The Soton in the trees – more comments from the Rav

Is there a soul in the world, who doesn’t feel how ‘weird’ everything seems to be, at the moment?

Tov, here is the next installment of the Rav’s shiurim.

It seems that last week’s batch of blogs have been ‘whited out’ by…. I don’t even know who, exactly.

So, let’s do ‘the experiment’ and see if the Rav’s shiurs can still get up online, and seen. I’d appreciate the feedback from you, dear readers, so we can continue to figure out what is going on here.

BTW – compare what is happening here on the blog with all those big name ‘alt-personnalities’ who aren’t getting whited-out and censored on every little thing they do…. and then understand, there is no ‘big name’ freedom fighter who is not also controlled opposition.

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Shiur given on 25th Nisan, 5785, to those learning Chumash Rashi.

There’s the Sefer Karnayim, here, there’s the klipa of the zvuv (fly).[1]

If a person sees a fly, it’s a sign that there is no shalom bayit, so then he knows everything.

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“Vayikra shmo Hashem Nisai”

Every moment, there are miracles, every moment, there are new wonders. Because ‘the hand on the throne of Hashem, the war of Hashem against Amalek, from generation to generation. ‘

So, we need wars. All the time, we need wars.

Now, it’s already 15 months of wars, and they didn’t progress at all. Every day, they kill four terrorists, every day, there’s another 30,000 new ones.

30,000 new ones every day!

They are getting stronger, they are smuggling in weapons, smuggling in kalashnikovs, smuggling in M16s – and they, [the army], are still boasting about the four [terrorists] killed. Another four, and another four – this just doesn’t end. Not even in another 100 years.

It’s a ‘war for Hashem’, from generation to generation, it’s impossible, like this.

It’s from generation to generation.

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And so, ‘a city that is enclosed by a wall, from the time of Joshua’.

How did we do Purim? [I.e. Shushan Purim in Jerusalem, on the second day of Purim].

We went according to Yehoshua bin Nun. Even Pesach, this is according to Yehoshua. Now, it’s the festival of Shavuot. The Eser Ma’amarot says that the holiday of Shavuot is even greater, because on the second day of Shavuot – when did David die?

On the second day of Shavuot, the Shabbat of Shavuot. The Tzaddik rolled down all the stairs,[2] because it’s not possible, otherwise.

It’s written in Daf Yomi 11, that’s it’s possible to kill a man, [but] it’s impossible to kill a tzaddik, it’s impossible to take his neshama away from him.

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It’s written in Masechet Makkot that’s it’s impossible to take the neshama away from the Tzaddik, not in any way. It’s impossible. The Angel of Death came to take the neshama of Rav Chisda, he told him: you can’t take my neshama from me![3]

Also bring [the Tractate] Moed Katan. The Gemara recounts there how the Angel of Death used to come to the tzaddikim, but it was impossible.

He came to Yehoshua ben Levi[4], who told him: you can’t take my neshama from me!

From the Tzaddik – it’s impossible to take his neshama away, totally impossible. Let’s bring Masssechet Moed Katan. It’s impossible to take the Tzaddik’s soul away from him, there’s just no way in the world.

So, this was the daf hayomi on page 10 – here it is, Makkot page 10, he came to Rav Chisda, and spoke to him, he was sitting and learning gemara, Ketzot HaChoshen.

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The first thing, is to learn Ketzot HaChoshen every day, for four hours.

You have to do this, [because] without doing this, a person doesn’t understand the Gemara at all. He explains all the Gemara, all of SHAS, he explains. After this, the Avnei Miluim. So, with this [the Ketzot HaChoshen], it’s impossible to understand anything.

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So, if a person learns in-depth, so it’s impossible to take his soul away.

Even if the Angel of Death comes, a million angels come, it’s impossible. The same thing, with R Yehoshua ben Levi. They came to take his neshama, and he said impossible! I don’t agree! You are not going to take my soul away, I’m not giving it to you!

[The Angel of Death] couldn’t take the neshama away from him – but he wanted to take it.

