Happy Chanukah! When this rabbi speaks, I listen - he's got a bigger head on his shoulders than all his detractors combined - confabulations about him notwithstanding.

A friend sent me this: I feel compelled to share it with all of you because it does have the ring of truth, coming from a source of deep Torah knowledge and understanding. I know, the Rav speaks with great flourish, but try to listen to his underlying message, which is unmistakable: only mass prayer to Hashem at the Kivrei Avot can save us now. I believe him. Not to mention that the whole world is also in complete Tohu Vavohu in case you haven't noticed, equally in weather, political, and financial terms.

Writing this from Rome where I am stuck for Shabbat Chanukah despite my plans, sitting on a super volcano ready to erupt any time now - not soon enough: I hope it takes the Vatican where it belongs already!

Shavuah Tov and Happy Zot Chanukah; and Chodesh Tevet Tov!

This Sunday night, Zot Chanuka, Rav Eliezer Berland has called for a huge prayer gathering in Hevron, the city of the Patriarchs. The Rav has put out a number of urgent messages in recent days, encouraging people to attend the event, and underlining the importance of participating – because the situation is looking extremely grave.

Here is the full translation of the Rav’s most recent message:

(If you can help to defray some of the expenses of the tens of buses that are being chartered to and from Hevron for Sunday night, please click HERE to donate.)

“The whole of Am Yisrael is currently facing a terrible, threatening situation. Every part of Israel is now under threat of being deluged with rockets. After we saw 400 rockets falling on Ashkelon and the surrounding cities, including Beer Sheva, Netivot, Ofakim and Sderot, now they are preparing thousands and thousands of rockets, which will reach to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

“And we have no possibility of stopping this from happening, because the whole world is against us. They can launch 10,000 missiles, and if we fire back even just one, they will say that we are the aggressors, and they are the victims.

“They will say that we began [hostilities], and that they are simply defending themselves.

“We have no [military] might, we only have the power of tehillim (psalms). All of the State of Israel’s efforts to stop the missiles of Hezbollah and Hamas ended in failure. Every day, we are threatened with thousands of new rockets. They can reach any target precisely…

“Am Israel is in the greatest danger, mamash, and our only possibility of coming through this lies in our mouths: “The voice is the voice of Yaakov, and the hands are the hands of Esav.” (Bereishit, 27:22).

“We are now, mamash, at the final moments that we can stay in Eretz Yisrael, in the State of Israel, because the goal of the Arabs is to destroy everyone here. They don’t care if its dati’im (observant Jews), chilonim (secular Jews), Chareidim, Neturei Karta - they aren’t interested.

“They want to annihilate every single Jew, until the very last one of us – regardless of whether he’s secular, or religious, or Mizrachi (Sephardi traditional), or kipat srugah (National Religious).

It’s written: “And I will divide them, into the light and into the dark” (Bereishit 1:4).

They are not going to distinguish between the ‘light’ and the ‘darkness’. Right now, we are all in the gravest danger, mamash.

So, we need to really urge people to attend this Prayer Gathering, so that almost 50,000 thousand people will come.

“And everyone should read the whole of the Book of Tehillim, which will [form] the shoes for the Shechina, the shoes of Yosef [HaTzaddik], that the brothers quarreled about. Because, never before have we heard of a brother selling his brother for a pair of shoes. The ikker (main point) is that a brother shouldn’t sell out his own brother. (The argument was really over whether they should finish the whole book of Tehillim the whole week, which is the ‘shoes of the Shechinah’.)

“This was the real argument between Yosef and his brothers…and so, every single person is obliged to complete the book of Tehillim at the Prayer Gathering, and to make good use of this opportunity for 50,000 people to say tehillim together.

“This will (be considered in Heaven) as though a billion people are saying tehillim (psalms), and this will certainly stop the tillim (rockets).

“Only tehillim can stop the tillim – not the IDF, not weapons, not tanks, not Patriot missiles, no Iron Dome – none of these things can stop the missiles. Only the tehillim that we will say at this Prayer Gathering can stop the missiles.

“And in the merit of this, everyone will have a long life, like Yitzchak, in the merit of participating in this Prayer Gathering.

“There is also an obligation to donate to help defray the expenses [of hiring the buses], 1,500 shekels, because hundreds of buses will be needed. And the Rav will of course be coming, without doubt.

“The whole of Am Yisrael is invited to come to the Prayer Gathering, and to finish the book of Tehillim, and this will erase Hamas from the face of the earth.”

