Baruch Hashem, just got back from Uman.

All told, it takes about 15 hours door-to-door, to get to Uman at the moment.

An hour to Ben Gurion…three hours check in…three hours flight…an hour in Chisinau airport figuring out the taxi to get across the border with Ukraine…6-8 hours in a taxi, depending on how long the border takes…

And whether you are driving before 5am in the Ukraine, when there is officially still a curfew.

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Why would a person do all this?

Again and again?

Really, you have to go to understand it yourself.

But let’s see if I can explain why I went this time.

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Long story short, I’ve been having a hard time the last weeks, in myself, and I needed some strength, emuna-recharging, and a ‘derech’ for where I go from here.

I will try to write more stuff up this week, but one of the big insights I got this visit was the importance of having a routine, in this time of increased chaos.

You know, like you ‘make yourself’ do hitbodedut for an hour a day, you ‘make yourself’ exercise twice a week, you ‘make yourself’ cook a nice supper on a wednesday… whatever it is.

But it’s these elements of ‘routine’ that help the mind calm down, and to feel more anchored in what can be a very disorientating world.

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Another insight I got, is that life is still pretty darned good, for most of us.

Just, it’s our own attitude problem that makes life so bitter and hard.

I really came back to appreciating that path of simple emuna, set out by Rebbe Nachman, where he basically says sleep on the floor, and eat bread with salt!

Everything else is a plus…

Or perhaps, everything else is actually even a minus…

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Another great reason to go to Uman is because it makes you so grateful to be back in Israel when you return.

I saw no sun today, at all, because the sky was just one big grey mass.

(Except this morning, when both me and my husband saw a very strange ‘ruby cloud’ in the pitch black, which we assumed was dawn, except it didn’t start at the horizon, lasted for a couple of hours, and was surrounded by a whole bunch of ‘black’ both above and below. It was pretty weird, I have to say.)

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And many, many people get open miracles when they go to Uman to pray.

I know I’ve had that in the past, and I could see there were a few ‘newcomers’ by the Tzion who were also getting some open miracles there.

Me personally, it was more of a quiet trip this time.

Not dramatic, not really the big story to tell this time.

We even got to the airport an hour early for check-in, which is the first time that has ever, ever happened, coming back from Uman.

I went for some peace of mind, and Rabbenu explained quite a few of the things I have been doing to myself, that have been preventing that from happening.

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I will write more tomorrow, BH.

But, back home, happy to be in Israel, understanding ‘airport travel’ is totally overrated, no matter where you are headed, and have a lot of food for thought to share here on the blog, hopefully this week.

Baruch Hashem, to be a Jew living in Israel.

Even with all the madness, we are still so very lucky to be here.

In so many ways.

Or…

What we saw in Israel over the last year was NOT ‘Iranian bombs’.

Take a look a these videos, from October 29, 2025 – last week:

@.dilanyesith Cometa Atlas 31 atravesando Riohacha la Guajira #atlas #astrologia #astrology #nasa ♬ original sound – DOSKYPLAY

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And this one looks even more ‘familiar’, from HERE – meant to be over Ecuador:

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Is ‘Iran’ bombing Ecuador now, just they forgot to mention it?

Or is something else going on?

I just got sent this by my friend on the Shuvu Whatsapp group:

It’s a picture of the Rav ‘overseeing’ the Million Man March near Kiryat Moshe, last Thursday.

I was kinda surprised, honestly, that the Rav chose to participate, as that has generally not at all been the Rav’s path.

However, I got sent a new piece of information this morning, that started to paint things in a different light. Here’s what it said, from one of the Rav’s gabbaim:

The Rav was there to cancel the decree of suicide and death of Jews gathering at the atzeret.

Suicide and death of Jews?!

I mean, I’d heard about the ‘suicide’ of Menachem Mendel Litzman, the Chabad bochur from Tsfat, or Korea, who was 15 / 17 /20 who had apparently jumped from a tall building at the atzeret and killed himself, God should have mercy…

Was there a plan for more of those types of things to be happening last Thursday, lo alenu?

Like, in an ‘agent provacateur’ kind of way, where ‘bad actors’ make it seem like the whole of the chareidi world are just violent hoodlums, or something gets kicked off that results in a lot of people getting hurt, God forbid?

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Me being me, I went to look up more details about that suicide.

Perhaps it’s just me, but I can find absolutely no record of the levaya. He was meant to have been a pupil at the The Hasidic Institute of Technology, a Chabad boarding school in Tsfat.

I don’t know if 20 year olds go to Chabad boarding schools, still, but there appears to be a great deal of confusion about his age.

Next, I went to the Daniel Amram channel, who had two videos of what apparently happened, plus a strange interview with a classmate, who said that he’d been bullied prior to his death.

You can watch that yourself, in Hebrew, HERE.

Here’s a screenshot of some of the comments beneath it that caught my eye:

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I’m not saying anything was ‘staged’ btw.

Just sharing information that is a little peculiar, about a very sad event.

Here’s another strange thing:

From the video of him falling, you can clearly see that he fell out the building backwards.

And not only that, he didn’t ‘jump’.

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The other video that Amram posted up, which claimed to show where he landed, apparently taken from the same building he fell from, actually shows 4-5 orange vested mada guys standing around a guy in white shirt and black trousers – who then gets up and walks away.

I don’t look at this stuff on a phone, I blow it up large on a PC and go frame-by-frame.

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This is how the MSM portrayed the Million Man March, snippet from HERE:

Some 200,000 ultra-Orthodox men blocked the entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon for a “million man” protest against military conscription. The gathering saw protesters attack journalists, and hundreds clashed with police as the event came to an end.

A 20-year-old man fell to his death from an unfinished high-rise building in the city center, where several ultra-Orthodox youths had gathered on several floors. Police later said they were investigating the death as a possible suicide.

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My friend lives in Kiryat Moshe, right next to where all this was taking place.

She watched it all happening around her, and she told me the crowd gathered to say slichot, in both Ashkenazi and Sefardi versions, and to recite psalms, and seemed to be very peaceful.

She didn’t see anyone clashing with police, or ‘attacking journalists’, although she said apparently one of the fake news channels had footage of a female reporter (of course!) apparently having stuff thrown at her.

She had a good feeling about the event, generally, that so many frum Jews actually came together, and prayed, en masse.

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Truthfully, I also did.

Until my daughter, who is still way too plugged in to the MSM, started ranting about all the people dying from falling off buildings and being hurt, and how come they are demonstrating instead of learning Torah?! It’s such a chillul Hashem!!!

So then, I decided to keep shtum, because right now I’m sick of arguing with people about anything.

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Bottom line: the Rav was ‘protecting’ the people who participated in the event, and Baruch Hashem, because it really passed off so quietly, when there were so many people in such a small space, and so many ‘bad actors’ hoping to stir things up in someway.

Ashrenu, that we have genuine tzaddikim still, in our generation.

All the people who publically go against the Rav, or Breslov generally (if they are outside of Breslov) – you see they all get unmasked for who and what they really are, eventually.

Another ‘big name’ just got taken down… (if you know what I’m talking about, you know, and if not, you probably don’t need me to tell you.)

It’s good progress, in terms of God starting to clean the house of all the hypocrites, adulterers and crooks who claim to be ‘leading’ us.

BH, there will be even more house-cleaning to look forward to.