Finally, I had a bit of time to return to a ‘real Jewish history’ post.

This one is a corker.

A few months ago, we started tying together how the RAFFLOVICH family seemed to be in the middle of a network that connected Frankists (aka outwardly ‘xtian’ Jews who were the next generation of believers in Shabtai Tzvi) with people like Aleister Crowley, Italian gentry, the Jesuits, the Prieure de Sion, the British evangelicals who really founded the State of Israel – and the early z-ist movement, here in Eretz Israel, and also in the UK.

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In the meantime, I got busy with a hundred different things, and all this research had to go onto the back burner again.

Today, I decided to eat breakfast while looking for that story of the Tzemach Tzedek talking about the Alter Rebbe’s snuff box, that makes an appearance in Elitzur’s latest video, HERE.

I girded my loins and started looking for references to that story.

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So I’m clicking around, trying to figure out if there’s more to this snuff box story, when I click on the following link on the derher.org site:

https://derher.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Derher-Nissan-5781-.pdf

I started scanning for mentions of the ‘Tzemach Tzedek’ – and that brings me to this article, that begins on page 17, talking about the last Rebbe’s roots that trace back to Nikolayev, in the Ukraine.

The last Lubavicher Rebbe was actually born in Nikolayev, and lived there for the first six years of his life.

So of course, i took a closer look.

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According to this article in DerHer magazine, in the year 5549 (1789) the Russian government decided to open a new shipyard close to Nikolayev, that would service the Russian fleet stationed in the Black Sea, near by.

The article doesn’t say who was ruling Russia at this point, but it was Empress Catherine the Great. Her advisors included Grigory Potemkin, and also NAME of Shklov, both of whom employed YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN as their court factor.

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Next, the article says that 20 years after it was founded (i.e. 1809) “Czar Nikolai I” approved the appointment of a ‘Reb Ephraim Zalman’ to be the city’s rav.

This is strange for a lot of reasons.

First of all, ‘Czar Nikolai I’ only came to the throne in 1825. It was his brother, the Tsar Alexander I, who was on the Russian throne at this point. And Tsar Alexander I was a born-again-evangelical who was being acclaimed as the ‘Second Cyrus’ across Europe, after his defeat of Napoleon.

Tsar Alexander I was trying very, very hard to ‘convert’ the two million Jews in his lands, and one of his big plans for doing this was to award land and many other privileges to any Jew who would convert to xtianity.

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Under Alexander I’s conversion program, any Jews who converted would be granted Russian land that would be held by them and their descendants in perpetuity, as ‘Israelite Christians’ – for as long as they stayed being xtians.

Part of the reason we never hear about Alexander I’s program for ‘Israelite Christians’ in Russia is because this is exactly the same time that certain ‘rebbes’ and their acolytes started acquiring large tracts of land across Russia.

It’s always puzzled me how this was the case, given that the Russian Imperial policy was that Jews were forbidden from owning land.

The more I’ve researched this subject, the more that it appears that the main  exceptions to this rule was important contractors to the Russian government / military; and ‘Israelite Christians’ – Jews who’d agreed to be baptised, but who otherwise were permitted to live as proto ‘Jews-for-Jesus’, in these special settlements set aside by Tsar Alexander I.

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On March 25th, 1817, Easter Sunday, the Tsar issued a ukase concerning the converted Jews of Russia, that lifted civil disabilities off baptised Jews, and decreed they should henceforth be known as ‘Israeli Christians’.

This decree was published in Russian, German and Polish, and also announced the establishment of a new ‘Society of Israeli Christians’, to ensure the material well-being of baptised Jews who now found themselves cut off from their old support networks in the Jewish community, but still barred from being accepted as true Christians by their Russian neighbors.

The formal task of the society was essentially to encourage Jews to be baptized.

Another carrot that the Tsar tried to use to encourage more Russian Jews to convert was the promise of free land grants in the Crimea, which Russia had recently conquered, and was keen to colonise.[1]

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We will come back to Alexander I another time – he ‘died’ in December 1825.

But there are persistent rumours that he actually just abdicated the throne voluntarily (possibly, before he got bumped off the same way his father Paul I was assassinated…) – and became a wandering monk across Russia.

What’s even stranger about this tale is that almost the identical story is told about Moshe Shneuri, the Alter Rebbe’s son who converted to xtianity, but then is said to have regretted it, at some point, and became a ‘wandering tzaddik’ drifting from one shul to another, across Russia.

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So, to come back to Derher magazine.

We’ve already established some serious faults in its historical accuracy, as Alexander I was on the throne in 1809 and not his brother, Nicolai I.

And Alexander I is mainly giving land and privileges to Jews who become xtians, plus some land grants in places that Russia has newly conquered, like the Crimea, and important government contractors. I don’t know which category the Jews of Nikolaev fit into, still. Maybe, all of them.

Derher informs us:

“[The Tsar] personally met with Reb Efraim Zalman and commented that he was “razumne,” a shrewd person.”

The article continues by explaining that Reb Efraim Zalman is a follower of the Alter Rebbe of Chabad, Shneur Zalman, and apparently even writes the hanacha of a ma’amar delivered by the Alter Rebbe as part of the sheva brachot celebrations that accompany the Zhlobiner wedding.

In other words – he’s an important follower of the Alter Rebbe, and not just some random joe.

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Next, Derher says that this original ‘Jewish’ community in Nikolayev didn’t last very long.

In 5589 (1829), the Tsar issues and expulsion order for the community of ‘Jews’ living Nikoyalev. This is Tsar Nicolai I, who takes over from Alexander in December 1825. We can assume it takes him a little bit of time to get his feet under the table, and to start to figure out his own plans for destroying the Jewish community.

