If you’ve been with me for a while, you’ll already know that I’ve mentioned the AGUDAT ACHVA Brotherhood on a number of occasions on the blog.

Especially when I was researching R DISKIN, and all the strange stuff going on around his family and ‘story’, AGUDAT ACHVA came up as an elite secret society operating out of Jerusalem, that apparently no-one had ever heard of before.

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Fast forward to 2024, and we now have more pieces of the puzzle that are starting to come into focus about who and what was really behind AGUDAT ACHVA.

In this post, we’re going to try to pull more of that info together in an organised fashion, so you can see what is staring us in the face.

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Before we begin, I asked my husband to read this over first.

He has a very ‘logical’ approach to things, shared with a lot of my male readers, and it was very instructive for me to understand how stuff I grasp intuitively – and that so many of my female readers grasp immediately – seems to go totally over his head.

As a result of our discussion, I will try to flesh out more of the ‘leaps’ I make in this post, particularly in the footnotes.

Once I explained more of the context to him, he found it much easier to follow the thrust of the argument in this post, even though he is still naturally more sceptical and cautious, about what it all actually means.

I appreciate this is hard going, in some ways.

But with the Evils now circling the wagons trying to blame everything that is going wrong in our world on the Joooos, it’s so important we understand how our community, theology and leadership has been corrupted over the last 350 years – and especially, the last 200 years, with the rise of the xtianity-pushing Frankist-masons.

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So, if you don’t understand how I get from A to B – leave a respectful question or comment, and I will do my best to flesh it out briefly.

Otherwise, I end up having to constantly regurgitate additional information as ‘context’ that swamps the new findings, and makes these posts 4,000 pages long, and very hard to read.

OK, now let’s get into it.

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The first place to begin is the Hebrew Wiki page for AGUDAT ACHVA, which you can see HERE.[1]

There, we learn that the organisation was officially begun in 1895, with the HQ in Jerusalem.

It’s the usual whitewashed, Freemason-charidee propaganda, but still instructive, so let’s quote a bit of, machine translated:

At that time, when hatred and jealousy prevailed in the Jewish community among the various factions and their supporters, the first bureau of the AHAVA Society was established in Jerusalem with the aim of uniting the people of Israel, developing the enlightenment, improving the morality of the people and helping those in need.

Among other things, the association sought to help members, called “brothers,” who are financially weak. The help included assistance in finding a job and providing credit.

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No secret society openly tells you what they really stand for, and what their principles really are.

I know this description above sounds totally rosy and moral – but secret societies are all about hiding what they are really up to.

So, ACHVA’s members were called ‘Brothers’ – like all good spin-off masonic organisations.

The snippet continues:

In order not to upset the yishuv businesses, which viewed each organization with suspicion, the association was established as a secret society.

However, after three months the existence of the association was leaked, and the practitioners contacted the Maharil Diskin claiming that it was a new cult in the style of Shabtai Zvi and Yaakov Frank.

The members of the association were quick to turn to Rabbi Shmuel Salant, who knew their families, and his response was: “My children, I know each of you and I also know your famous parents for Shlomi Ammonei Yisrael, I am sure that God will not go out of your hands…..”

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R SHMUEL SALANT “knew the families” of the founding members of the ACHVA secret society so well because he was connected to those same families.[2]

So, SHMUEL SALANT ‘calms things down’ for his close mishpocha who are setting up the new secret society called AGUDAT ACHVA.

This new secret society is stuffed full of ‘RIVLINS’ who descend from BINYAMIN RIVLIN – the guy Athol Bloomer told us was the ‘secret Frankist tzaddik’, who stayed behind within the Jewish community, instead of openly converting to xtianity, in order to ‘subvert the Jewish community’ from within.

And BINYAMIN RIVLIN also happens to be the first cousin of the Vilna Gaon.

Hopefully, this background makes it easier to understand what happens next.

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I also want to stress the part of the quote, above, that you may have missed or skipped over:

ACHVA is considered to be the continuation of SABBATEAN and FRANKIST ideological subversion in Jerusalem.

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After SHMUEL SALANT and MAHARIL DISKIN step in to close down the attack against ACHVA, new branches of ACHVA start popping-up all over the country.

Back in Jerusalem, ‘the Brothers’ – apparently being led by YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN, the so-called ‘Preacher of Righteousness’ and probable author, or at least, editor, of the KOL HATOR – start organising to get their own neighborhood built, called (what else?) the ACHVA quarter.

If you go HERE, you can see a map of where it was, and how it looked.

It was built on part of the land that belonged to the SCHNELLER CHRISTIAN ORPHANAGE in Jerusalem, that only closed in WW2.

And ONLY MEMBERS OF THE ACHVA BROTHERHOOD COULD GET AN APARTMENT THERE.

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This is a snippet about the SCHNELLER ORPHANAGE, so you can see how ‘Jew-friendly’ the management was:

In April 1934, a choir from the children of the orphanage performed at a celebration to mark Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

Between 1936 and 1939, the orphanage tried to import weapons and ammunition from Germany to train its trainees for a future war against the Jews.

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So, why exactly did these Jew-hating, nazi-loving missionaries decide to give a large part of their land to the ‘ACHVA Brotherhood’, to build their new neighborhood on?

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Back on the Hebrew WIki page HERE, we’re told that:

[T]he First World War interrupted the development of the [ACHVA] neighborhood and association.

The authorities did not approve of the existence of a secret society.

So the lodge was closed, the Association’s books and protocols burned, many of the ‘brothers’ abandoned the neighborhood and moved elsewhere, and most of the association’s activities moved to branches in Australia, England, Argentina, the United States, Brazil, South Africa, France and Canada.

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In other words, ACHVA goes international – and goes underground.

Just like all good masonic ‘secret societies’.

This doesn’t spell the end of ACHVA.

It re-establishes lodges openly in Eretz Yisrael after the British apparently leave in 1947.

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OK, so to quote my husband, what does all this have to do with the KOL HATOR?!

Let’s go step by step.

Step 1: All the RIVLINS associated with the publication of KOL HATOR are active and leading members of the ACHVA Brotherhood.

ACHVA ‘Bro’ SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN is the person who first publishes KOL HATOR, claiming it was written by his ancestor HILLEL RIVLIN, in 1947.

SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN also writes a number of books detailing his family history at the same time, that historians consider to be works of ‘creative fiction’.

(To give one example: HILLEL RIVLIN didn’t get to Eretz Yisrael until 1832 at the earliest. Yet SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLN claims he landed here 1809, and started rebuilding Jerusalem….)

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The Rav of the ACHVA neighborhood – which you’ll recall, consisted exclusively of ACHVA BROS, as no-one else could live there  – is YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN, pictured below.

This is Eli Eshed’s candidate for who actually wrote the KOL HATOR, or at the very least, edited it into the work that was published in 1947.

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Twenty years later, in 1968, more fragments of Kol HaTor apparently show up in the possession of SHMUEL RIVLIN, another ACHVA leading Bro, and SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN’s son.

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If you are feeling lost, let’s spell it out again:

The ACHVA Brotherhood is the continuation of the Sabbatean – Frankist twisted kabbalah tradition, trying to root itself in Jerusalem – and is described in these terms to SHMUEL SALANT and MAHARAL DISKIN.

BINYAMIN RIVLIN of Shklov is described as the ‘Frankist Tzaddik’ who stays behind in the Jewish community to subvert it from within.

All of the people involved in the publication of KOL HATOR are i) descendants of this same BINYAMIN RIVLIN and ii) members of the ACHVA Brotherhood that is described as ‘Sabbatean-Frankist’.

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OK, let’s continue.

On the Hebrew Wiki page, there is a lot more info about just how organised, and big, ‘WORLD ACHVA’ becomes.

The Brotherhood’s stated goals are as follows:

Goals:

A) The resurrection of the people of Israel in its land according to the written and traditional Torah, in the way of truth and peace.

B) Educating boys and girls in the spirit of the Torah and the idea of the Brotherhood.

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To spell this out in plain English, ACHVA’s stated goal is to push the ‘idea of the Brotherhood’ via the education system.

Where do you think ‘KOL HATOR’ might fit into this stated goal?

And if ACHVA’s ‘idea’ is rooted in Sabbatean-Frankist twisted kabbalah, can you accept this might be a problem?

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ACHVA is going to do this by ensuring all its ‘Bros’ help each other, both ‘materially and spiritually’.

I.e. it’s operating on the masonic principle of ‘Bros’ helping each other out.

Going forward, it’s reasonable to assume that anyone who is going ‘above and beyond’ to help out ACHVA may very well be a member of the secret society themselves.

And it’s also reasonable to assume that anyone who ACHVA is helping out may very well be a member of the secret society themselves.

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Another one of ACHVA’s stated goals is:

“Spreading the idea of brotherhood by establishing lodges wherever possible.”

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In the next post, I will take a much closer look at the financial side of this story, including who was actually funding the ACHVA neighborhood in Jerusalem.

