tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57034427278827289422024-03-12T17:23:36.620-07:00Israel RisingTorah. Redemption. Current Events.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-78326410582315925982015-04-08T01:33:00.000-07:002015-06-07T01:34:06.026-07:00Leaving the Holocaust Behind<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: 'PT Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
We are standing at the crossroads of exile and redemption. Slavery to our past and the freedom of the future. We are standing at the proverbial Red Sea. Are you ready to jump in?</div>
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Although the threat of attack by hostile neighbors constantly hangs over Israel’s very existance, the underlying message of the times for the Jewish people is to leave the pre-Holocaust period of constant fear and apprehension, and with great courage create a “new world,” one that will hasten the Messianic era. For this to occur we need an enlightened leadership graced by God with the “spirit of counsel and might.”</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-70698094172821948702015-03-19T01:31:00.000-07:002015-06-07T01:32:00.998-07:00Redemption: Transcending the Left Right Paradigm<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: 'PT Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
We understand that Knesset Yisrael, the people of Israel, in a very deep sense are the vessel that on a national and personal level has been given a misson to enable the Divine presence to rest here as it desires to do. How does that jive with our current political system? After all we often look at politics as a divisive arena, where loshon hora and personal vilification reign supreme. It does not need to be that way. Rav Ginsburgh recently pointed out: The HaYom Yom of the 26th of Adar, which was the date of the latest Elections (as well as the elections within Derech Chaim) says the following:</div>
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With three instruments of service – love of G-d, love of Torah and love of Israel – must young students of Torah approach their Avoda in the vineyard of the L-rd of Hosts, to bring the hearts of their brothers closer to observing practical mitzvot and to designating regular time for Torah study. They must do this without paying any attention to the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">affliction of factions</strong>. The absolute truth is that the heart of Israel is a wellspring, a source of living waters,and there is a “covenant” with effort and publicity – that they shall never be fruitless.</div>
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The “affliction of factions” literally uses the words in Hebrew: מחלות מפלגות. The מפלגות is the modern word for Parties (political). One root of this strife we see in our present system and that goes for almost all Democracies, is the false Left Right paradigm. It is true, there are varrying view points. These view points create disunity when viewed inside a left right context. Afterall the Tree of Life, which is reflected in the ten sefirot chart shows unity between the right and left.</div>
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One gematria Rav Ginsburgh brought down in a teaching just over two years ago is the gematria of</div>
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True Jewish leadership seeks unity amongst Am Yisrael and like the Ha Yom says, it must be done through Ahavat Yisrael.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-90805338610085437332015-03-15T01:29:00.000-07:002015-06-07T01:30:40.509-07:00Building the King Within<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: 'PT Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
Each one of us has the power to change the World. Why Because each of us has a piece of the Creator within. This spark is the potential to rule over our surroundings and establish the Kingship of the Creator here.</div>
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Let’s take this a little deeper.</div>
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Within each of us is a King. King in Hebrew is <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">מלך</strong>.</div>
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Brain = <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">מ</strong> = <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">מח</strong></div>
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Heart = <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">ל</strong> = <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">לב</strong></div>
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Liver = <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">ך</strong> = <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">כבד</strong></div>
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Our Kingship is part of us. The true King or Leader pushes each one us and integrates each one of us into the Kingdom of Israel in order to actualize this spark of leadership, which is specially designed to express the Kingship of the Creator in the World.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-36194260349910178242015-02-23T01:28:00.000-08:002015-06-07T01:28:59.013-07:00The Ultimate Leader: From Heaven or Earth?<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: 'PT Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
The Jewish Bible is replete with statements concerning te Ultimate Leader that is to appear at the end of days and rescue us from exile. There seems to be two opposing avenues in reaching this goal: miraculous or natural. The sages of the Talmud were aware of this internal conflict within the Jewish Bible to the point where they commented on daf 98:a in tractate Sanhedrin.</div>
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So which is it? In order to warrant “with the clouds of heaven” we have to have merit within our actions and if not then the Ultimate Leader comes naturally in order to lead us to refine ourselves and the world which will in turn bring us to a truly miraculous future.</div>
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Derech Chaim was established to enable all of us together to build Beit David in a real way, hoping for the miraculous, but aware that we have to work in the physical world.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-1487789978785342582015-01-17T01:27:00.000-08:002015-06-07T01:27:35.990-07:00A Global Movement<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; font-family: 'PT Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;">
The Jewish people are more than just a State. We are a collective entity whose influence is felt globally, far beyond the borders of the modern State of Israel. Its true the State of Israel holds more Jews than anyother singe country, but authentic Judaism in the modern age calls for a global movement where the individual Jew within the broader collective can feel his or her voice creating and changing the Nation’s future.</div>
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To truly change the Jewish People’s immediate situation, the necessity to look towards Israel as the center of World Jewry but not the exclusive representation of World Jewry is paramount for real sovereignty in a global sense. To better understand how this can be achieved, one has to first accept that a Jew no matter where they are represents the true King, G-d. Through a Jew’s actions his personal kingship is revealed in that place and with the personal kingship comes the National. To the degree a Jew is connected to this idea he can extend the National boundry no matter where he is in the world.</div>
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For World Jewry to truly achieve it’s Divine potential we need a new outlook on sovereignty and global unity.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-71854762938610320002015-01-14T01:25:00.000-08:002015-06-07T01:26:19.744-07:00Is Democracy Jewish?<h2 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Antic Slab', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding-bottom: 0px;">
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Given the Western world’s emphasis on the need to spread Democracy throughout the world and the importance it places on this goal, it is necessary to discuss how and if Democracy is Jewish. Afterall some of the Jewish world’s past and present political leaders fully accept the principal that Democracy is not only just, but Jewish.</div>
