Shiur to the Mithabrim (‘Associates’) 28th Kislev, 5785, 29th December 2024, Chanukah.

The Gemara recounts about ‘Diclot’ (Diocletian, Roman Emperor) – this is page 47a, in Trumot, the end of the eighth verse[1]. Diocletian was a shepherd of pigs. He used to shepherd [his pigs] exactly opposite where the cheder of Yehuda Nesiya[2] was [in Tiberius].

He saw the children coming out of cheder, 5pm – and they threw stones at him. They gashed his head, three times, they gashed his head, and he needed eight stitches. Eight stitches! I saw it.

So, he had eight stitches, and in the end he was made the Caesar of Rome.

Now, I’m going to take revenge against everyone! Now, I’m going to take my vengeance against all the rabbis, all the roshei yeshivot, the head teacher of the cheder, about how he taught his charges to throw stones at Diocletian, the pig shepherd!

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OK, so while [R’ Yehuda Nesiya, the head of the cheder in Tiberius, and Rav Shmuel ben R’ Nachman] are having a shower in the mikvah, and they are all soapy, suddenly a messenger from the king shows up, with a telegram. It’s five minutes before shkia (halachic sunset), this was in Tiberius, I remember, this was in Tiberius.

And [the messanger from the king] told them, go and immerse in the Banias!

You need to go to the Banias to immerse all the kids there, they will for sure turn out to be tzaddikim.

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The Jordan River begins at the Banias.

The Caesars used to build their palaces on the Banias, even [the Caesars] of Rome.

Because in Rome it’s minus ten, so it’s possible to freeze to death from the cold, it’s possible to die from the cold. So, they used to build a palace on the Banias, all the the Caesars. It was hot there [in the winter].

The coldest it gets in Eretz Yisrael is zero degrees.

You don’t need a sweater, it’s not necessary. They walked along in vests and sandals. Mithabrim don’t walk around in [just a] vest. But you don’t need a scarf, that you don’t. It just makes a person sick – the scarf – it strangles him, and he can’t breathe, the body can’t breathe.

The body needs to breathe via the pores, it also breathes via the skin.

It doesn’t need a thousand sweaters, and sweatshirts – it doesn’t need this. It just suffocates [the body], and he’ll get sick from this. He’ll get a fever from this, because the body isn’t breathing. The body breathes more via the skin than it does via the mouth and nose, because the skin envelops 100% of the body.

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In short, [R’ Yehuda HaNasi and Rav Shmuel ben R’ Nachman] recieve a telegram that they have to report to Banias.

From Tiberius until Metulla is 90 [km], and until the Banias this is another 90, so 180, 200 km they have to traverse, and to appear there in two minutes.

Immediately after havdala, they have to report to the Banias next to my palace, and if not, I am going to burn the lot of you! I’m going to throw you into the fire!

Yehuda Nesiya didn’t know [what to do – how he could get to Banias immediately for motzae when it was already shkeia of Shabbat in Tiberius.]

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Yehuda Nesiya was the grandson of Yehuda.[3]

His son [Hillel Nesiya] fixed the annual calender, until the time of the coming of Moshiach, because it was already impossible to sanctify the new moon.

The Romans already wouldn’t let this happen.

This is now the Daf Yomi[4], that a couple [of witnesses for the new moon] came: “me’reket amosi nachshon”. Reket is Tiberius, and they sanctified the month. Amosi nachshon is ‘governors’, governors is the Sanhedrin – this is exactly the Daf Yomi, page 12 [in Tractate Sanhedrin].

You need to learn the Daf Yomi, it’s stories, everything is just stories. It’s really not hard, to see how there were gezeirot (harsh decrees), and the mithabrim by-passed the Romans, and how they sanctified the month.

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[The Romans] caught Yehuda ben Baba, and they pierced him with 300 spears.

Yehuda ben Baba sanctified the month, after that, he ordained five chachamim, so they pierced him with white-hot spears.[5]

Yehuda ben Baba was the re-incarnation of [king] Yoshiyahu. Yoshiyahu was also pierced. Yirmiyahu said to Yoshiyahu, let the Pharoah fight against the King of Bavel [i.e. Let the Egyptian ruler cross Eretz Yisrael to do battle with Babylon.]