Remember, under the rules of his ukase, Alexander I grants land holdings to baptised Jews only as long as they continue to live as xtians.

If there is any backsliding – the grant of land will be taken away. At this point, I can’t help but wonder if this is at least one of the reasons for this expulsion order in Nikolayev.

As we continue to unpack the story in DerHer, you’ll see that’s not as crazy as it sounds.

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Derher says that while most Jews are finally forced out five years later, in 1834, there are a small group of Jews who manage to stay on in Nikoyalev, even after this date.

And here is where this story whooshes off into ‘incredible’, once again.

Derher says there is a woman called ‘Mume Leah’, a Jewess who married out of the faith and somehow managed to acquire “ADMIRAL ALEXSEY GREIG” as her husband.

Adm. Greig is apparently a Scot, who is serving in the Russian navy, and also advising the Tsars on how best to settle the new land they’ve just conquered.

Here are a few snippets that build a picture of someone who is very influential in the Russian government – and yet somehow, married to a Jewess called ‘Mume Leah’ who still brings her charity money to the Ruzhiner Rebbe (who the Russian government had made persona non grata and expelled from their realms.)

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From HERE:

“At that time, Admiral Aleksey Greig commanded the Black Sea Fleet. … For the successful command of the fleet, Greig was promoted to the rank of admiral.”

From HERE:

“One of them was Admiral Aleksey Greig who advised to go beyond only the sailors and to attract experienced farmers, herdsmen, and winemakers.”

From HERE:

“Figure 11A & B. Admiral Aleksey Greig (1775–1845), admiral of Scottish extraction in the Russian navy. A: portrait by Georg von Bothmann, 1877 (Hermitage Museum); B: lithograph by unknown artist.”

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That last source is probably the most important one, at this stage, because while it is pretty easy to ‘fake’ the written word, when you have an old portrait like this, with specific details, it’s much more likely to be an authentic historical artefact.

So, ‘Admiral Aleksey Greig’ apparently was a real person, was a real admiral in the Russian navy, was the governor of Nikolayev, and was a Scot.

How hard could it be, to track down ‘Mume Leah’, his apostate wife?!

Of course – almost impossible.

Because many of her descendants and relatives are still controlling and running the Jewish community.

But I went back to DerHer to see if I could gather any more clues, and yes, I did just that.

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The magazine explains that ‘Di Mume Leah’ had a nephew by the name of: SHOLOM YISHAYA RAFALOVITCH, who she’d manage to set up in the shipbuilding business for the Russian navy, where he’d become pretty rich.

When the expulsion order was handed down, Di Mume Leah – married to Alexsey Greig, the xtian governor of Nikoyalev – managed to get special permits that enabled her nephew, SHOLOM YISHAYA RAFALOVITCH, and this ‘Ephraim Zalman Razumne’ to stay on.

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Let’s unpack this.

A few months ago when I was tracking down the RAFFALOVICH family connections to Frankists and satanists like Aleister Crowley, I’d already done a lot of leg work on this particular family tree.

(See this post: https://thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/the-yismach-moshe-aleister-crowley-and-more-strange-connections/).

On the Russian Wiki site HERE, there is an entry for the MARSHALKOVITCH family.

I had to machine translate what I’m bringing below, but you get the picture – and there’s a lot of interesting details here, so I’m going to bring the whole thing:

Marshalkovich (Маршלקאויץ, formerly Марш) is a Jewish surname in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine, whose representatives played a prominent role in Jewish public life. Many well-born Jewish surnames, such as Parnes, Rafalovich, etc., branched out from it.

Especially famous was the branch of this surname, which originates from Dubna (Volyn province). An early representative of Moslemism is R. Avraham B.-Zeev Wolf, whose epitaph is dated “תנ ״ ט ד ׳ אלול” and who, according to legend, was the son-in-law of Taz (R. David Halevi).

His grandson, R. Avigdor M., was a regional syndic, דאש מדינה since 1753. The latter’s grandson, R. Chaim Nachman Parnes from Vilna, son-in-law of R. Efraim Zalman Margaliot, was the head of the Vilna community, where he died in 1854.

Another grandson of R. Avraham Zeev-Wolf, R. Moses Parnes (died in 1764 G.), was a well-known Talmudist and philanthropist. His grandson, Aaron R. Parnes, founded in Dubna Beth ha-Midrash, bears still the name “המרדש בית של ד׳אהדן פדנם”, and established with him a valuable library.

Another grandson of R. Moses, R. Zadok Maršalkovič, was a philanthropist and was built in Dubna many charitable institutions and the synagogue, which bears to this day the name “בית של המרדש מאדשאלקװיטא” or קלואז של” בד״ץ”.

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Notice, the links between the RAFFALOVICH / RAFALOVICH and PARNES family of Vilna.

The Rafalovichs were closely connected to the Vilna parnessim who were running that city, and also, running the charity for ‘Eretz Yisrael’ that functioned as a secret society under the name ‘the Nobles of Vilna’.

Also, notice that this family stems from AVRAHAM BEN ZEEV WOLF, the son in law of the TAZ – who had become a follower of Shabtai Tzvi in the year before he died. The TAZ’s son and adopted son were both big believers in Shabtai Tzvi.

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Lastly, notice the reference to EFRAIM ZALMAN MARGALIOT, who is the super-wealthy coral merchant who signs an approbation for Rebbe Nachman’s Likutey Moharan – and happens to be one of the main funders for the ‘chassidic aliya’.

(And who is connected to the ‘Nobles of Vilna’ via marriage.)

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Let’s see if we can dig up more connections, to try to pin down who ‘Di Muma Leah’ really was, and which family she actually belonged to.

