rav Eliezer Berland, [Melech HaMoshiach].

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For the man Moshe, was a prophet and a chacham, and he [understood the tactics?] of the war of witchcraft from the Egyptians, and everything he did to them, he did it with the wisdom that Hashem granted him.

[Rav Elmaliach is saying that in the same way, the Melech HaMoshiach also understands all the ‘sorcery’ being used in our days, and is giving it back to them. He also says that the Rav has said that what is going on today is even much harder than what was going on back in Egypt].

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And when Am Yisrael sin, chas v’shalom, the Moshiach is punished on account of them, for they are a part of his soul.

And everyone is connected to the moach (mind) of Moshe, and to know that Moshe is the root of the soul of the Moshiach. 

[Rav Elmaliach adds in that the Rav feels the pain of each and every person, because the soul of the ‘Melech HaMoshiach’ is connected to the soul of every individual person. And that the ‘job’ of the world to come is to finally rectify the soul of each and every person, by way of the Torah, and particularly this new Torah that is being brought down now, the Makor Chochma.]

And to understand the root of the daat elyon (upper wisdom) of Moshiach, which is Chochma.

And the Binah of the Moshiach comes from the Nukba, which is the Holy Shechina.

And he joins together with Hashem, and he becomes the husband of the Matronita.

And by way of the Chochma, Binah and Daat, the  river of Moshiach’s Torah comes down upon Am Yisrael, [in order to bring them closer to him, so he can build the future worlds with them].

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And this great connection with him begins the period of the seven years of the Moshiach.

[Rav Elmaliach is explaining that the ‘revelation’ of Moshiach began seven years ago, not just a few weeks back. R Elmaliach says he’s forbidden to give more details, but the Rav told him exactly what happened on Pesach seven years ago that began this process of ‘revelation’. These were the seven years of ‘clarifying’ the soul sparks, which is called the ‘Tikkun of the Shechina’.]

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And now it’s Pesach, the time of the crowning of the king, this time is an aspect of Motzae Shvi’it, which is a time of  ibbur (‘impregnation’) of the Shechina and the upper joining with the Moshiach.

And so, there descends upon him the malchut (kingship). Now at Pesach, and especially the Shvi’i shel Pesach, the people begin to understand the greatness of his wisdom and his understanding.

[Rav Elmaliach explains that ‘against this’, also increases the ‘wisdom’ of the tumah, because things are always ‘in balance’. When the Rav recieved the first level of MBD at Purim, he says see what happened straight afterwards (presumably, the Iranian bombs]. And so the Rav is explaining that this time is a very dangerous time, similar as to when the snake is about to be killed and so is thrashing around in the most dangerous way.]

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Rav Elmaliach then ends by saying that this second ‘revelation’ of part of MBD’s soul is probably also going to be totally spiritual, and not ‘gashmi’, i.e. Something openly revealed in this world.

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Ad kan, from the shiur.

While I was translating this for two hours yesterday night with my very kind, very patient husband, we got into a few ‘disagreements’.

Disagreement one, was whether we should be bringing R Elmaliach’s explanations of the Rav’s words, particularly when he started talking about that idea of ‘flying synagogues’.

Neither me nor my husband are big fans of that idea – although that comes from a couple of things that are probably not issues for R Elmaliach, in the same way.

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One ‘issue’ is based in our own bad middot, that part of us is resistant to the idea that we had to struggle so very hard to move to Eretz Yisrael, and to live here ‘under fire’, (and that’s only the least of it….) while people in chul can somehow just ‘fly here’ on their synagogue and get the same reward and outcome.

If I was a better person, I would probably want that outcome for more people.

As it is, most of the people I know from chul are people that I’m very happy live far, far away from me, and Eretz Yisrael….

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In addition to my own bad middot, Chazal also teach that Eretz Yisrael is only acquired by yissurim – difficulties and hardships.

But who knows, maybe the ‘flight over’ will be so bad, it will make up for everything else, or maybe, the people who actually make it out here will have suffered tremendously before their synagogue takes off – or maybe, this idea is just plain wrong, and when the Rav is saying this:

And in order to reach the level of the redemption (geula) of Israel, [you / we / they] need to connect to Eretz Yisrael, as the Shechina is found within it.

He is actually referring to something totally different, than the idea of ‘flying synagogues’.

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The second reason this idea rubbed us both up the wrong way is because it’s a big ‘plank’ of Chabad theology.

