Just like the Children of Israel were stood before the sea, and didn’t know where their salvation would come from, and never dreamed that the sea would split – also now. This is what is going to happen. The salvation will come from somewhere unexpected.
Translated from Shivivei Or, #451.
It’s from three years ago, but still really good.
And more relevant than ever.
Enjoy!
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That’s interesting, for a lot of reasons.
Let me know, if that was your experience.
Will we be amazed, at how many of us just carried on living life, despite the challenges that have been multiplying like mushrooms after rain? I’ll say especially here in Eretz Yisrael, where we have had a month of being accompanied by ‘bombs from Iran’ and sirens to the supermarket, while we sleep, while we pray, even, while getting our eyebrows shaped at the nice cosmetician woman.
But I know, it’s not only people in Israel who have been feeling the sharp end of life the last few years. Everyone has had their own particular set of plagues to deal with, and live through, and grow from. It’s not been easy for anyone, honestly.
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Not so much the ‘bombs from Iran’, although let’s be clear, I am still anxious whenever I hear planes whirring above me these days. Even though I don’t go down to my bomb shelter, I am not on the level of being 100% calm when stuff is going off around me.
But, it’s not so much that, as all the lies, the never-ending lies, and the feeling that no matter how big the lies get, how bad the Evils treat us all – nothing ever seems to dislodge them.
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On Shabbat, after I’d got super-angry, inside myself, when someone at the Rav asked me if I could move my chair a bit…
And then, when I came home and got super-angry, inside myself, when I realised my husband had left on the bathroom light by mistake…
That is when I started to really connect to the feelings of ‘anger’ about the current situation that have probably been boiling away inside again for weeks, making me feel so stressed, and antsy, and waking me up in the middle of the night, even when there are no sirens.
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So, I sat down Shabbat and I said the Rav’s prayers to get rid of anger.
And for two days, they worked really nicely.
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(It could be there were some booms – h0nestly, after weeks of this it all just starts to blur into one long sleep-deprived night.)
I was stressing about a million and one stupid things, and I really thought I’d stopped doing that, stopped reacting like that, a long time ago.
This morning, I had a day full of Pesach cleaning and shopping to do. I really needed my energy and koach. And, I just didn’t really have it.
I felt the ‘angry vibe’ starting to hum away inside again.
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I got up, I had to get up. I washed down the cupboards, cleaned the counters, did two more loads of washing, cleaned the floor, snipped the plastic (very badly…) to size and stuck it down on the counters.
I started to feel a bit better.
BH, we found it. We got the lettuce, the green stuff.
Life was looking up again. We had a lot of the market to ourselves, as just as we were parking and coming up the stairs from the underground carpark, there was a siren warning, which meant about 50 people were all coming down the stairs to get away from ‘bombs from Iran’.
In that half-empty state, we even got a seat in Aroma, and I ordered a sachlab, to go with the pouring rain and cold that is still with us, two days before Pesach.
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Life is good.
Life is really good.
I started feeling that again, for an hour or two. That’s what a big dose of sugar can do for you.
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All of the Jordan land crossings closed to Israelis now (why?! I have no idea).
More lies about what’s going on with the war.
More lies about that Orange Guy, and his super-duper-fabulous-world-fixing 8-D chess plan, which apparently some brain-dead morons still 100% believe in.
All of a sudden, I just started to feel all stressed-out, and soul-weary, and kinda angry again.
We are dealing with ‘half-lockdown’ rules here in the Aretz again, and that all by itself is making me kinda claustrophobic.
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But really?
It’s hard to ‘stay off the news’, especially at times like now, when it appears so much is going on.
But even if I’m not feeling the poison as I’m engaging with it, it’s coming out at night, stressing me out, and leaving me feeling kinda despairing and angry.
I really, really don’t want to be feeling like that any more.
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I am still struggling to figure out how I move forward, from the stress-y, angry place I’m currently finding myself in, and really not enjoying very much.
