Lite posting here on the blog at the moment – because I decided to get on with putting out ‘Conversations 3’, BH.

It will be a collection of the Rav’s comments, translated into English here on the blog, since ‘Conversations II‘ came out in February 2024, focussing on ‘Operations Swords of Iron’.

Ah, what a huge amount of gaslighting, manipulation and heartbreak we’ve all been through since then!

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But if you go back through the Rav’s comments, you’ll see that everything he said – he was spot on.

No guess work, no ‘you tube prophecy’ BS, just lucid daat Torah, that lamented the soldiers being sent into Gaza right from the very beginning, called out Simchat Torah as a ‘planned coup’, and made it clear that Trump was a true ‘leader of Esav’, all along.

(Amongst so many other things….)

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So, after the news came that the Rav got hospitalised yesterday and is in a serious condition – which means AM YISRAEL is in a serious condition, tachlis – I decided to get on with getting Conversations III done and out there, BH, in the zchut of the Rav making a full recovery.

And that’s going to keep me busy this week.

But, I wanted to tell you my dear readers, that I am not feeling ‘down in the dumps’ at the moment, I have actually cheered up a lot the last two weeks.

You know why?

Because even ‘normal people’ are starting to talk about how pointless the war is, how corrupt all our leaders are, how the media is just turning us against each other by making big deals about two chareidim blocking cars at Shilat junction…

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Even ‘normal people’ are starting to realise the way the army is being operated and managed is ‘broken’ beyond repair.

And that the politicians and media just keep turning us against each other, on the instructions of their paymasters abroad.

And most importantly of all:

That this CANNOT be allowed to continue.

All the incitement trying to get Jew to turn against Jew CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE.

And it’s not just me saying that – there are hundreds of thousands of Jews here in Israel, and abroad, starting to say the same thing.

It’s the women that are leading the charge here, for us to remember we are one people, even if we have different opinions.

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I want to quote some snippets from something I got sent on email yesterday.

It’s written by a woman called Leah Zakh Aharoni, and it’s v. v. powerful:

We all want what’s best, and we are so sure that we are right, that we are willing to cut the branch we are sitting on to prove it. > >

We’ve been here before. > >

We’ve been torn apart by this before. This is literally, historically, how the Jewish state fell to the Romans 2000 years ago. Over what is the best way to protect the Jewish people. > > And while we scream at each other over who should serve — the yeshiva boy or the combat soldier — that soldier is dodging mortars while the yeshiva student can’t figure out how to pay for daycare while he is learning. > > And somehow, we’ve decided these two are enemies instead of brothers. > >

Well let me tell you something – IT DOES NOT MATTER!

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After talking about how the Simchat Torah massacre changed everything, she continues:

Everything I thought was critical and imperative and earth-shattering on October 6, was completely irrelevant before the sun set on October 7. > >

The same exact thing holds true for the draft debate. > >

There is nothing I hold more dear than Torah and Torah study. It is the most beautiful, lofty, sweet thing in the world. There is nothing I wish more than for my son to return to the yeshiva and open his Gemara, and there is nobody I admire more than my sons-in-law, who crack their sefarim at every possible occasion. > >

And there is nothing I think is more important than protecting this land and our children and making sure that our enemies never ever ever dare mess with the Jewish people. > > And yes, I believe in fairness and contributing your part. > > BUT NONE OF THIS MATTERS IF WE FIGHT ABOUT IT! > >

Our sages in the Talmud teach that in the days of King David, his soldiers were all Torah scholars, but they fell like flies in battle. > > Why? > Because the people weren’t united.

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You want to know what protects us? > Not just Torah. > Not just tanks. > Togetherness. >

You can’t scream “Torah protects us!” and ignore the mothers of soldiers sitting up all night in fear. > And you can’t scream “share the burden!” and spit on people who’ve never missed a Shacharit since age 5. > > Because let me tell you something I’ve learned, living with a child in combat: >

One hundred thousand more soldiers won’t save us if Hashem isn’t with us. > And Hashem doesn’t stick around when we’re tearing each other apart. > >

All of our sons, those wearing the khakis and those wearing black and white – both are fighting for Am Yisrael. > And we’ll lose both — if we forget we’re on the same side. > > This war won’t be won in the Knesset. > It won’t be won on Twitter or in screaming matches on TV. > It’ll be won when we finally remember: > We’re not two camps. We’re one people. > > We’ve built a country. We’ve survived pogroms. > We’ve made it through worse. >

But we’ve never made it through division. Not once.

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That last sentence really hit the nail on the head.

Which is why, before October 7th 2023, when the ‘Kaplan protests’ against ‘Judicial Reform’ – all bought and paid for by the American State Department, in a myriad different ways – were at their peak, I felt really, really ill and worried about what was going on, here in Israel.

Today?

There are still some mochin d’katnut haters, on all sides of the arguments, over-represented by immature people who probably never got enough love and attention from their parents, so now, they hate the whole world – BUT.

And it’s a huge BUT – I am seeing the fires of sinat chinam dampening down, not flaring up, in way more places, in way more people’s hearts, here.

We are all understanding that we have no idea what is going on, and that everything we thought we knew about ‘how to win Israel’s wars’ has been turned on its head.

And aside from the small group of mochin d’katnut haters, (who unfortunately use Twitter the most and get the most play time in the media….) – the AM is coming together.

Mamash.

That’s what I’m seeing, in real life and off the Amalekite media.

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So, even though it looks bleak – the turn around is approaching.

And it’s made up over individuals, you and me, who have the courage and conviction to move out of mochin de’katnut mode, where everything is always some one else’s fault, and where we think guns and propaganda are going to solve our problems, and to move in to a mochin de’gadlut mode, where we appreciate the efforts being made by our fellow Jew, however much we disagree with them, to try to do the best thing for our people.

We are brothers, at the end of the day.

And it’s the ‘sisters’, and mothers, and wives, and daughters, who are now stepping forward, to make that message clear.

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Let’s end by repeating what Leah says above:

We’ve never made it through division. Not once.

The politicians, and the people paying for them from abroad, all know this.

Don’t fall for it anymore.

Turn the news off, and if you insist on staying on ‘social media’, don’t use your platform to bash other Jews – use it to bash the anti-semites who are trying to divide us from each other, and separate us from God.

Use it to spread ACHDUT amongst the Jews.

Because that’s the only way we get this to stop, without more pain and suffering being inflicted on so many of the people we love – wherever we happen to live, however we happen to dress, and whatever we happen to believe.