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It’s written that he lamented, he came to R’ Chiya and he wailed.[5]

You are not having mercy on me! Where is your mercy?! There’s not a drop of mercy!

The Satan came to R’ Chiya, and told him have mercy on me! I need to take your soul! You are stopping me, [and] I have other people, I have other work. Because of you, I can’t do my work!

So, he knocked on his door, came disguised as a beggar, so they brought him tzedaka (charity).

They brought him 10 shekels. He said: I want your soul, not 10 shekels! Give it to me! You are not having compassion for a poor person, where is your mercy?! There is no rachmanut!

We live in a generation where there is no rachmanut.

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So, this is what the Gemara recounts in Moed Katan, that he came.

On page 28 Moed Katan, he came to R’ Chiya and complained, why are you doing this to me?! Why aren’t you giving me your neshama?!

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Moed Katan page 28 – he came to R’ Shaorim, and after this to Rabba.

There is a whole list here. Now, we read R Chiya, in Makkot page 10. So, he saw that he wasn’t stopping to learn, he was learning Ketzot HaChoshen, he couldn’t take his neshama from him. There is no rachmanut!

In this world, people don’t have mercy.

He knocked on his door, of R’ Chiya, and he gave him 10 shekels of tzedaka, or maybe 20. Maybe, even 100. He said, did I come to you for money?! I want your neshama! I want it, and you are not letting me to take your neshama! This is not fair, this is now how we behave!

So, he came to R’ Chiya, [and asked him] you aren’t going to have mercy upon a beggar?

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Rav Chisda – [the satan] entered an erez (cedar tree), and the erez exploded!

The tree burst – and then for a moment, he stopped learning – there was an explosion.

He thought that it’s a nuke, or maybe a rocket.

Now, there was a rocket on Haifa, they launched a rocket at Haifa. I didn’t give permission for something like this. Who gave them permission? Did they get an authorisation from Trump? Who did they get the authorisation from?

So, he came to take his soul away, tore apart a cedar tree, and entered inside the tree.

The tree exploded, there was such an explosion, like a rocket, like a nuke.

So, for one moment, he stopped learning, and in that second – he took his soul from him.

This was Rav Chisda.

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Excerpted and translated from Shivivei Or, 406.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] This was a very widespread form of idolatry. English readers may be familiar with the ‘Beezlebub’ term used in the Middle Ages to denote the satan. This is a corruption of the Hebrew, Baal Zvuv – the demonic idol worship the Rav is talking about.

[2] See Yalkut Shemoni Tehillim, Ch. 29. This brings an ‘encounter’ between the Angel of Death and King David, where the Angel of Death was trying to take King David’s soul and was struggling to do so, until David took his attention away from his learning for a split second, and at that moment, slipped on the stairs and died.

[3] See Tractate Makkot 10a.

[4] See Tractate Ketubot 77b.

[5] See Tractate Moed Katan 28a.

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Uzza got electrocuted – more comments from the Rav

Shavua Tov.

I did a long hitbodedut about what’s going on here, on the blog, and whether to stop or to continue.

I realised that even if there is censorship – it’s coming from Hashem, as a message. What seems to be attracting the censorship is every time I talk about ‘current news’ stuff, instead of just sticking up words from the Rav, or doing my own historical research (which usually attracts no comments from readers = doesn’t spark off the censorship mechanism in the same way.)

To put this another way – it’s when I’m writing anything ‘news’ that I am having this problem.

So, I am taking it as a message from Hashem, that I need to continue to focus on stuff that’s not ‘news’, especially, Rav translations and the historical stuff.

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My kids told me that Instagram is full of people starting to doubt the narrative on all sorts of  ‘mainstream’ propaganda now, in any case.

Stuff I was talking about 7 years ago is now going mainstream…. so, even though there is part of me that loves discussing current affairs, and enjoys putting the pieces together about what might be going on….God is telling me to stick to the other stuff.

The stuff that takes me hours upon hours to write and research.

The stuff that gets very few comments, or feedback.

S0, that’s what I’m going to do, going forward, and we’ll see if my blog settles down again.

