I’ve been having an interesting email exchange, and I wanted to share bits of it more widely here.

***UPDATES***

It revolves around the very crucial discussion about ‘who we can trust’ right now.

First, here’s a brief overview of what my correspondent is ‘noticing’:

So much of the “media” (including “alternative”, blogs, etc) that were so “smart” to figure out the “truth” about Covid (which is a huge spectrum) – are in large part coming out very anti-Israel and anti-Jewish. Perhaps it’s because they’re “Libertarian” – whatever it is, it feels / sounds like there are a lot of Jews who were “on board” a lot of “Covid-truth” that are now feeling confused and abandonded…

If they were “right” about Covid, how can they be so wrong about Jews? If they’re so wrong about Jews, were they really so smart / right about Covid?

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And also this:

A lot of the “anti-Charedi agenda” seems to be kind of quietly being moved forward during this time (enlistment in the IDF and breaking the taboo).

Also, all of the huge fundraising for soldiers, etc., especially from chutz l’aretz is ignoring the Charedi education and establishments that are already and will soon be sorely lacking funds.

This means all of the “lomdei Torah” and children, etc., will be severely underfunded. This is hundreds of millions of shekels, combined with general financial hardships due to the war, etc., it’s easy to imagine a huge shift in Charedi employment vs. learning, etc.

People like Rabbi Schwartz from Bilvavi [are] writing that to separate from the Erev Rav means not even saying prayers for IDF soldiers – which to most people (even who are not pro-State), that really goes against the grain.

Again, is he right about everything else and “wrong” about praying for Jewish soldiers to be safe and to be successful protecting us, since it “mixes” us with the Erev Rav (and therefore “Yesh” Od Milvado)?

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This is touching on so many important ideas, that all circle around the idea of ‘who and what can we trust’ right now.

So, here’s the rules of thumb that I have been using to guide me throughout this journey, this process, but let’s be clear that the more truth a person is living in their own life, the easier it becomes to see through the lies and deceptions on the outside.

If a person is basically living a lie in some area of their own life, they will be unable to distinguish ‘lie from truth’ externally, where their internal lies are resonating with the external lies.

That’s the starting point.

And we only get there with some real, hard, honest teshuva, and via regularly talking to God to clarify the truth vs the lies within ourselves.

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So now, let’s turn to the three specific issues above.

1. Right about ‘Covid’ and totally wrong about Jews

People in this category have to understand that ‘Covid’ was just another symptom, another tool, being used by the satanists who are anti-Torah and anti-God, and who are fighting a big war against Hashem and humanity.

Sadly, some of those satanists have Jewish names and even big yichus….

And the evils who are behind all this make sure that those ‘Jewish satanists’ are always front and centre in their plots, because that’s how they ‘win’ whatever the outcome.

If people figure out something bad is going on – it’s all the joooossss…..

And if they don’t figure it out….. no-one cares anyway, right?

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Once you get get past the ‘poster boy Jewish satanists’ that are the designated fall guys for all this, you’ll start to understand that there are no ‘states’.

There are no ‘countries’.

There are no ‘good politicians vs bad politicians’.

There is no ‘independent, honest media’.

There are just good people versus bad people.

And no-one in a position of serious influence and power today, even on social media channels like ‘Telegram’, would be allowed to stay there if they weren’t corrupted in some way, and part of the machine.

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To break this down further:

We have to get out of the ‘all or nothing’ mindset.

Even the obvious evils are telling a little bit of the truth some of the time.

In fact, that’s one of the key ways they get ‘the truth’ out there in a way that no-one takes it seriously.

When they have Nasrallah telling us all that America is directly responsible for this current war in Israel, it’s just a laughable figment of his imagination….

Right?

So, the information itself has to be evaluated on its own merits, with a lot of hitbodedut and begging Hashem to show us the truth, whatever it’s source.

This is really the key to understanding what is going on here.

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2. Pushing forward the ‘anti-Chareidi’ agenda in Israel

If I’m honest, this is currently very low down the list of things that are bothering me.

