More translated comments from Rav Berland, last week.

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Second day of Rosh Hashana 5785, after kiddush

Now, it’s the fiftieth gate.

Now, it’s the geulah.

All those who are here will merit to have 10 sons and 10 daughters.

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In a seperate shiur from Shabbat Ha’azinu –Shuva 5785.

Before the reading of the Torah.

Yaakov Biton spoke with the Rav about the Gemara in Masechet Yoma, page 9, about the 18 Kohen Gadols of Beit Rishon (the First Temple), and the 300 kohens of the Beit Sheni (Second Temple).

[The Rav said]:

Beit Rishon, 410 [years] there were 18 Kohanim. Beit Sheni, 210 [years[, there were 300 Kohanim [Kohen Gadols], because they paid for the kahuna (the High Priesthood).

The Gemara in Yoma says that the 18 Kohanim who didn’t die, this is because they were from the seed of Pinchas. Whoever was from the seed of Pinchas, he didn’t die.

He merited to the bracha:

“Behold! I give him My covenant of peace.”[1]

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[Yaakov Biton said]: The 18 Kohens [of the First Temple] were tzaddikim.

[The Rav replied]:

Yes, they were tzaddikim. But they didn’t die because they were from the seed of Pinchas. Whoever paid for the kahuna, they died in that same year.

300 kohanim – they all died.

Only 18, who were from the seed of Pinchas, lived. They didn’t die. Because Pinchas was:

“[T]here was no man.”[2]

The women in the midbar (desert) didn’t die. They were taking their vitamins, so they wouldn’t die in the midbar.

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[Yaakov Biton said]:

The difference between Beit Rishon and Sheni was that in the Beit Rishon, there were three sins: avoda zara (idol worship), gilui arayot (sexual immorality), and bloodshed. And in the Second Temple [it’s destruction was because of] lashon hara, which is even worse.

[The Rav replied]:

Yes, lashon hara is the worst.

Here [in the First Temple], you are murdering a person, but then it’s finished. But lashon hara is for all of a person’s life. It’s been repeated all over again, all the time.

A person says something, or does something, they talk about him on all the news channels, and in all the newspapers, and on all the televisions in chutz l’aretz (outside Eretz Yisrael).

The lashon hara remains.

Hashem says, I forgive those three other sins, but when it comes to lashon hara, I don’t forgive!

Lashon hara is worse than everything else.

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[Ephraim Revia asked]:

Does this involve ‘his blood, and the blood of his offspring’?[3]

[The Rav replies]:

Yes, of course. This is for all the generations.

My grandchildren,  my great-grandchildren, they [still] aren’t being accepted into [educational] institutions. Even if they are the most gaon (genius), they don’t let them in to any institutions.

Just ‘via the back door’, but otherwise they don’t accept them.

There always [has to be] someone with connections, how get’s them in, in the end. But this is affecting my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren across all the generations.

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[Yishai Chazan says]:

We didn’t hear anything from the Rav about the destruction of Nasrallah…?

[The Rav replies]: Nasrallah was the biggest tzaddik.

Personally, I was against his assassination. Personally. He learned with me in Rechasim. You also learned [there], do you remember him?[4] Yes, he remembers.

And so, he wanted the Galilee, because he learned in Rechasim. Did your father learn in Rechasim?

(Yishai Biton replies, in Or HaHayyim.)

Ah, you were with the Rav Elabaz, but he learned in Kfar Chassidim.

He was the biggest tzaddik. He just wanted to send everyone to Gan Eden.

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Because we gave over a shiur 30 years ago, about kiddush Hashem.[5] Do you remember that shiur?

We said that at least, they should spit at you, they should fire at you, they should do something, so that you feel that you’re worth something.

If they don’t spit at you, it’s a sign that you aren’t worth even being spat at.

We said that 30 years ago, you were already in Shuvu Banim.

So, Meir David Isaac and [name missing from original text], they went to Sha’ar Shechem. And they said to the Arabs, see, we came. Come and stab us! We want to die al kiddush Hashem!