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Last week, the Rav made some very interesting comments that have a direct bearing on stuff that is getting censored here.

I’m bringing the first snippet below, watch out for the next one – then put them together, and see what you can figure out.

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Shiur given during Malaveh Malka, 29th Nissan 2025 (26th April, 2025)

[The Rav has previously been speaking of the high level of Nadav and Avihu, who were struck down by the altar when trying to bring a ‘strange fire’ before Hashem, and how they were greater than Moshe and Aaron. Then, the Rav starts speaking about when King David tried to bring the Ark of the Tabernacle up to Jerusalem, after it had been recaptured from the Philistines.]

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There was a problematic boy, he was called Uzza…

What happened to Uzza, do you remember? [Someone answers:] He died. [The Rav replies]: That’s correct.

So, the Gemara says in [Tractate] Sotah, that he got to ‘Goren Nachon’ – this is the Holy of Holies. He[1] approached the Holy of Holies, and the Ark wanted him to be stopped. He approached to the Kodesh Kodeshim.

After this, it took David another 37 years, until he revealed this.

Thirty-three years, until he…[text missing in original].

Seven years he was in Hebron. When he came to Jerusalem, he immediately brought the Ark from Kiryat Yearim – and suddenly, Uzza died.

(He used to learn in Shuvu Banim, I remember. He was a little problematic. So, he simply died on the spot.)…

All this, the Gemara recounts in Sotah 35b. Each person should read this when they get home.

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[Skipping a discussion about how King David made Jerusalem the Holy of Holies by uncovering the foundation stone, and almost drowned in the attempt, as he’d uncovered the tahom, the depths.]

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Shmuel II:6, 3-7:

“They placed the Ark of God upon a new wagon and carried it from the house of Avinadav, which was in Gibeah. Uzza and Ahio, the sons of Avinadav, guided the new wagon. They carried it from Avinadav’s house, which was in Gibeah, with the Ark of God, and Ahio walked in front of the Ark.

“David and the entire House of Israel were rejoicing before Hashem with all kinds of cypress-wood instruments – with harps, lyres, drums, timbrels and cymbals. They came to the threshing floor of Nachon (‘Goren Nachon]), and Uzzah reached out to the Ark of God and grasped it, for the oxen had dislodged it.

Hashem became angry at Uzza and God struck him there for the blunder; and Uzza died there by the Ark of God.”

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So, this is Shmuel I:6. It’s written that they brought the Ark of God.

Back then, all the Jews from Gibeah brought it, they brought it on a wagon. And ‘Ahio walked’, and also Uzza, and then the Ark shifted – the Ark simply bounced out of the wagon, and wanted to alight on the ground, on the floor.

This was the Kodesh Kodeshim, ‘Goren Nachon’.

“[A]nd Uzzah reached out to the Ark of God and grasped it.” He thought that the Ark was falling.

As soon as he touched it – he died on the spot.

He was electrocuted.

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And that’s why I always say about [Tractate] Hagigah 13 – don’t learn this page!

Because the two were electrocuted, there.[2]

Whoever knows how to cut off the electricity – they can learn. So, the two were electrocuted, and the same thing [with Uzza], when he touched the Ark.

Straightaway, he died.

Translated from Shivivei Or, 406

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Given the Rav’s continuation, it appears that the Rav is saying that the Ark wanted King David to be stopped, from building the first Temple, but that David only understood this 37 years later, when he was told that the Temple would be built by his son, Shlomo.

[2] A reference to Nadav and Avihu.

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The last five days of blog posts have just ‘disappeared’ again…

All the evil AI stuff.

The post about the olive trees.

The stuff about hyehudi – it’s all just been ‘disappeared’.

I don’t know what’s going on, I don’t know if I can resolve this, but it seems the censorship is going from ‘hidden’ to ‘blatant’ – and I’m not sure how I can keep the blog going, if they are just making the posts disappear like this.

I will think about things over Shabbat, as it’s all from God, at the end of the day.

Maybe something different is required.

