I was pretty shocked by that footage coming out of Nepal / Tibet of the huge floods.

I basically check SOTT, and PalmTreeofDevorah blog as my ‘news’ these days, between them, I get enough of a flavour to satisfy the news impulse that I’ve been trying to throttle back, for years.

The footage was shocking to me.

One moment, these villages and buildings and infrastructure are all standing – and the next, they are gone.

They say 400 people are confirmed dead so far, that footage suggests this is going to be the tip of the iceberg. I’m just finding the whole thing shocking.

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A couple of weeks ago, someone put up comment up on the bottom of a Dutchsince video update forecasting earthquakes, where they basically said the world is being ‘purified’ according to the kashrut laws – either by fire, or by immersion in water.

This comment also struck me very forcibly.

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My parents’ apartment building in the UK burned down a couple of months ago, they are still homeless.

A few days ago, my good friend had a bad fire at her house here in Israel, and she’s now temporarily homeless, until the insurance figures out the shiputz.

I went to a Chinese medicine lady a couple of days ago, who told me what I’d been feeling for months, namely that I am totally ‘burned out’.

Fire…

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Now, the floods in Nepal.

The very strange weather here in Israel, with one August rainstorm two weeks ago, and now, another forecast for Motzash / Sunday that they are saying could be big enough to cause flash floods.

In Israel.

In August.

Water spouts bizarrely destroying French villages, floods in Spain…

Water…

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Back in the middle of June, the Rav started dropping some very big hints that the earthquakes, seismic activity and ‘weird weather’ was about to start picking up again.

You can read the whole thing HERE.

The Rav began by saying this:

Whoever draws close to Rabbenu (Rebbe Nachman of Breslov) is not to be found, at all, in this world.

I.e. when that tidal wave comes crashing down the gorge, anyone who is stuck close to Rabbenu will be lifted clear – they won’t be ‘in this world’, so they won’t be affected by what’s going on.

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Next, the Rav starts telling a story from Rebbi Shimon, about people who get lost in the desert, and it’s nearly Shabbat – i.e. very nearly the time of the 6,000 year, the ‘Shabbat of the world’, or geula – but they are totally lost in the desert, riding around on their fancy, expensive horses (= ‘gashmius’).

They meet someone hobbling around on crutches, and that poor man on crutches tells them he’s going to rescue them, and get them into a safe space, ahead of Shabbat:

He said to them: hold onto my belt, and I will fly with you, and within a second we will reach an inhabited place!

They didn’t understand what he was talking about.
They said to him, you are talking nonsense, us, we have horses, and you don’t even have legs! You are walking along with crutches!

[He replied] Grab on to my belt, and watch what happens!

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This is Rabbenu, Breslov, and in our generation, the easiest way to ‘grab on’ to Rebbe Nachman is via Rav Berland, his main ‘student in the flesh’ in our generation.

Yeah, that poor, old, disgraced man ‘on crutches’, literally and figuratively, the one with the damaged legs and feet.

Just like the Seventh Beggar, the Beggar who has no feet.

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The lost travellers decide, what do they have to lose, by grabbing on to the old man’s belt?!

Either it will work, or it won’t.

So, they grab on, and immediately get taken to an orchard (= kabbalistic concept, place of deep wisdom where humility is the only way you can come out unscathed, instead of going mad, dying, or even worse, becoming an atheist, God forbid.)

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It’s a side note, but the ‘pardes’ is a great fit for Shuvu Banim.

Ha mavin yavin.

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And then, there are 300 Torah students there, repeating over and over again:

Haval havalim, amar Kohelet. Hakol havalim, hakol haval.

The world is all pointless and meaningless – if a person isn’t doing Torah and mitzvot sincerely.

‘The world’ literally doesn’t exist, except as the backdrop against whic a person can refine and develop their good middot and emuna.

That’s it.

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And then, the Rav starts talking about mountains moving, the earth opening up – and how it’s impossible to conquer Eretz Yisrael.

In ‘Sha’arei Tzedek’ [in Jerusalem] the ground opened up in the carpark. Three cars fell into it. The ground, when it wants to, it opens. The ground moves, the ground opens.

You are walking along, and suddenly you fall over – this is because the ground moved. It rose up against him. You are thinking a not-good thought – so boom, you trip on the stairs. You break your head.

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The Rav continues:

The earth moves every second, it moves by itself, it contains lifeforce.

And then explains more:

So, the earth each time can move by itself.

It sees everything that a person does. A person goes to eat from the Etz HaDaat – move, a little bit! Make an earthquake, and he’ll fall over, he’ll break his hand and his leg.

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At the bottom of the post, I wrote this:

I took away from this shiur, that we can expect some more big earthquakes to start again soon…

Not because I’m a navi, or anything approaching a navi, in a million years.

But simply, because I read the Rav and I try to understand his hints.

Like everyone else could do, too, if they would only climb off their high horses, galloping around lost in the wilderness, and hold on to the Beggar’s belt.

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The Rav is currently AWOL again.

The prayers down on Ido HaNavi are cancelled until after Rosh Hashana, word on the street is that the Rav is making his attempt to get to Uman, for Rosh Hashana 5787.

If we really understood, just how important it is for the Rav to get to Uman for Rosh Hashana, we would be doing 18 TKs a day and six hours of hitbodedut.

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I’m not there myself, right now.

I am so tired, inside, from all the balagan of the last few years, all the war here, all the madness generally, all the disappointment that geula hasn’t (yet…) shown up, as expected, that I can manage precisely one TK a day at the moment.

But, I really, really, really am praying, hoping, that the Rav gets to Uman this year.

Honestly?

It seems impossible.

It seems futile.

But, if I learn one thing from the Rav, it’s truly the living embodiment of there is no yeoush in the world!!!

We have to do our bit, and God will do as He sees fit.

But we have to do our bit, whatever that actually is.

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So, these are my thoughts on the seismic activity, as clearly predicted by the Rav, three months ago.

He saw what was coming down the pipe, and he clearly set out the solution:

Find the hidden tzaddik hobbling around on crutches, and grab on to his belt.

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The rest, is up to you.