I’m not on the WhatSapp group, but yesterday the Rav had an operation under full anaesthetic.

BH, he woke up OK, I have no more details on how he is doing or what is going on.

There was a last minute atzeret, or prayer gathering, in Hebron yesterday, and BH, me and my husband managed to go.

I’d been feeling kinda weird all day, and it really helped to ‘lift’ my mood again.

I am really missing the prayers with the Rav – I am seeing just how much chizzuk, and ‘help’ I get, on so many levels, by making the effort to go and pray down on Ido HaNavi with the Rav. I hope he returns to full health, and to the prayers, very soon.

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In other news, the last post must have struck a nerve, because I was even blocked from replying to comments on it myself.

I got a ‘FORBIDDEN 403’ screen coming up – and I know at least one other reader was having the same problem, because they sent me the screenshot.

It’s an irony, that the more ‘real’ this becomes, the more details show up to show that ‘Christian Zionism’ is really the only type of ‘political zionism’ that has ever really been, just with its Jewish puppet-leaders fronting the project, the more ‘unreal’ it all becomes.

That’s a problem that is occurring all over the world right now.

My brother was telling me how the British government arrested a pensioner for asking the question of how refugees are jumping to the top of the housing queue in UK for social housing, while pensioners who have paid taxes there all their lives, are now being shoved to the bottom of the pile.

Apparently, asking that question was deemed to be ‘against the law’, and the government had him arrested.

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I haven’t checked the story out myself, so there may be an angle to the story that is being missed, but my brother is usually pretty reliable.

And we both freaked-out, that the UK seems to be going full fascist-dictatorship.

How is this even possible, in 2025?

And yet, that seems to be the unreal, unbelievable ‘reality’ that is starting to emerge from the mists.

It’s easier and more comfortable to ignore all this… business as usual… and there is definitely some utility that approach, for much of the time, as people have to carry on living.

At the same time.

I think back to 1937, 1938, 1939, and how many people just dismissed the awful reality that was the National Socialists, because it seemed just too grotesque and ‘unbelievable’ to really be true.

It’s deja vu.

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So, I’m feeling very uncertain about a whole bunch of stuff – dafka, because what I’ve been fearing might happen is becoming a more distinct possibility with every week that passes.

That’s very worrying.

I know God is behind all this, that all this could turn around in a nanosecond and just be a ‘wake up call’ like Purim was.

Bezrat Hashem, that’s the scenario that will play out.

But in the meantime, it’s still headwrecking and not a little worrying.

Hope everyone fasts well.

Really hope this is the last Tisha B’Av of mourning the Jewish people have….

Amen.