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Let’s take <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;">Wikipedia’s</a> following definition of democracy:</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Democracy</b> is a form of government based upon four elements: 1) The citizens choose and replace the government through free and fair elections; 2) There is active participation of the citizens in politics and civic life; 3) There is protection of the human rights of all citizens; and 4) There is rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens. Eligible citizens are able to: 1) vote for the passing/rejecting of laws or run for office during elections, 2) join political parties, sit on boards or committees, and criticize or protest, 3) feel that some of their rights are protected, and 4) receive a fair trial if accused of breaking the countries laws. Politicians represent their constituents in the proposal, development and establishment of the laws by which their society is run.”</div>
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There are many forms of governing according to the above, but let’s take the most well known, which is the American version. What makes America’s form of Democracy or at least the intended form at the time of the enactment of the constitution was that the founding fathers of the USA had an affinity to Jewish sources such as the Talmud and Bible.</div>
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Perhaps one of the greatest contributions to modern statecraft is the idea of separation of powers. This means that all three branches of governement are equal, this preventing dictatorial take over. We can see the same idea within the Jewish version of government.</div>
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Perkei Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers) states that there are three crowns: the Crown of the Priests, Crown of the Torah, and the Crown of the King. One only has to take a cursory glance in the Rambam’s Mishne Torah to understand that these three crowns are expressed in the halacha (rules) of state craft. There are the Priests of the Temple, the Sanhedrin or assemby of wise men who legislate the laws for the Nation, and the King.</div>
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The priests can be analagous to the Supreme Court, the Sanhedrin to the Congress, and the King to the Executive branch.</div>
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Of course and what is important to understand is the comparison above is really where Democracy and Judaism start and finish. It is true that Judaism places a tremndous emphasis on respecting one’s fellow Tzelem Elokim, but this should never be construed as a rights based ideology, which Democracy espouses. There is now voting on a National scale in Judaism. One does not vote for the King, the Priest, nor the members of the Sanhedrin. It is true there are local councils and in many ways one can find similar expressions in the colonial days of the USA, but those are long gone.</div>
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There are other instances of similarities to the early days of the American Republic and a pure Jewish governship, such as an electoral college or that voting be reserved to Land owners, but in today’s narrative of Democracy equalling one vote per citizen, the Torah and Judaism do not agree.</div>
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One can argue that American Democracy as we see it today more closely resembles that which grew out of the French Revolution of 1789 rather than the Founding Fathers which intended a Republic closer to a Jewish model, but that narrative never played out.</div>
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Essentially when one looks at the National construct represented in Judaism, the idea of a King no matter how restrained he is, puts the system at odds with Democracy.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-37463110493827578202014-12-25T04:40:00.000-08:002014-12-25T04:40:03.585-08:00The Fall of Beit Shaul and the rise of...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When politicians lose, not much changes in the world. Afterall most politicians expect at one point and time for their "star to fade." What happens when a system collapses? Beit Shaul as a structure took 7 years to collapse. Our modern day Beit Shaul has been around since before the State. It is a Malchut C'mo Kal HaGoyim. Collapse might seem extreme to many, but collapse is what the system that has ruled here is doing. Just look at the news.<br />
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Both left and right do not agree on much, but their leaders understand the status quo cannot be maintained. The left would like us to be shrunken version of some Western vassal state with nice beach front property, shredding the Jewish nature of the state. The right undestands that the current ruling apparatus in the state is merely a spring board for the next stage in the redemptive process. <br />
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Beit Shaul was more than a kingdom it was a mentality, tht status quo as an imperitive. Dawid represented more. He was beyond status quo and sought ro implement a revolution within the physical confines of the internal psyche of the Nation. Am Yisrael is redemptive in nature; breaking through the natural order of things to bring about fundamental change to our inner and external experience.<br />
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Today there is a "Centrist." They would like to keep thing the same, but make improvements based on the current structure. They will not win this election, the Nation understands that we live in a world where we have to initiate some sort of change or be changed by our circumstances. The question isn't whether we are viting for change in this election, it is what kind of change we want.<br />
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Ultimately the change we truly desire is not found in politics, but if we must vote to push things forward then we should vote for the path which opens the door to the true and final redemption.<br />
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<li>Strengthing Religion</li>
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When voting and in our personal lives as well as National, we must keep these 5 in mind. Only then will true change occur the way we envision it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-12340240880494453402014-07-03T03:01:00.001-07:002014-07-03T03:07:33.419-07:00Anti-Semites Are Not Welcome HereAfter a year hiatus I am writing an extremely blunt post that needs to be said:<br />
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Am Yisrael has suffered tremendously in the past few weeks. We have lost three holy souls to Arab hate.<br />
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The two men below took three days to issue a condemnation for the kidnapping our boys and yet when an Arab teenager is killed the same two men rush to blame and condemn it as a nationalistically motivated crime, even though that is not confirmed...not even close. If the disparity between the two reactions does not reveal an innate antisemitism...I don't know what does. Spreading a blood libel using today's technology is no different than what the Arab and Christian world has done during our exile.<br />
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These two men are our enemy as well as the entire US gov't. They spare no time in spreading libelous comments on Israel while accepting the narrative of our enemies. This puts America on our enemy list until these two and the others running the USA gov't are removed. <br />
