I bumped into a long-time reader of the blog at the Rav yesterday.

Rivka, did you stop writing your blog?!

I told her no, I’m still writing, Perhaps more than usual.

So weird, I am just seeing the same post from a while ago…

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I’m not sure which post sparked that off, but it’s part of the ‘shadow banning’ thing I have to deal with here a lot, where I basically write stuff that is totally ‘whited out’ to the public, but I can still see it myself, so I have no idea that is happening.

Tov.

This too shall pass – although, I am interested in what post sparked that off, this time around, as I’ve been deliberately staying away from ‘controversial’ as much as possible.

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Like most people who live in Israel, we had a rough night.

Loads of sirens, loads of booms, don’t even know (or really care that much….) where this was meant to be happening.

The line between ‘real’ and ‘unreal’ has become so blurred these days, that I realised yesterday I can basically believe any version of reality I choose to, without being a stark-raving-mad loony woman, so I am choosing the version of reality that says:

Jerusalem is protected.

The Rav said anyone connected to Shuvu doesn’t have to run to a bomb shelter.

This will all turn around for the good, very soon.

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I’ve also been pondering on ‘Edom’, and what ‘Edom going down’ would actually mean for the world.

I came to some interesting conclusions, most of which are fundamentally not bad at all, if a little scary.

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And two more last things.

First, they fixed the form for the KIMCHA de PISCHA (thanks for the nudge, AK), so you can pick that as the subject, pick whatever amount you want, and also have space to put names for them to pray for:

https://www.matara.pro/nedarimplus/Forms/3979.html

My contact said you can put as many names as you want.

They are very happy to be praying for other people.

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And lastly, the ‘madness’ is starting to reach beyond Israel’s borders and is now affecting the US.

I spoke to my brother yesterday, who lives there. He told me the reporting on the war is super-weird, and it’s clear they are really reporting nothing, about what is actually happening tachlis.

(The same thing is going on here, BTW, which is why I am paying zero attention to ‘the news’.)

More interestingly, he told me some of the non-Jews he works with, not religious at all, are telling him this stuff is ‘apocalyptic’, and sounds like stuff from ‘the bible’.

That’s when we got into a whole, long chat about evangelical eschatology, and I remembered this post, about ‘The Last Trump’, from July 2025, which I just sent him:

The Last Trump

I highly recommend you go and re-read it.

Even more of the pieces are now slotting into place, for ‘God’s plan’ for Armageddon, as per the evangelical nutters who are trying to make it happen.

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There are some benefits to the Kotel and Temple Mount being closed down.

Like, it’s only taking us 10 minutes to drive to the Rav for the evening prayers, instead of the hour and a half when we got stuck in Ramadan traffic.

That, at least, is useful.

Ramadan ends shortly… we’ll see what happens next.

It would not surprise me, at all, if the Evils are planning to send Ramadan out with a bang…

But it’s all for the best, and God is behind all this, we have to keep remembering that.

And, invest in a bottle of Rescue Remedy.

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PS: You can still answer the survey on ‘Shalom Bayit’ – which I’m defining as anything that disturbs the peace in your own home this Pesach, married or not – HERE.

So far, most people are struggling with serious feelings of ‘overwhelm’.

A lot of that is thanks to the stress we are all under at the moment, which is reducing the ‘coping bandwidth’ available for Pesach.

BH, we’ll talk about that, and some strategies for overcoming it, amongst other things, on Sunday.

If you didn’t sign up yet, go and do that! Even if you are feeling overwhelmed… I think recordings will be available, but only for people who signed up.

And, I’m hoping that each person will get a ‘goodie bag’ to go home with…

Shavei, shavei.

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