We are literally in the middle of an existential threat. Thousands, tens of thousands, of Israeli residents have left the country, and gone to chul.

Most of them are not religious.

Nearly all the ‘religious’ people I know in Israel are staying put, and not going anywhere.

Even if they have three passports and family members begging them to leave.

Whatever is going on right now, Israeli society is going to be totally changed ‘the day after’ – and I highly doubt there will be any ‘Knesset’, or any arguments over budgets happening at that point.

If we learnt anything this last month, it’s that we are actually still just one people, whatever ‘label’ we are given or sport ourselves.

And our enemies are literally trying to kill us all right now.

So, let’s put this to one side, and go to the last point.

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People like Rabbi Schwartz from Bilvavi [are] writing that to separate from the Erev Rav means not even saying prayers for IDF soldiers – which to most people (even who are not pro-State), that really goes against the grain.

Again, is he right about everything else and “wrong” about praying for Jewish soldiers to be safe and to be successful protecting us, since it “mixes” us with the Erev Rav (and therefore “Yesh” Od Milvado)?

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It goes against the grain to not pray for our soldiers, who are risking their lives every single day, fighting for you and me, even though they are being misled and endangered by the most disgusting people in the world, BECAUSE IT’S JUST TOTALLY WRONG.

Who in their right mind can suggest that praying for a fellow Jew in danger is something that God wouldn’t want?

This boggles my mind.

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Does that mean ‘Bilvavi’ is wrong about everything else?

Absolutely not.

It comes back to getting out of that ‘all or nothing’ mindset, and understanding that EACH PIECE OF INFO HAS TO BE EVALUATED ON ITS OWN MERITS.

Until you are 100000% sure that the person you are dealing with is actually a real tzaddik, you have to keep your ability to scrutinise what you are being told screwed up to the highest possible level.

Our community has been infiltrated by fakers at every single level, including on the ‘religious’ side, and some of those fakers are extremely convincing and have been ‘maneuvred’ into positions of wielding massive influence.

And at the same time – there are still 36 (and some say, 72) Lamed Vav tzaddikim in every generation.

It’s a very narrow bridge.

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Personally, whenever I see anyone getting lots of air time on government propaganda sites like the Yeshiva World News and A7, I immediately suspect them of being fakers.

The more fawning stories I read about a person being ‘the Gadol HaDor’ who is telling people to [do exactly what the government wants, with no questions asked] – the red flag goes up immediately.

Ditto, if I see people fronting endless charidee campaigns on these sites.

Or just being ‘puffed’ generally, as the saintliest person who ever lived.

Those sites are all run by people affiliated with the evils.

The content is designed to manipulate and control people into doing what the evils want – and to steer them AWAY from coming close to the real tzaddikim.

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So, do your own birur.

And do it very carefully.

The most important part of that is just to get honest about your own bad middot and ‘issues’, because as long as we ourselves are caught in things like anger, vengeance, panic, despair and hatred, we will be unable to distinguish who and what is also coming from these ‘bad places’.

May God help us all to do this birur.

And to figure out, going forward, who and what to trust.

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UPDATE:

These are screenshots of what was actually written on the Bilvavi site:

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Each person should pray on this, and do their own birur.

Lots of people being labelled as ‘seculars’ still believe in God and lots of people being labelled as ‘charedim’ and ‘religious’ don’t.

UPDATE 2:

From another reader;

Another excerpt from the Rav’s shiurim from last week.

As always, there are a ton of clues contained here, about what was really happening on October 7, 2023.

BH, if I have time, I will translate some more later in the week.

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Except of shiur from Oct 30th, 2023

Now, we are seeing ‘a time of great difficulty’ [for Yaakov], that over the course of three days it was impossible to reconquer the kibbutzim.

The government abandoned everyone.

People cried out for help for 40 hours, 30 hours, 22 hours. People cried out via their smartphones, there didn’t have batteries, they didn’t have electricity, it was impossible to call, even.

