Some thoughts on ‘Barad’
We read about ‘barad’ in the Torah.
Translated as ‘ice’, or more precisely, the flaming ice that hit Mitzrayim so hard, it’s the one time Pharoah himself went to ask for it to stop.
Here’s a few thoughts about the ‘barad’.
Hashem said He was going to hang on to some of that ‘barad’ for the war of Gog and Magog, to rain down on the enemies of the Jewish people in that last war.
Depending on your viewpoint, that could be a current issue.
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Then, there was this, that a reader emailed me a couple of days ago:
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It’s a screen shot from a video discussing Immanuel Velikovsky’s works.
Twelve years ago, I bought all his books.
Six weeks ago, I started re-reading them for the first time in a decade, particularly the ‘Ages in Chaos’, which proves how history was distorted by 600-700 years, by faulty reliance on Egyptian dating methods that don’t stand up to scrutiny.
Once you move history ‘forward’ 600-700 years – there is so much evidence that the Biblical events in Tanach really occurred, with real people, it’s overwhelming.
But to return to ‘barad’.
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Velikovsky describes how their fall was accompanied with ‘loud noises’.
And later on in that passage, he basically compares them to meteors…
Except he claims that ‘meteors’ are flaming stones, whereas the ‘barad’ was flaming ice – an impossibility to someone like Velikovsky, who left his yeshiva education behind to go and become an ‘academic’…
But to the rest of us… that makes perfect sense.
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I have no idea what’s falling out of the sky right now.
It’s a mixture of:
Iron Dome, and Iron Dome shrapnel from aerial explosions.
Real missiles that appear to be fired close-up, exactly at old buildings and neighborhoods that then get expedited permission for pinui binui new housing, literally within 24-48 hours…. which is the biggest ‘smoking gun’ you can really have, that all is not what is seems.
‘Something else’, that falls in flaming clusters, is accompanied by strange, loud noises – but at least so far, doesn’t actually seem to be hitting anything, or doing any damage.
‘Barad’?
Or something else?
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Seems to me this morning that the Yale Prof from a couple of weeks ago is basically right.
And that the Orange Man’s big bluff has been called by a few cheap mines and drones in the Straits of Hormuz.
Amazing, how dumb people who play ‘8-D chess’ actually are, in reality.
This is not playing out the way it was intended.
Probably, that’s a very good thing.
But, if you were waiting for ‘WAR WITH IRAN’ to change the whole picture – remember what the Rav said, a couple of weeks ago:
Ain’t going to happen that way.
The picture changes, ONLY when enough people bite the bullet, stop making excuses, and get to work on improving their bad middot and lack of emuna.
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In previous years, the Rav made a big point of saying Xtians think they can go to a priest for ‘absolution’ without having to really fix or change anything, or make teshuva.
But Jews don’t.
So, if you’re sick of the current reality, or your current reality, I’d like to invite you to change it for yourself:
By making working on the bad middot a priority.
Of course, in tandem with Hashem, as that’s the only way things really shift or move.
But first, He’s waiting for the ‘awakening below’, and for us to stop pretending we can stuff without Him, and to finally ask for His help.
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I never noticed this before!
https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/9870/jewish/Chapter-9.htm
The word “kolos” occurs five times in this chapter, and precedes “barad” four of those times. And it is indeed translated as “thunder,” which makes no sense. The makka is called “barad” but it was the “kolos” that were far more impactful.
This completely changes the commonly accepted understanding of this well-known Gemara on the sixth year:
“In the sixth year, “kolos” [voices speaking of the Moshiach’s imminent arrival] will be heard.”
I’ve often wondered about this, because my understanding is that Jews have ALWAYS talked of Moshiach, at least back to Yaakov Avinu.
The correct dating, with what I have read, for the exodus, is 1446 BCE under Pharaoh Amenhotep II: the only possible candidate for the exodus Pharaoh who fulfills all of the details in the Torah, and aligns properly with the Biblical dating. I don’t know what this all is about six to seven hundred years.
(I also think the history was distorted when the 430 years of Israelites in Egypt from 1876 to 1446 BCE was changed incorrectly to 210 years.)
Some time ago, when this subject interested me a lot, I tried to trace it and came to the conclusion that the Pharaoh of the Exodus was actually the general (not of royal lineage) Horemheb, who died without heirs and without a funeral. His wife was even buried with a stillborn baby. Interestingly, years passed and I came across this website, which basically reaches the same conclusion as well. Enjoy!
https://www.albert-tours-israel.com/post/seder-olam-revisited-introduction
This is all shown in Dr. Douglas Petrovich’s 2021 book Origins of the Hebrews. And his earlier 2016 book The World’s Oldest Alphabet shows Hebrew letters and full inscriptions in Egypt (and Sinai, which was under Egyptian control) from 1842 to 1446 BCE. Then in 1406 BCE is the Mount Ebal Curse Tablet alongside Yehoshua’s altar at the same site, which shows the events of the first half of the book of Yehoshua` happened at that time.
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