Excerpt of a shiur given over on 21st Tevet, 5786

Bilaam said the strongest brachot (blessings for Am Israel).

“I shall see him, but not now. I shall look at him, but it is not near. A star has issued from Jacob and a sceptre-bearer has risen from Israel, and he shall pierce the nobles of Moab and undermine the children of Seth.”[1]

And it will come and destroy Costanza.[2]

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Costanza is the last city of Rome.

It’s the capital city of Rome.

After they destroyed Rome, so it moved to Costanza.

And so, once Costanza is destroyed, then the geula will come.

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So, all of the work is to destroy Costanza.

And this is our whole purpose now, to destroy Costanza.

Which today, is TEHRAN.

“A star has issued from Jacob” – and it will finish off Costanza, which is the capital city of Rome, of the evildoers, who want to destroy Am Yisrael.

קיסרין – (‘Kisrin’ = Caesaria), and ‘Kisrin’ will be destroyed. When Kisrin is destroyed, Jerusalem will ascend.

Now, when they destroy Kisrin, then Jerusalem will ascend.

But, as long as Kisrin remains built up, it’s not possible.

“And there came down from Jacob, and and the remnant of the city was lost.”

Translated from Shivivei Or, #447.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Balak 24:17.

[2] The Rav is quoting the Targum Yonatan on BeMidbar 24. See screenshot, below.

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In case you are wondering how Tehran could be the last city of Rome, maybe spend two seconds enquiring into who put the ayatollahs in power in the first place…

BH, I have a feeling the natural disasters are about to pick up.

And not in the Middle East.

Shavua tov.

Baruch Hashem, I had the best night’s sleep in about two months, yesterday night, and it looks like I’m probably going to need it.

Because the azekot are back – not that you’d know that from the Rav’s davening, but everywhere else in Jerusalem is kinda a ghost town at the moment, again.

There are some snippets to post up from the Rav, I will translate those now and post them up, BH, especially something interesting about Teheran.

Keep your Tikkun Haklali with you, at the mo.

I’ve said eight so far today, instead of rushing off to my bomb shelter…

It made for a much more uplifting Shabbat than otherwise.

More similar to this than is perhaps funny:

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So, Purim is kicking off in grand style this year, it seems.

And we just have to keep holding on to God, the true tzaddikim and our TKs as Hashem grabs the world and shakes it hard.

 

If you spent last Shabbat pointlessly stressing about ‘Iran’ – here’s your chance to rectify that.

Don’t stress about it this week.

Or at least, if you really do feel it really, really is the ‘end of the world’ etc etc etc – get yourself some sackcloth and ashes, sit on the floor, and do a proper vidui, as is befitting someone who really, really, really thinks they are about to get nuked and c’est tout.

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If you aren’t reaching for the sackcloth as you read these words – then all your ‘stressing about Iran’ is totally pointless.

Worse than pointless, actually, because putting yourself under that sort of stress all the time is doing awful things to your nervous system, physical health, emuna and joie de vivre.

It’s all a big charade from the yetzer.

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Really?

One of two things will happen with Iran.

Either, there will be another war, lo alenu, and I am telling you now, no nuke (because they don’t exist) – but perhaps something else that will be dressed up as a ‘nuke’.

And if that happens, lo alenu, we’ll have to deal with it.

Or – it won’t happen.

And you will just have wasted more of your precious time and life ‘stressing’ over stuff that you have no ultimate control over.

For what, exactly?

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Again, if you are reaching for the sackcloth and ashes, doing a serious vidui, calling people up and apologising for all the yucky stuff you did, forgiving everyone in your heart who you believe hurt you, saying three Tikkun Haklalis…

Then THAT is a positive outcome, spiritually, of all the stressing about ‘IRAN”.

But if you aren’t?

Climb down the tree, already, and move on with  your life.

Go make something yummy for Shabbat, Plan a nice walk somewhere over the weekend. Call a friend you haven’t spoken to for a while. Make an over-the-top breakfast. Think about what crazy outfit you ARE going to wear, this Purim, instead of acting like an old fart and pretending dressing up is not something you do any more.

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This year, I am trying to dress up as ‘Bigsan’, while my better half will be ‘Teresh’.

I bought some material yesterday, and motzash I have to make some very simple tunics.

I also splashed out on ‘gold material’ to make some Purim curtains and turn my house into the Palace of Shushan, with the help of some crepe paper stuck to the ceiling.

Bottom line: life is meant to be lived.

Every single second of it.

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If you are wondering why I haven’t been putting stuff from the Rav this week, it’s for two reasons:

  1. I am rushed off my feet at the mo, like everyone else I know.
  2. I couldn’t find anything in the last Shivivei Or that really spoke to me, for translating.

BH, if there is something in this week’s I will try to translate and share it.

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Also, if you are a Breslov-leaning someone who has been feeling a little isolated in your own space, with not a lot of other Breslov-leaning people to get to know and hang out with (outside of whatever happens on ‘Whatsapp’, which in my own experience usually gets taken over and controlled by the psychos pretty fast…) – watch this space.

With the help of a few other people, we are cooking something up to try and bring Anglo Breslov people together a little more, in a nice, respectful, positive atmosphere, where the focus will be on getting to know each other.

BH, I will update you soon on that.

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In the meantime, enjoy Shabbat!

Our holy day of rest.

And if you’re not going to enjoy it because of ‘IRAN’, then at least be sincere about that, and spend the day fasting with sackcloth and ashes on your head…

OK?

Someone just sent me a new ‘scoop’ from the Epstein files.

He’s apparently a descendant of one ‘Gustav Ritter Von Epstein:

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That name was familiar to me, because five years ago, or something like that, I wrote a post about him.