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I will say this loudly: Barak Obama and John Kerry are not welcome on our holy soil. I cannot do anything about how our gov't acts in kissing up to you, but I and many others like me are calling you out as the anti-semites you are. Please do not come to our country...you are not welcome here. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-13562508722520157362013-08-11T04:49:00.000-07:002013-08-11T04:49:18.910-07:00Put Upon Yourself A KingIn the deepest part of our soul is the point where the individual consciousness fades away and the national expression begins. That deep internal place is where we remain pure, whole. The exile severed the relationship between person and Nation and replaced it with an emptiness not yet replaced. In the emptiness that exile brought upon us exists our individual desires and drives. The Land of Israel and the State are the first steps back towards finding a National Consciousness, but individual concerns and desires out way the National Good. Of course this description has often times been placed on the communities in Yehuda and the Shomron. How many times have we heard that they must be sacrificed for "National Good." That is just it though. A Nation which is whole never sacrifices a part of it's Land. It never reserves the right to tell another where to live. <br />
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At the end there will be no peace or even a lull. Sacrificing our fellow brothers' and sisters' homes and lives so the other can continue to live a "comfortable Western life," is just another form of personal self interest over the true National Good.<br />
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The light fades. It dims with every concession. It darkens with every giving into our enemies demand. Our enemies, both in the Middle East and in North America and Europe do not want peace, they want to remove a problem. This problem is the Jew. It has always been the Jew and for them will always be the Jew. In the past the Jew was wandering and so he was lowly, reminding the world of morality and G-d. Now he no longer wanders and reminds the World that the Nation of Israel lives and the G-d of Israel is a living G-d whose light flows through the World. <br />
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Redemption is upon us. It began when the first "settlers came home over 120 years ago and it continues now. The World wants us dead. They want our holy places and even more important they want us to give up our holy places. At the end we will win, for G-d has returned us to our borders. No matter the struggle now at hand, those enemies of ours whether they pray to Mecca or prop themselves up as a God in their little White House across the Atlantic will be destroyed.<br />
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We appear without a King, yet everyday we say Shema Yisrael HaShem Elokeinu HaShem Echad. Baruch Shem Malchuto, L'Olam VaEd. His Kingdom reigns forever. He is our King. And HaShem the Creator of the World who kept his promise and returned us to our Ancient Heritage will always be our King long after the Obama's and Abbas's of the world disappear.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-41490140369364068822013-07-21T06:15:00.000-07:002013-07-22T15:41:45.075-07:00The Fallen KingThere were so many pieces of Torah I wanted to write, but news has swept them away.<br />
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What do we do when our leader or King falls? To give into the nations of the world, to succumb to the blindness of doubt, what hope is there for a leader who reverses course and releases terrorists just to sit at a table with another terrorist?<br />
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Our task is not to judge. After all the King of Israel is the heart of the nation and in our imperfect return all of our "kings" have been just that; a reflection of the level of the Nation itself. We cannot judge for we are not standing where he is standing, in the test he has been given.<br />
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The Land of Israel is a whole entity. It is one. There is no division that can scar it, nor politician that can relinquish it. Every Jew that settles the Land of Israel performs more than just a mitzvah, but expands the border of the Kingdom of Israel. Yet we live here in an imperfect entity, where many of us are enamored with the allure of present comforts, without the thought of the future.<br />
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Were at the end of time. How long is left, is not clear, yet we are moving closer to point in time where "Jerusalem will be a Cup of Poison." At that point in time the shell or klipah which surrounds the Kingdom of Israel will fall away and the Nations of the World will realize the truth.<br />
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As the State of Yisrael breaks the Kingdom will emerge whole from within it. The true King will not fall like the leaders of today. He will lead. He will believe in the words of Isiah: <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white;">All the nations are as nothing before him, </span></span><span class="text Isa-40-17" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; position: relative;">they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness." (40:17) and we will be comforted.</span><br />
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The concealment of the Creator's light left a world full of kelim (vessels), but these vessels became twisted and warped. As the Galuth rolled on in History the Rabbis were able to harness Halacha as a National directive, but that only lasted as long as there were no other challenges to their legitimate leadership of Am Yisrael.<br />
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With the "breaking of the Ghetto walls" and the rise of the "enlightened gentile" Jews could no longer be counted on to follow the Rabbis and so even movements like Zionism, which started out as a directive from the Vilna Gaon, become hijacked by opposing "enlightened" forces. These forces which spawned everything from Secular Zionism to Communism to Wilsonian Liberalism are none other than the Klipah of the Erev Rav. This Klipa feeds off the Galuth. It uses the same vessels which are meant to be raised up when in the hands of Holy Men as tools for evil. Zionism has become the preeminent example of this.<br />
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When Jews began streaming back in search of establishing a sovereign entity with the express purpose of furthering the redemption and building the third Beih Hamikdash, the Erev Rav knew that it was a life and death struggle for their existence. So they did the most unthinkable thing, join the struggle to establish a sovereign state in the Land of Israel. <br />
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They convinced their Edomite masters to grant them leadership and in that way they would be in full power to prevent the movement and the rise of Moshiach ben Yosef. The only issue with this plan was that coming back to the Land of Israel itself is one of the steps in the Geulah process. By coming back some of the concealment prevalent in Galuth recedes and light shines brighter in the world. <br />
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Redemption comes in stages. In each stage concealment is lowered and the light of the Creator shines brighter. The Erev Rav took a gamble and in that gamble allowed the redemption to move along in hopes that their control would be cemented here in the Holy Land.<br />
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Yet, their power along with the Statue of the Global Hegemonic Kingdom is now in collapse mode. The Erev Rav is evil and although tremendous forces are at work in the world we live in, the Erev Rav remain in control of the State of Israel and some of the highest halls of power across the globe.<br />
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We cannot destroy the Erev Rav by going against them directly. They have succeeded in controlling the agenda for the Jewish people over the last 150 years or more and the multitudes of our brethren, even religious ones pulled into their orbit. Our war is more than a war over Land, it is cultural war. The Erev Rav seek to draw Western culture into Am Yisrael's "belly" in hopes that it remains base and low...too low to realize it's holy potential.<br />
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We can only take control of the Geulah when we break free of reliance on the West. The more we see through the West's hypocritical use of expressions like "freedom" or "equality" then we open our minds to follow the true path. This is the path of Torath Yisrael, which is the true Torah given to our master and teacher Moshe Rabbeinu.<br />
