Just an illusion
I am taking a few days off blogging, to get on with some other stuff.
BH, I am really hoping that the ‘illusions’ are starting to shatter for more people – especially, the ‘illusions’ woven by the masonic media and all the ‘useful idiots’ with social media who act as amplifiers for the media’s lies and manufactured fear.
On that score, here’s a couple more things to ponder, this time about the Iron Dome – and where all those rockets that keep ‘hitting Israel’ without setting off any cross-border sirens are actually coming from.
Exhibit 1:
(From Chananya Weissman’s Rumble):
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What ‘incoming missiles’ do you see being exploded in this video?
(And btw, this type of footage is standard for ‘Iron Dome’. No incoming missiles in the frame, at all, but plenty of Iron Dome pyrotechnics.)
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Exhibit 2:
(From HERE)
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Are you starting to see how all this works, yet?
There is no ‘Iranian threat’ – there is a bunch of masonic Bros in Iran, put there by the CIA many decades ago, who are working with their masonic Bros in the US and Israel to try and get ‘WW3 going’, so they can move forward with their agendas to imprison humanity and impose a ‘one world’ order, all happily serving the devil.
This ‘war’ is 100% spiritual.
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That’s why what is really making the difference is our prayers, teshuva, Tikkun HaKlalis – and getting behind the Rav, the Tzaddik HaDor, who is doing some amazing things with all this stuff to really wage the battle where it counts, in Shemayim.
All the ‘useful idiots’ who are still blathering on about ‘Iran, Iran, Iran’ are just wasting your time, stressing you out for nothing, and basing their information on media lies.
‘Iran’ is controlled by the satanic masonic Bros.
And so is Israel.
And so is America, and Russia – and Trump.
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Last thing for now, to underline the point about how ‘useful idiots’ on social media can corrupt even our holiest concepts, and paint black as white:
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‘Pseudo Kabbalah’ at its finest, and most destructive.
According to these parameters, then also Haman was ‘MBY’ – look at all the teshuva he got Am Yisrael to make!
And for sure, Stalin was ‘MBY’ – because look at all the help he provided the Jewish commies with, to get their commie State in the Middle East set up at the UN!
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If this is the ‘standard’ we are expecting from ‘MBY’, then maybe, Trump IS this generation’s MBY after all.
Or maybe, Nasrallah is.
Or Kim Il Jong, who also apparently has a nuke and an itchy trigger finger.
Whatever.
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Joel Bakst is an interesting person.
He is a descendant of the ‘Vilna Gaon’ – and his books are some of the most disturbing works I’ve ever read, in terms of how they blend together ‘truth’ with lies, spiritually.
Just what you’d expect from the tradition of the ‘Vilna Gaon’ – when you start to understand the ‘Kol HaTor’ actually seems to be the continuation of Sabbatean twisted kabbalah.
That’s not just me saying it – if you didn’t already, head over to the Kotzk blog, and check out these posts:
MESSIANIC MITNAGDIM
DID THE VILNA GAON’S RELIGIOUS ZIONISM PRECEDE MODERN SECULAR ZIONISM?
THE EXTREME MESSIANIC MYSTICISM OF THE STUDENTS OF THE VILNA GAON
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UPDATE:
Apparently, the Kotzk blog has taken this last article down, without an explanation as to why.
You can still read it on the wayback machine here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240701115135/https://www.kotzkblog.com/
It seems we must be over the target, tracking down how the Sabbatean leanings of the Vilna Gaon’s self-styled students have been shaping what’s been going on in Israel for 200 years…
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One of the most interesting points from this discussion on the Kotzk Blog pertains to the ‘Kol HaTor’.
He’s bringing sources that suggest it’s at least possible that the ‘Kol HaTor’ was never written by the Vilna Gaon at all, and was kind of ‘introduced’ as part of an attempt at ‘revising history’ by Benjamin Rivlin’s grandson, Shlomo Zalman Rivlin.
According to Athol Bloomer, a Frankist descendent and ‘Hebrew-Catholic’, Benjamin Rivlin, the Gabia Ha’Kesef, is the ‘Frankist Tzaddik’ who stayed behind in the Jewish community to carry on corrupting from within.
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And judging by all this stuff floating around about ‘MBY’ – all based on the Sabbatean doctrines set out in Kol HaTor – they did, and are still doing, a fantastic job of that.
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As always, continue to think for yourselves.
(Or maybe, just start thinking for yourself, wherever you are actually holding in this process of birur….)
Because the truth is always hidden clearly in plain sight.
We just need to take off the blinkers.
