The Vision of the Chazon Ish Regarding Redemption!

Has there ever been so much confusion?  I don't think so.  Just looking at the videos coming up on my You Tube feed is enough to give me a headache.  

Then I listened to this video, and it's auto-dubbed into English for those who can adjust their You Tube settings, otherwise it's in Hebrew.  Here is my rough transcript, please forgive any errors.

"When they hear the footsteps of the Moshiach and his footsteps are over Jerusalem, the Moshiach will wait until they consume one another, and then he will appear.  

It is frightening to hear the words of the Chazon Ish.... how he looked into the future and saw exactly what is happening today.  The Right fights the Left, the Left fights the Right....... the Judicial system fights the government, and the government fights the Judicial system... the Attorney General, who is supposed to be the legal advisor to the government, does everything against the government, and the government fires her and the High Court of Justice decides that it has no power to fire her.... the High Court is entirely against the government, and against the Hareidim as well, and each side claims that what the other is doing is illegal....

When a terrorist kills a Jew, [they say] that shouldn't affect the rights of his wife and children - because what is the connection?  But when a Hareidi person doesn't want to go into the army, his children and wife will not receive day-care, apartments, everything is taken from them - these are things that are clearly illegal.

Each side is consuming one another.

The anniversary of the passing of the Chazon Ish falls on 15 Cheshvan, the elections are expected the next day the 16 Cheshvan, which is the yarzheit of Rabbi Elazar Menachem Man Shach.  Perhaps HKBH will see to it that everything will explode, the election process will hit a snag, it will turn out that each side is cheating each other.... it's not just that China, Iran and Russia are trying to rig the elections, but even from within, all the righteous ones.... people don't really care about democracy - in a democracy everything is permitted: to forge and to lie.... you just mustn't get caught. Already Leiberman is saying that whoever is not useful to the State, should not vote, and he will decide who is useful or not.

We can see the vision of the Chazon Ish regarding the coming of Moshiach

Rabbi Yoav Alon

What Reward Awaits the Righteous Gentile? And Why?

Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

Based on the writings of the Kli Yakar, student of the Maharal of Prague.

Winner!

This is not a photo.

 Alex with his tefillin in the sea, by Michael Zavros - Art Gallery of NSW/MichaelZavros

The Archibald Prize is Australia's most prestigious annual portrait painting award, a AU$100,000 prize, and a major cultural event managed by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 

This year's winner painted by Michael Zavros: Alex Ryvchin wearing tefillin. The work was dedicated to a fallen friend of Alex Ryvchin, who was killed when IS-linked gunmen opened fire on a Chabad Chanukah event. 

Ryvchin, born in Ukraine, previously served as a spokesman for the Zionist Federation UK. He has published four books, and now serves as co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, the country’s equivalent of the Board of Deputies. Zavros remarked that Ryvchin is an “unmistakably and unashamedly Jewish” leader.

For more on this see The Jewish Chronicle

Thank You Boy George

Boy George has released a song entitled "We Will Dance Again" - 

You say genocide, I say war - When you're attacked, that's what the army's for - Does it get ugly? You bet it does - When I know you wanna kill - Every last one of us - Every last one of us 

You never mention October 7 - Murder through Tel Aviv - For the crime of dancing  - You condemn the Jews, with selective memory - Musicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep - Propaganda fueled by the Internet feels so weak..... we will dance again.....

But if you're ever confused.... I stand with the Jews.... I don't feel brave, I just need to behave like a human....

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The Life of the Tzadik

Art Baruch Nachshon

''From there, they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Yotvath..'' [Eikev 10:7]

Rashi: And at Moserah, you made a great mourning for the death of Aaron, which was the cause of this [your retreat], and it seemed to you as though he had died there. Moses juxtaposed this reproof with the breaking of the tablets to indicate that the death of the righteous is as grievous to the Holy One, blessed is He, as the day the tablets were broken...

Why is a tzadik [Aaron] compared to the tablets?

The writing on the tablets represented the ''soul'' of the tablets, and the tablets themselves, their ''body''. The fact that the Ten Commandments were engraved into the tablets, and not merely written onto them, means that the words and the tablets [''soul'' and ''body''] became one single, indivisible entity.

Likewise in the case of a tzadik, it is not merely that his soul interacts with his body, but that the tzadik's physical life is totally at peace with his soul such that ''the life of the tzadik is not a physical life, but a spiritual life''.

Based on Likutei Sichos vol 14 pp 32-34 Lubavitcher Rebbe

Tu b'Av

L'illui nishmat Mordechai ben Menachem a"h

The Jewish mini-holiday of Tu B’Av

The 15th of Av [begins Tuesday night] is undoubtedly a most mysterious day. A search of the Shulchan Aruch [Code of Jewish Law] reveals no observances or customs for this date, except for the instruction that the tachanun [confession of sins] and similar portions should be omitted from the daily prayers [as is the case with all festive dates], and that one should increase one’s study of Torah, since the nights are beginning to grow longer, and “the night was created for study.” And the Talmud tells us that many years ago the “daughters of Jerusalem would go dance in the vineyards” on the 15th of Av, and “whoever did not have a wife would go there” to find himself a bride.

And the Talmud considers this the greatest festival of the year, with Yom Kippur (!) a close second!

Indeed, the 15th of Av cannot but be a mystery. As the “full moon” of the tragic month of Av, it is the festival of the future redemption, and thus a day whose essence, by definition, is unknowable to our unredeemed selves.

Yet the unknowable is also ours to seek and explore.

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We're Living in the Final Moments Before Moshiach

H/t Sherry

Rabbi Zushe Silberstein - 6 min video

Asking Forgiveness From the Deceased

Question: In my past I wronged someone who is unfortunately no longer alive today. Is there any way I can make amends? 

Response: Rabbi David Rosenfeld [Aish]

As a matter of fact, the Talmud [Yoma 87a] discusses your exact situation. The proper way to make amends is to go to his grave accompanied by ten people and to publicly confess that you sinned to the God of Israel and to him and that you did such and such, and you beg his forgiveness. At the end the others respond three times "machul lach" [“it is forgiven to you”]. You should be barefoot during the course of this. 

If it is too far for you to travel, you can send a messenger to do the same, accompanied by ten people. He should state that he is the agent of so and so, and has come for the purpose of apologizing for such and such an act etc. 

If you have no way of knowing where he is buried or it would be very difficult to arrange a visit to his grave, you can gather ten people where you are and do the same procedure. My wishes that you achieve full atonement.

[Sources: Talmud Yoma 87a, Shulchan Aruch 606:2 with Mishna Berurah and Piskei Teshuvot]

Source: Aish

Also see How Can I Make Amends to a Deceased Person