My husband got ‘lost’ after reading this par, and the info that comes after it, so if you are sharing that reaction, skip this par and we’ll pick up the financial side of the ACHVA story another time.

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Here’s the relevant snippet about how the ACHVA Brotherhood quarter got built, from Wikipedia:

[T]wo members of the association with Ottoman nationality purchased a plot for the purpose of building a ACHVA neighborhood.

Since most of the brothers had no means, the ANGLO PALESTINE Bank – later Leumi Bank of Israel – came to their aid, headed by Zalman David Libontin, and lent them money from the KEREN KAYEMET L’YISRAEL for a period of 10 years at an interest rate of 6%.

The construction work of the neighborhood was assigned to the members of the contractors Association Avraham Hamburger and his father-in-law Yaakov Moshe Man, and two years later the neighborhood was established.

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The point is:

Leading ‘zionists’ help to pay for the construction of the ACHVA Brotherhood’s new neighborhood in Jerusalem, on very easy terms (relatively…).

And this is occurring at a time when bloody war is being waged between the ‘zionists’ and the Old Yishuv in Eretz Yisrael.

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Here are some of the other ‘BROS’ listed for AGUDAT ACHVA on the Hebrew Wiki page.

Many of the most influential ‘BROS’ are not listed. You have to infer the connection from knowing that only ‘BROS’ got put in influential positions by AGUDAT ACHVA.

When I conclude these series of posts, if I have time and koach, I will try to ‘cross-check’ between these people and posts I already wrote, here on the blog.

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  Yitzhak Avigdor Orenstein
• Zalman Ben-Tovim
• Yitzhak Yaakov Yellin
• Eliyahu Aharon Kahana
• Zalman Yosef Halevi Soloveitchik
• Eliezer Dan Slonim
• Will Aroussi
• Menachem Mendel Porush
• Shmuel Rivlin
• Yeshayahu Rafaelowitz
• Yitzhak Armor

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OK, to quote my husband again: how is all this connected to the xtianity and Kol HaTor?

The answer, so far:

1. We’ve established that all the authors of the Kol HaTor mss belong to the ACHVA secret society.
2. We’ve established that the ACHVA secret society is accused of being a continuation of Sabbatean-Frankist heresy in the Holy Land.
3. We’ve established that the ACHVA secret society seems to enjoy some strange protekzia with Nazi-supporting xtian missionaries, who let them build a new neighborhood on their land.
4. We’ve established that ACHVA is being financially supported by leading ‘zionists’, at a time when the war between the zionists and the ‘Old Yishuv’ is reaching its climax.
5. We’ve established that ACHVA arranges for Rav AVRAHAM KOOK to become the first ‘Chief Rabbi’ of Eretz Yisrael.

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So now, let’s turn to the overt ‘xtian’ angle.

Another leading personality in the ACHVA BROTHERHOOD is a man called ZALMAN YOSEF HALEVI SOLOVEITCHIK (1874-1942).

This guy:

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ZALMAN SOLOVEITCHIK was the President of the ‘WORLD ACHVA’ secret society from at least 1920, until he passed away.

His Hebrew Wiki page is HERE.

He is the grandson of someone called ELIYAHU ZVI [4], who wrote a book openly promoting the xtian gospels (read on…)

In the next post, we’ll take a closer look at the role ZALMAN SOLOVEITCHIK and his ACHVA Bros may have played in helping ‘divert’ money away from the Old Yishuv and into the hands of the zionists, during WW1.

And as a result, literally tens of thousands of religious Jews in Eretz Yisrael starved to death during and after WWI.[5]

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So, what is the ‘xtian angle’ that involves ZALMAN YOSEF HALEVI SOLOVEITCHIK?

As mentioned above, his paternal grand-dad is R ELIYAHU ZVI SOLOVEITCHIK, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the xtian gospels.

This guy:

HERE is his Hebrew wiki page, and this is how that begins:

Rabbi Eliyahu Zvi Soloveitchik Rabbi from Kaunas and the author of books that claim that The New Testament is a Jewish book and that Christians misunderstood [what yoshki was all about.]

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ELIYAHU ZVI SOLOVEITCHIK devoted much of his life to ‘uniting’ the Torah with the New Testament.

Literally.

Snippet:

Between 1863 and 1868, Rabbi Eliyahu Zvi Soloveitchik wrote a book called Kol Kore, which is intended to unite the Bible, the Talmud and the New Testament, the first edition of which was a translation into English from 1868.

The book was translated by Christian priests.

At the beginning of the book clarifies the tenets of faith with a certain bias towards the Christian faith, and then it explains [the xtian Gospel of] Matthew according to the Bible….

The publishers of this book were missionaries as well as various Christian associations, the book was printed in Jerusalem by a converted Jew named Joseph Atzmon, and in 1985 by C. Eckroot.

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My husband got lost here, so again, let’s set it out step-by-step.

1. We’ve established that AGUDAT ACHVA is accused of being the continuation of SABBATEAN-FRANKIST twisted ideology in the Holy Land.
2. We’ve established that the President of ‘WORLD ACHVA’ shortly before KOL HATOR is first published by ACHVA Bro SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN in 1947 is ZALMAN SOLOVEITCHIK.
3. We’ve established that ZALMAN SOLOVEITCHIK has a paternal grandfather called ELIYAHU ZVI, who writes a book promoting the xtian gospels.
4. That book is called KOL KORE.
5. It is published by xtian missionaries in 1868 – almost 80 years before KOL HATOR is published.
6. KOL KORE contains themes and motifs about ‘joining MBY to MBD’, aka joining ‘Ephraim to Yehuda’, aka, joining Judaism to xtianity.

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If you’re like my husband, you probably want some ‘hard information’ demonstrating point 6, above.

So, take a look at this frontispiece for this ‘KOL KORE’ book by ELIYAHU ZVI SOLOVEITCHIK:

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If you’re reading this on your phone, and it’s hard to make out, the left hand image is called ‘THE LAW’, the middle image is called ‘TALMUD’, and the right hand image says ‘THE GOSPELS’.

And in case you are missing the point, here, it also has that quote from Ezekiel 37:17about the wood of ‘Judah’ being joined with the wood of ‘Yosef’, pace:

“And join them one to another and they shall become one in Thine hand.”

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Let’s now bring that whole passage from Ezekiel 37:17-19, so you get the context:

“The word of Hashem came to me, saying, “Now you, Son of Man, take for yourself one piece of wood and write upon it, ‘For Judah and for the Children of Israel, his comrades’; and take one piece of wood and write upon it, ‘For Joseph, the wood of Ephraim and all the House of Israel, his comrades’.

Then bring them close to yourself, one to the other, like one piece of wood, and they will become united in your hand. Now, when the children of your people say to you, saying, ‘Will you not tell us what these things are to you,’ say to them:

Thus said the Lord Hashem / Elokim: Behold I am taking the wood of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his comrades, and I am placing them and him together with the wood of Judah; and I will make them into one piece of wood, and they will become one in my hand.”

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I know that most of the people commenting on KOL HATOR here on the blog haven’t actually bothered to read it through.

If they would read it through, they would understand for themselves how that frontispiece for the KOL KORE book basically sums up so much of the discussion going on in Kol HaTor about ‘MBY’.

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Let me give you one pertinent example.

In the English translation of KOL HATOR, in Chapter 2, point 101, we read this:

(Ezekiel 37:19) The wood of Yosef – this refers to Moshiach ben Yosef, for the entire Redemption depends on the unification of the two pieces of wood:

The wood of Yosef and the wood of Judah.

They are the two meshichim, Mashiach ben Yosef and Mashiach ben David, who at first, i.e. when the Redemption starts naturally from below, will be separate individuals in “your hand” [Ez. 37:17].

Afterwards, they will become one in ‘My hand’ [Ez. 37:19], the hand of God, that is!

Miraculously, with the help of the clouds from Heaven.

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Remember, that ‘KOL HATOR’ is the book that starts off the public discussion about ‘MBY’, and sets out criteria that state that any one, religious or not, Torah-observant or not, Jewish or not, can be acclaimed as being part of the ‘MBY’ zeitgeist, as long as they are ‘settling the land’.

Not only does this open the door for the zionist-friendly dati leumi outlook to explode across the Jewish world – it also does the heavy lifting for xtian zionists to start arguing that their guy, their religion, their ‘xtian zionism’ – it’s also all part of that same ‘Moshiach Ben Yosef’ vibe.

Hey, we’re all just brothers, man!!!! We’re all just ‘bros’…

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Let’s set out again, where we’ve got to.