Here is the geni page for one ‘MOSES RAFFALOVICH’:

Moses Raffalovich (deceased) – Genealogy (geni.com)

And here is some of what you find there:

[K]nown as Moses Rafalovich of Mohilev (Mogilev Podolski) on the Dniester River, where he and his brother built warships for the Czar.

“The first to bear this surname was Moshe Parnes, son of Rafael, ship builder for the Russian Army, when in 1783 during a visit of Catherine the Great, the empress would have bestowed upon him his patronymic Raffalovich, replacing the surname Parnes that was used till then.”

Reference: Asher Salah, Quest 2106 https://primolevicenter.org/printed-matter/from-odessa-to-florence/ who referenced Comparetti, In memoria di Elena Raffalovich, 15-16.

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This is the right family.

Here’s another snippet:

“Two strong legs formed the foundation of the Raffalovich fortune – ship building and banking.

Moses and Solomon were responsible for developing the ship building. Solomon came to Nikolayev in 1825 and by 1836 won bids for two ships for the Russian Navy. Several more (about 20 in total) followed and essentially they built the entire Black Sea Fleet over the next 20 years.”

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At this stage, Hashem had mercy on me, and I found the Wikipedia page for Admiral Aleksey Greig, HERE.

This is is his picture:

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And even more importantly, this is his Jewish wife, ‘Di Muma Leah’, aka JULIA STALINSKAYA:

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Wiki says this about the happy couple:

Aleksey Greig married Julia Stalinskaya, who was Jewish. This created social problems for them, when the family moved to St.Petersburg. They had five children, and their sons all served in the navy, achieving prominence. Greig’s grandfather Charles was an emigrant from Scotland. His father Samuil was an admiral in the Russian Imperial Navy.

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So once I had ‘Di Mama Leah’s’ name in the real world, I could track down her family tree, a little more, on Geni, HERE.

And HERE, you’ll find a whole bunch of real details about where she and her husband some of her kids were buried, with real gravestones, in real graveyards.

You know, the sorts of details that are nearly always totally absent when I look into the families of most of the ‘tzaddikim’, and especially the ‘tzaddikim’ connected to Chabad and Ruzhin.

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Here’s a pertinent snippet:

Yulia Mikhailovna Greig (nee Liya Moyshevna Stalinskaya), the daughter of a Mogilev innkeeper, a Jew.

In her youth, she served in her father’s tavern. She married a Polish officer, Captain Kulchinsky, but soon divorced. In 1820, she arrived in Nikolaev with deliveries of ship timber, obtained an audience with the commander of the Black Sea Fleet and ports, Admiral A. S. Greig, and soon became his common-law wife. In 1827, they were secretly married. Being an energetic and strong-willed woman,

Liya Moishevna had a huge influence on Greig.

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Next, that Geni entry led me to a Russian-language genealogical site which had more details about ‘Di Mama Leah Greig’, and her children and husband, that you can see HERE.

But nothing telling me how Yulia Liya Greig directly connected up to the Rafalovich / Marshalkovitch family.

(We’ll start to see more of why that information has been carefully hidden in a moment.)

But clicking around, I got to another Russian-language historical site, HERE, with a page devoted to the RAFALOVICH family that brought more of the real story, together with a whole bunch of verifiable, first-hand evidence.

Here’s a couple of machine-translated snippets:

The head of the family, the Mogilev merchant Shlema Moshkovich (Moiseevich) Rafalovich (ca. 1790 – 1846), moved to Nikolaev from Mogilev in 1825 at the invitation of his sister-in-law Y.M. Greig, the wife of the Nikolaev military governor.

A close relative of the founder of the Odessa dynasty of Rafalovich, Abram Rafalovich.

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It continues:

In view of the eviction of Jews from the city of Nikolaev, by the decree of Nicholas I of November 20, 1829, he filed a petition to move with his family to Odessa, however, in the 30s – 40s he continued to live in Nikolaev.

In 1836, he won the first tender for the construction of two ships. He built ships in the Spassky Admiralty, the boathouses of which he restored at his own expense. Until 1846, he built five 84-gun battleships: “Gabriel”, “Uriel”, “Yagudiil”, “Rostislav”, “Svyatoslav”.

On the eve of his death in 1846, he won a contract for the construction of the 120-gun ship “Paris”, the obligations for the performance of which were transferred to his heirs – his son Alexander Shlemovich (Solomonovich) (about 1820 – after 1890) and wife Rebekka (Ryvka, Rivka) (about 1800 – about 1860) Rafalovich.

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On June 22, 1864, by the decision of the Governing Senate, A.Sh. Rafalovich was awarded the status of a hereditary honorary citizen, about which the Emperor’s Decree of September 18, 1864 was issued.

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Let’s make the point again, clearly, that Imperial Russia didn’t just give Jews land and ‘hereditary honorary citizen status’ for nothing. Just because they were a ‘tzaddik’, or had a bunch of chassids.

Imperial Russia rewarded service to the State.

And just as Russia = Edom, you can be sure that nothing the State was up to, especially in the 19th century, was actually good for the Jews.

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So, now we learn that  Shlema Moshkovich (Moiseevich) Rafalovich’s sister-in-law is ‘Di Muma Liya / Julia Grieg’.

My best guess is that Shlema’s wife, Rebekah (1800-1866) and ‘Di Muma Liya’ were sisters.

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It won’t shock you to learn to that so many of this family’s descendants were senior communist revolutionaries and Bolshevik activists, with one, FELIX YAKOVLEVICH KON (1864-1941) apparently friends with Lenin.

But that’s not where I want to go, in the rest of this post.

I want to try and figure out more of which family Rebekah and Liya (Julia) Stalinsky (Grieg) link us back to, and how the RAFALOVICH family have continued to play a very important role in the State of Israel, even up to our days.