I will post that up separately, at the bottom of this post, as it’s quite long and has lots of details.

 But bottom line: the ‘Von Epsteins’ were part of the Frankist royalty, as the old post will hopefully show you.

And they were connected in to the ‘Frankist network’ that moved over to America, including Justice Brandeis, and a few other names you’ve heard of.

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The key name here is EPSTEIN.

Because on the ‘frum’ side of the balance sheet, there is a whole bunch of dodgy stuff that started happening around the ‘frum’ family tree of the Epsteins, right around the time Jacob Frank and the Vilna Gaon were in town.

I’m pretty sure I also wrote a bunch about that, but let’s refresh memories, in the meantime.

Snippet from WIKI:

Aryeh Löb ben Mordecai Ha-Levi Epstein (Ba’al ha-Pardes) (1708 – June 26, 1775)

Was a Polish rabbi born in Grodno. At first he refused to become a rabbi, preferring to devote himself entirely to study, but in 1739 he was forced by poverty to accept the rabbinate of Brestovech, Lithuania, and in 1745 he became rabbi of Königsberg, where he remained until his death.

He corresponded with Elijah, Gaon of Vilna, and with Jonathan Eybeschütz, with whom he sided in the quarrel about amulets.

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Pay attention to that last line.

It’s always an important ‘clue’ suggesting hidden and not-so-hidden Sabbatean tendencies.

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HERE is his ‘family tree’ on Geni, such as it is.

He’s a direct ancestor of the Chazon Ish, and the Kanievsky’s of Bnei Brak, who I wrote many pieces about in the middle of the ‘plandemic’.

(Rav Chaim was a true tzaddik, z’tl. But, let’s just say that others with the same genealogy really are not.)

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The Baal HaPardes had a few brothers.

One of them was ZEEV WOLF HALEVI EPSTEIN.

Whaddya know?

His g.g. grand-daughter married ‘R Benjamin ‘The Great’ Diskin’ – and went on to have the Maharal Diskin.

I wrote a whole bunch of posts about that, and how it’s not at all what we’ve been taught in conventional history. Go check them out.

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Point is, this Sabbatean / Frankist network took over all sides of the Jewish community, frum and otherwise, 200 years ago.

And their descendants are still running the show now.

On the ‘frum’ side, they are Sabbatean – i.e. external appearance of extreme piety, but inside, filthy middot, incest, adultery…

On the ‘secular’ side they suck up to the ‘xtians’ / masons, threw all their external appearance of extreme piety away, maybe even converted to xtianity – but with the same filthy middot, incest, adultery and I don’t know what.

I.e. – Jeffrey Epstein.

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Gustav Ritter von Epstein’s GENI tree is HERE.

Most of it is being whited-out from my browser, which is the main way they stopped me from digging deeper into all this stuff a couple years ago.

But it connects straight back to PORGES, GOLDSCHMIDTS, SPIROs, WEHLEs, BRANDEIS, TAUSSIG – all the main players who were known Sabbateans, and many also well-known Frankists.

Go take a look yourself.

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One last thing to mention is that the two GOLDSMIDT banker brothers of  Victorian England were very close friends of SAMUEL CHAIM FALK – the ‘Bad Baal Shem’ of London, and Jacob Frank’s father in law.

FALK appointed them to execute his will.

They both killed themselves shortly afterwards, with one shooting himself to death in the grounds of his local masonic lodge…

But their descendants continued to be VERY influential in the British community, and also, in the British z-ist movement…

It’s all connected.

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HERE IS WHERE THE OLD POST FROM 2021 BEGINS:

The story starts way over on the left of my screen, where I was trying to track down some possible ancestors for the notorious child trafficker and ‘agent’ for the deep State of Israel, Jeffrey Epstein.

Somehow, I got to this guy, one ‘Gustav Leopold Ritter von Epstein‘ (1829 -1879), who has all the hallmarks of being part of that group of interesting people, I’m busy researching here. A few small details about him, from German Wiki:

Gustav Epstein was the son of the Prague textile industrialist, wholesaler and banker Lazar (Leopold) Epstein. His father got rich in the Napoleonic Wars . Lazar Epstein opened a branch in Vienna in the 1840s and increasingly acted as a banker….His wife Emilie came from the prestigious Prague Jewish family Wehle.

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As I covered in THIS POST, the ‘Wehle family of Prague’ were known Sabbatian-Frankists.

They descend from one of (Sabbatean…) Abraham Rovigo’s main students, Netanel Weil / Wehle. We also know that for at least 100 years after Jacob Frank, the Frankist families were very careful to only marry other Sabbatian-Frankists –  both within the Jewish world, and also within their ‘crypto-Jewish’ world.

So, ‘Gustav Epstein’ is already looking like he’s part of the Frankist network.

But there’s more. In common with so many of the Frankists of that time, he starts up his own private bank – the Epstein Bank’, but also becomes Director of the “privileged Austrian National Bank. For a while, he’s one of the richest men in Vienna, but then he loses his fortune when a cashier at his bank called Adolf Taussig gambles a lot of the bank’s money away.

We would call that guy a ‘rogue trader’ today, but the point is that Adolf Taussig commits suicide and causes quite the scandal.

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‘Taussig’ is another one of the Jewish family names that keeps coming up again and again and again, in connection with the Frankists.

It’s truly astounding how many of these ‘Frankist families’ hopped over the pond, and ended up in leading positions in America and Great Britain. The following excerpt comes from THIS well-researched article about Justice Louis Brandeis:

“Louis Brandeis was a descendant of one of the prominent shabbatean/Frankist families of Prague.129 They did not follow Frank’s example of conversion to Islam or Catholicism, but maintained a Jewish identity, though very detached from Jewish ritual and practice.