1. AGUDAT ACHVA is accused of being the continuation of SABBATEAN-FRANKIST twisted ideology in the Holy Land.
2. The President of ‘WORLD ACHVA’ shortly before KOL HATOR is first published by ACHVA Bro SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN in 1947 is ZALMAN SOLOVEITCHIK.
3. ZALMAN SOLOVEITCHIK has a paternal grandfather called ELIYAHU ZVI, who writes a book called KOL KORE, which is published by xtian missionaries in 1868 – almost 80 years before KOL HATOR is published.
4. KOL KORE contains explicit themes and motifs about ‘joining MBY to MBD’, aka joining ‘Ephraim to Yehuda’, aka, joining Judaism to xtianity.
5. Then in 1947, Kol HaTor appears, and begins a discussion of ‘MBY’ that xtians use to start a whole ‘Ephraimite’ movement, including claiming ‘MBY’ is Jesus.
6. While zionists then use ‘Kol HaTor’ to build on the work began by ACHVA acolyte Rav Kook, describing the secular State as being a manifestation of ‘MBY’ – and therefore, something holy which cannot be questioned, and which must be served unconditionally.

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Is this clear?

My husband wanted more evidence that Rav Kook was probably placed in position by ACHVA, so here it is.

This another snippet from the ACHVA Hebrew wiki page:

The association worked to promote its members in rabbinical and administrative positions.

This, for example, influenced the appointment of Rabbi Kook as Chief Rabbi.

Among the signatories to his appointment were the institutions Tree of Life, Shaare Zedek and Bikur Holim Hospital, which were run by Brotherhood members.

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This is the same Rav Kook who did so very much to boost the secular zionists, and undermine the Old Yishuv.

This is the same Rav Kook who started up the MERCAZ HARAV yeshiva, where people like ACHVA Bro SHMUEL RIVLIN studied, and got their smicha.

This is the same Rav Kook whose son, TZVI YEHUDA KOOK[5], was one of the most enthusiastic ‘promoters’ of KOL HATOR.

And of course, it’s the same Rav Kook who helped to craft a new ‘dati-leumi’ hybrid religion, which watered down the Torah enough for it to be an easy ‘fit’ with the principles and aims of the commie-satanic, ‘anti-Torah’ zionists.

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Here’s a last machine-translated snippet, so you understand just how widespread ACHVA’s influence really was, in the nascent State:

In 1920, the president of the World Ahva Association, Zalman Yosef Soloveitchik, was appointed General Director of the Knesset of Israel, the general organization of the Jews of Palestine during the British Mandate, which included:

• the Assembly of Representatives,

• the National Committee,

• the Committees of Communities and

• the Chief Rabbinate.

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ZALMAN SOLOVEITCHIK was an incredibly powerful figure, in the nascent state.

He was also heading up a Frankist-masonic-xtian-zionist secret society, that had a stated goal of spreading it’s ‘idea of brotherhood’ via the education system in Israel.

And then, CO-IN-CID-ENTLY, three ACHVA Bros whose great-great grandfather was said to be the ‘Frankist Tzaddik’ left behind in the Jewish community to subvert it from within, are the ones responsible for publishing KOL HATOR.

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Kol HaTor’s ‘theology’ is the main reason why so many dati leumi young men were raised believing the secular State of Israel is holy, and why it’s assur to question anything the State does.

And that’s why they are still running, unquestioningly, to get themselves blown up, mutilated and killed for the State in places like Gaza.

It’s actually heartbreaking, how awful the spiritual betrayal really is.

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We’ll stop here for Part I.

In Part II, we’ll start unpicking the ‘ACHVA’ connection to the charidee in Eretz Yisrael, and to the money, the banks, and the z-ist takeover and destruction of the Old Yishuv.

See you then.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] There seems to be a ‘warning’ attached to this link for the AGUDAT ACHaVA Wiki page…. It’s interesting that this is how they are trying to censor the information.

[2] R SHMUEL SALANT was married to TOIBE, apparently the daughter of R ZUNDEL of SALANT. TOIBE’s sister TZVI was married to NATAN NETA NOTKIN – grandson of the famous Russian Shtadlan who had the same name, whose business partner ABRAHAM PERETZ (a son-in-law of YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN) famously converted to xtianity.

BINYAMIN RIVLIN of SHKLOV – the ancestor of all these Rivlins connected to Kol HaTor – was also a son-in-law of YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN.

[3] HOVEVEI ZION is very high on my ‘to do’ list. BH, we’ll get to a deep dive on that organisation soon.

[4] ZALMAN SOLOVEICHIK was born in the Old City of Jerusalem in 1874, to Hannah Baylah and Simcha ‘Londoner’ Soloveichik, so called because he spent a long time in London.

ZALMAN’s paternal grandfather, ELIYAHU ZVI SOLOVEICHIK, was the grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, founder of the Volozhin Yeshiva. ELIYAHU ZVI is also the uncle of Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveichik, the BEIT HALEVI, patriarch of the famous Brisker rabbonim.

ZALMAN’s son, CHAIM SOLOVEITCHIK, is one of the heads of the Anglo-Palestine Bank that will play a prominent role in the next post.

Despite apparently being ‘religious’, ZALMAN YOSEF HALEVI SOLOVEITCHIK also worked very closely with leading (anti-Torah…) Zionists, including Pinchas Rotenberg (Chairman of the National Committee) and Menachem Ussishkin (President of the Jewish National Fund).

[5] The Old Yishuv was almost totally reliant on charity funds, aka the Haluka Payment. That dried up and was ‘diverted’ into zionist hands during WWI, and the zionist leadership gave almost none of the money over to support the Old Yishuv.

This quote is from HERE, and describes how bad the starvation became:

“All of the disease, the cholera, typhus fever, dysentery, malaria and the other angels of destruction have been forgotten due to the starvation … The synagogues have removed the silver crowns and ornaments from the Torah scrolls to sell them by weight – from their silver they have made whip handles … The Arabs wore our prayer shawls on their heads; the shopkeepers used our sacred books to package their goods … Mothers sold themselves to save their children from death … Thousand upon thousands have died of starvation.”

During those war years, a mortal blow struck the [Old] Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine.

More Jews died during the Great War than in all the wars of the State of Israel combined. In four years beginning at the start of the World War I, this community shrank from 85,000 to approximately 45,000 or 50,000, at its end.

Half the Jews who died were residents of Jerusalem – a third of the city’s Jewish population.

[6] You’ll recall from THIS post that Betzalel Naor, whitewasher of Shabtai Tzvi and Yoshki, and big promoter of ‘MBY’ twisted ideas, calls Tzvi Yehuda Kook his ‘rebbe’. It’s getting harder and harder to make the argument that he’s misrepresenting the ideas he learned from the Kook family.

Well, this is turning into quite the journey of discovery, here.

There are so many new leads popping up about the people behind ‘Kol HaTor’, and messianic xtians, and Sabbateans, and ‘z-ionism’, that’s it’s hard to keep track of it all.

I know this is quite a provocative title, but by the end of this post, you’ll have a lot more information to help you think for yourself, about what might be really going on here, in our failed State.

So, let’s proceed in a methodological way, just bringing more of the information ‘out there’ together, so you, dear reader, can engage with it in your own way, at your own level, and come to your own conclusions.

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The next piece of information comes from reader N., who sent me a link to an introduction to ‘Kol HaTor’ on ARI GOLDWAG’s website, HERE.

It’s entitled: R’ CHAIM FRIEDLANDER’S INTRODUCTION TO KOL HATOR

Here’s a snippet of how Goldwag introduces his translation:

The following is my translation of R’ Chaim Friedlander’s introduction to the book “Kol Hator.” R’ Chaim Friedlander was the Mashgiach in Ponevizh yeshiva in B’nei Brak, and was the publisher of many seforim, including many of the seforim of the Ramchal.

R’ Friedlander also had a number of volumes of his own published posthumously by his children, and they are seeped with the Torah of the Ramchal, the Maharal, and his rebbe, R’ Elya Lopian.

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Kol Hator, as you will soon see, is the book that describes the Geulah process in depth, and also focuses on the concept of Moshiach ben Yosef, which we have discussed many times here at length.

It is important to understand the root of these teachings, and the quality of their validity, based on those who were the bearers of the traditions themselves.

Keep in mind that this introduction was written a number of years ago by R’ Friedlander, who passed away in the mid-eighties.

It is extremely interesting, and contains much biographical information that is probably not available anywhere else.

It specifically speaks about the early history of the current Jewish settlement of Jerusalem and the surrounding areas, which dates back to the early eighteen hundreds.

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It’s very useful to go and read that introduction by R FRIEDLANDER, if you really want to bottom-out what is going on here.

I know it’s easier for everyone to just rely on the ‘factchecker’ – me, in this instance – but you know what? Even sincere ‘factcheckers’ aren’t infallible, and the more people engage with this material to figure out where this stuff is really coming from, and what’s really true – the faster the nightmare we’re stuck in unravels for everyone.

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(BTW: I want to be very clear that I’m not suggesting R Friedlander himself was trying to dupe people. It’s very possible he was passing on this false information totally innocently, without understanding where it was really coming from, or why would someone lie about all this…)

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So, here are the main bits of ‘biographical info’ that jumped out at me, from the translation of R Friedlander’s intro to ‘Kol HaTor’, from the edition published in 1968, on Ari Goldwag’s site.