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UPDATE:
After discussing this with my husband, I changed the wording above about the Vilna Gaon, and his students, to make it clear that:
- The KOL HATOR was not written by the Vilna Gaon. There is a huge amount of controversy about who really wrote it, and when, and this is something I am now trying to clarify more.
- People who claim they were the Vilna Gaon’s students – like HILLEL RIVLIN of Shklov, may, or may not have been the Vilna Gaon’s students. There are so many lies around these people, it’s very possible they appropriated the Vilna Gaon’s reputation after his death, to push their own twisted version of Kabbalah. In fact, this would be ‘par for the course’ for Sabbateans.
- No-one really know who ‘the Vilna Gaon’ is / was. Strange as this sounds. Or at least, the people who really do know are covering up a whole bunch of stuff, for reasons that are not at all obvious.
- Lastly, I apologise for sometimes writing in a sloppy fashion, where it seems I’m ‘having a go at the Vilna Gaon’, when I’m actually having a go at writings attributed to him, very possibly falsely, that are distinctly ‘Sabbatean’, and which have formed the spiritual basis of the failed z-ist project, and are still being quoted all over the place as ridiculous, misleading reasons for why ‘Trump is MBY’. Etc.
I am trying to feel this stuff out, and I don’t always write or act appropriately.
BH, my husband and my readers are giving me the feedback required to try and keep this on track, and truthful. And I’m grateful to everyone who takes their time to try and help figure this out, I appreciate it’s not an easy process for anyone engaged in it.
I will post this up update as a seperate post to make sure people see it.
In the meantime, I have now printed off the English translation of the Kol HaTor, and I will be reading it over Shabbat, BH.
So at least we can move the discussion on to seeing what the Kol HaTor itself is apparently saying, in trying to figure out where things are getting so twisted.
With Hashem’s help.
If you want to join me, HERE is the PDF of the English translation, archived on the Wayback machine.
So much for the break.
From what I recall, the Majdal Shams event was also attributed to a faulty Iron Dome shot, because of the mountainous terrain, or some such nonsense, that allowed a Hezbollah rocket to evade targeting.
The government claimed to have a radar track of the rocket proving that Hezbollah was responsible, but all they released was a map with an arrow.
Even daytime video never captures the rockets in flight that Iron Dome is allegedly targeting.
Sorry to say this: The article, THE EXTREME MESSIANIC MYSTICISM OF THE STUDENTS OF THE VILNA GAON, no longer exists at the Kotzk blog. It was there just a little while ago, maybe an hour ago.
I read the other two.
Now the mystery begins…
Interesting!
Suggests we are over the target.
Here is the archived version on the Wayback machine (clearly, a few people thought that might be happening to these crucial pieces of info, about the Vilna Gaon’s distinct Sabbatean leanings…)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240701115137/https://www.kotzkblog.com/2024/06/477-extreme-messianic-mysticism-of.html
Just in case the archive.org copy is purged (which can be done on request), I archived it here too:
https://archive.is/4VNAb
Thanks!
I don’t care about any of this – Vilna Gaon, Sabbateans, etc., sorry ( this is not an attack against you, Rivka, I am only expressing my feelings). The only thing that matters to me is that Am Yisrael is getting closer and closer to Hashem, wanting with all their hearts to go pray on Har Habayit. I have been there – in the permitted areas, without leather shoes, with Tevilah, and with a wonderful guide that only took us ( a whole group, a few years ago) where it is halachically permissible to go.
There is absolutely nothing comparable to the holiness, elation, closeness to the Shechinah that one can feel up there. To me, this is what brings me closer and closer to Hashem, the intensity of the experience, and the great joy to see so many Jews who WANT this with all their hearts: an embodiment of Shema Yisrael; unbelievable powerful!!
And that is why the nations hate us so much, rage against Ben Gvir going up to Har Habayit: I guess on some level they all know that once Hashem’s Palace is rebuilt, they will have to listen to Him or else…. they are terrified; they know the power of Hashem, but for them it is an adversary, not a friend!
This whole war is a war against Hashem, Ribono shel Olam, Elohei Yisrael. They want to continue on the path they are on, and DON’T want to have to listen to the Master of the universe, especially if He is amidst their hated Israel. So they will do anything they can to stop us from rebuilding the Beth HaMikdash, but there is no way this can be stopped: when the time has arrived for the Geulah and for Mashiach, it WILL happen; and they are going to pay and suffer a lot for all the evil they are committing against Am Yisrael, no doubt….
Am Yisrael Chai, Hashem Elokeinu Hashem ECHAAAAAAAAD!