Then, Pharoah came to fight with the King of Bavel. Pharoah was crippled [also a play on words, he was called ‘Necho’ in Chronicles II] he was lame in one foot. Yirmiyahu told him, give him passage! Yoshiyahu said, I won’t give him! [Only after he’d been pierced by arrows and was dying did Yoshiyahu say]

“Hashem is a Tzaddik, for I disobeyed His utterance.”[6]

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Yirmiyahu told him not to fight.

It’s not always possible to fight.

The Hashmonaim fought, Hezkiyahu fought. Hezkiyahu also didn’t fight. He just stuck a sword [in the ground of the entrance to the beit midrash] and said talmud Torah is everything!

[Sennacheriv’s messengers] said we’ll bring horses against you, come, let’s make war. We’ll bring tanks against you, we’ll bring MiGs…. He wanted to bring tanks against them.

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Biden doesn’t want to bring tanks, so we’ll recieve tanks from Hamas.

We’ll get tanks from Hamas, they’ll bring tanks to us. The Jihad, Hezbollah, Nasrallah – they wanted to bring tanks. I don’t know why they killed him, he was a good man… The very best people…., what, did he do something not good?!

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So, the king said, bring me a tanach, I am going to give you 2000 horses.

What, I’m going to give you tanks, horses, MiGs, come, let’s have a war. I came from the whole world!

It’s written in the Gemara, Sanhedrin, I brought soldiers from across the whole world, from across the whole planet, i brought soldiers. Two billion six hundred thousand – it’s written ‘260 thousand ribua’. A thousand ribua is 20 million, we calculate according to the zeros.

A thousand is three zeros. ‘Ribua’ is four zeros. Seven zeros is 10 million, so 260 thousand ribua is two billion six hundred million.

It’s written that no water remained in the Jordan [river]….

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They said, it’s impossible [to conquer Jerusalem].

There’s a verse written in Eicha (Lamentations), we’re only going to recite it in another half [a year], Eicha, this is another seven months.[7] Today, it’s the 1st of Tevet, tomorrow it’s already the molad[8], this is the 1st of Tevet. So another six-and-a-half months, and then we’ll say: “The Kings of the earth did not believe.”[9]

They didn’t believe at all, it was known that it was impossible to conquer Jerusalem.

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They launched rockets on Shabbats, they launched rockets here.

No rocket got to Jerusalem, it didn’t succeed. The Hezbollah said that they would fire [rockets], they didn’t succeed. Because they intercepted this before it even got to the Aretz [Eretz Yisrael]… 100 km, 100 km this is 20 seconds. Every five kilometres is a second for the fastest rocket. So 100 km, [the rocket should arrive] in 20 seconds.

But this exploded and was scattered across the whole of the Aretz.

Over Beer Yaakov, on Ramat Gan, on Yaffo – this is 30 metre rocket. This is not a small rocket, the size of this, this was 30 metres. This is like five buildings, full of explosive material that could blow up a whole city.

So when it arrived, this was exploded across the whole of Eretz Yisrael – upon Yaffo, on Ramat Gan, on Holon.

Now, 20 people were injured in Yaffo on Thursday morning [when they ran to the safety rooms in the middle of the night].

And now something fell in Beer Yaakov, on some roof, and on a school in Ramat Gan. And now it fell on a playground, 20 people were injured.

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It’s written:

“Your mighty Yemenite ones will be broken, so that every man will be cut off from the Mountain of Esav by the slaughter.”[10]

That from Yemen will come malchut (royalty, governance). So there is a verse your mighty Yemenite ones. ‘Cut off’ means to ‘bring down’, they will bring down from Yemen.

[The explanation is]: They will come from Yemen. It’s impossible to fight with the Yemenites. Yemenites are stubborn.

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Excerpted and translated from Shivivei Or 391.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] This tractate can only be found in the Jerusalem Talmud.

[2] Apparently this is not ‘R Yehuda HaNasi’ – ‘Rebbe’  -, but his grandson. In the Jerusalem Talmud, he is called: R Yudan Nesiya.

[3] It’s not clear who the Rav is referring to, the transcriber of Shivivei Or suggests this is a reference to Yehuda HaNasi, Rebbe.

[4] See Tractate Sanhedrin, 12.

[5] See Tractate Sanhedrin 13b.

[6] Lamentations 1:18.

[7] Lamentations is recited on the fast of Tisha B’Av.