I will bold the bits in R Friedlander’s into, then add my comments afterwards in normal font.

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• “Kol Hator” was originally released by SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN.

Shlomo Zalman Rivlin is the cantor who wrote a bunch of books about ‘Rivlin family history’, who some academics state is the true author / editor of ‘Kol HaTor’.

He was also a leading member of the ‘World ACHaVA Brotherhood’ secret society, operating out of Jerusalem, that got R AVRAHAM KOOK his job as the first ‘Chief Rabbi’ of Israel.

Shlomo Zalman Rivlin is also the nephew of the YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN, the ‘Preacher of Redemption’, who Eli Eshed and other researchers believe was the real author / editor of Kol HaTor – this guy:

 

YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN was also the Rav of the ‘World ACHaVA’ secret society neighborhood in Jerusalem.

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• ‘Kol HaTor’ was released ‘twenty years ago in Jerusalem’ [i.e. 1947] but R Friedlander doesn’t know when, exactly, because “the book was released in stages over a number of years for lack of funds.”

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• R Friedlander himself states that “only a few lone pieces [of the original work] remained in the possession of Rav Rivlin’s son [SHMUEL RIVLIN] as well as a few of his relatives.

SHMUEL RIVLIN was the son of SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN, above.

When his father died, SHMUEL RIVLIN (1915-1994) took over leading the ‘World ACHaVA’ lodges in Israel.

THIS is his Hebrew Wiki page, and here are a few pertinent snippets:

He was born in Jerusalem on September 15, 1915, the son of cantor and cantorial teacher Shlomo Zalman Rivlin.

He studied at the ETZ CHAIM Talmud Torah and Yeshiva, and then at the LUMJA Lumja Yeshiva in Petah Tikva, and at the MERCAZ HARAV in Jerusalem.

At the age of twenty, he was ordained to the rabbinate by Rabbi YAAKOV MOSHE HARLAP and Rabbi BEN ZION CHAI UZIEL….

Rivlin continued his father’s activities and was involved in the WORLD AHAVA ASSOCIATION. He served as secretary of the Bureau Center, and founded several bureaus in Israel and South Africa.

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‘Bureau’ can also be read ‘lodge’.

But this is the SHMUEL RIVLIN who apparently ends up with fragments of the KOL HATOR, pushing the idea that anyone who participates in the settlement of Eretz Yisrael in any way is a ‘spark’ of MBY.

Even if they are a Torah-hating, anti-God, anti-Judaism apikorus.

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Next, R FRIEDMAN explains that as no biography of the Kol HaTor’s presumed author, HILLEL RIVLIN of SHKLOV, was included in the first edition:

• Therefore, we decided to fill in this lack, and we have put together a short synopsis based on the material found in the book “Chazon Tzion,” which will give us an idea of [HILLEL RIVILIN’s]  lifetime and the path he chose, lit by the light of his Torah.

CHAZON ZION –  a history of the RIVLIN family that could win prizes for creative fiction – was written by none other than that same SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN, leading member of the WORLD ACHaVA Brotherhood.

All the proof of authorship is circular, repeated by different people down to the line until it becomes ‘the truth’.

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Next, R FRIEDMAN starts talking about how HILLEL RIVLIN was born to his father BINYAMIN RIVLIN, in 1758, who is super wealthy, and a big supporter of Torah in Shklov.

Here’s the bits that jumped out at me:

• Rebbi Binyomin was a spiritual individual and extremely active in causes for Torah and chessed. He donated his money to establish a great Yeshiva in Shklov, whose learning was patterned after the approach of the Gr”a, with the Gr”a’s approbation.

• Through Rebbe Binyomin’s influence, many of his wealthy friends moved themselves and their businesses to Shklov. His intent was to form a group of people to support the great center of Torah that he had established.

• During his lifetime the city merited to be called “Yavneh Dreizen” and Rebbi Binyomin was referred to as the “builder of the city Shlov and its wise ones.”

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According to genealogist NEIL ROSENSTEIN, BINYAMIN RIVLIN of SHKLOV was married to DREIZA / DREIZEL ZEITLIN.

The daughter of the super-wealthy Russian court factor called YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN who was also BINYAMIN RIVLIN’s business partner.

Don’t you think it’s strange, that these key facts are being omitted?

As a btw, ‘YAVNEH D’REIZEN’ could also be a sort of pun on BINYAMIN RIVLIN’s wife – he built the ‘YAVNEH DREIZA’, with his wealthy father-in-law’s cash….

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Next, R FRIEDMAN gives over the ‘dream’ that BINYAMIN RIVLIN (BR) is meant to have had when he was 52, that’s meant to have been interpreted by the GRA as being a sign BR should start trying to ‘settle’ Eretz Yisrael:

• We still have one of [BINYAMIN of SHKLOV’s] sermons preserved from that time period, in which he speaks about the idea of the ingathering of the exiles, based on the verse in Yirmyah 31, “הנני מביא אותם מארץ צפון” – I am bringing them from a Northern land.

• According to Rebbi Binyomin, this verse teaches that from a Northern land – from Russia which is to the extreme North of Jerusalem, and more specifically from the city of Shklov – the inspiration will begin to return to Tzion and to rebuild Jerusalem.

• Through Rebbi Binyomin’s efforts, a movement began in Shklov to return to Tzion, a movement that the Gr”a called “Chazon Tzion.”

• Shklov merited that most of the first Olim to Eretz Yisroel came from it, and that it became an example in the eyes of the Jews dispersed in exile.

• Rebbi Binyomin himself left Shklov in 5572 (1812) headed for Eretz Yisroel, however, he did not reach his desired destination, as he passed away en route.

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Please pause now, and go back and read the series of blog posts I put up a few months ago, about the maskilim of SHKLOV – one and the same group of people as BINYAMIN RIVLIN, YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN, and BORUCH SHICK (the freemason and grandson to the Alter Rebbe of Chabad).

You can see that HERE.

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Another interesting CO-IN-CID-ENCE is that BINYAMIN RIVLIN of Shklov dies on the road, ‘en route’ to Eretz Yisrael, exactly the same time the ALTER REBBE of CHABAD also dies ‘en route’, apparently running away from Napoleon.

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Now we get into the meat of the claims made for HILLEL RIVLIN, grandson of BARON YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN of SHKLOV and son of BINYAMIN.

Let’s bullet-point them, for ease of reference – and remember, all of this stuff is being culled from the writings of SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN, with no other supporting sources (that I am currently aware of).

• HILLEL RIVLIN studies under the GRA for 17 years, and is one of his main students.

There is no evidence for this statement – see the discussion on KOL HATOR on the IBROX forum in Hebrew HERE. (The other links are now dead…. That’s happening a lot around this subject.)

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• In the year 5543 (1783), when the Gr”a saw that it was not Hashem’s intent for he himself to enter into Eretz Yisroel, he decided to give this heavenly mission into the hands of his student, Rebbi Hillel.

• Rebbi Hillel was the person chosen by the Gr”a to be placed at the helm of the great “Chazon Tzion” movement. The Gr”a also taught him all the secrets of the beginnings of the Redemption process, and all the specific actions that would be necessary on the part of the Jewish people to bring about the complete redemption process…..This Torah was collated by Rebbi Hillel into a great and deep book, and the essence of that book is the book “Kol Hator” which we have in front of us.

Again, there is no evidence for this, nor for the next bit of the ‘claim’ made in R FRIEDMAN’s intro to Kol HaTor, that Hillel Rivlin arrived in Jerusalem in 1809 and started setting up the ‘yishuv’ of the GRA’s Perushim then.

The historical evidence so far shows that HILLEL RIVLIN didn’t make it out to Israel until 1832.

The person who was trying to set the Perushim up in Jerusalem at this time was MENACHEM MENDEL OF SHKLOV.

(We wrote about him, and his Sabbatean leanings, and his descendents who became xtian missionaries HERE.)

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Skipping a bunch of hagiographic bunkum, we now get to the next link in the chain of RIVLINs trying to throw their weight around in the Holy Land, namely – R MOSHE MAGGID RIVLIN.

You can read the foreword yourself, but bottom line is we’re told that MOSHE RIVLIN is also presented to the GRA aged 15, and told he has a special gift to encourage people to go to Eretz Yisrael.

• With a fiery spirit, he followed the request of the Gr”a, and spent much time speaking about the desire for Tzion, to the point where he became known as “Rebbi Moshe the Doresh Tzion.”

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The next link is YOSEF YUSHA RIVLIN – son  of MOSHE MAGGID RIVLIN.

