You already know that I had 2 kids and 3 grandkids under 1 1/2 by me for Rosh, while the men went to Uman. Baruch Hashem, ‘official estimates’ reckon that at least 65k got to Uman, but I always add 20,000 onto the ‘official estimates’, which means this year was the biggest Rosh Hashana, ever, […]
Everybody in my household went to Uman, BH. The husband, even the sons-in-law,even the son-in-law who has never been before, he went with a group of ‘secular’ guys from his yishuv who have also never been before. It’s simply amazing what’s going on in Israel. So they are all there – and my house is […]
Rabbenu tells the story of the ‘Horse in the Pump’. I’ll stick the whole thing below this post, from HERE. Long story short, it’s a story of how people delude themselves, and let greed and ‘imagination’ totally take them off the right path in life, leaving them chasing after ‘riches’ and ‘success’ that never comes. […]
Shiur from the Rav in Uman, Elul 18th, 5786 (31st August, 2026) To thank and praise for the enormous miracle, that we managed to chop off the octopus’ tentacles. It has a million tentacles, but the Rebbe chopped off all the tentacles of the octopus, and the Rav entered, after five years that the Rav […]
I had a few days off, up North. Honestly, I could have a few weeks off at the moment, and it probably still wouldn’t be enough. But slowly, slowly, I am feeling like the strength is coming back, enough to keep going at least with the day to day. So, slow posting here on the […]
A very important shiur from the Rav, before he left to Uman. Shiur on Shabbat Parshat Ki Tetzei, 5786 It’s sakanat nefashot (endangering life) to not pray in the Kloiz [in Uman] on Rosh Hashana! It’s the Days of Judgment, and it’s forbidden to ‘stick out’.[1] It’s written in the Zohar, that the Shunamite Woman […]
It’s hard to believe, but Baruch Hashem, the Rav is in Uman. I got sent some video, including this one: == Honestly? I’m speechless. In a good way. There really is no yeoush in the world. == Here’s what was sent out on the Rav’s whatsapp group, which give a lot of chizzuk: After six years — our […]
I was pretty shocked by that footage coming out of Nepal / Tibet of the huge floods. I basically check SOTT, and PalmTreeofDevorah blog as my ‘news’ these days, between them, I get enough of a flavour to satisfy the news impulse that I’ve been trying to throttle back, for years. The footage was shocking […]
Still filling in the backstory, between Parts 8-9. In this part, which was actually the trickiest one to do so far, for a whole bunch of reasons, a storm blows down the Burgher’s Son’s little oasis of trees. It’s his ‘safe place’, his comfort zone, the place where he was just going to surf Youtube […]
Shavua Tov! The Rav put out a couple of important messages about getting to Uman for 5787, which I am translating below. == August 2, 2026, 26th Av, 5786 Message #1 from the Rav, about Uman 5787: All the geula, in order that there won’t be a war, that they won’t launch drones here, that […]