[8] Time of the new moon.

[9] Lamentations 4:12. The full verse reads: “The kings of the earth did not believe, not did any of the world’s inhabitants, that the adversary or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.”

[10] See Ovadiah 1:9.

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Now I’ve just re-read this, I am seeing a few allusions to what happened / is happening in LA, with the fires and the lack of water….

Everything is midda k’neged midda.

When Esav goes down, Yaakov goes up.

The whole trick is to make sure you are identifying with, and attached to, the right side of this equation, as things finally start swinging back in the favor of ‘Yaakov’.

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Trump is ‘Ba’al Tzafon’.

He’s the last idol left in the modern-day mitzrayim, that people are turning to, to ‘save them’ from whatever is about to come next.

God is leaving him standing precisely to fulfill that function.

He’s the ‘last great hope’ of the modern-day Egyptians, who want to keep enslaving the Jews and building their empire on the back of all the dispossessed and abused homeless serfs they are creating.

God is about to take modern-day mitzrayim out of action for good.

And just like the Jews at the sea, before it splits, things are probably going to be quite scary, in parts.

But remember this:

Everything God is doing, He’s doing it for us.

And Yaakov can only finally rise, when Esav falls.

Ba’al Tzafon notwithstanding.

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UPDATE:

After I put this up, I trawled through the stuff I usually trawl through, to get a feel for what the latest propaganda is.

As I’ve mentioned before, the Shirat Devorah blog is consistently the best place I find ‘propaganda’ designed to confuse sincere Jews into believing ‘black’ is really ‘white’.

Why she has the ‘merit’ of this, your guess is as good as mine.

But take a look at this latest post, and especially the comments below it, about Trump and Netanyahu.

And then, come to your own conclusions.

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UPDATE 2:

Here’s more video showing just how destructive this fire in LA was – 10,000 houses destroyed.

Methodically.

But apparently, not the trees standing right next to them….

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In the video, the presenter emphasises there is NO WATER coming out of the taps in the area.

Apparently, a synagogue in the area is one of the few buildings left totally untouched.

That’s interesting, for a lot of different reasons.

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Meanwhile, look at this:

https://ita.lacity.gov/sites/g/files/wph1626/files/2021-05/SmartLA2028%20-%20Smart%20City%20Strategy.pdf

It’s a 54 page document setting out how LA is meant to be turned into a ‘smart city’ by 2028 – just three short years away.

Now so much of it burned down, that’s sure going to make it easier to ‘build back better’, and ‘smarter’….

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Here’s a screenshot from that PDF:

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IoT is ‘Internet of Things’.

That’s where every single person, object, animal, thing, gets it’s own IP address, so it can be tracked and controlled.

How fun!

But don’t worry, Trump is really paying chess in 83 million dimensions, and the white hats have all this covered….

Whatever.

 

 

I woke up today in quite the bad mood.

Let’s say, it’s a reaction to months and months and months of unremitting stress.

Let’s say, it’s a reaction to my obnoxious landlord, and the feeling that I am just never going to own my own place in Jerusalem, no matter how hard I try.

Let’s say, it’s a reaction to 16 months of ‘war’, and lies, and ‘war’, and propaganda, and ‘war’, and people still lying to themselves about even simple things like whether a totally corrupt politician with so much Jewish blood on his hands (and foreign bank accounts stuffed full of currency….) could ever, in a million years, be a ‘MBY’.

(Remember from HERE, some of the kabbalists including R David Valli referred to Yoshki as also being ‘in the line of MBY’. If you want to claim that Yoshki was somehow good for the Jewish people, that’s your free choice. But what’s obvious is that this whole discussion about ‘MBY’ has been warped and misapplied, at best, by people who basically talk rubbish.)

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So, we could say it’s all the above, and more.

Or none, actually.

And more just the soul’s reaction to a world where it’s so hard some days, to keep hanging on to God and His Torah.

Today is the 10th of Tevet, and R Natan’s hiloula.

I feel so disconnected from both of these things, even though I’m fasting today, in a bad-mooded way, because I remembered too late to drink a lot of water yesterday that today is a fast day.

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Rabbenu teaches that when a person starts to feel that they literally can’t take another second of it, that’s when the salvation comes.

That downest-of-down moment is the springboard for the ‘up’ that follows.

I am hoping that’s what is going on here.