He’s also the brother of YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN, the ‘Preacher of Redemption’ – and Rav of the ‘ACHaVA Brotherhood’ neighborhood in Jerusalem. This guy:

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And that brings us around again to YOSEF YUSHA’s son, the Cantor and leading ACHaVA Bro, SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN, who first publishes KOL HATOR, claiming it’s the Torah of the Gra, as captured by his ‘main student’ HILLEL RIVLIN of SHKLOV.

Do you still believe that?

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While you are pondering, here’s some more interesting info to consider.

That last par on ARI GOLDWAG’s site says this:

If you are interested in reading an authentic English translation of the book Kol Hator, Click here. The translation was done by Rav Yechiel Bar Lev, who was a student of R’ Chaim Friedlander. He has approbations from Rav Ovadiah Yosef, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, The Badatz Eidah Chareidis, Rav Avraham Shapiro, Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, and Rav Mordechai Gross, which you can see on his website www.yedidnefesh.com.

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I clicked that first link – it’s dead.

I clicked the bottom link – it also seemed to be dead. So then, I took the yedidnefesh.com address, plugged it into the Wayback machine to see what would turn up, and got to THIS archived homepage describing the many great works of RAV YECHIEL BAR LEV.

He’s meant to be the official English translator of KOL HATOR, and apparently has haskamot from:

R MORDECHAI GROSS

R MORDECHAI ELIYAHU

R CHAIM KANIEVSKY

R OVADIA YOSEF

R AVRAHAM SHAPIRA

And the ‘BETH DIN TZEDEK’ – who styles the author: “The Rav, the Gaon, the metzion”, and a few other superlatives, for his work ‘YEDID NEFESH’.

Hmmm.

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(At this stage, having completed the research set out here, I think these haskamot are fake. I am very happy if readers want to help me pin that down more- plenty of big, sincere people got ‘fooled’ by Kol HaTor, but at least some of these haskamot seem faked – take a look at the one attributed to R Chaim Kanievsky, for example.)

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Here’s a snippet from that home page of the YEDIDNEFESH.COM site, archived from 2015:

It is appropriate here to draw the reader’s attention to two people responsible for bringing this book to the light of day for the English-speaking public. Rabbi Yechlel Bar Lev of Petach Tikva was the principal translator and inspiring force behind this work. Rabbi Bar Lev is one of Torah Judaism’s outstanding experts on Kabbalah. He is the author and translator/editor of major works widely used in Israel and the Diaspora…..

He also recently completed the stupendous job of translating into Hebrew from Aramaic, and with his own commentary, the entire Talmud Yerushalmi (14 volumes). Rabbi Bar Lev’s website is www.yedidnefesh.com

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Yoav Baram of Brookline, MA. and Safed Israel, was the other force behind this pubilcation.

A ba’al teshuvah since 1990, when he was an overseas student at Tel Aviv University (where the total secularism and indifference to God and Judaism were painful to behold), Yoav has been inspired to share his love of Kabbalah and faith in the Geulah with other baalei teshuvah.

He used his own limited funds and raised money to produce the translation of this book from Hebrew to English; and he hopes to do the same with respect to the Vilna Gaon’s commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah, also the Ari z?l?s Shaar HaGilgulim and selected works of the Abir Yaakov (Abuehatzeira).

As Yoav?s father and partner, I am happy to assist in these truly noble endeavors.

Pinchas Baram

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I’ve never heard of either R YECHIEL AVRAHAM HA LEVI BAR LEV, nor his translation buddy YOAV BARAM.

As I’m clicking around the archived version of the YEDIDNEFESH site from 2015, all of a sudden, it turns into this:

A site written by a Jewish heretic who is writing stuff that sounds INCREDIBLY similar to the stuff put out by JOEL DAVID BAKST.

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This is where it gets even stranger.

When I try to track down who is ‘officially’ meant to be writing the ‘ADAM DECODED’ site, that morphed around 2015 from the YEDIDNEFESH site with all those haskamot (assuming they are genuine….), I get to this guy:

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Does ‘LEON BIBI’ sound like a real name to you?

When I stick his official bio picture from Amazon in to Tineye, it only comes up once across the whole web – on Jim Malliard’s website.

BTW, the main thrust of ‘LEON BIBI’s books and ADAM DECODED website is that Adam was an alien….

(I think we just hit more of the baal teshuvahs abusing drugs like DMT in Jerusalem, while trying to get all ‘mystical’ learning kabbalah with spiritual short cuts….)

Whoever else he may be, ‘LEON BIBI’ is now a God-denying apikorus.

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OK, so now I try some of the other names on the YEDIDNEFESH website, to see if I can find anyone ‘real’ associated with the official English translation of the ‘Kol HaTor’ project.

First up is PINCHAS BARAM, the father of YOAV BARAM.

Initially, I thought I’d tracked him down quite fast – he shows up as an ‘op-ed’ contributor on Arutz7, and comments on other people’s sites, like this one on ynet:

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But then…. His pieces on Arutz7  have been scrubbed, leaving just this image from the cache:

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But here he apparently is again, with another ‘op ed’ for AMERICANTHINKER.COM from 2017:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/03/jew_vs_jew_some_humor_on_why_some_israelis_sympathize_with_west_bank_arabs.html

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And to bring this up to date, this particular comment from ‘PINCHAS BARAM’ is from March 2024, on Frontpage Magazine, HERE.

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I am getting the impression I’ve just tripped over a group of journalist-spooks and ‘influencers’.

So now, let’s try ‘PINCHAS BARAM’s’ son, YOAV BARAM.

Is it this guy – another blogger talking about ‘UFOs’ on the ISRAELSEEN site, back in 2014?

Besides that, and a weird ‘entry’ for him with a Hebrew University email address, but no bio or any other details….I am pulling yet another blank.

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The last of the KOL HATOR English ‘translators’ is R YECHIEL BAR LEV.

Again… I am not turning up much outside of that same yedidnefesh site (more on that in a mo).

Except apparently, as well as doing three different English translations of Kol HaTor, ‘YECHIEL BAR LEV’ also translated another very interesting book, namely the Maggid Mesharim, by R Yosef Karo. (Apparently. There is a big controversy over whether this book is actually authentic, too.)

I have that book on my shelf – my husband and I found it very disturbing, when we bought it and read it many years ago.

Now, it’s only a ‘throw away’ reference on a Chabad site HERE, that links YECHIEL BAR LEV to this translation, as the book isn’t even listed on Amazon:

“[E]xcellent translation of R. Yosef Karo’s Maggid Mesharim by R. Yechiel Bar Lev and K Skaist.”

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Back on the yedidnefesh.com site, there are some old contact details ‘R YECHIEL BAR LEV’ for anyone who wants to ‘donate’:

Screenshot from HERE:

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Now, I take a closer look at the haskamot , and I’m convinced at least the one claimed to be from R Kanievsky is fake – no dates, no address, not even an official ‘stamp’, just some words said to be from one of R Kanievsky’s students, SHIMON WEISSBERG.

I am VERY happy for readers to join me in trying to figure this stuff out.

This is kind of a shocking discovery, even for me.

Tov.

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This story just keeps getting weirder and weirder.

I’m not a betting person, but if I was, I would ‘bet’ that the persona of YECHIEL BAR LEV was created solely to push an English translation of Kol HaTor – which is now being picked up and amplified by literally millions of xtians worldwide, especially in connection with all the ‘Ten Tribes’ stuff.

Don’t take my word for it – just do a google search and see who comes back quoting it. This is just the top 5  sites that popped up:

https://hebrewnations.com/articles/messiah/turtledove.html – the Brit / Am website with ‘YAIR DAVIDIY’ – this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsTg-uJIQYujqZ83QtidAkg

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His Youtube channel also has links to ‘R ABRAHAM FELD’ – I cannot stress how ‘weird’ all this is getting, even for me.

HERE is a post about ‘ABRAHAM FELD’ on the Brit-Am site – and his links with the last Rebbe of Chabad, who it’s claimed gave him a blessing to work with ‘Ephraimites’.

[A] meeting was arranged between Avraham and the Rabbi of Lubavitch. The Rabbi blessed Avraham that he should merit to bring the Jewish youth he was dealing with closer to the right path. Avraham then requested a blessing that he should also merit to be able to reach out to the Gentiles he came in contact with, especially since he felt that many of them were of Israelite descent.

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The Rebbe replied: “Of course they are”.

The Rebbe then blessed Avraham that he should merit to have a good influence on Jews and on Gentiles of Israelite descent.

At the time Rabbi Avraham assumed that the blessing pertained specifically to the particular task he was then dealing with.

Rabbi Avraham Feld later believed that the blessing included his later work with Brit-Am and “Ephraimites” in general.

Rabbi Feld is no longer a member of Brit-Am and has been “released” from whatever ties he may have had.

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Just go and read it yourself, if you can be bothered.

Now, AVRAHAM FELD is apparently closely associated with that KolHator.com website that’s been run as a (secret….) ‘outreach’ project by the xtian Stand for Israel, which is funded by the International Council of Jews and Christians (ICJC).

