I’d love to tell you what the Rav is saying about all this.

But right now, at least, he’s keeping his cards very close to his chest.

Maybe, that’s because Rav Berland has been preparing us for what is happening right now, for at least 20 years, and probably, way, way longer.

For at least two decades, and probably three or even four, the Rav has been talking about Iran and it’s ‘nuke’; he’s been explaining that terrorists and nazis are created from our own sins; and that if we really want all the destruction to stop – we have to knuckle down, get with God and make some real teshuva.

So right now…. the Rav has gone curiously quiet, at least, in the public comments that I’m getting via Shivivei Or.

(If he does say more, I will of course try to translate it and post it up here.)

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So, these are my own thoughts on ‘the matzav’.

First, I’m finally starting to understand the dictum that a Jew who lives in Eretz Yisrael is on a much higher level, spiritually, than a Jew who does not – even if the Jew in Israel is apparently ‘anti’ Torah, at least, externally.

Listening to all these booms etc all night long is really scary (especially, if you haven’t got God in the picture) – and is forcing a lot of people to come face-to-face with their deepest fears about death, injury and dying.

Anyone who is still here after all this, regardless of how they currently look, act and dress, is on a way, way higher spiritual level than someone who hasn’t gone through the experiences we’ve been having here in Israel, over the last couple of years.

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Connected to this idea, is the concept that our suffering pays down our sins.

There has been some tremendous emotional suffering going on here the last 10 days.

A lot of people aren’t sleeping, a lot of people are experiencing panic and anxiety, there are thousands of citizens stuffing themselves down into the underground train stations in Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan – it’s kind of like a ‘Blitz’ replay, on a smaller scale.

Yesterday, I was talking to a guy from Ramat Gan who told me that he now developing PTSD from being in his mamad – because he can hear every sound magnified in there, up on the 8th floor, and he’s sure every rocket / missile / whatever-it-really-is has his name on it.

And then, he turns on the TV to obsessively check ‘details’ for the next three hours….

Long story short, he is a total wreck, emotionally, and is suffering a lot.

There are a lot of people like him in Israel right now, they are suffering, mamash.

And that suffering is useful for a few different reasons. First, it’s paying down the person’s sins, their ‘spiritual cheshbon’ in shemayim. And secondly – it’s opening a lot of people up to the idea of ‘God’ as something real to engage with.

There is a tsunami of deep teshuva building in Eretz Yisrael, and as soon as enough sins are paid off with all this suffering, and more people gravitate towards God as the answer – we reach the tipping point, here.

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Again, here in Jerusalem, apart from the fact the cacky State is keeping the holy sites like the Kotel barred to people who want to pray – it’s mostly business as usual.

Still sirens, still booms in the distance, still a sense of low-level anxiety, but we’ve been in a state of ‘war’ for almost two years here, and most people, even with their anxiety, are still just trying to continue with ‘regular life’ – however that’s possible.

My husband is still going to daven with the Rav, and is now off to learn in Meah Shearim for a few hours, as they shut down access to the Shuvu Yeshiva that stands right by the Temple Plaza, in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.

And you know what?

Crazy as it sounds – this strange Jewish ability to keep going even when there is madness all around, is why the Evils will actually never beat us.

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Jews have been through much worse than what is currently going on right now, and somehow continued.

And whatever is going on right now – we aren’t going anywhere.

We are God’s chosen people.

Still.

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So to sum up: lots of anxiety, stress and suffering going on here.

But still, so much being so radically sweetened all the time.

And there is a massive wave of sincere teshuva building in this country, that will sweep all the evil away – at least here.

At some point.

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Now, let’s talk about Jews in chul.

Before we do that, here’s a clip of the US President practising the art of ‘projection’ to a tee:

WATCH: President Trump speaks following US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites

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If you don’t know what ‘projection’ is, or why it’s a key trait of pretend-perfect narcissists who like to promote the fantasy that everything they ever do is only ever ‘good’ and ‘saintly’, and all their ‘bad’ is just everyone else’s problem – take a second and read THIS.

Without going into details – my BS-o-meter dinged off a million per cent watching this.

It dinged off even more than that time when Trump apparently had his ear shot off at a rally….