Whoever could call, said ‘come’! ‘Save us!’

The commanders forbid the soldiers from entering the kibbutzim.

The soldiers advanced, but it was impossible to enter, because in each kibbutz there were 500 terrorists. No end of terrorists! It took three days to reconquer again – instead of defending them, in the first place.

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And they telephoned, and said 5,000 people are crossing the border.

There is no fence, it’s the most elaborate fence in the word – 50 billion dollars. If there was…

When they give 100,000 to a yeshiva, the whole world goes mad – ‘these leeches’, ‘these bloodsuckers’. Lapid goes out of his mind.

And here, they spent 50 billion on a paper fence. If they had made a fence out of cardboard, from paper, it would already have been much better. There is nothing left of the fence.

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Now, at the Erez Crossing there has already been three hours of war.

Because they wanted to break through a path from the Erez Crossing.

There is no fence, there is nothing.

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And this is what each person needs to know, that now it’s a ‘time of difficulty for Yaakov’.

There is no government, a government of chilonim, it’s worse than….

They abandoned their brothers.

For 40 hours, people waited for the army to come – and it didn’t come. And in the meantime, they burned everyone alive, there are no houses, there is nothing.

It’s possible to build a house in one day. These days, they already have pre-fab walls, in a day, you can build a house.

[The refugees from the Gaza envelope] are sleeping five people in a room of one square meter. They aren’t giving them food, they aren’t giving them anything.

They are treating them worse than monkeys, worse than cockroaches, is how they are treating them.

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A government like this has never been since the creation of the world, that is abusing people who went through a Shoah.

Today they are ‘evacuated refugees’, they are in camps for displaced people. And however much food you bring them, it’s not enough. The children are orphans, or they no longer have a father, or there is no mother, or both of them are missing.

They already turned into ashes.

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And so it’s an obligation for each person to know that this time is a ‘time of trouble’.

We are obligated [to act accordingly and constantly recite tehillim]! This is d’oraita! This is what the Rambam says, this is d’oraita!

To say a chapter of tehillim every second, and another chapter of tehillim. And a girl who can recite three chapters of tehillim, will be blessed, because people have to still attend the seminaries.

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In the ‘Sharon’ [region], they already cancelled all the classes, because now they are already scared that they are going to fire a million rockets.

They have maybe 100,000 rockets. Every day, they are bringing into there another 10,000 rockets. There is not supervision, they have tunnel-highways.

Egypt doesn’t care, they are happy, and all the Strip is full of rockets. They are firing rockets non-stop.

Except for [at] Jerusalem, where rockets don’t reach to here.

Because we are exactly in the centre of the country, the furthest from Gaza, and the furthest from Lebanon.

The whole North is under rockets, the whole South is under rockets, [Kibbutz] Kissufim is under rockets.

They are being showered down with no end, a ‘rain’ of rockets. We read [the bracha in the Shmoneh Esrei] “and give dew and rains of blessing” – so we got rockets.

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“And this thing is from the ways of teshuva and it’s for everyone.” – Rambam

Such that the moment that this is a ‘time of difficulty for Yaakov’, we need to feel the suffering of Am Yisrael.

130,000 people without homes, without apartments, without clothes, who fled in their pyjamas.

Suddenly in the middle of being asleep there was a siren. They thought it was just a regular siren, suddenly they see rain – a rain of rockets!

“And give dew and rains of blessing.”

They still hadn’t said this blessing. This is only said in mussaf, but already at 6.15am, there was already a rain of rockets.

We need to cry out – [about all suffering].

If we see Am Yisrael suffering, then we need to say tehillim.

Any girls who are able to say three books of tehillim, this is above everything.

The bachorim (young men) should break their Xiomis, because this Xiomi brings all the punishments. They see nude pictures, and immediately a thousand soldiers are killed at that moment.

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We are in danger at every moment, that they will kill 1,000 soldiers.

Because Hamas there, they say it’s 40,000, but really, it’s 100,000. All of them are armed with the most up-to-date weapons, because Iran gave them the most up-to-date weapons.

