Kimche de Pischka

Yesterday, I went shopping for Pesach.

Usually, I’m not so organised, at all. But yesterday, I woke up with the idea that I could clean one room for chametz, already, and then buy most of the Pesach stuff and shove it there, so that’s one big chore off my list.

So that’s what we did.

It cost me 3,400 shekels….

I was quite shocked, I have to say.

Because I like to do things properly, but usually, Pesach shopping is more like 2-2,500 shekels.

Yes, I bought a ton of meat, for the sephardi son-in-law, and that for sure added to the bill. And the new hotplate we need for Pesach, because we borrowed the last one for regular use when our hotplate exploded when we plugged it in literally ten minutes before Shabbat a few weeks ago.

But even so – I don’t have my kids at home now, so all the extra bits of chocolate, shampoos, conditioners, bits and bobs I used to pick up for them – I didn’t, this year.

And this also doesn’t include the matzah, or expensive bottles of wine – I picked up 5 bottles of grape juice.

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So, I don’t know if it’s just me, but things seem to be really expensive this year.

There is a saying, that either you give kimcha de pischa, or you end up needing to have it given to you by others.

(Kimcha de pischa, or ‘flour for Passover’, refers to the charitable expenditure people give to help other Jews be able to make Pesach, and to buy the bits required.)

Honestly?

I was very grateful we could just about manage to afford the shopping bill.

But then, I started thinking about the people who are struggling to get by at the moment, and how hard all this can be for people who don’t have a lot of give, financially.

Like – almost everyone I know, at the moment…

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Point is, we are either on the giving end, when it comes to Pesach, or God forbid, we end up on the ‘receiving end’…

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I was talking to my contact at the Rav’s Kollel Chatzot, in the Old City.

They have 15 full-time avreichim, some with large families, and my contact is trying to raise 1,000 shekels for each of the avreichim to have some ‘kimcha de pischa’ this year.

And after my shopping trip yesterday, that is still clearly barely covering the most basics of basics, for Pesach.

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You can go HERE to donate, and you can give as much, or as little, as you want – it all goes to a good place, and counts as giving kimche de pische to people who really need it.

BUT – my contact at the Kollel Chatzot told me that they will also ‘dedicate’ a day, or a week, or a month of their prayers and tikkun chatzots and their learning for specific sums.

Like this:

180 nis donation = A day of learning / tikkun chatzot etc dedicated for you.

1200 nis donation = A week of learning / tikkun chatzot etc dedicated for you.

3,600 nis donation = A month of learning / tikkun chatzot etc dedicated for you.

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Here’s the new link where you can donate, which they updated now so you can easily put in names for dedications:

https://www.matara.pro/nedarimplus/Forms/3979.html

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And the last thing to remind you, is that these donations are now tax deductible, in Eretz Yisrael.

Olam hazeh, and olam habah, all together, in one nice package.

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Go here to donate:

https://www.matara.pro/nedarimplus/Forms/3979.html

And may God bless us all, that we should always be on the ‘giving’ end of the kimcha de pischa equation.

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Quick poll on Shalom Bayit

I want to make sure I’m touching on relevant stuff, in the Shalom Bayit segment of next week’s free Pesach webinar.

So, please take a mo and let me know what’s the biggest challenge Pesach is posing to your shalom bayit:

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Shalom Bayit

What is the biggest shalom bayit issue you usually have to deal with, leading up to Pesach?

Min votes count should be 1

You can pick as many topics as are relevant, and it’s 100% anonymous.

Thankenchou.

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One ‘roar of the lion’ and all the walls of Rome fell down -comments from the Rav

Shavua Tov!

Another day with azekot, here in Jerusalem. Nothing is being reported on the news, but there was a lot of noise, today.

I decided after Shabbat I need to go and get a new bottle of rescue remedy, just to see if I can do something to help myself sleep a bit better and more restfully.

Who knows how long the reshaim are planning to keep this latest war going…

I am hanging on to what the Rav said, that it’s over by Pesach, at the latest – and I’m really praying it’s Pesach 5786, because this level of stress is not really do-able, long term.

The Kotel has been shut for two weeks already.

The Old City is off limits to most people, downtown is a ghost town over Shabbat, as the crowds that usually go to the Kotel have disappeared.

