Shavua Tov!

The mad world continues to be mad… if you pay attention to it.

In the meantime, take a look at this, about a ‘meteor’ that apparently just exploded over Boston:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/427851

Snippet:

The sudden, invisible blast triggered widespread confusion and alarm among local communities. Scores of residents took to social media networks to report sudden, thunderous detonations, with numerous accounts noting that the shockwave was intense enough to physically vibrate their houses.

If that happened here in Israel, we’d think it was ‘Iran’…

Wouldn’t we?

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Here’s some footage:

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I had some interesting conversations over Shabbat, with a mum whose son has been in the army for 4 1/2 years.

He finished his regular service right before Oct 7th, then had 2 1/2 years of miluim.

He has some serious, serious, PTSD, amongst many other things going on.

Something really has to change radically, with the way the system is operating.

She was telling me:

Why send boys to war like this? Why not train an army of proper professional soldiers, people who WANT to serve, give them amazing benefits, and make sure they have all the support and instruction they need to do it professionally?

Why keep traumatizing generation after generation of young people like this, for what?

It’s a good question.

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More people need to start asking these good questions, about how to reorganise the army along lines that will help to prevent needless deaths of the soldiers serving, and stop yelling about drafting chareidim.

Professional soldiers are much harder to manipulate, boss around and send into situations that risk their lives, unnecessarily.

Professional soldiers are more likely to have their own ideas, from experience, about what is a good ‘order’, and what is a recipe for disaster, a death trap waiting to happen.

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In the meantime, interesting how the meteors are starting to explode all over the place, way more than normal…

Isn’t it?

Reminds me of a post I wrote a long time ago, called How God uses comets to fight for the Jews.

Maybe, just maybe, we are about to witness another example of that happening again.

It’s hard to believe that Shavuot was just a week ago…

In my dalet amot, so much has happened since then, I can’t really keep up with myself. First, we went on a family holiday for two days, to the Kinneret.

The Kinneret is actually very low this year, surprisingly low, given all the rain we had. I saw all the new reservoirs along the sides of the roads as we went up, Chinese-built, and hardly discussed anywhere, so who knows what’s really going on. But I can’t help but wonder if the new reservoirs and the poor state of the Kinneret are somehow connected.

The husband and SILs decided to do a bit of fishing, and they even caught something.

I was helping out with the grandsons, and it reminded me again, just how much energy small kids generate, and require. It was really nice, but also quite tiring.

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For once, I didn’t rush around doing a million things on holiday.

I went to the separate beach twice, for an hour, and that was basically it, apart from a trip to Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess on the way out.

But it was enough to feel very grateful, for the gift of living in Eretz Yisrael, and underscored again how what you read online and what you experience in your own dalet amot can be so radically different, these days. Especially in Israel.

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We got home – and then, Kosher Kingdom burned down.

I know Kosher Kingdom well, because my parents have been living on top of it for the last few years.

Their flat didn’t burn down, as far as we know (it took the fire brigade a whole day to contain the fire). But, the whole building was severely and structurally damaged.

My parents and everyone else got ‘evacuated’ at 7am Wednesday morning, my mum was out in the street just in her nightie and slippers, as she didn’t have time to get dressed – and that was the last time they, or anyone else, was allowed in the building.

Now, we’re waiting for updates, but the fire was so intense it’s apparently warped the foundations of the whole building.

Bottom line: they will have to find somewhere else to live.

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Just like that, everything can change.

Just like that, everything we think is settled, comfortable, never-changing – it can change in the blink of an eye.

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Two weeks ago, my mother was taking pictures of King Charles getting a challah from Grodzinsky bakery, across the road, and glad-handing a crowd of frum London Jews.

Three weeks ago (?), she was sending me pictures of the stabbing on Golders Green Road, where the stabber was being tasered in the street and then the police cordoned off the area for like, 10 hours, and no-one could get in or out again.

Wednesday, ‘Kosher Kingdom’ burned down.

Yesterday, an Iranian man got run over on Golders Green Road, on purpose.

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My mother told me that the Iranian community and the Jewish community in London have actually been getting quite ‘close’ the last few months, feeling solidarity for each other in this crazy world.

There was a empty lot with boarding around it on Golders Green Road, that for months and months, had pictures of the hatufim, kidnapped to Gaza.