(Remember that farcical bit of propaganda BS? Remember all the dissing I got, for daring to suggest that the ‘moshiach’ of Edom, the tov she be Edom, was actually being paid by the Swamp to act as their puppet on the world stage, and plunge the world into more chaos?)

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The projection is part of it – and if you follow that principle and then re-listen to Trump’s speech, you’ll figure out a lot more than most people, about what is really going on, here.

But beyond that – we are being sold a whole crock of lies, on so many levels.

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So, what does all this mean for Jews in chul?

Before I attempt to answer that question, let me just tell you how the Nazis solved their massive economic problems, rampant inflation and national bankruptcy:

They started a world war.

And guess what?

It worked like a charm to pull the German economy out of depression, rally all the people around a leader who promised to Make Germany Great Again (MGGA) – and who was also hailed as an almost supernatural ‘messianic’ figure in Germany.

History has a worrying habit of repeating itself.

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Two weeks ago, I heard a lecture by a Jewish professor, an expert in antisemitism, who lives in New York, and who was visibly shaken by the rising tide of anti-semitism she is seeing in the USA.

This is a crisis, she kept repeating.

I never thought I would see what we are currently seeing here in the US – and it’s not just on college campuses anymore. It’s spreading all over, into the mainstream American street.

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I literally thought she was going to cry.

Meanwhile, I spoke to my brother in the UK, and he told me that Britain just passed two evil bills to:

a) Legalise euthanasia – or as my brother put it, turn the NHS into the National Murder Service, which can now legally bump people off if they have a cold.

and

b) Legalise abortion to the end of the ninth month.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Call me crazy, but Sharia Law sounds a billion times more ethical than this travesty of ‘human rights’ being enshrined in satanic Western laws.

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Long story short – the Jews of Britain are starting to panic about what is going on there.

My brother told me there are a bunch of people talking about making aliya, but many are caught in the bind where their spouse doesn’t want to move. But the writing is starting to appear clearly on the wall, even in places like Golders Green, even in the middle of this current war.

All over the world, Jew and non-Jew alike is seeing that their country appears to be irremediably ‘broken’, and they are thinking that things have to be better, different, somehow, somewhere else.

My brother told me that most people under 30 are talking about leaving the UK now – including the non-Jews.

Big changes are upon us all, wherever we happen to live.

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But here’s the takeaway message from this post:

There is nowhere to run away to, except to God.

So many people with mamad PTSD are now waking up to that reality here in the Holy Land.

But it holds true for every single person, Jew and non-Jew alike, wherever they happen to live right now.

If ‘running to God’ is your strategy, then somehow, things will figure out and it will all come good.

If ‘running to God’ is not part of your plan – then even if you call yourself an ‘FFB’, or a ‘baal-teshuva’ – even if you move from chul to Eretz Yisrael – you are still going to find yourself in a very painful place, with a lot of suffering, God forbid.

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Why?

Because suffering pays down the sins.

And we all have more sins than we can possibly count or really acknowledge.

(Especially, guys who are ogling stuff online all the time, even just those ads that keep popping-up next to all the ‘Toyrah’ being read online…. as if, they are just reading Toyrah online, but let’s pretend that’s the case.)

No-one gets into geula, whatever that actually means, without paying down the sins, one way or another.

Wherever they happen to live, and however ‘frum’ they think they are.

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So to sum up:

I personally believe we are approaching some sort of ‘tipping point’ in this current process of global insanity.

After all the suffering we’re going through here in Israel, on so many levels, so many people are being ‘refined’ here, and so much of the dross is falling away, leaving the pintele yid shining out again.

Where that is not the case – those people will probably move out of here, as soon as the airport reopens.

As soon as the sins of Eretz Yisrael are paid down by what’s going on here, plus all the teshuva that is starting to stir in the hearts of so many, secretly – the ‘suffering’ has accomplished its job, and God will start to fight for His people and His land again – mamash.

Here in Israel.

Outside of Israel – if Yaakov goes ‘up’, Esav is bound to go ‘down’

God forbid….

I’m not going to speculate on what could happen, it’s clear that no-one gets into the next stage of geula without going through a serious ‘refinement’ process, whatever that actually means.

And the takeaway point:

The only place to run, is to Hashem.

Wherever we happen to live.

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PS: Read this:

The Coward’s Bargain — Society’s Child — Sott.net