Tov.

I am trying to keep as upbeat as I can, but I am feeling pretty soul-tired again the last couple of days.

I cannot wait for the world of lies to fall, I literally can’t take it any more.

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In the meantime, some very interesting comments from the Rav.

He made these comments the night after he returned from Ukraine [Uman? He stated he went to Haditch, which is where the Alter Rebbe is buried, but as to Uman, we still don’t know if the Rav got there, even though he got into Ukraine.]

The Rav came back two days before Operation ‘Roar of the Lion’ began.

And gave a long one and a half hour shiur, that the comments below are excerpted from. See if you can spot a few clues, about what is going on right now.

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Excerpt of comments from Adar 7, 5786, just when the Rav returned from the Ukraine

It’s written that in Sdom, it was also forbidden to say the word ‘charity’. Whoever said the word ‘charity’, they burnt them, it’s the same Sdomnikim.

It’s written that the judges of today are the judges of Sdom.

That’s what the Megillah Amukot brings down, and also the ARI, that the judges of Korach were the judges in Sdom….

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{Skipping some.}

All the walls fell down, when Yehuda shouted with a loud voice.

Bring a Gemara, Chullin.

It’s the same thing by Rabbi Yehoshua ben Hananya, that the walls felld own. One cry, the walls fell down. One single shout of Yehuda, and all the walls fell down, and all the pregnant women miscarried, and Yosef fell off his chair and Pharoah fell off his chair, both of them fell.

And also the ‘heroes’. There were around 200 giborim standing there, 300 giborim, and all their faces were turned backwards, and they couldn’t ever turn them back again. It stayed that way for the rest of their lives, and didn’t get back into place until the day they died.

This is what Yehuda was prepared to do [to destroy Egypt, when Yosef threatened to keep Binyamin.]

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These are the ‘Jewish terrorists’.

And so, everyone hates the Jews, because just one shout that Yehuda gave, and the whole world turned over, their faces all got turned backwards.

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Now, we’ll read in Chullin, 59, about the tigers.

It’s all stories about tigers, you haven’t seen them. We went to do hitbodedut in Moscow, we wanted to look for tigers, this is all in Russia, that you have tigers.[1] In another place, you don’t have.

But back then, we didn’t find them, we said that it seems they’d run away. They saw Shuvu Banim, so they ran off. We went with Moshe Beninstock to do hitbodedut there, and we didn’t find the tigers. The tiger is the Siberian leopard, the most dangerous in the world.

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So, the Caesar wanted to see.

This was Hadrian. He wanted to see a tiger. He said, show me a tiger! They said to him, how? If he gives one roar, you’ll fall off your throne and the walls of Rome will fall, all the pregnant women will miscarry.

He said, I still want you to show me one.

Here, on page [Chullin] 59b, the Caesar said to R’ Yehoshua ben Hananya, show me a tiger!…

His length is 100  metres. If it has 16 amot [cubits] then it’s only a stag, the Siberian stag.

These are all animals that lived in Siberia. There, there are forests 20,000 km deep, the animals are the most savage, the stag, the tiger – everything is found in Siberia.

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The Caesar said to R’ Yehoshua ben Hananya, this was Hadrian.

You say: the lion roars, who won’t be afraid? But, a man can fight a lion.

Now, someone fought with a leopard, he strangled him.

A lion roars – who wouldn’t be afraid?

But – a single man can overcome a lion. What’s the big deal?

A horseman [knight?] can kill a lion.

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They said to him, not a lion like ours, we’re talking about a lion from Siberia, that’s 100 metres long.

You can’t see it. If it would give just one roar, you’d fall off your throne, even if he was 400 parsangs away!

Siberia is 2,000 km away. Every parsa is 5km.

Nevertheless – show me!

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He gave one roar, and the walls of Rome fell in.

He retreated 300 parsangs, and then all the teeth of the giborim fell out, and all the pregnant ones miscarried.

And the Caesar himself fell off his throne to the ground.

They said, yallah, put him back!

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There are stories about tigers, and about snakes – interesting stories, a whole zoo’s worth.