Apart from my horrible landlord, and all the feelings of power-lessness and ‘unfair’ that still manages to bring up, and that I clearly still need to work on, life is actually good in my dalet amot.

Super busy and very, very stressful.

But good.

So I’m not entirely sure why I’m feeling that this just can’t go on today.

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Watch this, from R Ofer Erez:

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Without connecting to the true tzaddikim like Rebbe Nachman and R Eliezer Berland, it would be impossible to carry on happily at the moment.

Even with them, I am sometimes struggling.

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Last thing to mention is this:

A couple of days ago, ‘Hamas’ released a video of one of the captives in Gaza, called Liri Elbag.

This is a screenshot, from the Daniel Amram Telegram channel:

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I have to say, this upset me a lot.

Liri is 19 – and now looks like a haggard middle-aged woman.

And then, I felt so powerless, and not a little depressed, that after a year and four months, the same Evils are still running the show… the same Evils are still sending more soldiers to get killed and maimed for life… the same Evils are still sending millions to ‘Hamas’, while pretending they are the only problem we have… the same Evils are pretending fake rockets from the Houthis are raining down on Israel…

And the same Evils didn’t bring the hostages back.

Or at least, what’s left of them.

According to the Rav’s words yesterday (and he’s about the only source of information I trust implicitly, at this point) – there are only 50 left alive.

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The feeling of ‘powerlessness’ to change any of this is sometimes overwhelming.

I went to the Rav yesterday, and one of the women there thrust a few packets of prayers into my hands.

I am attaching one here in the original Hebrew, and check back later today, when I BH will have translated this, and another one to protect the soldiers to English, when I’ll post them up in their own separate ‘post’, to make it easy to find them.

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We can clearly see that the ‘military option’ has done nothing for the hostages, and nothing for the Jewish people – except bring 1000+ young men back in body bags, while blowing the limbs off another 15,000+.

The answer to resolving the mess we find ourselves in is ONLY spiritual.

So, the first way to ‘fight back’ against the Evils and the sense of powerless-ness is to say this prayer, to get the hostages back.

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Next, I wanted to tell you about Shuvu Banim’s ‘Kollel Hatzot’, in the Old City of Jerusalem.

For the last two years (at least….) this Kollel of 5-6 men have been following this schedule:

• 11pm – Arrive at the Shuvu Banim beit midrash in the Old City, overlooking Har Habayit, and hear a shiur from the Rosh Kollel.
• 12am – 2am – Do Tikkun Hatzot – the midnight lament, that is meant to be the most powerful prayer for negating harsh judgements on the Jewish people, particularly in relation to ending the exile and getting the Temple finally rebuilt.
• 2-5.30 am – Learn Torah.
• 5.30 am onwards – prayer with the Netz, or sunrise minyan.

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These men stay up all night, praying for the good of Am Yisrael.

And do you know how much money they get for this maximum mesirut nefesh?

Currently, less than 200 shekels, each, A MONTH.

(That’s around $55 USD – a MONTH).

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Below, I’m going to bring the original Hebrew letters from the Rosh Kollel, explaining more of what these prayers are really doing spiritually, for Am Yisrael, with a basic English translation.

But before I do that, let me tell you what I propose.

I propose, dear reader, that if you really want to put your tzedaka money somewhere where it is making a tangible difference to both yourself, and to Am Yisrael, on the spiritual level, that you consider sponsoring one of the members of the Kollel Hatzot to the tune of 400 nis a month.

This is the minimum amount that Rav Berland has asked the Rosh Kollel to try to pay each one of the members of the Tikkun HaTzot kollel.

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You can literally do that online, right now, by going HERE.

Now, Shuvu Banim is not a slick ‘fundraising’ operation. So while this page is 100% secure payment (and not the link I often send you to via the ravberland.com site) – it’s in Hebrew, not English.

So, let’s bring a screenshot of the Hebrew page, and then let’s translate it into English (in  red), so you can see what you need to do:

WHAT YOU’LL SEE, IN HEBREW, with my red translation:

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Then, you can pick how you want to make the payments by clicking these buttons:

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That’s ‘how’ to sponsor one of the learners at the Kollel

AND AGAIN, LET ME STRESS THAT I HAVE NO PERSONAL INTEREST IN ANY OF THIS, I’M NOT GETTING A CENT FROM THIS, I DON’T WORK FOR THEM, I GET NOTHING ‘BACK’ FROM RECOMMENDING THIS AT ALL.

