I’m having a break from the blog for a few days.
Be back in a week or two, BH.
I remembered this old article from Politico, written in April 2017.
Amazingly, it’s still up. For now.
You can find it HERE.
It’s entitled:
The-Happy-Go-Lucky-Jewish-Group-That-Connects-Trump-To-Putin
And most of those connections are happening around multi-million dollar real estate projects… just like what Kushner and Witkoff are planning for Gaza.
Go read it yourselves, now that we’ve established that the tov she be’esav is probably the biggest swamp creature of all, it makes very enlightening reading.
As usual, all hidden in plain view, for the best part of a decade.
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UPDATE:
So now, I went on an ‘old news stories from 2016-2017’ spree, and my oh my, what a lot of enlightening information is turning up, when we take off the blinders and see through all the 8-D chess psy-ops about the tov she be’esav.
THIS old article links to tens of old headlines about Trump, and Kushner, and ‘the Russians’ – and the connecting material between them…
Here are a few old articles I highly recommend re-reading:
Snippet:
Rabbi Hillel Weiss, spokesman for the Sanhedrin, contacted Breaking Israel News to announce that the election of Trump, who has promised to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, coupled with Putin’s expressed desire for the Temple to be rebuilt, prompted the Jewish court to send a letter offering the two the opportunity to act as modern-day Cyrus figures: non-Jewish kings who recognize the importance of Israel and the Temple.
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Or this:
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Or this:
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I could carry on for hours….
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UPDATE 2:
Did you know that Trump gave a shout out to his ‘kabbalah teacher’, Eitan Yardeni, in his book The Way to the Top?
Screenshot:
No, I also didn’t know that.
Yardeni is a member of Berg’s Kabbalah Center, here’s his page: https://onehouse.kabbalah.com/en/people/eitan-yardeni/
This is getting weirder and weirder.
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In the meantime, HERE is where you can find a ‘CrownHeights’ official response to that Politico piece:
Snippet:
Politico took great pains to tie the Chabad movement to Putin, and in so doing, omits a few fairly crucial points that could have been fleshed out by actually speaking with a representative of the movement (this guy might have been a good person to start with). While there are outposts of the movement in Russia, there also exist outposts everywhere else in the world. Their emissaries, called schulchim, are technically titled “messengers” because they talk to anyone, anywhere, in an attempt to spread Judaism to Jews in far-flung corners of the Earth.
Chabad’s history in the former USSR is filled with persecution, arrest, and exile. To survive anywhere, but especially in a land as hostile to Jews as Russia is, it’s no wonder the group has worked hard to remain in the government’s good graces.
Blind to the blatant anti-Semitic tropes it trotted out, Politico then paints the movement as a large, rich, tightly woven organization, a depiction straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
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Personally, I don’t think it’s anti-semitic to report provable facts linking certain people and organisations to dangerous mafias who work behind the scenes to sow terror and destruction for the average Joe, just so they can get more leverage, money, power – and of course, real estate.
Do you?
Tov, I will leave this here for now.
It seems, there is nothing new under the sun, especially when it comes to the Russian deep State.
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UPDATE 3: THE COLLIVE RESPONSE TO POLITICO
This is also very enlightening reading. Snippet:
Politico claims it’s the Chabad connections that cement the bond between Putin and Trump. But why stop there?
The article could have revealed the true depth of the Chassidic conspiracy. It didn’t mention the links between Chabad and the Democrats. Former Obama Chief of Staff Jack Lew, an observant Jew, attended the same synagogue that the Kushners do. Bernie Sanders‘ closest friend and college roommate is a Chabad Chassid, beard and all.
And what about Hollywood? Steven Spielberg dedicated a Chabad synagogue in LA, Beis Bezalel, in memory of his stepfather. His late mother was a member there. Mark Zuckerberg was caught dancing with the Chabad Rabbi at a Purim party in Harvard. It’s even at the New York Times! Tom Friedman recently attended the wedding of his niece in the Chassidic bastion of Crown Heights in Brooklyn.
If Politico had done the most basic fact checking it would have discovered that Chabad is unique amongst major Jewish groups — it never gets involved in politics.
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One of the comments gives a few more connections:
jack lew’s cousin is rabbi shmuel lew
Here’s a snippet about him, from HERE:
Rabbi Shmuel Lew is the senior Chabad emissary to London, England. Rabbi Lew spent many years with the Lubavitcher Rebbe and was present at many of the Chassidic gatherings during this time. Rabbi Lew and his family had a very close relationship with the Rebbitzen during her years in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This was a friendship enjoyed by very few people.
Well, talk about connected.
And of course, it’s totally obvious that Chabad ‘never gets involved in politics’.
Isn’t it?
So, some of the recent comments here got me thinking about the Cantonist Decrees in Russia.
I have barely looked into this subject before, although Rebbe Nachman spoke a great deal about these decrees, which were first mooted by Tsar Alexander I in 1803.
Alexander I is a very interesting character.
He was complicit in the murder of his own father, Tzar Paul, who is the guy who had the Alter Rebbe arrested twice. The second time, the Alter Rebbe was released from prison because Paul was murdered in a palace coup, and then Alexander I – an ‘enlightened freemason’ – came to the throne. As Chabad tells the story, he took a liking to the Alter Rebbe, pardoned him fully, honoured him tremendously – and then the Alter Rebbe ‘repaid the favour’ by putting his vast network of chossids at the service of the Tzar and his secret police, in the subsequent war against Napoleon.