And even though we are here in Jerusalem, which is the most protected – Jerusalem protects us and guards over us – we still need to pray for all of Am Yisrael.

This is d’oraita.

To feel the suffering, as though we are in the Shoah.

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That there are no homes.

That they took people out of their homes while they were sleeping. And they put on minivans in their pyjamas. They were put on minivans and megashmim.

They went barefoot. They don’t have shoes. They don’t have clothes – nothing! The babies don’t have diapers.

“And this thing is from the ways of teshuva…. The moment that we see that this is a time of suffering for Yaakov, everyone is obligated to cry out.” – Rambam

And to say tehillim endlessly.

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“And to cry out over it, and to blow the shofar, and to know that all of this is the result of their bad deeds.” – Rambam

All of this is because they beat them with blows [in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur].

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Ad kan, from the Rav.

BH, even with all the censorship, the questions are starting to pop up even in the mainstream media in Israel, about what really happened.

This guy is talking about the 20 tatzpaniot (observers on the border with Gaza, in the army bunkers) who ‘disappeared’ from the Nahal Oz base without a trace.

And also their smartphones disappeared without a trace.

And also, all the cameras in the base ‘disappeared’, together with the footage of who really over-ran the base and killed and kidnapped everyone.

(Google translated from HERE – the video plays in Hebrew.)

Just cutting and pasting this from ravberland.com.

It’s very powerful, from October 31, 2023, before the 16 soldiers were killed yesterday.

The Rav is the only source of ‘news’ I trust, at this point.

From HERE.

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Moreinu HaRav Eliezer Berland Shlit”a’s pained cry to say Tehilim for the protection of the Jewish people, especially now as our soldiers enter Gaza on the ground:

Now I read the Rambam [Hilchot Ta’aniot 1:1-3]:  It is a positive Torah commandment, that all those who say Tehilim are fulfilling a positive Torah commandment, because now it is “a time of stress for Jacob, but he will be saved from it” (Yirmiyahu 30:7).

50,000 soldiers enter Gaza now.  Every day, they progress only 100 meters.  More than 100 meters isn’t possible.

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Already there are two seriously injured.

In the merit that girls took onto [themselves to dress] modestly, and to lengthen their dresses, in the meantime not a single soldier has been killed.

This is something that is above the natural order, itself these are miracles, but this will take a half-year if we progress only 100 meters.  This will take a half-year, and people don’t have a home — 130,000 people without homes, without parents.  The parents were taken — turned into ashes, like in Auschwitz, that they were turned into ashes.

It is impossible to even find the DNA, because the ashes became mixed with bricks and boards, and in cars people were burned.

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Everyone fled to cars; then they poured gasoline on them.

They prepared gasoline and ignited all the cars.  Everyone turned into ashes, 300-1000 people turned into ashes.  300 turned into ashes, 300 were murdered at the party, and 300 are captives.

The Radbaz writes in Siman 40 that being captive is worse than death, because it’s impossible to know who they are torturing — the soldiers are certainly being tortured terribly.

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So now we are found in a positive commandment.

Every letter of Tehilim that we say now is a positive Torah commandment.

Because now is “a time of distress for Jacob, but he will be saved from it.”  To scream and to blast Chatzotzrot (a type of trumpet prescribed by the Torah).  We need Chatzotzrot with Shofars, that trouble will not come onto the congregation, as it says, “Against an enemy who oppresses you , you shall blast Chatzotzrot” (Bamidbar 10:9).

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That for three days it was impossible to retake the kibbutzim.

The government abandoned everything. 

People called for help, the soldiers progressed, but it was impossible to enter, because in every kibbutz there were 500 terrorists, endless terrorists.  It took three days to retake the kibbutzim — instead of protecting them to begin with.

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They called, said that 5,000 men were crossing the fence.

There’s no fence, the most sophisticated fence in the world which cost 50 billion dollars.  If they would have given 100,000 shekels to some yeshiva, then the whole world is horrified — “those leeches, those blood-suckers,” Lapid goes out of his mind. 

