11 Cheshvan: Yarzheit Rochel Imeinu

Jewish Mother's Day The 11th of Cheshvan 

by Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh

One of the most important days in the month of Cheshvan is the 11th, which commemorates the day of passing of our matriarch Rachel. Rachel was Jacob's most beloved wife and was the principal of his household and thus the principal of the entire house of Israel. From the first day of the year, the 1st day of Tishrei, the 11th day of Cheshvan is the 41st day. 41 is the numerical value of the Hebrew word "eim," which means "mother," thus the 11th of Cheshvan is truly the Jewish Mother's Day.

"Rachel cries for her children, she will not be comforted…"

Rachel constantly mourns over the exile of her children, the Jewish people, and the Almighty comforts her with the words: "Withhold your voice from crying and your eyes from tearing, for there is a reward for your actions… and the children will return to their border." Literally, "return to their border" refers to the return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. But, more deeply, it refers to the return of our people to our natural spiritual environs: Judaism and our ancestral Jewish nature. These are the borders that truly circumscribe the uniqueness of our people. Amazingly, numerically, the value of the Hebrew word for "border" (g'vul / גבול) is exactly the same as the value of the word for "mother" (eim / אם); both equal 41.

In Hebrew, Cheshvan is written with the four letters: חשון. The borders (the first and last letters) of Cheshvan are chet - ח and nun - ן, which together spell the word chein - חן, meaning "beauty." The word chein - חן, "beauty" equals 58. The 58th day of the year is the 28th day of Cheshvan.

Rachel is described as the most beautiful woman in the Torah. The numerical value of the two middle letters, shin and vov, שו, is equal to isha -אשה , meaning "woman." Thus, the name of the month itself hints at the special and unique grace endowed to women.

King Solomon says that external beauty by itself is deceitful. If external beauty is all that a woman seeks then the name of the month becomes Marcheshvan, which means Bitter-Cheshvan. It is of such a woman King Solomon says: "And I find the woman to be more bitter than death." But, of true beauty, the beauty of a Jewish woman that emanates from within, he says: "The woman of beauty shall support honor." This true beauty is given to us, the Jewish people, by G‑d through the Torah, for "there is no truth but Torah" and "there is no honor but Torah."

It was Rachel, who was first endowed with this real beauty. Rachel is described as the most beautiful woman in the Torah, "She had a beautiful face and a beautiful figure." Thus, Rachel was the embodiment of the verse: "A woman who fears G‑d, she shall be praised," praised both for her grace and true beauty.

The beauty of the Jewish woman is not just a passive agent of spirituality. The sages teach that the offspring of Esau and his grandson Amalek can be defeated only by the children of Rachel.

Who embodies the spirit of Amalek in our day and age? In Hebrew, the words "Amalek" (עמלק) and "doubt" (safek / ספק) have the same numerical value. Thus, the spirit of Amalek that continues to plague each and every Jew is doubt; doubt in our faith, doubt in our Torah, and doubt in ourselves and the moral justification of our path.

But, sometimes the spirit of Amalek becomes bolder and captures a Jew (whether he be a private individual or a political figure) to the point of driving him or her to unconscious or even conscious self-hatred. This can result in a Jew's cooperation with the enemies of our people.

Finally there are the direct spiritual offspring of Amalek: those enemies who threaten the lives of Jews and our return to the Land of Israel.

The sages say that beauty is a woman's weapon. With everything that we have said about Rachel, her role as our matriarch, as the progenitor of Jewish nature, and of her beauty, it should now be clear that our weapon for defeating Amalek is the special beauty and grace of the Jewish mother. Joseph the tzaddik (righteous one) inherited his mother Rachel's beauty and he too is described as having a beautiful face and a beautiful figure. That is why the prophet says about him that "the house of Jacob will be fire and the house of Joseph its flame and the house of Esau straw, and together they will ignite him and consume him; and there will be no remnant for the house of Esau."

