Two days ago, I was driving through the roadworks for the coming Light Rail on Derech Hevron in Jerusalem, when I saw the whole road had been taken over by ‘Saba Melech’ graffiti.

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For readers who don’t live in Israel, let me explain a bit more of the back story about the Saba Israel and the ‘Na-Nach’ movement he is said to have spawned.

The starting point is this, taken from the last post where Rav Berland said a couple of weeks ago:

[R Israel Odessa] told me that he knew that the [N-Na-Nach-Nachman] note was shtuyot (nonsense).

He lived by me for a whole year. All of his children used to come to us. But today, all of them are chilonim (secular).

Because he was told to move to Jerusalem, and he didn’t want to. So, all of them became chilonim, except for one, who was a mizrachnit (dati leumi / modern orthodox].

She used to live in Givat Shaul, and he lived with her for a period of time.

She was married to the Israeli Consul in Greece.[1] 

So, we tried to get passports via her, in order to travel to Uman. But in the end, it didn’t work out.

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Na-Nachs are named for this famous note, or petek, which says this:

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It’s hard to think of a movement that has done more to discredit Breslov publically.

‘Na-Nachs’ are known for loud trance music, dancing on Na-Nach vans at traffic lights – and for smoking a lot of weed. (At the very least….)

While there certainly are some very good aspects to some of the members of the Na-Nach brigade, particularly when it comes to hafetza, or distributing Rebbe Nachman’s books and teachings, most of the people I’ve come into contact with who are ‘Na-Nach’ have horrible middot.

The movement attracts a lot of disturbed people who don’t want to abide by rules, don’t want to be ‘limited’ in what they are doing, and who definitely don’t want to be following an ‘alive’ rabbi who can actually call them out on their bad middot and bad behavior and oblige them to change.

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‘Na-Nachs’ claim that it’s R Israel Dov Odessa, the ‘Saba Israel’, who set out this path of ‘only having Rebbe Nachman as your rabbi’.

We’ll investigate that a little further on.

The point is, that ‘Na Nach’ is a subversive movement within Breslov, that really detracts from Rabbenu’s true path of learning Torah in-depth and avodat hamiddot.

Na-Nach has put a lot of so-called ‘normal’ people totally off exploring Breslov teachings, and coming closer to Rebbe Nachman.

And at this stage, I think that is 100% the point of them.

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Let’s return to the sight that greeted my eyes on Derech Hevron two days ago.

For the last 11 months, Derech Hevron has been filled with ‘Bring them home’ government-sponsored propaganda. All the banners, all the yellow ribbons, all the latest ‘slogans’ and brainwashing messaging – that’s all that you’ve seen all year.

Now, two weeks before Rosh Hashana, when a whole bunch of otherwise ‘normal’ people are getting the spiritual urge to go to Uman this year, to try and do something spiritual to break the destructive status quo we’re all stuck in here in Israel – all the ‘Bring them home’ propaganda disappeared overnight.

And in it’s place – literally a couple of kilometres of super-professional ‘Na-Nach’ posters and slick graffiti instead.

[Check back here later, I’ll try to take some pictures.]

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The town hall has its workers out on Derech Hevron through the night, making a path for the new Light Rail.

Yet somehow, no-one stopped whoever it was from expertly graffiti-ing literally tens of concrete blocks, tearing down all the ‘Bring them home’ propaganda, and then putting up loads of their own banners in their place.

This by itself just doesn’t sound credible.

But when you consider the sheer amount of work to get this done in just one night, the sheer amount of manpower required, the sheer amount of professional organisation, and huge costs involved to get all this material printed up and posted around – something really doesn’t add up.

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Na-nachs are many things.

But they are not ‘organised’.

They are not ‘professional’ like this – right down to the point of having stencils made to expertly spray paint ‘Saba Melech’ on tens of concrete blocks in the middle of the night while no-one stops them.

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So, I saw all this two days ago.

And then, I really started to wonder: could it be, that the ‘Na-Nach’ movement is just another one of the government-sponsored psy-ops, designed to keep the Jews in a constant state of confusion and hating each other?!

You know, like all the ‘Brothers in Arms’ stuff going on in Kaplan, all the ‘Bring them home’ propaganda, that is clearly paid for and organised by some State sponsor, somewhere in the world?

All these organisations are seeded for nefarious purposes – and then thousands of ‘useful idtiots’ are easily manipulated into joining them and then doing whatever they are manipulated into doing, in its name.

