It seems to me that we are now entering a stage of this geula process where the rules of the spiritual game are changing.

The latest video regarding ‘Rivka HaTzaddika’ contains information that is mind-blowing, without exaggerating, even for people like me.

I was struggling to assimilate what is being said, not least because it kicks all the ideas we have about how things are operating around the Rav into touch.

And I’m writing these words as someone who has seen so many ‘hidden miracles’ in my own life, simply from trying to ‘connect’ to the Rav, learn his Torah teachings and advice, and following his instructions on saying 7 tiikun haklalis a day, for example.

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I’m not a ‘rational’ (aka ‘atheist’) Jew, who believes totally in Darwin, Buddha, and covid shots – but doesn’t believe at all in ideas like ‘the coming of the Moshiach’.

Like the maskilim of the past, these guys sport (small….) kippas and ‘Torah educations’ – but they don’t really believe in God, and they worship science, and their own small, narrow minds.

Whatever doesn’t fit into that VERY small mental box gets mocked and discredited.

So, good luck to them, may they continue to ‘evolve’ into some higher life form speedily in our days, amen.

This post is not for atheists with kippas.

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This post is for believing Jews, who are feeling very confused about what is going on at the moment, especially around the Rav potentially being the MBD of our generation.

Many of these people are struggling with three main issues, namely:

1. They bought into all the lies being spread about the Rav in the corrupt media, and our failed, masons-run, anti-Torah State.
2. They have a different candidate for MBD, who they can’t, or won’t let go of – even when that other candidate clearly doesn’t meet the basic criteria.
3. They are searching for the truth – but still feel very confused and uncertain about what is happening, and don’t want to make the mistake of following a ‘false messiah’.

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Let’s start with the third category first, as it’s the easiest to deal with.

Simply, keep asking God to show you the truth, and have emuna that sooner or later, the penny will drop, spiritually.

God is not going to lead anyone astray who is really looking for the truth.

You’ll get whatever tailored message, or idea, or insight you need to continue to be able to serve God with everything you’ve got, while this period of major confusion and doubt unfolds all around us.

Just continue with simple emuna, and simple emunat tzaddikim.

If you are really interested in serving God sincerely, and doing whatever is required to get into the next stage of geula in good shape, God will give you the hints and the clarity required to do that.

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Baruch Hashem, I’m fortunate that most of my readers here on the blog fall into that category – they are the silent majority that you never hear from, but who really do think, pray and yearn for ‘good’ to be revealed.

And who really do try to work on themselves, and to acknowledge the places where more work, more prayer, more teshuva is required. Even when the going gets very tough.

You people are amazing!!

The whole world rests upon the shoulders of the people who have simple emuna like this.

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Now, let’s turn to the trickier categories.

Category 1 – people who believed the lies about the Rav.

Most of these people also believed the lies about Covid, the ridiculous gaslighting about Trump being the ‘moshiach of Edom’, and the terrible deceit that sending our poor boys to get slaughtered and maimed in Gaza is a good idea.

If you are still believing in Covid shots, St Trump and ‘every Jew a .22’ – then you are so stuck in the world of lies, it’s looking close to impossible that you’ll make it out of there before the world of truth shows up.

The sad truth is that some people are going to go down with the ship when the world of lies crumbles.

Why?

Because their whole life and belief system is built on a lie.

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When the famous kabbalist from Bnei Brak, R Chaim Dovid Stern said in 2016 that:

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He wasn’t threatening people, God forbid.

He was simply stating a fact – that as soon as a person sees through the lies the media and State told about the Rav, then that person will automatically come to understand that everything else is also deceit and illusion, too.

Including covid shots, politics, ‘war in Gaza’ – the whole rotten kit and caboodle.

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Continuing to live in the world of lies comes with massive negative consequences attached.

Just ask all the people who fled their homes in the North and still have nowhere to live, nine months later.

Or the people who are dropping dead at a young age from ‘unexplained heart-attacks’.

Or the families who are getting their sons delivered back home to them without legs and arms. If the make it back at all.

(BTW, this is so upsetting to me, I don’t really know what to say about it. I am praying for all the soldiers in Gaza. But especially the ones who are having their arms and legs blown off and for what? It’s heartbreaking.)

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We could sit here dissecting every bit of fake news and gaslighting on the planet – and sometimes, it’s tempting to do that.[1]

But really, if you’re interested in ‘the truth’, the first place you should direct your attention to is properly exploring what happened with the slanders and court cases against the Rav.

Because it’s always the same modus operandi.

And once you figure it out by the Rav, they will never be able to fool you again.

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For the people who really want the truth – go and research what really happened with the Rav, and start to think for yourself!

The problem is – many people actually don’t want the truth.

Especially not if it’s going to take them out of the comfort zone, and force them to admit they may have been wrong.

We’ll come back to this shortly, BH, when I put together the posts on overcoming narc traits.

An inability to admit to being ‘wrong’, or that you made a mistake, is a key ‘narc’ component – and probably, the single biggest thing stopping so many people making real teshuva.

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It’s obvious, that being able to ‘make teshuva’ about our mistakes, errors and flaws is going to have a huge bearing on whether we make it through to the next stage of the geula process.

Isn’t it?