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One thing that has struck me, is that we are actually so fortunate that all this is going on in the lead up to Pesach.
We are all so busy with ‘Pesach prep’, there isn’t a lot of time to think about anything else.
That’s a good thing.
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Tov.
Maybe, this is the year the sea really does split, and every last Evil gets drowned in it.
I really hope so.
And in the meantime, may God keep you, and me, and all the people we care about and love, safe, healthy, happy – and increasingly, seeing through the lies that are keeping us all stuck in Mitzrayim.
My friend just sent me this.
I am putting it up with no comment. Think for yourself, what might be going on, as always:
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Sadly, nothing so unusual about that at the moment.
But then, one of my readers sent me this:
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Take a listen, think for yourself, what might be going on here.
The world is feeling kinda unreal at the moment, in a million different ways. So, I am trying to manage all this ‘unreality’ by focussing on what IS real:
Cleaning my fridge for Pesach.
Doing my research for school.
Babysitting my grandkids.
That stuff is ‘real’.
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I feel a little sorry for the people who like to believe that notions that the world is being run by a small bunch of elite psychopaths is just ‘conspiracy theories’.
I have no idea how they are coping with our current unreal ‘reality’, and probably, they aren’t.
I am SO grateful for Rebbe Nachman and the Rav.
How else, would we get through all this strange stuff with our souls and optimism intact?
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Am Yisrael Chai!
We’ve been through worse stuff than this, and this too will pass.
And getting weirder by the second.
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Meteors are crashing through the roof in Houston, Texas:
🚨 NASA CONFIRMS METEOR OVER HOUSTON!!
This meteorite crashed through a Houston woman’s roof in Houston this afternoon.
NASA says the meteor was roughly 3-feet in diameter and weighed 1 ton.
📸 Sherrie James pic.twitter.com/JvcEnJ7JyN
— Gage Goulding – KPRC 2 (@GageGoulding) March 22, 2026
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What in the world…
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This is also kinda weird, for different reasons:
Lots and lots of hints, about what is really going on here.
Enjoy!
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Torah #2, Torah #2 in Likutey Moharan.
So, Shmuel Isaac saw, what was called a blizzard, and he didn’t see anything. Suddenly he saw some sort of light shimmering – this was the heichal (the hall) of Moshiach.
And then the Rebbe said to him, Torah #2, about Moshiach, that he is ‘built’ from prayers.
Every ‘Moshiach’ is built only from prayers.
Every ‘Moshiach’ – this is the prayers of Am Yisrael.
So, the moment that there are prayers – Moshiach will come. At the end of the 6,000 [years].
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Chabad says: We want moshiach now!!!
Breslov doesn’t talk about moshiach at all, we don’t keep reminding ourselves of this.
We need to pray with kavana (intention), that You should return us to Zion with mercy – that it will be done with mercy!
That 1,500 young people won’t be killed at the Nova [party]. Now, on Simchat Torah two years ago, 1,500 young people were murdered, and another 1,000 were murdered in the war, up until now.
They could have killed them [the terrorists] in one day, and then no-one else would have been killed.
Just the Bagatz didn’t allow it. The Bagatz didn’t let the army do anything. The planes didn’t arrive. For three days, the planes didn’t arrive. A plane – this takes 15 seconds [to get to Gaza], and it would have killed alll [the terrorists].
It’s 1,200 bullets a second, 1,200 bullets a minute.
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7,000 came. They said 5,000 [terrorists] but 7,000 came, or 6,200.
This is six minutes. Within six minutes, a single plane could have dealt with 1,200 [ a minute].
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Now, they are going to blow up bunkers that are 100 metres down.
Before, they were blowing up until 80 metres down, now they depth is already 100 metres. Khamanei is in a bunker of 100 metres, now. And he’s already talking with the Taliban, that he wants to escape over to them, and that’s that. The bombings are about to begin.