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In the middle of pondering all this, the Rav started giving some unmissable ‘clues’ in his shiurim that ‘Na-Nach’ was not the idea of the Saba Israel.

Rav Berland was the shamash, or attendant, of the Saba Israel for three years, when he was beginning his journey towards Breslov.

The Saba Israel lived in the Berland home for a year towards the end of his life – as Rav Berland has said on many, many occasions.

So, when the Rav said this:

[R Israel Odessa] told me that he knew that the [N-Na-Nach-Nachman] note was shtuyot (nonsense).

You can be sure that this is really what he heard, with his own ears, from R Israel Ber Odessa.

So then, how did ‘Na-Nach’ actually begin?

Read on.

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As usual, the story begins on the Hebrew Wiki site for R ISRAEL BER ODESSA, the SABA ISRAEL, HERE.

Here’s the machine-translated explanation of ‘the note’, and how that is meant to have spawned ‘Na Nach’:

R’ Odessa is known for a note he found… between the pages of a book that included the slogan: ‘Na-Nach-Nachman m’Uman.”

He believed that the note had been written to him by Rabbi Nachman… Which was miraculously sent to him because [R Odessa] felt broken as a result of being forced to eat on the fast of the 17th of Tamuz.

Others claimed that a man named Rabbi Yoel Ashkenazi wanted to calm [R Odessa down, because he was so upset about having to eat on the fast] and put the note in his books. [9]

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The next snippet is where we really start to see who started off ‘Na Nach’:

Rabbi Odessa kept the existence of the note a secret for years and only told his children about it. 

Sixty years later, when he was almost a century old, he spoke about it a lot….

Rabbi Yisrael spent time in a nursing home in Ra’anana in solitude.

By chance, Aaron Patz came to the place, met Rabbi Yisrael who told him about the note and Rabbi Nachman, and from there the publication of the note began.

Aharon Patz and R’ Israel brought more Hasidim to gather around him whose goal is to publish the note and the owner of the note, and this group whose members are known as “Na-Nachim”was formed.

These students are all ba’al teshuvas, and they publicise the secret and the story of the note.

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Let’s recap in plain English:

1. The Saba Israel tells Rav Berland, who he lives with for a year, that he knows the Na-Nach note wasn’t from Rebbe Nachman.
2. He also doesn’t talk about the note publically, at all, for sixty years, during which time he’s engaged in non-stop outreach for Breslov and Rebbe Nachman.
3. Then, when he’s stuck in an old age home in Ra’anana in his late nineties (!), that’s when he starts ‘reminiscing’ about the note. (As old people in old age homes frequently do….)
4. At that point, some totally unrelated dude called ‘Aaron Patz’ just happens to overhear R Odessa talking about the note, takes it all super-seriously, and as a result starts the whole Na-Nach movement.

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Does this sound credible to you?

Do you know anyone, anyone at all, who goes to an old age home to visit someone else, who would then spend their time talking to a geriatric telling them about a miraculous note they personally got sent from a rabbi who died nearly 200 years ago?

And who would then take that story so seriously, they would create a whole ‘movement’ around that tale?

Really?

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So, the next stop was to try and track down ‘AHARON PATZ’, the dude who ‘by chance’ stumbled across the Saba mumbling about the Na Nach note in the Ra’anana old age home, and decided to take it so very seriously.

Strangely, I can’t find a lot about him. (If you can, feel free to share).

But there are still some traces, like this EXCELLENT, short Hebrew interview with him on Na-Nach radio from 2018, explaining how he managed to turn Na-Nach into a massive, countrywide, Breslov-subverting movement:

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Around the 1.30 min mark, AHARON PATZ explains that the person who helped him to publicise the Na Nach note for the first time was none other than…. The head of GALEI TZAHAL radio.

I.e. A professional journalist who was the head of the official radio channel for the IDF.

And in fact, the very first place the note was publicised was on GALEI TZAHAL. That’s where all this began.

All of a sudden, the idea that ‘Na Nach’ actually really could be a government-sponsored psy ops is not sounding so far-fetched anymore.

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OK, I know many of my readers are ‘rational’ and ‘logical’ people.

What those ‘rational’ and ‘logical’ people probably want to know at this stage, is why would the State of Israel be doing that?!