True Jewish beauty and grace destroy the enemy indirectly but, beauty is no regular weapon. True grace and beauty work by attracting the sparks of holiness that are bound within the enemy. These sparks are G‑d's will that the enemy still exist. Yet, when they are redeemed by their attraction to true beauty, they escape the enemy's grasp, leaving him void of any Divine source and causing his demise. True Jewish beauty and grace destroy the enemy indirectly by leaving him void of any beauty or grace himself, making him irrelevant and powerless.

The battle against Amalek in our generation must be conducted primarily with our ability to communicate to all around us the true nature of Jewish beauty and grace. It is to this beauty of Jewish nature and character that we return during the month of Cheshvan by reconnecting with our matriarch Rachel, with our own Jewish nature, and with ourselves.

Also visit: Rachel's Tomb

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Yiddishe Mama

Rachel lost her own spiritual luxury - the privilege of being buried in the Cave of Machpeilah - in order to help her children. This represents the unparalleled quality of the "Jewish mother" who is always willing to sacifice her own needs, spiritual or physical, for the sake of helping her children.

And this is the inner reason why Jewish identity follows the maternal and not the paternal route. For even though the father possesses a greater degree of spirituality - since he has the privilege of observing more mitzvos than a woman - the quality of a Jewish mother is nevertheless greater, that she is willing to forego much of that spirituality in order to enable her to raise a family with tender loving care. And since this quality is even more quintessentially Jewish than the spirituality of the man, it is the mother that actually makes her children Jewish.

Based on Likutei Sichos of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Parshas Vayechi

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Mama Rochel understood that tending to a broken heart comes above even Kavod Hashem....

When Rochel, out of frustration, complained to Yaakov about not having children, Yaakov got angry with her. The mefarshim say, based on a medrash, that Yaakov was punished for getting angry at Rochel and telling her that she needs to daven to Hashem and not complain to him.

Rav Moshe Shmuel Shapiro points out that Yaakov was defending Kavod Shamayim (the honor of Heaven) and was correct that Rochel's complaints were unjustified. His mistake was that he addressed the words that she spoke and not the pain in her heart. Had he pierced the veil of her soul, he would have known that because of her anguish, the words escaped her mouth and she was not accountable for them. He should have been slower to defend Kavod Shamayim and faster to understand human suffering.

This he explains was the greatness of Rochel. After the destruction of the first Temple, when Bnei Yisroel went into Galus, all the Avos and Imahos came before Hashem with all their great zechusim but were turned away empty handed. All the heroism of the Akeida, Yaakov's Torah, and lives of pure mesiras nefesh to build Klal Yisroel, did not impress Hashem in that dark moment of history.

The only one who merited Hashem's attention was Rochel Imeinu. What was her great act that warranted this special treatment? That she gave the simanim to her sister and helped fool Yaakov. With this bravery, in her mind, she was sabotaging the history of the Jewish nation since she understood that it was her and Yaakov that were destined to build the nation. Nevertheless she chose to cast aside her own destiny and Hashem's grand plan in order to save her sister from a single embarrassing moment.

Only Rochel, who had such a deep understanding of another person's pain and how it carries more weight than the entire Jewish experience, can be Hashem's emissary to bring his children's pain before Him. Only tears from Mama Rochel can bring the Geula.

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Hundreds of Thousands Protest Yeshiva Drafts

The Belzer Rebbe on a balcony as the shofar is blown at the massive Atzeres Tefillah in Yerushalayim.

The Sun Over Galveston, Texas

 

Actual photo, not AI

The Torah’s View on Israel’s Moral Battle Over Gaza | The Lubavitcher Rebbe

 8 min video

The video presents three short points from the Rebbe on core issues of the deal:

 •⁠ ⁠Israel’s withdrawal and the future of Gaza

 •⁠ ⁠The role of international forces 

 •⁠ ⁠Israel’s commitment to a broken agreement

"Every single thing that's happening here, mirrors past events..."

Russia: Meteor Turns Night into Day

 

What Happens to Unanswered Prayers?

