Hitler only wanted peace – Part 4

The last installment of the Rav’s awesome shiur.

At the end, we get the most important message of all:

A person can cancel every [decree of] Shoah.

With sincere teshuva, and heartfelt prayer – and some help from Rabbenu.

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Mi’mekomech malkenu tofia

We sing this every Shabbat. He [the Klausenberger Rebbe] sang this, mi’mekomech malkenu tofia, after he’d recieved a kicking and they’d broken all his bones, and they stomped on him with their boots.

Because he’d managed to make a hole in the water pipe.

He sharpened – he took from the iron threads, he took one thread of iron and he managed to sharpen it with stones, and he filed it for a few days, until it was a point, and then made a hole in the water pipe, next to his hut, and every day he would day netilat yadayim (ritual hand washing).

He would take a crumb [of the bread ration] and do netilat yadayim every morning, and drink a little. Suddenly, one SS man came past, a big captain of the SS, he was wholly a ‘man of ideals’, and had motivation, and a ‘world view’ – suddenly, he saw damp earth.

What’s this? Why is this earth moist?

Suddenly, he saw that the pipe was dripping.

Who made a hole?

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He waited for a few hours, then he saw some old man come out, with a white beard, do netilat yadayim.

He gave him a kick in the stomach, with his boots, and crushed him. He made him into a pita with falafel, he made him into a quiche, he made him into a pizza, for Seder Night.[1]

He made a pizza out of him, pizza, pizza, and then he was laid out on the ground – and he sung mi’mekomech malkenu tofia…

“From Your place is our kingship, [it] will appear, and You will reign over us, because we wait for You. When will You reign in Zion? Soon, in our days, forever and forever You will dwell. You will be enlarged and sanctified, within Jerusalem Your city.”

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And he got to Jerusalem.

He built a town [in Netanya – Kiryat Sanz]. He merited, after they killed his 10 children, and everything, he managed to found a whole kingdom.

All those who last the course, they found a kingdom.

They revive the dead.

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[The Rav returns to the story of how R Avraham Elimelech of Karlin came to Meron, to try to cancel the decree of the Shoah.]

[He said in Yiddish]: In Europe, not a Jew will remain alive!

Stop dancing, and stop singing! Come now to Meron, to the graves of the tzaddikim, come, let us cancel the decree, [with] a great, bitter cry!

[It seems that R Avraham Elimelech may have fainted from all his crying out, so his shamash] Ran to the Rebbe, ayir gayat avis. [The Rebbe answered him] avis ga’an.

Then, he arrived on the 1st of Elul. On erev Rosh Hashana who boarded a boat [headed back to Europe].

After a week, he got there, he travelled on the last train to Warsaw, from Constantinople. The Port was in Constanza, the Baal Shem Tov travelled by way of Galatz, the Rebbe [Nachman] travelled by way of Odessa.

He said, I’m going via Odessa. He said that the way that I’m going, that’s where they will travel from.

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Everything was rocks and boulders.

Afterwards, they blew them all up. The boats used to have to thread their way through the rocks. Exactly before the Baal Shem Tov travelled, a boat sank with 50 people, there were shailot and teshuvot about the 50 agunot (widows), about how to free them. Everyone found the corpses of those who had died after three days. After three days, it’s already impossible to testify [who the corpse actually was]. But, if the body was whole, then it was possible to identify.

So, a whole boat sank, and then he travelled.

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When R’ Elazar Rokeach got to Galatz, they told him pick which boat you want.

He said I want to pick by myself.

There was a wreck there – it was a ship graveyard. There are cemeteries for people, and also graveyards for ships. Around a thousand ships had worn out already, they were already rickety, already falling apart. They all had holes.

So, a sailor went along with the Rav, and [the Rokeach] said I want to travel to Eretz Yisrael.

This was the R’ Elazar Rokeach of Amsterdam. He was a rabbi in Tsfat. His signatures can be found in the [rulings of] the Tsfat Beit Din. He died in 5503. R’ Elazar Rokeach. There’s his book, all the commentaries, all the chiddushim on the Mishnayot.

He said that ‘mishnayot’ is [the gematria of] ‘Yehonatan.

Yehonatan is 521, mishnayot is 525, another 4 is missing.

[Later on in this same shiur, the Rav tells a long story of how Yonatan Eibshitz got a fortune from hiding stolen plate from churches in his basement…]

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[The Rav continues the discussion about the gematriot, then starts to speak of King David, and how he nearly went to serve avoda zara, as a result of his terrible suffering and persecution, so that people wouldn’t say that people who served Hashem suffered so much. The Rav then continues by saying there was a Shoah 80 years ago, and there was another Shoah on October 7th, 2023. Then he returns to the story of R Avraham Elimelech of Karlin.]

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Everything was clear prophecy.

[R Avraham Elimelech] said this after Tisha B’Av, when he got to Jerusalem. He got to Tel Aviv, and from there, he went to Meron. And nobody understood what he was saying!

Nobody believed, that something like this could even happen, at all.

That Hashem would destroy Am Yisrael – nobody believed this! Not in their darkest dreams! They couldn’t believe, that Am Yisrael would be annihilated – but Hashem destroyed everything. Everyone is in Gan Eden.

We want that they should be here, but the Choftetz Chaim said:

On Mount Zion, there will be a remnant.

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So, we read all of this about R’ Avraham Elimelech [of Karlin].

His brother, R’ Yochanan, he became the Rebbe [of Karlin].

He was saved. He escaped to Siberia, he was there for four years, in Siberia. The KGB kept wanting to kill him. All those who went around with a beard and payot, [they said to them]:

Either, you take off the beard, or we’ll kill you.

He didn’t take off the beard, even once! He hid himself for four years, he himself in Siberia, in Ponza. He wrote that was the name of the village, where he hid. And there, he found a few Jews, and there was a beit knesset there.

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[The Rav now talks about Hananel, Mishael and Azariah, and how they refused to bow to Nevuchadnezzer’s statue, but the Prophet Ezekiel told them they were going against halacha by openly flouting Nevuchadnezzer, and should have just made some excuse about why they couldn’t bow to the idol, or run away instead. Then the Rav continues:]

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A person gets a draft notice – this should be torn up.

Home Command – they can’t [arrest everyone]. When you go across the border, that’s when you’ll be caught [by the army]. But digitali[2], is not ‘caught’. The digitali – this is not caught / recognised.

Digitali – it’s possilble to travel to Uman and return.

Already, hundreds of the hevrei travelled, and no-one caught them. So, digitali – this isn’t ‘caught / recognised’….

So, a person needs to move to digitali, and that’s that.

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Now it’s going to be Rosh Hashana, another little while.