And here they spent 50 billion on a fence of paper.  If they had made a fence of paper, of cardboard, that would have been a lot better.

There’s no remnant of the fence.

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Now it is “a time of distress for Jacob” — there’s no government.

People waited forty hours for the army to come, and they didn’t come. 

In the meantime, they burned everyone alive.

There’s no houses, nothing.  It’s possible to build a house in a day. 

Five people are sleeping in a room of a square meter.  They don’t give them food, don’t give them anything — such a government has never arisen since the creation of the world, that in this way are abusing people who went through a holocaust.

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The children are orphans, either there’s no father or no mother, or both are lacking, have already been turned to ashes.

This is obligatory for each person to know, that now is “a time of distress for Jacob,” and we are obligated from the Torah — like the Rambam says, that this is from the Torah — to say every moment another chapter of Tehilim, and another chapter of Tehilim.

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Because now they are afraid that they’ll launch a million missiles.

They have maybe 100,000 missiles.  Egypt doesn’t care, it’s happy.  And the entire strip is full of missiles, they are shooting missiles without end.  Outside of Jerusalem, where missiles are not reaching here, because we are exactly in the middle of Israel, the furthest from Gaza, the furthest from Lebanon.

The entire north is under missile fire, the entire south is under missile fire; Kissufim is under missile fire.

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And this is one of the ways of repentance, that at “a time of distress for Jacob,” you need to feel the pain of the Jewish people.

— 130,000 people without houses, without apartments, with clothes — they fled in nightgowns.

We see the Jewish people in distress, then everyone needs to say Tehilim.  And girls who can say three books of Tehilim, this is above everything.

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Bachurim [young men] should smash their Xiaomi, because the Xiaomi is bringing on all the calamities.

They see pictures of nudity, then immediately 1,000 soldiers are killed at that moment.  We are every moment in the danger that 1,000 soldiers will be killed.

Because Hamas said that they are 40,000; really, they are 100,000, all of them armed with the most up-to-date weaponry, because Iran gave them the most up-to-date weaponry.

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And even though we here in Jerusalem are the most protected — Jerusalem protects us, but we need to pray for all the Jewish people.

This is from the Torah, to feel the pain, that we are like in a holocaust.

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This is all because they beat up [worshippers in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur].

Baruch Hashem, they saw prayer in public in Dizengoff Square, it’s possible to pray.  A thousand girls came to pray.  Then [Tel Aviv mayor] Ron Huldai went out of his mind: A thing such as this, all Tel Aviv is praying all of a sudden — they gave them a murderous beating.

Right after this, they paid.  After ten days, they paid — unfortunately — a price that was too high.

And those who ascended to the Garden of Eden, these were Tinikot Shenishbu [like children taken captive and raised by gentiles and who don’t know not to sin].

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They beat them up on Yom Kippur, and there are those did not fast at all.

In Be’eri, maybe five people fasted.  Now they admit everything; they said that everything is because they didn’t fast on Yom Kippur.

A person full of transgressions at least should fast once a year.

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Across the road, it’s all Hamas.

Today all the Arabs are Hamas, all of them are with weapons, missiles, cannons.  We’re without anything, we have nothing, like it was in Egypt, that when when they left, [the Egyptians] came with tanks, 600 chariots — we are obligated to say Tehilim at least.

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If people don’t scream and shout, and [instead] say that this happened by chance — this is cruelty.

If people see that everyone is in mortal danger, and don’t say Tehilim, the Rambam says that this is the cruelest person that can be.  This is cruelty not to say Tehilim — this is cruelty.  One needs to finish three book of Tehilim every day.

This person who doesn’t pray — this is mamash cruelty, because he caused soldiers to die.

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And there will be another calamity, and another calamity, because it’s impossible to know, because in Germany, they said, “This is the last calamity.”  Every moment, they are ready to add another calamity to the calamities, to vanquish us. 