After reading Myrtle Rising's latest post about the Unseen Power of Prayers, I remembered this old blog post.

by Rabbi Eli Mansour

The Torah tells in the opening verses of Parashat Vaethanan that Moshe pleaded with God to allow him to cross the Jordan River with B'nei Yisrael and enter the Land of Israel. However, despite Moshe's impassioned pleas, God denied him permission to enter the land, and commanded him not to continue praying for this matter.

The Sages tell us that Moshe uttered no fewer than 515 prayers in requesting permission to enter the Land of Israel. This number is alluded to in the Parasha's opening word -  ואתחנן  ("I pleaded") - which has the numerical value of 515 (6+1+400+8+50+50=515).

The obvious question arises, if God knew that He would not grant Moshe's request, and that He would ultimately instruct Moshe to discontinue his prayers, why did He wait for Moshe to complete 515 prayers? Why did He not interrupt Moshe immediately as he began praying, and thus spare him the time and effort he invested in reciting the additional 514 prayers?

The Rabbis teach us that there is no such thing as a wasted or unanswered prayer. If a person prays for something and his request is not granted, he must not conclude that his prayer was recited in vain. God stores all our prayers in a "prayer bank" of sorts from where they are "withdrawn" at some later point, perhaps for somebody else, and perhaps only generations later. If a person prays for an ill patient Avraham Ben Sara, and the patient unfortunately does not survive his illness, those prayers will perhaps be effective in bringing a cure to another Avraham Ben Sara somewhere else in the world.

During the years of the Communist movement, the children of many righteous Jews and Torah scholars abandoned Judaism and joined the atheistic Communists. Their parents recited untold numbers of prayers and shed rivers of tears asking that their children should return to their heritage and traditions. Their prayers were not immediately answered, but many children and grandchildren of these Jewish Communists have returned to Jewish observance. The grandparents' prayers were not recited in vain; they were not meaningless. They were stored and preserved in the heavenly "prayer bank" and ultimately succeeded in bringing scores of Jews back to Torah and Mitzvot.

For this reason, perhaps, God did not interrupt Moshe's prayers despite the fact that the decree was irreversible. He anticipated that in future generations, Benei Yisrael would face crisis and hardship and would lack sufficient merit to earn salvation. Moshe's 515 prayers were necessary to save the Jewish people when they would otherwise be unworthy of being saved. Who knows if our existence today is owed to the merit of Moshe's 515 prayers!

Never should a person despair from praying. Even if one's requests are not immediately granted, they will nevertheless have a meaningful impact and effect on somebody at some point in time. Every heartfelt prayer and every chapter of Tehillim is significant and beneficial - regardless of whether we can immediately discern its impact.

Impossible

 

We are living in a time of great confusion. And that's an under-statement.

At this point, I could probably believe anything about anybody, but there is something that, for me, is impossible to believe.   

That thing is: that Bibi is from the Erev Rav.

I'm not buying that at all.

It is IMPOSSIBLE-  because if he was indeed Erev Rav - which you can read about here Mystical Roots of Evil - then the Lubavitcher Rebbe would not have been as connected to him as he was.  

That would be impossible, because the Rebbe knew who everyone was, he could see into your soul, he knew what you were thinking, he answered your questions before you even had a chance to voice them, he underlined particular words in his responses which specified the actual issue at hand and which only the receiver of that letter would understand why it had been emphasized.  Anyone who ever had anything to do with the Rebbe knows all of this.

Therefore, Bibi cannot possibly be from the Erev Rav.

I really needed to say that.

The Master Plan

The person who up-loaded this video says it all in the caption. 

 

Qatar are not peace-makers, ok?  

Australian journalist Erin Moran.

"Bibi-Sitting"

 

Looking Up

Two very recent images of the passing planets.  Surely everyone can see these.  The planets are surrounded by their own atmospheres/clouds and all of them are unique and easily identifiable once you know. 

Docklands, Vic. Australia 20 October 2025

Northglen Colorado 21 October 2025
This is the planet "Isatum" which is currently being seen on the right of our Sun.