So, they built him a bunker 100 metres [down].
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Today, there are bombs that can reach up to 100 metres.
There are american bombs, that can get to 100 metres – only america has these types of bombs. Nasrallah is 80 tons, Nasrallah, and in Fordo, this is 80 metres down.
Only america has these types of bombs.
They called this in Sivan 5785, ‘Midnight Hammer’, in the merit of chatzot (the midnight lament).
He believes, people believe what is written in the Torah – the non-Jews believe in the Torah more than the Jews.
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It’s written, “From the Nahal Mitzrayim until Nahal Prat.”
Now Huckabee – Huckabee is the american ambassador in Israel, he said: Eretz Israel belongs to you!
The Arabs claim that we [i.e. the Jews] invaded here, and that it belongs to them. And that we are…
He says, this belongs to the Jews. What’s the explanation? You came and ‘occupied’ here, not the Jews!
There’s an argument about who invaded who. We conquered – this was a country of Arabs, and we came here, bought land, and conquered in 5600[1]. The whole of 5600 was spent in our own land. From 5600 we bought land.
Or, the opposite. The Arabs plundered the settlements of the Jews. This is what the American ambassador says – and the whole world is going crazy!
Huckabee. He says that the Arabs invaded the settlements of the Jews, and that it belongs to the Jews. I never paid attention to this verse:
“From the Nahal Mitzrayim until Nahal Prat.”
There is such a verse. I didn’t write it. Perhaps, you wrote it? Do you own up, to writing it? Here, he’s admitting it. I just never paid attention to it.
“From the Nahal Mitzrayim” – what, I’m going to go and conquer Mitzrayim now?! I am reading about the Brit bein habeitarim, (the Covenant of the Parts)[2] – we will read this tomorrow, two times the source text, and one time the commentary.[3]
There are no halachot there, there is nothing there. Bein habeitarim, a “great darkness.”[4]
“On that day Hashem made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘to your descendants have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River.”[5]
He said, this belongs to the Jews. This is the language used by the American ambassador to Israel, Huckabee. He said this, and the whole world went crazy.
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Trump said I am a friend of the Jews.
[The world believes that] The Jews are the most loathsome nation, just a bunch of murderers. Why did Hit…r kill the Jews? Because they are a nation of murderers. Everyone thought that he was right.
But suddenly, Trump is saying the opposite, that the Arabs are the murderers. So, they need to section him, maybe in Eitanim, I don’t know.[6] Maybe Hatzalah will section him, I don’t know. Maybe, just maybe, he’ll come and learn in Shuvu Banim, and we’ll make him a bit more ‘normal’.
He just says, I’m on the side of the Jews.
That’s what he says – and the world is going crazy. The world can’t believe it. Macron is saying this belongs to the Arabs!! Macron, the French Prime Minister, and Shultz, the German government, and also England.
What’s this?! The Arabs have already been here for 2,000 years! 1,300 years, the Arabs have been here! From 38 – 638 CE, they conquered Eretz Yisrael, which is really 2,000 [years].
So now, it’s exactly 1,300 years, against the brit milah.[7] They circumcise. The Arabs circumcise at age 13. The Zohar says that this was from his free choice, he [Ishmael] could have said I don’t want to. It’s not like when you perform a brit when there is no possibility of remonstrating.
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Now in Belgium, they cancelled circumcisions.
In Belgium now, the English ambassador is going to take care of it, and the American ambassador. They want to put all the mohels in prison, now.
It’s forbidden to perform a bris in Belgium, in Denmark – also there, they are making this law. They don’t understand what it is.
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Translated and Excerpted from Shivivei Or, 450.
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This is what is happening in Belgium:
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In the UK, there is also a new, ‘xtian’, political movement called RESTORE, which wants to outlaw halal and kosher.