Travel via Kishinev, in the meantime, there is still not peace [between Russia and Ukraine].

He [Trump] wants to make ‘peace’, to get the Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps, after Simchat Torah there will be peace. In the meantime, we need to travel via Kishinev.

Perhaps after Simchat Torah, we’ll travel direct, we’ll land straight in Uman.

Already, each person will have a private plane by then, now, everything is cheap, the prices are going down on everything.

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[Skipping more comments about the Prophet Ezekiel].

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A person can cancel every [decree of] Shoah.

Every destruction.

There is nothing that cannot be nullified.

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Translated from Shivivei Or, 408.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] This might have occurred on Seder Night – I haven’t checked the original story, so this is a guess.

[2] It seems that the Rav is referring to the digital passports being rolled out in Israel.

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So much to digest and unpack!

And I still have a bunch of other interesting stuff to try to translate from that shiur, but more to do with the Sabbateans, again.

But that will do for now.

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Hitler only wanted peace – Part 3

Continuing the translation of this awesome shiur from the Rav.

You can see Part 2 HERE.

[Skipping a discussion of how many holocaust survivors are still alive, the Rav says there are 120,000 still alive, and someone who was five years old at the time of the holocaust is now 85.]

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[Haman] was a Caananite slave, he wanted to become a Jew, to convert and immerse, as is required.

He went to the mikvah to immerse – I saw Haman immersing, I was shocked.

They said, no, he wants to be a Jew.

A Caananite slave – he wants to keep Shabbat, he is obliged to keep Shabbat. It’s written “to see whether Mordechai’s words would prevail”[1], because he would tell them that he was a Jew.

The Chatam Sofer recounts that he said, I’m a Jew! I myself am a Jew!

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Hitler – it was said that he was a Jew.

We don’t know, there are investigations into this. He had a brother, Edward, who said I know that the Savta, [her] son, [i.e. Hitler’s father] was called Heidler.

‘Hitler’ comes from the word ‘Heidler’. Whoever wrote it down made a mistake, instead of writing ‘Heidler’ he wrote ‘Hitler’. There is no name like this, ‘Hitler’.

At that time, his father was called ‘Heidler’, so he should have written ‘the son of Heidler’, but wrote ‘Hitler’. All this is written there, in the books. When it’s bein hazmanim, it’s possible to read this, [or on] Tisha B’Av, to know what happened, how everything developed.

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He [Hitler] didn’t succeed in any exam, he always got a 4, 4, 4.

The Jews were getting 100, they were getting 10/10 – and he got a 4. He went out of his mind. Those Jews!! I am going to destroy them, gomarnu, I can’t stand them! I will just become the Chancellor, and the first thing, I will annihilate the Jews!

He used to paint pictures – no-one wanted to buy his pictures. He decided he would be a painter. They didn’t accept him at the university. In the university in Vienna, they didn’t accept him, they only accepted the Jews.

All the Jews got 100, and 10/10. He went out of his mind.

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So now, Avraham Elimelech of Karlin arrived [to Eretz Yisrael].

He spoke Yiddish, he said aris ga’an, nisht gipoal, not the songs, stop singing!

Black clouds, I see black clouds. All of Europe is going to be finished, they are going to destroy the whole of Europe. The whole of Poland – no trace will remain, of Poland.

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Now, there are 120,000 [holocaust survivors in the world].

These are Jews who were five years old, then.

Yisrael Meir Lau was seven years old, so today he’s 87. He was four [when he first entered the camp], seven, when he was already leaving Buchenwald. At nine, he got to Israel, with a gun. There’s a book.[2]

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The English saw the gun, they were shocked. Are you coming to kill everyone?!

It was a gun without bullets, but the Arabs [perhaps, this should be ‘English’] are organised people, they aren’t crazy. They saw him with a gun, they took the gun away from him. A child of nine years old, he has a gun – what, are you a terrorist?!

A child of nine – he was photographed with the gun, like that, he was pictured.

He went around with that gun for two years, he went through all the camps [for displaced people, after the war]. France – everyone let him pass with the gun. The English said no, by us, there is no such thing as this. We are organised people, we are normal people, give us the gun.

They took the gun away as soon as he alighted from the boat.

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And then they asked him, a bunch of hevrei from Israel, where is your abba and ima?

He said, they got burnt.

What do you mean, ‘burnt’?! Are you crazy?!

He said, everyone got burnt. Don’t you know, that all the Jews got burnt?!

Are you dreaming?! Are you crazy?! We need to section you.

That’s how he described it, in the book. How the journalists came to interview the people on the boats, they came from the Shoah, all of them were ‘remnants’ / refugees….

He was sick with typhus, he couldn’t stand up in the queue to get his registration.

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[The mother of Yisrael Lau told his older brother]

Look after Luli.

Srulik was ‘Luli’. So, when the mother went to Auschwitz, she said, Tolly, look after Luli!

He was older than him by three years, he was four years old, and [the older brother] was seven years old, and he looked after him throughout the whole Shoah. He guarded him, everything.

They were together in Buchenwald. In the end, he [the brother of Yisrael Lau] became the Israeli Consul in America, and then, a car came and ran him over. He was standing there at the pedestrian crossing, at the junction there, an auto came up on the pavement and ran him over. He was laid out for three weeks, unconscious.

He said, now, I’m going to write a book, about everything that happened in the Shoah. All this happened, because I didn’t say what happened to me, and my brother.

His brother became the Chief Rabbi, and he became the Israeli Consul, and he was also the deputy of Moshe Dayan.

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[Skipping some, about how Moshe Dayan kept Shabbat, in the end, and married a religious woman called Devorah.]

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So now, the Rav Lau is 87, and just now, a woman died who was 110, so then, she was 30 years old.

She went through the whole Shoah.

The Rebbe of Belz said that whoever went through the Shoah, they can revive the dead.

But instead of ‘reviving the dead’, they went and became chilonim. If they would have kept going [as observant Jews] for another five minutes, they would have brought the Moshiach.

The Beit Yisrael said now, it’s the opportunity to bring Moshiach!

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The Klausenberger Rebbe, when he saw the Americans [who liberated the death camps], he fainted.

Why did you faint?

[He said] I thought that Moshiach [would be liberating the camps]. This is Moshiach? This is America, this isn’t Moshiach.

So, he fainted. All day long, he couldn’t recover himself, he didn’t come out of the hut. He just cried.

I was sure that after such a Shoah, Moshiach would come, that I would see angels, that I would see tzaddikim, that I would see people with shtreimels, coming. All of a sudden, I see black American [soldiers], non-Jewish Americans, who don’t know anything about anything [about Jewish redemption].

He straight away fainted.