His mother Frederika Dembitz Goldmark Brandeis “disdained formal religious ceremonies and encouraged her children to value ethical teachings of religion, including Judaism, while eschewing the age-old rituals.”….

Brandeis’s maternal uncle, Gottlieb Wehle, wrote an ethical will in which he exhorts members of his family to “respect their ancestors’ tradition of antinomian disdain for the normative Judaism of traditional rabbis.”

This was perhaps a reaction to the family’s waning allegiance to the Frank sect. It was Justice Brandeis’s relatives, who revealed a copy of a portion of this will to Gershom Scholem, who published it.

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Where did the Frankist Louis Brandeis start his legal career?

In the law firm of one James Taussig. Louis Brandeis married his second cousin, also from a Frankist family. In the late 19th century, the Frankists engaged in a massive PR exercise to try to make it seem as though they’d stopped all their ‘reverse Kabbalah’ incest, wife-swapping and satanic rituals, and were now just good ol’ clean-living, ethically-principled champions for secular freedom. But as we learnt from THIS post, that was a lie.

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James Charles Taussig’s mother was called Eva Charlotte Bondy.

The Bondi family were also a notorious Frankist family from Prague.

As well as connecting up with the Taussigs, they also intermarried with other well-known Sabbatean-Frankist families including:

The Wehles, the Porges, the Brandeis, the Jeiteles, the Prossnitzs, the Poppers and – the Eybshutzes. Mordechai Chaim Bondi married Jonathan Eybshutz’s daughter, Schewa.

They had at least 7 kids, and one of them, Herz Marcus Bondi (Jonathan Eybshutz’s grandson) became a Freemason in Frankfurt-am-Main in 1811.

We know that, because his son, August Bondi, played a leading role in the American Civil War (when he wasn’t raising pigs on his homestead…) August / Anshel Bondi was educated in Vienna, solely in Catholic schools, without ever being required to convert. (This is another tell-tale sign that you are dealing with secret Frankist Jews.)

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This excerpt from August Bondi’s diary tells us a lot about the ‘religious philosophy’, if you can call it that, of these types of Sabbatean-Frankist-Freemason households:

My parents always impressed upon their children that Jews or Christians, high or low, all are children of a common Father. These principles affected my conduct all through life. While keeping a strictly Jewish house, my parents favored my knowledge of other religions.

“I had read the “New Testament” before I was eight years old…I could not, under these conditions, help forming my mind according to the command of Moses, “Thou must love the Eternal, thy God and thy neighbor as thyself.” Enthusiastic Jew and lover of humanity.”

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Once you start to see the patterns, it gets easier and easier to spot which families, and which individuals, were actually Sabbatean-Frankists.

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Another Frankist ‘thing’ was leveraging the experience of being part of an army, or militarised group, to ‘dismantle’ a Jew’s allegiance to God and the Torah, and to eradicate the barriers between xtian and Jew.

Here’s another excerpt from August Bondi’s diary, writing about his experiences in the Austrian revolution of 1848:

On Corpus Christi Day the National Guard and the Legion took the place of the regular troops during the exercises of the day and in the procession… It was the custom for the clergy, headed by the archbishop, coming from the cathedral, St. Stephen’s to march in procession through the kneeling ranks of troops…

“The Jewish students, with one voice, decided to do just as their comrades did, so we Jewish members of the Legion knelt with our Catholic and Protestant comrades before the Christian host. We did this also at a field mass celebrated in honor of our martyred dead, July 29, ’48, by the legion Chaplain, Father Füster.”18 They were no longer Christians or Jews. They were Austrians.”

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Do you see where the (Frankist…) State of Israel’s big push to conscript the chareidim into the IDF is really coming from?

Also, notice just how many of these Frankists show up on the front lines of one revolution, one war, one global-changing event after another. For example, another of Jonathan Eybshutz’s grandchildren, Moses Dobrushka / Junius Frey, played a leading role in the French Revolution – and August’s dad Herz, another Eybshutz grandchild, was also there in France, and spoke about his great reverence for Napoleon.

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OK, let’s get back to Adolf Taussig.

(I’ve only managed to close down 5 tabs here… I can see I’ll be writing about this stuff for another 10 years.)

Back when I was writing about another probable ‘xtian’ Frankist, Friedrich Frobel, I tripped over a whole bunch of probably crypto-Jewish Frankists associated with this creepy, international, atheism-inducing ‘pedagogical’ movement. Like, Bertha Ronge (nee Meyer), and her sister Molly, married to Carl Shurz. (Bertha’s father Christian Traun also has an interesting link to the House of Hanover… but let’s try to stay focused here.) And like Julie Salis-Schwabe. Here’s a bit abouther husband – notice the weird Scottish connection again:

Born Salomon ben Elias Schwabe in Germany, he went to Glasgow to work in his uncle’s mercantile house there, and then established himself in Manchester as an important cotton manufacturer.

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And like ra-ra proto-feministsAnna Wiener Pappenheim and Henriette Goldschmidt. Under the entry for Pappenheim, it says this:

“[T]he Berlin Froebel Association in Berlin-Niederschönhausen … was forcibly dissolved in 1942 because the board was predominantly Jewish.”

Why?

Why were so many Frankist Jews actively and aggressively spreading Frobel’s educational methods around the globe?

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Goldschmidt was born Benas, and married her cousin, Abraham Meyer Goldschmidt, who was the Reform rabbi of the ‘Choir’ congregation of German Jews living in Warsaw. Strangely, I can find very little mention of him anywhere in English, despite his important position in the reform world.

And I also can’t tell you how he fits into this, the family tree of the Goldschmidts, as he seems to have been deleted.

But take a look who else is there: Porges, Rothschilds, Pappenheims, Oppenheims, Eybshutzs, Wertheimers – we’re back deep in the heartland of the Frankist family tree.