It’s proving pretty popular. It has a scary platform, snippet from HERE:
The party has also pledged legalising the possession of pepper spray for women and the use of “reasonable force” in the defence of people’s homes, and has referred in its rhetoric to a desire to “carpet-bomb the cancer of wokery”. It has additionally stated that it seeks to abolish kosher and halal slaughter and to restore Christian principles. Other policies include reinstating the death penalty, reducing certain taxes, limiting the size of government, banning the burqa and niqab, and reducing or withdrawing public funding from the BBC.
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If they get in… how much longer do you think Jews will be able to do brit milah in the UK?
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[1] This is the year described in the Zohar which many believed would see the redemption of the Jews to their own land, and moshiach. It’s also the year the Brits opened the Protestant Jerusalem Bishopric in Israel, which served as the ‘centre’ for British political intrigues in the Holy Land (and overt, repeated attempts to convert Israel’s Jews…) from that point on.
[2] Parshat Lech Lecha, 15:7-18. This was not the week’s Torah portion when the Rav was giving over this shiur. However, in Parshat Mishpatim, there is a second reference to Israel’s borders: 23:31: “I shall set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the Wilderness until the River, for I shall deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands and you shall drive them away from before you.”
[3] In Hebrew, shnayim mikra v’ehad targum – referring to the practise of reading the Torah portion two times, and then also reading the Targum Yonatan along with it.
[4] Lech Lecha, 15:12.
[5] Lech Lecha, 15:18.
[6] Eitanim is a well-known institution in Israel for people with severe mental illnesses.
[7] Ishmael voluntary had a brit at age 13, so his descendants were granted a century for each of those 13 years, to rule over Eretz Yisrael, as Ishmael’s reward.
Translated as ‘ice’, or more precisely, the flaming ice that hit Mitzrayim so hard, it’s the one time Pharoah himself went to ask for it to stop.
Here’s a few thoughts about the ‘barad’.
Depending on your viewpoint, that could be a current issue.
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Twelve years ago, I bought all his books.
Six weeks ago, I started re-reading them for the first time in a decade, particularly the ‘Ages in Chaos’, which proves how history was distorted by 600-700 years, by faulty reliance on Egyptian dating methods that don’t stand up to scrutiny.
Once you move history ‘forward’ 600-700 years – there is so much evidence that the Biblical events in Tanach really occurred, with real people, it’s overwhelming.
But to return to ‘barad’.
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And later on in that passage, he basically compares them to meteors…
Except he claims that ‘meteors’ are flaming stones, whereas the ‘barad’ was flaming ice – an impossibility to someone like Velikovsky, who left his yeshiva education behind to go and become an ‘academic’…
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It’s a mixture of:
Iron Dome, and Iron Dome shrapnel from aerial explosions.
Real missiles that appear to be fired close-up, exactly at old buildings and neighborhoods that then get expedited permission for pinui binui new housing, literally within 24-48 hours…. which is the biggest ‘smoking gun’ you can really have, that all is not what is seems.
‘Something else’, that falls in flaming clusters, is accompanied by strange, loud noises – but at least so far, doesn’t actually seem to be hitting anything, or doing any damage.
‘Barad’?
Or something else?
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And that the Orange Man’s big bluff has been called by a few cheap mines and drones in the Straits of Hormuz.
Amazing, how dumb people who play ‘8-D chess’ actually are, in reality.
This is not playing out the way it was intended.
Probably, that’s a very good thing.
But, if you were waiting for ‘WAR WITH IRAN’ to change the whole picture – remember what the Rav said, a couple of weeks ago:
Ain’t going to happen that way.
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In previous years, the Rav made a big point of saying Xtians think they can go to a priest for ‘absolution’ without having to really fix or change anything, or make teshuva.
But Jews don’t.
So, if you’re sick of the current reality, or your current reality, I’d like to invite you to change it for yourself:
Of course, in tandem with Hashem, as that’s the only way things really shift or move.