So the Arabs laughed at them.

They really asked for a sword, they said that [the Arabs[ should shoot at them, so that they would feel that they were worth something.

But they [the arabs] didn’t agree. You can’t rely on them for anything. They are living in their own world.

Only Nasrallah used to stab them.

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Translated from Shivivei Or 378.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Parshat Pinchas, 25:12

[2] See Parshat Pinchas, 26:63-65.

[3] Based on verse 4:10 in Bereishit, where God tells Cain: “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s bloods cries out to me from the ground!” The Sages discuss why ‘bloods’ is in plural. One explaination, from Midrash Bereishit Rabba, 22:9, is that ‘bloods’ refers to the offspring that Abel were meant to give birth to, but which were prevented from coming into the world because he was murdered by Cain.

[4] It’s not clear what the Rav is hinting to. The reader is reminded that the Rav frequently ‘sweetens’ judgments by way of his apparently random comments. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov used to do the same.

[5] I.e. Sanctifying God’s name by being prepared to die for Hashem’s honor, as a Jew.

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ADDENDUM:

I went to look up ‘RECHASIM’ – you can find it’s English Wiki page HERE.

Snippet:

Rekhasim (Hebrew: רְכָסִים, lit. Mountain ridges)^] is a Haredi town and local council in the Haifa District of Israel. It is located between Kiryat Tiv’on, Kiryat Ata, and Nesher, next to roads 70, 75, and 762.

I’m finding this suddenly very interesting….

Go look at the area on a map.

See if it reminds you of anything.

A reader sent me a copy of Dennis Prager’s ‘open letter’ to Candace Owens.

You can see that for yourself HERE.

Prager is basically claiming that satanic ‘Frankists’, if they were ever a thing in the Jewish community, died out 200 years ago.

Oh, and they have absolutely nothing to do with zionism, or the founding of the State of Israel.

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Here’s the problem:

A lot of people online are  sowing anti-semitism with a bunch of half-truths about ‘satanic Frankists’ – who were actually really the front men and go-betweens for ‘satanic, non-Jewish xtians’.

Including many, if not all, the non-Jewish rulers of Europe.

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As more and more people are waking up to the idea that there is something seriously wrong with the world, the Evils have to resort to their tried-and-tested method of establishing the scapegoat to take the fall for them.

So, we’ve been seeing a tsunami of ‘half truths’ that stack up to blaming everything on the joooooos.

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Remember that ‘controlled opposition’ is on all sides of every argument and question, and is also working to further the Evils agenda and narrative – whether or not they always understand that they are being used in this way.

So, other people are now ‘defending the joooooooos’ – sadly, by regurgitating a bunch of half-truths carefully designed to totally bury ‘real history’ in a way that no-one can find it again in a million years.

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Bottom line: if these people are not talking about non-Jewish, satanic ‘masons’, and all their spin-off secret societies – they aren’t really telling the truth.

Because, sure, Candace Owens is correct that ‘Frankists’ were satanic, and were obviously part of a lot of attempts to corrupt the world spiritually.

But, they were being martialed and directed to do that by a whole bunch of non-Jews, including ‘prominent xtians’.

When the focus is always put 100% on the joooooos….. that’s how the real truth gets buried.

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Even ‘Frankism’ is actually just a catch-all label – like ‘the Rothschilds’.

It’s been designed to act as a lightning rod for any real questions about the Jewish role in the agenda of these satanic, non-Jewish ‘secret societies’ – and to deflect that inquiry down blind alleys called ‘Frankists’.

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So, let’s continue the job of trying to get the real story out there, more, by telling you a bit about SAINT SIMONISM.

I tripped across SAINT SIMON, and the new religion he started up over 200 years ago, called ‘NEW CHRISTIANITY’, when I started researching the GRADIS family of French-pseudo-Jewish masons.

If you recall from this post, entitled THE KING OF BORDEAUX, ABRAHAM GRADIS was hanging out with the non-Jewish French masons who were organising and funding the American Revolution.