For 30 days, the Klausenberger was in bed, sick. He said:

I wasn’t waiting for this, why was I holding on?!

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FOOTNOTES:

TBC

[1] Megillat Esther 3:4. The full passage reads: “[T]hey told Haman to see if Mordechai’s words would prevail; for he had told them that he was a Jew.”

[2] The Rav says the book is called in Hebrew Al tishlach yadecha al ha na’ar. I can’t find that book with that title, but Naftali Lau-Levie did write a book called ‘Balaam’s Prophecy’, in English, and Yisrael Meir Lau’s book in English is called ‘Out of the Depths’. On the cover of that last book, you can clearly see the tip of the rifle he carried behind Yisrael Lau’s back.

PS: I included the original picture included in the Shivivei Or newsletter, of R Lau with his rifle slung behind his back. The red arrow is pointing to the rifle’s strap over his left shoulder.

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Hitler only wanted peace – Part 2

Continuing the shiur of the Rav.

(You can see Part I HERE)

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[Skipping some, where the Rav is talking about the three fates of the Jewish mothers giving birth in Egypt, the ‘sporty’ ones who ran to the field, the ones whose children were rescued from the Nile by angles, and the last group whose kids were taken by the Egyptian and cemented straight into the walls.]

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R’ Avraham Elimelech said, I am going to die.

He gave his shtreimel to Barzel, and he gave his staff to Israel Grossman, the father of Yitzhak David Grossman, he told me himself, that he got the staff.

They brought him up on to the ship, he was a Karliner. He was the biggest Admor of Karlin in the world, he used to cry out, and you heard him from 10 streets away, such cries he used to cry, you could hear him 10 blocks away. 10 roads heard his cries.

He came to Meron [on the eve of WW2] and he did such cries, until Tsfat.

Immediately after Tisha B’Av, he travelled to Meron, he got there within two days, to Meron. And he gave such cries, they heard it in Tsfat.

His shamash (attendant) brought him hot milk, they had to serve him hot milk. He ran with the hot milk, Rebbe ir gait avis, ir gait avis. They spoke Yiddish, not Hebrew. Ir gait avis. He said avis ga’an.

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Here, you can see the story, the story is here.

They didn’t know the real story, they only brought part of the story, the true story has not been written. I heard it, the real story, from those who were with him, who  brought him the hot milk. He said ir gait avis.

He roared out for six hours, he roared such roars.

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[If he] would have travelled to Uman, the decree would have been cancelled.

Only Rabbenu could have cancelled it. Rabbenu said I am responsible for this generation.

[If there had been] two tzaddikim in Uman, the decree would have been nullified.

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They already knew, that [there was going to be a holocaust].

R’ Yochanan of Karlin said, when Hitler rose to the government, he said we are lost, we are finished. Am Yisrael will be finished, there is no more Am Yisrael.

Everyone was marrying non-Jews, everyone. Everyone was marrying non-Jewish women, no-one was marrying Jewish women. They said there is no more Am Israel, it’s finished. Am Yisrael is finished.

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But, here, on Mount Zion, ‘there will be a remnant’.

The Choftetz Chaim said [this]. [Before his death] the Chofetz Chaim said there is going to be a Shoah, and he saw that he [Hitler] rose up to the government, he knew. All the tzaddikim knew what was going to happen.

He said, on Mount Zion, there will be a remnant.

Whoever is in Eretz Yisrael, will live. In Europe, no-one is going to stay alive.

The Chofetz Chaim said this.

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Many Tzaddikim [knew there was going to be a Shoah].

R’ Yehiel Meyer of Ostrovzha fasted for 40 years, in order to try and cancel the decree. So, the tzaddikim knew.

The tzaddikim knew, that there was going to be a terrible decree, and they said to run away. Nobody listened to them. They said, it’s stam, it’s make believe, it’s a day-dream.

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So who [R Avraham Elimelech of Karlin] came to Eretz Yisrael.

He alighted from the ship – stop singing! He said. Cry out!

The long-hoped for moment had arrived, the saw the Rebbe alighting, R’ Avraham Elimelech of Karlin, on the beach, he got down at Haifa, on the holy ground – no, it was in Tel Aviv. The port at Tel Aviv. They had to drop anchor outside the port, because it was impossible to come closer. It wasn’t really a port, everything was sand. Everything was choppy water. The boat was stuck there.

And everyone started to dance.

The Rebbe came! R Avraham Elimelech of Karlin arrived!

They’d already announced [in Germany] that they were going to destroy the Jews. Everybody already knew this. Everyone came, and and 10,000 chassidim started dancing and singing on the beach, at Tel Aviv, between the waves, between the rocks. Everything was full of rocks, they still hadn’t taken the rocks away.

Slowly, slowly he left, with the oars bringing the rowing boat forward, he was coming closer and closer each second, and the moment arrived. The most yearned for moment, the most dramatic moment that could be, that they’d been waiting for since the creation of the world.

The most wonderous moment, such a time hadn’t happened since the creation of the world.

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The Rebbe descended onto the beach – and everyone was jumping and dancing and singing, and jumping.

Everyone was on cloud nine, now there was such dancing as had never been seen since the world was created. And he yelled out, stop!

There is going to be a holocaust! You don’t understand what is going on here, at all!

Why did I come? To do ‘dancing’ with you?! Let us go to Meron, and we will cry out there.

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And the Rebbe, [R’ Avraham Elimelech] was ashen-faced, white, white like a wall, like snow.

And the whole community still didn’t understand what was going on here. Nobody believed, that there was going to be a Shoah.

They said, it’s stam, just words. It’s stam, he just wants the young people to follow him.

Everyone explained [Hitler’s] words away, in a different way. He said I am going to destroy the Jews! ‘Peace’ means you are going to destroy the Jews! If you want peace, then annihilate the Jews! You want a ‘new world’, then liquidate the Jews.

Nobody paid attention. They said it’s just words.

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He [R’ Avraham Elimelech] was so white, deathly white, ashen-faced, like a wall.

Suddenly, he cried out: There is going to be a Shoah, you don’t understand what is going on here. I didn’t come to dance, I didn’t come to sing, and I didn’t come here to visit people and give them chizzuk. No, no, it’s not a time for singing.

Stop singing, stop hanging around, stop jumping, this is not Shuvu Banim here. Stop! I came here to cancel the terrible decree.

There is going to be a decree that no Jew will remain in Europe!

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TBC

Translated from Shivivei Or, 408.

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Hitler only wanted ‘peace’ – more comments from the Rav

This is a very powerful shiur.

I read it over Shabbat, and a lot of what the Rav said hit me very hard. BH, I will translate as much of it as I can, this is the first installment.