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By connecting to the will of the Creator we will have the strength to resist the temptation of false Western freedoms and help rid our Land and region of Western control. The global realization that the "freedom" they have is false has spurred uprisings throughout the globe. The Creator light bursts forward in the most unlikely ways as movements that are both anarchist and leftist have become the greatest tool to help collapse the "Evil Empire" of Edom. As the mask of Galuth falls away our ability to see the light of the Creator will magnify and we will see how now this period of time of global turbulence was necessary to force the collapse of those powers seeking to halt the redemption and extinguish the light of G-d from our planet.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-60010683391828788572013-06-12T11:54:00.001-07:002013-06-12T11:54:09.628-07:00The Mask Has Dropped<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have not written on this blog in some time. The world seems to have grown increasingly more unstable as the transition between the world of Esav's hegemonic control through the Westphalian System of nation states falls apart. As the USA recedes the vacuum created is a space of opportunity. Yet, this is the most dangerous time. It is a time when the modern Rome can go from just a bystander in future world events to one which attempts one last ditch hope to prove the need for its future existence.<br />
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The revelations this week about the scope and breadth of NSA surveillance in the USA should be a message to everyone that the emperor no longer has clothes. The USA is now transformed into the very nation it always claimed to be fighting against. All of its claims are now gone. The mask has dropped and so has the pleasantries.<br />
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John Kerry and his ilk have stepped up threats. MAKE PEACE OR ELSE. Of course his minions here have continued to support such insane propositions. <br />
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Both Am Yisrael and Esav seek boundaries. Am Yisrael uses boundaries throughout Halacha to create space for holiness or kedushah. Esav does the opposite. They seek boundaries in order to rid a space of all holiness. After all, for the West all boundaries are holy and if all boundaries are holy, then nothing really is holy. <br />
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Dividing the Land of Israel at the End of Days is the last hope for Esav as it becomes irrelevant. Esav hopes now to prove its relevancy by showing that Israel is the same as all other nation-states, but that is where it fails. Israel is more than the boundaries of the State. Am Yisrael or Malchut Israel exists on a global level. The boundaries of Eretz Yisrael and outward are just delineations of holiness within the framework of the global Kingdom. Our nation has power as a nation in Eretz Yisrael, but its reach is global for Halacha works within all boundaries, even if each boundary has apparent gradations in holiness.<br />
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So now we are at the End. Rome is now revealed as evil andas hypocritical as it's enemies and with its march to irrelevancy, the borders that had been declared post WW1 as sacrosanct across the indigenous regions of the West's former colonies are falling apart.<br />
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As the borders around us become meaningless, the Middle East's indigenous peoples seek to rectify the sin of Western Imperialism. Within this context our own people have an opportunity to break free of our modern colonial masters. The war between the forces of Mashiach ben Yosef and the Erev Rav and of course their Western masters is entering it's final phase.<br />
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After all, the Tzipi Livni has declared that we must choose between democracy and Torah. I for one choose the latter. Of course that is the struggle. The Creator has made our choice simpler, since the West we always admired no longer really exists, if it ever did to begin with.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-39600605389003375492013-01-09T03:07:00.000-08:002013-01-09T03:07:02.026-08:00Yosef RisingIt happens quickly. One leader falls and another begins to rise to the challenge. <br />
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We are standing in what is known as Yemot HaMashiach Ben Yosef. <i>The days of Mashiach ben Yosef.</i> Within this era there is a paradigm being played out...the Shaul vs. David relationship is unfolding before us. Every leadership transition has to have this paradigm and we now see it taking place.<br />
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Bibi who believes he is the predetermined leader set to herald a State of Israel that is both accepted and strong represents the finest of the previous ruling order, but that is what it is; a ruling class that does not see itself as having a divine mandate, but is satisfied in ruling for the sake of ruling. No matter how much he wants to do the right thing, Bibi is a product of a State of Israel without redemption as it's goal. This is Shaul who could not defeat Amalek, because he could not differentiate between his rule as the King of Israel and that of another King. <br />
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Then there is Naftali Bennett. He has been outside the system, connected to the new world; the one which is leaving behind the constrictive nature of our hegemonic world order. Hi Tech success, grass roots leader, young and forward thinking. He is of course the former Chief of Staff for Bibi and now he is rising. His role is that of the David within the quest to be Mashiach ben Yosef. He offers a course towards a redemptive paradigm. Technology and Spirit. A true tikkun instead of continued malaise driven by empty words and slogans. He is set to take the mantle of Mashiach ben Yosef from the Shaul.<br />
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The country is changing. Old ways are melting, barriers falling, something new is happening, a Yosef is rising and rising very fast. <br />
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We understand very few things about the End of Days, yet what we do know is Am Yisrael will be residing in it's own Land again when the Nations of the World unite against her. We often think of our secular leadership as far removed from the concerns of "Torah" but that viewpoint is an outgrowth of the Galuth. We know that every Jew is connected to the Land of Israel and it is here that one's perspective can expand passed and understand the National Paradigm within the Daled Amoth of Halacha and of course reach a much higher level of Emunah. Eretz Yisrael is our rebirth both in the physical and spiritual sense. Leaders here do strange things that are many times out of character for them. This applies to those who do not publicly lead Torah lifestyles as much as it does the observant.<br />
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This brings us to Mashiach ben Yosef. We understand that this Mashiach has two aspects. One is the physical conquering and building of the Land of Israel and of <a href="http://www.israelrising.com/2011/05/yosef-still-lives.html">course protecting Am Yisrael</a> here. The other aspect is a spiritual one, which can be seen in the guise of the Tzaddik and most importantly the Tzaddik once he has already passed from this world. Where do we see this paradigm in Torah. We see this in Yehoshua bin Nun (descended from Yosef) and of course the Aron of Yosef in whose zechut Am Yisrael not only crossed the Yom Suf, but the Yarden as well. <br />
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In a sense these two roles are not bound to one individual, but would be most logically be carried out by two individuals, one the Tzaddik who has passed and the other a person who is willing to stand of to the leaders of the world. The second role is a reoccurance from the time <a href="http://www.israelrising.com/2011/05/for-out-of-jerusalem-shall-go-remnant.html">Hezkiahu HaMelech and Sancherev</a>, which the Gemorah in Perek Chelek of Sanhedrin says is the blueprint for Gog U Magog. Hezkiahu stood up to Sancherev only when Jerusalem became the focal point and that is when the miracles occurred. <br />
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The physical Mashiach ben Yosef is set to push off the physical Klipah of Edom, while the spiritual Yosef takes care of the spiritual Galuth by inculcating in the Am Torah style Emunah.<br />
