Shavua Tov!

First, here’s another translated excerpt from the Rav, from motzash last week:

Motzae Shabbat, 3rd May 5785

Now, it’s 22:45.

In another three hours it will be 1.45 – chatzot. All the girls should clean the mishkan, spill a bucket of water [on the floor] – in every room, a bucket of water, three buckets.

The girls should know that the mishkan – the mishkan is the bed, to make the bed, to arrange the table, to put the chairs up.

מ = mita (bed)

ש = shulchan (table).

כ = kisaot (chairs) and

נ = menora (lights) [ This spells out in Hebrew MiShKaN].

You need lights, to arrange the lights.

Today, there is nothing to prepare, once upon a time, they had oil lamps, lamps of…wax candles, everything was candles, there was no budget for electricity. Lieberman didn’t give any funding.

So, it was impossible to use the electricity, they just used candles, or oil lamps… With this, they used to walk around.

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Rabbi Chaikel said this.

The Rebbe told him: Be a chazan! [R Chaikel didn’t want to be a chazan. He told R Natan that] I’m going to walk with a lantern, with a lantern I’m going to walk on the streets in the night, during slichot, or on chanuka?!

They used to walk from house to house, with a tiny, tiny bit of light, a drop, to light up the holes [in the road]. Whoever used to wake people up for slichot – once upon a time, everything was holes. A person would leave his house – he’d fall into a hole. Everything was potholes.

In Tsfat, everything is holes.

I was in Tsfat with your father [the Rav is talking to someone next to him] – so, everything was holes. Everything was potholes. It’s impossible to leave the house, there’s no light.

So, they walked along with a lantern, which diffused a bit a of light. So, you’d need to organise it.

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So, the women would arrange it, and this is the ‘nun’ – the hanora, because the woman, when she washes the house, she is building the mishkan.

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Now, the mishkan is underneath Shuvu Banim [ in the Old City – right next to the Temple Mount]

The mishkan was not destroyed. The beit olam (i.e. Temple building) was destroyed – but the mishkan, not.

Shlomo built the mishkan underground. It’s written “Your House, the Sacred Dwelling, O Hashem, may it be for lengthy days.”[1] 

Translated from Shivivei Or, 407.

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FOOTNOTE:

[1] Tehillim 93:5.

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The Rav has been talking a lot the last few months about the importance of washing the floors motzash.

I don’t know what the deeper meaning is, but nothing the Rav says is stam.

I’m really bad at doing sponga, and the kid that used to do it got married a few months back.

So last week, I finally took the plunge and bought an electric floor cleaning / mopping thingy – and I love it!

[Arrogant and stupid…] people like to mock the Rav, God forbid, and some of what he says.

What I can tell you, is that relating to the Rav’s words with as much simplicity as possible, and not trying to be too clever, mamash helps me to live a much better life, in so many ways, big and small.

Without the ‘push’ about mopping the floor regularly from the Rav, I really don’t know if I’d have got past my inertia and ‘stuckness’ to get a floor mopping thingy.

Once I understood it’s important spiritually, as well as for other reasons – it helped me get past my yetzer, and we went to buy one.

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Next thing: MERON.

The good news, is that apparently it’s happening this year.

The bad news, is that they are basically moving it to Wednesday night (Lag B’Omer is on Thursday night) and are telling people they can only get there by bus, like they did two years ago, when the army killed 3 terrorists in Gaza at 1am in the morning, and tried to start a war mamash on Lag B’Omer.

For some reason, that didn’t happen….

At least, not on the Lag B’Omer that preceded that awful Simchat Torah.

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The good news, is that Shuvu Banim are apparently putting on 50 buses – and need help with the sponsorship, as each bus costs 6,500 shekels.

The bad news, is that the ‘official’ buses put on by the government seem to be sold out – and they were like that from day one….

https://meron.glatticket.co.il

This is the link, try for yourself, maybe you’ll have more luck.

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The good news, is that bonfires will be lit and allowed again this year, after last year where they tried to close down the whole site and ban everyone – but the lightings are taking place at the bottom of the site, away from the tomb of Rabbi Shimon.

The bad news, is that the government recently passed ANOTHER law, making it ‘impossible for someone with a criminal record to be on the stage, when they light a bonfire at Meron’.

That law had one person in mind: The Rav.

You tell me, how our government has time and energy to make passing this law a priority in a middle of a war, when there are five billion more pressing things they could be doing in the knesset.

(And then understand, again, just how much of a spiritual war is really being waged against Shuvu Banim and the Rav.)

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Honestly?

