Shiur given the evening of the 17th of Iyar 5786

Hashem said to Cain, why are you bringing flax?! What, you don’t have dates?

Except, the dates he was keeping for Putin.

Now, they are saying that Trump is going to come here, another time. They are always breaking us. Every time, I get broken again.

Rockets – there aren’t. Trump – there isn’t. What is left for us?

Trump says that he’s going to pass by here. I know that he’s going to go to some church, or to the Kotel.

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Kushner – we wanted to go on Erev Shavuot, last year, no, it was on Hoshana Rabba, we wanted to go the eve of Simchat Torah, so then Kushner came, and they shut the whole Kotel.

Each time, they have new excuses [why they have to close the Kotel]. So, for sure, Trump is going to also want the Kotel, he only wants the Kotel.

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The Argentinian Prime Minister, he, the first thing came, to the Kotel.

People come to the Kotel, non-Jews, Jews, it doesn’t matter. Halevai, if only, we can go there. Everyone is coming.

Excerpted and translated from Shivivei Or # 456.

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Ad kan, from the Rav.

I went up North for a couple of days, for a ‘break’.

There was a cool place where you could decorate gourds close to Nahariyya, so we went, and I had the best time I’ve had for a long time.

(I highly recommend, here’s the website: https://delart.co.il/?studio. This is a pretty old vid, but you get the idea:)

The owner told us we were the second customers he’s had in two and a half months… It’s really not simple, what’s going on at the moment.

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We also swung past some kivrei tzaddikim, because any holiday without some kedusha is basically just going to feel flat, boring and kinda empty.

(That’s starting to explain a lot, isn’t it?)

So, I said to my husband, let’s go to the first kever we see. We were on the road to Meron, so it happened to be the kever of Rabbi Kruspedai, a little way up a hill.

We got out, said a TK by the grave, then a car of Breslovers showed up and started telling me husband he HAD TO follow them to the next grave, where they were going to light the ner tamid for a month.

He argued a bit, then he gave in and we followed them.

We hopped across the road to the grave of the Amorrah, R Yose deYokrat (I think…) One of the Breslov guys gave my husband the leftover olive oil from the ner tamid, and told us it’s a proven segulah for healing and pain relief.

My gums have been really painful for months and months (I think it’s stress related, honestly, as this point. Long story.) So I thought, let me try it, and see.

It’s the second day, but my mouth is feeling much better than it has been for a long time, BH that will continue.

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We travelled on to Rabbi Shimon and Meron – and I just loved being up there, with the tzaddikim, and the nice gourd man of Nahariyya.

I felt very blessed to live in Israel, even still under fire, even still with all the horrible stress going on, in a million ways.

Honestly?

When has it ever been different?

Things have never been easy in the Land of Israel, as becomes clear if you spend even a microsecond learning some history, recent or ancient.

And also in the world – there have always been wars going on, in the non-Jewish world, from the time Cain stabbed Abel to death, because ‘the whole world’, literally, wasn’t enough for him and he didn’t want to share it.

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When Moshiach comes, the madness, or at least, the ‘war’ madness, will end for good.

Rabbenu taught that Moshiach will conquer the world without firing a shot, i.e. by prayer alone.

Remember, the Rav said a few weeks ago that ‘Moshiach is made up of our prayers.’

I don’t know how complete Moshiach currently is, but I guarantee a bunch more bits have been filled in recently. It might take another week, or another 200 years, who knows? But eventually, sooner or later, enough prayers will have been said for Moshiach to conquer the world without firing a shot.

And in the meantime, we just need to figure out how to live as productively, happily and ‘holy’ as we can, in the waiting room.