Probably the single biggest thing that could speed this process along, the sweet way, is if more of the Jews in Chul would move to Israel. It’s easy to keep blaming all our troubles on ‘the nations of the world’ – and for sure, they are the stick in God’s hands, and even the ‘stick’ chooses to be the ‘stick’, and will get duly punished for it.
But it’s the sins of the Jewish people that empower the ‘stick’.
Which is why I do care about all this fake Torah, pseudo-kabbalah and Jewish bad middot.
It’s the root of the problem.
Thanks for your reply, Rivka.
Frankly, I don’t understand why you call the writings of the Vilna Gaon “fake Torah”. I remember, years ago, reading some stuff from the Vilna Gaon on the blog of Dov Bar-Leib, “End of Days”. It was really good, very impressive! If I recall, it had to do with the return to Eretz Yisrael, but maybe I am wrong, frankly I forgot; but I remember that I was quite impressed by his perspective.
The truth is, so many people have different paths, different understandings: why call it fake? It is just a different approach to Torah: not necessarily Kefirah, it’s just a different, maybe more superficial way of understanding things.
I mean, we have 12 Tribes – granted, most of them are lost – each with our own paths, our own understandings; so why not accept the fact that every Jew has something to contribute to our common understanding? After all, even in Yeshivot there are arguments, different opinions: so why not accept every Jew’s contribution, especially if he is a Talmid Chacham who is not deviating from the text (of course nothing like Yoshke, obviously!) ?
Why do we need internecine wars between Breslov, Chabad, Kahanists, etc? Everybody has good intentions, they are just different!
First, I’m not calling the Vilna Gaon’s Torah fake. What I AM saying is that parts of the Vilna Gaon’s teachings – or at least, what other people keep attributing to him, rightly or wrongly – are VERY problematic, on a number of levels.
The devil is always in the details.
And Yoshki was also a big Torah scholar who had R Yehoshua ben Prachia as his rebbe, before he ‘went off’.
Small errors lead to massive spiritual disasters with this stuff.
That’s why I am beavering away on trying to pin down these small details. It’s where all the problems begin.
Re: Dov Bar Leib – it’s great you enjoy his blog, and I also used to read it. But I stopped, because nothing he said actually happened as he said it would, and he’s been plain wrong about a million things.
Not least, all the discussion about Bibi being ‘MBY’ – that same misleading ‘MBY’ approach that is leading to so much spiritual confusion, all based on the twisted kabbalistic approach attributed to the ‘Kol HaTor’, rightly or wrongly attributed to the Vilna Gaon.
It’s a very narrow bridge.
Everyone is free to choose their path across it, and good luck to them. I just hope they are really following people who know the way.
Thanks for your elaborate answer, Rivka.
BTW I also stopped reading his blog years ago, if not decades ago. I met him once, personally, at Kever David- not my thing, frankly. Still, when I was still reading his blog, I really found it good and interesting. I have no idea what he is doing these days, what he is writing about.
And I don’t even remember reading about Bibi being MBY on his blog.
Yoshke was a Talmid Chacham, really? I had no clue. Thanks for this info!
And you know a lot more about this “twisted kabbalah” than I ever did, and probably ever will. A lot of stuff to unpack, for sure.
I leave it up to Hashem to decide who is real, and who is not. I don’t know.
“Joel Bakst is an interesting person.
He is a descendant of the ‘Vilna Gaon’ – and his books are some of the most disturbing works I’ve ever read, in terms of how they blend together ‘truth’ with lies, spiritually.
Just what you’d expect from the tradition of the ‘Vilna Gaon’ – when you start to understand the Vilna Gaon, and the Kol HaTor is actually the continuation of Sabbatean twisted kabbalah.”
THIS IS A BLATANT SLANDER . To really understand it’s necessary to study what the Gaon said, NOT what is written from others (evil people) in his name. Your confusion has two sources 1) you pay attention to academic “scholars” in Kabbalah , Jewish mysticism and messianism. They are evil agents and THEY WORK WITH AN AGENDA . They are the head of the erev rav , DON’T GIVE EAR TO THE VOICE OF THE NACHASH………..2). Torat hasod are pure ligth BUT without garments. You need guidance and a teacher when you deal with it ,otherwise you can be burned out. Don’t jump to conclusions and don’t publicize such things before you discuss them in depth (if you can) with your rebbe-rav. …………………….. I read all the article in Kotzk blog, only opinions and researches of academic snakes …..This case now is very similar with that you started to publicize two weeks ago about rabbi Moshe David Valli . But you show with your own eyes, Naor’s agenda and lie. They don’t understand the tsadikim and (or) they twist their words per purpose. The Torat hakabbalah coming from the Vina Gaon and his disciples, is kodesh kadashim , not that you “start understand” hasveshalom. and additionally you spread it out. …….. Tomorrow you will start to blame Ramchal also ? ……
About Joel Bakst look what happen with him : https://education.noahidenations.com/mod/book/view.php?id=886&chapterid=1018 Read it all the information clicking “next”, there are five or six articles there. He corrupted himself and he does chilul Hashem and mechalel also the name of GR”A and his school of Kabbalah. …………My time is sort , very hard for me , to write in English without mistakes, I want to speak with you by phone maybe for a very important aspect , If you like , contact me by e-mail for details.