You don’t need a zoo, it’s possible to learn about every type of animal, just from the Gemara. Every type of animal that exists in the world.

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Translated from Shivivei Or, 449.

[1] ‘Tigris’ in Hebrew means both ‘tiger’, and the River Tigris.

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PS: Don’t forget:

Pesach is coming… and before you know it, we’ll all be caught up in the shopping, cleaning, cooking, and pressure of getting everything done (while there is a war going on…)

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An awesome prayer from the Rav

This morning, I read this awesome prayer from the Rav.

The last few weeks, even before the latest round of ‘WAR WITH IRAN’, I’ve been feeling a lot of repressed anxiety.

Because it’s ‘repressed’, it tends to come out at night, when I suddenly can’t breathe so well, or find myself grinding my teeth again.

I already cracked a tooth last year because of 5+ years of ‘Covid plus Oct. 7’ repressed anxiety, I really don’t want to do that again.

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So, I paid my pid two days’ ago, yesterday I also asked the gabbai to ask the Rav if he could pray for me, to get past all this ‘anxiety’ that is so repressed I can’t even rustle it up in hitbodedut.

And for the last three days, I’ve also started saying a few pages of the Rav’s ‘prayers to overcome fears’.

This is the prayer I said this morning, and it spoke to me so very much.

I will put the original Hebrew underneath the English.

This took me two hours to translate, if you catch any mistakes let me know.

(And don’t tell me about AI…. I ran this through AI, and it translated about 50% correctly, then made up a bunch of other stuff and also took out and added in according to it’s own whim. The stuff it was very careful to remove was any reference to Rebbe Nachman and the true tzaddikim… Basically, I did all this from scratch myself, to make sure it was as accurate as I could get it.)

Enjoy!

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How great are Your mercies, Ribono Shel Olam, You know the depth of compassion needed for me, and for my brother[s] and sister[s], that there is nobody who can illuminate a person’s body today, just Rabbenu HaKadosh [Rebbe Nachman of Breslov].

And if the body is not ‘lit up’, then the neshama also can’t shine.

And so, Master of Mercies, who can do anything and from whom nothing is withheld, place true mercy within my heart, upon me and upon all my brothers and sisters, that we should search for the real truth.

We should wake up for chatzot and be awake until the morning, and we shouldn’t let any person, and no brazen one, stand between us and the magnificent advice [of Rebbe Nachman.]

And that I should have the strength, and my brother[s] and sister[s] should have the strength, to stand up to the ‘brazen-faced’ ones of the generation, who want to take us away from the True Tzaddikim.

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And rescue us and differentiate us from the ‘evil shepherds’, and from the ‘false leaders’, that all their leadership and loftiness comes only from the ‘advice’ of the Sitra Achra, which is ‘kingship without a crown.’

And they dominate and exalt themselves in front of the people with no basis. And You alone know just how much evil they are causing by this, chas v’shalom.

And it’s not enough that they don’t bring us closer to the True Tzaddikim, rather, they even distance me, and my brother[s] and sister[s] further from the True Tzaddikim, and from the point of truth, and from the truly upright.

Have mercy on me, and on my brothers and sisters, with innumerable mercies, and differentiate us from the pious hypocrites and liars, from the false leaders, and give us ‘holy brazenness’, so that we can stand up to their brazenness.

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And help us, that we should have the strength, by way of ‘holy brazenness’, to gather our might, and our holy power from above, and that You should influence us to have strength and power, and it’s written, ‘Give strength to God’.

And by way of this, we should merit to overpower [the bad] and to exert ourselves to perform Your work and [learn] Your Torah, and to fear You, with great strength and courage, and with great and holy brazenness.

And that we shouldn’t be embarrassed in front of the mockers, and that no terror, fear or shame should fall upon us, and no weakening of our faith, because of any person, or creation, in the whole world.

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Because we should only be afraid and scared and ashamed before You alone – that we shouldn’t turn away from doing Your holy will, to the right, nor to the left, for ever and ever.

Fulfill within us the verse that says: “Give strength to God; He gives strength and might to His people.”

And give me and my wife [husband] the merit, and my brother[s] and sister[s] to experience the clearest of clear light put out by the True Tzaddik.