I am unable to embed these but here are some videos of the passing planets:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/752433734497610

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2058562434882822

The Post-Flood Era

Source: Based on Sefer Hasichos 5751, Likutei Sichos vol. 15 - Lubavitcher Rebbe

Chassidic thought teaches that before the Flood, G-d sustained the world despite its low spiritual standing, due to His attribute of kindness.  There was a limit, however, to how long G-d was willing to sustain a world without merit - hence the Flood.

The waters of the flood were not merely a punishment.  They purified the world, making physicality in general more refined, and spiritually attuned. [see The Great Flood]

Consequently, in the post flood era, people were more predisposed to repentance.  This ensured that G-d would always sustain the world - not despite of, but - because of its spiritual standing.  For, even if man would become corrupt, people would inevitably repent, ensuring that the world itself would have sufficient merits for its continued existence.

With this in mind, we can explain the following details:

• Noach was unaware of the above, so he was scared to repopulate the world, fearing it would be destroyed again.  Therefore, G-d had to re-command him to ''be fruitful and multiply''. [Noach 9:1]
• The inner reason why Noach's generation failed to repent was because, before the Flood, the world was spiritually insensitive.
• Meat is an extremely coarse food that can lead a person to excessive physicality.  Thus, it was only permitted to the spiritually-attuned post-Flood generation. [Noach 9:3]
• Before the Flood, people had extremely long lifespans because the world was sustained by G-d's kindness which was bestowed disproportionately to people's merits.
• Before the Flood, physicality was more coarse.  This was true in a literal sense, to the extent that the clouds were too thick to refract light, so a rainbow never appeared.  After the Flood, physicality become more refined, so the clouds began to refract light.  Thus, the rainbow was not only a ''sign of G-d's promise not to destroy the world, it was also a physical consequence of the refinement of the world that ensured its permanent existence.

These "end of days' times we sometimes see a different kind of rainbow - the dark rainbow: this image is from New Mexico, September 2025.  

The Yanuka Speaking to Former Hostage

H/t Rivka

I watched this with the sub-titles.  The Yanuka speaks to former hostage Segev, and Segev's father tells him how the Yanuka foresaw his return.  

Yanuka: "I see Miracles.... you were the closest one to HKBH in this generation. Hashem brought the hostages back on purpose on Simchat Torah so the people would not be afraid of that date."

He also mentions the extra two years served by Yosef.

The Gaza "Peace Deal"

 

by Avi Abelow 

Trump’s Gaza “Peace Deal” Is Already Costing Israeli Blood — and It Proves He Still Doesn’t Understand Who the Real Enemy Is 

The moment the White House Gaza deal was sold as a “historic peace breakthrough,” I feared the worst, not because I oppose diplomacy, but because I know how our enemies exploit Western weakness. Now, just days into Trump’s Gaza “deal,” those fears are being confirmed. The plan, championed by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, is already costing Israeli lives and empowering the same terror states that financed October 7th. 

Let’s be honest: Witkoff and Kushner are more terrified of the deal collapsing than they are committed to allowing Israel to finish the job of destroying Hamas and protect Israelis. Instead of backing Israel’s moral right to eliminate the jihadist cancer in Gaza, they are warning Jerusalem to hold back. According to reports, Witkoff and Kushner personally spoke with Minister Dermer today, urging Israel to “respond in a calculated manner” to avoid actions that could “collapse” the continuation of Trump’s plan. In other words: keep quiet while terrorists reload and continue trying to kill us. 

And the price of that diplomatic paralysis was paid in blood today. 

Tragedy in Rafah: At approximately 10:30 this morning, Hamas terrorists emerged from a tunnel and fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli engineering vehicle, killing two soldiers. Another soldier was severely wounded. Minutes later, more terrorists fired sniper rounds at additional engineering units. This is not “peace.” This is a pause, a deadly, one-sided ceasefire that leaves our troops sitting ducks while Hamas still roams Gaza’s ruins. 

But perhaps the most revealing moment of all came from a recent 60 Minutes interview with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Steve Witkoff said he felt “betrayed” when he learned that Israel had struck Hamas leaders in Qatar. Betrayed? By Israel trying to eliminate the masterminds of the October 7th massacre hiding comfortably in Doha, Qatar? That reaction alone exposes the moral confusion at the heart of Trump’s Gaza plan. And it got worse. Jared Kushner said that Trump felt “the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control with their actions and it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interest.” 