Or to put this into plain English, the ‘Badd went to work as spies for the Russian deep state, that was seeking to ‘de-judaize’ and convert its Jews.
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Go HERE to see the ‘Badd site that tells this story of the spy Moshe Meisels.
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In the meantime, while the Alter Rebbe was sucking up to Alexander I, the Tzar himself got disillusioned with freemasonry, Napoleon-style, and then had an ‘evangelical conversion experience’ that had him reading his bible with Prince Galitzin, and working with English missionaries like Lewis Way, and seperately the Quakers to a) mass convert his Russian Jews ahead of b) ‘restoring’ the Jews to Eretz Yisrael.
The British evangelical missionaries were hailing Alexander I as the ‘Cyrus’ who was going to mass convert the Jews ahead of leading them back to their ancestral homeland, that was the ‘plan’.
But then, Alexander got soured on the evangelicals too, after their agents fomented the Greek war of independence in 1821, which was meant to bring Russia into conflict with Turkey – and wrest Eretz Yisrael from the grasp of the Ottoman empire, ready for Jewish resettlement and ‘the second coming’.
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Long story short: Alexander I was sickened by war at this point, and refused to play ball.
He kept Russia out of the Greek war, much to the upset of the Evangelicals in Britain and Europe, and then decided to ‘fake his own death’ a few years later, so he could go and live as a Russian Orthodox monk.
This is the guy that the Alter Rebbe of ‘Badd got very close to, and spied for, and I am still trying to unpick what all this actually means, tachlis.
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So now, it was Alexander I’s plan, when he was still an ‘enlightened freemason’ of the Napoleon type, to force the Jews into the Russian army, in order to de-judaize them.
(Does this sound familiar?)
That plan was put forward in 1803 – and that’s when Rabbenu, Rebbe Nachman, started warning very loudly about what was going on, and made a huge effort, spiritually, to get the Cantonist Decree cancelled.
Let’s pick up what R Natan tells us, in Tzaddik, the BRI translation of Chayei Moharan, #127:
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(R’ Natan is giving the background to lesson I:5 in Likutey Moharan, which Rabbenu gave over on Rosh Hashana, 5563 (1802):)
At the time there were rumours about the decrees being mooted against the Jews – which have now materialised – namely to draft Jews into the Russian army.
There was talk of starting this then. Indeed, the possibility had been raised even in the time of Polish rule, prior to the conquest of our region [the Ukraine, White Russia and Lithuania – the Jewish Pale of Settlement 1793-1795] by the Czar.
In the initial period of Russian rule the matter was laid to rest for a while, but afterwards it was revived, and there were no reports that they wanted to impose the so-called punkten.
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It was then that the Rebbe gave this teaching, beginning with how each person must say that the world was only created for his sake, and how every person must endeavour to make up the deficiencies of the world, praying on its behalf – i.e. before the decree. This is an allusion to the decrees then being mooted….
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[T]he Rebbe worked very much that year to sweeten the harsh judgement and his prayers were successful in deferring the decree. It did not come into effect until sixteen years after his death [i.e. in 1826].
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Now, let’s pick a bit more info up, from Tzaddik #398:
It was during Rabbi Nachman’s lifetime that the decrees the Russian government was later to impose against the Jews first came under consideration. I heard that once the Rebbe referred to the rumours and said he might have been able to find some means of annulling the decrees, but what could he do, since there were others who would not agree with him… [he could not succeed] “because he lacked support.”
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Over in His Wisdom, the BRI translation of Sichot HaRan, #131, we learn a little more:
The lesson begins by stating that when there are decrees against the Jews, they can be mitigated by dancing and clapping.
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In footnote #217 on that page, we got more real, historical information, about what ‘decrees’ Rabbenu was referring to, specifically:
This was the Ukase issued by Alexander I on October 9, 1902, to draft a set of regulations called ‘Enactments Concerning Jews.” In Yiddish, these enactments were called ‘Punkten’.
They included outlines of the future compulsory conscription laws that would decimate many Jewish communities, as well as regulations regarding compulsory secular education.
The Rebbe considered the latter section the worst possible decree, saying it would destroy future generations of Jews.
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Ad kan, from Breslov teachings, where we learn that Alexander I issued the ukase for this back in 1802, already, and that Rabbenu was warning about it, but couldn’t get others to support him to cancel the decree entirely, so he only managed to push it off for 25 years, instead of totally uprooting it.
Who are these ‘others’, Rabbenu is referring to?
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While you are pondering that, let’s get back to understanding what was really going on, when the Cantonist Decree was finally implemented, when Tzar Nicholas I, Alexander’s brother, ascended the throne in 1826.
There is a very good write-up HERE, on the Jewishhistory.org site, I highly advise taking a moment to read it all.
For those short on time, here are the main ideas, and a few snippets:
- Each Jewish community had to fill a ‘quota’ of Jewish children for the Russian Army.
- The rich Jews bribed the Russian officials to leave their kids alone – and most of those ‘rich Jews’ were the religious establishment, i.e. the rabbis and community leaders.
- The poor Jews had no defense, and no-one helping them to avoid the draft.
- Jewish kids were literally snatched off the streets – but NOT by Russians.
- An underclass of Jews called ‘chappers’ emerged, who were working for the Russian government, kidnapping Jewish children off the streets and informing on their whereabouts to the Russian deep state.
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Snippet:
Now, most of the establishment people were religiously observant.