PS: December 10th: 

I managed to attend, arriving just on time after my return from "the other side" ( Arameic translation: the Sitra Achra - we know what that is! ) literally, i.e. Rome. It was an awesome event! I don't believe close to 50,000 attended, but still it was a very large and significant crowd easily in the thousands. After 100 or so Tehillim were recited by a Chazan, the Rav arrived, lit the Chanukah Menorah, and then the singing and dancing began: wow, what joy, what energy, what enthusiasm, what uplifting and extraordinary music: it felt just like Meron on Lag Baomer! I was delighted that they even managed to sing Bar Yochai songs; I absolutely loved the Atzeret, and so did everybody present. After that the Rav led a Tikkun Klali and some prayers, and then people started home - it was about 4:00 AM. To say I was happy I went is an understatement, although I have to make it clear I am not one of those (very special) women walking around looking like nuns, and probably never will be. Still, I appreciated the event very much. Specially, the fact that it was in Hevron made it so much more powerful; there is no way to deny it: Hevron has an energy all its own which makes things deep, intense, joyful and amazing. So, get ready for next Chayei Sarah, or, if you are in a hurry, Pessach!.... Hopefully with the Rav too, B"H; he magnifies the power of Hevron multifold, just watch the video below and I am sure you will agree with me: what a great union, a Yichud mamash, a Chibbur as in "Hevron"!

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See here the video of the event starting from the lighting of the Chanukah Menorah by the Rav: didn't he actually bring Meron and the light of Kabbalah to Hevron? Amazing.

UPDATE,  December 11th: :

Do you trust Rabbi Glazerson's work with Torah codes? Is he a respected Talmid Chacham? Do you mock his discoveries or don't you? If not, then look at what I just stumbled upon, then make up your own mind: unbelievable! I wonder what the relationship is between the two Rabbanim.

You just never know: the Hand of God leads one from minute to minute. I was looking around, ready for a nice, interesting YouTube program.... and found this, and the one above... can we understand Hashem's ways???


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UPDATE December 24, 2018, midnight Israel time, going on December 25th - interesting timing - just as the goyim are lighting their own lights and candles to worship their idol!

I had an interesting insight, looking at my Hevron calendar coming from the Jewish community of Hevron;  they had the intuition to add this year, as a passuk at the bottom of the page of the month of Tevet, the following Zohar ( Zohar Chadash):

"Why is Hevron called Kiryat Arba ( the City of the Four)? That name is based on the FOUR ELEMENTS: Fire, Air, Water and Earth /Dust"

Well, to think of it ( I should know, I live here!), at this season, in the depth of winter, in Kiryat Arba-Hevron, we have plenty of air ( strong winds), plenty of water ( plentiful rains, specially this year), and plenty of dust ( we constantly have to battle dust here, coming from the desert). What we don't have is FIRE. 

Of course Chanukah brought the element of fire with its lighting of the Menorah. 

But what Rav Berland did, in effect, by lighting the Menorah here on Zot Chanukah, is bring his own fire - he has plenty of fire! - , the light of the Zohar, the fire of Meron, and the greatest oil lighting/fire of Chanukah to the Mearah. That was the element missing, and Rav Berland COMPLETED the four elements with his august presence. That was truly a kabbalistic Yichud in my understanding. He brought the missing heat, the missing light, the exaltation - just listen to the music and look at the lights!!!! to cold, wet, stormy Hevron. In effect he fulfilled the essence of Kiryat Arba-Hevron, the City of the Four.  It is a principle that whatever happens in Yerushalayim has to first happen in Hevron. So who knows, maybe by "completing" Hevron he made it possible for Yerushalayim in turn to reach completion?

.... And just today we heard that we will have new elections. Will Mashiach be the next ruler of Israel??

Thank you, Rav Berland!

THIS IS GRAND!...It validates everything I have been writing since 2009 - See in particular my post/minibook "A Bird's Eye View on H1N1".

I have to say I have more and more respect for Donald Trump. On one hand his not transferring the US Embassy to Jerusalem is of course disturbing; on the other hand, leave him some slack: what he is doing right now is absolutely essential for everybody in the world: and that includes every aspect of our life here in Israel:

• the banking system: the Bank of Israel and our heavy tax structure that would be even heavier, strangling economic activity and initiative
•  the Ministry of Health: forced vaccinations, cancer treatment modalities, etc.
• the Ministry of Agriculture: GMO's, Round-up, pesticides, adulterated foods, preservatives, etc
• Politics - think of the Bilateral agreement with Rome, the internationalization of Jerusalem,  land grab of Rome on our holy places, think Oslo and all the murdered
• Religion - think interfaith originating with the pope, think deliberate anti-Torah agenda and persecution of Torah Jews, think anti-Yesha policies, think IDF corruption of Torah
• the IDF: think of its cooperation with NATO, the pope's and Europe's army!!!
• Social engineering and perversions: think LGBT abomination, think pedophilia centered in Jerusalem

etc.