When I started tracking down more of ABRAHAM GRADIS’s family members, that’s where more of the real story started to come into view.

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Remember JUDAH TOURO, the big philanthropist who gave freemason MOSES MONTEFIORE a wad of cash to get the ‘political zionism’ project on its feet in the Holy Land?

He is also part of the wider GRADIS family tree.

These satanic-xtian-crypto-Jews literally took over the Jewish community around 400 years ago (if not long before….)

And we have been under their sway ever since.

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So now, let me tell you the basic story of SAINT SIMON, and the religion he developed two centuries ago, called NEW CHRISTIANITY.

You can find his French Wiki page HERE – and if this stuff interests you, it’s well worth taking the time to read it all.

Here’s the first snippet, to kick us off:

Saint-simonianism is an idealogy that was originally based originally on the socio-economic and political doctrine of Claude-Henri de Rouvroy de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), from which it takes its name.

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The French Revolution was actually a ‘religious revolution’ undertaken by the masonic-satanists to kick God and Torah-based morality totally out of the picture.

It’s way too big a topic to cover even briefly in this post, but look up the ‘Temples’ and ‘Cults’ that were established by the masonic-satanists under Napoleon, in Paris, at the time of the French Revolution.

So it seems, ‘Saint Simonism’ just picked up the baton, where the satanic-masons under Napoleon had dropped it.

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Here’s another snippet from the French Wiki page on SAINT SIMONISM / NEW CHRISTIANITY:

Under the leadership of one of its main representatives, Barthélemy Prosper Childish, this doctrine, at the time of its first application (in 1830), takes the form of a ” Church. “

Here’s another snippet:

“Saint-Simon proposed to replace the abstract idea of God by the universal law of gravity, the law to which God submitted the universe.”

Continues:

{Saint Simon] says that ” in a minimally invasive manner, the philosophy of gravity can replace successively and without shaking… all the principles of useful morality that the theology teaches. ”

In his Letter from an inhabitant of Geneva to his contemporaries (1803), [Saint Simon] conceived the idea of opening a subscription to the tomb of Newton, laying the foundation for a kind of “religion ” of science.

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We got that ‘religion of science’ stuck in our faces very shortly afterwards, as the satanic-masons began their project to replace God, and Torah-based morality with a man-made, satanic replacement that basically replaced people like Moshe Rabbenu with Isaac Newton….

And of course, ‘SAINT DARWIN’.

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Who can make this up?

But look around – you can see this is exactly what happened. This isn’t a ‘conspiracy theory’.

To put this into other words, SAINT SIMON develops an ‘idealogy’ that is basically proto-communism.

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Or in their own words, they develop a ‘religion without God’.

Snippet from the Wiki on ‘New Christianity’:

Saint-simonianism, is a natural religion based on the belief that the law of gravity is the foundation of all things.

It is, therefore, a philosophy, based on a form of thinking rationally.

The adjective ” new ” refers to the need for renewal of religion that Saint-Simon had himself advocated.

(You see? 200 years on, and the useful idiots in our community are still promoting stuff like ‘rational Judaism’, without an inkling of where all this stuff is really coming from – or who is paying for it.)

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Tov, so how do the masonic joooooos (who I increasingly am coming to believe were NEVER Jews in the first place, not even ‘crypto Jews’) – fit into this picture?

Let’s try to unpick that part next.

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Here’s the portrait of CLAUDE-HENRI SAINT SIMON:

He descends from a family of French nobles who are closely connected to the ‘spies of the King’ secret society of Louis XV.

In the post about ABRAHAM GRADIS, we already set out some of the many links between those masonic, non-Jewish French nobles, and the GRADIS family of crypto-Jewish financiers who helped finance the American Revolution.

So now, we’re going to learn that those ties continued to develop across the next century – and beyond.

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ABRAHAM GRADIS – (French funder of the American Revolution) – and JUDAH TOURO – (big funder of the ‘political zionism’ project in Eretz Yisrael 70 years later) are very close family.