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Excerpt of shiur given on Iyar 2, 5785

הסבי עיניך מנגדי שהם הרהיבונ[1]

It’s enough that the Tzaddik prays.

If two people would have come to the Tziyon of Rabbenu, they would have nullified the Shoah – that awful decree. R’ Avraham Elimelech [of Karlin] travelled to Meron, the brother of R’ Yochanan.

He saw everything.

The moment that Hitler ascended to the government, he said it’s over, everything is lost.

You can read his whole story. R Yochanan of Karlin, the brother of Avraham Elimelech, told it, it was exactly on the 3rd of Shvat, that Hitler was elected to the government. He said: we are finished..

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He [Hitler] said every day, I am going to kill the Jews.

They said, he’s just talking stam, don’t pay him any attention. [Hitler] said, I am not talking stam, chas v’shalom, I am not just talking. I am a serious man, a man with a backbone, a man with a vision, with principles. I am not stam, some human being.

They said, no, he’s just talking stam. Just ignore him, he went mad.

He said: I am not saying things, stam..

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Every day, he said, I want peace, peace.

He was a peaceful man… He received the Nobel Peace Prize from the University of Princeton, he just talked about peace.

I want peace, peace, peace. Only peace!

He was a true man of peace, real peace, he wanted peace. ‘Esav’ is the gematria of ‘shalom’ (peace.)… He just talked about peace. Until today, still just talking about peace.

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Now, Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize.

He says, stop killing the terrorists, because Saudi Arabia wants to make peace. Everyone wants to make peace. There is not a single one who doesn’t want to make peace.

But, on condition that the Jews are liquidated. This is the first condition.

If you destroy the Jews, then you’ll have such amazing ‘peace’ in the world! You can’t imagine, what sort of peace there will be in the world! There will be such wonderful peace! And a man will be under his vine, and under his fig, and the leopard and the kid will lie down [together], and the lion, like the cow, will eat straw, and all the prophecies will be fulfilled.

Just – get the Jews out of here.

[And then] All of the prophecies of Isaiah [will be realised].

Everyone wants peace…

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[Skipping a discussion about how the smallest mochin is on hod she be hod of the Omer – Lag BaOmer. The Rav then starts to discuss how the bones of the Tribe of Ephraim who left Egypt prematurely and were killed in the desert could still be seen at the time of the Exodus under Moshe Rabbenu.]

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In Siberia, when the snow melts, you can seen 80 million bones [i.e. skeletal remains].

80 million bones, 80 million!

Stalin was not a shlemiel. He was was a good networker, with a lot of motivation, with dynamism. A person with principles, with a world-view. 80 million people, he destroyed, just like that, without anyone even knowing.

In June and July – now it’s June and July, now, June is already beginning, the snow is melting. You can see 80 million bones.

Here [between Egypt and Philistia] there was only 200,000 [Jews killed in the desert]. This is not 80 million, it’s possible to still deal with this. 200,000, it’s possible to manage this.

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So, 200,000 left – all of this is written on page 187, in the Pirkei de Rabbi Eliezer.

So, he wrote that there were war heroes, Bnei Ephraim, who said, the time to leave has come. And 200,000 heroes in one second, children, babies, I don’t know why.

So, [they also said to Moshe Rabbenu that he was trying to take them out of Egypt too early].

Stop, desist, it’s enough! Are their graves lacking in Egypt?! [That you want to take us out of Egypt to die in the desert].

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Where are the wells?

Miriam’s Well, this is in the Kinneret. So, we need to go to the Kinneret. Now, after the shiur, we will bring jugs, that will become filled up with fish. In Miriam’s Well, there were no [fish], but in the Kinneret, there are plenty of fish.

Now, they died in Hadera. There is Nahal Hadera, Nahal Taninim, Nahal Alexander – the sharks came and swallowed a man, the unfortunate. Three sharks fell upon one [man] – this is not just! This is against the law, this is against the Geneva Accords, it’s against the Oslo Accords.

It’s not possible, that three sharks could fall on one person, chas v’shalom, you can’t let this happen, you have to supervise things there, why did they make you a supervisor?! A man got torn to shreds, I have never heard of such a thing.

How is this possible? There is already an arrest warrant out for them, they are being summoned to the Hague, and there will be a trial there. They tore a human being to shreds, three against one. This is not realistic.

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So, desist!

Stop, Moshe, it’s enough, enough, enough.

Hamishim came out of Egypt [i.e. one in five]. Nobody wanted to believe Moshe Rabbenu, only Shuvu Banim believed. Apart from Shuvu Banim, nobody else wanted to believe him. Are graves lacking in Egypt, [that you are taking us out] to die in the desert?! What are you doing to us, we told you there was another 190 years to go [until the Jews were meant to leave Egypt].

We told you! We told you everything!

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So, this was the katnut d’katnut (smallest of smallest – referring back to Lag BaOmer).

This is always on the eve of the Shivi’i shel Pesach, on the fifth of the sefira [i.e. the fifth week of the counting of the Omer, hod.) Today, this falls out on Thursday / Friday, tomorrow, in the evening. We get to the smallest mochin (mindset).

We want to return to Egypt.

Come, let’s go back to Mitzrayim. It’s enough. It was good for us when we were slaves in Egypt – we will be slaves [again], but we will live! Here, we’re going to die.

They wanted to go to Egypt, they wanted to be slaves, they wanted to be ‘normal’ people.

And not to be ‘Shuvu Banim’, who said to leave.

No! We want to be normal people! What did you do to us?! Come, let us go back to Mitzrayim, and serve Egypt. It’s better to be enslaved to Egypt, we will be slaves – but we will stay alive! We will have families, we will have ten children, for each person. 60 children in each womb, 60.

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TBC

Translated from Shivivei Or, 408.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Song of Songs.

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The 33rd day

BH, a lot of people got to Meron today.

The Rav got to Meron, a few of my family members got to Meron – all on buses, and with a definite ‘down vibe’this year, as the Erev Rav have effectively taken all of the joy out of Lag Bomer.

All week long, we got bombarded by messages on Koh Hai, and via the media, how those ‘dangerous, irresponsible’ religious people who make a bonfire for Lag Bomer are going to set half the country on fire….

How those ‘dangerous, irresponsible’ religious people who go to Meron are going to push and shove another 5 million people to death, unless, they are carefully corralled like cattle, set against a stop watch, and prevented from doing anything that would make Lag Bomer at Rashbi the joyful event it was, before Covid.

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Getting to Meron was never easy, before Covid.

It was usually hot. There were always crowds and queues, and not enough toilets.

You were tired, squashed and thirsty.