Either a pause, or a break – or a move to Substack, although I’m not sure if that would be better.

We’ll see.

Shabbat shalom.

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Some thoughts on olive trees

First, if you haven’t already, go and look at this:

Olive trees burning weirdly from the inside

It’s on Chananya’s latest substack, where he shares a strange video of some of the olive trees that ‘caught fire’ yesterday, in our strange fire in the Judean Hills.

Next, take a look at this:

It’s a simple, shmirat eynayim friendly video, showing how a microwave transformer can easily and quickly burn a chunk of wood.

From the inside out.

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Next, go back and take another look at the first video of the olive trees burning.

What do you notice?

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Because of all the censorship, this stuff has to be discussed in a very circumspect way.

My views are: someone is trying to pressure our precious little patch of land into doing something that is not in our best interests.

At all.

Think property ‘deal of the century’, and you will probably be getting quite warm.

We don’t know why the same patch of forest by Bet Shemesh keeps spontaneously combusting…

But the people who are spontaneously combusting it, know exactly why they are putting the emphasis there, and not anywhere else.

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If you’re having trouble following, Dr Evil can help us out (shmirat eynayim friendly):

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To sum up: no ‘Independence’ in Israel, on Independence Day, as the fires took out all the official ceremonies, where our puppets get to congratulate themselves on what a fantastic job they are doing.

There a ‘deal of the century’ on the table, that is probably really bad news for the Jews.

There’s an unusual power black-out all across the Iberian Peninsula just as all this is going on in Israel (because you know, this stuff takes a lot of juice to run…. Just ask Dr Evil.)

It seems to be a ‘smack across the wrist’ for a naughty boy, who isn’t doing what he’s being told to do – or can’t do what he’s being told to do.

Because if you can microwave an olive tree, you can also microwave a whole neighborhood – like we saw in the Pallisades and Maui.

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Lastly, remember what the Rav told us, that I posted up at the beginning of the week:

A decree of world-wide destruction

Snippets:

We don’t even have another second! Know, there is something here that is going to be a world-wide catastrophe, in every part of the globe!…

[T]he Jews are saying that there is some terrible catastrophe here, some sort of destruction of the world, they are going to destroy the whole of planet earth.

[T]here’s a catastrophe, world-wide destruction, they are going to destroy the whole of planet earth, who knows? They are firing a nuke or going to fire a nuke, who knows what is going to happen here, now?

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Personally, I am convinced there is no such thing as nukes.

But, everyone has a microwave oven in the kitchen.

Think for yourself.

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Can anyone find any news reports of arsonists who were convicted?

We keep hearing about ‘arab arsonists arrested’ yada yada yada.

But, I have NEVER heard of an arab arsonist being convicted for setting a fire in Israel – which is kind of strange, given just how many of these weird fires there have been in recent years.

So, I’m putting it out there – can you please send me any stories you find about arab arsonists being CONVICTED in Israel for setting fires, over the last 5-6 years?

If they exist, they must have been reported somewhere.

Thankenchou.

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The experiment

Well, something mighty strange is going on with my site.

Three days ago, I put up a post called: AI Summoning the Demon.

I can still see that post from my browser, but nobody else can.

What’s more, when I went in to edit that post, this is what I saw:

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This is what I refer to as a ‘white-out’.

I have experienced this quite a bit in the past, usually with F ists, Sa ba ns and of course, those people who believe a dead guy is moshiach (the most recent bunch to make that claim…)

So, let’s try the experiment, and see if that post got whited out because I mentioned one of the above as using AI to ‘summon the demon’, literally, OR, because I stated that AI can turn your keyboard into a ouija board and connect you straight up to evil spirits (if that’s your intention).

Don’t forget, people always ‘summon demons’ and evil spirits to try and tell them stuff they don’t know by themselves, and could never know by themselves, in a billion years.

That’s the whole attraction.

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I have screenshots of that previous post (minus the reference to the people who believe a dead guy is moshiach) that I can still see, so let’s put them up here, and you tell me if you can read it, and still this tomorrow:

 

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What else is happening on my site is that comments I accepted in the past are being deleted from the back end – and not by me.