Until we took the time to translate it properly, I thought R Elmaliach was actually quoting Chabad teachings.

Now, I understand that he was bringing the original source of this idea, which is from the person he calls the ‘Chacham Menashe’ – who is one and the same as Menashe ben Israel, famous converso of Amsterdam who was palling around with proto-xtian-z-ists and a bunch of other interesting people.

A lot of the leading Sabbateans and Frankists descend from him.

BH, I will do a deep dive on him next.

(And if you don’t like being faced with real Jewish history, give that a miss and go back to getting your information from the Daily Mail and former spooks who worked for the Deep State.)

It’s a free world, after all.

Just about.

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So, in the middle of translating this, and off the back of the idea of the ‘flying synagogues’, me and my husband got into quite the discussion about whether there is any point in trying to ‘change people’s minds’ about what they believe, and how they choose to live their lives.

He’s of the view that most people can’t and won’t hear anything that will disrupt their own picture of who they really are, how life really is, and what God really expects from them.

So, he thinks I’m really just wasting my time, and getting upset for nothing, when I even try to ‘engage’ with people like this, or demonstrate how much we’ve all been bamboozled by ‘fake rabbis’ and ‘fake ideas’.

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I’m of the view that for sure, most people are like that – but there is still a sizeable minority that can and will change, once enough water has dripped upon the hard stone covering their hearts.

I see how much I’ve changed, how much we’ve changed, since we started on the Breslov path all those years ago.

And those changes have accelerated tremendously, since we discovered the Rav.

So at least for now, and despite the critics, I plan to continue.

Just a few ‘drips’ more, I’m sure more people will make real teshuva, move to Israel, stop being complacent, arrogant, two-faced hypocrites. Etc.

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And lastly, on that note, someone asked me about this ridiculous comment from Ephraim Palvanov that Moshiach is not going to be a Breslover.

The first thing to say is how does Ephraim Palvanov know this? Who is his rabbi, who are the true tzaddikim that are giving him his information?

(BTW, you should be asking yourself these questions about everyone putting out information that could potentially affect you in a very big way….)

I’m sure he’s a great guy, etc, but he’s also just a science teacher living in Toronto who believes that the earth revolves around the sun, and the universe is ‘billions’ of years old.

So, if it’s just his own opinion, that doesn’t hold a lot of weight.

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The second thing to say, is that this is *apparently* a quote from the Midrash Rabba – that was written down 1,500 years ago, before there was even such a thing as ‘Sephardim and Ashkenazim’.

So for sure, the Midrash Rabba wasn’t talking specifically about Moshiach being from Breslov, Chabad – or any ‘denomination’, because no ‘denomination’ was operating at that time, except for referring to Jews by their tribes; whether they learned Torah in Babylon or Israel, and also, whether they were apikorsim and tzadukim who denied the validity of the Oral Torah.

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Ok, we’ll stop there.

Probably no-one except me cares about all this misleading, pointless stuff anyway.

What can you do.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] This is Menashe ben Yisrael – the famous converso who was living in Amsterdam, hanging out with a bunch of xtian millenists, and who seems to have a big part to play in bribing Cromwell to allow Jews to return to the UK. I have a lot more to tell you about him.

[2] I think the Rav himself said this, my husband thinks that it’s Rav Elmaliach’s explanation. Watch the video, decide for yourselves. The Rav’s words are being read out by R Elmaliach, so usually he’s looking at the book when he’s quoting the Rav.

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UPDATE:

I typed in haste, and should have stated that Cromwell brought the Jews back to ENGLAND, not to ‘the UK’.

This is the comment I got from a reader setting that straight:

There is a very serious error in the footnotes.

1. The use of the term United Kingdom is an anachronism, it did not exist for another 150 years;
2. Why is this a serious error ?
3. The Edict of Expulsion of 1290 only expelled us from England as Scotand was at that time a separate sovereign state and English power over Ireland was not consolidated for a further 400 years.
4. At the time of Cromwell there were flourishing Jewish communities in Dublin, Cork and a very ancient Sefardi community & Shul, in Galway City.
5. We were never ever expelled from Ireland or Scotland .
6. Cromwell allowed Yidden to resttle in England only.
7. A lot of Irish fought for our independence from UK.

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I would LOVE to hear more about the Jews of Ireland – especially, those ancient Sefardim of Galway City.

And leads would be gratefully appreciated.