This is a broad-based swipe at the totality of the system: it couldn't be more encompassing. I wish him well, Donald Trump is a good man and he is doing Hashem's work. 

So this is step I: nothing wrong with that! The embassy location won't change anything to the sovereignty of Am Yisrael over Eretz Yisrael ; it is all in G-d's hands anyway.

Just one caveat: Alex Jones invokes his man-god by name; what can we do, this is what Xtians believe in; as long as they don't try to come and introduce their Avoda Zara in Eretz Yisrael, as long as they don't attempt to convert us here in Eretz Hakodesh, as long as they don't get a foothold in the Holy Land, which I KNOW they are trying to do ( this is a topic for another day), I don't care, let them worship whatever they want: in this battle they are on our side ( I am speaking of the non-papist Xtians, the protestants, the evangelists, etc). We have a common enemy, and that is the Nazis, the satanists, the leftists, whose headquarters lie in Rome and Germany: the 300 princes of Rome and the 300 princes of Germamia - how does that Gemara go again? Notice that the pope is involved on their side. Of course! The whole thing originates in Rome and in Germany! The Nazis are back. I have told you all along that the vaccinations agenda comes straight out of the Nazi handbook; now I am being validated: you see, a major head of this hydra is a Nazi prince, Juncker! ( What an appropriate name, truly one big piece of JUNK! Junk, Juncker, Junckest!).

Mashiach is on the way, and Trump is obviously part of the process. We have to daven that he overcome his enemies, who are powerful and supremely vicious. The Embassy issue will be dealt with in due time; Trump's heart is in the right place, he is doing what needs to be done, and that is what counts.

Here is a great Shiur by Rabbi Kessin which discusses who Donald Trump is; listen to it, it is really worth it. The Rav says: the job of TOV SHE BE ESAV, of Trump,  is to do the TIKKUN of the whole world! And this is exactly what Trump is doing by pulling out of the global warming scam, the Paris conference: he is repairing the whole world! Wow, what greatness!  And the Satan, the Satanists, the Nazis, are going insane!  

(And by the way, Kathy Griffin who "mock decapitated" Trump on TV is an avowed satanist. Interesting??)



( Thanks to the blog Shirat Devorah)

Kol Tuv and Shabbat Shalom from Israel

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Sign posts along the way: first Costa Concordia, then Costa Allegra, now this: when WE suffer, THEY suffer; why do I have a feeling Edom's fortunes are turning?

 Pictures we have come to associate with terror bus bombings in Jerusalem... not this time.

See also:

http://israeltruthtimes.blogspot.com/2012/03/payback-time-for-edom-timing-sure-is.html

Maybe it makes me seem heartless; but facts are facts.

Of course, this is sad, tragic; the children were really cute, the school seems lovely... but it is hard not to see the connection: 

• our children in Ashkelon, in Beer Sheva, in Ashdod, in Netivot, etc., are also suffering as we speak;
• not to mention multiple past Jerusalem bus bombings when Edom couldn't have cared less; 
• the massacred school children in Maalot - Edom couldn't have cared less; 
• Hitler, one million Jewish children slaughtered, massacred, starved to death  - not only couldn't Edom have cared less, they were instigators and participants;
• etc. etc....

...So now it is they who are experiencing the heart-wrenching traumas our children, our mothers, our fathers have experienced for years, for centuries, even for millenia; terrible pain.

Edom cannot help our enemies with impunity any longer; when WE suffer, THEY suffer.

For the uninitiated: Edom, in Jewish tradition, stands for Rome, the historically antisemitic Christian/Western world.

UPDATE:

3 Jewish children murdered by a terrorist in Toulouse, in a school: is there going to be the same outpouring of world sympathy for the families of the poor, innocent ones?

 We didn't have to look far, did we:

EUROPEAN UNION  FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF, Catherine Ashton:
 “When we think of what happened in Toulouse today, when we remember what happened in Norway a year ago, when we know what is happening in Syria, when we see what is happening in Gaza and in different parts of the world – we remember young people and children who lose their lives." (Statement quickly whitewashed by the EU after realizing they had gone too far this time)

So much for compassion when Jewish children get massacred. So, Jew hating Edom, your time is coming: your cup of evil is filling up, the blood of your precious children will flow like water when God is finally tired of your evil hearts.