Therefore, the poor families whose children were taken away developed hatred toward the people who ran the community, and eventually a hatred of the religion itself. Many great rabbis resigned their positions and left town because they could not bear to watch what was happening. Many great rabbis were driven from their towns because they spoke up against the injustices being done. And many just remained quiet.
Among other terrible outcomes, this created a Jewish underworld. The chappers were Jews. Many times they were also killed by other Jews.
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What was the Mitteler Rebbe doing, when all this was going on?
That’s a great question.
The answer is: nothing, because he died on 16 November 1827.
A couple of years before that, the Mitteler Rebbe launched trade schools, to help ‘re-educate’ the Jews in the Pale of Settlement, and make them good, productive Russian citizens, in line with the wishes of the Tzars.
(Snippet from his Wiki page, HERE🙂
In 1815, with government permission and sponsorship, he set up Jewish agricultural colonies.
Bold emphasis is mine.
Those colonies were in Kherson. Another time, I’ll bring you some contemporary quotes about what was happening there, but basically, the mortality rate in these ‘agricultural colonies’ was so bad, the Tzar himself called off the experiment, because so many Jews died and became terminally ill there, the Russian authorities feared that an outbreak of plague would spread to the non-Jews in the area.
You won’t hear a word about that from Badd sources, of course, who like to stress how much help and financial support the Mitteler Rebbe was giving these ‘Jewish agricultural colonies’.
The point for this post, is that we have clear evidence, once again, that the Mitteler Rebbe was working directly for the Russian Tzar, still Alexander I in 1815, to try and ‘re-educate’ Jews, and get them ready for being shipped out to the Holy Land, as per the evangelical plan.
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Let’s get back to the Cantonist Decrees, that begin in 1826.
The Mitteler Rebbe dies in 1827, so he can be forgiven for not doing more to help the Russian Jews.
Just at this crucial point – there is apparently NO Chabad leader, or leadership, organised to help the Russian Jews, for the next four years. Snippet from the Tzemach Tzedek‘s Wiki page:
After his father-in-law/uncle’s death, and a three-year interregnum during which he tried to persuade the Hasidim to accept his brother-in-law Menachem-Nachum Schneuri or his uncle Chaim-Avraham as their leader,[1] he assumed the leadership of Lubavitch on the eve of Shavuot 5591 (May 5, 1831, OS)
Once this is put back into historical context, we start to understand a bit more why there was such reluctance to ‘take over’ as leader of the ‘Badd movement, dafka, at this point.
The Cantonist Decrees were in full swing, and the ‘leaders of the Jewish community’ were more concerned with saving their owns skins, and their own families, than trying to help their fellow Jews.
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On his Wiki page, it says that this, about the Tzemach Tzedek’s ‘help’ for the Jews affected by the Cantonist decrees:
His close friendship with Professor J Berstenson, the Czar‘s court physician, often helped the delicate negotiations relating to the welfare of the community.[1] He set up an organisation called Hevras Techiyas Hameisim to assist Jewish boy-soldiers who were being recruited and converted to Christianity by the Russian army. These soldiers known as Cantonists were taken away from the Jewish community to other villages. Schneersohn arranged for his students to pay them regular visits to keep up their spirits and discourage them from converting.[1]
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As usual with Chabad ‘history’, I can find absolutely no trace of this ‘Professor J. Berstenson’ who is meant to be the Czar’s court physician.
If the guy existed at all, in reality, that wasn’t his real name. I am very happy for someone to send me real details of this guy, who surely should have left a trace in history, even under a different name, as the ‘Czar’s court physician’.
In the meantime, if we can’t find him – we can’t accept the rest of the story as based on reality.
(Even if we CAN find him, stop for a moment and consider just how much pull this court physician would actually have, with antisemitic Russian monarchs and their even more antisemitic nobles, who believed it was a religious duty to get the Jews either converted, or totally out of Russia. Does this story sound credible to you, that the Tzar would give ‘badd schluchim permission to visit his army camps, to keep his ‘Jewish soldiers’ from converting, when that was the whole point?!)
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I went searching for more evidence of the ‘help’ the Tzemach Tzedek was meant to be giving the Cantonist Jews on the main ‘Badd site, and got to this very interesting letter, HERE.
It’s meant to be clear evidence of the Tzemach Tzedek’s huge underground network to ‘help the Jews’ in Russia – but actually, it’s just a fundraising letter.
UPDATE: Now I’ve gone through the letter in detail, it has no obvious connection, at all, with the Cantonist decrees, other than the Rebbe Rayatz telling us that, with no external proof at all.
The Rebbe Rayatz re-wrote most of the ‘Badd history, to make ‘Badd sound like they were fighting the Russian government the whole time, in secret, whilst being given honorary citizenship, financial sponsorship and tracts of land.
You tell me: how does this really go together?
Would any totalitarian government intent on converting and crushing its Jewish population give it’s leading rabbis and ‘freedom fighters’ all these honours and privileges?
Unless those rabbis and ‘freedom fighters’ were actually working for the deep State, as some sort of ‘puppet leaders’ to keep tabs on the Jews and mislead them into doing all sorts of things that the State actually wanted?
(Does this sound familiar?)
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Bottom line: the Tzemach Tzedek did bubkiss for the Cantonists, despite all the ‘badd bubbe meises that are basically fairy tales that have no historical basis, when you try to stand them up, even a little bit.
The most we can say is that he sent people to fundraise the money for bribes, to try to free some of the Jewish kids.