My husband is going to try to go with the Rav’s buses this year, if he’s not already too late to get a seat, but I am feeling pretty exhausted by the never-ending attempts to close down Meron to the public, and to make it as hard as possible for people to go on Lag Bomer.

I’m feeling like I just can’t do it this year, that I’ve run out of ‘oomph’ for all this, at the moment.

I’m feeling like that about a bunch of things at the moment.

And I’m also pondering how many of us have some sort of permanent ‘PTSD’ going on, from living in a state of constant tension and ‘bad news’, wondering when on earth, how on earth, all this is somehow going to break.

Even World War II only lasted six years….

The ‘Covid’ nightmare started five years ago, 2019…. and we’ve been bounced in to one yucky thing after another, ever since, particularly here in Israel.

Surely, this can’t carry on like this for much longer?

Can it?

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PS: I had someone complaining over email that 6,500 nis sounds like a lot for sponsorship.

1. I don’t run Shuvu.
2. It’s at least possible that as well as sponsoring the bus, they are also trying to put on some ‘chai rotel’ for the people going – the food and drink that in the past, was freely available in Meron, but which for the last four years has effectively been ‘banned’ by the government.
3. It’s not a simple bus journey – I went two years ago, and it literally took all day, to go at night and come back the next afternoon.

It’s one of those things, that if someone actually did it themselves, they would understand a lot more what’s involved, and that it’s not a tourist trip…. it’s mamash a pilgrimage, with tons of traffic, obstacles and miniot. Not simple at all, even before five years ago.

And now, not simple, mamash.

Just sent to me by a reader.

Relates to what we were discussing last week, that got whited out:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

Apparently, this is becoming a real ‘thing’.

I am keeping this short, to hopefully avoid getting censored, but really do take a read.

It explains a lot.

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Shavua Tov.

I did a long hitbodedut about what’s going on here, on the blog, and whether to stop or to continue.

I realised that even if there is censorship – it’s coming from Hashem, as a message. What seems to be attracting the censorship is every time I talk about ‘current news’ stuff, instead of just sticking up words from the Rav, or doing my own historical research (which usually attracts no comments from readers = doesn’t spark off the censorship mechanism in the same way.)

To put this another way – it’s when I’m writing anything ‘news’ that I am having this problem.

So, I am taking it as a message from Hashem, that I need to continue to focus on stuff that’s not ‘news’, especially, Rav translations and the historical stuff.

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My kids told me that Instagram is full of people starting to doubt the narrative on all sorts of  ‘mainstream’ propaganda now, in any case.

Stuff I was talking about 7 years ago is now going mainstream…. so, even though there is part of me that loves discussing current affairs, and enjoys putting the pieces together about what might be going on….God is telling me to stick to the other stuff.

The stuff that takes me hours upon hours to write and research.

The stuff that gets very few comments, or feedback.

S0, that’s what I’m going to do, going forward, and we’ll see if my blog settles down again.

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Last week, the Rav made some very interesting comments that have a direct bearing on stuff that is getting censored here.

I’m bringing the first snippet below, watch out for the next one – then put them together, and see what you can figure out.

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Shiur given during Malaveh Malka, 29th Nissan 2025 (26th April, 2025)

[The Rav has previously been speaking of the high level of Nadav and Avihu, who were struck down by the altar when trying to bring a ‘strange fire’ before Hashem, and how they were greater than Moshe and Aaron. Then, the Rav starts speaking about when King David tried to bring the Ark of the Tabernacle up to Jerusalem, after it had been recaptured from the Philistines.]

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There was a problematic boy, he was called Uzza…

What happened to Uzza, do you remember? [Someone answers:] He died. [The Rav replies]: That’s correct.

So, the Gemara says in [Tractate] Sotah, that he got to ‘Goren Nachon’ – this is the Holy of Holies. He[1] approached the Holy of Holies, and the Ark wanted him to be stopped. He approached to the Kodesh Kodeshim.

After this, it took David another 37 years, until he revealed this.

Thirty-three years, until he…[text missing in original].

Seven years he was in Hebron. When he came to Jerusalem, he immediately brought the Ark from Kiryat Yearim – and suddenly, Uzza died.

(He used to learn in Shuvu Banim, I remember. He was a little problematic. So, he simply died on the spot.)…

All this, the Gemara recounts in Sotah 35b. Each person should read this when they get home.

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[Skipping a discussion about how King David made Jerusalem the Holy of Holies by uncovering the foundation stone, and almost drowned in the attempt, as he’d uncovered the tahom, the depths.]