I just noticed now, that certain commentators are being automatically ‘deleted’ as soon as I accept their comments – including HaIsh…

I’ve asked my tech guy to take a look, but I really don’t know if I can resolve this.

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As I’ve been telling you for years, I started hitting a whole wall of censorship and more as soon as I started writing about the Rav being innocent, and stitched up by the State.

When you see gag order upon gag order being put on a subject being discussed by the State- assume guilt, instead of innocence. I really don’t think you can go wrong.

And when you see the State chasing someone all over the world, putting one smear story up after another, non-stop, editing videos (badly….) to literally put words into a person’s mouth they didn’t say, and also, going after anyone who tries to speak up for that person – assume innocence, instead of guilt.

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On that note, apparently the hyehudi site – run by someone who is totally anonymous, and who goes to great lengths to stay totally anonymous – just did another hit piece on someone who is pro Rav Berland and doing a very good job of sharing authentic Breslov teachings, namely:

THE SHOEMAKER REPORT.

If you haven’t checked out their site yet, please do.

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On the one hand, it’s the Rav’s path to get huge amounts of bizayon and dissing, particularly if you are trying to be ‘out there’ in any way.

Because there is so much danger in becoming arrogant, and thinking you know stuff more than someone else.

So, on the one hand, I truly believe Rabbenu and the Rav ensure a person gets dissed and bizzed by the lowlifes of the world, to keep them humble and in a good space, spiritually.

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On the other hand – the people doing that dissing and bizzing are usually the scum of the earth.

I brought you the quote from Rabbenu a while back, where he said that the people who go against the Tzaddikim like this are usual s*xual transgressors.

Given all the sabb te ans who infiltrated our community 350 years ago, with all their little weird wife-swapping rituals, incest practices and pedophilia – you can make your own mind up, which sort of person would be compelled to ‘have a go’ at the Rav so much, that they even widen their net to ‘have a go’ at anyone who so much as mentions him in a positive light.

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If anyone knows who is writing the hit pieces on the hyehudi site, PLEASE DO email me and let me know.

Let’s lift the veil, and find out what’s motivating that fine, upstanding person to chollek, constantly and viciously, against Rav Berland.

So many of the people who have publically done that – and who can’t now be named, because of gag orders upon gag orders – are being investigated and called out for the most despicable crimes and perversions, including against their own children….

Of course, if someone is anonymous, it’s much harder to find out the true moral calibre of the person writing the hit pieces against the Rav.

Probably, that’s the whole point.

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UPDATE:

Well, I’ve got some info from two different people, who is really behind the hyehudi.org website.

Here’s some clues: his initials are A. G. and he seems to own a furniture business operating out of Moldova.

I have a bit more info than that, as his surname is pretty unusual, and shared by someone else who writes a lot.

With a bit of effort…. we could get the nut to crack fairly easily, I think. Right now, I can’t be bothered.

But if he writes ONE MORE HIT PIECE against people who are Rav-friendly, I could easily change my mind.

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BTW, here’s who else he has writing for his site – none other than the main detractor of the Rav within Meah Shearim, who has been comparing the Rav to ‘Shabtai Tzvi’ for years:

https://www.hyehudi.org/category/rabbi-yom-tov-cheshin/

In fact, it was this strange comparison with ‘Shabtai Tzvi’ – who a decade ago, when all this started up, I’d not really researched in any way, shape or form – that first got me thinking about how the notion that the ‘Tzaddik is just a mirror’ was applying to this obsession with calling the Rav a neo ‘Shabtai Tzvi’.

12 years on….. I have a whole thesis on that.

And about all the yucky people who took over our community, so many of whom spread out from one particular family who have their name and fingerprints all over this….

But there’s better things to do than re-hash all this again today.

(At least, today…. I might have more time to do that another day 😉

Birds of a feather flock together.

Sabbateans marry each other.

And as to what all that means, tachlis, in connection with the Rav just being a mirror for a person’s own soul and deeds – I will let you determine for yourself.

 

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