And don’t let any hinderer or inciter prevent us from experiencing the pleasant and wonderful light of Rabbenu, the holiest of holies. [Rebbe Nachman].

And sanctify all of us with the kedusha of the holy of holies, even though we aren’t worthy to come close to such a great light.

But You, in Your infinite mercy, bring close also those who aren’t worthy.

And remove the barrier that stands at the entrance, and we should become infused with yirat shemayim (fear of Heaven), that will drive me and my brother[s] and sister[s] on to the path of the Etz HaChaim (the Tree of Life).

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Merciful and Compassionate One, who can do anything and from whom nothing is withheld, Attacker of all the attackers, Victor over all the victorious, You can make it that in the blink of an eye, that my brother[s] and sister[s] will return to the true path, to the path of the Tree of Life.

And please remove the heat of the threatening sword hanging over my brother[s] and sister[s], because You can do anything, and You can bring things to pass as part of Your enormous wonders that in the blink of an eye, their eyes should be opened.

“Because we have nobody else to rely on, except for our Father in Heaven.”

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That You should do like Your great and wonderful kindnesses and mercies, and do it for Your sake, not for ours, “for the sake of your Name, Hashem…”

And give us the merit to win over our enemies, and to overcome them, and to subdue them, and to lower them to the dust, and they shouldn’t have any power to move us away at all, chas v’shalom, from any holy matter – and not from doing anything that You want us to do.

And be our Helper, to really return us to You in complete teshuva,

And may the ‘distancing’ be the beginning of the ‘coming closer’.

And may the ‘downs’ transform into ‘ups’.

And we should perform Your will, always, and for ever.

As it is written: “Your kindness, Hashem, fills the earth; teach me Your statutes.” [Tehillim 119]

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“Deliverance is the L‑rd’s; may Your blessing be upon Your people forever.” [From the Havdala blessing.]

“Rise up, Hashem, save me, my God, for You struck all of my enemies on the cheek. The teeth of the wicked You broke.” [Tehillim 3.]

“I don’t fear the myriads of people that are all around, deployed against me.” [Tehillim 3].

“All the nations surround me; it is in the Name of Hashem that I cut them down! They encircle me, also they surround me; it is in the Name of Hashem that I cut them down! They encircle me like bees, but they are extinguished as a fire of thorns; it is in the Name of Hashem that I cut them down!” [Tehillim 118].

And please have mercy on my brother[s] and sister[s], that they will crave You with all their heart. They are pursued to the very neck by those who seek their blood and speak violence.

But it is Your way to advocate for the persecuted, and so take them out from the innards of the Samech Mem.

“From the belly of the grave I cried out – You heard my voice!” [Yonah, 2:3.]

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And do with us according to Your kindnesses, in a way that we will be able to totally escape from the evil, and that then we shall fulfill the verse:

“For Hashem knows the way of the Tzaddikim, but the way of the wicked will perish.” (Tehillim 1:6].

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CERN turns lead into gold

You remember a few months ago, the Rav kept talking about ‘turning lead into gold’?

Take a look at this, that I tripped over yesterday, even though it’s from last May:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research-frontiers/cern-researchers-briefly-produce-gold-when-lead-nuclei-collide/89290938

Here’s the takeaway:

Physicists at the CERN nuclear research centre in Geneva have turned lead into gold. During the collision of lead nuclei at almost the speed of light, the conversion of lead into gold was measured using a new mechanism, the organisation said.

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Now, let me draw your attention to this article, comments from the Rav, from August last year:

X-rays, and transforming lead into gold – more comments from the Rav

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Snippet:

There are neutrons.

The neutrons enter inside the nucleus and are transformed into protons.

If you want to change [the physical properties of] metal, you need to change the protons, change the number [of protons].

If, let’s say, iron is 26, and this is 29 [or 79], so then you need to add another 50. How do you add another 50? From where do you get another 50? The fifty gates of binah (understanding).

There are 50 yovel (jubilee) years. Yovel is the fiftieth gate.

So, you take neutrons, material that emits neutrons – this costs a billion dollars, to get a machine like this. And it joins with the nucleus.

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The [atomic] nucleus is microscopic. You can’t see it.