BUT – when you got to the Tzion, there was (too loud) happy music; there were people lining up to give you free food and water by the side of the road, free ice lollies… There was a carnival atmosphere (maybe, now I think of it, an OTT ‘carnival atmosphere, with hundreds of frum charidees blaring loud speakers telling you how they were the best address for the tzedaka you came to give, in the zchut of Rashbi.)

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There is no doubt, that Hashem has arranged all this, because something had gone a little ‘wrong’ at Meron, in terms of who was running it, and all the money passing through various hands, in various ways.

At the same time, there is also no doubt that the ‘stick’ Hashem used to dismantle the joy of Lag Bomer in our failed State is going to have to answer for a great deal…. when judgment day finally rolls around.

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I spent yesterday around a small bonfire lit in the hills overlooking Shechem.

Even with the fire and the obligatory loud ‘Rabbi Shimon’ playlist, I wasn’t feeling a lot of ‘joy’ this year, I’ll be honest.

I was feeling thoughtful, and yearning for all the evil to finally break, and fall apart, and burn up.

This morning, I came back home and learned a mother got shot to death by a ‘terrorist’ whilst in labor, on the way to give birth, on the other side of the city of Ariel, the side that’s generally considered to be the ‘safer’ side of the Shomron, as it’s literally five minutes away from Rosh Ayin, and 15 minutes from Petach Tikva.

My daughter told me she cried a lot of yesterday night, and was still crying this morning.

I sighed a big sigh, and thought to myself: they still managed to get their korban, for the 33rd day….

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Apparently, the army saw that ‘terrorist’ coming, and flagged him as a potential ‘terrorist’.

But then, did nothing to stop him going and shooting that poor woman to death in her car.

All these ‘terrorists’ were released by our wonderful government a few weeks ago, as part of the deal to get all the hostages back to Israel.

Remember?

Israel released literally thousands of terrorists…. before the hostages came back.

How does that make sense?

(If you aren’t a ‘conspiracy theorist’….)

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In the meantime, my daughter told me that she is starting to worry about Trump.

This daughter is way more mainstream than me, but the last few months, as more and more of the pieces have been slotting into place, she’s starting to realise that I’m not the crazy lunatic she thought I was (at least, not as much as she thought I was…. ;-))

What’s going to happen with Trump? She asked me.

I have no idea.

But, I am a good student of history, and I can tell you there is a set pattern that recurs every few decades, of a ‘Pharoah arising’ that doesn’t remember the Jews.

That guy then starts waging a campaign of persecution against his country’s particular Jews, which has the same aim of getting rid of them, one way or another.

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In Alexandria, 38 CE it was state-sponsored eradication of civil rights and destruction of synagogues, plus a ghetto, and no more Jews allowed into the country.

The Jews who remained were in such a bad state, many of them ‘converted’ to become pagans, to try and regain their materialistic standard of life – including Philo’s own nephew, Tiberius Alexander, who helped Titus destroy the Temple in Jerusalem, as his second-in-command.

France and England taxed their ‘King’s Jews’ almost to death, accused them of blood libels, burnt them in castles and churches, and stam, outside in the market place, drowned them… and also, finally, expelled them.

When the Jews left, they had to leave their property behind.

That was a great way of the Kings ALSO cancelling their financial debts owed to the Jews, and ALSO enriching themselves further, by acquiring the Jews’ property for the crown.

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Something similar happened in 1492, in Spain.

Something similar – but even worse – happened in Germany in the late 1930s….

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It couldn’t happen here, it couldn’t happen today….

I’m not so sure.

There’s a blueprint, a pattern, that you see repeated again and again throughout Jewish history.

Long story short… I’m also worrying about Trump.

That freemason-billionaire who was maneuvred especially in position, who has a big national debt to deal with, who they went all out to make the ‘Q-tard’ campaign for, so otherwise sane people keep explaining away the red flags as ‘8D chess’.

Or something.

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Ultimately, everything is God.

That’s the bottom line.

Wherever we live, whatever we are doing with ourselves, every single one of us has our own teshuva we still need to make, for many different things.

What that actually means, tachlis, what that actually requires – each person has to do their own cheshbon hanefesh, and to think for themselves.

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So, now the music is back on, and I’m trying to make Shabbos.

I’m trying to ignore all the madness still going on, but it’s seeping through the cracks, nevertheless.

We don’t live in a vacuum, after all, in an hermetically-sealed environment, where sad news about dead Jews can’t infiltrate, no matter how much we’re trying to ignore it all and just get on with life.

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BH, all this turns around for the good, very soon.

BH, all the people who made a huge effort to get to Meron again this year, even though they have taken the joy out of the event, sweetened stuff for all of Am Yisrael.

And BH, this time around, the pattern will be disrupted by sincere, mass teshuva, before it plays out the way it always plays out, when Jews get too complacent, and too disconnected from what we’re really down here to do.

Bezrat Hashem.

 

 

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Eric Jan Hanussen, aka Herschel Chaim Steinschneider

I guarantee, you’ve never heard of this man before.

He was a famous ‘occultist’ who taught Hitler how to control crowds, and ‘mesmerize’ his audience.

He was very close to the upper echelon of the Nazi party.

And, he was Jewish.

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This is a good basic round-up of the info – speed it up to 1.5, as the narrator talks very slowly, and then it just takes 6 minutes:

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Alternatively, you can read the description beneath the video, which contains all the information.

Snippet:

Although he had been born poor and had at times been homeless and penniless, he was now a wealthy man with luxury cars, multiple apartments, and even a yacht on which he threw lavish, drug-fueled parties. At his height, Hanussen offered private consultations for exorbitant fees and enjoyed the company of Germany’s military and business elite, also becoming close with members of the Nazi paramilitary force called the SA also known as the Storm Troopers or the “Brownshirts” for the color of their uniform.

It is claimed that he was a supporter of the Nazis despite his Jewish ancestry, which was an open secret.

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Long story short, he was a big part of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.

He was an established ‘occultist’ who operated seances out of his ‘Palace of the Occult’ in Berlin.

All this is openly, clearly ‘satanic’.

And, the cherry on the cake – he descends directly from a F   rankist family, who made their home in Vienna.

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Geni has the family tree HERE.

A private family tree, with more of the actual documents, and real grave stones, can be found HERE.

STEINSCHNEIDER’s mum had a stage name, ‘Julie Kohn’, and she was a singer.

In his autobiography, ‘ERIC JAN HANUSSEN’ apparently said this (from HERE):

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Kohn-918 (cut and paste, the bots are onto this again).

In her son’s autobiography, Meine Lebenslinie, he claims that Julie’s family, outraged at her marriage and pregnancy, had her and her husband arrested for “vagrancy”. Her son claims she was released from her jail cell only 15 minutes before delivering him.