While the ‘King of Bordeaux’ part of this masonic family were funding the American Revolution, the TOURO part of this masonic family were busy profiting from it tremendously, down in New Orleans.

Remember, JUDAH TOURO just happened to relocate there a couple of months before the freemasons Thomas Jefferson bought Louisians from the French Freemasons, as part of a ‘secret deal’.

And then, TOURO’s business boomed massively.

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So, let’s see what other connections we can find between ‘Saint Simonism’ and the GRADIS family.

If you go to the French Wiki site for them HERE, you’ll find quite a bit of info on their family tree.[1]

Let’s pick just one guy, ‘BENJAMIN GRADIS III’.

HERE is his French Wiki page, where we learn that he took over ‘MAISON GRADIS’ – the banking house used to finance the American Revolution, plus I’m sure a bunch of other things that radically changed the course of history.

He has a bunch of slaves and plantations out in Martinique and Haiti. He’s super, super rich:

Heir of the slave plantations that belonged to his forefathers Abraham, David, Moses and Jacob Gradis in the colony of Saint-Domingue, Benjamin receives in 1827, the sum of 71 380 gold Francs.

This compensation that the Republic of Haiti was forced to pay was used to compensate for the loss of goods caused by the slave revolts.

Then, after the abolition of slavery in 1848, he received again the amount of 76 304 gold Francs, on the part of the French State, in compensation for the 175 slaves of the plantation that he had Martinique.

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Just the payment in 1848 by itself is worth over $5 billion, in today’s money.

That sure sounds like a lot of compensation for just 175 slaves….

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Here’s another snippet, and then lets tie this back to SAINT SIMONISM, that new man-made religion that was literally designed to replace God with science:

He was vice-chairman of the Committee consistorial relief and a member of the Consistory of Bordeaux. Involved in the organization of the Jewish Consistoires, he left several pamphlets promoting the reform of Judaism.

He was married to his cousin Sara-Laure Rodrigues-Henriques, sister of Eugénie Foa, Hippolyte Rodrigues and Leonie Halévy.

And he is the father of Henri Gradis.

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Before we break this down further, here is who else is in SARA LAURE’s direct family tree – names that many of you will find familiar:

• The witchcraft-practising  ‘Bad Baal Shem’ of London’, SAMUEL CHAIM FALK
• Falk’s son-in-law and false messiah, the witchcraft-practising ‘JACOB FRANK’
• That same PIMENTEL family who were never Jews, but actually descend from Spanish nobles; and
• SAMUEL VAN JACOB TOURO.

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Always the same little ‘satanic’ crypto-Jewish family.

All the time.

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OK, let’s take a closer look at the SAINT SIMON tie up.

You will be shocked, SHOCKED!!! To know that SARA LAURE RODRIGUES-HENRIQUES and BENJAMIN GRADIS III have two nephews, OLINDE BENJAMIN RODRIGUES-HENRIQUES (1795-1851) AND EUGENE RODRIGUES (1807-1830) who are leading the SAINT SIMON ‘New Christianity’ religion in France.

HERE is the Wiki page for OLINDE RODRIGUES.

He’s a maths whizz, a stockbroker – and here’s the really important stuff:

Olinde Rodrigues is a follower of the ideas of comte de Saint-Simon (1760-1825), which he made known in 1823. He then became the principal disciple and heir.  In June 1825, just after the death of Saint-Simon, as he had promised to do on his death-bed, [Olinde] founded a newspaper, The Producer. It publishes the works of Saint-Simon and continues to advocate this the socialist ideal socialist…

He takes an active part in the creation of the railroads in France with his cousins, the brothers Pereire (Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain, Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans).

He died in a ‘stupid’ domestic accident at 6, rue d Amsterdam, on December 17, 1851, in the presence of Isaac Pereire.

He is buried in the funerary tradition of the jews at the Père-Lachaise cemetery, his grave is next to Saint-Simon.