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It is becoming clearer and clearer who is playing these roles, but at the end only HaShem knows exactly whose who.<br />
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As Chanukah 5773 is upon us Am Yisrael should be blessed connect to the true Tzaddik and walk upright in it's Land and by doing so merit the complete Geulah! <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-86068542446525253432012-09-03T03:42:00.000-07:002012-09-03T03:45:56.867-07:00Towards an Authentic Jewish Spirituality<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">What is Jewish spirituality? As with all Torah concepts, exile has clouded our ideas of what spirituality is and what purpose it serves. True spirituality is a personal experience of the ethereal universe and ultimately, of God Himself. In its highest form, Jewish spirituality is prophecy, and prophecy in its highest form will bring about the resurrection of the dead. Our sages tell us that this is the true goal of authentic Jewish spirituality. They called us "B'nei Nevi'im", the sons, or spiritual heirs of prophets. That is who we are meant to be.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<strong>Prophecy was once the driving force behind the nation of Israel, its leaders and its military.</strong><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; text-align: justify;">That was its purpose, to guide the nation according to the will of Hashem. Needless to say, we are a far cry from this lofty ideal today.</span><strong> However, it is our duty, as a nation reconstituted on its ancient homeland, to begin moving back toward this original spirituality, back toward the prophetic ideal.</strong></div>
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<strong>Next, we must immerse ourselves in the words of our sages</strong>, who imparted to us their knowledge of prophecy and its purpose. From them we learn that the prophetic experience exists on many levels. Our sages tell us that every dream is one sixtieth of prophecy. Stop and think about that for a moment. Something as mundane and routine as a dream is actually a small taste of the loftiest spiritual state attainable by man. Even though actual prophecy may seem out of our reach, we must know that it is always with us. And if we train ourselves to think, act and pray in a manner consistent with the way of the prophets, we may gain small glimpses, small flashes of light and clarity that can change us for the better.<br />
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Lastly and perhaps most importantly is the necessity of having a continual connection with the land of Israel.<strong>Prophecy is intimately connected with this land, and eretz Yisrael is the only aspect of Jewish spirituality that is tangible</strong>. The land itself is holy and unlike other aspects of qedusha, it can be touched, smelled, tasted. When you touch the land of Israel, you touch and experience holiness. The physical and spiritual planes are united here like nowhere else on earth. Yet they are united in a way that is simply and easily experienced.</div>
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Do not confuse this with the awe of creation that one might experience upon seeing a beautiful mountain or river. This is also a profound spiritual experience, but it can be found anywhere. The land of Israel is different. It is overflowing, not only with natural beauty, but also with an overpowering sense of history and purpose.<br />
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<strong>When one drinks from the same springs as prophets and kings, when one climbs to the caves his ancestors lived and even died in, he begins to feel a sense of continuity and connection with those who came before him</strong>. It is almost as if they are standing beside him. Their words come alive, echoing through the hills and valleys. The lines between past and present, between physical and spiritual, begin to blur.</div>
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It is at this point that a Jew begins to grasp who he truly is. He begins to understand his relationship with his maker and his people. He attains a clearer vision of his purpose in this world and where he should be headed. These are small yet vital steps toward the ultimate goal of restoring prophecy.<br />
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Immersion in Tanakh and Hazal, connecting with eretz Yisrael and engaging in honest, heartfelt prayer; this is the way of our fathers. It will do for us what no red string or swinging chicken can. This is authentic Jewish spirituality and like a fiery chariot, it waits to carry our nation to new heights.</div>
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</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-80412079942686478112012-08-28T07:33:00.001-07:002012-08-28T07:33:56.935-07:00"...under the pomegranate-tree which is in Migron"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigO-B4DgjTcdo9KpIM8lUzS86iMYiR5ZRuEjOfDVD8VMFvlk1o7vFIWUAFFESyIzT4Vg4nwRVeccTP22-yFnD1bg7ou1gvdMzyiFpKvnvbxqfWvsxutlQCXVAr38wvxCNE7HWUTUmegy0d/s1600/bibi-migron.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigO-B4DgjTcdo9KpIM8lUzS86iMYiR5ZRuEjOfDVD8VMFvlk1o7vFIWUAFFESyIzT4Vg4nwRVeccTP22-yFnD1bg7ou1gvdMzyiFpKvnvbxqfWvsxutlQCXVAr38wvxCNE7HWUTUmegy0d/s320/bibi-migron.jpg" width="320" /></a>It is in <a href="http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et08a14.htm">Migron</a> where Shaul HaMelech and his men were positioned when his son Yonathan made a quick and surprising move against the Plisti'm. Migron was the place that Shaul paused and as he always had done over thought and feared of action. Shaul was the first King of a United Israel and with all of that failed at leadership because he was weak. Dawid and Yonathan were the next generation and they had the basic quality that Shaul was always missing, purpose and faith. <br />
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Yes, Shaul was King and he knew intellectually what that meant, but that was never translated into successful action. The crisis of the State of Israel is the crisis of the Kingdom Shaul. It is the lack of an internal realization in a bigger divine purpose than just making a secure Israel. It is why Shaul "tarried" in Migron and it is why Bibi and the regime he represents seems stuck now. The confusion of what to do with the modern day Migron represents the same sort of confusion Shaul and his followers stumbled through. This catharsis in 5772 over whether or not to uproot Israelis from their homes that now are for sure legally purchased has created a malaise in the direction of the once proud Zionist Party, the Likud. Of course this malaise is not new and has been systemic since the beginning of the state. It's what caused Begin to abandon the Atalena and prevented Ben Gurion from applying all of the State's resources to liberating the Old City of Jerusalem in 1948. This same malaise caused the Eshkhol gov't to hand the keys to the Temple Mount over to the Wakf in 1967 as well as being the prime cause behind Begin's relinquishing of the Sinai. <br />
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Israel has and still suffers from a lack of defined direction and this is the "Shaul Complex." It is this Shaul Complex which prevents the State from realizing it's divine mandate and it is the Shaul Complex which holds the gov't back from finally erasing Amalek from among us, near and far. Shaul's Kingdom eventually crashed and from within it Dawid rose from a point of gestational expansion to a true actualization of Messianic fulfillment.<br />
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What we are watching, which is encapsulated within the Migron debate (no matter how it turns out) is the collapse of the Shaul regime, which has been in power since Begin, if not earlier. With that collapse the true Kingdom and Messianic regime of the ben Dawid will rise.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-84165433178550198712012-08-11T12:46:00.003-07:002012-08-11T12:46:56.077-07:00"I will save My people from the east country, and from the west country..."<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" style="font-family: David; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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Are we in Geulah or Galuth? Geulah is about coming home. About putting your feet on the dirt of your ancestors Land and walking where your fore fathers walked. We have come home and we are coming home now. The World is crumbling and yet we persist and continue to build that which is ours. The Creator of the World has kept his promise and yet we are still waiting for the complete fulfillment, but that in of itself is the problem..."waiting."<br />