On the other hand, many decent non-Jews did express hurt and outrage at this recent antisemitic massacre, and we thank them.

 So there are both kinds in Europe; which group did these families belong to?

If they were innocent and didn't hate Jews in their hearts, if they didn't rejoice in the suffering of Jewish children and Jewish families, let them accept my sincere condolences: my heart goes out to them, and I wish them deep consolation from Heaven.

 Two of the children killed in the bus crash; I feel really bad for these innocent children; nice sweet kids, really...

•  Sobbing families identify Swiss bus crash victims

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114749/Swiss-bus-crash-First-pictures-22-children-adults-killed.html

 

• "A Catholic chapel in Sierre was opened to allow the public to pay their respects to the victims, and a memorial mass was planned for Thursday evening at the town's Holy Cross church.

The Vatican conveyed its condolences to Belgium's Archbishop Andre-Mutien Leonard.

Pope Benedict XVI was praying for the mourning families and had conferred a special blessing on all affected, the Vatican statement said, and he wished to express his "profound sympathy" to the injured and their families and his sense of "closeness" to the rescue workers."

 http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-15/Swiss-bus-crash-victims-families/53547714/1?csp=34news

•  Belgium's national day of mourning announced for Friday

CBC.ca - ‎35 minutes ago‎

The driver of a bus that crashed in Switzerland, killing 22 schoolchildren and six adults, may have been trying to insert a disc on the onboard entertainment system shortly before the accident, Swiss and Belgian papers have reported.

Swiss bus crash that killed 28 'like a bomb' for small Belgium town

National Post - ‎1 hour ago‎

By Nicolas Delaunay LOMMEL, Belgium — Classmates of children killed in a Swiss alpine tunnel wept in the schoolyard Thursday as the sleepy Belgian hometown of many of the victims faced up to the trauma of the horrific crash.

• Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gan Yavne, Kiryat Malachi: No School

There will be no classes, Friday in Ashdod, Ashkelon and Kiryat Malachi, due to the security situation in southern Israel. While the same will hold true for most of the schools in the Gan Yavne local council area, twelfth graders will learn in areas fortified against missile attacks, as will special education students in districts more than 40 kilometers/26miles from Gaza.
Earlier, Be'er Sheva and Ofakim announced they would not be holding classes either.

Israeli children hiding from rockets

Report: Dead in Toulouse are Israeli Rabbi and his Two Children

A man opened fire on people waiting at a school drop-off point and then fled on a motorcycle.

By Gil Ronen

First Publish: 3/19/2012, 10:18 AM

Binyamin Toati, Head of the France Desk of Bnei Akiva, told Arutz Sheva that there are reports that the man who was killed is a rabbi who served as an Israel shaliach (emissary) at the school and that two of his children were killed with him.
Sources in the ZAKA emergency services organization reported Monday that six people are dead in a terrorist attack in Toulouse, in south-west France. The dead are five students and a teacher, the sources told Arutz Sheva.

French press reported a smaller death toll. It said that two children were among at least three people killed in a shooting outside a Jewish school. Two other children are reported fighting for their lives. Voice of Israel radio said the school is named Ozar HaTorah.

The French news reports said the dead are a teacher and two children, and that two other children were badly wounded.
They said a man opened fire on people waiting at a school drop-off point and then fled on a motorcycle. The gunman used two weapons – one with a caliber of 9mm, the second with a caliber of 11.43 mm.

France's Interior Ministry ordered increased surveillance around Jewish schools, and Interior Minister Claude Gueant said he will visit the school on Monday morning.

The Chief Rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim, said he was "horrified" by what happened in Toulouse. "I am bruised in my body and my soul," he added.

The shooting comes three days after three French paratroopers were shot dead by a man 30 km. from Toulouse. AP reported that two French paratroopers were shot in the town of Montauban, near Toulouse, on Friday, when a gunman on a black motorbike pulled up at a cash machine and opened fire. An 11.43 mm. weapon was used in that attack as well, according to the news reports.

Police saw a connection between those killings and to another deadly shooting of a soldier in Toulouse just over a week ago.

..."Murdered in the drive-by shooting attack  in front of the Otzar HaTorah School in France were Yonatan Sandler, 30 from the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood of the capital along with his two sons Aryeh (3) and Gavriel Yissacher (6) as well as a daughter of principal, Miriam Montenego (8) HY”D."

 http://faceshuk.jewpi.com/members/JewPI/activity/951775/