The nucleus is one part in a trillion of the volume of an electron.[ All the neutrons that you add to the protons] – the atom transforms from 26 to being 59 [79].

So, lead becomes gold.

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As usual, the Rav was a million miles ahead of the curve with all this.

While I was looking at the older articles here on the site, I came across this one, too:

Black magic and ‘fire from the sky’ – more comments from the Rav

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The snippet that caught my eye:

Because Bilaam learned all the [black] magic.

Bring the Etz Chaim[2] – he learned everything from his grandpa. His grandpa was Lavan, he learnt all his magic from him.

And he knew how to bring down fire from the heavens, and like that, he burned-up Heshbon. It’s written here, on page 61, that he was the son of Lavan’s son, and that he learned from him all the [black] magic in the whole world.

And he knew how to bring down fire from the sky – he was greater than Moshe Rabbenu.

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“Fire from the sky” – like this, do you think?

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Because nobody knows what this actually was.

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Let’s end with this ‘Purim Shpiel’ headline from yesterday, ho ho ho:

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-860798

Snippet:

A senior Iranian official claims that Israel deployed “the occult and supernatural spirits” during its war with Iran, Iran International reported on Friday.

Abdollah Ganji, former editor of the IRGC-linked newspaper Javan, told his 150,000 followers on X/Twitter on Wednesday that a “strange phenomenon” had taken place during the 12-day war.

“After the recent war, a few sheets of paper were found on the streets of Tehran containing talismans with Jewish symbols,” he wrote. “In the first year of the Gaza war, news had also leaked about Netanyahu meeting with occult specialists.

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Getting back on the horse

I am sure I’m not the only one who is feeling as though the events of the last couple of weeks has totally blown me out of the water.

I literally feel like I couldn’t think straight since all this started, couldn’t remember stuff, couldn’t really ‘deal’ with things, but of course, still having to do things like make a Purim seuda and host kids who were scared to stay in their panel houses with all the booms going on overhead, with a baby.

The kids returned home two days ago.

I spent a morning in the library, getting back on top of some of my research.

I came home, managed to even make a nice supper, which believe me, is not so straightforward at the moment.

And then, I managed to breathe a bit.

Literally, just to sit in the sun, and to breathe a bit.

And to remember again, life is still good, and all this is going in a good direction, despite how it looks.

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Last week, after Purim, the Rav gave one of his shiurim after the evening prayers, where I couldn’t catch a lot, but what I did hear, repeatedly was this message:

The whole inyan of Purim is to have an ayin tovah – a good eye.

Because Haman had everything in the world, literally, except for that one pesky Jew who wouldn’t bow down to him, and because of that one ‘fly’ in his ointment – he felt he had nothing.

This is the klipat Haman that we’re all still up against between now and Pesach.

That nagging feeling that ‘life sucks’, just because we can’t do exactly what we want, have exactly what we want, exactly when we want it.

Personally, I’ve been having a big struggle with that, the last two weeks.

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First week of this latest episode of WAR WITH IRAN, a lot of things were shut down again.

I suddenly had a strange urge to go shopping and to buy a smoothie – and I couldn’t do it.

Mamash, I had Covid lockdown vibes again, and started to feel a bit claustrophobic, miserable and despairing, because how many times are they just going to keep doing this to us all, and nothing can apparently stop them?!?!?

It took me a few days of trying to work things through in my hitbodedut, to understand I was dealing with a big dose of the ‘klipat Haman’, and that the Rav had already pointed out the antidote:

Have an ayin tovah – a good eye.

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Just keeping seeing the tremendous good in life.

Keep being grateful for all the small and big blessings that literally crowd every day, for every single person.

Can you breathe? Can you see? Can you use your teeth to chew stuff? Can you walk around?

That’s even before we get into all the more gashmi stuff, like a nice, hot shower, a cup of coffee, a crisp, green apple, a yummy butter croissant…

Life is still good, bottom line.

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But I  have to wake up each day anew, and remind myself about this all over again, at the moment.

There was some big siren in the middle of the night here in Jerusalem yesterday, after two nights of quiet.

You feel some yeoush when that happens, because it feels you are being pulled back into that state of sleep deprivation and engineered ‘panic’.

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What’s the antidote to all this madness?

Get back on the horse.