But, from that article above, we already know that:
Wealthy Jews of the towns, even if their children were taken, would bribe the Russian officials to have their children released.
That is all this letter from the Tzemach Tzedek actually demonstrates, in reality.
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One of the Rabbis who DID take active steps against the informers at this time, was the SAVRANER REBBE (main persecutor of R Natan, and very possibly one and the same as Israel of Ruzhin).
He got thrown into a Russian jail for a couple of years, and in the Savran version of the story, he died in jail.
(In the Ruzhin version of the story, he got smuggled out of prison after paying massive bribes, and went to live in Moldova with the new identity of ‘R Israel of Ruzhin..)
Only the ‘Badd rebbes ever ‘skated’ out of Russian jails – and then, got given honours, privileges and tracts of land.
Why do you think that was?
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OK, let’s sum up what we learned in this post:
- The Alter Rebbe was working for Alexander I, using his chossidim to spy for the Tzar, Alexander I, and did nothing to oppose the punkten decrees, spiritually or otherwise.
- After his death, his son, the Mitteler Rebbe, also went to work for that same Tzar, Alexander I, and recieved Russian state sponsorship to ‘encourage’ Jews to resettle in agricultural colonies in Kherson, beginning 1815, where most of the Jewish settlers died from plague and starvation, in really horrible circumstances.
- The Mitteler Rebbe died in 1827, and no new ‘rebbe’ was appointed for four years, because no-one wanted to be in the frame for taking responsibility for the Jewish community at a time when the Jewish leaders were having their families deported to Siberia, if they didn’t help the Russians implement the Cantonist decrees.
- When the Tzemach Tzedek finally took over in 1831, he kept a low profile and did absolutely nothing to ‘resist’ the Tzar’s decrees – except, perhaps, fundraise for wealthy members of the Jewish community to bribe Russian officials to not take their kids, as described above.
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The next question to answer, is was the Tzemach Tzedek also secretly working for the Russian deep state?
BH, we will come back to that topic again.
In the meantime, please send me any details you find of the Jewish physician called ‘Professor J. Berstenson’, even if that was not his real name.
Tzar Nicholas I ruled between 1826-1855.
He was followed by his son, Alexander II, from 1855-1881.
The Tzemach Tzedek died in 1866.
That’s our time frame, to try and find any trace of ‘Professor J. Berstenson’, the Tzar’s Jewish physician.
TBC
Baruch Hashem, I made it to the prayer gathering yesterday.
It was very good to be there, but the Rav unfortunately couldn’t come to join, as was advertised, because he is currently unwell again, and is in the middle of a course of 50 daily treatments for his condition at the hospital.
How the Rav stands up for hours and hours, in cold, rain, wind, heat, outside on his mirpeset during the evening prayers is something truly astounding.
But I would say a couple of thousand people came, and recited the 7 Tikkun Haklalis at the Me’arat HaMachpela.
That has to be a good thing, and BH, the prayers will help ‘sweeten’ whatever else is going on at the moment.
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I go through cycles of trying to go totally ‘cold turkey’ on the news, even the two sources of information I still look at, because as things progress, the lies being told are just so big, and so obvious, they can totally ruin my day before it’s even begun.
The truth comes from within a person’s heart, within a person’s soul.
And it’s really a fool’s game, to keep trying to ‘persuade’ soul-dead morons into challenging even some of the lies we’re all being told.
That’s true of everything – but doubly true about any discussion about making aliya, or making real teshuva.
At the end of the day, a person is led on the path they want to walk on.
If a person wants to stay stuck in their lies, there is absolutely no piece of information, no argument, no overwhelming fact, that can change their mind.
That’s the bottom line.
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So, how do we ‘get out of Chelm’ in our own dalet amot, how do we start to see what’s true and what isn’t, tachlis?
The answer is: an hour a day of hitbodedut.
And if an hour is too much to start with, start with a minute, five minutes, ten minutes, every single day but start, already!
Our time, our energy, is so precious.
We spend hours and hours ‘doom scrolling’ through internet crud that is nearly all concocted and scripted and staged (clearly, I’m talking about the ‘news’)… and then hours and hours more engaging with pointless speculation, to try and quell that uneasy feeling in the soul that ‘we’re being lied to, what’s really going on?’
The shortcut to clarity is to do hitbodedut.
And to just ask God, to show us what we need to be thinking about, focussing on, understanding.
God will give the answers, if a person keeps on sincerely asking for clarity.
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For example, all this research into the ‘Badd – do you know how many times I go into hitbodedut and I’m really asking God what He wants from me with all this, because so often my personal inclination is to let sleeping dogs lies.
As outlined above, you can’t win arguments with soul-dead morons, no matter how much good information and archival documentation you might have.
So, why should I just carry on upsetting soul-dead morons by dragging skeletons out of 200 year old cupboards?
What’s the point, the tachlis, the positive outcome, from this?
In my hitbodedut, I keep getting the message: continue, and don’t give up.
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Last week, before the first night of Chanuka, I started reading the scholarly book on the Alter Rebbe, that one of my readers managed to track down and send me (thanks!)
It was Friday night, and suddenly, I started to feel like I was going to throw up.
I went to bed, started to do some serious hitbodedut about what was going on, because I felt it was connected to that Alter Rebbe book.
Long story short – I had the distinct feeling I was under attack from the Alter Rebbe of ‘Badd, and that only Rabbenu, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, could save me.