Let that sink in. After the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, funded by Qatar and Iran, President Trump, the man who is Israel’s greatest ally, was saying that Israel was the one that needed to be stopped. 

This shows the fundamental flaw in Trump’s understanding of the Middle East and of Qatar’s role as the financial and ideological engine behind Hamas and the global Muslim Brotherhood movement. 

Trump could have used his immense leverage a year ago to pressure Qatar and Turkey to force Hamas to release our hostages. Yet, he didn’t use that leverage until now. We could have saved so many Israeli lives, hostages and IDF soldiers had he used this leverage sooner. Instead, Trump is now stopping Israel from doing what must be done, defeating the Qatari supported Jihadi enemy in Gaza, and protecting Israel through strength, not through appeasing the jihadi Qataris. 

Qatar is not a partner. Qatar is the problem. It shelters Hamas leaders, funds global jihad, and manipulates the West through Al Jazeera and business deals. Yet Trump still treats Qatar like a trusted ally, even a business partner, rather than the dangerous enemy it is. 

And now, Trump’s plan has created the next disaster: an international force, composed of Muslim Brotherhood-linked countries like Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt, set to take control of Gaza. 

This isn’t peacekeeping. It’s outsourcing terror management to the same powers that nurtured Hamas. Even worse, France and Britain are pushing a UN Security Council resolution to formalize this “international Gaza force” (ISF). Once that resolution passes, it will be virtually impossible to undo, trapping Israel under an internationally controlled Gaza, while jihadists regroup beneath it. 

Have we learned nothing from UNIFIL in Lebanon? That “peacekeeping force” has been a total failure for decades, allowing Hezbollah to rearm, entrench, and threaten Israel with 150,000 rockets. Finally, UNIFIL is being disbanded. And now Netanyahu is being pressured to accept an even worse version in Gaza? An Arab-Muslim internationally approved “peacekeeping” force commanded under CENTCOM, with Qatar and Turkey embedded inside it? That’s not peace; that’s surrender wrapped in diplomacy. 

Let’s be clear: no ceasefire, no foreign force, and no international supervision can stop jihad. Only Israel can. The only resolution that ensures Gaza will never again be a launchpad for massacre is 100% Israeli control, complete demilitarization, permanent oversight, and removal of all terror supporting Gazazan via Trump's emigration plan. Anything less means another October 7th in the future, just under a new name. 

And the elephant in the room remains Qatar. The refusal by Trump, and the entire international community, to confront Qatar as the primary sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood is the single greatest obstacle to lasting peace. Until Doha is treated as the enemy it is, every “peace deal” will simply buy time for the next war.

I say this as someone who respects what Trump did for Israel, in this war, in recognizing Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Abraham Accords etc. but this time, he’s wrong. Dead wrong. 

Trump's instincts to support Israel are being clouded by the same old State Department thinking that sees terrorists as negotiators and sees Israel’s self-defense as aggression. True friends tell hard truths: Qatar is not your friend, and appeasing it will only guarantee more bloodshed. 

Israel must refuse to be boxed in by this plan. We must tell our American allies, clearly and unapologetically: only Israel will decide what is necessary for its survival. We will not outsource our security to the UN, to Muslim Brotherhood states, like Qatar, Turkey and Egypt, or to global diplomacy that has repeatedly failed to protect us. 

Peace will come, but not through “pauses” that empower killers or through international forces that serve jihadist agendas. Peace will come only through Israel's total victory, strength, clarity and Trump's emigration plan for all jihadi Muslims. 

Trump’s Gaza deal may have bought quiet for the cameras, but it’s already costing us lives. It’s time to end this illusion of “peace” before we lose more lives. 

We are winning this war, and we will win this war, even if we have to suffer the consequences of this bad deal. The most important process taking place is the wake up process of the Jewish people. We will overcome. 