As the hatufim were returned, the pictures were slowly taken down – and then, when the Iranian regime started murdering protesters in the streets a couple of months ago, the Iranian community of London started sticking up their posters of the slain.

My mother told me there were hundreds of them stuck on the boarding, and it became a kind of ‘shrine’ to the Iranian protesters.

So, in our strange world, the expat Iranians in London and the London Jews in galut are getting on like a house on fire, at the moment, if you’ll pardon the expression.

Peace is truly possible, when the evil politicians, and those controlling them from the shadows, are out of the picture.

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Was the fire really just an ‘electrical fault’?

From what I’m hearing, it seems to be yes, it was just an electrical fault. The UK has been going through a heatwave for a few days, temperatures in the high 30s.

And 15 years ago, there was another electrical fire at the previous Kosher Kingdom premises, so it could be lightning struck twice.

But even so, most people don’t believe that. And even if it was just an electrical fault, God was clearly arranging things, still, that the iconic ‘Kosher Kingdom’ of Golders Green would publically burn down.

The ‘comfort zone’ in chul is shrinking radically.

The ‘comfort zone’ in Israel has never really existed, if we’re honest.

We’ve always been going through wars, intifadas, terrorist attacks, skirmishes from Bedouin tribes…

And it’s like this, because when people feel ‘uncomfortable’, they start to turn to God a lot more.

I guess, that’s the real point.

The only point, of what is currently going on.

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I know I’m not posting a lot here at the moment.

There’s a few reasons for that. I am just really, really busy offline these days, which is a very good thing and a blessing.

But like you, I also don’t know what on earth is going on, and I don’t want to waste my breath, or anyone else’s time, by pointlessly speculating.

Things will start to get more clarified soon.

But when change comes, it really does come in the blink of an eye.

And that is why the Chofetz Chaim kept a packed suitcase in his hallway, apparently, waiting for the message that Moshiach had come, and geulah had commenced in earnest.

With all the current uncertainty going on, especially in chul, that’s not a bad idea.

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PS: The Rav was back at the davening yesterday and out of hospital, Baruch Hashem.

The Rav got taken to hospital yesterday, and needs our prayers.

R Eliezer ben Ettia, for a full refuah shleimah.

Usually, the Rav goes into hospital when there is some big din hanging over the Jewish people, generally, which requires some serious sweetening.

When we pray for the Rav, we’re really just praying for ourselves.

So, please do whatever you can do, one TK, three, seven – even ten!

Whatever you can manage.

And may we just hear good news.

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The name again:

R Eliezer ben Ettia

Shiur given the evening of the 17th of Iyar 5786

Hashem said to Cain, why are you bringing flax?! What, you don’t have dates?

Except, the dates he was keeping for Putin.

Now, they are saying that Trump is going to come here, another time. They are always breaking us. Every time, I get broken again.

Rockets – there aren’t. Trump – there isn’t. What is left for us?

Trump says that he’s going to pass by here. I know that he’s going to go to some church, or to the Kotel.

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Kushner – we wanted to go on Erev Shavuot, last year, no, it was on Hoshana Rabba, we wanted to go the eve of Simchat Torah, so then Kushner came, and they shut the whole Kotel.

Each time, they have new excuses [why they have to close the Kotel]. So, for sure, Trump is going to also want the Kotel, he only wants the Kotel.

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The Argentinian Prime Minister, he, the first thing came, to the Kotel.

People come to the Kotel, non-Jews, Jews, it doesn’t matter. Halevai, if only, we can go there. Everyone is coming.

Excerpted and translated from Shivivei Or # 456.

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Ad kan, from the Rav.

I went up North for a couple of days, for a ‘break’.

There was a cool place where you could decorate gourds close to Nahariyya, so we went, and I had the best time I’ve had for a long time.

(I highly recommend, here’s the website: https://delart.co.il/?studio. This is a pretty old vid, but you get the idea:)

The owner told us we were the second customers he’s had in two and a half months… It’s really not simple, what’s going on at the moment.

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We also swung past some kivrei tzaddikim, because any holiday without some kedusha is basically just going to feel flat, boring and kinda empty.

(That’s starting to explain a lot, isn’t it?)

So, I said to my husband, let’s go to the first kever we see. We were on the road to Meron, so it happened to be the kever of Rabbi Kruspedai, a little way up a hill.