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SHLEMA MOSHKOVICH RAFALOVICH (1790 – 1846) has at least two brothers, and we’ve written about both of them here before.

The one we wrote about HERE was the brother called KALMAN MOSHE RAFFALOVICH of Odessa.

He’s the grandpa of the founder of the ACHAVA society (who was behind the publication of the Kol HaTor), ISAIAH RAFFALOVICH.

Isaiah’s maternal grandpa was apparently that same NISSAN BAK who was the agent of ‘R ISRAEL OF RUZHIN’ (aka MOSHE TZVI of SAVRAN, main persecutor of R NATAN of BRESLOV) in Eretz Israel.

This is the same ‘R ISRAEL of RUZHIN’ who ‘Di Muma Liya’ Greig was apparently paying her tzedaka money to… All of this was kept very much in the family.

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This branch of RAFFALOVICHs descend from Rebbe Nachman’s uncle, R BARUCH of MEDZHEBOZH – and also, R YECHIEL MICHAL of ZLOTCHOV.

Like this: BARUCH OF MEDZHIBOZH m SIME CHUSHE > CHANA CHAYE (1769-1869) m R YITZCHOK RABINOWITZ OF YAMPOLA (ABD VILKOVISK, SON OF YECHIEL MICHEL OF ZLOCHOV) > RIVA, RIVALE RABINOWITZ (1810-1877) m ABRAHAM KALMAN RAFFALOVICH (1761-1879) > MOSES RAFFALOVICH (1830 – 1890) m SARA DOCTOROVICH (daughter of NISSAN BAK) > R’ DR YESHAYAHU RAFFALOVICH, founder of ACHAVA, rabbi of British Army in Palestine.

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And then, we wrote about SHLEMA’s other brother, ABRAHAM MOSES RAFFOLOVICH, HERE, in the post called: The Mystery Daughter of the Alter Rebbe.

He marries OLGA LOWENSOHN, and has 13 kids – most of them are interesting, and either marry non-Jews or Frankists, or are openly gay Dominican priests. Go take a look, I’m not going to rehash all this.

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OK, let’s see if we can pin down a bit more which family JULIA (LIYA) GRIEG actually belonged to.

Back in the ‘fake Jewish genealogy’ world that doesn’t include people like ADM. ALEKSEY GREIG, governor of Nikolayev, you’ll remember that this RAFFALOVICH family of Russian ship-building wealthy Frankists are called ‘MARSHALKOVITCH’.

This tree on Geni is curated by (who else?) Kevin Lawrence Hanit. You can see it HERE.

It’s of course a huge mess – of course. Because they have had to scramble to hide all these non-Jewish spouses like ALEKSEY GREIG, of people who are close family of our ‘tzaddikim’ and ‘big rabbis’.

But there are a ton of ‘PARNAS’-surnamed people here, and we remember from above that ‘PARNAS’ was the original name of the RAFFALOVICH family of shipbuilders, before Catherine the Great changed it for them.

So, who else is here in this family tree – and who might ‘JULIA (LIYA) GREIG’ actually be, in this alternative, faked, genealogical alternative universe?

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My best guess is that JULIA LIYA STALINSKAYA (GREIG) got given the pseudonym of BREINDEL HOROWITZ ‘HaGVIRA’ (or vice-versa), who is said to have married MORDECHAI ZADOK MARSHALKOVITCH of DUBNO.

(I don’t know if this is ‘instead of’ or ‘as well as’ Adm. Aleksey Greig, who predeceased his younger wife by quite a few years.

‘BREINDEL HAGVIRA’s’  yichus links us straight back to ‘Jewish royalty’, including the NODAH B’YEHUDA and a bunch of Landaus, R’ ITZIKEL ‘HAMBURGER’ HOROWITZ, Segals, Babads, Lurias, Schors and Halberstadts – and nearly all the main funders of the ‘Nobles of Vilna’, who were paying for both the chassidic yishuv, and the settlement of the Vilna Gaon’s Perushim, in Eretz Yisrael.

Of course, there are no real details for ‘BREINDEL HAGVIRA’ that prove that she, or her husband, actually every existed.

No pictures, documents, burials, graves – nothing.

Just some nice stories to disguise who she really was, and who she really married – and who her offspring really were, and what they really did, as they moved between their ‘Jewish’ and non-Jewish personas.

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Two more details, for now, and then we’ll wrap this up for today.

Over HERE, I tripped over the archives for Nikoyalev, in Russian, on the WayBack Machine. Baruch Hashem for machine translation – it was actually pretty readable in English, all 250+ pages of it.

Here’s a few snippets that caught my eye:

The 24 [Jewish] merchant families [living in Nikolaev as] indicated by A. S. Greig also do not coincide with the data of the magistrate [23], but they are more accurate, since A. S. Greig writes about two merchants of the first guild in Nikolaev: Sh. Rafalovich and M. Serebryany.

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The bolded reference is to Shlema Rafalovich, brother-in-law of ‘Di Muma Liya’ Greig.

He’s a real person, and so is she.

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Here’s another interesting snippet:

The attraction of Jewish merchants to supply the Black Sea Fleet began under G. A. Potemkin and I. I. de Traverse. The largest volumes of supplies fell during the governorship of Admiral A. S. Greig.

When the rapid development of the fleet, shipbuilding and the city began in the first half of the nineteenth century, many Jews moved to Nikolaev, occupying almost the entire sphere of intra-city trade (ousting the Greeks from this sphere), as well as supplies to the Black Sea Fleet.

 From 1813 to 1830, of the 52 suppliers to the navy, 30 were Jews, or 58%. 