What possible reason could there be, for the secular State of Israel to set up an organisation that promotes trance music and drug abuse in the name of Rabbenu – while also violently opposing the idea that anyone should follow, or listen to, any ‘alive’ rabbi?!

Great question!

Let’s see if we can figure out the motive behind the State’s creation of ‘Na-Nach.’

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When I was putting the footnotes together for the last post HERE, where the Rav was talking about Rabbanit Berland’s descent from the SHAKI family, I posted up a link to her father’s English Wiki page, HERE.

(Interestingly, even though AVRAHAM SHAKI was an MK for the National Religious Party between 1962-5, his bio has now been scrubbed off the official Knesset portal. I had to go back and find it on the Wayback Machine, HERE.)

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In the References on that Wiki page, there was a link to this:

“Shuvu Banim: Portrait of Perilous Extremism”. Keshev.org. November 1999. p. 6. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011

Me being me, I went to take a look at who was writing about Shuvu Banim’s ‘Perilous Extremism’ already back in 1999….

And here’s where more big pieces of the puzzle behind the persecution of Rav Berland start to slot into place.

Read on.

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If you go HERE, you can view the 25 page document about Shuvu Banim’s ‘Perilous Extremism’ for yourself.

It was authored by an NGO called KESHEV: THE CENTRE FOR PROTECTING DEMOCRACY IN ISRAEL.

(You can probably already guess where this is going….)

KESHEV was set up by a bunch of radical secular lefties in the late 1990s, apparently ‘in response’ to the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.

One of its founders was the famous Israeli author David Grossman.

But strange to say, for such a prestigious NGO, that at least back in 2007 recieved $150,000 in funding from none other than THE FORD FOUNDATION:

I am struggling to track down their official website online.

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It’s meant to be keshev.org.il – that’s the link given on The Ford Foundation page.

But when you click that now, either it just doesn’t load, or you get a website advertising ‘cleaning services in the Centre’.

Let’s see if we can figure out why it’s been scrubbed – and even on the Wayback machine, it’s been thoroughly scrubbed, going back twenty years.

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The following snippet comes from the ravingreporter.com site.

It’s a story about the Gaza ‘war’ of 2009, entitled:

Israel denies using white phosphorous

(Yes, they just keep recycling the same headlines and fake ‘news’ from one decade, one ‘war’, to the next….)

Snippet:

You’re never far from the army in Israel and the office of Centre for the Protection of Democracy in Israel (Keshev) is just one floor above a suite guarded by soldiers and clearly closed to the public.

The close military presence doesn’t seem to inhibit Keshev’s Yizhak Be’er, who monitors press coverage of the conflict with the Palestinians and the Arab world and doesn’t like what he finds.

Sifting through a pile of copies of best-selling daily, Yediot Aharanot, he contrasts the prominence given to rocket attacks on Israel with no victims, while reports of the hundreds of Gazan civilians killed receive little attention.

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This snippet is from The Daily Star, from 2014 and yet another ‘war’ in Gaza:

Liberal newspaper Haaretz decried yesterday what it called a “witch hunt” against leftists and civil rights organisations after the director of the national service administration, Sar-Shalom Jerbi, told rights group B’Tselem it was being blacklisted as an employer.

He accused B’Tselem of disseminating lies and slander, endangering the state and publishing information that encourages Israel’s enemies and leads to violent anti-Semitic acts against Jews around the world.

The rights group denounced the move as an attack on Israeli democracy, and asked supporters to sign an online petition to support freedom of expression and democracy.

Yizhar Beer of the Keshev Centre for the Protection of Democracy in Israel says it has never been more difficult to voice dissent in a country which prides itself on being the only democracy in the Middle East.

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Here’s a bit more about Yitzhak Beer, from his Hebrew wiki page:

In 1991, Be’er became CEO of B‘Tselem – The Information Center for Human Rights in the Territories and headed the organization for six years. 

In 1997, together with a group of intellectuals, he founded the Keshav – Center for the Defense of Democracy in Israel. [5] Since 2016, Beer has produced a podcast/blog that deals critically with Israeli myths. 

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So you see, the coverage these people were trying to change in the ‘Israel-Palestinian Conflict’ is that the Jews should be even more demonised, internationally, then they already are.

Sadly, they did a great job.