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Hanussen’s father was Siegfried Sternschneider, son of Dr Moritz Sternschneider and Rosa Keil.

Long story short, the family hail from Brunn – the headquarters of the shabtaim who stayed within the Jewish community, sowing their spiritual poison from the inside. In fact, ‘Hanussen’s’ maternal g.g. grandpa is none other than Aron Beer Wehle of Prague – who was the brother of the main shabtaim leader, Jonas Beer Wehle.

The onthemainline blog has an interesting write up about him, HERE.

Snippet:

Aaron Wohle was Aaron Beer Wehle (1750-1825), a Sabbatian leader, and the brother of a more famous Frankist leader named Jonas Beer Wehle.

It is with some irony that he was descended from and named for a rabbi – another Aaron Beer Wehle – who was one of the signers of the Prague cherem against Sabbatians in 1725, alongside R. Yonasan Eybeschutz who was then under a cloud of suspicion over the authorship of the document Ve-avo Hayom el ha-Ayin. Also of interest is that Zacharias Frankel’s aunt Esther was married to this Aaron Wehle. See here.

People interested in American Jewish, or legal, history will also find it notable that Wehle also happens to have been the grandfather of Fredericka Dembitz, who was Louis Brandeis’s grandmother.

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At this stage, it should be more obvious that the signing of that ‘cherem’ by the original Aaron Beer Wehle and Eibshitz, Wehle’s ‘rebbe’, was a stunt to try and deflect attention from the fact that they were guilty of everything they were being accused of.

Bottom line: STEINSCHNEIDER / JAN HANUSSEN descended, mamash, from ‘shabtaim-fkist’ royalty.

And this is the guy channelling the ‘occult’, to help Adolf Hitler into power into 1933, and give the Fuhrer some tips on how to control and ‘mesmerize’ the crowds, with his speeches.

Who can make this up?

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But there is more.

On that same ‘onthemainline’ blogpost (which has a ton of interesting info, btw, and is highly recommended reading), he brings a journal entry from a ‘Brother Niety’, dated May 5, 1811, where Niety describes meeting a bunch of Prague shabtaim, who are on their way to Eretz Yisrael.

This is the page:

These Jews from Poland, ‘chiefly in Bohemia’ and Germany tell Niety that:

a) they believe in Yoshki ‘as the saviour of the world’ (a Fkist trait which separated them from the more mainstream Shabtaim)

b) they are still worshipping in Jewish shuls of Prague, until finally being kicked out, when many of them subsequently joined the Catholic church because the ‘government desired that they should join an established religion’.

c) many of their number are making their way to settle in Eretz Yisrael around the 1800-1811 time – EXACTLY when the ‘aliyah’ of the Vilna Gaon’s perushim were heading to Eretz Yisrael.

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Niety says in the last line:

“I think it very possible that the emigrants to Palestine belong to this party……..”

 

 

 

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Next, onthemainline brings an account of these Prague fkist Shabtaim written by a missionary who was working for the London Society for Promoting Xtianity amongst the Jews, Rev Nitschke, written in 1818, who actually meets this ARON BEER WEHLE in the flesh.

Point is: this is the g.g.g. maternal grandpa of Hitler’s occult ‘mesmerizer’ teacher, HERSCHEL CHAIM STEINSCHNEIDER.

Point is – all this is documented with contemporary sources, and is not ‘fake’ news.

Point is – we have again unearthed a very disturbing connection between the Fkist-Shabtaim who stayed behind in the Jewish community, and Hitler – and aliya to Eretz Yisrael.

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I just tripped over more info here, about the NODAH B’YEHUDA’s daughter, who married the nephew, YOM TOV ben EPHRAIM WEHLE, of these two leading shabtaim, JONAS and ARON BEER WEHLE (ancestor of Hitler’s occult ‘coach’, above).

She has two names on geni: EVA ELKE LANDAU (who is listed as marrying YOM TOV JONATHAN WEHLE), or, MIRIAM MARIA LANDAU (who is listed as marrying YOM TOV’s dad, ARON BEER EPHRAIM WEHLE).

And if that’s not enough, these two ‘sisters’ have another sister with the same name, MIRIAM MIREL, who marries R JACOB LANDAU OF BRODY – who I have been researching for other reasons, connected to the Shbtaim.

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Tov.

I will try to unpick all this seperately.

We know shabtaim only married other shabtaim, so to say this is puzzling is quite the understatement.

But in the meantime, the birur continues.

 

 

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The first anti-Jewish pogrom in history: 38 CE

This has been going on for a longgggg time….

You know, how all those antisemites online like to try and hide their antisemitism behind statements that they are just incensed about what’s going on with the ‘genocide in Palestine’?

Or, how the only reason they hate Jews so much, and believe we all worship in the ‘synagogue of satan’, is because of the ‘brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine’?

Well, almost two thousand years ago, there was a terrible, awful pogrom against the Jewish community of cultured Alexandria, in Romanized-Egypt.

That was back when the native population of ‘Syrian Palestine’ was none other than…. The Jews.

And yes, there was an awful, brutal, terrible ‘occupation of Palestine’ going on back then: the Romans were killing, abusing, torturing, impoverishing and destroying Jews, and everything that Jews stood for, morally and religiously, anyway they could.

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Those Romans devolved into the Roman Catholic church and then made up a bunch of fairy tales about how it was the ‘Jews’ who were killing and crucifying other Jews – and not the Roman occupiers of ‘Palestinian Syria’.

Once the Romans decided to ‘go xtian’, they had to make up these fairy tales, to shift the blame for ‘killing Yoshki’ off the Roman rulers of Judea – who were killing and crucifying Jews all day long – and on to the poor Jews.

(It’s a side point, but I saw a retarded meme put out by an online xtian antisemite stating that ‘the bible’ blames the Jews for killing Yoshki 9 times, and doesn’t blame the Romans once. The ‘bible’ (i.e. the New Testament) was written by the Roman Empire 2-300 years after the events it pretends to describe. Like, duh.)

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Point is – the Romans, and Greeks, and Egyptians have ALWAYS hated the Jews.

And more specifically, they have ALWAYS hated what the Jews really stand for in the world, namely, a belief in One God, who expects human beings to act morally and righteously, and not just enslave and murder other people, to gratify their own base desires and lust for power.

Come with me, as go back in time to 38 CE, where we can finally start to figure out the real reason why the Romans and Greeks (who became today’s ‘West’) hate the Jews so much.

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The story begins around 300 BCE, give or take, around the time when ‘Chonyo and Shimi’, the sons of Shimon HaTzaddik are arguing over who gets to be the next Kohen Gadol in the Temple of Jerusalem.