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The Creator wants us to build. We are required to build his Land and his Mikdash:<br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: David; font-size: 26.666667938232422px; text-align: justify;">יב</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: David; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"> אין בונין את המקדש בלילה, שנאמר "וביום, הקים את המשכן" (</span><a href="http://www.mechon-mamre.org/i/t/t0409.htm#15" style="background-color: white; font-family: David; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">במדבר ט,טו</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: David; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">)--ביום מקימין, לא בלילה; ועוסקין בבניין מעלות השחר, עד צאת הכוכבים. והכול חייבין לבנות ולסעד בעצמן ובממונם--אנשים ונשים, כמקדש המדבר; ואין מבטלין תינוקות של בית רבן לבניין ואין בניין מקדש דוחה יום טוב</span><br />
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Eretz Yisrael is about building. Geulah is that moment in time when we realize we have come to our Land, the "Land of Milk and Honey;" To build our redemption and to finish the job that our ancestors were waiting for over the last 20 centuries.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-19092380934725442212012-08-05T02:39:00.000-07:002012-08-05T02:42:33.877-07:00Leader's Ideas Never Go AwayAvraham (Yair) Stern mapped out an active plan for the redemption of Am Yisrael. This map is as good today as it was 70 years ago!<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">National Revival Principles (HaTechiya)<br />The Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (FFI) - The LEHI<br />by Avraham (Yair) Stern, <i>zt"l</i></span></b></center>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">The Jewish people is a covenanted people, the originator of monotheism, formulator of the prophetic teachings, standard bearer of human culture, guardian of glorious patrimony. The Jewish people is schooled in self-sacrifice and suffering; its vision, survivability and faith in redemption are indestructible.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'MS sans serif'; text-align: justify;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">The homeland in the Land of Israel within the borders delineated in the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;"> Bible ("To </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">your descendants, I shall give this land, from the River of Egypt to the great Euphrates River." <i>Genesis</i> 15:18) This is the land of the living, where the entire nation shall live in safety.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Israel conquered the land with the sword. There it became a great nation and only there it will be reborn. Hence Israel alone has a right to that land. This is am absolute right. It has never expired and never will.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">1. Redemption of the land.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">2. Establishment of sovereignty.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">3. Revival of the nation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">There is no sovereignty without the redemption of the land, and there is no national revival without sovereignty.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">Educate the nation to love freedom and zealously guard Israel's eternal patrimony. Inculcate the idea that the nation is master to its own fate. Revive the doctrine that "The sword and the book came bound together from heaven" (<i>Midrash Vayikra Rabba</i> 35:8)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">The unification of the entire nation around the banner of the Hebrew freedom movement. The use of the genius, status and resources of individuals and the channeling of the energy, devotion and revolutionary fervor of the masses for the war of liberation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">Make pacts with all those who are willing to help the struggle of the organization and provide direct support.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">Consolidate and increase the fighting force in the homeland and in the Diaspora, in the underground and in the barracks, to become the Hebrew army of liberation with its flag, arms, and commanders.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">Constant war against those who stand in the way of fulfilling the goals.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">The conquest of the homeland from foreign rule and its eternal possession.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'MS sans serif'; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, 'MS sans serif';"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">These are the tasks of the movement during the period of sovereignty and redemption:</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">Renewal of Hebrew sovereignty over the redeemed land.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">The establishment of a social order in the spirit of Jewish morality and prophetic justice. Under such an order no one will go hungry or unemployed. All will live in harmony, mutual respect and friendship as an example to the world.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">Build the ruins and revive the wilderness for mass immigration and population increase.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">Solve the problem of alien population by exchange of population.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">Total in-gathering of the exiles to their sovereign state.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">The Hebrew nation shall become a first-rate military, political, cultural and economical entity in the Middle East and around the Mediterranean Sea.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">The revival of the Hebrew language as a spoken language by the entire nation, the renewal of the historical and spiritual might of Israel. The purification of the national character in the fire of revival.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;">The building of the Third Temple as a symbol of the new era of total redemption.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,Helvetica; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.saveisrael.com/stern/saveisraelstern.htm">Taken from Save Israel</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-82157213985794234182012-08-02T14:24:00.000-07:002012-08-05T05:40:31.485-07:00"...if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance..."<i>"When there is a great War in the World the potential of Mashiach is awakened. The time of song has arrived...The Evil Ones are removed from the World and it becomes stable. And the Voice of the Turtle Dove is heard in our Land." </i><br />
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There is <a href="http://soulmazal.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/wwiii-gog-magogs-silent-mastery.html">war</a> in the world. There is war within us and throughout the globe. Ishmael and Esau stand ready to fight and we Yaakov are here, home. We have come home after all these years, yet our House, the House G-d is still in ruins, occupied by squatters and ignored by it's rightful owners. Even that is changing for we can feel the Creator set to come home to his Children.<br />
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We pray and we yearn, but fail to see that we stand at the gate of the final stage of our Great Return. The World is cracking and shaking and yet me should not be scared. The <a href="http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt3402.htm">statue of the nations</a> is coming down and a new Kingdom, the Kingdom of Israel in all of it's splendor and radiance stands ready to be birthed. We are the children of Kings and Prophets. This is our Land and our inheritance. We have come home never to leave again.<br />
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Tonight is Tu B'Av and while "the Building of the World cracks," (Orot of War 9, Rav Kook) we dance. The Nation rises and the supernal light held within us is set to redeem the World. Our World is filled with trepidation and fear and yet this is just the pangs of our actualization and the realization that all is One. <br />