No wonder they have now apparently now scrubbed the KESHEV website so thoroughly, at least on the browsers I’m using, that all that’s left is some ‘crumbs’ about the organisation on NGO websites, like this screenshot from idealist.org:

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But at least now we know that notorious journalist DANNY RUBINSTEIN is also part of KESHEV’s board.

HERE is his Wiki page, in English, and this is small snippet, to give you the flavor of the sort of person, and idealogy, you are dealing with:

In 2007, Rubinstein described Israel as an “apartheid state” at the UN-sponsored International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli–Palestinian Peace…..

At an event sponsored by the New Israel Fund, Rubinstein was not apologetic: “People do use the word ‘apartheid’ in my circles. My newspaper increasingly uses that word. This is nothing new.”

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HERE is where you can find Rubinstein’s discussing how to ‘Keep the Two State Solution Alive’, at a conference sponsored by Americans for Peace Now and Meretz USA.

His Hebrew Wiki page says he’s also on the board of B’Tselem.

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Who funds B’Tselem, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, including paying for a ‘presence’ for B’Tselem in Washington DC?

They like to keep that hidden, especially on their own website.

But when you go to the NGO Monitor website, you get more of the real picture.

Snippet:

• In 2022, total income was NIS 11 million; total expenses were NIS 10.3 million.

• Donors include: European Union, Norway, the Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, DanChurchAid (Denmark), Trocaire (Ireland), Catholic Relief Services (US), Christian Aid Ireland, Diakonia (Sweden), Bread for the World- EED (Germany), ZIVIK (Germany), the Ford Foundation, the New Israel Fund, UNICEF, and UNDP.

• Based on financial information submitted to the Israeli Registrar of Non-Profits, in accordance with the Israeli NGO Transparency Law, B’Tselem received NIS 69,526,897 from foreign governmental bodies in 2012-2023. (See chart below for detailed funding information.)

• According to annual reports, donations from foreign countries comprised 49.7% of total donations from 2017-2019.

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Long story short, it’s exactly the same people it always is, funded by antisemites from abroad, trying to destroy Judaism and the Jewish people from within.

So now, what does all this have to do with Na-Nach, and Rav Berland?

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Let’s return to November 1999, when KESHEV has identified a very serious threat to peace in the Middle East, and ‘democracy’ in Israel (or whatever…), namely, the massive baal teshuva movement sparked off by Rav Berland and Shuvu Banim.

This is at least 13 years before all the lies about the Rav started to surface in the State-controlled press, but you’ll notice that it’s exactly the same modus operandi.

All the ‘accusations’ made by KESHEV are all voiced by ‘anonymous sources’, information is totally made up, and it’s basically the blue print for all the lying stories that came after it’s publication, 14 years later.

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The bit to focus on is that the treacherous lefties in charge of the masonic State on behalf of the antisemites abroad, particularly in the US, had Rav Berland and real Breslov in their sites, more than 25+ years ago.

And then, CO-INC-ID-ENTALLY, at exactly the same time that the Deep State in Israel is worrying about the influence of Rav Berland and Breslov…. Hey presto!

‘Na-Nach’ appears, heavily publicised on Israeli army radio, with a message that Breslov is really just about smoking pot, dancing on vans to ear-splitting trance music – and refusing to follow any rabbi except Rabbenu (who died 200 years ago)…

Fantastic.

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Many of the people I’ve met personally who have been virulently ‘anti’ Rav Berland and Shuvu have been affiliated with Na-Nach.

It’s interesting to me now that the the State players behind ‘Na Nach’ have started a new PR campaign trying to sell the Saba Israel as the ‘Breslov Moshiach’.

That’s what all this ‘Saba is the King’ stuff is about, in case you hadn’t figured that out for yourself, already.

As usual, our enemies are fighting a way more advanced ‘spiritual’ war than most of us realise.

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There is a lot more to figure out here, not least, the connections between the Saba’s close relatives and the murkier depths of our failed State.

But that will have to wait for another time.

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UPDATE:

I just got sent this email by a good friend, C. (Thanks!)

It has more useful info about who is / was funding KESHEV – and by clicking on that first link, which takes us back to the KESHEV site that was up in 2004, I got to THIS:

(Screenshot):

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In case it’s too small for you to read on your phone, it says this:

Funding Sources

Keshev is supported by funds from Israel and abroad that contribute to such causes as human rights, education, pluralism and social change. Keshev also receives funds from private donors from around the world who share in the concern for Israel’s democratic future.