Among them were: Abram Peretz, Favel Isakov, Samuel Bertanzon, Markus Varshavsky, Michael Serebryany, Faibish Blank, Anna Brigerova, Solomon Briger, Shlema Dobrovensky (Dubrovensky), Shifrin, Moisey Dubensky, Nusin Peretz, Leib Seltzer, Shavel Rabinovich, Michael Shlemov, Shlema Rafalovich, Halanay, Auslander, Natanzon Berko Baranovsky, Leiba Eisenstock, Peisich Begun, Feldser, Shtulkarts, Rovensky, Nachman Berkov, Halper, Itska Finkelstein, and others .

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These are all real people, very influential in Russian military / government circles – and we haven’t really heard about any of them, except ABRAM PERETZ, also bolded above.

He’s the SIL of JOSHUA ZEITLIN, that I’ve written about so many times here before. He also ended up converting and marrying a xtian woman. We’re told he was ‘business partners’ with NATAN NETA NOTKIN (d.1804), in-law of the ‘Sha’agat Aryeh’ and shtadlan who apparently arranges for the release of the Alter Rebbe under Tsar Paul I.

See this post for more info:

https://thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/russias-first-modern-jews-part-2-baruch-shick-the-freemason/

There is a ‘NUSIN PERETZ’ in this list, it would not surprise me if ABRAM and NUSIN / NATAN NOTA are brothers, and in business together.

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And what happened to SHLEMA RAFALOVICH, ship builder to the Tsars?

Here’s a couple more snippets:

Mogilev merchant of the second guild Shlema Rafalovich (circa 1853) was the nephew of Yulia. M. Greig, the wife of Admiral A. S. Greig. She invited him to Nikolaev to supply quartermaster supplies and various materials to the Black Sea Fleet.

In 1825, Rafalovich moved to Nikolaev, where he became the head (rebbe) of the local Jews. Together with him came his wife Rebekah (ca. after 1857) and son Alexander (ca. g.)

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Then, after a few years, he moves to Chisinau / Kishinev – and converts to Russian Orthodox xtianity:

Subsequently, S. Rafalovich was forced to leave for Chisinau. He founded one of the largest banking houses.

At the end of his life, he converted to Orthodoxy under the name of Fyodor. 

He died in Odessa around 1853. S. Y. Witte’s memoirs about Sh. Rafalovich and his descendants: “I knew very well Rafalovich’s father, old Fyodor Rafalovich, who converted to Orthodoxy and was a very zealous Orthodox. He was a highly respectable man, his firm was one of the largest and best firms in Odessa. When he died, his business passed to his sons. The main son is Alexander Rafalovich.”

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This ‘RAFALOVICH’ / MARSHALKOVITCH family gave us a lot of converted ‘new-xtian’ bankers and government officials in Russia.

A whole bunch of Jesuit priests, with an interest in buying property in Eretz Yisrael.

And last, but not least, Dr YISHAYA RAFAELOVICH, chaplain for the British Army, and not coincidentally, founder of the ‘WORLD ACHaVA’ brotherhood that got Rav Kook his job as the first ‘Chief Rabbi’ of Israal, and arranged for the publication of (and propaganda around) the ‘Kol haTor’.

Kol HaTor is a key ‘brainwashing’ text in the Modern Orthodox world and its yeshivas, as we already started to unpick in many posts here on the blog, including this one:

https://thinkforyourselfpublishing.com/agudat-achva-part-1-the-xtian-connection-to-kol-hator/

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The next time we come back to this story, I hope to tell you more about the STEIGLITZ family of Russian ‘new-xtian’ bankers, that connects us back to Adm, GREIG and ‘Di Muma Liya’ via their daughter, JULIA VON STEIGLITZ.

(And also, the group of Jewish bankers from Berdichev, that were clustered around the TZEMACH TZEDEK.)

Until then.

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FOOTNOTE:

[1] Ibid.. p. 32.

This post is just snippets from a Wiki page.

The Wiki page for Jared Kushner, Trump’s SIL, HERE.

You come to  your own conclusions, about the ‘good [businessman] in Esav’, and how much all this is really just about money, access to the gas fields off Gaza, and the oil fields found in the Golan.

Enjoy!

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Since leaving the White House, Kushner founded Affinity Partners, a private equity firm that derives most of its funds from Saudi government’s sovereign wealth fund.

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 His father was friends with Bill and Hillary Clinton and attended several dinners with them.

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Following his father’s conviction and subsequent incarceration between March 4, 2005, and August 25, 2006, Kushner took a much bigger role in the family real estate business.

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Kushner Companies purchased the office building at 666 Fifth Avenue in 2007, for a then-record price of $1.8 billion, most of it borrowed.^[25] He assumed the role of CEO in 2008.^[26] Following the property crash that year, the cash flow generated by the property was insufficient to cover its debt service…[Qatar bailed him out…]

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In 2014, Kushner, with his brother Joshua and Ryan Williams, co-founded Cadre (now RealCadre LLC), an online real-estate investment platform. His business partners included Goldman Sachs and billionaire George Soros, a top Democratic Party donor.^[39][40][41] In early 2015, Soros Fund Management financed the startup with a $250 million credit line.

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Jared Kushner had been a lifelong Democrat prior to his father-in-law Donald Trump entering politics.^[60] He had donated over $10,000 to Democratic campaigns^[61] starting at the age of 11. In 2008, he donated to the campaign for Hillary Clinton and his newspaper the New York Observer endorsed Barack Obama over John McCain in the 2008 United States presidential election.

