The last time I was in Uman was July-time, 2022. It was about five months after the war in Ukraine had begun, and about a month ahead of the annual kibbutz for Rosh Hashana. One of the tour companies owned by chassidim of the Rav were the only people trying to go there still, at […]
Yoshki, Shabtai Tzvi and ‘Moshiach ben Yosef – the transcript
Transcribed notes from Betzalel Naor’s shiur, aka ‘whitewashing Yoshki and Shabtai Tzvi’
I decided to try and transcribe most of Betzalel Naor’s shiur, below, about how only stupid people who don’t study kabbalah believe people like…
Histrionic Personality Disorder and ‘War in Iran’
Yesterday, I finally managed a walk with a friend I haven’t seen for ages.
We were talking about a bunch of stuff, and then she mentioned how she thinks she got PTSD from the attack ‘by Iran’ back in April – when we woke up to weird…
Whitewashing Shabtai Tzvi
As part of trying to track down more info about David Moshe Valli's comments on Yoshki, I got to the Judaism Stackexchange site.
HERE is the link for that.
In turn, that had a discussion about an oldish video shiur from 'Rabbi Bezalel Naor'…
Gratitude and emuna, vs ‘fake gratitude and fake emuna’
Shavua tov!
On Shabbat, (which btw, was one of the nicest I've had for quite a while, thank God I'm not buying into all the 'fear p*rn' and running off to buy a generator...) - I went to learn some Rabbenu with a new chevruta.
We opened…
Shabbat Shalom
I went to the Rav's prayers again yesterday night, BH.
The last few days, the prayers have been V. strong - lots of singing, quite a happy atmosphere (!) and the Rav himself seems to be in a good mood.
He wasn't like that before Simchat…
The PEREIRA / AGUILAR / FONSECA CONNECTION (Hebron Sabbateans, Part 4)
Hold onto your hats.... This is a great post for ‘real Jewish history’ aficionados.
The story begins when I was trying to track down a bit more about R ELIYAHU MANI, of Baghdad, then Hevron (with some places in between).
There is a lot…