But the reason I’m telling you about the Kollel Chatzot of Shuvu Banim, is because this is where I put some of my own tzedaka money, and spiritually, I see I have so many benefits from doing that.

Now, let’s bring the letters from the Rosh Kollel, so you can understand why that might be.

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HERE is a short PDF in Hebrew with some words from the Rosh Kollel.

And below, is an English translation of another letter the Rosh Kollel wrote in Hebrew:

“With God’s help

To all our Jewish brethren in Israel and the diaspora, may God keep them alive!

We turn to you with an emotional appeal, regarding a midnight kollel (religious study group) that is in the heart of Jerusalem, near  to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, from where the Divine Presence has never departed.

As our Sages said: ‘He gazes through the windows, peers through the lattices.’

For since the destruction of the Temple, the Divine Presence has never left the Western Wall.

And as the Ben Ish Chai said, there are ten levels of holiness in Jerusalem, each higher than the next, and fortunate is one who studies from a place where one can see the holy Temple Mount...

And as the tzaddikim of Jerusalem said, our place of study is the most holy place in the world…

Here,[1] is the source of salvation, here prayers ascend.

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It is the fortress of pearls upon the mountain of gold, it is the triple shoe of the holy Divine Presence leading the Jewish people toward their redemption speedily in our days.

It is Noah’s Ark, protecting Am Yisrael from the flood of heresy and desires, and it is the Water Castle mentioned in the Sippurei Ma’asiot[2]. And as Moharnat[3] said, the future redemption will come through the merit of the worthy ones who rise at midnight and lament the destruction of the Temple.

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And as our rabbis said: ‘Whoever mourns for Jerusalem merits to see its consolation.’

And so I call to you personally, that with all this terrible situation that the Jewish people find themselves in, after the events of Simchat Torah and the ongoing war with all its bloodshed.

In the Shuvu Banim Kollel Hatzot, there are more than a minyan (quorum of ten) of married scholars with families, who sacrifice themselves night after night, rising from their short sleep and enduring all the hardships on the way, including the hostile Arabs.[4]

They arrive at the holy yeshiva, where they conduct the midnight prayer service and study Torah until morning and pray at sunrise, and pray for the salvation of all those who partner in these awesome mitzvot (commandments).

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And as our Sages said in the Talmud: ‘Rabbi Yochanan said: Whoever puts merchandise in the purse of Torah scholars merits to sit in the Heavenly Academy, as it is said, “For in the shadow of wisdom is the shadow of money.”‘ (Pesachim 53)

And the Maharsha explains, regarding the verse ‘And there shall be a pavilion for shade from heat by day,’ that in the future, the Holy One will remove the sun from its sheath, the wicked will be judged by it, while for the righteous the Holy One will make them a sukkah for shade.

And this shade will protect them from the sun that will scorch the wicked.

And one who benefits a Torah scholar with his money, will merit together with the scholars, to be in this sukkah, and will be saved from the future heat of the sun.”

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All I can tell you, is that I see tremendous blessings in my own life, and I’m sure a good part of that is thanks to us sponsoring the Kollel Chatzot.

They call me up all the time, asking for names to pray for at midnight – right next to the Kotel, in the place where all the prayers ascend.

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So, if you want to help sponsor at least one learner at the Kollel Chatzot, go HERE.

It’s tzedaka that isn’t just helping you, and isn’t just helping them – it’s helping the whole of Am Yisrael, to dig themselves out of this huge mess we are currently in.

And that’s got to be worth every penny.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] I.e. Overlooking Har Habayit. The late Tosher Rebbe of Montreal stated explicitly that in our generation, for as long as the Temple remains destroyed, the prayers ascend via the Shuvu Banim yeshiva in the Old City. See One in a Generation, Volume I.

[2] Tales of Ancient Times, by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. The story of the Water Castle can be found in the tale of the Sixth Beggar.

[3] Rav Natan Sternhartz of Breslov, main pupil of Rebbe Nachman.

[4] The Shuvu Banim beit hamidrash is located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.

I had such a tough, long day yesterday.

Out the house around 7am, only back at 7.30pm. Then baby was crying, so I spent another 20 minutes trying to calm him down (the tuning forks worked a treat. If anyone is interested in hearing more about that, let me know, I’m happy to write about it.)

