Computer issues and time to think

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I had another piece from the Rav to post up here – but the file is not opening.

Generally, I’ve been having a whole bunch of computer issues the last few days, including not being able to get onto the internet, my VPN not working – and yesterday, some program I never heard of tried to install ‘wifi 6’ on my machine, and I only knew that because it asked me for confirmation.

I didn’t confirm – and then I went and uninstalled the ‘mother program’.

Long story short – kind of being feeling a little taken out of action, at the moment.

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At the same time, I am actually starting to make some real headway with real information, from real books, in the real world.

So, it could be Hashem is taking my online time way down, so I have more time and ‘space’, mentally, to process all the new stuff I’m learning.

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And then, there’s the third factor as to why I’m not posting much at the moment, which is that I’m totally sick of pointless speculation about ‘signs’ and ‘gematrias’.

And I’m also totally sick of arguing about why there is no such thing as ‘the good in Esav’ when it comes to their leaders – the Gemara makes it clear, no leader of Esav / Edom can be anything other than an evil git.

The ‘good in Esav’ are the people who convert out of Esav, one way or another, to become Jews or sincere Noahides.

This is plain Gemara.

And you can tell who doesn’t seem to ever learn it by all this ‘discussion’ about Trump.

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And lastly, I don’t want to get pulled in to writing negative things about so many of the destructive hypocrites online.

This is the biggest challenge of all, honestly.

Especially as things are starting to get more and more ‘obvious’.

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So, slow posting here for a day or two still, until I do a bit more praying about what God wants from me right now, and how best I can write things that are helpful, and help to give my readers what could be helpful and strengthening, spiritually.

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On that note, I want to tell you something:

You are an amazing person.

That applies to anyone who is coming back here day after day to read what I post up from the Rav, to read what I post up from my own research, so much of which is challenging assumptions on so many fundamental levels.

I know perhaps 0.005% of my readers personally, but the ones I’m in touch with are all very impressive people.

They are truth seekers.

They know they don’t know everything.

They are willing to learn – and willing to change their mind about things, which is really the very essence of making teshuva.

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If a person can’t change their mind, they can’t make real teshuva.

If they are stuck in paradigms where they never go back and re-evaluate their own assumptions, their own actions, their own beliefs – they can’t make real teshuva.

(BTW, this is also the core problem of so-called narcissists, who can never be wrong about anything.)

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So, if you are still sticking with me, after all the assumptions I’ve challenged here on the blog the last few years, I take my hat off to you.

The world really is filled with good people.

Way more than most of us realise, because we are surrounded by ‘influencers’ and  news and media that makes it seem as though ‘bad’ is all there is.

As the light of geula starts to percolate more and more, it’s shining on so many more patches of true goodness in the world.

And I want my writing style here on the blog to reflect that more, and to not get pulled back into old, unhelpful patterns of calling out all the hypocrites and arrogant gits online.

While at the same time, explaining what is really going on, as much as I’m able to, from my own limited perspective.

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B’kitzur, it’s a challenge.

And I haven’t figured it out yet.

But once God gives me the inspiration to start writing again, I will start posting more up here.

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At the end of the day, everything is being guided by God in every area of our lives.

Understanding that, and going with God’s ‘flow’ is a big part of the journey we’re all on down here.

And most of that work doesn’t happen ‘online’.

Even in 2024.

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UPDATE:

A reader just sent me drone footage taken in Jerusalem yesterday.

These things are now all over the world…. and being operate by the US army and its proxies…(you know, the same people who brought us Covid 19).

As I was sitting here, the windows started to shake.

One of my kids started shouting are we being bombed, because I feel the ground is shaking?!

Nah, we’re not being bombed, I told her.

Then I looked it up online, just to see, and apparently, we were being bombed.

By YEMEN.

Whatever.

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Honestly?

I wish all this would go away already. But that’s unlikely to happen just yet.

And at least, I can console myself with the thought that I’m already in the Holy Land, and under the wing of Rabbenu and the Rav.

Without that…. it is starting to get quite scary.

Even for dyed-in-the-wool tin foil hat wearing crazy people.

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UPDATE 2: THE YELLOW RIBBON

Here’s a picture of what was in the skies above Jerusalem for quite a while, this am:

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  1. Jude Abraham
    Jude Abraham says:

    Rivka, what are your thoughts on this morning’s blitz of the hostage ribbon symbol in our skies?

    This yellow ribbon always caught my eye as it resembles one the Xtians popularly use: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys

    And who only knows what metals they used to keep it in the sky so long.

    (I for one am sick and tired of the powers that be looking to push this hostage narrative at any given opportunity in every space which only serves to depress the public. Obviously, that is their intent.)