We got out, said a TK by the grave, then a car of Breslovers showed up and started telling me husband he HAD TO follow them to the next grave, where they were going to light the ner tamid for a month.

He argued a bit, then he gave in and we followed them.

We hopped across the road to the grave of the Amorrah, R Yose deYokrat (I think…) One of the Breslov guys gave my husband the leftover olive oil from the ner tamid, and told us it’s a proven segulah for healing and pain relief.

My gums have been really painful for months and months (I think it’s stress related, honestly, as this point. Long story.) So I thought, let me try it, and see.

It’s the second day, but my mouth is feeling much better than it has been for a long time, BH that will continue.

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We travelled on to Rabbi Shimon and Meron – and I just loved being up there, with the tzaddikim, and the nice gourd man of Nahariyya.

I felt very blessed to live in Israel, even still under fire, even still with all the horrible stress going on, in a million ways.

Honestly?

When has it ever been different?

Things have never been easy in the Land of Israel, as becomes clear if you spend even a microsecond learning some history, recent or ancient.

And also in the world – there have always been wars going on, in the non-Jewish world, from the time Cain stabbed Abel to death, because ‘the whole world’, literally, wasn’t enough for him and he didn’t want to share it.

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When Moshiach comes, the madness, or at least, the ‘war’ madness, will end for good.

Rabbenu taught that Moshiach will conquer the world without firing a shot, i.e. by prayer alone.

Remember, the Rav said a few weeks ago that ‘Moshiach is made up of our prayers.’

I don’t know how complete Moshiach currently is, but I guarantee a bunch more bits have been filled in recently. It might take another week, or another 200 years, who knows? But eventually, sooner or later, enough prayers will have been said for Moshiach to conquer the world without firing a shot.

And in the meantime, we just need to figure out how to live as productively, happily and ‘holy’ as we can, in the waiting room.

There’s a very interesting article on the anti-semitic SOTT site, about UFO-demons.

You can see the full, long, well-written article HERE.

These are some snippets that caught my eye:

The Orthodox patristic tradition has a specific term for what happens when demonic entities present themselves as luminous, wise, and spiritually elevating to unprepared human minds: prelest, meaning spiritual deception. Seraphim Rose, a hieromonk who died in 1982 at forty-seven, argued in his 1975 work Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future that the modern UAP encounter accounts matched the patristic descriptions of prelest with a precision that was not coincidental.

Rose had come to Orthodoxy through comparative religion and Eastern philosophy — he had read Guénon carefully before his conversion, and Guénon’s diagnosis of modernity’s metaphysical dissolution remained foundational to how he read everything that followed. The entities in the UAP record presented as wise, claimed cosmic significance, produced experiences of profound meaning and transformation in their witnesses — and required nothing of those witnesses in the way of moral or spiritual development. That last detail is, in the Orthodox tradition, the definitive diagnostic marker of deception rather than genuine spiritual contact.

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A practicing Catholic whose prior scholarly work focused in part on Marian apparitions, Diana Walsh Pasulka was not looking for a new religion when she began researching what became her 2019 book American Cosmic. She was a religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington with the methodological training to recognize the structural features of a new religion forming in real time. That is what she found — operating not at the credulous margins but at the highest levels of the American defense and technology establishment.

The central argument of American Cosmic is not that UAP are real or unreal, extraterrestrial or demonic or psychological. It is that the phenomenon functions as a religion-generating force regardless of its ultimate nature, and that this function is operating at the highest levels of the technological establishment rather than, or in addition to, the credulous margins where the popular imagination places it. The people Pasulka embedded with in the course of her research were not rural abductees or convention circuit enthusiasts. They were scientists with security clearances, Silicon Valley figures with access to classified programs, aerospace engineers who spoke about their work in the register of the converted…

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 If Rose is right about what the phenomenon is, then Pasulka’s embedded researchers are people in the process of being deceived by something that has been deceiving human beings for millennia and has gotten very good at it…

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Exorcism in the classical sense is not a defensive posture. It is the assertion that hidden things can be identified, confronted, and expelled. Whether that applies to non-human psychic entities, to a human breakaway civilization, or to some entanglement of both, the logic is the same. Avoidance and gradualism are strategies for living with something. Exorcism is a strategy for ending it. The civilization that spent seventy years managing this problem has not yet asked whether ending it is possible. Given what the record contains, that question is probably overdue.