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So, to recap this section:

• There are people who want the truth, and people who really don’t. (This is also connected to the next topic we are going to discuss, about having a different candidate for MBD).
• The people who want the truth should go and research what really happened with Rav Berland, and the trumped-up charges against him. This is the short-cut to moving into the world of truth, whatever else happens next.
• If you can admit that the authorities and media can ‘persecute’ people like St Trump, but refuse to admit that the authorities also persecute real tzaddikim like Rav Berland – you are in big trouble, spiritually.

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So now, we come to probably the trickiest of the three categories:

 

They have a different candidate for MBD, who they can’t, or won’t let go of – even when that other candidate clearly doesn’t meet the basic criteria.

If you have a candidate for a hezkat MBD who meets the basic criteria, descends son-after-son from King David[2], has brought innumerable Jews back to believing in God and keeping Torah and mitzvot, and IS STILL ALIVE – then by all means, stick to your candidate.

I personally don’t know of anyone who fits the bill, other than the Rav. But, if a person is genuinely going after the truth, either didn’t believe the lies about the Rav in the first place, or has now made teshuva for believing the lying media – sooner or later, the truth will become clear.

And hey, who knows, maybe they are right?

There is no problem with a person believing their own rabbi is moshiach, if they are coming at this whole discussion from a place of begging Hashem to show them the truth, and wanting the truth.

And continuing to refer to the Rav in respectful terms, in the meantime, as a huge talmid chacham, at the very least.

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Problem is…. The same same problem we encountered above.

Namely, that most people don’t want ‘the truth’, especially not if they’ve built their whole world, ego and life on a lie.

• Most people don’t want to guard their eyes.
• Most people don’t want to spend an hour a day doing hitbodedut, and / or reciting 7 Tikkun Haklalis.
• They don’t want to dress more modestly.
• They don’t want to get off their smartphones.
• They don’t want to work on increasing their humility and taking down their arrogance.
• They don’t want to admit that they have spent their life running after stuff that doesn’t matter, at best.
• Or that they have hurt other people – and themselves! – so badly. Repeatedly.

So for people like this, a ‘dead moshiach’ who doesn’t expect anything from you fits the bill perfectly.

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Or maybe, they’ll go for a ‘political moshiach’ who is going to just start up a new party here in Israel, or promises to ‘drain the swamp’ over there in America.

Or perhaps, they’ll go for the guy who gives flowery, entertaining shiurim online that never requires anyone hearing that they need to change themselves even a tiny little bit, while you waste another hour of your life hearing about how ‘black’ is really ‘white’.

And so on, and so forth.

Or maybe, they’ll throw their hat in the ring of that interesting newcomer who married straight into the biggest money here in Israel, and has the kind of slick PR machine behind him that you really only see with people like….Trump.

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In a shiur from a few weeks ago, R Elmaliach told the story of how he’d met a fervent Chabadnik, who for decades has been a strong believer that the Rebbe was ‘moshiach’.

He got in touch with R Elmaliach to tell him that he’s been listening to his messages, and also to those given in the name of ‘Rivka HaTzaddika’ – and that he now believes that Rav Berland is MBD.

He told R Elmaliach that he believes the soul of R Berland ‘contains’ the soul of the previous Rebbe, as the Rav himself has said.

And now, perhaps, we start to understand more of why the Rav took such pains to state that in the first place.

There are such good people in the Chabad movement, at least, once you get past the leadership.

‘Rivka HaTzaddika’ herself is from a Chabad family – more about her in the next post, BH.

If a person really wants the truth, even being a ‘hardcore Chabad mesichist’ isn’t an obstacle to changing your mind about the Rebbe being moshiach and moving forward into the world of truth.

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For the people who really do want to serve Hashem, with simple emuna, and with humility and simplicity, and who really do just yearn for the ‘world of truth’ – even if they’ve been raised following after a false, or failed messiah, in the end, God will show them what’s really going on.

And the point is also, that until the Rav fulfills the criteria for MBD, he is still in the category of the potential MBD of our generation.

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Until it really happens, it hasn’t happened.

And the test today isn’t to believe that Rav Berland is DEFINITELY going to be MBD, not at this stage, when it’s still so hidden, and there is so much of the job left to complete still.

The test today is just to admit that Rav Berland COULD BE MBD.

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A person who can honestly and openly say that is already in a good place, spiritually.

Why?

Because the Tzaddik is a mirror.

And if you see the good in the Rav, it means you have so much ‘good’ in yourself, too, that the Rav is simply reflecting back at you.

And of course, the opposite is also true:

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Tov, I will stop there.

May God help more of us to honestly want the truth.

And to honestly look at the truth, about ourselves, our middot, our false beliefs and assumptions, our relationships with others – and our connection with God.

Because if we’re serious about doing that…. We’ll get into the world of truth, relatively unscathed, whatever is going to start happening next.

Amen.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Like this for example: There is video running online clearly suggesting a second shooter at the Pennsylvania rally, who was ONLY shooting people in the crowd. That gunfire is coming from the direction of where the ‘security services’ were located at the rally. The Kipadu Telegram channel has that video.

[2] On this note, the Rav was asked a few weeks ago and he said that he descends son-after-son from King David. There is speculation that this is via the same line as the Tosher Rebbe, but I haven’t looked into it personally, because the Rav’s statement is good enough for me. If it’s not good enough for you, then by all means go and research it yourself.