Then, I stuffed in some food and ran off to the Rav’s prayers down on Ido HaNavi, where I hadn’t been since motzash. Usually, I try to go at least three times a week, because I really see the difference to my mood and ‘coping ability’ when I don’t go three times a week.

We got there late, and left a little earlier than usual – because with all the craziness post-bris, and with my daughter staying with us to recuperate, BH, I had totally forgotten to get the groceries for Shabbat.

So then, we ran off to a super in Romema, before it closed, to get chicken and meat etc, that I can’t get with badatz hechsers closer to home.

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At the cue, I got stuck behind a young American-Israel chareidi woman who was chatting to someone she just bumped into – another American, obviously not her husband – while the guy on the till was frantically trying to get the piece of meat she’d bought to scan.

It refused to scan.

She didn’t notice what was going on, because she was enjoying her discussion with whoever too much. Eventually, I was so tired that it broke through my twin barriers of ‘British politeness’ and ‘accepting everything with love’, that held for the first 15 minutes.

Um, do you think maybe you want to go and choose a different piece of meat, that can be scanned? I asked her. He’s tried everything, it’s just not working…

She looked at me and said so prettily, it’s the last one! I feel so bad, but I need it for Shabbat.

I’d just walked past the deep freezers stuff to the brim, still, with all sorts of bits of meat. I found it hard to believe her. So, we waited for another 10 minutes, until even the super-patient chareidi guy on the till also ran out of the ability of ‘accepting everything with love’, and told her it was impossible to scan.

And at that point, she ‘felt so  bad’ again, vaguely, in my direction, and then paid and walked off without the meat.

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The American guy she was chatting to in such a lively way leaned over to give me a ‘friendly’ piece of advice. “It’s not us that’s broken, it’s the system,” he said. “Sometimes, you just have to wait.”

Yah, thanks guy!

Whatever.

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So, I got home exhausted.

Even though it was approaching midnight, I decided to have a nice hot bath, and then go to bed. The plan worked perfectly – until 4.30 am.

That’s when Jerusalem’s sirens started blaring.

I personally know it’s all bllcks, excuse my French, but I woke up to say a loud Tikkun Haklali for my daughter and her husband, to reassure them there was absolutely no need to run away in a panic because of ‘the Houthis’.

(More on this in a moment).

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I got up at 9am today, totally whacked for the first half an hour.

But then I put on Elitzur’s song:

Twice.

And danced to it, and it gave me some koach to get the chicken in the oven, and get started on the very basic food I’m making for Shabbat.

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In the meantime, I came to check what the ‘story’ was, about why the US military and it’s Erev Rav puppets here decided to wake me up with more bllcks about ‘the Houthis’ firing rockets at Israel from Yemen.

And that brings us up to the “critical thinking” exercise part of this post.

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You’ll find a write-up of the official story on the Arutz 7 propaganda site HERE.

This is the secondary headline:

Sirens sounded in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Gush Dan and the Shfela following a launch from Yemen. IDF says the missile was intercepted. Fragments fall in Modi’in. 12 people treated for injuries sustained on the way to shelter.

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Let’s begin the exercise.

First, let’s locate YEMEN on a map, in relation to Eretz Yisrael:

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The very nearest part of ‘YEMEN’ in relation to Modiin, where shrapnel from this ‘missile from Yemen’ is meant to have fallen is 1,816km away.

Remember what we learnt about those Z rockets from Iran that are what these ‘Houthis’ are meant to be firing at us, from THIS post?

That those rockets have a maximum range of 1,000 km (again, assuming you believe all the ‘ballistic missiles going 600 km up into space’ bllcks in the first place. Which I don’t.)

Let’s pause here, while I turn to you dear reader, to think for yourself about what we just learned here.

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Here’s some questions to try to answer yourself:

• Is it possible that a Z missile from Iran with a maximum range of 1,000 km could get anywhere near Eretz Yisrael, if fired by ‘houthis’ in Yemen, a minimum of 1,816 km away?
• If it’s not possible, what else could explain this?

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Now, if you’re really advanced in ‘critical thinking’, you may come to the conclusion that these missiles are NOT being fired directly from YEMEN itself, but maybe, they are being fired from the Red Sea Gulf, off a ship, or something.

