Above nature
There’s a kind of ‘heavy’ vibe in Israel today.
Of course there is… you can’t have the masonic media running scare stories for two weeks about how ‘Iran’ is going to bomb us back to the stoneage without causing kind of a national ‘downer’.
There is definitely a fair dose of anxiety and worry in the air, even when you’re doing your best to ignore all the ‘panic inducement’ and ‘predictions’.
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This AM, I was doing my hitbodedut when I fell asleep in the middle of it.
That’s when I started dreaming about Shwekey (no, it wasn’t a waking nightmare….) singing this over and over again:
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The basic translation of the chorus is this:
Am Yisrael!
Don’t be scared!
Hashem our God is going before us!
Am Yisrael!
Don’t be scared!
Hashem Elokeynu, Hashem Echad!
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I woke up with this above song, and these words (below) in my head:
ABOVE NATURE
The Jewish people are 100% above nature.
Our teshuva, our prayers, our Torah learning, our good deeds, our tzedekah – this is what changes EVERYTHING around.
At least, for the people who believe that we are ABOVE NATURE, and who put their effort into dealing with God direct, instead of acting and believing like fate-bound non-Jews.
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A word about the term “ARMAGGEDDON.”
It’s totally xtian, taken from the xtian ‘prophetic’ book called REVELATIONS.
In our days, it’s come to mean death and destruction on a world-wide scale for anyone who is not a xtian.
When xtians talk about ‘Armageddon’, they do it with breathless excitement, and zero words about returning to God and making some real teshuva.
Partially, it’s because they are not ‘above nature’, as the Jewish people are, so the idea that our teshuva etc can turn everything around – even so-called ‘Armageddon’ – is just not on the table.
And partially, it’s because their theology teaches that the only ‘teshuva’ a person needs to make is just to get with Yoshki…. and that’s it.
It’s upsetting me, that this thoroughly ‘xtian’ idea of what happens next is so permeating what is meant to be the sincerely observant ‘Jewish’ blogosphere.
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Ah, the bitter fruits of this long exile….
So, in the few hours before Tisha B’Av begins, instead of focussing on more non-Jewish rubbish about ‘Armageddon’ (and btw, interesting that ‘Iran’s nuke’ has disappeared out of the conversation now, for the first time in 25+ years….) – I sincerely suggest you spend some time talking to God about how to internalise the idea that the Jewish people are ABOVE NATURE.
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I don’t know what happens next.
In many ways, I don’t really care.
Whatever happens next, it’s in God’s hands.
And my job is to carry on doing my daily hour of hitbodedut, carry on doing the 7 Tikkun HaKlalis a day, that give our real Tzaddikim like Rav Berland the ‘spiritual ammo’ required to fight the real wars for us – in shemayim!
And, to carry on living life as a believing Jew, and encouraging my children and others to know that we are ABOVE NATURE, and that God doesn’t want people to die – He really just wants people to make some real teshuva.
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This is the present, one of them, that you get from following Rebbe Nachman of Breslov’s path.
Acceptance of God’s total control of the world, while still feeling that God is so close to you, and so interested in what is going on with you, you can literally talk to Him like a good friend, for an hour a day.
(Or more…. if you want.)
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So.
I wish all my readers a meaningful Tisha B’av.
And an easy fast.
And that we should see this next ‘revelation’ of the soul of Moshiach (that was set to occur on Tisha B’av, as described by R Elmaliach many, many months ago….) from the perspective of understanding we are ABOVE NATURE.
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Lastly, here is what the Rav has been saying, about rockets:
The ikker (main thing) is the Tikkun Haklali.
Rabbenu revealed the Tikkun Haklali, but we still haven’t begun to know what the Tikkun Haklali really is. The Tikkun Haklali can sweeten everything.
Every Tikkun HaKlali – this sweetens a million rockets.
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Picture of the Tzaddik protecting Eretz Yisrael from rocket attack by artist Yehoshua Wiseman. www.yehoshuawiseman.com
We are ABOVE NATURE.
Our prayers and teshuva is what turns everything around, for the good, miraculously.
At least, for the people who believe it.
We still have hours until Tsha B’Av, hopefully we will be celebrating a Yom Tov.
I will fast and pray. I saw scary news, then reminded myself the best news would be Rivka. And you didn’t disappoint. Thank you. We in galut feel pain and it is hard having any perspective. Together with one heart we can achieve geulah. (I will leave Armageddon to xtians.It is kind of sickening they look forward to it.)
I’ve asked my mother to get me a flip-phone because of how horrible demonic “smart”phones are (then I\ll sell my iPhone on Ebay for ~$700) and because of the words of the Rav, but for now I’m really stuck using my iPhone more than I wish I am. And it makes me feel awful.
The yearning counts for so much…. we are all stuck with this test, one way and another, until God finally has mercy on us all.
Simon, I really admire your taking a step forward in ripping away from the evil grasp of “technology”. Just wondering if ‘you’ could sell your smartphone on eBay yourself, why can’t ‘you’ just buy yourself a flip phone. You don’t need to wait for your mother.
Keep up the good work.
Amen!! Ken yehi ratzon. I continue to say Tikkun klalli each day and to hang onto the light through the encouragement and inspiration that I get from your blog.
Thanks for channeling strength!
I think it’s more just ‘reflecting’ the strength that each person, each reader, has within them.
Each person’s effort to hang on, to say a TK, to not give up, even when they’re feeling crushed into the floor, is literally changing things around for all of us.
So, thank you, Simcha.
Rav Pinto
Rav Arush
& Yanuka have all been echoing same similiar message