I am not slandering the Gaon.
I have no idea who ‘the Gaon’ is – or what his teachings really are. What I can see is a bunch of people claiming to descend from him, claiming to have his teachings – who then turn xtian, apostise, mislead good Jews in a million different ways about things like who is ‘MBY’, become the backbone of our z-ist failed State – including our current PM! – and all with what they claim is the haskama of the ‘Vilna Gaon’.
You can send me your number as a comment and I won’t publish it. I never recieved any emails from you about R Valli on the email you specified.
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UPDATE:
I also want to thank you for sending that link about Bakst…. I am shocked. I bought two of his books strictly for ‘research’ purposes, because people kept quoting him, especially in terms of the Kol HaTor etc and MBY teachings that they then use to say Trump is ‘MBY’ etc.
His books gave me the heebie jeebies right from the beginning.
This is what I mean by ‘pseudo kabbalah’ and false Torah teachings.
The additional information in that link means I will through his books out of the house now.
But the question remains, whether all this is just ‘modern’ people like Bakst and Naor twisting things, or whether there is actually a tradition of ‘hidden’ Sabbatean twisted kabbalah, that just keeps raising its head in every generation, dressed in the latest ‘science’ or whatever.
It’s a serious question, and it needs to be explored, because our community has been taken over by Sabbateans for 350 years – whether or not we want to admit that.
And part of doing the birur is figuring out who those Sabbateans really were – and what ‘false teachings’ they passed along that are still corrupting things today, and taking us away from God, His Torah, and the True Tzaddikim, who are not passing along Sabbatean twisted ideas to the masses.
regarding the kotzk blog, there is an article on rebbe nachman ben faige ztz”l.
i’m convinced that rebbe nachman was able to be involved in sweetening the dinim and mitigate some of the kfira from contemporary frankists, sabbateans, and ‘red qabala’ from the ‘melekh tzur’ tradition – where it’s a good idea to be very careful around the toxic waste that these ‘wise among the nations’ are swimming in.
it’s possible that marcus antoninus a’h is a righteous ben noach, i just don’t know enough about him – and am suspicious that his ‘surviving works’ were ghost-written or edited.
same goes for science.
it is a concealment pulled over humanity’s eyes to weaken the raw truth of dangerously heady spirituality – useful for engineering new processes and products, and very politicized and encumbered by patent and i. p. laws. also it is used in frankly unscientific ways to push ideologies as a weird religion of scientism – like with darwin and malthus et cetera.
i’m sure that when the rabbis asked hashem to mitigate the avoda zara, that it is related to noach’s brakha ‘yaphet will dwell in the tents of shem’.
and here is the problem.
there are thousands of weird cults trying to research spirituality in potentially dangerous ways, some part of them to corrupt science and society and steer possible dissidents towards insane spiritually dangerous, if physically placid cults.
i’m sure that being ‘close to truth’ in a dangerously unhealthy way is a good place from which to prioritize tshuvah and finding who are ‘people of truth’ (if kol hator is valid on this).
pretty sure that the tiqun haklali and finding the tzaddiqim haamitim shbedoreinu is a tiqun for all the previous incompletely succesful and outright failed attempts to do tiqun olam b’malkhut shaqai (sorry i don’t know how to write shinui).
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i need to find out what i think that isn’t true.
i need to prioritize tshuvah and this tiqun haklali.
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p.s.
a rabbi mentioned that there is a lot of details about avodah zara in torah learning, that it gets mitigated because it is in the course of torah learning.
i’m not qualified to have an opinion, but every yeshivah and hebrew school should just cancel math and science and just learn torah. there’s enough science in the torah lessons themselves that no time should be wasted on it in school.
maybe science is a specific kind of avodah zara, like the biggest idol in terah’s shop.
maybe there should be shmirat einayim science or math pamphlets for when a person is not allowed to learn (or think about?) torah.
print publishing (and editors and curators) and land-line (and flip phones with no screen) phone technologies are more important now than ever.