Get on with your day, your life.

Sit in the sun and breathe a bit.

Have a ‘good eye’, to notice all the continued blessings in life.

And if you have energy to get a bit deeper, the ‘good eye’ can then look a little further up the road ahead, to understand that some very good things are coming out of all this madness and suffering.

Not least, that the mask is coming of a whole bunch of people, that the ‘idols’ are smashing on all sides of the equation.

And that the real people, you and me, are finally starting to shake off the brainwashing, and to understand there is only God, and God is orchestrating all this to bring people back to Him.

In the kindest, gentlest way possible.

Which is why this is being shmeared across two decades of ‘small wars’ and painful waiting, instead of one short, sharp shock that wouldn’t leave many people standing at the end of it.

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B’kitzur: get back on the horse.

Get back into ‘life’.

And do your best to have a ‘good eye’ about everything that is going on.

And especially, about your own good self, and all the things you are doing to keep going to put food on the table, serve Hashem, help others, even in the midst of the madness.

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PS: I’ve been feeling too overwhelmed to translate stuff from the Rav, but hopefully, that is starting to wear off now. I hope to put something up by the end of the week, God willing.

 

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Cluster bombs – or something else?

If you didn’t see the footage already from last week, watch this:

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This is the same sort of stuff I saw all over the sky 2 Rosh Hashana’s ago, when I was driving back along the 443 to Jerusalem, having dropped my husband at the airport erev Rosh Hashana for Uman.

(He didn’t make it…)

This stuff was coming at me from both right AND left as I drove up to Jerusalem, i.e. from both the North and the South.

But not from the East.

Despite being billed as ‘bombs from Iran’.

That was when I really started questioning the narrative about what’s going on with the rockets, because I’d seen with my own eyes, stuff that just didn’t make sense.

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So last week, ‘cluster bombs’, apparently.

And now, someone just sent me this over email:

Fireball uptick around the world.

A YouTube search limited to the last week shows an increase, an example: https://youtu.be/HzpXspD149s?si=SdtykU1PhvW2TKpZ

This guy says we’ve just entered the debris field of comet Atlas:
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I’m not saying this is definitely what is going on.

I’m just saying, this is interesting timing.
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Coming soon: Doing Pesach the Breslov Way – Free Webinar

I just got sent this poster from one of the organisers of the free Pesach Breslov Webinar:

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We are figuring things out so there will be seperate ‘break out’ rooms for men and women, so no-one needs to worry about shmirat eynayim, etc.

Also, we are going to have a ‘coffee time’ option at the end, where people can shmooze and share some thoughts about future webinars / emuna experiences / just say hello.

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Places are strictly limited to 100 people in total, and 10% of those places have already gone, before we even started publicising this.

So – don’t wait, if you want to join us for a free evening of Breslov Torah, focussed on going into Pesach joyfully.

Even under fire.

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Go here to reserve your place:

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Over by Pesach – confirmation

My friend sent me the video of the Rav saying the war with Iran will be over by Pesach.

It’s too big for me to post up here, but it’s from this one of the Rav’s informal Whatsapp groups: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CTSO5yoHiWTJs443liHiQi*

The Rav is talking on Shushan Purim about how the 70 sons of Haman converted, and now are running all the best, most successful yeshivas in Bnei Brak.

Then, he also mentions about how Yehuda gave a ‘sha-agat aryeh’, a ‘roar of the lion’ in Egypt, when he was about to take it down, that made all the ‘heroes’ teeth fall out and turned their faces back 180 degrees.

(This is already reminding me of the Matrix…)

And lastly, just before he went in, the Rav mentions casually that: ‘the war will be over by Pesach’.

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Take that however you want, but we have seen the Rav consistently ‘predict’ events accurately, including all those killed by so-called ‘friendly fire’ during the war in Gaza; that it would last for a long time – much longer than anyone else even had a clue about – and that it would only end when the Rav’s sefer Torah was completed.

And it did.

To the exact day.

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So BH, there is a month of this, maximum, to go.

Just to keep things real over here, I’ve been feeling pretty stressed the last few days, even with my hitbodedut and few other things to try to take down the stress vibe.