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BTW, ‘feminism’ is another big Frankist thing.

It’s manifested in things like deifying Jacob Frank’s daughter, Eva, and related to a whole bunch of mega-twisted ideology linked to deep kabbalistic ideas about the Shechina.

And I am willing to bet good money that ‘Reform’ also sprang directly from the Frankist well, as we’ll hopefully start to flesh out in future posts.

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I know, I know we need to get back to Adolf Taussig, Von Epstein’s banker who ‘suicided himself’ 150 years ago.

You see how hard it is to get all this stuff out there in an accessible way. Because everything we’ve been taught is a lie, every post contains another 15 potential rabbit holes that I have to try and swerve around, before I totally lose your attention. So, point is that one of Frobel’s proteges was a guy called Adolph Spiess, who apparently ‘invented’ gymnastics as a mandatory part of the modern school curriculum, as part of a strategy to use school in a way to mold students as capable proto-‘soldiers’, for the nation state.

Oh, and Spiess also borrowed heavily from yoga, and other ‘New Age’ stuff, as all the Frobelist-Frankist-Freemasons did (because, duh, they were actually a satanic cult.)

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Before I ‘lost’ all my tabs a few weeks back, one of the links I found was that the Spiess family were linked to the Taussig family.

Don’t ask me how, because I’ve tried and tried to recreate the ‘search’ on geni that showed that, and I can’t. But as part of that search, I came across another interesting character in American history called: Frank William Taussig, (1859-1940).

He was an American economist who basically came up with the idea of ‘Fortress America’, and how the USA should protect its trade with tariffs.

(Remember all those economic spats between Trump and China? The USA is still very much playing the game according to the rules set out by F.W. Taussig, a hundred years ago, to make America great.)

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Here’s some more interesting stuff about Frank W Taussig:

(From Wikipedia)

Taussig was an open advocate of forced sterilization of races and classes he considered inferior. In his 1911 textbook Principles of Economics, Taussing remarked:

Certain types of criminals and paupers breed only their kind, and society has a right and a duty to protect its members from the repeated burden of maintaining and guarding such parasites. …

The human race could be immensely improved in quality, and its capacity for happy living immensely increased, if those of poor physical and mental endowment were prevented from multiplying.[6]

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Hey!

How about that for a CO-IN-CID-ENCE, that a member of the (secret…) Frankists in the USA holds a key position in the government, AND is openly supporting eugenics and calling for forced sterilisation of ‘inferior classes’.

Does anything about this sound familiar to you?

Taussig was also a big supporter of the League of Nations, the forerunner to the United Nations – and another big Frankist / New World Order idea.

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Can you guess who Frank W. Taussig’s uncle was?

Yup. James Taussig, the guy who gave Justice Brandeis his first job as a lawyer. And as tended to happen in these incestuous Frankist families, Frank W.’s sister, Jennie, married none other than Alfred, an older brother of Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis:

Alfred’s brother, Louis D. Brandeis, was appointed by President Wilson as our nation’s first Jewish Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

So many of these Frankists in the US were also big supporters of the proto (Frankist…) State of Israel, too.

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Yes, yes I know. Adolf Taussig.

How does he fit in this picture I can’t tell you, not least because on his geni profile, three of his descendants are marked as ‘private’, even though they died well over a century ago… And there is very little information about him, outside of his brief mention (in German…) connected to the ‘Epstein Bank’ scandal.

If you go to the main Taussig family tree HERE – it seems that our Adolf has been airbrushed out of history again.

But look who else is there!

Schiffs, and Russos (very possibly related to Berachya Russo, another in the chain of ‘false Sabbatian prophets) and Warburgs…

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I only managed to close down around 8 of my tabs.

And there is still so much of this story to be told, so BH, I will gird my loins and pick this up again soon. I didn’t even get to the stuff I wanted to really write about today…. But the point is this. It should be becoming more and more obvious that all these ‘theories’ about there being a Sabbatian-Frankist-Freemason cult who have taken over large areas of the Jewish world, and who are pulling the strings in many Jewish communities and the State of Israel is – sadly – based on fact.

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I still have so much to try to share with you, but even the little bit I’ve put together should already be building up the picture.

You want to know how ‘Reform’ took over, how our education system routinely churns out spiritually-lobotomised ‘robots’, why the State of Israel is so darned keen to get the chareidim in uniform, why there is so much child abuse going on behind closed doors, how so many of our leaders seem so very morally corrupt, why eugenics, economics and ‘medicine’ always seem to go together, why religious Jews are always being persecuted, why God decided to decimate so many apparently ‘Jewish’ communities in the Holocaust?

Well, we’re finding out.

And it’s painful reading, I know. Dealing with the truth is sometimes not easy. But we can’t continue to duck it, if we want things to change for the better.

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PS: The Epsteins directly connect to the SHACH (my candidate for the real Shabtai Tzvi) via this guy:

Rabbi Elazar haCohen Katz (Katz), [of Zlotchov] 

He marries a daughter of YECHIEL MICHEL HALEVI EPSTEIN, while his brother is MEIR HACOHEN KATZ – the father of the SHACH (= “Shabtai Tzvi”, as a result of losing his mind after the pogroms of 1648.)

ALWAYS the same little family…

 

On Sunday, I found myself up a huge mountainous cliff in the Judean desert, that I had to get down.

There was a goat track, kinda, that widened out to something more comfortable half way down the mountain, but at the top, there was still a lot of jumping down cliffy rocks required.

We were with a group of other hikers, my husband was behind me talking to someone else, instead of his usual place right in front of me, giving me that sense of security that yes, bezrat Hashem, I can do this!