The Gemara brings two different versions, one where Shimi is the bad guy, and one when Chonyo is the bad guy. But the outcome is, Chonyo moves to Egypt, which has just been freshly conquered by the Macedonian Greeks, under Alexander the Great.

Alexander the Great (if he even really existed…) dies young, and his kingdom is split between his four generals, called Diodachs (who then start fighting it each other, for a bigger share of the pie.)

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The Diodach who gets Egypt is called Ptolemy.

Don’t get confused, because ALL of the kings of Egypt from his line call themselves ‘Ptolemy’, and also marry their own sisters, so getting the genealogy straight is very difficult even for geni pros that can read Demotic Egyptian.

But in terms of our story, Ptolemy has all this newly-conquered territory, he has a captive Egyptian population who don’t like him very much, (and those poor Egyptians are calling the BBC as we speak, to make a new documentary about it called ‘The Settlers’….) And, he’s looking for hired mercenaries to come and help him guard his cities, and consolidate his power.

A strange group of mercenaries who are known in academic history only as ‘the Jews of Onias’ (Onias = Chonyo) answer his call, and get given the Delta quarter of the newly built city of Rhakotis-Alexandria, to live in.

Ptolemy says these Jews can continue to worship God in their own way; they can continue to send money to the Temple in Jerusalem; they are exempt from paying taxes to the local city; and they have a whole bunch of political and civil rights that the local Egyptians don’t have.

(Call the UN!)

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In return, the ‘Jews of Onias’ man the garrison in Alexandria, act as high-level military advisors to many generations of the Ptolemy monarchs of Egypt – and at some point, also build their own copy of the Temple, at Leontopolis.

Because remember, Chonyo is a Kohen. A potential Kohen Gadol. That was the root of the whole big argument he had in the first place.

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(This for sure connects up with the whole civil war that erupted back in Eretz Yisrael between the pro-Hellenization Hashmonaim Kohens lead by ‘Jason’, and the anti-Hellenization Hashmonaim Kohens (who were in a tiny minority, within their own family of kohanim) – lead by Matthias ben Yochanan.

What really happened back there has been deliberately obscured, because it’s ALWAYS the same story of a family feud. The ‘good’ guys in the Jewish community leadership and the ‘bad’ guys have exactly the same yichus.)

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Fast forward 300 years, to around 37 CE, when a new Caesar comes to the Roman throne, Gaius, aka Caligula.

Roman history likes to claim Caligula was insane. Yeah, he was insane, that’s the only reason he arbitrarily murdered people, set violent upheavals in motion all over the world, openly lived with his sister, and proclaimed himself a ‘living god’…

I dunno. Judging by the Caesars who came after him, he actually sounds par for the pagan-satanic Roman course.

But where Caligula is innovating, is that he wants to be proclaimed as a ‘living god’ while he’s actually still alive, and for his subjects to offer sacrifices directly to him, and not just ‘on his behalf’ to another deity.

Not only that, Caligula wants big images of himself set up in all of the temples in the Roman world – including, in Jerusalem.

The Roman governor in Jerusalem, Petronius, now has a sticky problem. If he doesn’t stick the massive gold statue of Caligula in the Holy of Holies – Caligula will kill him for treason. If he does stick the massive gold statue of Caligula in the Holy of Holies – it’s going to spark a really nasty, open war with the Jews.

So, he tries to stall for time, and tells Caligula that he’ll stick the massive statue in the temple just as soon as they deliver it from where it’s being built, in Lebanon.

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Caligula doesn’t buy the story, but he can’t kill Petronius just yet, as he’s still trying to pretend that the last few people he murdered really deserved it, and that honestly, he’s just a good, regular, guy, and not a murderous, evil, incest-practising psychopath.

But, that doesn’t mean he’s going to let the Jews get away with worshipping anything other than him.

So he writes a secret edict to Flaccus, the governor of Alexandria, which basically instructs Flaccus – and the Greek-Egyptian mob of Egypt – to execute the first state-sponsored pogrom against the Jews, in history.

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Let’s go to our eyewitness on the scene, Philo Judea, who wrote two long treatises describing what was done to the Jews back in 38 CE – and more crucially, why. 

Philo explains that the Emperor Caligula:

“Looked with disfavour on the Jews alone because they alone opposed him on principle, trained as they were… to acknowledge one God who is the Father and Maker of the world….”[1]

So then, Caligula:

“Having conceived a violent enmity to [the Jews] he took possession of the synagogues in the other cities after beginning with those of Alexandria, by filling them with images and statues of himself in bodily form….”

And when the Jews of Alexandria try to stop this desecration of the synagogues in Alexandria – that’s when the state-sponsored pogrom really begins.

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Like all pogroms that come after it, this one follows the same set course.

Let’s go back to our eyewitness, Philo:

They collected great bodies of men to attack the meeting-houses, of which there are many in each section of the city.

Some they ravaged, others they demolished with the foundations as well, others they set fire to and burnt …

Think of it as the Roman blueprint for kristallnacht.

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Next, the mob turn on the Jews themselves.

They burn down at least 400 Jewish houses, force the Jews out into the streets – and then force the Jews into the cramped ‘Delta’ neighborhood of Alexandria, which is now formally designated their Jewish ‘ghetto’.

Any Jew who is caught outside the ghetto walls is beaten and tortured, and many of them are burnt to death in the street.

If these civilised ‘Roman-Greeks’, apparently all members of the local gymnasia in Alexandria, catch Jewish women in the market, they take them to the theatre, force them to eat pork, publically – and any woman who refuses is then assaulted, in front of the crowd.

All of the Jewish shops and businesses are also looted, while the Egyptians and Greeks haul away all of the Jews’ good and possessions – and the Jews are powerless to stop them, because Caligula made a secret edict that stripped the Jews of all of their civil rights.

Everything is being done legally and methodically, according to the justice of Sdom.

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There was apparently a Jewish Senate – or alternative ‘sanhedrin’ – of 72 Jews in Alexandria in 38 CE.

Let’s go back to our eyewitness Philo, to see what happened to them:

Our Senate had been appointed to take charge of Jewish affairs by our saviour and benefactor Augustus, after the death of the ethnarch…

Of this Senate the members who were found in their houses, thirty-eight in number, were arrested by Flaccus, who having ordered them to be straightway put in bonds marshalled a fine procession through the middle of the market of these elderly men trussed and pinioned, some with thongs and others with iron chains, and then taken into the theatre, a spectacle most pitiable and incongruous with the occasion.