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Shmuel II:6, 3-7:

“They placed the Ark of God upon a new wagon and carried it from the house of Avinadav, which was in Gibeah. Uzza and Ahio, the sons of Avinadav, guided the new wagon. They carried it from Avinadav’s house, which was in Gibeah, with the Ark of God, and Ahio walked in front of the Ark.

“David and the entire House of Israel were rejoicing before Hashem with all kinds of cypress-wood instruments – with harps, lyres, drums, timbrels and cymbals. They came to the threshing floor of Nachon (‘Goren Nachon]), and Uzzah reached out to the Ark of God and grasped it, for the oxen had dislodged it.

Hashem became angry at Uzza and God struck him there for the blunder; and Uzza died there by the Ark of God.”

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So, this is Shmuel I:6. It’s written that they brought the Ark of God.

Back then, all the Jews from Gibeah brought it, they brought it on a wagon. And ‘Ahio walked’, and also Uzza, and then the Ark shifted – the Ark simply bounced out of the wagon, and wanted to alight on the ground, on the floor.

This was the Kodesh Kodeshim, ‘Goren Nachon’.

“[A]nd Uzzah reached out to the Ark of God and grasped it.” He thought that the Ark was falling.

As soon as he touched it – he died on the spot.

He was electrocuted.

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And that’s why I always say about [Tractate] Hagigah 13 – don’t learn this page!

Because the two were electrocuted, there.[2]

Whoever knows how to cut off the electricity – they can learn. So, the two were electrocuted, and the same thing [with Uzza], when he touched the Ark.

Straightaway, he died.

Translated from Shivivei Or, 406

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Given the Rav’s continuation, it appears that the Rav is saying that the Ark wanted King David to be stopped, from building the first Temple, but that David only understood this 37 years later, when he was told that the Temple would be built by his son, Shlomo.

[2] A reference to Nadav and Avihu.

First, if you haven’t already, go and look at this:

Olive trees burning weirdly from the inside

It’s on Chananya’s latest substack, where he shares a strange video of some of the olive trees that ‘caught fire’ yesterday, in our strange fire in the Judean Hills.

Next, take a look at this:

It’s a simple, shmirat eynayim friendly video, showing how a microwave transformer can easily and quickly burn a chunk of wood.

From the inside out.

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Next, go back and take another look at the first video of the olive trees burning.

What do you notice?

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Because of all the censorship, this stuff has to be discussed in a very circumspect way.

My views are: someone is trying to pressure our precious little patch of land into doing something that is not in our best interests.

At all.

Think property ‘deal of the century’, and you will probably be getting quite warm.

We don’t know why the same patch of forest by Bet Shemesh keeps spontaneously combusting…

But the people who are spontaneously combusting it, know exactly why they are putting the emphasis there, and not anywhere else.

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If you’re having trouble following, Dr Evil can help us out (shmirat eynayim friendly):

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To sum up: no ‘Independence’ in Israel, on Independence Day, as the fires took out all the official ceremonies, where our puppets get to congratulate themselves on what a fantastic job they are doing.

There a ‘deal of the century’ on the table, that is probably really bad news for the Jews.

There’s an unusual power black-out all across the Iberian Peninsula just as all this is going on in Israel (because you know, this stuff takes a lot of juice to run…. Just ask Dr Evil.)

It seems to be a ‘smack across the wrist’ for a naughty boy, who isn’t doing what he’s being told to do – or can’t do what he’s being told to do.

Because if you can microwave an olive tree, you can also microwave a whole neighborhood – like we saw in the Pallisades and Maui.

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Lastly, remember what the Rav told us, that I posted up at the beginning of the week:

A decree of world-wide destruction

Snippets:

We don’t even have another second! Know, there is something here that is going to be a world-wide catastrophe, in every part of the globe!…

[T]he Jews are saying that there is some terrible catastrophe here, some sort of destruction of the world, they are going to destroy the whole of planet earth.

[T]here’s a catastrophe, world-wide destruction, they are going to destroy the whole of planet earth, who knows? They are firing a nuke or going to fire a nuke, who knows what is going to happen here, now?

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Personally, I am convinced there is no such thing as nukes.

But, everyone has a microwave oven in the kitchen.

Think for yourself.

Well, something mighty strange is going on with my site.

Three days ago, I put up a post called: AI Summoning the Demon.

I can still see that post from my browser, but nobody else can.

What’s more, when I went in to edit that post, this is what I saw:

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This is what I refer to as a ‘white-out’.

I have experienced this quite a bit in the past, usually with F ists, Sa ba ns and of course, those people who believe a dead guy is moshiach (the most recent bunch to make that claim…)

So, let’s try the experiment, and see if that post got whited out because I mentioned one of the above as using AI to ‘summon the demon’, literally, OR, because I stated that AI can turn your keyboard into a ouija board and connect you straight up to evil spirits (if that’s your intention).

