That’s what I’m hearing on the ‘Rav’ grapevine, but I haven’t confirmed it yet.

But I’m putting this up here now, to counteract so much of the yeoush and horrible headlines that if we took seriously, we’d all just jump off a bridge now, and c’est tout.

God is running the world.

Each day is a gift.

And personally, when I see so many people re-running ‘stories’ from 10 years ago, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, about horrible ‘end of the world’ scenarios, at this point I am just going to switch off.

Breslov is about sweetening the judgements, never giving up hope, and understanding that by the True Tzaddikim like Rabbenu and Rav Berland, anything is possible, and things are NEVER as black as they are painted.

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I went to the mall this evening, to pick something up.

It was kinda depressing, with half the shops shut and five people wandering around. 

What was more depressing, by far, was the ‘yeoush’ vibe seeping out all over the place. I realised after I got home, that if you don’t have the Rav encouraging you, you don’t think this war will be over soon, you don’t believe that everything can turn around in the blink of an eye, and the bad can’t last for ever – well.

That’s a really difficult place to be hanging out in.

I’d also be walking around super-depressed, stressed and very pessimistic about the future.

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As it is, I am really trying not to be.

The Rav seems to be in quite a good mood at the moment, and was pretty happy over Purim, from what you could tell.

The Rav has been a consistently accurate bellwether and guide about what is really going on.

For decades, already.

So – there is everything to play for, and if he really said the war will be over by Pesach, then it WILL be over by Pesach.

And that’s only a month away, so don’t lose hope, even if the kids are stuck under your feet for the next few weeks and things sounds like they are going crazy.

Most of this is just smoke and mirrors.

If we maintain our emuna, stick to what is going on inside our dalet amot, and do our best to see the world, and current events, with a good eye- that will make all the difference, not the least, to us and our own experience of the next few weeks.

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Courage, dear reader.

Something is going to turn all this around very, very soon.

I don’t know what, but I know it’s coming.

And if you take a quiet moment to connect back to your soul, you will probably also start to feel that way, too.