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OLINDE’S brother, EUGENE is also a leading follower of ‘SAINT SIMON’.

And so are his maternal first cousins, the French banker PEREIRE brothers, EMILE and ISAAC.

EMILE PEREIRE actually also marries OLINDE’s sister, RACHEL RODRIGUES-HENRIQUES, making all this the usual incestuous little party we’re used to seeing with this family.

Oh, and ISAAC PEREIRE marries EMILE’s daughter, Fanny, (i.e. his niece) in a second marriage.

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Point is, this snippet from EMILE PEREIRE’s Wiki page, HERE:

Through d’Olinde Rodrigues, his first cousin and brother-in-law, he embraces the doctrines of SAINT SIMON in 1829.

And so does his brother, ISAAC PEREIRE – although more covertly.

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The PEREIRE BROTHERS Wiki page can be found HERE.

The motto of their banking and industrialisation empire is:

“Borrowed from Saint-Simon : “to each according To his capacity, to each capacity according to its works “.

They undertake a number of massive projects with JAMES DE ROTHSCHILD, and BARON D’EICHTAL.

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In Part II of this post, we’re going to figure out a bit more how all these people were actually the REAL ‘Frankists’, with a finger in every international financial pie, and a religious fervour to do away with God and the Torah.

From their positions high-up, within the Jewish community itself.

And how they had everything to do with the masons of America, and the communists of Russia, too.

Until then.

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FOOTNOTE:

[1] I got side-tracked by this bit of info, which is very interesting, and again shows that this one family of ‘crypto Jews’ has been running the show for centuries, but it’s not really part of the main story of this post. So I decided to stick it down here in the footnotes:

The paternal uncle of ABRAHAM GRADIS I (the King of Bordeaux) was called LÉON ISAAC PEIXOTTO, born sometime in the mid-1600s.

That’s an unusual surname.

Two hundred years later, in 1874, there is a US Consul-General of Romania trying to ‘relieve anti-semitism’ in that country caled  BENJAMIN PEIXOTTO. In 1874, Benjamin Peixotto makes a pilgrimage to Palestine.

Here’s a snippet from his Wiki page:

He supported the Westernization and internal improvement of the Jewish community, helping establish the Zion Society (which later became B’nai B’rith in Romania) and the Society for the Culture of the Israelites in Roumania….

He left for good in June 1876, returning to America that July. His efforts to improve conditions for Romanian Jews laid the groundwork for the 1878 Treaty of Berlin.

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Click on that link for the 1878 Treaty of Berlin.

That’s where you’ll learn more about how the Balkans was carved up, setting the scene for the political tinder box that ignited into World War I, 35 years later.

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Point is: over a time period of 300 years, it’s the exact same small family pulling the strings for the masons in the USA, and also in Europe – and also in ‘Palestine’, as part of the ‘political zionism’ project.

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The ‘rational thinkers’ out there probably want to know how I can claim BENJAMIN PEIXOTTO is connected to the masons.

It’s a fair question – and I have an answer.

Benjamin PEIXOTTO’s father was DANIEL LEVY MADURO PEIXOTTO. And the grandfather was MOSES LEVY MADURO PEIXOTTO.

Here’s what it says on Daniel Peixotto’s Wiki page, HERE:

Peixotto, like his father before him, was active in Freemasonry and served Master of the Washington Lodge in 1833.[3]

In 1813, his father Moses Levy Maduro Peixotto had been one of the six founding members of the Supreme Council, Scottish Rite, Northern Jurisdiction.

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ALBERT PIKE was one of the leaders of the Scottish Rite masons – you know, that guy who was writing letters about how ‘political zionism’ needed to be set up in order to spark of WW3 and usher in the ‘NWO’….

And of course, Benjamin Peixotto was also part of a ‘secret society’ you’ve probably heard of, snippet from HERE:

[H]e served as Grand Sar (president) of *B’nai B’rith during 1863–64 and was the prime mover for its Jewish Orphan Asylum (now Bellefaire) established in Cleveland in 1869.