The Germans want to conquer all the Land of Israel anew — this is all so that we will repent.

I got sent this video from Texas, of a young Jewish woman who was inspired to burn her immodest clothes:

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There is currently a totally media black out about what is going on with the hundred thousands of Israeli soldiers they sent into Gaza.

People are very anxious….. because deep, deep down, we all know we can’t trust the people commanding this operation on any level.

But what can we do?

Except pray, pray some more, and make the sort of stunning teshuva that this young lady in Texas, of all places, just did.

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I’m now on day 24 of the tehillim…

Yesterday was really hard going, for some reason. It took me FOREVER.

But it gives me some comfort, and stops me going bonkers with worry, that I am at least doing something to beg Hashem to protect our precious nation from the evil satanists trying to destroy us.

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UPDATE:

I took down what was here in the first draft, after talking to my husband.

In the meantime, take a look at this new project I was sent, called: Mapping the Massacre.

I found where Itzik Levy was killed at the Supernova music festival….

May Hashem avenge his blood.

Very speedily.

Without any more innocent people being murdered or tortured.

Amen.

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UPDATE 2:

Non-stop rolling thunder here in Jerusalem….

I think it’s a good sign.

Remember in Rebbe Nachman’s story of the cripple, the ‘demons’ are scared of the thunder and it kills them?

BH, that is what is going on here today.

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Also, a reader sent me this weird piece of information:

The State of Israel incorporated itself at Companies House in the UK as a ltd company, back in February 2023.

Here’s a screenshot:

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This is legit – I had it checked out by a UK lawyer.

This is the link, where you can see it for yourself:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OE027515/filing-history

Looks like they are literally trying to pull off a hostile takeover of Eretz Yisrael Inc.

But it doesn’t belong to ‘people’.

It belongs to God.

And I am praying, hoping, praying the Baal HaBayit is finally going to show all these evils Who the realy Boss is.

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UPDATE 3:

The ‘State of Israel’ seems to have been incorporated by the Israeli Embassy in the UK – 2 Palace Green is the address for the Israel Embassy in London.

They think we are really all just totally stupid.

BH, I’m praying more people will prove them wrong by turning off the news – all of it – connecting back to their souls, and starting to pray more, about what is really going on here.

They put up  this short clip on shuvubanimint.com

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Here’s my basic translation of what he is saying:

Those who are really going along now wanting G-d – whether they are more of a tzaddik, less of a tzaddik,  going up [spiritually], going down – that’s not really what matters right now.

Because first of all we really don’t know who is going up spiritually, who is going down, who is a tzaddik,  who is not a tzaddik. 

For the most part, it’s just imagination and mistaken beliefs.

It doesn’t go according to what we think.

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Today, God is saying to us: Ask Me, turn to Me! I am your Father, I love you!

God doesn’t want there to be [harsh] judgements in the world.

God wants to bring all the geula with mercy and kindness. He just wants us to turn to Him.

I have heard from some Tzaddikim, from the Rav (R’ Eliezer Berland Shlita) and also from other tzaddikim, that there is a view that we may have been ‘bound by the judgment’ already, by what happened.

[I.e. October 7th was so horrible, it’s already fulfilled the demand of the din on Am Yisrael, without more terrible things needing to occur – bezrat Hashem!]

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There is a view that says if the people of Israel now take to heart all the terrible things that happened, and we awaken [i.e. make teshuva and return to God] – we may have fulfilled the ‘sentence’ demanded by the attribute of [harsh] din.

There was a terrible degree of din in what happened.

I heard that the Rav (Berland) said it sweetened a lot – a lot!

He said that there should have been some even more terrible decree on the people of Israel, and [the events of October 7th] canceled it.

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Now, what’s going to happen next?

We really don’t know.

But what we do know is, the nation of Israel is waking up in prayer, and needs to make teshuva.

For those who are very far away [from God] – we should pray for them to wake up.

That’s actually the most important thing.

And there’s nothing to fear, there’s really nothing to fear – nothing!

A man who walks with God has nothing to fear.