Am Yisrael Chai.

Purification Requires Agitation and Confusion

Rebbe Nachman explains how a person is purified.  So too, the world, which is being purified, also requires agitation and confusion.

from the writings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, translated by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan


When one begins to attach to a great tzadik and truly serve G-d, he is often filled with great confusion and evil thoughts.

The evil was always there, but only now it is surfacing.

A pot of water may seem perfectly clear. But when it is placed on a fire and begins to boil, all its impurities are brought to the surface. One must stand by and constantly remove these impurities.

The original purity is merely an illusion. With a little heat the impurity surfaces. But when these impurities are removed, the water is truly pure and clear.

The same is true of a person. Before he begins serving G-d, good and evil are completely mixed together within him. The impurities are so closely united with the good that they cannot be recognized.

But then this person comes close to a true Tzadik and begins to burn with great feeling toward G-d. He is touched with the heat of purification, and all the evil and impurities come to the surface. Here again one must stand by and constantly remove the dirt and impurities as they appear. In the end the person is truly pure and clear.

Purification requires this period of agitation and confusion.

In the beginning a person is totally immersed in the material. He then begins to come close to G-d.

It would seem possible to remove this dirt and impurity at once. But his mind is completely intermingled with this mire. Were it to be removed immediately, his mind would be drawn out with it.

Therefore, one must be purified little by little, in gradual stages.

The Prophetic Fulfillment of Trump and Netanyahu....

 ....mentioning "Avraham" on Hoshana Rabba

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein - short video

Angelic Healing

Image: Dusteramaranth

Source: "Anatomy of the Soul" - Chaim Kramer

from the teachings of Rebbe Nachman

Every aspect of creation is governed by an angel. Even trees and plants (especially those with healing properties) have angels supervising their growth. As the Sages said [Bereishit Rabbah 10:6] "There is nothing below, not even a common herb, which does not have an angel on high that strikes it and tells it to grow". Each of these angels receives its life force from the particular Utterance which is the source of its creation. It then transmits a measured amount of this life force to its particular charge.

This power of the angels to receive and transmit life force is referred to as the power of the "hands". (The Hebrew word for power is ko'ach, numerically equal to 28, the number of bones contained in the fingers of both hands). With its "right hand" an angel receives life force. With its "left hand", it dispenses the exact amount needed to its charge below. This is the meaning of the Sages' statement: "he strikes it and tells it to grow". "Striking" is done with the angel's left hand (for the left side represents Gevurah, judgment).

The Torah tells us [Proverbs 4:20-22] "My son attend to my words, incline your ear to my utterances.... For they are life to those who find them and healing to all their flesh." We learn from this that all healing flows from G-d, through His Torah. The Torah is the source of the [healing] power of the angels, who in turn transmit it to all the various herbs in their charge. This power is manifest when one accepts the Torah and has faith in the Sages who reveal it, for the Torah was given over to the Sages, and one who deviates from their teachings is called "he who causes a breach in the wall [of faith].

This is the meaning of the injunction [Deut 17:11] "Do not deviate, neither to the right nor to the left, from what they teach you". If you deviate to the right (tending towards unnecessary zealousness), your angel's "right hand" (ability to receive from its corresponding archangel and Utterance) will be hindered. If you deviate to the left (by transgressing the Torah), the angel's "left hand" (ability to transmit) will be hindered.

Of course, the removal of your angel's hands means that you cannot receive your healing, for without an angel to bestow the life force upon it, the herb upon which your healing depends loses its power to heal. Thus, the degree to which a person is attached to Torah determines the degree to which he is able to be healed.

The Messianic Secret of the Israeli Hostage Crisis

Rabbi Mendel Kessin - 20 min video

Gog, Cyrus, Marcus Aurelius.... take your pick

Large signs bearing the image of US President Donald Trump now dominate the billboards of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, as Israel braces for 24 to 48 hours of powerful emotion—the long-awaited return of most of the 48 hostages still held in Gaza, and the arrival of the man many Israelis credit for making it happen. Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion Museum, launched a nationwide billboard campaign this week declaring, “Cyrus the Great is alive.”