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The <a href="http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0721.htm">daughters of Shiloh are dancing again</a> and the men of Binyamin have returned to their borders. Our mother Rachel is crying her last tears as her Children have returned home.<br />
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<br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-62258740841989359442012-07-10T06:52:00.000-07:002012-07-10T07:25:21.153-07:00Armilus Rising (Redux)The light shines forth, ready to flow to the four corners of the Earth from the "House of G-d." Emunah is growing and the Tree of Life grows stronger within the Land. We are close. The Global Security State seems about to fall and with it the Kingdom of Gog U Magog (NWO). Bavel is crashing and Mitrayim is raising it's veil from upon our minds, Yet the Erev Rav want one more go around. Armilus is Rising, he is not finished just yet. Now just before the great Shabbat, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armilus">Armilus</a> wants one more turn to stop the Geulah and the full redemption of Am Yisrael and mankind.<br />
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<a href="http://debka.com/article/22166/Olmert%E2%80%99s-acquittal-qualifies-him-to-lead-a-new-left-of-center-bloc">Acquittal Qualifies Olmert to Lead A New Left of Center Bloc - Debka</a><br />
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=276930">After verdict, Kadima MKs back Olmert's return to politics -JPost</a><br />
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Emunah is key! Our world is about to get a bit rockier.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-15746550006049798242012-07-03T08:21:00.001-07:002012-07-03T08:21:49.719-07:00Sun is Setting on the USA and the West<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/03/news/economy/imf-recovery/" style="background-color: white;">IMF Warns America's Economy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/03/million-without-power-east-coast?newsfeed=true" style="background-color: white;">Millions Still Without Power</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-military-re-surging-persian-gulf-turkey-scrambles-jets-third-day-and-iran-fires-medium-range" style="background-color: white;">On the Brink of War</a></li>
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The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is a fallen shadow of its former self. The world is changing fast and the cultural emptiness that has simmered for years underneath the surface in America has boiled up and revealed the hollow shell which has always been there. The ligh of redemption is hidden within the Klippot of the world in which we live, but Edom is empty, as the Midrash states, "'...darkness on the face of the deep' refers to the Evil Kingdom" otherwise known as Edom. <br />
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The world is world built on the four Kingdoms of our exile. In order for the redemption to commence, Edom being the sum total of all exile's before it must fall. In that as the Maharal says in Ner Mitzvah will translate in Edom "returning the crown of Torah to Am Yisrael."</div>
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Yes, the world seems like its crumbling, but a new world is being born and we are here to witness it's birthday!</div>
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Stay tuned...it's coming!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-8688681716637499692012-06-25T03:50:00.001-07:002012-06-25T03:50:04.593-07:00Bavel is FallingThe EU is the modern day Babel or Bavel. After all they truly believe they are getting it right this time, but it seems just like before they reach their goal, their dreams are being dashed. This Babel is crashing and may take the NWO down and with it the Malchut of Gog U Magog down as well.<br />
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PARIS (Reuters) - As Europe considers a leap towards closer integration to try to save the euro single currency, it resembles the biblical Tower of Babel - unable to complete an ambitious project because the residents don't speak the same political and economic language.</div>
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The spotlight is on Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the euro area's four biggest economies, wrestling over proposals for a banking union, joint euro zone bonds and handing more control over national budgets and economic policy to the European Union.</div>
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But Europe's Babel features 27 often fierce national debates in member states, each of which has the power to block any change to EU treaties, including 10 countries which are not members of the currency.</div>
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Each national argument uses a different political vocabulary and historical context, making them hard to reconcile at the best of times and harder still when the going gets tough.</div>
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While investors are looking for quick, bold solutions to restore confidence in the euro, Europe's patchwork politics make rapid strides fearsomely difficult, if not impossible. Each major step is subject to ratification by national parliaments or referendums, which can easily trip the project up.</div>
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In Germany, it is a morality play about making profligate "deficit sinners" atone and do their "homework", instilling a "stability culture" (low inflation, low debt) and enforcing a "savings policy" (austerity). It is no accident that "Schulden", the German for debt, doubles as the word for "guilt".</div>
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To Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose frugal caution is lauded at home as embodying the virtues of a "Swabian housewife", the key to the euro's survival is to enforce the rules of budget discipline strictly and make Europe more competitive through economic reforms, not to dilute responsibility by sharing debt.</div>
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In France, it is all about "saving the euro" by showing more "solidarity" with southern countries, seen largely as "victims" of "speculation" rather than as fiscal villains.</div>
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The French see the single currency above all as a political rather than an economic project - a geopolitical status symbol, a potential trade weapon and a way of ensuring Europe punches its weight in a multi polar world, rivaling the dollar.</div>
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In recent weeks, the slogan of the nationalist French right after World War One - "L'Allemagne paiera" (Germany will pay) - has again been whispered in Paris, this time mostly on the left.</div>
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This struggle for the soul of Europe was encapsulated in an exchange between Merkel and French President Francois Hollande after talks with Italian and Spanish leaders in Rome last week.</div>
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Franco-German tensions are nothing new in the history of European integration. They were intense in the run-up to the creation of Economic and Monetary Union at the 1991 Maastricht summit, shortly after Germany was reunited.</div>
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In Italy and Spain, the refrain is that the debt crisis is a problem for the whole euro area, not just for Rome or Madrid, and that it can only be solved by mutualising Europe's debts rather than imposing ever tougher austerity on debtors.</div>
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Spanish and Italian leaders seem at times to be trying to capture Merkel's attention by threatening economic suicide and warning that they could take the euro down with them.</div>
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With such different narratives, it is hard to see how the deep political commitment to preserve the euro zone, and even a growing awareness of the economic catastrophe that might follow a break-up, can generate decisive action to arrest the crisis.</div>
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A virtual tour of some smaller euro zone countries, whose voices are often heard only when they throw a spanner in the works or need a bailout, illustrates how hard it will be to build a consensus for a more federal system.</div>