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Before we continue, the authentic Jewish tradition that is always overlooked and missing from these arguments explains way more of the ‘holes’ in the theories about what is really going on. As mentioned, the Zohar clearly talks about 7 underground worlds, however we are meant to really understand that, populated by ‘things’ that seem to have some corporeal reality, but aren’t human.

And as said before, I don’t know if those ‘things’ are just more subsets of demons, or something else, but for sure, there are spiritual phenomena going on here that smug idiots like to characterise as ‘aliens’, and then stop there, thinking orthodox Jews are STOOPID and misguided, for not following their lead.

The more a person has a soul, the more they already understand, how little they, or perhaps anyone else, really knows about how God created the world and is running it.

This was always the province of the kabbalists – and so many of them, too, were ‘deceived’ and destroyed by the spiritual entities they came into contact with.

It’s very, very dangerous to mess around with this stuff, even for genuinely holy people with genuinely good intentions.

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So now, bottom line, what are the takeaways from the snippets above, relevant to you and me?

Let’s focus on this one:

The entities in the UAP record presented as wise, claimed cosmic significance, produced experiences of profound meaning and transformation in their witnesses — and required nothing of those witnesses in the way of moral or spiritual development. That last detail is, in the Orthodox tradition, the definitive diagnostic marker of deception rather than genuine spiritual contact.

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You know how I keep banging on about working on our middot?

That there is nothing ‘for free’ in this world, spiritually, and each of us has work to do?

That is genuine Breslov, authentic Rebbe Nachman, consistent Rav Berland.

And, it’s missing from nearly all the other ‘Jewish content’ you find circulating online, even from people with big beards and loads of books on their shelves.

If this bit is consistently missing from the ‘discourse’, where your Jewish guru:

required nothing of those witnesses in the way of moral or spiritual development

Then, I would pause, and seriously ask myself:

Is this person, and all their ‘wisdom’, and all their ‘miracles’, and all their ‘transformation’ – is it coming from a good place, really?

Or not?

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The next thing to pay attention to, is that the military-industrial complex has been intertwined with these demonic entities for a very long time.

Which also starts to explain why the wars are never-ending, soul-destroying and totally pointless, from a ‘building the world’ or ‘helping humanity’ perspective.

Doesn’t it?

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The last thing to pay attention to, is this:

Pasulka’s embedded researchers are people in the process of being deceived by something that has been deceiving human beings for millennia and has gotten very good at it…

We are dealing with layers upon layers of spiritual deception.

This has literally been going on for millenia – and let’s not kid ourselves that the Jewish community is immune to it.

Sabbateanism began as an outgrowth of kabbalah practised by individuals who didn’t have the moral ‘vessel’ required to properly handle their knowledge.

This also wasn’t a new process or problem, but as the kabbalah spread to the masses, the sheer numbers of ‘rabbis’ and others who felt they ‘knew kabbalah’ increased – and made them prime targets for the Sitra Achra.

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When a person learns kabbalah, they usually get very arrogant, that they ‘know how stuff works’.

Pride is the one thing that Hashem can’t stand, so that person grows in arrogance and kabbalistic knowledge – but also, distances himself from Hashem, and the protection that comes from being under Hashem’s wing.

That person then becomes a prime candidate for a ‘demonic takeover’, but of course, that’s not how it’s presented, at least, not initially.

It’s presented as ‘dreams from Tzaddikim’; or ‘spirit guides’; of help from some friendly ‘angelic being’, that’s happy to share awesome spiritual wisdom with you, but doesn’t say a word about you needing to work on bad middot, shalom bayit and shmirat eynayim, for example.

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This has been an issue, a problem, for millenia.

Just now, it’s gone mainstream.

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Ultimately, all this is from God, and this too is for the best.

The point is this:

the phenomenon functions as a religion-generating force

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As the UFO narrative starts to increase in force, more and more people will be forced into thinking about spiritual aspects to life.

Part of the UFO narrative is to shove Judaism and the Torah into the same ‘basket’ as xtianity and islam, and then to try and negate all three equally, as being ‘tools’ used to ‘control the masses’.

For two of the above, that charge holds true.

But the Torah was given directly from God, and it cannot be compared to any other man-made religion.

This is going to be the frontline of the spiritual battle, approaching in the guise of ‘UFOS.’

And the main gun in the arsenal is Rabbenu, Rebbe Nachman, and Breslov.

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