Long story short, I had an inner freak, and my legs went all shaky. Just what you need, when trying to get down some huge cliffy mountain thing in the middle of nowhere.

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BH, my husband caught up with me, and together, slowly, and with lots of butt-sliding on my part, we managed to get down.

It really, really helped that I didn’t have my glasses on (although they were with me, in my bag, just in case), so all I could really see clearly was the dalet amot right in front of me.

Three metres out, already stuff was kinda blurry.

Which was great, because otherwise I would probably still be up that mountainous cliff in the middle of nowhere.

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When we got home, quite achy and mentally exhausted from being forcibly dragged out of the comfort zone, I spent an hour or two in hitbodedut pondering the lessons God wanted me to learn from the experience.

The first lesson, was how much help I need from other people to move forward in life.

I’m not as ‘independent’ and self-sufficient as I thought, and that’s actually quite humbling. It’s making me think more about the kindnesses so many people do for me, particularly within my own family, and that I sometimes just take so for granted.

The second lesson, was that focussing on the dalet amot – and not looking down or up – is actually what got me down that mountain.

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When I was 10, I went with my family to Snowdon, in Wales, one of the highest peaks in the British Isles.

I started climbing up a few rocks and before I knew it, I was stuck at the top of a high cliff, literally frozen in fear, because I’d suddenly looked down and realised just how high up I actually was.

My mother talked me down, somehow, and since then, I’ve had a deep fear of ‘rock climbing’.

(Not totally unfounded, btw. That stuff can be dangerous…)

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I’ve never really challenged that fear, acquired at age 10.

But Sunday, God decided that it was time to ‘feel the fear’ again – and rectify it.

I was literally praying with every step I took down, sliding down on my butt when I had to, even though that made me look like a wimp to others – and appreciating that God is mamash in total control of every thing, every second, every movement.

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Back in the ‘real world’, I’ve been pondering all this stuff, and realising that the way to get through our challenging times is to just concentrate on the dalet amot right in front of our faces, and to not look at anything else.

Sometimes, even the dalet amot is challenging enough, without throwing more stuff in there about WAR WITH IRAN, aliens, therians, or I don’t know what else.

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Another thing to add, is that I’m feeling so grateful for the real, workable, practical advice of Rebbe Nachman and Breslov teachings, to guide me on these treacherous paths.

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I went to visit an old friend yesterday, who a decade ago started getting more and more ‘Chabad’.

They moved to a chareidi city, had a bunch of kids, embraced Chabad in all its aspects – and each time I go to her house, there are more pictures of the Rebbe on the walls and in the cabinets.

I usually just try to ignore it as much as I can, because we have enough other stuff we have in common that we can still have a good natter.

But yesterday, she decided to start telling me about this Tanya class for women she’s been going to, for a year and a half.

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We haven’t read a single word of the Tanya itself, she told me, as I tried to do ‘grey rock’.

The woman running it just tells us what perek we are up to, and then tells us how to apply it practically to our lives.

OK, I was curious – give me an example, how it’s helping you resolve your problems?

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My friend started explaining that she’d been taught in her Tanya class that a person is basically here just ‘dreaming’ their own life, so nothing is actually real.

Ergo, a person can change everything they don’t like about their life, if they just dream it differently.

Where is God in that equation? I asked her.

She started to get flustered, and gave me a different analogy, to help me ‘understand better’ the immense wisdom of the Tanya.

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On Shabbos, I put a blanket across two chairs and my kids go inside and pretend it’s a house, she told me.

They are sitting there playing Abba and Ima, drinking their tea, cutting the challah – but it’s all totally make-believe. As soon as I take the blanket away, that ‘world’ disappears, and there’s nothing left of it. It’s the same with us. This world isn’t really ‘real’, there is nothing left behind when the blanket is taken away.

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OK, but then I asked her: if a person really believed that, then what would motivate them to keep Torah and mitzvot? What about the idea of reward and punishment? If nothing we do is ‘real’ in this world, and everything is just a ‘dream’ that the person themselves can fix without taking it all back to God – how does God actually fit into that picture?

And – what happens if one of your kids punches another one of your kids inside the tent? The ‘trace’ of that remains, even when the blanket is removed…

She got very flustered again, and told me it was hard to explain.

I agreed with  her, and we were saved from the conversation veering off into really awkward territory by a knock at her door.

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The problem is: all this stuff from secular gurus, and other ‘tzaddikim’, even, sounds so good in theory.

But in practise?

It doesn’t work.

If you walk around unanchored in a world you are ‘dreaming’ for yourself, that has no real connection to God, where everything is ‘unreal’, but where you’re also taking 100% responsibility for somehow ‘creating’ your own life, regardless of past life tikkunim and heavenly decrees that can’t just be ‘dreamt away’, no matter how hard you try…

You just end up getting more and more confused, and depressed, and beating yourself up for ‘not doing it right-enough’ – and lost in the olam hadimayon.

That’s what’s happened to me, on so many occasions, until I finally hit Rav Berland.

Because not everyone who ‘teaches Breslov’ is actually walking the real path themselves, either…

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My friend was telling me that she is full of confusions, and can’t seem to get clarity about anything.

I mentioned that I do hitbodedut every day, and that it’s the one thing that’s really, really helped me through life, in so many different ways.

I talk to God all the time, she replied.

And for sure, she does.

But hitbodedut is really more about listening to God.

And for sure, without hitbodedut, it’s something most people will never do by themselves.

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Anyway.

I love my friend dearly.

And I know that sometimes, often, even, following the Breslov path can also lead you into some very dark and confusing places.

Until God has mercy, and shines the light again.

It’s not us ‘doing it right’, it’s just us doing our best to follow Rabbenu’s excellent advice, and then God having mercy on us.