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From Amsterdam to Athens, the political builders of monetary union and business leaders still believe in it wholeheartedly, and many lament the fact that construction stopped half way.</div>
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But a significant chunk of the electorate has turned against the euro, making it much harder for governments to endorse any major leap in European integration.</div>
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Mainstream politicians are adjusting as they look nervously over their shoulder at the rise of forces like Geert Wilders' Freedom Party and the hard-left Socialists in the Netherlands, the anti-euro Finns Party in Finland, Italy's maverick Five Star Movement and the far-right Austrian Freedom Party.</div>
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A first attempt to create an anti-euro party is under way in Germany, Europe's biggest economy and the main contributor to euro zone bailouts, but pollsters doubt the Bavaria-based Free Voters will make it into the federal parliament in October 2013.</div>
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Even in historically Europhile Italy - a country that long regarded "more Europe" as a desirable alternative to its own shortcomings in governance - the fast growing protest movement led by comic Beppe Grillo is outspokenly anti-euro.</div>
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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who still heads Italy's main conservative party, has turned more skeptical since being ousted from power last November, saying on his Facebook page last week that "leaving the euro is not a blasphemy".</div>
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A Pew Research Center poll published in May found 40 percent of Italians want to go back to the lira, a notoriously weak currency that had lots of zeros at the end.</div>
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Europe's economic crisis has accelerated a splintering of the political landscape that makes it harder to form a coherent government in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. That could make ratifying any new EU treaty a nightmare.</div>
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We are entering the final phase of the NWO (new world order) where in spiritual terms the Kingdom of Gog and Magog seeks to reign over the world. There is one country in the way of that and that is Israel, especially the settlement enterprise in Yehudah and Shomron. The settlements give proof that G-d keeps his promises, that we have returned and that we are not the same as an ordinary Nation. Yet, if the globalists can destroy our hope and dreams, we can be beaten. To this end them employ the Erev Rav and ultimately they are the ones who we are at war with here in the Land of Israel. Their power grows by the day and their strangle hold over everything seems unwavering. They are the puppeteers behind the Supreme Court and hold sway over the government. More and more of the country is pulled in by them. One time admirable leaders seem to break and join their ranks, yet all is not lost</div>
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The war of Gog and Magog at its essence is not about Iran, Syria, or Russia. The war is really about our inner selves. It is a war for the truth and it is fought on an internal, multi-world battlefield. Those of us who remain awake know that it is with faith and knowledge that we can win. And this is why the Globalists seek to destroy those two weapons. They distract us with their "entertainment" and pseudo intellectualism and with each soul they convince to stay asleep, they grow stronger. </div>
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Rebbe Nachman is the aspect of Yosef. He lies buried in the Galut, in the darkest of lands and yet his light shines bright as he said it would towards the end. Just like the original Yosef was the catalyst for the redemption from Egypt, Rebbe Nachman is for our redemption. Rebbe Nachman fore saw all of this and knew our only way out would be to speak to G-d in a simple and pure faith. </div>
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Yes, it is true it seems that with Givat Ulpana we are entering a very scary phase, but we should be thankful that the Erev Rav has become unmasked once again and this time when they stick out their hands to have us join them we can turn to HaShem for strength, knowing that this is all but a shadow covering our path to redemption. The evil is being unmasked before our eyes, the shadows will dissipate and we will move onward to redemption.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-10199807199242859602012-03-01T08:27:00.001-08:002012-03-01T08:31:54.114-08:00Efraim My First BornYesterday was our son's brit. He is our fourth child and our third boy. We named him Efraim. There were many reasons for this. Aside from Efraim being the name of my step-father in law's father, who came to Israel in 1947 from Morocco, Efraim is also according to the Vilna Gaon, the foundation of Geulah. It is he that brings us home. He inspires us to come back and builds the foundation of the final Malchut.<br />
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</div><div>Yehoshua was from Efraim and after it was Yehoshua that defeated Amalek so many years ago. At the end of days Efraim or better said Malchut Efraim (for Efraim is a movement and a concept more than anything else) will defeat Amalek in order to pave the way for the one true Melech to finish the Malchut that Efraim began.<br />
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</div><div>It seems we rest on the cusp of history, where the final phase of our prophets future tales become present and our dreams become reality. There is a Haman once more and the Malchut Efraim has risen. It has stood up despite its deficiencies from the ashes of the Holocaust of 70 years ago caused by that generation's Amalek. It will stand victorious, a kingdom without a king, with Jerusalem as it capital, the true "City Upon the Hill." Amalek will fall and the king will return. After all the story has been told before. Efraim is the leader, the one who is concerned for his brothers and Dawid is the king who rules upon all of them.</div><div><br />
</div><div>May our son and everyone else witness the complete fulfillment of our sages prophetic visions this year.</div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5703442727882728942.post-19779464245983122432011-12-27T05:30:00.000-08:002011-12-27T05:30:26.666-08:00The Eighth...Tonight is Zot Chanukah. It is the Eighth, the point in time where reality meets the divine. The Maharaal in Tiferet Yisrael likens the Torah to the Eighth. The Torah is divine and it is that with which we refine ourselves and the world around us. In a sense it is this that the Hashmonaim were fighting about. The Yavanim (Greeks) believed in only what they saw and could rationalize. They believed in an intellect unguided by revelation. The Torah is beyond that, it represents the fusion between the divine and the physical. It is our brit with the Creator which forces us to draw the divine light into reality through out actions. We believe in "Moshe K'Bal Torah M'Sinai." K'Bal...Receive.<br />
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Zot Chanukah is the culmination of the increasing kedushah. It is one beyond the completion of 7 and yet that moment of moving beyond the natural order is more than just a digit, it is one that is complete change. Ultimately that is the idea behind Moshiach. He is like us, flesh and blood, but he is beyond. In a sense his anointment with oil is our anointment, for he is "the heart of the Am." One moment we are a nation with a heart of stone and the next moment we are one with a heart of flesh. Redemption is about moving from the seventh to the eight. We are still here, the natural order is unchanged, but inner clarity is complete and beyond.<br />
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The Midrash says points out while Moshe was the seventh, it was David who was the eighth and it is David who will reign at the end. More than complete, a fusion of the divine and physical, a clarity of our covenant, and renewal of our Kingdom.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822162683765760896noreply@blogger.com0