I asked my husband to stick that Alter Rebbe book in a large copy of the Likutey Moharan – and within five minutes, I felt way way better.
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So now, I did some more hitbodedut on what all this meant.
Clearly, it meant I should forget about that book and just carry on doing other stuff with myself.
Right?
Apparently not right.
In hitbodedut, I just got the same message over and over again: proceed with the research, but tread very carefully, as you dealing with things that are really evil.
I was kinda surprised myself, to be honest, at how ‘vehement’ this message was.
Sure, there’s a lot of mishandling funds, financial deception, ties to Frankists, Sabbatean theology that hasn’t been ‘rectified’, spying for the deep state, ties to the Catholic and Russian Orthodox church, ties to the evangelicals – but ‘evil’?!
That’s very strong language.
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The next day, what happened, happened.
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I am talking to God about this all the time.
I am trying to figure out what He wants me to do.
It could be, my own biases are still tripping me up, even so, that’s very possible.
Unlike a lot of the people who like to comment here, or send me holier-than-thou emails, I am not pretending to be a tzaddik, or anything approaching one.
And I can guarantee, that my critics are not doing hitbodedut themselves, because if they were, they’d at least be phrasing their criticisms with a tad more humility and self-awareness.
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So, this is where we’re up to.
About to dive back into to another ‘saga from Chelm’, whether it’s ‘Covid 25’, more ‘war with Iran’, more ‘false messiahs’ – it’s all just on a loop, that goes round and round and round again, giving more people the chance to finally wake up, realise what’s true and what isn’t, and make the changes, the teshuva, God is requiring of them, to step into the world of truth.
A lot of people are not going to manage that transition, it seems.
I hope that I’m going to manage it, there are no guarantees here for any of us.
All I have going for me is my efforts to try to stay connected to real tzaddikim, the True Tzaddikim, especially Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, and Rav Berland.
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But that counts for everything.
Continuing on with our occasional posts about the Rebbe’s ‘chossidim’…
Remember, we learned a little while back that ‘false leaders’ are so good at fooling the public, that the only way to really spot who is real and who is fake is by looking at their students, their chossidim, to see what calibre of person is attracted to that particular ‘Rebbe’.
After we saw the Chossid Mamdani show up by Menachem Mendel’s kever in Queens – and who wouldn’t want such a chossid as this?! – this week, we now have ‘Bibi the Chossid’:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419690
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Bibi has been a chossid for many, many years already.
In fact, whenever you see our anti-Torah, anti-Judaism politicians in this country doing ‘something Jewish’, that tends to be as a photoshoot in Kfar ‘Badd – regardless of which side of the political spectrum that anti-Torah, anti-Judaism politician is meant to be on.
They all suck up to the ‘Badd, and to the Rebbe.
Possibly, this has something to do with the fact that nearly every big mover and shaker in the State of Israel seems to descend from the Alter Rebbe…
You know, it’s just one big happy family.
Plus, a few honoured outsiders like Trump the Chossid and Mamdani the Chossid – and if we looked carefully, we could probably also find quite a few of the Rebbe’s chossidim hanging out in Australia’s political network, too.
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As someone who used to work for ‘government’, I can tell you it takes a long time to make decisions.
It takes weeks and weeks and weeks, to make ‘decisions’, especially far-reaching decisions about whether ‘the government’ should be sponsoring special days or events for controversial minority groups.
That sort of ‘decision’ would be debated for many weeks, if not months, if not years.
There would be many voices against something like this, because it could ‘alienate’ other segments of society, pour fuel on the flames of sectarian divides, give the impression that the government is working in tandem with a particular group…
All stuff that any civil servant worth their salt, anywhere in the world, would expect to be debating fully for weeks and months, and even years.
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So imagine my surprise, when the New South Wales government put this up, less than three days after ‘Bondi Beach’:
One Mitzvah for Bondi | NSW Government
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This is not how ‘government’ works.
At least, not unless ‘government’ had prior knowledge and enough time to really plan this properly, right down to getting the website up with no glitches within 24 hours….
Of course, that’s only something an antisemite or conspiracy theorist would countenance, so the REAL explanation has to be that this was a massive ‘open miracle’ orchestrated by the dead guy in Queens who is meant to be walking back onto the world stage soon as ‘MOSHIACH’.
Right?
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I realised something this week, that many, many people are going to go down with whatever ship they are ideologically bound to.
Those ‘ships’. those shuls, they aren’t going to magically sprout wings and bring everyone to the Holy Land for the Moshiach.
If a person is stuck in the world of lies, and they don’t take some time to do some real, painful, searingly honest cheshbon hanefesh, the web of deceit just grows thicker, and darker, and heavier.
God keeps giving all of us chance after chance to get real, and to take a tiny step back towards being humble, honest, sincere Jews.
It’s a very painful, very difficult process, facing up to all the lies we tell ourselves, all the lies we were told by people we trusted, all the lies we are still living, every single day.
Covid 19 really accelerated that process, and punched a huge hole in the web of lies – for anyone willing to see it.
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Off the back of that, and off all the other deceits and frauds that have been perpetrated the last seven years, it has never been more possible to ‘leave the world of lies’ and start to be more truthful.
And at the same time – it’s also never been harder.
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So, many people are going to go down with the ship, the shul, the ‘lie’ they are living.
Sadly, that just seems to be how it is.
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PS: My blog is back under attack from ‘Belgium’ again, nearly 10,000 spam attacks in the last 48 hours.