    Be’ezrat HaShem, we will merit geulah soon.

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    • Rivka Levy
      Rivka Levy says:

      I just heard about it now. My daughter told me there is a ‘machloket’ going on because the pilots here aren’t meant to just go and do stuff like that off their own bat.

      Seperately, I got sent video taken in Jlem yesterday of drones in the sky.

      So my thoughts are that we are being bamboozled again with ‘hostage stuff’, to take our minds off the drones filling our skies. And everyone else’s.

      And I don’t think these drones are ‘friendly’, for what it’s worth, because nothing attached to the US government and army is ‘friendly’.

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  7. Shimshon
    Shimshon says:

    I work in an office tower in Tel Aviv around the 20th floor. Last week while we were meeting a very large drone flew somewhat close by. It was large enough that one of my coworkers thought it was a helicopter. No. It was definitely a drone. And a big one.

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    • Rivka Levy
      Rivka Levy says:

      This comment reminded me of what the Rav said last time ‘Iran’ is meant to have bombed us:

      “Stand on the roof to grab a drone, and then continue straight to Uman.[1]

      Within five minutes, we’ll be in Uman.”

      If these things are as big as small planes…. that’s not as crazy as it sounded.

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  9. Alizah
    Alizah says:

    bs”d
    Not long ago, the Rav said we should go right now and read all the minor neviim. I’ve been reading in English, and in Amos 1:6-7 it says, for 3 transgressions of Azza…but for the fourth I will not turn away its punishment; because they carried away into exile a whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom

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  10. Rivka Levy
    Rivka Levy says:

    I had an email from a reader whose comment here just got ‘disappeared’.

    The censorship has been an ongoing issue on my blog for years, and it’s a big part of why I took down the blog twice, and now no longer use tags or folders to organise the material.

    I noticed there were some tags, years ago, that were getting the associated blog posts ‘whited out’. And let’s not even talk about how censored this blog has been, for years, on things like Google Search.

    So, that’s also part of why I am going a little slow at the moment, while I try to figure out where all this is heading, and whether it’s ‘temporary censorship’ as we saw a lot with Covid 19 (until even the VACC-I-NATORS started to admit too many young people were dropping dead from heartattacks for that to just be a coincidence) – or whether it’s more long term and permanent, as I got with the Fr….ists.

    Literally, every time I tagged a blog with that, it would get whited out.

    Starting > 5 years ago.

    Because Fr….ists don’t exist, and of course, aren’t controlling anything in the Jewish world at all.

    Whatever.

    So, bear with me dear reader.

    It looks like the fake alien invasion is imminent, with the fake ‘appearance’ over Jerusalem’s Peace Forest, with Har HaBayit in the background.

    When that happens…. you heard it here first.

    But in the meantime, I am keeping my head down, and waiting to see which way the wind is blowing with all the censorship.

    Either way, it seems God wants more people to really start thinking for themselves.

    And that can only be a good thing.

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  12. adelle
    adelle says:

    building off your comment about “the good in eisav”:

    there are several times in bereishit the torah says אלא תולדות these are the descendants/generations/children. you would expect the words “eileh toldot” to be followed by a straightforward list of the person’s children but this is generally not the case. we see with noach the pasuk says “these are the generations of noach. noach was a tzadik” or later with yaakov “these are the generations of yaakov. yosef was 17 years old”. so if the pasuk doesn’t list the immediate offspring, what is the torah teaching us with this language of “toladot”? in the case of noach, rashi explains that “noach was a tzadik” comes to teach us that the true “descendants” of a tzadik are his good deeds. and in the case of yaakov the mefarshim understand that while all the brothers are true tzadikim, yosef carried on yaakov’s legacy in a way that the other brothers don’t. a pattern emerges where the verses of “eleh toldot” reveal a true, everlasting legacy rather than a simple family tree.

    in last week’s parsha, vayishlach, the torah presents eisav’s descendants in excruciating detail. me’am loez explains that eisav “peaks early” as it were. his immediate descendants are kings but very quickly they fall from power so that the kings of the region are brought in from other places to rule in se’er until finally his descendants have no title at all. from these verses we can also see the degree of sexual depravity and incest down eisav’s family line and this stands in stark contrast to the opening of this week’s parsha vayeishev where we learn “these are the generations of yaakov, yosef” yosef of course embodies tikkun habrit. while eisav bred degeneracy, yaakov’s progeny are refined.

    so when the torah say ואלה תלדות עשו הוא אדום “and these are the generations of eisav: he is edom.” that’s it. all eisav amounts to is edom. not king edom. just edom. wicked edom.

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