The Role of Hostage Release in the Coming of Moshiach

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein - 5 min video

Sukkos - Hostages Free, Trump Peace Plan, Moshiach, Gog and Magog

Laivi Shor

Baruch Hashem, the hostages will finally be free. Will Trump's Peace Plan lead to America taking over Israel? How close are we to Moshiach? Who will be the first King known as Gog from MaGog?

 

The Significance of the Hostage Deal on the Second Day of Sukkot

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein - 2 mins

 

This 2000 year old text describes the state of the world right before Mashiach’s arrival

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff

What we have in store for 5786 according to the Vilna Gaon

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff 

With 5845 versus in the Torah the Vilna Gaon finds the corresponding verse to the upcoming year. This is his prediction.

Nova Corona Borealis, A Star Shoots Out From Yaakov, Will We See Moshiach Soon?

H/t CS

Laivi Shor

Astronomers are eagerly awaiting a Nova star in the Corona Borealis constellation. Is this the star prophesied in the Torah of "a Star will Shoot Out of Yaakov" announcing the coming of Moshiach?

Updated warning: at the 22 min mark until 22:20 there are images being shown of inside the vatican, see comments below for more details.  It is advisable not to look at these images. 

The Sun is Wowing People Everywhere

These photos were taken hours ago in Hanson, Massachusetts by K. Evans.  It's not AI.  This is our sun. It's being affected by  the continually passing binary solar system.  All the colours and the halos... that's where they're coming from.

Similar photos were taken from various other places in the US, but these were the best.  

Lekach: Segula for Parnossa

Lekach is a sweet cake, traditionally made with honey.  It is customary to ask for and receive "lekach" from someone [usually one's mentor or parent] on the day before Yom Kippur.   One of the reasons given for this custom is that if it had been decreed, G‑d forbid, that during the year we should need to resort to a handout from others, the decree should be satisfied with this asking for food.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe used to hand out Lekach each year on erev Yom Kippur, or for those who did not receive it then, on Hoshannah Rabbah.

To read more about the reasons for this custom, click here.

Also see The Healing Powers of Apples and Honey

"We're At The Edge"

Rabbi Tovia Singer - 60 second video

Has the war of Gog u Magog begun?

The Once-a-Year Jew

 

Questions about Mashiach's Arrival

I mentioned this in the comments somewhere, but it really deserves it's own blog post.

Myrtle Rising: UPDATE: The Baba Sali Apparently Saw the Face of Mashiach, But Not the Revelation of Mashiach

In the middle of that blog post you will find a link to Bilvavi:  Questions About Mashiach's Arrival.

The Master Manipulator

When he says he won't allow Israel to annex the West Bank.  Is he Gog or is he just saying things to confuse his opponents? 

Many Evils

Art Paul Bond

It is written, “When many evils and distresses have befallen them” [Vayelech 31:21]

The Maggid of Dubno states that towards evening, as the peddler of goods stands in the marketplace with his baskets in hand, and most of his products are already sold, he wants to return home quickly. He therefore takes his remaining pears, prunes, and other products, and mixes them together in one basket and sells them at half price, for he wants to get rid of them as quickly as possible. 

Hence the Torah states, “When many evils and distresses have befallen them” – when you see a combination of various ills descending upon Israel, it signifies that all the “products” are almost gone, and that we have reached the remainder, the “footsteps of Mashiach,” meaning that he will soon arrive.

Source: Rabbi David Hanania Pinto Shlita

Statement About the U.N.'s Declaration of the Palestinian State

 Rabbi Mendel Kessin - 3 min video

We're In a World of Despair, But It's Going to End Well !

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff - 5 min video

"Everyone will be talking about the end of the world.... whether it's a nuclear war, meteors, aliens.... "

When Gaza Falls, Moshiach Will Come

HaRav Shalom Barel

This is from 2024, but it's taken this long to get this far.

English sub-titles.  I don't have time to type them up, but you can have a look at this older post for an english version by a different rabbi.