But if you do that, sof sof – the doubts and confusions slowly start to recede. And sof sof, Hashem starts to show you that all that work and fumbling you did in the dark really did and IS leading you somewhere very good.

If you only don’t give up, when the going gets tough.

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Let that be the last and final lesson I learnt from the mountain:

DON’T GIVE UP, UNTIL YOU ARE IN A SAFE, WARM SPACE AGAIN.

Yes, it’s scary, everything aches, you just want to cry, give up, roll over, lie down.

Maybe, you even do all that stuff for a few minutes.

But then get back up on your feet, and with God’s help, continue to  make you way down the treacherous path.

Don’t stay stuck, a prisoner of the yetzer hara and all the fallen fears, for a second more than is required to regain your composure, and to take charge again of your own bad middot.

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I give us all a blessing that we should traverse our own ‘path’ safely.

With the light of the True Tzaddikim like Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, to help guide us down.

Did you know a whole section of the Sidna Ali cliffs by Herzliya collapsed yesterday morning?

The authorities are warning more of the cliffs could collapse from Palmachim in the South, by Rishon, up to Hadera, near Caesaria.

I can’t help but wonder, what activity is going on, underground, man-made or directly from Hashem, that is causing huge sections of cliffs to ‘collapse’ overnight…

Earthquakes? Tunnelling underground? Some combination of the two?

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In the meantime, it looks like the Rav has ‘sweetened’ this current segment of ‘war with Iran’, at least at the moment.

If you’ve been with me for a while, and / or following the Rav’s activities for a while, you’ll notice that whenever the Rav is either seriously ill / hospitalised / imprisoned / persecuted, in some major way, it corresponds exactly with some huge crisis developing for Am Yisrael.

At some point, I want to do a list, with dates and events, to show that in ‘real time’.

But this time around, we had 50 days of chemo, then a failed attempt to get into Uman, followed by 2 weeks of ‘exile’ and another failed attempt (apparently)… all in the 2 weeks leading up to ‘WAR WITH IRAN’.

(Again…)

That suddenly disappeared in that strange way that left a ‘hole’ in the never-ending news cycle, as the planned propaganda event failed to materialise, and the MSM had to scramble to find some different ‘news’ to churn out instead.

(If you’ve been critically watching the news cycle for a while, you will understand exactly what I’m talking about.)

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That left us all ‘hanging’ the last few days…

Because…erm…there was meant to be another WAR WITH IRAN, wasn’t there?!

Or did I imagine all that?

And now, we are just back to the same old tired headlines about Iran having it’s enriched, bomb-grade plutonium in a ‘week’.

Again.

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The real war is 100% spiritual.

And the people who let the headlines dictate their mood and life, and who let WAR WITH IRAN ruin their shabbos, are sadly losing it badly.

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How do we win the war, tachlis?

Torah learning, real teshuva, good deeds, emuna in Hashem, emunat Tzaddikim.

Which bring us up to Purim, and the set of mitzvot associated with that.

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Each person is meant to give the half shekel, or Machazit haShekel,  for Purim.

We give this on Taanit Esther – the “fast of Esther,” before the Mincha prayer, to charity.

I highly, highly recommend that you consider giving your “half shekel” to either Shuvu Banim directly, HERE, or, to the Rav’s Kollel Chatzot, HERE.

This is a handwritten note (PDF). from the Rosh Kollel of the Kollel Chatzot in the Old City, describing some of the importance of the Machazit haShekel, and stressing that it’s meant to be given to righteous Torah scholars:

Click to download.

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There are people in that kollel who literally learn Torah every waking hour, and sleep on the benches there…

Honestly, I don’t know where you’d find sincere Torah learners of that calibre and commitment any other place.

It’s a good spiritual investment for a whole bunch of reasons.

And a great way to ‘fight the spiritual war’, in a meaningful way that really will make a difference.

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In the meantime, stuff is definitely happening ‘underground’, in a whole bunch of hidden ways.

God is calling to each person, to stop wasting their time endlessly surfing pointless headlines / speculating on ‘End Times’ / worrying about WAR WITH IRAN / pointing fingers at everyone else, and what ‘everyone else’ is doing wrong – and to knuckle down on fighting the real war.

Happening inside every single one of us.

Between our ‘yetzer hara’ and our ‘yetzer tov’.

That’s the only battle that counts.

And that’s the only place we really make a difference.

Especially, to ourselves.

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PS: The Kollel Chatzot has now recieved the status required for a charity to be ‘tax deductible’ in Israel.

Tachlis, that means your charity donations there can also be partially deducted from your tax bill.

That shouldn’t matter… but really, is does.

That’s the reality, isn’t it?

So, go HERE to give the half shekel – and feel happy about the olam haba and olam hazeh, together.

As is my way these days, I am trying my best to stay off the news.

So, when a family member told me yesterday that flights were being cancelled again to and from Israel… I didn’t really pay attention.

Then, my kid yesterday night told me, Ima, they are saying there is going to be a war with Iran tonight.

  • Who cares? I told her. Live your life in the meantime, if it happens, it happens, if it doesn’t – why waste energy with all this worrying, already?

Then today, I got a text message from the Jerusalem City Hall with some ‘emergency booklet’ to download. I deleted it.

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In the supermarket this morning, there was a distinctly ‘stressed’ vibe wafting around.

The last couple of weeks, I have been finding it pretty hard to stay asleep, and keep waking up at random times before 3am where I just stare at the ceiling, and feel a bit anxious.

Something is in the air.

We can all feel it.

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Literally a week before the Rav tried to get into Uman again, and then went into temporary ‘exile’ who knows where for a fortnight, he spent 50 days having chemotherapy.