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Here’s some more xtian Trojan horses, all galloping merrily around the English translation of Kol HaTor – and making the false claim that the Kol HaTor website is run by ‘orthodox Jews’:

https://stevenmcollins.com/recommendation-kol-hator-website-and-pending-conference-on-ten-tribes-of-israel/

Snippet:

I have spoken with Mr. Avrahami OvadYah, a leader of the Kol Hator organization, on the phone and we have much common ground on matters involving the ten tribes of Israel and the need for mutual recognition and cooperation between all the tribes of Israel. Rabbi Avraham Feld, one of Rabbis involved with Kol Hator, is a friend of mine who I met in my August 2000 trip to Israel and I  have the highest regard for him.

Obviously, since Kol Hator is an Orthodox Jewish organization, you will see Jewish perspectives at their website, but Christians will likely be pleasantly surprised to see that their website does address New Testament themes and Christian issues as they seek to promote unity on common ground among Christians and Jews in the modern houses of Israel and Judah.

Another trait of Kol Hator is that it promotes Christian and Jewish interactions re: the ten tribes of Israel with a commitment to each group not proselytizing the other to promote maximum cooperation.

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Wow.

There is so much stuff out there linked to this Kol HaTor translation (done by people who apparently don’t exist in the ‘real world’) about the ‘12 Tribes’ and all the xtian bunkum in Revelations about the ‘older serving the younger’ – the blessing of Ephraim, which the xtians are twisting to claim Jews need to be serving them….

But that will do for today.

And we still didn’t get near to explaining who and what the WORLD ACHaVA BROTHERHOOD – which had xtian links right from the start, and who started off all this ‘Kol HaTor’ frenzy – really was, or what they were really up to, here in the Holy Land.

BH, I will do that next.

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PS: Just to reiterate: I know this stuff is highly sensitive.

It’s increasingly appearing that the Erev Rav in our midst collaborated with xtian missionaries to put together a pseudo-kabbalistic tract called the ‘Kol HaTor’, where they twisted authentic kabbalistic teachings to achieve their own political and spiritual ends.

God forbid, I’m not saying everyone who fell for this, and who has been quoting Kol HaTor in all sincerity was out to dupe people deliberately.

What I AM saying, is that we know the Erev Rav work by way of deception.

And when we take a closer look at what the World ACHaVA Brotherhood was really about, and who was part of it, this incredible claim about the Kol HaTor ‘deception’ will start to stand on much firmer ground.

With God’s help.

 

 

The search for the authentic sources on MBY is taking me into some interesting neighborhoods I don’t usually visit.

This is a talk R TOVIA SINGER gave about MBY, a few years ago. Usually, he’s not my cup of tea, but in this talk, I picked up some very interesting information from this.

Read on.

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Around the 3.30 minute mark, R Singer starts explaining how the term ‘moshiach’ in Biblical parlance actually refers to the act of limshuach, or anointing.

Kings were ‘anointed’ by pouring oil upon them, in biblical times. So, SR inger explains that the time ‘moshiach’ actually means that someone had a leadership position, and not necessarily that they are a ‘messiah’.

In the book of Yechezkel, R Singer says the prophet refers to Moshiach (the Redeemer of Israel) as the nasi, the prince

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This one explanation for how the word ‘moshiach’ – the anointed one – doesn’t necessarily mean ‘the righteous Redeemer of the Jewish people’ was a huge chiddush for me.

By way of illustration, Singer points to Isaiah 45:1, which begins like this:

Koh amar Hashem le meshicho Koresh…

“Thus said Hashem to his anointed one, Cyrus…”

This appears to be the source brought down in ‘Kol HaTor’ and then further twisted by people like Joel David Bakst, about how a non-Jew can be ‘moshiach’.

Because the word doesn’t necessarily mean ‘Redeemer’ when found in the Tanach. It literally means someone who was ‘anointed’ to be a leader in some way, most usually, a king.

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Later on, Singer quotes another verse from ISAIAH 59:20:, which clearly sets out the necessary spiritual prerequisite for the Jewish ‘Redeemer’ to show up:

“A redeemer will come to Zion, and to those of Jacob [i.e. The Jews] who repent from willful sin – the word of Hashem.”

I.E., if the Jews want Moshiach to show up, they first have to make some serious teshuva, and sincerely return to God.

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Thank God, I’m not an expert in having to rebut missionary and NT cack, so I had no idea about this next thing I am going to share with you, until I got to minute 13 in Singer’s talk.

That’s where he says this:

“Jews must repent, and that repentance will trigger the coming of the Moshiach.”

(The language is awful, sorry! It’s so hard to discuss this stuff in English without getting a strong whiff of Sunday School.)

But here’s the kicker:

Paul, the founder of ‘xtianity’, reverses the order.

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This is the screenshot Singer flashes up on screen, where you see how xtianity basically teaches people ‘you can’t do anything to get ‘saved’ by yourself, except just to get with yoshki’.

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Singer explains that xtianity teaches people that they can’t ‘save’ themselves, no matter how many good deeds etc you do, and that people can only get ‘saved’ with yoshki.

In this xtian paradigm of ‘redemption’, there is no free will, there is no connection between a person’s deeds, and their ability to be ‘redeemed’.

Xtianity teaches ‘sit tight, yoshki is going to do everything’.

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Personally, this sounds disturbingly similar to the concept of Jews needing to do nothing before Moshiach finally shows up except ‘polish buttons’.

And it’s the opposite of what the Rav says, like this for example:

Nowadays, it is incumbent on every Jew to dance and rejoice during these holy days, and to know that this happiness and dancing is a great and awesome rectification for the soul.

A person does not know which kind of harsh spiritual judgements are waiting for him in the coming year.

The Rebbe says (LM 206), A person sins and harms his soul, at first things continue to go well for him, Hashem then begins to send him slight hints, if he still doesn’t get it Hashem calls to him louder, until the person starts getting kicked and pounded with suffering.

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You sinned? Do teshuva! The same Torah that told you it’s a sin tells you about teshuva!

But if you don’t do teshuva then maybe after some suffering something will start to sink in, you will begin to do teshuva, begin to sob over your spiritual blemishes, get shaken up a drop! If not, then G-d forbid, a spouse will get sick, if not a spouse then the children G-d forbid!

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The Rebbe promised that he will fix everything, but the question is how will he fix?

Which suffering much a person prevail in order to receive his fixing. Sometimes it hurts to go to a doctor, and if someone is really sick the surgery can be painful.

We are Jews! Nothing is rectified for free!

By the Christians nothing is needed to be done, just go to the Priest and confess to him once a year and he says ‘forgiven forgiven’ afterwards everyone continues as before.

By Jews there is no such thing! For sins a person must pay! On every transgression he must pay!

If a person doesn’t do teshuva, and doesn’t wake up then he starts getting hit with suffering as it says “There is no suffering without sin”.

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Later on, Singer starts talking about ‘MBY’, based on the reference in the Gemara Tractate Sukkah 52b, plus the verses talking about the ‘end times war’ in Zachariah, 12:1-8.

I’ll type up the passage from the Gemara below.

It’s apparently the only ‘explicit’ discussion of MBY in the Gemara.

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Around the 20 minute mark, Singer starts equating ‘MBY’ with ‘either one, or many soldiers who are killed in battle’ defending Israel.

He bases this idea on R AVRAHAM KOOK’s written eulogy of Theodore Herzl.

Remember, R KOOK was the author of OROT, and the official English translator of his works apparently has no problem with either Shabtai Tzvi, nor yoshki. (And R Kook himself got his job as Chief Rabbi thanks to his connections with the ACHaVA secret society being run by members of the RIVLIN and SOLOVEITCHIK families….)

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According to Singer, the shock of seeing this righteous soldier, or soldiers, dying in the middle of the ‘end times’ war is what finally gets people to make the teshuva required for Moshiach to show up.

But of course, the Jews don’t need what Singer calls ‘that extreme stimulant’ to make the necessary teshuva, because negative prophecies like massive wars don’t HAVE to happen.

They are just the fall-back mechanism for God to encourage us to  make teshuva.

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The idea of ‘MBY’ being a soldier, or soldiers, who die defending Eretz Yisrael is interesting.

More than that, I don’t know what to think about it.

But for sure, seeing all these young people killed and mutilated over the course of this year has had an extremely sobering effect on so many of us, and it is leading to a lot of real ‘teshuva’, at least, within Israel.

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OK, so now, what is that source in the Gemara Tractate Succah 52 b that speaks about ‘MBY’?

Here it is:

(The Gemara is having a discussion about the nature of the yetzer hara, or evil inclination, and how people will be ‘occupied with mournful eulogy’ in the future time, when the redemption occurs.)

What is the nature of this eulogy that the verse describes?

(The Gemara replies:)

R Dosa and the Rabbis disagreed about it. One said that the eulogy will be for the Moshiach ben Yosef who will have been killed in battle, while one said that it will be for the evil inclination that will have been ‘killed’ i.e. Eradicated, at that future time.