Most of Keshev’s support comes from The New Israel Fund and the European Union.

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Now, here’s my friend’s email:

Thank you for the really interesting articles about Saba Israel and the Na Nach group!

Baruch Hashem I was able to track down the Keshev’s website by going all the way back to 2004 on the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20041205102444/http://www.keshev.org.il/english/index.shtml

Also there’s a very limited version of the website from 2012:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120422201733/http://www.keshev.org.il/communicating-peace-project/communicating-peace-project.html#

The second version I only found because of this document: https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00JZXH.pdf. It looks like USAID was also donating money to the organization.

Lastly according to the older version of the website (https://web.archive.org/web/20041214213957/http://www.keshev.org.il/english/berlande.shtml) in October 1999 Yediot Aharonot  published a long article about Shuvu Banim based on Keshev’s report. Here’s a link to that article: https://web.archive.org/web/20040619174127/http://www.keshev.org.il/newspapers/291099/291099_1.shtml

Honestly I’m really shocked that the state has been after the Rav for 25 years. It’s crazy!!

• THE NEW ISRAEL FUND
• THE EUROPEAN UNION
• USAID

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Who is funding the NEW ISRAEL FUND (NIF)?

According to NGO Monitor’s page on the NEW ISRAEL FUND, HERE, this is who is funding the NIF:

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Finances

• In 2023, total income was $59.6 million; total expenses were $43.8 million. (See table below for further information regarding NIF’s funding.)

• According to its 2023 Annual Report, donors include Foundation for Middle East Peace, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Open Society Foundations, Moriah Fund, Tides Foundation, and the Oak Foundation.

• Total authorized grants to all NGOs were $19.8 million in 2023. (See Appendix 1)

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New Israel Fund is known to have been seriously funding all those protests down in Kaplan about ‘judicial reform’, which only ended because of October 7th.

And of course, now those protests are back with the same aim, but different branding, as ‘Bring Them Home’.

Let’s just pick one of NIF’s big funders. Let’s just pick the ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND.

Because we already know that GEORGE SOROS is behind the OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS. And the Rockefellers are BROS, don’t you know? Like all good masons.

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HERE is the NGO Monitor page for the Rockefeller Bros Fund, and this is a screenshot:

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The first part says this:

• Daniel Levy, a trustee of the Fund, is the president of the US Middle East Project (USMEP), a co-founder of J Street, council member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and a former member of the board of directors of Molad-The Center for the Renewal of Democracy, all recipients of RBF funding.

• In addition, Levy is a member of the board of directors of the New Israel Fund (NIF), which is affiliated with many of the Israeli NGO recipients.

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Meanwhile, this is a screenshot of the USAID PDF referenced above, so you can see that the State Department has also been paying a ton of cash, for years, to ‘influencers’ within the failed State to provide the material they can use to demonize the Jewish people on the international stage, and support all their little ‘BDS’ campaigns:

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What this says, is that HASHOMER HAZAIR was the organisation dealing directly with the US State Department (um, isn’t that technically treason?), and then they outsourced the dirty work to KESHEV.

Here’s a snippet from their English Wiki page – you’ll notice there is absolutely nothing new under the sun, when it comes to ‘Two State Solutions’:

In 1927, the four kibbutzim founded by Hashomer Hatzair banded together to form the Kibbutz Artzi federation. The movement also formed a political party that shared the name Hashomer Hatzair, advocating a binational solution in mandatory Palestine with equality between Arabs and Jews.

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Tov.

Let’s end with this, the last sentence my friend wrote to me:

Honestly I’m really shocked that the state has been after the Rav for 25 years. It’s crazy!!

Yes, it really is crazy.

And it’s not actually our failed State who is after the Rav, it’s all the high level satanic masons who control things like the EU and USAID, and all the other funding channels seeding all these subversive movements inside Israel.

Who knows?

Maybe, they finally bit off more than they can chew, with their big PR push to get the Saba Israel positioned as the ‘Breslov Moshiach’…

Maybe, even some normies will finally start to realise what is really going on here, and that our enemies know far more about who is really standing in the way of them fulfilling their evil plans than we do.

And that’s why they’ve been after the Rav for 25+ years, already.

Kapisch?

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FOOTNOTE:

[1] It’s possible this was Israel Sheffer, whose son Gil Sheffer worked directly for Netanyahu, overseeing the Prime Minister’s Office until 2013.