My friend just sent me a video of ‘Rivka HaTzaddika’, from two months ago (in Hebrew):

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Apparently, she isn’t meeting anyone at the moment, and I have no contact details for her.

The channel where the messages are being put out – that come from the Rav, to Rivka HaTzaddika, and then on to R Elmaliach – is called ‘Be’er Miriam’, and you can find it at this link on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@user-ps8pe9di1r

I will also try to find out if there is a line, or kav, that is putting up the messages, for those lucky, lucky people who are not online.

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Now, I have to tell you something.

I am not 100% comfortable with all this stuff.

In fact, if I hadn’t had some serious health issues a few months ago, which only disappeared when I understood it was linked to ‘ignoring’ R Elmaliach’s first videos, I probably would just continue ignoring all this stuff.

To be honest.

I don’t know what I think about it, although it has the ring of truth, very often.

Also within Shuvu Banim, opinions are divided about all this.

Just so you know.

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Having said that, I have decided my job is just to keep passing information along to you, the reader, without always being the ‘gatekeeper’ who decides what is true and what isn’t – because I honestly don’t know!

If you take 5 seconds to engage with the kabbalah being discussed by R Elmaliach in this video, below, for example, it quickly becomes obvious that stuff is going on with all this that is way, way over most people’s head:

It’s certainly way over my head.

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But I trust the Rav and I’ve seen SO MANY TIMES in the past, when so many strange things were apparently going on, how if you just hang on long enough, and work on having some humility and simple emuna, a lot more of the pieces of the puzzle start to fall into place.

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In the video, above, from the Beer Miriam channel, R Elmaliach stressed very strongly that even if a person doesn’t understand what is going on, it’s a very strict issur to speak against a talmid chacham.

Any machloket in our day is not ‘for the sake of heaven’.

Sadly, I have to admit that’s also true for me, and some of the stuff I sometimes write here, on the blog.

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So.

I’ve also been considering what I should be doing with myself, going forward, and what I should be posting up here.

Right now, after doing a bunch of hitbodedut about the subject, I decided I will carry on translating the Rav’s comments from Shivivei Or, and where appropriate, filling them out with more background details and real Jewish history.

Whatever the Rav is saying explicitly can and should be engaged with deeply.

And if in the process of doing that I turn up ‘uncomfortable information’, I think I will continue to share that – but hopefully from a place of way more humility, because I really don’t know what is going on here.

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And also, I want to move away from that narc habit of painting everything and everyone in shades of black or white.

The narrow bridge is actually grey.

This is not very easy for me, and I’ve been working on it for a while.

The main issue is that I personally feel way more comfortable when I’m not hanging out in the ‘grey zone’ for too long.

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I will also carry on with the narc stuff, because it’s actually just a blueprint for how we stop acting like evil ‘Erev Rav’ in our personal lives.

And that’s got to be helpful, right?

And lastly, I will also post up my own thoughts on stuff going forward, and my own experiences of trying to figure out what the heck is going on here…. Because after all, it is my own blog.

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I have a feeling so much of this ‘confusion’ is deliberate right now, in order to bring opposing sides together, and promote unity amongst the Jewish people.

I can be very strident in my opinions, and especially when I’ve researched something for a long time, that can go to my head and make me very arrogant and dismissive of other people’s opinions, or the ‘other side’ of the coin.

But there are two sides to every coin, nevertheless.

And even the Sabbatean-Frankist-Masons I write about so much here actually achieved a lot, in terms of getting the Jewish homeland liveable again.

Sure, they accomplished that over a continent of dead Jews…. And the violence and evil is still going in our times…. But nevertheless, there is some ‘good’ in the midst of it all.

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Rabbenu teaches in Azamra:

Lesson 1:282 of Likutey Moharan:

Know: one must judge every person favorably.

Even if the person is totally wicked, one must search and find in him some bit of good, regarding which he is not wicked.

By finding in him this bit of good and judging him favorably, one actually elevates him to the direction of righteousness, and is able to bring him to repentance.

It’s at least possible that right now, we are in a serious ‘Azamra’ stage of this geula process, where making an exaggerated attempt to ‘see the good point’ in the evil is what actually makes it finally crumble and fall.

Who knows?

I don’t.

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But what I can tell you, is that I am asking God to help me avoid machloket going forward, while I try to inch my way across that oh-so-narrow bridge.

It doesn’t come naturally, so I need all the help I can get.

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Let me leave you with this, the first passage in a small booklet of teachings from the Rav I happened to pick up 3 weeks ago, called: Ma’alat HaShalom.

‘The tremendous loftiness of peace’.

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It begins like this:

Ahavat heverim (loving our friends) is the hardest test.

It’s even harder than kedusha (i.e. being holy), it’s harder than sacrificing ourselves for kiddush Hashem.

Because when a person sacrifices themselves for kiddush Hashem, they don’t totally nullify their personality, because they feel that ‘I’ sacrificed myself for kiddush Hashem.

But, when you are ‘loving your friend’ – you are totally nullifying your own being.

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Rabbi Natan [Sternhartz of Breslov – Rebbe Nachman’s main pupil] had 60 ‘gibburim’ (mighty men, i.e. powerful students.)

Rav Natan said that by him, there were talmidim that even the Rebbe didn’t have.

And they all passed away at a young age, for the simple reason that there wasn’t ‘peace’ and love between them.

Rabbi Natan didn’t manage to get them to love each other.

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These are very powerful words.

They are very hard to hear, and even harder to put in to practice – at least, for me.

But n’aseh, v’natzliach.

With God’s help, I’m going to try.

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PS: I got the following comment from Jude, while I was writing this, about the Chalban – the Milkman – and the Rav’s Sefer Torah:

I have an encouraging story to share about the Rav’s Sefer Torah Project, and I wasn’t sure where to post it, so I’m sharing it here.

Some background: My wife’s maternal grandmother is the sister of the Chalban.

Due to this connection, she’s in frequent touch with her family. Last week, she heard an interesting story from Rabbi Kobi (the Chalban’s son, whom many believe will be his successor, BH).

Rabbi Kobi shared this story with his cousin (my wife’s late mother’s sister), who then relayed it to my wife:

Recently, while discussing HaRav Berland, Rabbi Kobi mentioned that his father, the Chalban, had appeared to him in a dream. In this dream, the Chalban said that a Sefer Torah was currently being written, and through it, many of the gezeirot were being annulled.

He also mentioned that the Sefer Torah was almost complete.

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I found it fascinating as it echoed the Rav’s words. Perhaps you may wish to add the links to the Sefer Torah project again for everyone’s benefit.

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Before I do that, here’s a clip of the Chalban kissing Rav Berland’s hand in 2019, shortly before he passed away:

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5,000 pays for a page.

But all donations are gratefully recieved.

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