Don’t forget, people always ‘summon demons’ and evil spirits to try and tell them stuff they don’t know by themselves, and could never know by themselves, in a billion years.

That’s the whole attraction.

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I have screenshots of that previous post (minus the reference to the people who believe a dead guy is moshiach) that I can still see, so let’s put them up here, and you tell me if you can read it, and still this tomorrow:

 

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What else is happening on my site is that comments I accepted in the past are being deleted from the back end – and not by me.

I just noticed now, that certain commentators are being automatically ‘deleted’ as soon as I accept their comments – including HaIsh…

I’ve asked my tech guy to take a look, but I really don’t know if I can resolve this.

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As I’ve been telling you for years, I started hitting a whole wall of censorship and more as soon as I started writing about the Rav being innocent, and stitched up by the State.

When you see gag order upon gag order being put on a subject being discussed by the State- assume guilt, instead of innocence. I really don’t think you can go wrong.

And when you see the State chasing someone all over the world, putting one smear story up after another, non-stop, editing videos (badly….) to literally put words into a person’s mouth they didn’t say, and also, going after anyone who tries to speak up for that person – assume innocence, instead of guilt.

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On that note, apparently the hyehudi site – run by someone who is totally anonymous, and who goes to great lengths to stay totally anonymous – just did another hit piece on someone who is pro Rav Berland and doing a very good job of sharing authentic Breslov teachings, namely:

THE SHOEMAKER REPORT.

If you haven’t checked out their site yet, please do.

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On the one hand, it’s the Rav’s path to get huge amounts of bizayon and dissing, particularly if you are trying to be ‘out there’ in any way.

Because there is so much danger in becoming arrogant, and thinking you know stuff more than someone else.

So, on the one hand, I truly believe Rabbenu and the Rav ensure a person gets dissed and bizzed by the lowlifes of the world, to keep them humble and in a good space, spiritually.

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On the other hand – the people doing that dissing and bizzing are usually the scum of the earth.

I brought you the quote from Rabbenu a while back, where he said that the people who go against the Tzaddikim like this are usual s*xual transgressors.

Given all the sabb te ans who infiltrated our community 350 years ago, with all their little weird wife-swapping rituals, incest practices and pedophilia – you can make your own mind up, which sort of person would be compelled to ‘have a go’ at the Rav so much, that they even widen their net to ‘have a go’ at anyone who so much as mentions him in a positive light.

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If anyone knows who is writing the hit pieces on the hyehudi site, PLEASE DO email me and let me know.

Let’s lift the veil, and find out what’s motivating that fine, upstanding person to chollek, constantly and viciously, against Rav Berland.

So many of the people who have publically done that – and who can’t now be named, because of gag orders upon gag orders – are being investigated and called out for the most despicable crimes and perversions, including against their own children….

Of course, if someone is anonymous, it’s much harder to find out the true moral calibre of the person writing the hit pieces against the Rav.

Probably, that’s the whole point.

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UPDATE:

Well, I’ve got some info from two different people, who is really behind the hyehudi.org website.

Here’s some clues: his initials are A. G. and he seems to own a furniture business operating out of Moldova.

I have a bit more info than that, as his surname is pretty unusual, and shared by someone else who writes a lot.

With a bit of effort…. we could get the nut to crack fairly easily, I think. Right now, I can’t be bothered.

But if he writes ONE MORE HIT PIECE against people who are Rav-friendly, I could easily change my mind.

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BTW, here’s who else he has writing for his site – none other than the main detractor of the Rav within Meah Shearim, who has been comparing the Rav to ‘Shabtai Tzvi’ for years:

https://www.hyehudi.org/category/rabbi-yom-tov-cheshin/

In fact, it was this strange comparison with ‘Shabtai Tzvi’ – who a decade ago, when all this started up, I’d not really researched in any way, shape or form – that first got me thinking about how the notion that the ‘Tzaddik is just a mirror’ was applying to this obsession with calling the Rav a neo ‘Shabtai Tzvi’.

12 years on….. I have a whole thesis on that.

And about all the yucky people who took over our community, so many of whom spread out from one particular family who have their name and fingerprints all over this….

But there’s better things to do than re-hash all this again today.

(At least, today…. I might have more time to do that another day 😉

Birds of a feather flock together.

Sabbateans marry each other.

And as to what all that means, tachlis, in connection with the Rav just being a mirror for a person’s own soul and deeds – I will let you determine for yourself.