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We didn’t get to the Bnei Brith part of this story yet. But with God’s help, we will.

(Leo Frank, who Candace Owens and Dennis Prager are arguing over, was the leader of his local BNEI BRITH chapter in Chicago. That’s not a moot point.)

Point is, every stone we turn over in this story has a pseudo-Jewish freemason hiding underneath it.

And hardly any of them were known to be ‘Frankists’….

Every time I write these words, God seems to send me something to ‘break’ my writing break again.

So we’ll see.

But right now, I just need to chill, and not be in the mindset of trying to figure things out, not for myself and not for anyone else.

Rav Elmaliach told us quite a few times, that Elul 25th 5784 was the beginning of the next, massive, spiritual ‘birur’ that is part of the revelation of Moshiach.

And he said it would come with a lot of blood, and would conclude on Simchat Torah 5785.

And that people need to make some real teshuva about believing all the lies and slanders about the Rav.

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Why should ‘Rav Berland’ be the litmus test of whether geula comes ‘sweet’ or with a lot of blood?

For a few reasons.

One – because you only really get to the truth about the Rav internally, when you finally make a connection back to your own soul, and you break your own ‘world of lies’ that’s hiding ‘truth’ in a million different ways.

Especially, the ‘truth’ about how many bad middot we all still have ourselves, and how much work is still required to overcome them.

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And two – because once you spot the ‘modus operandi’ the masonic-controlled media used with Rav Berland, you can see how they just pull the same tricks again and again and again.

With stuff like Covid 19…. and murder in Meron…. and October 7…. and now, ‘rockets from Hizballah’….

Even when you don’t know what ‘the truth’ really is – you can still spot the lies clearly.

And that’s a very useful starting place, at least, while the rest of the story takes the time it takes to properly unfold.

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I am feeling very tired at the moment.

BH, the run-up to Rosh Hashana 5785 was intense, for so many different reasons, and ‘the war’ was kind of the last straw.

Or maybe, cooking non-stop for a three day chag with mild PTSD from ‘Iranian bombs’, or whatever that really was, plus massive anxiety about whether the Rav – and my husband – would get to Uman this year was the last straw.

I don’t know.

In any case – I need to take a break.

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Most ‘influencers’ won’t tell you this, but you really don’t need anyone else to tell you what to think and what to believe.

You just need to take some time out every day, and ask God to show you the truth.

There are some people who are so stuck in their ‘world of lies’, that even this doesn’t work for them. They can’t actually accept ‘the truth’, so this process can back-fire and actually cause that type of person to double-down on all the lies they want to believe, to keep their bubble intact.

BH, I doubt most of my readers fit into that category.

At least, the people who keep coming back here and reading stuff that presses their buttons over and over again.

Alufim, atem!

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So, trust yourselves more.

But also, make more effort to do this ‘birur’ yourself, in your own way, holding God’s hand.

Because there are no shortcuts, and we all have to cross that narrow bridge within ourselves, to leave the ‘world of lies’ and enter the ‘world of truth’.

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I know I’ve hurt and upset a whole bunch of people this year with some of the stuff I write.

99% of the time, that wasn’t deliberate.

Please forgive me, if I’ve written stuff that’s upset you or insulted you.

And to the 1% where it was deliberate – I’d love to pretend that I’m on the level of really regretting that, but sadly, I’m not ‘there’  yet. But I’m working on it. And if you can be the bigger person and forgive me anyway, that would be wonderful.

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BH, I will be back some time after Yom Kippur, at least with an update to let you know when I plan to return to the blog again.

I still have a bunch of research I’m doing, a bunch of very interesting info to share with you.

And if the Rav, Rav Berland, puts out any messages that I feel should be shared more widely, I will do my best to stick that up.

But in the meantime, I’m taking a break, to try and get some energy and koach back.

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May we all be signed for a safe, healthy, happy and holy year.

And may the revelation of Moshiach come speedily in our days, and with no more bloodshed.