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(The Gemara questions this second view):

It is understandable according to the one who said that the eulogy will be for the Moshiach ben Yosef who will have been killed – that is why the mourning will be so bitter, as it is written:

They will look towards me, the one they have stabbed; they will mourn over him as one mourns over a ‘yechid’ (unique one).[1]

The death of God’s anointed is certainly cause for great grief.

But according to the one who said that the eulogy will be for the evil inclination who will have been killed, does that warrant a eulogy?! It warrants a celebration! So why will they weep?!

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[The Gemara answers:)

It is as R Yehuda expounded:

In the future time (atid lavo), the Holy One, Blessed is He, will bring the evil inclination and slaughter it in the presence of the righteous and in the presence of the wicked.

To the righteous, the evil inclination will appears like a high mountain that can hardly be scaled. And to the wicked, it will appear like a strand of hair that can easily be snapped.

These will weep and these too will weep.

The righteous will weep and say: “How were we able to overcome such a high mountain?” And the wicked will weep and say: “How were we not able to overcome this strand of hair?!”

And so too, the Holy One, Blessed is He, will wonder with them.

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Ad kan, from the Gemara talking about the ‘MBY’.

And even in the Gemara, we see there is a machloket about whether what’s actually being discussed is the death of an ‘anointed one’ referred to as ‘MBY’, or the process of uinversal grieving once the evil inclination is finally slaughtered by Hashem, as part of the geula process.

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I am not going to draw conclusions in this post, I’m just putting the raw info out there.

Continue to think for yourself, and may Hashem bless is all that we should draw close to the wellsprings of the True Tzaddikim, who can enter Pardes and leave again, without going crazy or turning into a heretic or xtian.

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PS: I am taking a few days off from blogging again.

At least, that’s the plan.

I’ve stuck enough up today to keep you going for most of the week.

And we still didn’t pin down exactly who put together ‘Kol HaTor’, and why, and how it’s got ‘secret society’ written all over it.

TBC

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Zachariah 12:10.

In part one, we started to unpack some of the teachings found in Kol HaTor, especially about ‘Moshiach ben Yosef’.

(Read that HERE).

And we also started to explore just how easily those teachings can be ‘twisted’, to make a MBY out of pretty much anyone in the world.

Even if they’re evil.

Even in if they aren’t Jewish.

But, where did these teachings really come from? And how much of what is found in ‘Kol HaTor’ – if anything – can be found in the GRA’s other teachings?

In this post, we’re going to make an attempt at pinning more of this stuff down.

Ready?

Let’s dive in.

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The original idea is that KOL HATOR was written by HILLEL RIVLIN of Shklov, son of BINYAMIN RIVLIN – author of the Gabia HaKesef, and a guy I’ve written a ton about.

Why?

Because as well as hanging out in YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN’s mansion in Kherson doing ‘science experiments’ with the Freemason, maskil (and grandchild of the Alter Rebbe….) BARUCH SHICK; and (apparently….) leading the attack against chassidut, BINYAMIN RIVLIN was also (apparently…) the ‘secret Frankist Rebbe’ who stayed behind in the Jewish community, to corrupt it from within.

And it’s his son, HILLEL RIVLIN of SHKLOV[1], who is meant to have composed the KOL HATOR.

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This is OPTION 1, for who wrote it down.

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Now, let’s head over to the Hebrew Wiki page for KOL HATOR to pick up some more clues and suggestions.

There we learn the following:

The book was first published in 1947, and then again in 1968 by one SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN.

When it was republished in 1968 – with some key parts missing – R MOSHE STERNBUCH wrote a ten page pamphlet denouncing it, and claiming it could only have been written by a speaker of modern Hebrew.

I.e. Rav Sternbuch claimed that the author was trying to ‘twist’ some of the GRA’s Torah many years after the fact, to make is seem as though the GRA had provided the spiritual basis and impetus for secular ‘zionism’ and what became the State of Israel.

R Sternbuch wrote more against the KOL HATOR in his work, Teshuvos VeHanhagos Part 4, Chapter 328. Pp. 411-419.

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Meanwhile, on the other side of the argument, there appears to be people like R PINCHAS WINSTON, who is quoted on the English Wiki for Kol HaTor as saying:

“In 1947, Rabbi Shlomo Rivlin, with the advice of the great Kabbalists of Jerusalem, decided to publish an abridged version of this lengthy and difficult treatise keeping the Kabbalistic terminology as simple as possible so that it could also be studied by non-Kabbalists.

Therefore, the printed Kol HaTor is not the original text.

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In 1968 it was reprinted again by two different editors (unknown to each other), Rabbi Menachem Kasher and Rabbi Chaim Friedlander (Committee For The Dissemination of Kol HaTor). Rabbi Kasher omitted the chapter on the confluences of Kabbalah and science called Sha’ar Be’er Sheva (Gate of The Seven Fields of Wisdom).

The B’nei Brak edition, which did contain this chapter, was out of print for over twenty years, thus making this “lost doctrine” of the GR”A [the Vilna Gaon] totally unnoticed by scholars and the public. Only recently a new print has appeared in Jerusalem with the Sha’ar Be’er Sheva.”[3]

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The so-called ‘Religious Zionists’, or ‘Dati Leumi’ world lapped up the KOL HATOR, and are very happy to believe that it is a genuine reflection of the GRA’s teachings.

Of course, getting the religious population to believe anyone engaged in the State of Israel project is an ‘aspect of MBY’ is clearly appealing to the corrupt people who are running the show here.

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Back on the Hebrew Wiki page – which I highly recommend you machine translate and read –  we get more info on who is ‘for’ the book being authentic, and who claims it’s either a modern fake, or an adulterated version of what the GRA may have originally taught.

In the PRO-KOL HATOR camp, we notably have:

R YEHUDA ZVI KOOK – Rav Kook’s son, and the ‘rebbe’ of BETZALEL NAOR, English translator of R Kook’s work ‘OROT’, who publically claims Yoshki and Shabtai Tzvi are also sparks of ‘MBY’.

RABBI YITZHAK SHLOMO ZILBERMAN

And in the ANTI- KOL HATOR camp, we have:

RABBI YISRAEL ELIYAHU WEINTRAUB

RAV ELAZAR MENACHEM SHACH

And R MOSHE STERNBUCH

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Who is R YITZHAK SHLOMO ZILBERMAN?

THIS is the English Wiki page for him, and here is a snippet:

Yitzchok Shlomo Zilberman (1929 – 2001) was an Israeli Haredi rabbi and educator, pioneer of the Zilberman Method of Torah study. He founded Yeshivat Aderet Eliyahu, part of a community that follows the path of the Vilna Gaon.

As I’m clicking around his tree, I see that he has extended family members who were imprisoned accused of helping out with the ritual murder of a 14 year old xtian girl in Hungary…

I think we will come back to the ZILBERMAN family another time.

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So, what are the other options being discussed for who actually could have put this book together, if it wasn’t HILLEL RIVLIN?

Interestingly, the Hebrew Wiki contains a ton of info that is curiously missing or ‘scrubbed’ from the English Wiki.

Let’s list the people in the frame for putting together KOL HATOR, for their own reasons:

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CANDIDATE 1 for authoring / editing Kol HaTor: SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN – the guy who first published it in 1947.

This is the suggestion of Prof IMMANUEL ETKES who just wrote a book about who wrote the Kol HaTor called ‘The Invention of a Tradition.”

I went to the National Library and read that book, and I have to say I was very under-whelmed by the scholarship and the critical thinking displayed.

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On Eli Eshel’s archived blog, there is a very detailed post about the authorship of Kol HaTor, in Hebrew, HERE.

I highly recommend you take a look, as Eshel brings a much greater level of detail to this discussion, while I’m basically hitting the top notes in this post, to avoid reader overwhelm.

Here’s a snippet:

What are the historical family sources that attribute “The voice of the turtle dove” to Hillel Rivlin ?

These are books called “Hazon Zion – Shklov and Jerusalem[2]“; “Mossad Yesod[3]” and “HaMaggid Doresh Zion”.

They are all the work of a cantor and a very well-known composer and preacher in Jerusalem named Shlomo Zalman Rivlin…

Shlomo Zalman Rivlin (1884-1962) became famous, among other things, for creating the “Shirat Yisrael” choir, which was housed in a girls ‘ school called “Ruhama”, and as a teacher of thousands of chazans over the years.

He also founded a school of interpretation called “Midrash Shlomo “.

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SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN is meant to be a direct descendant of HILLEL RIVLIN of SHKLOV.

But many people, including academic ARYEH MORGENSTERN, who wrote THE GAON OF VILNA AND HIS MESSIANIC VISION, state that SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN didn’t have the ability to put something like KOL HATOR together.

This statement rings true to me.