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Kushner helped broker the sale of $100+ billion of arms to Saudi Arabia, and during a meeting with Saudi officials at the White House to finalize the deal, he called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson to ask for a lower price on a radar system to detect ballistic missiles.^[91][92]

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Mueller investigated meetings between Trump associates including Kushner and George Nader, an emissary representing the crown princes of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia. In August 2016, Nader offered help to the Trump presidential campaign.^[137

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He took a special interest in the petroleum-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Kushner attempted to raise money from the Persian Gulf states for a new investment firm he has founded.^[140]

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Trump put Kushner in charge of brokering peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict…

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The plan, which was endorsed by the Israeli government, offered the Palestinians a conditional path to an independent state with defined borders.

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After Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United States, wrote a June 2020 opinion piece warning that annexation of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank would threaten better relations between Israel and the Arab world, Kushner saw an opportunity and stepped in to facilitate talks.^[163][164]

The talks led to the August establishment of diplomatic ties between the United Arab Emirates and Israel,^[165][166] normalizing what had long been informal relations between the two countries^[167] and ultimately becoming the first Abraham Accord, which was the first normalization agreement between Israel and an Arab country since it normalized relations with Jordan in 1994.^[168][169]

As part of the agreement, Netanyahu suspended the annexation of West Bank settlements, which the Kushner peace plan had approved months earlier.^[170]

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[Ed. note: bold emphasis mine. Are you starting to figure out how all this works now?]

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Hours after the August 13 announcement of the U.S.-brokered normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, senior Bahraini officials called Kushner with a message: “We want to be next”.^[172] Over the next 29 days Kushner and aide Avi Berkowitz negotiated, and traveled to Bahrain, before closing the deal on September 11, 2020, in a call between Trump, Netanyahu and the king of Bahrain.^[172]

All three countries officially committed to the deals on September 15, 2020, with the signing of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House.^[173]

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Years later, Kushner was invited to address a forum at the Harvard Kennedy School to talk about Middle East issues. Tarek Masoud, the school’s director of Middle East Initiatives, said he chose Kushner since he was the architect of the Abraham Accords.^[184]

In the interview, Kushner referred to the valuable potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property,” suggesting that Israel should move civilians from Gaza to the Negev desert in southern Israel.^[185][186]

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Saudi Arabia investment fund

Kushner’s firm landed the more than $2 billion only six months after Kushner stopped working as a senior adviser for the president,^[225] to invest in American and Israeli companies expanding in India, Africa, the Middle East and other parts of Asia. Investors include $2 billion from the Saudi public investment fund, with Kushner stating that he hopes to open an “investment corridor between Saudi Arabia and Israel”,^[226][227

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The fund plans to invest Saudi money into startup companies in Israel. 

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As of 2024, the fund had made $157 million in management fees (including $87 million from the Saudi government alone) since 2021.^[236]

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Upon his suggestion and the Aleph Institute, several white collar criminals have been pardoned; for example in 2020 Philip Esformes, who defrauded Medicare for about $1.3 billion. Esformes has been described as “a man driven by almost unbounded greed,”.^[272]

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[Ed. note – click that link for the ‘Aleph Institute’. You will be shocked!!! shocked!!! to learn who is behind it.]

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That will do.

Everything is hidden in plain view, and the reason we can’t all understand all this so clearly, as set out above, just from the snippets from Wikipedia, is because there are a bunch of people telling us about the tov sh’be Eisav.

Or to explain this in other words, gaslighting the Jewish community, about what is really going on here.

May Hashem come and save us from the world of lies, and the morally-corrupt people and institutions perpetuating it, very, very soon.

Shiur by Rav Berland given over to ANSH in Ramat Gan, 7^th Tevet, 5785 (January 7^th, 2025)

Excerpt

“Gilgalai neshamot” (the wheel of the reincarnation of souls) – now, we are going to learn about the sons of Tzruyah.

Tzruyah – all of her children flew in the air. Here is the Midrash ‘Shochar Tov’ [on the] Tehillim¹. So, Yoav used to fly in the air – all of them!

How did they conquer Bet El? How did they conquer Rabat Amon? Now in Damascus, Damascus needs to be conquered, Putin agrees. We will speak with Putin. You will persuade him, so that he’ll agree to conquer Damascus. It’s possible to persuade him, conquer Damascus and then there are no problems.

It’s here, [the border] 20 km from Damascus, so it’s possible to conquer Damascus.

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The month of Tevet is a month of tovot (good things).

It’s written in the Sefer Karnaim², that Tevet is the greatest of all the months.

“Ee-ti – Ee-ti mi’Levanon tavoy-ee, ee-ti mi’Levanon kallah.”³

Ee – ti (אתי) is Tevet (טבת) – (it’s the same gematria of) 411. ‘Tevet’ is 411. So [Tevet] is the secret of ‘ha-tova’ (the good). All the tovot. So, the tzur (rock) is called ‘Tevet’,

Ee-ti (with Me) – at the time that Hashem says ‘there is a place ee-ti’. [The meaning is] This is called ‘haTzur’ (the Rock, e.g. Hashem). There, the 13 Attributes of Mercy were revealed [to Moshe Rabbenu], which was all the rachamim (mercy) that was in the whole world! All the rachamim.

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In the desert, there were no niddot (women in a state of ritual impurity) at all.

It’s written in the Midrash Tanchuma Shmot, that in the desert there were no niddot. And it’s also written in the Tanna d’vey Eliyahu, that the Tribe of Asher didn’t have any niddot.⁴

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[The Rav then speaks of how the Brothers put Asher into cherem, because his daughter Serach bat Asher is the one who revealed to Yaakov Avinu that od Yosef chai – that his son Yosef HaTzaddik was still alive, and a king in Egypt. The Brothers had an agreement that no-one could tell Yaakov the truth of what had happened to Yosef, as they were afraid that in his anger Yaakov would curse the Brothers, even just for a split second, and then they would immediately die and the world would be destroyed, for the whole world was only created for the sake of Am Yisrael. The Brothers didn’t realise that Serach bat Asher knew Yosef was still alive via prophecy, and not because her father Asher had told her.]