All that yucky, poisonous stuff…

That the Tzaddik took on himself, so whatever ‘yucky, poisonous stuff’ is being planned generally, lo alenu, got ‘sweetened’.

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Today, someone sent me this from one of the Rav’s Whatsapp groups, a precis of his comments yesterday after the evening prayers, the first day he was back after two weeks of radio silence:

Lots of talk about the ‘50th Gate’.

And Haman, and his gallows of 50 amot.

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Made me think about how it took Am Yisrael 50 days, between Pesach and Shavuot, to get purified enough to receive the Torah at Mount Sinai.

There are some very big things going on, I think we can all agree on that.

But in the meantime… Life continues as (semi) normal.

Shabbos needs to be made. Toilets need to be cleaned.

And as long as a person is attaching themselves to the real Tzaddikim, doing their best to follow their advice, making some real teshuva, doing some regular hitbodedut, paying their 10% (minimum…) tzedaka, keeping kosher and shabbat and taharat mishpacha, and perhaps, *gasp!* considering, at least making aliyah, if they aren’t here already – what do they have to worry about, really?

They are doing everything they are meant to be doing, regardless of ‘war with Iran’.

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Just, I wish this above description applied to more of Am Yisrael.

The good news is, whatever is going on, for sure more people will make more teshuva as a result.

So eventually, one way or another, God WILL schlep Am Yisrael, whoever is still standing, over the finish line.

I hope, that’s most of us, and the ones we love.

Shabbat shalom.

The Rav came back this morning, BH.

Thanks to everyone who updated me.

Still, nobody knows what is really going on…

In the meantime, here’s some more comments from the Rav, from a couple of weeks ago.

Enjoy!

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[It’s not clear what the Rav is talking about at the beginning of this excerpt. I couldn’t find any terror attacks listed HERE, at El Al desks in New Jersey airports, but happy to stand corrected, if someone knows different.]

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On Hillel Street, precisely, someone was walking. They wanted to go in there, to drink soda pop.

She said to them, no, it’s not kosher here, to come and drink a coffee.

[They said] Come, let’s go to Strauss Street, higher up, and there, there is a kosher kiosk.

They had just got there from the Kupat Holim, they walked through Hillel Street. There, one woman was killed, Nava.

Nava was killed in New Jersey, in the airport.

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They attacked them, together with one person, Yaakov, who used to entertain a lot of guests.

The clerk who was standing at the El Al desk was killed, together with Yaakov, who used to entertain guests 24 hours a day.

He accompanied someone to the airport, to fly to Israel, and then they were attacked together with the El Al desk in New Jersey.

You still weren’t born.

This was in New Jersey, in the air port (said in English), in the airport of New Jersey, this happened.

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The woman, the cashier, she said the Tikkun Haklali.

The day before, she’d been given a Tikkun Haklali, and she said the Tikkun HaKlali.

So even though they fired at her, they didn’t injure her. She was a cashier.

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So, we put out a pamphlet [about the power of the Tikkun Haklali], together with all the miracles that occurred.

There was an attack at Tzomet Yagur, at Tzomet Kfar Chassidim –  this is Yagur.

There, there was a terrorist attack. So, one mother told her son you are not leaving the house without a Tikkun Klali!!!

He was already totally chiloni (secular).

How is a Tikkun Klali going to help me?! I’m a soldier, I’m a captain!

  • You are not leaving the house!!!

She didn’t let him leave the house, so he took the Tikkun Klali.

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And he said the Tikkun Haklali while he was getting a lift there, and got to the Tzomet, from Kiryat Ata.

He got to Tzomet Yagur five minutes later – and terrorists fell on the vehicle, they entered the vehicle, and they killed everyone in the vehicle.

Except for that soldier, who had a Tikkun Haklali in his hand.

Excerpted and Translated from Shivivei Or 445.

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This is the Wiki page on the Yagur Junction Terrorist Attack, from 2002:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagur_Junction_bombing

Take away message seems to be: get hold of a Tikkun Haklali, and take it with you everywhere.

Let’s spoil the ending: I don’t know.

But, I can tell you this:

If the Rav has gone back into galut again, wandering around Europe in harsh conditions, at the age of 88, with one kidney, two weeks after a severe and serious treatment for cancer – Am Yisrael is probably facing another huge spiritual challenge.

In those videos from R Elmaliach yesterday, the Rav was giving over some very clear messages.

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Message 1: Trump and ‘War with Iran’ is NOT going to bring the geula.

My guess is, because while the prophecies talk about the King of Edom and the King of Persia going to war against each other, the truth is that we are currently dealing with puppet regimes on all sides of that equation, who basically work for the same small band of ‘Evils’.

All this is stage-managed.

So, anyone who is waiting for ‘War with Iran’ to come and take them out of galut / ongoing misery – it’s not going to happen.

All ‘War with Iran’ will do, if it happens, again, for the third time in a year, already, is consolidate the ‘Evils’ power, by keeping more people caught up in their little show, having the soul literally sucked out of them to keep this paradigm going.

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Let’s detour to THIS article, for a moment, to explain that side of things more.

(A word of warning: I have pictures disabled on Sott, I have no idea what images accompany this piece.)

It’s a piece dissecting some of the information pouring out of the Epstein files, which my friend tells me is blowing up on social media, like a never-ending tsunami, sadly much of which is gushing in our direction.

It’s subtitled: The Politics of Institutional Predation

And off the back of the Epstein files, it’s describing how a ‘Luciferian Cult’ is coming out of the shadows, which is apparently different, at least slightly, from the ‘Satanic Cults’ we sometimes hear about.

Here’s some snippets that caught my eye:

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What if all the ritualistic abuse we are seeing isn’t random criminality but an expression of an overarching, organizing principle that viewed mere humans as psychic fodder, to be devoured for the benefit of those in the know?