I was trying to figure out why Belgium, of all places, each time I touch on some ‘badd stuff here.
What goes on in Belgium, that dafka there is where most of these bad spam attacks are coming from?
Answers on a postcard…
Shavua tov!
Just a quick one today, Zot Chanuka, when BH all the lies start to dissolve and the truth starts to really shine out.
There is this headline on YWN, two days after it appeared on the Daniel Amram Telegram channel. (Amram announced in a very small, quiet message a few months that he was going to work for the Israeli government. Judging by his recent content, there is no reason to believe that didn’t happen.)
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So, I slowed down the original video when it appeared on the Amram channel, popped out the screen, made it big on my PC.
What is shows, very clearly, is that the Arab who was run over runs into the road with his arm raised in ‘stone throwing position’.
Only in our olam hafuch would the media portray this as some evil hit-and-run by evil jooooos, who just keep trying to sneak into ancient, holy sites to Jews, to pray at the tomb of Yosef HaTzaddik.
I am not going to break this all down frame-by-frame – you can do that at home just as well as I can.
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Instead, understand how the MSM is manipulating you in the service of an anti-Jewish, anti-Torah agenda, that wants to put Shechem and Kever Yosef ‘off limits’ to Jewish visits again.
The Rav has been fighting against them for years and years and years, which is part of the reason he features so prominently in their MSM smears.
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How different would that video appear, if it was headlined more honestly, like this:
Brave Shuvu Banim followers attacked by stone-throwing terrorists in Shechem
Or, like this:
Rav Berland refuses to back down, says Jews have a right to visit their ancient holy sites in the Shomron, regardless of what the Americans say
Or, like this:
Flipping the narrative: traitorous government continues to portray stone-throwing terrorists as ‘the good guys’
Hopefully, you are starting to get the picture.
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Think for yourself.
While you still can.
More details when I have them, but Rav Berland is calling for a prayer gathering in Hevron on December 22nd.
The time: Starting 8pm.
The place: Me’arat HaMachpela.
The reason: Your guess is as good as mine, but I have lost count of the number of times the Rav has called prayer gatherings to ‘ward off’ some bad decree before we even know about it.
The other reason for the prayer gatherings is to try to ‘sweeten’ bad decrees that have already manifested, lo alenu, like the ‘Stabbing Intifada’ in Jerusalem a few years back, when the Rav said it would stop if 10,000 Jews gathered at the Me’arat HaMachpela to do 7 Tikkun Haklalis.
And, exactly as he said, it stopped to the day.
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What was interesting is that the Rav barely called for any prayer gatherings during the Gaza War.
I guess he already knew that was a massive decree, a tikkun, that would take the time it took, prayer gatherings or no.
So instead, he asked for a special Torah scroll to be written, and told us that the day the Torah scroll was ready and given to him, the war in Gaza would stop.
Again, to the day, that’s what happened.
All this stuff has been documented ‘live’ on the blog here, there is no funny business going back and rewriting history.
Or faking ‘history’, right from the start…
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So, it looks like something ‘big’ is brewing again, in my opinion, and the Rav is trying to ward it off.
The natural-resource-gobbling Evils have their eye on the oil fields in the Golan Heights now, as they had their eye on the gas fields off the Gaza coast.
Once you look at world events from the prism of ‘where are the natural resources, and who wants to exploit them’, all this starts to make far, far more sense.
Remember, we said years ago that Trump and his team of ‘businessmen’ had an eye on the Golan resources (remember ‘Trump Heights’?) and the Gaza gas fields.
They are just seeing which of their ‘puppet politicians’ will find it easier to sell their own people out and deliver the goods, without anyone noticing.
Al-Golani, or our own dear leader, who has served them so very faithfully for years and years, but now maybe doesn’t have the cred and power to carry on just giving away bits of Eretz Yisrael under the guise of more American-sponsored and orchestrated ‘war and peace’.
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So, 8pm, December 22nd, 2025, at Hevron.
That is this coming Monday night.
If you live abroad and can’t make it yourself, consider helping Shuvu Banim to sponsor a bus, to bring people in from around the country.
That stuff costs hundreds of thousands of shekels, and there are no slick ‘Go Fund Me‘ campaigns being set up for the Rav, within 10 seconds of ‘bad stuff happening’ that get millions in donations in less than 24 hours.
(Mamash, ask anyone who knows anything about crowdfunding, and they will explain to you just how very unusual all this is… And BTW, it’s also a super-great way of laundering funds, to make sure no one knows where exactly all that cash is coming from…)
Just a simple link, on a very simple site that has been under attack, in so many senses of the word, for years and years, which you can access here:
https://ravberland.com/en/donate
And may we just hear good news.
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PS: Here’s a bit more about Ahmed Al Ahmed ‘Go Fund Me’ campaign, screenshot from HERE:
Tom Traynor starting things off with a $50k donation… then Bill Ackerman (yes, that Bill Ackerman) joined in with $99.99k – the most you can give, apparently. And then, Greg and Anna Brockman of Open AI joined in with another almost $40k…
You can always tell when the billionaires get involved, that it must be something very good and very special for humanity.
Deep, deep sigh.
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Meanwhile, look at this:
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I went looking for this, and here is the OFFICIAL New South Wales government website for this project:
One Mitzvah for Bondi | NSW Government
Screenshot:
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Here’s the text (screenshot):
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Here is a headline from the JC, 2024, for comparison:
https://www.thejc.com/community/interfaith-action-is-at-the-heart-of-mitzvah-day-2024-o5co4pmq
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And here is the page from ‘badd outreach, again, just for comparison:
https://www.chabadoutreach.org/therebbe/onemitzvah_cdo/jewish/One-Mitzvah.htm
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Great, how all these billionaires and interfaith people are jumping on the bandwagon, here.
