Trump wants the Kotel – more comments from the Rav

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. […]

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Imagining the good

While my brain is still half-mush, I've been messing around with some content creation tools. Here is a first attempt at Rabbenu and the Rav hanging out, while the UFO-looking Beit HaMikdash crash lands: (Doing a real looking Beit HaMikdash…

Imagine what happens when the Moshiach actually shows up

This was so funny, I laughed out loud for two minutes and got a stomachache... Enjoy! == PS: I am really starting to think that I need to lighten up, waY, wAY, WAY up. We all do. There is still a life to be lived here, and I am…

Elitzur, BESHT dad story jpegs and Zot Chanuka

I have so much info piling up on my plate again... While I'm sorting it out, here's a few things for you, dear reader. Screenshots of the original story of the BESHT's dad I translated from the Hebrew - because it's good to have the…

Astounding siyatta di shmeya – the Rav identifies ‘Adam Baal Shem’

Well, this is kind of incredible. After a whole day of going up and down the Baal Shem Tov's family tree, trying to figure things out more about his father, Eliezer, (and more on that in the next post, because a lot of that story of him being…

The story of the Baal Shem Tov’s father, R Eliezer

This is a mind-blowing post... A few months ago, I was going through old missionary papers from 200 years ago, and I found a curious story introducing the readers to the ‘chassidim’. It included a fantastic story of how the Baal Shem…

The Baal Shem’s ‘book of magick’ – sold at auction in 2023

In the last post, we started taking a closer look at the ‘Rebbe Tree’. We discovered a few surprising things, including that the ‘Badd Rebbes apparently descend from a line of kohanim, and if that’s correct, then none of them could…

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