Pesach 5784 Sameach – and a break
I woke up today feeling pretty ‘down’.
I’m not really sure why.
We went out for supper yesterday, and while there were a few people around and it wasn’t a ghost-town, it definitely wasn’t the ‘bustle’ you usually get in Jerusalem three days before Seder night.
There was a kind of depressed, apathetic, despondent dust coating everything and everyone.
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On the street, we passed a couple of young men.
One was on crutches, and missing a leg.
A casualty from Gaza.
That made me feel pretty sad. Not least, because I’m sure we’ll all be meeting plenty more of them over the next few weeks, months and years.
Even just from what’s already gone down there.
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In the meantime, one of my SIL’s colleagues is closely related to ‘the first person to ever have a double lung transplant’.
Another casualty from Gaza, who the doctors said was just not going to make it any other way, except to be the guinea pig for a brand new technique to transplant lungs.
Who believes the doctors, at this point?
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(Strange, I can find no mention of this ‘new technique’ for transplanting lungs anywhere online….)
But last I heard, the operation was a success, at least initially.
And let’s not talk about whose lungs that young man actually recieved….
Probably, another casualty from Gaza.
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I had a couple of chores to do online this morning, so I sat down, did them, then wasted some precious time looking at the ‘news’ sites, trying to figure out why I’m feeling down today.
There was a strange story of how after five months, the government finally came clean and admitted that the body they released to the family of AVIAD EDRI to get buried five months ago was actually missing his head and all his major organs.
That this poor man was missing his head, you can kind of fit into the ‘got slaughtered by Hamas barbarians’ narrative.
But that he was missing all his major internal organs?!
That thought is truly sickening…. And suggests some very dark agendas being played out with all these casualties from Gaza.
In so many ways.
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But.
Rebbe Nachman teaches there is no despair in the world!!!
Even though I personally have been feeling that ‘despair vibe’ pretty strongly this morning.
BH, my married daughter was staying over.
She saw I was looking a bit miserable, and she whacked on the Rabbenu dance set that I haven’t danced to for a very long time…
It did the trick. I bounced back enough to continue with the never-ending Pesach cleaning, and to carry on getting organised for Shabbat, too.
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I don’t know what’s going on, I have no idea.
For sure, there were some very big miracles going on last motzash, because our dear leaders were playing with our lives again – and God didn’t let them succeed.
It could be the ‘super-duper secret tech’ they were trying out really did work ‘99%’. Whatever.
But I think it’s more likely to be this:
It’s a picture by Yehoshua Wiseman, that was inspired by a dream someone had about the Rav protecting Eretz Yisrael with his tallit, many years ago.
It’s actually one of my favorite paintings by Wiseman, and it always makes me feel a bit happier when I look at it again.
(The picture and the story can be found in OIAG Volume 2, and on the RavBerland.com website HERE).
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BH, more and more of us will fit under the Rav’s tallit, and under the wings of the Shechina.
I have no idea what’s going on – but I do know this: the story isn’t over yet.
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I am having a blogging break now, until after Pesach.
If there is something important to tell you, that you probably won’t hear anywhere else, like the Rav openly called for a prayer rally, or something like that, I’ll come back on and post it up.
But otherwise, I’m offline for the next 10 days.
With massive floods in Dubai and Iran, massive volcanic explosions in Indonesia and a massive earthquake now appearing as a possibility for the West Coast of the USA…
This Pesach, we may be able to grasp more of what the 10 plagues really felt like and looked like, in real time.
BH, all the bad will get smashed up – and the good in the world will finally be set free, and redeemed, the sweetest way possible.
And God will finally stop hiding His face from us all, and show us just Who is really The Boss down here.
Amen.
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May you all be blessed with a wonderful, happy, uplifting and redemption-filled Pesach 5784.
We’ll pick things up again post-Chag, BH.
bs”d Amen, Rivka. Got the book; it’s wonderful. This last post of yours makes me think of Rabenu’s Beggar with no hands and Beggar with no feet, who bless the kids to be like them.
Your comment reminded me about this, from 2021:
(Snippet from here: https://ravberland.com/the-light-of-redemption-the-prakim-nevcharim-spread-to-persian-communities-in-iran-america-and-germany/)
“Last year, our Rebbe Rav Berland shlit”a would give over many shiurim from Ayalon Prison. He would say ‘Ayalon’ is the numerical value of ‘Uman’ and would talk about the Mashad and Yazd Persians, what tzadikot were the girls who had five veils, and a girl who would get married didn’t know anything. They thought that people just pray and a son comes, and they didn’t know that someone touches them…nothing. Everything was in such holiness, and the Rav praised so much the Persians and the grandmothers and families.
“And here, less than a year after the Rav was talking about this all the time, we hear that, baruch Hashem, in recent months the Persians are waking up.”
RS: “Yes, Yishtabach shemo. I heard that from the age of 8 until 80, from child to elder they are waking up. Those whom I’m in connection with send films of them praying and dancing. We’re talking about the sick and people who lost faith until now.”
RM: “This is exactly what Rav Berland said about the end of the story of the beggar with no legs; that the beggar with no hands – this is the Tikkun HaKlalli; this is the rectification of the Bas Melech – the princess.
But the beggar with no legs, who is the seventh tzaddik — this simply brings back and rectifies the Ben Melech – the prince, the male who fell completely from faith and no moisture remains in him. This returns a new soul to a person, the psalms of the P’rakim Nevcharim.
“Rav Elmaliach related that at one of the graves of a tzaddik they said ten times the P’rakim Nevcharim in a row, and he introduced us to Rav Shmuel, the ambassador of our Rebbe Rav Berland to Persian Jewry. You’re the ambassador to bring all the Persians to the tzaddik. Rav Elmaliach related that our Rebbe Rav Berland heard this and was very happy.”
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All our main enemies mentioned in one headline… along with the beggar who has no legs but finally gets ‘rectified’ by Moshiach…. and the Prachim Nevarchim.
Lots to think about, thanks Alizah
This post made me cry. And may you be blessed, you said it all perfectly, Amen v’amen!🤗
There is lots of articles on the web re lung transplants including ‘new technique’
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/double-lung-transplants-successfully-treat-late-stage-lung/story?id=97919329
https://www.nbc.com/today/video/inside-the-new-first-of-its-kind-double-lung-transplant-technique/NBCN323333960
Meanwhile… it looks like other people are finally figuring some of the stuff out we were talking about here three years ago:
https://gregreese.substack.com/p/nanobots-that-release-toxins-and
Again, the finger is pointing at our ‘failed State’.
May we finally be redeemed from ‘the evils’ who are running the world, and especially our bit of it, fully and finally, this Pesach 5784.