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CANDIDATE 2 for authoring / editing Kol HaTor::

“Kabbalist RABBI YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN, “the preacher of the Redemption,” who may have been assisted in the writing by RABBI ELIYAHU LANDA[4], the grandchild of the Gra.”

This suggestion comes from the writer I mentioned above, ELI ESHED, who put together a ton of information about his own family tree, as a descendant of the GRA – which has now been mostly ‘disappeared’.

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This is a picture of YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN:

What vibe are you picking up?

YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN was the uncle of SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN the cantor, and the son of this guy, YOSEF YUSHYA RIVLIN:

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This is how SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN himself explains how he came to acquire, and then print, the KOL HATOR mss, (excerpted from Eli Eshel’s blog post):

How exactly did the manuscript reach Yitzhak Zvi Rivlin ?

According to a note in the book “Midrash Shlomo,” written with the help of Yitzhak Zvi, the book existed for many decades in handwriting only, and its part was preserved in the city of Shklov by Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin, son of Hillel Rivlin and author of the book “DIVREI SHLOMO”… and is accompanied by light and chidushim from his son-in-law Asher Luria….

According to the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Zvi Rivlin, it was from the aforementioned Shlomo Zalman Rivlin that he received”a large portion “of the” Kol Tor “letters ( in the book Midrash Shlomo, 143 note 51) from where he received the rest was not specified.

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According to ESHED’s research, there were two versions of KOL HATOR in handwritten mss:

1. An original text written in the handwriting of HILLEL RIVLIN OF SHKLOV (this original, if it exists, has never been found)
2. An edited version based on the original text, written by YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN and passed to his cantor nephew to publish, in 1947.

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We’ll come back to YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN in a moment.

He’s another interesting person.

Meanwhile, here is your third and final candidate for an alternative author / editor of KOL HATOR:

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CANDIDATE 3: YOSEF YUSHA RIVLIN

This is SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN’s father, mentioned above..

This snippet is from the Hebrew Wiki:

Research on the book by Dr. Raphael Schuchat and Rabbi Avraham Kosman leads to the conclusion that the Kol Tor book contains authentic elements that appear in the Kabbalah books of the GRA and expands them…

It appears that the original manuscript of the book was not in the hands of the compiler R YUSHA RIVLIN, but only adaptations or abstracts, and he edited them.

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So, to sum this part up, here are your choices:

1. KOL HATOR is an accurate reflection of the GRA’s teachings, and was kept ‘secret’ for 100 years + before being published in an edited form in 1947, by SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN.
2. KOL HATOR was based on some ideas found in the GRA’s writings, but then these ideas were edited / expanded / adulterated by a bunch of Rivlins, including BINYAMIN RIVLIN, and his son HILLEL RIVLIN, and / or YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN, and / or YUSHA RIVLIN and his son, SHLOMO ZALMAN RIVLIN.

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Whichever option you pick, it doesn’t change the notion that the concept of ‘MBY’ as typically represented as deriving from the KOL HATOR is meaningless, at best, or more accurately, spiritually misleading and very damaging.

The information about ‘MBY’ presented in Kol HaTor seems to open the door to all these horrible, heretical ideas that people like Yoshki and Shabtai Tzvi were somehow ‘good people’ who just ‘failed’ in their mission as ‘MBY’.

And all this stuff about ‘MBY’ as presented in Kol HaTor is also distracting so many people away from focussing on the ‘real’ Moshiach in the picture, here, which is the person who ends up being ‘MOSHIACH BEN DAVID’ – a son-after-son descendant of King David, who does all the things that the MBD actually has to do.

[I am in the middle of researching more about where these ideas about ‘MBY’ are actually coming from. More on this soon, BH, with some other sources.]

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Let’s end this particular post by taking a closer look at YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN, the so-called ‘PREACHER OF REDEMPTION’.

HERE is the Hebrew WIKI  page for him, where we learn the following:

He is the great-great grandson of that same HILLEL RIVLIN of Shklov, like this:

BINYAMIN RIVLIN > HILLEL RIVLIN of SHKLOV > MOSHE ‘MAGGID’ RIVLIN > YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN > BINYAMIN RIVLIN > YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN, PREACHER OF REDEMPTION.

Me being me, I went to check out his siblings, and I hit a rich vein of people I’ve already written about here, including LOEWY’s, SHAIDIKERS and ORENSTEINs.

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Wiki says:

He was born in the town of Tulchin, near Sheklov ,to Rabbi Binyamin and Reizel, both grandchildren of Rabbi Moshe Rivlin Meshklov, who was the ABD of the Ashkenazim in Jerusalem and son of Rabbi Hillel Rivlin Meshklov, author of Kol Tor and a student of the GRA.

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BTW – there is no firm evidence that HILLEL RIVLIN OF SHKLOV was ever a student of the GRA.

And the evidence that his father BINYAMIN RIVLIN OF SHKLOV was a student of the GRA is also apparently pretty shaky.

Also, while the Rivlin family claim that HILLEL RIVLIN OF SHKLOV headed up the aliyah of the GRA’s students to Eretz Yisrael in 1809, the documentation shows that he didn’t get to Israel until 1832, at the earliest.

As usual with these people, we are dealing with a bunch of lies.

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Back to YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN, PREACHER OF REDEMPTION.

This guy divorces the mother of his five children when she doesn’t want to move to Israel with him.

And when he gets to Israel, he promptly becomes one of the founders of the pro-zionist MIZRACHI organisation in Jerusalem.

That’s not all.

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YITZHAK ZVI RIVLIN is also the rabbi of the ACHaVA neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Read more about that neighborhood HERE.

That would be the same ‘ACHaVA’ as the secret society that was operating in Eretz Yisrael at that time, that maneuvered R ABRAHAM KOOK into his position as (zionist-loving….) ‘Chief Rabbi’.

You can read a whole bunch more about ACHaVA in my collection of blog posts HERE.

This is the relevant snippet, for now:

Let’s end with the secret society of Rabbis in Jerusalem.

It was called AGUDAT AHAVA, and it was set up up in the late 1800s as a secret society. When word of this new organisation leaked out to Maharil Diskin, it was apparently described as: “[A] new cult in the style of Shabtai Zvi and Yaakov Frank.”

Apparently, SHMUEL SALANT then went to bat for the AGUDAT AHAVA – and we will take a closer look at him in another post, BH.

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You can read more about this secret society on Hebrew Wiki HERE.

Bottom line, they built ‘lodges’ all over Israel, and also in other places in the Jewish world, and lots of people you’ve heard of apparently belonged to this ‘secret society ‘ of rabbis, based on the Freemasons, that reminded at least some people of the ‘cults’ of Shabtai Tzi and Jacob Frank….

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Let’s end with another snippet about KOL HATOR from Eli Eshel’s extremely well-researched post on the subject:

In this fake preface [to the Kol HaTor]…

It is said that Yitzhak Zvi Rivlin obtained the material with hard work in Shklov and in Jerusalem, many of the writings were kept under the command of Rabbi Yaakov Liv Lawi and by Chaim Zalman Rivlin, director of the ‘ETZ CHAIM’ Talmud Torah.

The other part of the writings was in the city of Shklov, where Yitzhak Zvi found the relevant documents in Rabbi Yehoshua Zeitlin’s large book depository, where the documents were deposited by Hillel Rivlin’s sons, Rabbi Moshe Magid and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin.

It is noted that with Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Rivlin the first, as with Shmaryahu Zuckerman, many Gra manuscripts were preserved.

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I just tripped over a whole bunch of new stuff about how these individuals link up to the ‘secret societies’ that overran our community, beginning 350 years ago – but still going in our days, albeit with different branding.

But we’ll keep that for the next post, BH.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] According to the ‘scrubbed’ information in Neil Rosenstein’s original genealogies, BINYAMIN RIVLN of Shklov seems to have married DREIZA ZEITLIN, the daughter of BARON YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN – the big funder of the Russian maskilim and court agent for the Russian Tzars. This makes HILLEL RIVLIN of Shklov the maternal grandchild of YEHOSHUA ZEITLIN.

BINYAMIN RIVLIN’s sister, MINDEL, marries CHANOCH HEINACH SHICK, the ABD of Shklov and father of PINCHAS (ELIYAHU) ROSANES SHICK, who marries the Alter Rebbe’s daughter, Frieda, and has the freemason BARUCH SHICK of SHKLOV as a son.

And this family also links us directly to ELKA JOSS, the wife of the leading Frankist MOSES DOBRUSHKA (fake name… the guy played a leading role in the French Revolution, and apparently got guillotined.)

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[2] Which details the students of the GRA of Vilna, according to the Rivlin family.

[3] Which details how the students of the GRA rebuit Jerusalem.

[4] ELIYAHU LANDA is someone I’ve been circling around for a very long time. He’s said to be a descendant of both the Vilna Gaon, and the Nodeh B’Yehuda.  BH, we will take a closer look at him soon.