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As the names keep dropping, it’s hard not to get a sense that absolutely anybody who had achieved fame, influence, power or renown was mixed up in an organized cabal of depravity and moral turpitude.

It feels like every TED Talk you ever nodded in agreement to, every Grammy award-winning singer you vibed to, every politician you voted for, and every business leader whose companies you bought shares in, they were all laughing behind your back, because it was a Big Club and you ain’t in it.

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I thought that belief in a vast, overarching conspiracy of powerful elites who controlled everything was Loserthink. It ingrained a sense of helplessness in the believer, which made them ambivalent and docile.

Now I realize that I’m the loser – at least in the eyes of everyone in The Club, because there is now no doubt, except to the willfully ignorant – that The Club exists, and the entire political ruling class, the corporate oligarchs, the TED-class influencers and CNN talking heads and panelist experts, are all in it.

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All this, we’ve been saying here for years and  years.

I’ve experienced so much censorship myself, in so many different directions, but especially around anything to do with the Rav, that it became very clear a long time ago, that you have to ‘sell your soul to the devil’, in someway, to be really successful today.

And that of course applies a million percent to the Jewish world, and also, the ‘frum Jewish world’.

No-one gets their birthdays celebrated by Presidents of America, unless they were also part of The Club.

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But perhaps more interestingly, at least for me, is that this ‘Luciferian paradigm’ operates on a system where it’s powered up by sucking the soul, the ‘life’, the juice out of other people, in a million different ways.

It could be by taking their money, their ‘opportunities’, their freedom (think: Covid laws, forced conscription, martial law because of ‘terrorists’, Iran, Russia, whatever) – but most importantly of all, by taking their courage to really be ‘them’, and to think for themselves.

This of course is also a key part of the narcissistic playbook.

The infamous ‘narcissist supply’, where the narc is so empty themselves, they have to keep sucking the juice and soul out of all the people around them just to keep going.

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Here’s another quote from that piece, about how ‘Luciferian Cult’ members are taught / trained / encouraged to operate:

[Luciferianism] “reinforces and encourages four basic energies — devouring, possession, violence and disguise — which in turn, assist the Luciferian to transform consciousness, animate hidden potential, and ultimately attain godhood.”

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This is TOTALLY a spiritual war, people, as we’ve been saying for ages.

And look what the main weapons are, being used by the ‘Evils’, to wage it:

DEVOURING – i.e. taking stuff from other people, money, property, energy, etc.

The piece continues:

“The actual experience of being devoured emotionally, cognitively, or spiritually usually occurs gradually over time. The devouring itself is never obvious to the victim; if it was, then defenses would be mobilized.”

This is again, the classic narcissist playbook, of operating under the radar.

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The other three ‘weapons’ are:

  • Possession,
  • Violence and
  • Disguise

POSSESSION – is where you take over another person’s soul, so they lose their free choice.

VIOLENCE – is where you create a paradigm where violence, and ‘survival of the fittest’ is painted as the ONLY option to solve a problem, and is thus depicted as being something beneficial, good, and even holy.

DISGUISE – is where you lie. You pretend to be what your not – the opposite of what you really stand for, and who you really are. Our political process, our media, is built on this principle, 100%.

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So now, how do we REALLY fight this war, against the evil that has taken over the world, all of our institutions, our political systems, our media, our society?

The Rav explained that too, yesterday:

Torah, real teshuvah, good deeds, having emuna in Hashem – and the key part, Emunat Tzaddikim.

An apikores in the Gemara is defined as someone who doesn’t have emunat tzaddikim. Did you know that?

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Bottom line: it’s a spiritual war, and ‘war with Iran’ is only going to make things worse, not bring geula.

If you really want geula, then you have to knuckle down, start doing hitbodedut, start getting real, about all the areas that need some work, the blind spots we all have, the narcissist behaviours we are still exhibiting in our own lives, or ‘excusing’ and justifying around us.

And – we have to work on developing real emuna in Hashem, and real emunat tzaddikim.

That’s how geula will come, and no other way.

That’s what the Rav is saying.

And that’s why, probably, he’s giving a deadline of 200 years, because I honestly have no idea how many people are going to get with this program, tachlis.

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Tov.

We’ll stop there for today.

May Hashem bless us all to uproot the ‘narcissist playback’ in our own lives, to recognise it in the world around us and stop going along with it, and to take our souls back from the ‘Evils’ who are currently using violence and disguise to ‘devour’ and ‘possess’ other people.

Amen.

My friend sent me this, this evening:

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It’s Rav Elmaliach, talking today, and sharing the message from the Rav that he went into galut and no-one knows where he is.

There are rumours he may return to Israel tomorrow, no-one knows.

It sounds like he didn’t get into Uman.

And it also sounds that he took on a harsh, hopefully temporary and short galut, to sweeten the dinim again, instead of being shoved back in prison.

Which is how the Rav has managed to sweeten so many of the previous dinim, the last few years.

Take a listen.

If I hear more, I’ll let you know.

Crazy times we live in…. especially, in chul…

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My friend also sent me a second video, which is Rav Elmaliach again from today, quoting stuff from ‘Rivka HaTzaddika’:

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First, I have extremely mixed feelings about these messages from ‘Rivka HaTzaddika’.

The first video here is quoting stuff from the official Shuvu Banim phone line, but this second video is not.

That said, the second video is basically ssying the same stuff I’ve been going on about for months on the blog, namely:

Trump won’t bring the geula.

‘War with Iran’ won’t bring the geula.

Only Torah, Teshuva, good deeds, emuna in Hashem, and emuna in the True Tzaddikim is going to bring the geula.

That’s the bottom line.

So, I’m putting this up here, and you make of it what you will.