That’s possible. Let’s see where that idea leads.

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This next image ‘imagines’ a houthi ship out to sea in the range of around 1,000 km, that would put it very close to the Saudi Arabian coastline, and Jedda:

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Here’s some more questions to ask yourself, if you’re going with this theory:

How do the ‘Houthis’ have a naval vessel capable of firing a medium range ballistic missile from the sea?

How could it be, that if such a vessel exists, Israel couldn’t simply bomb it out of existence, before it fired anything?

Don’t tell ‘international law’, blahdy blahdy blah, because literally, no-one is in the middle of the sea recording what happens there. Israel could bomb any ‘Houthi’ warship to smithereens in a second, without anyone being any the wiser.

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All this is assuming that ‘ballistic missiles’ actually exist, and work as advertised, by entering ‘outer space’ hundreds of miles up, before dropping down on their targets.

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Next, let’s take a look at what sort of technology capability would be required, to launch a medium range ballistic missile from out to sea.

Here’s a couple of options to consider:

From a submarine (think ‘Trident’)

From a ‘disguised shipping container’ – this is how we are being told ‘the Houthis’ are launching these things.

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And here is a video from ‘X’ apparently showing one of these missile launches:

Iran’s IRGC published a video today of launching a ballistic missile from their forward base Shahid Mahdavi (converted container ship). pic.twitter.com/400Y8DYPlr

— Mehdi H. (@mhmiranusa) February 13, 2024

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Questions to ask yourself:

• What angle is this missile being fired at?
• Is this a ‘ballistic missile’ – i.e. One that apparently goes up many hundreds of kms ‘into space’ before falling on its target?
• If it’s not a ballistic missile, what is it?
• Does it look like this missile could travel 1000+ km to reach Israel, with it’s trajectory?
• Once a ‘disguised container ship’ has been clearly identified as firing a missile towards Eretz Yisrael – what would prevent the IAF from blowing that ‘disguised container ship’ to pieces?
• How many ‘disguised container ships’ do you think Iran / the Houthis actually have?

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So now, let’s return to our side of this equation, because I for sure heard a few booms yesterday night, but nothing shook.

Is it credible that:

• IF a medium-range ballistic missile was fired from a ‘disguised shipping container’ in the middle of the Red Sea Gulf located approximately 1000 km away, and 
• That ‘ballistic missile’ had to travel into space to a height of at least 600+ km (or whatever it’s meant to be) to ‘drop down’ on EY, and
• It was apparently ‘intercepted’ and exploded up in the thermosphere, approx 140 km above earth,

That I would be hearing a ‘boom’ in Jerusalem?

Or that shrapnel from this interception would fall in Modiin?

Especially, when that same ‘news story’ on Arutz 7 tells us all this:

The IDF said that a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted by the IAF prior to crossing into Israeli territory.

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If something was exploded in Israel’s skies yesterday night, it wasn’t a ‘ballistic missile’ from the Houthis.

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For months and months before we got to this stage, Rav Berland was repeatedly giving over the ‘story’ of the woman from Ashdod who ran to the mamad (security room) with her small child, who got dropped on her head as a result.

The Rav just kept repeating that this small child, dropped so many years ago, is ‘still in a coma’ and never woke up.

And then, he’d just keep saying: nobody needs to run to a security room, they just need to say a Tikkun HaKlali!

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I don’t know if I ever bothered to translate this story when he was giving it over, repeatedly, because it seemed so ‘weird’.

Last year, no-one was getting injured from running to their mamads in a panic…..

This week – there are literally a score of people being injured every single night, as they dash off to their mamads half-asleep, because of ‘the Houthis’.

Yesterday, apparently a teenager got run over by a car in Yavne in the middle of ‘running off to a mamad’.

Not for the first time, I’m seeing the Rav’s wisdom and foresight shining through clearly, in all this myriad ways, great and small.

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Here ends today’s lesson in critical thinking.

If you feel like sharing your own thoughts about what’s going on, and how to answer the questions above, feel free.

But one thing is certain: no Houthis from ‘Yemen’ fired anything at Eretz Yisrael at 4.30am yesterday morning.

 

One of my readers asked me if I could re-post the Rav’s prayer to get off the internet.

I thought that’s a fantastic ‘nudge’ from Above, so here it is again:

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Translation:

Ribono Shel Olam, Who can do anything.