Then as they stood with their enemies seated in front to signalize their disgrace he ordered them all to be stripped and lacerated with scourges which are commonly used for the degradation of the vilest malefactors, so that in consequence of the flogging some had to be carried out on stretchers and died at once, while others lay sick for a long time despairing of recovery.[2]

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That’s not even the worst of it.

The Roman-Greeks also set up wooden crosses in the local theatre, the place where everyone used to come for some entertainment of an evening, and publically crucified a whole bunch of Jews to death.

By the way – the Roman Catholic church was still making the same sort of public spectacle out of their auto da fes, or public Jew-burnings, even 300 years ago.

We are dealing with the same people here, in case you hadn’t figured that out.

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For two years, the Jews of Alexandria are stuck in their ghetto, unable to use their desecrated synagogues, and unable to rebuild those that had been burned and dismantled.

They had pretty good ‘civil rights’ for 300 years, but with the stroke of a pen, Caligula took them all away, and left most of Alexandria Jewry destitute, broken – and walled-up in a ghetto.

This only changed when Caligula was murdered by one of his body guards, paving the way for the Emperor Claudius to take over.

Claudius ordered all of the statues of Caligula to be taken out of the remaining synagogues – but he didn’t restore the Jews’ previous rights to them. From that point on, most of them had to start paying the horrendous ‘poll tax’ to Rome, and had no formal rights of residence, or ability to own property in Alexandria.

And Claudius is mostly considered to be a ‘good’ Emperor.

By Roman standards.

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We’ll stop there, but the point is – there is nothing new under the sun.

Rome-Greece morphed into Roman-Catholicism, and all parts of the ‘West’ and also Russia, come from this Jew-hating, pogrom-enacting tradition.

And why do they hate the Jews, really?

Because we stand for One God in the world, Hashem.

And we have a God-given Torah, that spells out clearly what’s right and wrong, and what God expects from His creations.

And these Greek-Roman-Catholics can’t stand that.

Exactly the same way they couldn’t stand it 2,000 years ago, when Philo was castigating them for being incest-practising pedophiles who enslaved people, pillaged the world of its natural resources to fuel their own profligate lifestyle ‘back home’, and insisted on worshipping dogs, snakes and yucky human beings as ‘deities’.

Or, to put this another way:

There is nothing new under the sun.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Embassy 115.

[2] Embassy, 74-75.

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The most important thing is to come to Israel – comments from the Rav

Excerpt of Shiur after ma’ariv, Iyar 2, 5785, (May 1st, 2025 – Yom Ha’Atzmaut)

Be’eri are requesting for [religious girls] seminaries to be set up.

Now, they understood that their whole mistake was to disconnect from Judaism, that by them, there is no yiddishkeit.

[In their eyes] it’s just some story from 3,000 years ago. And today, we are already progressive! A new generation! We already from the ‘advanced’, we’re already….

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Nitzan Horowitz said that they should bring chametz into the hospitals.

So they said to him, how can you bring chametz in?! So he said, this is a story from 3,000 years ago. What do I have to do, with stories?!

He didn’t know that this is happening every day, every moment, that we are leaving Egypt every moment, with all the non-Jews around us.

There are 2.5 billion muslims here, seven billion non-Jews – and all of them want to destroy us.

That we are still here, is nisei nissim, (miracle of miracles), every second, that they are not destroying us.

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400 rockets, that’s what they launched [against Israel] on erev Pesach, last year.

And on erev Rosh Hashana, they launched another 400 rockets.

No rocket damaged [anything in Israel], they just fell in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Not a rocket damaged anything here, from the 400. This is something that just can’t be, according to any of the laws of nature.

So we see, that there is some thing different, from shemayim.

Here, it’s the world of yetzirah, Jerusalem is already the world of briah, and the Beit HaMikdash is the world of atzilut.

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It’s forbidden to leave Jerusalem.

Whoever leaves Jerusalem, he is liable to the […] penalty.

Jerusalem is the world of briah, Eretz Yisrael is yetzirah. Who wrote this, is R Yisrael Meyer Morgenstern. In תרסד he wrote:

Today, there are no ships with sails, there are steam ships, and there is permission to ascend to the land [of Israel]. There are no more pretexts, why not to ascend to the Aretz.

Today, whoever ascends to the land, they’ll receive an apartment, they’ll get a building, he’ll get a whole year, he’ll live in an apartment for free. He can get one in Har Homa, or even in Shuafat also there, they giving away apartments for free.

He’ll get the rent paid for a whole year.

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Today, there is no excuse.

So, there is an issur de’orayta to live in chul – because this is weighed against all of the other mitzvoth. This remains – it’s forbidden to nullify any mitzvah, but this one weighs [against all the mitzvoth], because the most important thing, is to come to Eretz Yisrael.

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Translated from Shivivei Or 407

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What we are up against: BBC Documentary ‘The Settlers’

The BBC just aired this documentary.

Here’s how it’s being described on X:

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This is what we are up against. In all senses of the word.

We only have Hashem to rely on to resolve what’s going on in Eretz Yisrael.

 

 

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It’s full of sharks – more comments from the Rav

Shiur 25th Nisan 5785 [continuation] to those learning Chumash Rashi

The sea is something very deep.

We were by the Yam Suf (Sea of Reeds)[1]. 1950 [metres deep], two kilometres. We travelled around 100 metres [into the sea] – it’s already two kilometres deep.

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How did he get there? The sharks would have eaten him.

Now, a shark ate someone. Now, the rain didn’t fall, lots of fish died, so the sharks came to eat the dead fish. This was in the Hadera River.

Don’t immerse there, whoever goes to immerse [i.e. using the sea as a mikvah], you can immerse, perhaps, in Yitzhar, but not there. Not in the Hadera River, not in the Alexander River and not in the Tannim (crocodiles) River.

Once upon a time, it was full of crocodiles, now it’s full of sharks.

All the fish died. Now, if they continue to pump water from the Kinneret, the fish will die. Because the fish need a depth [of water], and need fresh [water]. So, the rain didn’t fall, so all the fish died.

They should have cleaned this out, and taken them out. In the meantime, they already announced the day before that it was dangerous.

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One person went for a swim, the sharks swallowed him. They couldn’t find him.

Two sharks swallowed him, poor man. Maybe, they did a tikkun for him. It could be, that he entered Gan Eden. [But] we wanted him in this world!

We are ‘anti’ Gan Eden, we want people to continue to live.

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Now on Simchat Torah, 1,500 people went straight to Gan Eden.

If they would have made teshuva, they would have been Rosh Yeshivas, they could have brought everyone back, made a yeshiva with a thousand students.

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Translated and excerpted from Shivivei Or, 406.

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FOOTNOTE:

[1] The Rav is apparently talking about when the sea split for Am Yisrael, on the seventh day of Pesach.

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