The story begins back with the post I stuck up a couple of weeks ago about the BEILIS BLOOD LIBEL, where I was trying to unpack some of the Rav’s comments about it. You can go back and read that post HERE. To make the very long story short, a young Russian boy was found […]

Rockets in Netivot?

Yesterday, I spent the morning at the Baba Sali in Netivot. ***UPDATES - SCROLL DOWN*** I wrote about it in the last post, how it was so quiet, peaceful and 'calm'. Then when I got home, I saw some reports of rockets over Netivot apparently…

The world of lies and the Baba Sali

This morning, I went to Netivot, to belatedly celebrate the hiloula of the Baba Sali, zt'l. It was totally quiet - apart from the large crowds of people still showing up to celebrate the hiloula, that was officially on motzae Shabbat / Sunday. It…

Some thoughts on Lloyd Austin

Pretty much the only place I check for 'headlines' these days is the anti-semitic SOTT site. In this ridiculous world we live in, I get more 'real news' from a site run by obvious anti-semites than I do from pretty much anywhere else. That's…

Berdichev Bankers and the Tzemach Tzedek

The story begins, as these stories so often do, with a chance comment one of the readers here made. You can see it here on THIS post, about ‘Mr Israel’, the WWF wrestling nephew of the Chazon Ish who was also a member of the (masonic....)…

Judgement below

This morning, I had an amazing thought pop into my head, during hitbodedut. It was this: JUDGEMENT BELOW. (Can you tell where this is going already?) ==== The Midrash in Devarim Rabbah 5:4 says this  "When there is no judgment below,…

The explanation of the 770 tunnel that actually makes sense

Just got this from my Chabad friend. And I'm posting it up, then continuing my small break. I asked a friend about the tunnels under 770, unfortunately it's all politics and fighting inside the community. Since the Rebbe passed away,…