Strengthen us with great joy, and we will no longer look at the internet again, forever.

And we will always pray with kavana, every word and every letter.

And at each and every moment, we will be stuck to You, with all our 248 limbs and our 365 sinews, with all our nefesh, ruach, neshama, chaya and yehida.

And give us the merit of seeing Eliyahu HaNavi, may his remembrance be for the good, face-to-face, who had pure eyes.

Answer, Hashem, “Remember, Hashem, [to repay] the offspring of Edom, on the day of Jerusalem, [to repay] those who say Destroy! Destroy to its very foundation!” [Psalm 137].

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Answer, Hashem, give us the merit of having the intellect of Rabbenu HaKadosh, Rabbenu Nachman ben Simcha ben Feiga.

And that we should see Eliyahu HaNavi, may his remembrance be for the good, face-to-face.

And by way of this, we should merit to the verse:

“[A[nd by all the strong hand and awesome power that Moses performed before the eyes of all Israel.” [Devarim 34:12].

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I’ve been saying this prayer most days, the last three years or so.

It’s definitely had an effect, BH!

While I’m still ‘online’ – because we’re all stuck ‘online’ at the moment, in this techno-cack world we live in – I still don’t have a smartphone, thank God a million times, I have no social media, and the stuff I do online, is VERY focussed.

Not just endless surfing of other people’s propaganda or wrong ideas.

I’m still online more than I want to be, even with all that. But this prayer has definitely helped to keep the ratzon to be offline in the forefront of the picture.

And that by itself makes all the difference.

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Dear reader, don’t get confused by what is going on at the moment.

‘Esav’ is in the process of permanently falling, and ‘Yaacov’ is in the process of ascending.

All this gets blurred for those Jews who associate or identify too much with ‘Esav’, in all the different ways that can happen.

A ‘Yaakov’ in galut is still a Yaakov – and will rise as Esav falls.

And the opposite also holds true.

An ‘Esav’ in Eretz Yisrael will fall, when the rest of Edom finally disappears for good.

That verse from Psalm 137 – part of the Tikkun HaKlali, BTW – makes this totally clear:

“Remember, Hashem, [to repay] the offspring of Edom, on the day of Jerusalem, [to repay] those who say Destroy! Destroy to its very foundation!”[Psalm 137].

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We live in the upside-down world, still.

‘Eretz Yisrael and Am Yisrael’ is Yaakov.

‘Medinat Yisrael’ is Esav – always was, right from the start, and always will be.

As the one descends, the other one rises up.

Which tells us that some openly very good things are about to start happening all over the place, for Am Yisrael, very soon.

Just, don’t get confused in the meantime.

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The last thing to tell you is that I am now officially a granny!

Baruch Hashem.

So much of our lives are lived in the footnotes and the postscripts, and the ‘background’. But that’s where so many of the real blessings, the real ‘point’ of being alive, can be found.

And not online.

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PS: Apparently, the astronauts on the International Space Station – who apparently, got stuck up there for six months, instead of the one week they were planning to be there since June – packed santa hats and an xmas tree, for that one week visit….

Watch the video HERE.

Snippet from HERE:

“The crew members, who initially planned for just one week aboard the ISS, have found themselves on this extended mission, resulting in more than six months away from home. Their unanticipated prolonged stay has provided them with new and unique experiences, including celebrating Christmas and possibly New Year’s 2025 away from their loved ones.”

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Personally, I always keep a santa hat and small, fake xmas tree in my emergency kit, because you never know when a week long mission in June will run into xmas time….

Hopefully, there are none of my readers who are still falling for the space hoax, but if there are people who still believe there is a space station orbiting around us, staffed with real people and not just actors in some NASA studio hidden away in the boondocks of the USA – please use your enormous ‘rational’ intellect to explain this to rest of us.

How ‘astronauts’ somehow packed santa hats and a fake xmas tree for a mission that was meant to take just a week, back in June 2024.

We await the ‘rational’ explanation with bated breath. Thankenchou.

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PSS: This has been going on for 65 years already…

This is the video of ‘Apollo 8’ sending back a xmas message from the moon, back in 1965….

Ho! Ho! Ho!

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And below, you can see the footage of ‘earthrise’ from the Apollo 8 mission:

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Think for yourself.