Pushing that idea that ‘we’re all just one big, happy family’…
That is the hallmark of the satanic freemasons, and has been for at least 200 years.
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Tov.
Don’t forget, if you want an authentic Jewish response to the madness going on in the world, that really will make a positive difference for the very difficult situation we currently find ourselves in, join in, however you can, with the Rav’s prayer rally on Monday, December 22nd.
It feels like a lot is hanging in the balance again.
Enjoy!
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Now, Hanukah is subduing all the Hellenists (Hellenising Jews).
Because the ikker of the war was against the Hellenising Jews – because they called Antiochus. They called him! [To come and fight against their brother Jews in Eretz Yisrael].
They built a stadium here. Now, it was the World Cup. The World Cup was here, in Jerusalem, once upon a time. All of the Olympic Games were held here. In Jerusalem, there was the biggest stadium in the whole of the Middle East.
They came from Syria, from Afghanistan, from Bukhara, from Tashkent. All the wrestlers came here, all the actors. The biggest stadium was here!
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Until Yehuda [HaMaccabee] came and burned it down.
And afterwards, they dug in, inside the fortress. Today, they call it the Antonia Fortress, there’s an Arab school there in the North [of the Old City of Jerusalem]. You enter by way of the Lions’ Gate.
You enter, and you get to the Antonia Fortress, it’s called the Hakra. It’s called the Capital. There, they used to entrench themselves, until Shimon [HaMaccabee].
He[1] had five sons: Yehonatan, Shimon… Yehonatan was king for seven years. Shimon was king for seven years. Yehuda was king for two years. And Yehonatan and Elazar, the poor things.
He [Elazar] stabbed the elephant.[2]
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They [the Syrian-Greeks] came with elephants – thousands of elephants!
Each elephant, that they stabbed, until this was impossible…
An arrow didn’t pass through an elephant – it was like a tank. An elephant’s [skin] is 25 cm thick, it’s impossible, and [the skin] isn’t porous even for sweat.
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We were there, we were there…
We saw that the elephants spilled water upon themselves. Because when we were in Johannesburg, so we went out into the jungle. I took Nachman with me. In the end, we saw no end of elephants.
And when the elephant flaps its ears, then you need to escape. We were in a large jeep, ten people all together, with the grandchildren Nachman and Natan.
Then the South African soldiers showed up, and said that when the elephant does that with its ears, you need to run away. Because the elephant thinks that the jeep is a type of animal. It sees the jeep, it sees a type of animal, with ten heads. It doesn’t understand what this is, at all.
It wants to attack it. The elephant can flip a jeep, it can turn everything over, even a truck. If a truck driver sees an elephant, they also need to run away. It can tip over a truck, it thinks that it’s a type of animal.
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So, we travelled there, inside the jungle, and of course, we didn’t have weapons, unfortunately, that could fire stun grenades, and fire bombs. We looked for a weapon, we didn’t find one.
At the end, when we left, there had already been an accident, lo alenu, and they were waiting there by all the checkpoints. They were waiting by all the barriers. We left by plane, that’s how we left.
And he said to everyone be happy![3]
The pilot said this to all the travellers. There were around 100 passengers. He said, there are Israelites here, we merited to have Israelites join us. And the whole world knows that the Israelis are the biggest ‘heroes’ in the world! Even today!
They are five million, and they fought against 200 million Arabs surrounding them. And another 2 billion muslims, in the whole world.
So, five million already fought against the whole…
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In 1948, we were just 50,000 here.
And everyone was a child, a baby. 600,000 babies, and kids, and women. 50,000 soldiers against 20 million.
There was Tougi [?] – he was the biggest tzaddik. Tougi – you must go to his kever (grave). Tougi – he was the Iraqi commander, and he came with 200,000 Iraqi soldiers.
They found all of them tied to posts, with chains that wouldn’t bend…They found all of them…
All of this is already 70 years ago, 75 years ago.
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In any case, you were only born now, but slowly, slowly, each shiur will drip down a few more of the miracles of Hanukah.
The miracles of Hanukah, that we see in everything. It’s like we say, ‘as in those days, as at this time’.[4]
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So now, the Hellenising Jews are ruling for nine months, over this State.
And now, they are saying that they are the opposite – they are the ones who are ‘freedom fighters’, they are the ‘democrats’. Ultimately, these are people who have never kept Shabbat in their lives.
Bennett has never seen Shabbat in his life. He wears a kippa, he has no idea what Shabbat means. His kids are chilonim, they don’t know what Shabbat is, at all. He doesn’t understand, what Shabbat actually is.
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So, this is all of Hanukah.
Which is now the victory over the Hellenising Jews, this is the ikker.
That the Hellenising Jews will rule here for nine months, and they will arouse the whole world against Israel, against Am Israel, and especially, against the chareidim.
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They say, it’s simple, these are monkeys, who haven’t progressed.
What are ‘chareidim’?
After all, this is their shita, that once upon a time, we were all monkeys. So they say these are monkeys who simply didn’t evolve… Some sort of species of primate, that happens to keep Shabbat.
Did you ever hear of a monkey that kept Shabbat?
