Shiur from the 11th of Tammuz, (July 7, 2025), given to AN ‘SH from Petach Tikva

I hope to translate more snippets from this very interesting shiur from the Rav. To get the most out of it, I highly recommend researching for yourself online anything that strikes you as sounding a bit ‘weird’ or unbelievable. You’ll learn a lot.

In the meantime, enjoy!

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I forgot all about basketball[1], and [instead] learnt eight hours of gemara.

Every ball you get in, I said to myself, instead of getting a ball in the net, I’m going to get [the Torah’s] letters into my brain, and to cry out ‘Hashem Elokim!’, it’s more worthwhile.

Every word [of Torah[ that enters into your brain, this stops the nuke, this cancels the nuke.

We wanted to build the atomic reactor, [but] I said what am I going to do with a nuke? Who am I going to drop this on?

Instead of them doing a nuclear reactor, we are going to disrupt this for them, with a single letter from the Gemara we are disrupting all the nukes across the whole world.

Now, Khameini, he already is not going to forgive [that his reactor got blown up], he is going to keep bearing a grudge. Biden said to evacuate, they are going to settle on the sun it’s not so far, it’s just 150 million kms away.

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The sun is the most stable place that exists in the whole world – because it doesn’t move, like Mercury, Venus , everything moves.

It all rotates. The sun is immoveable, you can stand on the sun. There is no end of helium there.

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The hydrogen bomb is helium.

Helium is inflammable[2]. If you do it with helium, a person can blow up the whole world, the whole of Persia, the whole of America, the whole of China, all of India. We are going to produce a helium bomb, because in the meantime we still don’t have a visa for the sun. We didn’t get one.

Biden is keeping them for the Americans.

It’s the most stable place that could possibly be, in the world. It doesn’t move, it doesn’t swing around, it’s not like planet earth, it’s not like Shabtai (Saturn), and it’s not like Pluto, and Neptune.

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At the beginning, they said that Pluto was a star.

It’s smaller than the moon, it’s less than half the moon, altogether. It’s a big asteroid, they already cancelled calling it a ‘star’.

We had ten stars: We had Mercury, that’s 50 million [kms away from the sun]; Venus is a 100 million – everything is ordered. Mercury is 50 million, and Venus is 102. Earth is 148-152, this is 150. After this, Mars is 206, yes 206.

So this is 54, the closest is 54 million.

When Mars is close, you can see it almost like half the moon. It comes close once every 30 years. We were exactly then in ‘quantum’, we were. In [text missing in original], Mars was very close. It was 54 million, this is the closest, this is 54 days. If the spaceships travel a million [kms] a day, 41,000 an hour, this is 54 days.

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Today, the fastest you can get to Mars is nine months.

But really, theoretically, this is just 54 days.

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It’s possible to settle there [on Mars].

You can found a settlement, a Shuvu Banim Yeshiva, it’s beyond real civilisation. Today, there is no ‘beyond civilisation’ on planet earth. Wherever you go, there are people there, people already went there, people already mapped it.

The satellites photographed everything, it’s possible to cross the Sambatyon [River]. Maybe this is in Nepal, maybe, it’s on the Himalayas, maybe, on Everest, because you don’t see it.

[But] today, everything is photographed, already.

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[Skipping some, where the Rav is talking about a new tribe of cannibals that they found in Australia 10 years, and how the Australian government enslaved them, abused them and did experiments on them. The Rav continues:]

It was a tribe of children in Australia.

The most beautiful place in the world is Australia. Each person has to experience Australia at least one time in their lives, they need to be there.

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Yitzhak Harkavy came from Australia.

He was a journalist there, so we travelled with him in Kishinev. We were in Kishinev, Rosh Hashana Kishinev, the first Rosh Hashana that we were there, Rosh Hashana Kishinev.

This was the most wondrous Rosh Hashana in the whole world!

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So, a person needs to know, that Rosh Hashana, he’s in Uman!

Even if he doesn’t have money, he doesn’t have a penny, it makes no difference. It’s still possible to go on foot, or to go on a camel.

Now, they are making ‘peace’ with Syria, it’s possible to go [to Uman] on foot, by way of Syria, you can go on foot.

We will make ‘peace’ with Al Jolani, we’ll bring him mishloach manot, to Damascus, and then continue to Haran. From there, we’ll continue to Haran, we will visit the house of Lavan.[3]

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Translated and Excerpted from Shivivei Or, 417.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The Rav was a good basketball player in his youth.

[2] Helium is an inert gas.

[3] The original Hebrew reads: נבקר בבית של לבן.

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PS: I just spent three seconds looking up ‘Yitzhak Harkavy’, mentioned above in connection to Kishinev.

I got to this website:

Harkavy Family

It’s a very interesting family, links us back to the RIVLINS, the IVANETZERs, and if memory serves me correctly, also SONIA DISKIN (although, that bit has been scrubbed…)

Rabbi Yosef Bezalel Harkavy (1813 – 1874) – Genealogy

I’ve been too busy to do much ‘Jewish history’ here on the site, BH over the summer, I hope to return to that again.