Look at this : https://www.up.ac.za/faculty-of-theology-and-religion/news/post_3188289-guest-lecturer-asks-important-questions-of-dialogue-between-christians-and-jews . The person who runs the Kotzk blog , it’s not Kotzker…..hassid …. or mekubal…. but
“Rabbi” Michal himself is a PhD student at the Faculty of Theology and Religion under Prof Dirk Human in the Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures……. Understand now, that HE spreads poison , a very wise looking poison.
It’s a given that the people who are not coming from a place of emuna are not coming from a good place, spiritually.
But, you seem to be lumping me in with everyone else. I am coming from a place of 100% believing in the True Tzaddikim, and revering our Torah, the Gemara, the whole shebang.
And we know that in our mixed up world, nothing is 100% ‘black’ or 100% white, and that some truth can also be found on the other side of the argument.
There are so many lies being told – only some of which have been clearly uncovered here on this blog – by very ‘frum’ people with very big beards, and the title of ‘rabbi’ and ‘admor’.
Deceit is not just the province of secular researchers – halavai.
That’s why we have to evaluate the information carefully – and with huge amounts of praying for siyatta di shmaya.
And most importantly of all, with a very strong connection to the real Tzaddikim like Rebbe Nachman of Breslov and Rav Berland.
So, let’s stick to the details. If you can point out the specific details where the author of the Kotzk blog got his facts or details wrong, that is very useful.
Just making general statements is not helpful, even if it’s well-meant.
And lastly…. I go by the principle that as R Chaim Dovid Stern said, R Berland is the last test before Moshiach comes.
This is a no-fail short-cut to starting to figure out which people are really on the side of ‘good’, no matter how they dress and act externally.
The people who are openly ‘anti’ the Rav are not coming from a good place spiritually.
That rule is proving itself over and over and over again, especially with this stuff, and especially with all the ‘influencers’ who wrote stuff attacking the Rav online.
So, I appreciate that you mean well. But please stick to the DETAILS of where things are wrong, because that can be verified and checked, and that’s helpful.
University of Pretoria
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Gavin Michal is a community rabbi in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria, and is currently researching his PhD on Sabbatianism and its influence on the Chassidic and Mitnagdic movements……………https://www.academia.edu/86531968/The_Conceptualisation_of_Morality_in_Judaism_Paper_presented_by_Rabbi_Gavin_Michal_at_ProMores_2022_THE_CONCEPTUALISATION_OF_MORALITY_IN_RELIGIONS_FACULTY_OF_THEOLOGY_AND_RELIGION_UNIVERSITY_OF_PRETORIA_12_September_2022
a classic manipulator.
If one thinks/reads about the period in our history called “The Era of the Kings”, one will learn that one King could be a tzadik, and then his son is a rasha, another is a tzadik from a very early age, lives a long life, and at the end of his life he aligns with the Tzadukim! and so on. This means one has to go to the actual writings of the Tzadik one is researching. His disciples, if they really are, have to establish their own credibility. Hearsay about Rabbis could very well just be lashon hara. Each generation has its tzadikim and rashaiim. Since our current generation is full of lies and deceipts, it is very difficult to find a truly “honest to the core” Rabbi or plain individual that one can trust. This is all meant to be, because HKB”H wants all His Children, Am Yisrael, to look only to Him and His Torah for direction. [and i dare say to be living in Eretz Yisrael for the ultimate Geula experience. but there must be a plan “B”] 🙂
Rebbe Nachman actually taught that the ‘fakers’ are so good at ‘faking’, the only way you can really tell who is a genuine tzaddik and who isn’t, is by looking at the students, who ‘develop’ the fruit that was planted by the seed of the teachings they imbibed by their rabbi / rebbe / leader.
Also, Pirkei Avot says this:
Come see the difference between the students of Avraham and Bilaam… (Avot 5:23).
On the Breslov.org site, it continues:
“Why the students? Why not between Avraham and Bilaam themselves? The answer is that many times we find it impossible to differentiate between the True Tzaddik and the false leader. Both are masters, pundits in their own right. Only years later can we clearly see the fruits of their teachings – in those who took them as their leader.”
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There are true Tzaddikim in every generation.
When you make an effort to see where the teachings of those people who lead us actually take the people who are following their advice, that’s when it starts to get obvious who is a real tzaddik, and who really isn’t.