So if we all came from a monkey, why are you keeping Shabbat? Where did that come from?!
No, it’s a species of monkey that keeps Shabbat.
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They have no idea how to explain this. How can this be?! Where did this species come from, all of a sudden?!
Maybe, they discovered this in Australia, together with the kangaroo. Maybe, it’s a species of kangaroo?
They have no idea what’s going on, here. What did we say, that you’re monkeys! So then, how are you keeping Shabbat?! Just drink and eat! Eat a coconut! Why aren’t you eating coconuts all day long?!
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So, on Hanukah it’s a mitzvah to also eat coconuts.
So now, we’re in Hanukah. Now we are going to light the candle, the second light. We need to know that Hanukah, this is greater than Yom Kippur, all these eight days.
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Now, we are mamash in Hanukah.
Now, we are already after when Rabbenu came to the world, and Rabbenu is winning all the wars. It doesn’t matter what people do, chilonim, dati’im, it doesn’t matter at all.
We are saying today that already, everyone are tzaddikim. There are no chilonim at all! It’s just tinokot she’nishba-oo.
Now, we are before Moshiach, before the complete geula.
Speedily in our days, amen.
[Shiur from 5783 – 2022]
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Translated from Shivivei Or, 436.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Apparently refer to Matityahu the Kohen Gadol.
[2] This is meant to have happened in the area of today’s Gush Etzion. The yishuv of Elazar is named after this encounter.
[3] The Rav is apparently talking about when the South African police were chasing after him, at the behest of senior figures in the South African Jewish community, and of course, the State of Israel.
[4] In the benching for Hanukah.
I got sent this video.
It made me really, really angry.
Watch if for yourself (nothing grisly) and understand what the Jewish people are really up against, here,
A reader sent me an analysis of some footage from Bondi Beach, that made me really, really angry.
Of course, I can’t tell you why, or even hint at why.
So in the meantime, let me introduce you to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s latest chossid:
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False leaders were a big problem in Rabbenu’s time, who overlapped, just about, with ‘Jacob Frank’ and a bunch of Erev Rav fakers who were intent on taking over the Jewish community, and chassidut, for their own ends, ‘Jewish pride’ and prestige.
These ‘empowered Erev Rav leaders’ were often very convincing – that’s how they got so many people to follow after them, and throw money at them, and to call them ‘Rebbe’ and ‘miracle worker’, and even, for the really ambitious ones, ‘Moshiach’.
So, Rabbenu laid out some guidelines for how a simple person like you and me could really tell, who was a real tzaddik, a genuine holy person – and who was an Erev Rav faker, just in it for their own prestige, power, and ‘pride’:
Check their students.
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Rebbe Nachman explained that each ‘Rebbe’ leaves an indelible print on their followers, like an ink stamper.
While you can’t see on the stamp itself, or to use Rabbenu’s terminology, the ‘seal’, what’s truly written there, once that stamp is ‘inked up’ and rolled-out in the world, it becomes much easier to see what is really being passed along and ‘moulded’ in the world.
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So, we can add the chossid Mamdani to the chossid Trump, the chossid Jared, the chossid Bibi, the chossid Shimon Peres, and a bunch of other deep state bad actors that can literally keep you up all night feeling a tad pukey.
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In other news, I was sitting in a coffee shop a couple of days ago in the South, when a woman approached my table and shoved on it two things:
Thing One: A shiny, bright yellow laminated card that had a picture of the Rebbe printed on the front, with the single word ‘MOSHIACH’ printed on the bottom, in big letters.
Thing Two: Some parsha sheet from ‘the Rebbe Moshiach’ about Chanuka.
She seemed like a nice woman, I didn’t want to make a scene, I didn’t want to tell her loudly you know Moshiach can’t be a dead guy, right?!
That’s not nice behaviour, it’s not respectful.
Just like with members of the Hare Krishna, you can’t just pull a person out of their delusions by screaming at them in public.
So I took her stuff, and after she’d left – I stuck them straight in the trash can.
I know, I know. All these bad middot I still have to work on.
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On the drive home, I passed five, maybe ten, new banners hung up on the road signs access walks on Highway 1, telling me to ‘Greet the Moshiach’ – of course, that same yellow hue that became so familiar from the ‘Bring them home NOW!!!!’ campaign, that same dead guy, who absolutely, positively CANNOT be the Moshiach, even if really was the biggest tzaddik alive – because he is dead.
Again, I have to wonder who is paying for all this stuff?
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In the massive traffic jam that is now Jerusalem, I had ample time to read the careful joint branding on the massive Menorah stuck up in ‘Kikar Tsarfat’ – right next to the PM’s official residence.
It was ‘badd branding together with the branding of the Jerusalem Iriya.
It’s not the first time I’ve seen ‘badd propaganda ‘branded’ together with the Jerusalem town hall. A couple of years ago during Succot, the Iriya stuck signs with their branding, together with a massive picture of the Rebbe, all over the place, which said this: ‘He is everybody’s Rebbe’.
He’s not my Rebbe… I thought to myself. What can I do? Still so many bad middot to work on.
But the point really is: who is paying for all this?
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Who is paying for this relentless, non-stop propaganda?
Where is all this money coming from – is it my tax shekels, that are paying for all this ‘badd propaganda in tandem with the Iriya?
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And then the next question is:
Why are so many non-Jewish, deep state bad actors apparently sucking up to a guy who died 30 years?
Once we know the answer to these two questions, I’m sure we’ll know a lot more.