But first, He’s waiting for the ‘awakening below’, and for us to stop pretending we can stuff without Him, and to finally ask for His help.
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Thanks to everyone who took the time to participate, even with all the madness currently going on around us.
Personally, I am starting to ‘feel’ that things are calming down, somehow, even though the headlines suggest precisely the opposite.
For the two weeks before ‘WAR WITH IRAN’ kicked off, again, I was jumping out of my skin for no obvious reason, and my stress was through the roof. I tend to get the zeitgeist about two weeks ahead, for some reason, so I am taking it as a good sign, that the last couple of days I am feeling a lot less ‘stressed’ within myself, although still not 100%.
Obviously.
We are having open miracles here all the time.
The ‘Hamans’, the ‘Pharoahs’, who are strangely committed to bombing chareidim and poor Sephardim and Ethiopians in the periphery, are not going to win.
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In the meantime, I wanted to just share my notes from yesterday’s class, with some ideas on how to take down the stress we are all feeling right no, in our state of lo be seder – disorder, chaos, confusion.
The SEDER – the ‘order’ is coming soon, in about nine days.
We just have to figure out how to hang on, and not crack up, until it arrives.
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(My husband wants me to add, if it’s less than a kazayit.)
The madness continues, wherever you happen to live – even in chul, where they don’t have ‘rockets from Iran’ to deal with, and Covid rules reinstituted which means only 50 people at simchas, 50 people at a time at the Kotel, no school…
But in chul, they seem to be worrying about other things.
I spoke to my brother before Shabbat, and he told me they just arrested a few people suspected of planning terror attacks on Jewish communities in London.
He is kinda stressing his bum off right now too, for different reasons.
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But in the meantime, we also have Pesach to prep for.
While our stress responses are working overtime, we’re sleep deprived, the kids are all at home, stuff is not open as usual, stuff is just not getting ‘done’ the way it could get done in previous years….
If you’re dealing with all this, and more, there are still some places available for tonight’s free Breslov Key to Joy webinar.
Sign up HERE.
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Most of the webinar will be recorded, and sent to participants who sign up, with some other exclusive ‘goodies’ – but the sessions on Shalom Bayit are not being recorded.
For a lot of reasons, not least, we want people to be able to discuss freely without worrying stuff will be sent around a thousand Whats Apps later on.
So – sign up to participate, if that’s interesting for you.
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HERE is the link, again, also below:
There is an updated ‘order of events’ there, where you can the full list of speakers, and what we have planned.
Also, there is a ‘Coffee Time’ scheduled at the end, for whoever wants, just to get to know some other Breslov-interested people online.
And we have interactive polls and other surprises planned, to make it a webinar where people can really participate, share a bit, connect a bit – and not just sit there ‘absorbing information’.
So, see you there!
BH.
It’s nice to interact with you, dear reader, in an easy, unstressful way.
Believe it or not, I am really interested in what other people think, and especially, about important topics like Shalom Bayit and Pesach.
So without further ado, here are the results from the poll – and thanks to everyone who took the time to engage with it, it was v helpful, in terms of planning the shalom bayit session for the upcoming Breslov ‘Key to Pesach Joy’ webinar, Sunday at 8pm Israel time:
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That is a very common reaction to trying to prep for Seder in the middle of a war…
Ho ho ho.
So, BH, we’ll take a closer look at how we can lighten that up, and how we can navigate some of the shalom bayit issues ‘feeling overwhelmed’ can most certainly lead to, when trying to get ready for Pesach.
(Here’s a clue, for people not attending the webinar: have a good eye. Particularly for yourself.)
So far, we have 30 attendees, and way more men than women…
I guess, because the women are all too overwhelmed trying to clean for Pesach.
Ah, the irony.
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Literally, there were rivers in the streets.
Strange to say, it made me very happy.
I got the feeling Hashem is perhaps coming out of hiding, and that things are about to start turning around in a spectacular way…
I guess we’ll find out.