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Asher was in cherem (excommunicated).

It’s forbidden, we don’t reveal secrets, there is no such thing as this, to reveal secrets.

Because if they will be revealed, everyone will die at that exact moment. Here, here is the Pesikta. Yosef knew that if his father would know the real story, everyone would die, the world would be destroyed.

The world stands in the merit of Am Yisrael.

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Here, now Biden is dancing over the three [who were just killed in a terror attack in the Shomron].

Three were killed, one was aged 70, one was 63, and another was seriously injured. So Biden he sent them [i.e. The terrorists] the weapons. Who sent the weapons? How come Hezbollah have weapons? That the terrorists have guns?!

All of this is from Biden.

He has another 10 days to officiate as the head of the government, and wants to at least destroy Am Yisrael in these 10 days. He’s already had enough, because 7 billion people say that we need to destroy Am Yisrael! – 7 billion people.

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Because there is this one crazy, Trump.

He is from the eytanim (‘strong ones), I remember. 350 [electoral colleges] voted for him, and 175 voted for Harris. He got twice as many. But everyone was from the ‘strong ones’. Biden chided them, he published instructions.⁵

Whoever voted for Trump, Trump said that the Jews were correct.

What, that the Jews were ‘right’?! When have the Jews ever been ‘right’?! The Jews are never right! There are 7 billion people in the world, all of them say that the Jews aren’t correct.

One crazy person comes, Trump, who says No, the Jews are the Chosen People, it’s the Holy Nation, all of them are kodesh kodeshim (holy of holies).

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His daughter suddenly became a Jewess.

She went totally mad. (She was also from the ‘strong ones’, I’m sure). What happened, that all of a sudden you converted?! [Her husband is] Kushner. He put Kushner in France. France is antisemitic. France is even more antisemitic than Russia.

The French are true na-is. So now, exactly, he sent them Kushner. It’s driving them crazy, there, after the French already didn’t let Israel join in any conference, or any council. In France, it’s illegal for the Israeli representatives to [participate] in any council. Not with the football, not with…

‘You are murderers, you are a nation of killers, you are doing a massacre, maybe you are also going to massacre us?!’

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Now, three Jews were murdered – so what?!

Are [the Jews] to blame for that?

They say ‘yes. [The Jews] are to blame, [for when Jews get murdered].’

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So, what is written in the Pesikta?

That Yosef didn’t meet his father for 17 years.

[The Rav turns to his son] We see each other, Baruch Hashem, almost every day!

But Yosef, for 17 years they didn’t meet. Because his father would ask him what happened? His father [Yaakov Avinu] thought that Nasrallah kidnapped him.

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They still didn’t do a funeral for Nasrallah.

Maybe Putin will come to his funeral. They are waiting 60 days, after the cease fire. Now, Amos Hochstein came, he came to extend the cease fire for another 60 days, because the Lebanese Army is still not controlling South Lebanon, and in the meantime, Hezbollah rules.

The whole of South Lebanon, it’s under the control of Hezbollah, they are firing at Metulla, they are firing at Rosh Pinna, they are firing at Shlomi, they are firing on Hanita – they are firing.

They are 5 km [away], they are even situated at a higher elevation [than the Jewish towns]. Lebanon is higher than our mountains. By us, the mountains get to 1000 meters elevation, there is gets to 2000 meters. So they can fire on us easily.

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Now, [the Houthis] fired a rocket at Hadera.

They wanted to hit the electricity grid there, in the power station. They wanted to hit it.

The rocket was 100 km up, and it does 5 [km] a second, so this is 20 seconds [to reach a height of 100 km].

And then this [the shards of the rocket] were exploded across the whole country. Each rocket is 30 metres tall, it broke into four parts, so each part is 10 metres, this is a few ton.

If it would fall on a house [it would crush it, but] it didn’t fall on any house.

This is miraculous, it fell in the yards of houses, and like that, but not on the houses. If it would have fallen on a house, the whole house would have been destroyed – with the mamad (security room), with everything.

It’s impossible to describe the miracles [that are happening in Israel] every second.

Translated from Shivivei Or 393.

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FOOTNOTES:

This is the Wiki page for Yoram Yair – it makes very interesting reading:

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/יורם_יאיר

What makes even more interesting reading is the page for the ‘HaNoar Ha’oved V’Lomed’ movement he belonged, or belongs to.

Here’s the Wiki page for that:

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/הנוער_העובד_והלומד

Here’s it’s mission statement, from 2015 (machine translated):

The historical role of the Working Youth Organization is the establishment and development of a Jewish-democratic state, whose firm core is an Israeli community of communities made up by choice of Arabs, Jews, Druze, Circassians and other audiences regardless of religion, race or gender and sexual preference.

A community of communities that strives to realize the purpose of a society in the spirit of Chabuta, whose values are equal to human values, socialism, feminism, sharing, justice, Herzliyan Zionism, democracy, defense, labor and peace.

A community that seeks to establish an exemplary human society whose roots are rooted in the eternal values of the prophets ‘ heritage, and in the best values of the Book of Books. 

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Because I’m a confirmed conspiracy theorist, this sounds very secret-society-masonic to me, and also very ‘one new man’ / universal religion-ist (and that religion is based on ‘humanism’, not God’s Torah).

But don’t worry, these are only the people running the army and the country and its institutions for decades already.

So, nothing to see here.

This was one of the most interesting things I’ve ever read from the Rav.

For a whole bunch of different reasons.

When I have more time, I’ll to ‘unpack’ this a little more, but Mordechai of Chernobyl has been almost totally scrubbed out of real Jewish history.