Without rehashing the whole article, you can go back and read more below:

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Bottom line:

 [E]veryone undergoes a certain amount of suffering.

There is no such thing as a person going through life with everything going exactly according to his desire. What comes out of these teachings are that there are three ways to deal with the situation:

1. through prayer
2. through acceptance, and
3. by giving money to the Tzaddik.

   All of which bring about one of two results, either an easing of the suffering or its cancellation altogether.

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Go HERE, to do a pid on the Shuvu Banim website – with absolutely no guarantees of anything in return, except the mitzva itself.

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My husband’s first flight to Uman got cancelled last week.

After a day of mad stress, he managed to find another one leaving yesterday evening.

I took him to the airport, and started doing my hour of hitbodedut as I drove back home.

10 minutes later, I heard some electronic weird beeping sound, and I spent a couple of minutes wondering what my car was trying to tell me.

Then, I saw a bunch of cars parked by the road leading up to Modi’in – frum guys with kippas, standing and holding their phones.

Oh, that’s cute! I thought to myself. Look how serious people are about davening mincha on time!!!

Then, I realised it was dark and way too late for mincha.

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That’s when I started to hear a really loud ambulance siren.

I looked all around the mostly empty highway, couldn’t see the ambulance.

As I get past Modiin, all of a sudden I see a bunch of weird orange ‘lights’ in the sky by the side of the highway.

And that, dear reader, is when I realised that ‘Iran’ was repeating what happened back before Pesach.

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I didn’t pull over.

Driving past all the people sitting in their cars, or sitting next to their cars, I couldn’t see how that was meant to ‘protect’ anyone from anything.

And I had a kid at home who totally freaked out when ‘Iran’ attacked before Pesach, so I just put my foot down.

The whole drive up to Jerusalem, I saw weird orange lights in the sky – on BOTH SIDES of the 443.

I.e. it didn’t look like the weird lights were coming from a single direction.

And I can also tell you that what I saw didn’t seem to be ‘Iron Dome’.

But who knows, at this point?

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(Video from HERE)

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Two hours later, I was back at the airport to get my husband and bring him home.

But the rest of the airport was swinging – nearly every other flight yesterday went out, still.

If these attacks are not coordinated in advance with ‘our side’, how is that even possible in a million years?

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Today, I have some mild PTSD.

BH, it will pass soon.

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In the meantime, the Rav is in Jerusalem for Rosh Hashana, and praying in his regular olam, on Ido HaNavi.

There are apparently a lot of recriminations going on within Shuvu, about what happened this year.

The bottom line is: no-one really knows.

But I have my own theory, at this stage, which is that the Rav probably was able to get to Uman for Rosh Hashana, at least in theory, but shemayim sent him back to Eretz Yisrael, to protect the country.

Like this:

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What do we know about anything, really?

Even if we think ‘we know’ stuff, especially all that lashon hara and gossip that’s passed around on social media and Whats App like the gospel truth, with zero real fact checking.

Do your own hitbodedut, and you’ll get way closer to grasping some semblance of an idea of what might be happening in the world around us.

But even then, Rabbenu says that the greatest height of ‘knowing’, is to know that we know nothing.

Mamash.

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I just saw this HERE. Chananya is describing a lot of what I saw on my drive – and also has a very important message that ties in with the theme of this post, i.e. to sweeten the judgements spiritually, and to only fear God:

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I wish all my readers a shana tova, a sweet 5785.

BH, it’s going to be a much better year than it currently appears.

But if you didn’t already, go and do a pidyon before Rosh Hashana.

There are massive dinim hanging over everyone’s head right now, in case you didn’t notice.

And whatever you can do to ‘sweeten’ them, ahead of Rosh Hashana, for yourself and your family – you should do it.

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Go HERE, to do a pid on the Shuvu Banim website – with absolutely no guarantees of anything in return, except the mitzva itself.

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The Rav, on the way back to Jerusalem for Rosh Hashana 5785