The planes are flying constantly overhead, and that no longer gives me the warm, fuzzy feeling I once had that these planes are protecting me and bombing the baddies.

Hamavin yavin.

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Also, my daughter and her family moved in again the last few days, as their panel house was literally shaking with each ‘boom’ and she has a small baby.

BH, she’s hoping to go back home today, but this stuff is so disruptive, in a billion large and small ways.

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Like, my fortnightly hike in nature got cancelled…

Then the night away up North we booked instead just got cancelled because the hotel has closed down because of ‘the matzav’…

I’m trying to do my research, but all last week the NLI was closed…

Bottom line: there is no-where to run away too, except into Tikkun Haklali and towards Hashem.

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All this also made me ponder again, what the ‘reward’ will be for the Jews in Israel, who have been going through so much difficulty, so acutely, for years and years already.

For sure, Hashem’s measure of good is 500 times the ‘bad’, so there must be something truly fantastic awaiting all the people who have been dealing with this war for 2 1/2 years, already.

And also, by the same token, the people who have been dealing out all this death, destruction and suffering across the world, for decades, there HAS to be an accounting for their actions, at some point.

Hopefully soon.

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Lastly, I came across this interesting video last week:

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I don’t know if he’s right, although he is making some cogent arguments.

What I do know, tho, is that Edom has to fall, before Yaakov can rise.

And God likes to hit the baddies in the areas that really hurt them, i.e. their false gods.

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NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM = ‘A new order of the ages’.

You can read more about it’s designer, freemason-evangelist Charles Thomson, HERE, but this is a pertinent snippet from Wiki:

When he provided his official explanation of the meaning of this dollar bill motto and symbolism, he wrote:

The pyramid signifies Strength and Duration: The Eye over it & the Motto allude to the many signal interpositions of providence in favour of the American cause.

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‘America’ decided they replaced the Jews as the ‘chosen people’, dontcha know?

I guess we are about to find out if they were really right about that… or not.

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The crazy world

BH, yesterday was pretty quiet here in Jerusalem.

Most other places, it was apparently not.

My SIL in the penthouse up the coast sent me video of ‘cluster bombs’, or something, passing her mirpeset.

My daughter from the Shomron showed me video of a few rockets, and craters, in yishuvim where real stuff apparently really did hit the ground.

There was also a kol koreh put out by three mekubalim in Bnei Brak yesterday, that the decree on Bnei Brak is to have 54 azekot (sirens), and there are only six to go until the amount is fulfilled, so the residents should not be scared, and should just count another six.

I don’t know who the mekubalim are who are saying this, but if they are genuine, there is absolutely no reason why what they wrote couldn’t be true.

However ‘strange’ is may sound, all this is being orchestrated and guided by Hashem, for spiritual purposes and reasons and judgements.

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In the meantime, I found out what happened to my neighbour across the hall:

Her husband (who is a grandpa and older than me…) got called up for miluim just before Purim.

He got allowed back for a little break over Shabbat.

Crazy times, we live in.

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My SIL is planning to make a break for it again, as soon as they re-open the airport, she hopes some time next week.

I get it.

If you didn’t believe this was going to be over soon, and / or leading to a much better outcome – why would you stick around?

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In the meantime, my daughter was showing me the last ‘trend’ on Instagram.

It’s short video of people saying:

Me: Trying to save the world by drinking through paper straws / cycling everywhere to reduce my carbon footprint / recycling my trash / trying to interest someone in my firm’s products…

Against a background of bombs being dropped, cities being blown up etc, with the headline:

“World leaders:”

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So, let’s continue with ‘carry on with emuna‘, as the crazy world continues getting crazier.

Here’s what we are planning, BH, on Sunday, March 22, 2026:

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It’s totally for free, at 8pm Israel time on a Sunday, so everyone can join easily from wherever they might be in the world.

And the point is to just bring some good people together, around some uplifting Breslov Torah and music, based on making the most of Pesach.

Even under fire.

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It’s on Zoom, there will be ‘break out’ rooms for women and men, separately, and also an optional ‘coffee time’ at the end, where anyone who wants to can get to know other participants a little better.

And spaces are limited to 100 people, max, so go grab your spot!

In the meantime, pass the strawberry mousse, Roger…

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