From previous research, he was apparently sharing responsibility with the Alter Rebbe of Chabad for collecting money for the chassidic yishuv in Eretz Yisrael, at some point, and was also a potential successor to the Alter Rebbe’s ‘CHABAD’ fundraising kollel.

His descendants became implacable enemies of Breslov, and harassed and persecuted the Breslovers over multiple generations, and in multiple areas.

More than that, it’s still hidden in the mist.

At least, for now.

Enjoy!

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Main shiur given on the hiloula of Rav Natan of Breslov, 10^th Tevet 5785

Excerpt

The whole inyan (matter) of R’ Natan was just bizyonot (humiliation and disgrace).

“No-one has seen God other than You.”¹

Rav Natan merited to such a level of bizyonot – prisons, jails, and not like those in Eretz Yisrael, where it’s a 12 star hotel. A true prison, where [he was] mamash amongst murderers, that’s where they put him.

And he gave such cries, before they tried to kill him, it’s impossible to describe it. And why [was he put in prison by the Russian authorities]?

Because [his chassidic opponents within the Jewish community] said that he said he was Moshiach.

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In Russia, whoever said ‘Moshiach’ – they hung him.

[If they say] ‘Moshiach’, in a little while you’ll have a million chassidim, ‘Moshiach’.

So, [the Russian government said] whoever says ‘Moshiach’, he will be hung now! We have a gallows here. See, here’s this gallows, [upon which we will hang] this man. Whoever says ‘Moshiach’, he will be hung!

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It was also like this by the Romans, not only oto ha’ish² was hung, they hung everyone.

A lot of people said ‘Moshiach’, and Rome was scared.

Whoever said ‘Moshiach’, straight away they hung him. Moshiach has a million chassidim.

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He [Yoshki] went to Kfar Hittim by the Kinneret, and he cried out I am Moshiach!!!

And he told everyone, I’m Moshiach!!!

They said to him, go and say that in Jerusalem, in Jerusalem they will hang you straight away.

That’s what he said, and that’s how it was. The moment he got to Jerusalem, he got there on erev Pesach, or the day before. It’s a machloket (disagreement) between historians. One says ‘erev Pesach’, another says they hung him on Pesach.

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And the last supper was on Mount Zion.

And after this, Yehuda Ish Cariot (lit: Judah the Man of the City, a reference to Judah Iscariot) – this was across from the Lion’s Gate.

All of this, we need to know.

So, whoever said that he was ‘Moshiach’, they hung him. [So] the Jews didn’t say anything.

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All of this we are talking about, is [connected to the fact that] they libelled R’ Natan with the slander that he said that he was Moshiach, a ‘tzaddik’, like R Mordechai of Tchernobyl.

They said about him [i.e. R Mordechai of Tchernobyl] that he was a tzaddik, so they came to arrest him.

So his chassidim said to him, come, escape! He said I am not running away, I am a tzaddik. I want to be a tzaddik. What should I say, that I’m not a tzaddik?! If I’m not a tzaddik, go and arrest someone else?! No! I will say that I am a tzaddik!

After this, they [the Jewish community] needed to pay bribes and [to say] a thousand lies [in order to free Mordechai of Tchernoble from the Tsar’s prison].

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The same thing with R’ Raphael of Bershad, who crossed the border.

In his life, he’d never told a lie.

So [the border guards] said to him, is it you? He said yes! [The border guards said to him] this passport, this is you?

[Raphael of Bershad said] No, that’s not me.

It was a forged passport. And after this, [the Jewish community needed to pay] millions in bribes.

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So R Natan [of Breslov] said, all of you is just one big lie!

Even though you don’t say a single lie, all of you is one big lie!

Because the real truth [of whether someone is actually a tzaddik or not] is when a person doesn’t have a single yearning for, or enjoyment of, being honored.

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R’ Natan used to go along with a happy face – and they said about him that he was drunk.

The Shpoler³ said to the Berdichever⁴ that he [Rav Natan] used to drink before the prayers. He has the face of a drunk, a red face.

From all of his tremendous joy, when [Rav Natan] used to come to shacharit he was all red. [In truth, R’ Natan] used to stay up all night learning Torah, the large Shulchan Aruch, the SHACH, everything.

He used to finish the Shulchan Aruch every single month.

Translated from Shivivei Or 392.

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This is a scan of the source in Siach Sarfei Kodesh, Part II, Section 632, that describes what occurred with Raphael of Bershad:

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These words of the Rav had a profound impact on me this week.

BH, we’ll discuss more in a separate post, but I really started to wonder to myself how many of my own actions and thoughts are falling in the category of trying to be a ‘fake tzaddik’, pretending to myself that my spiritual level is much higher than it actually is.

When I have a bit more time to think, and to write, I will tell you just how much the Rav’s words helped me to resolve a big problem I’ve been having for quite a long time.

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FOOTNOTES:

This is a video of the ‘comedian’ Zelensky, before he became president of Ukraine:

Zelensky comedy routine. Says Obama is Ukraine’s real president and Ukraine will join NATO to become America’s “henchman.” Also gives Nazi salute and says copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf are sold out in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/dPoaw8CXkj

— Totnan Klar (@totnan111) March 17, 2022

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What do you notice?

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Meanwhile, I thought it was kinda ridiculous that people were saying Musk gave a nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration:

But having now watched the video, I am no longer finding this funny.

At all.

The truth is always hidden in plain view, and often passed off as a ‘joke’, a nothing-burger.

But really, it’s all big hints about what is going on here – orchestrated by Hashem, so that people start to do some honest soul-searching.

People were laughing at ‘Zelensky the comedian’ all those years ago.

And now?