Seven Interstellar Objects

Currently tracking SEVEN objects.

Multiple comets are currently flying through the Inner Solar System in addition to interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. Because we're currently in a Solar Maximum period, will all these comets trigger increased solar activity this fall? Are they omens for significant world events about to unfold? And what's the latest with 3I/ATLAS? Geophysicist Stefan Burns reports...

Emunah: A Lightness of Being

 

from the writings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

"Eicha Esa Livadi Tarchachem U'Masachem V'Rivchem" - "How can I carry you alone, your bother, your load, and your quarrels" [Devarim 1:12]

Rashi says that Tarchachem means that they were nudnicks, and Masachem means they were apikursim [heretics] - Tarchachem clearly means tircha [bothersome], but how does masachem or heavy load come to apikursis?

Rebbe Nachman of Breslov answers that while intellectuals may consider people with emunah [faith] simple and naive, in a sense they are right.  With emunah  life becomes easier, as not everything must be explained and rationalized.  Emunah is a great tool to lift the weight from you.

 

However, an Apikores is constantly plagued by doubt and questions that nag him endlessly, leaving him no peace.  This constant state of turmoil eats at him and becomes a huge burden on his own shoulders.  This explains why Rashi says that masachem means apikursis, as there is no greater burden around. 

Debunking Yet Another Conspiracy Theory

I've seen this latest conspiracy claim so many times now.  Someone took the letter from Chief Rabbi David Yosef which he wrote to the family of Charlie Kirk, and changed the date.  Not only the English date, but the Hebrew date as well.   They are using this as "evidence" that Israel had advance knowledge of this event.   People are actually believing this. 

Here's the original letter which you can also view at VIN News - notice the dates 19 Elul / September 12

and here's the one that's doing the rounds on all the anti-semitic posts.  It was apparently originally posted by Eyal Yakoby but he deleted it when he realized the error and his account now comes up as suspended. 

This screen shot below is from a different X account, the one who's stirred up all the trouble.  I won't name him because he's just another pot stirrer who doesn't need any more publicity.

United by the Divine

Photo: Ontario 7 Nov 2024 Gianluca Marvosi

You are all standing this day before the Lord, your God ... [Nitzavim 29:9]

Jews must stand firm and unshakable, though they are ''the smallest among all the nations''.

This can be only when they are bound and united together - ''All of you''.

How is it possible to form a true and enduring union of different individuals with different ideas, different interests, and different aspirations?

The answer is:  ''Before the Lord, your God''.  The union of all Jews is possible because, as a matter of fact, they are already united by virtue of their souls, the Divine soul, which is actually a part of God above, and which is found in every Jew without exception.  

The profound reflection that one stands '''before the Lord'' who is ''Your God'' - your strength and your life - must bring forth and actualize the union of one Jew with another, and of the individual with the community of our people, in the fullest measure.

Excerpt from public letter by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Erev Shabbos Parshas Nitzavim 5721

24 Elul - Yarzheit Chofetz Chaim

 

1838-1933 [5598-5693]

Rabbi Israel Meir HaCohen Kagan is commonly known as the "Chafetz Chaim," the name of his famous work on guarding one's tongue.

Born in Zhetel, Poland on February 6, 1838 [11 Shvat 5598], he was taught until age 10 by his parents and then moved to Vilna to further his Jewish studies. Refusing the pulpit rabbinate, the Chafetz Chaim settled in Radin Poland and subsisted on a small grocery store which his wife managed and he did the "bookkeeping"-watching every penny to make sure that no one was cheated. He spent his days learning Torah and disseminating his knowledge to the common people.

As his reputation grew, students from all over Europe flocked to him and by 1869 his house became known as the Radin Yeshiva. In addition to his Yeshiva, the Chafetz Chaim was very active in Jewish causes. He traveled extensively (even in his 90's) to encourage the observance of Mitzvos amongst Jews. One of the founders of Agudas Yisrael, the religious Jewish organization of Europe and later the world, the Chafetz Chaim was very involved in Jewish affairs and helped many yeshivos survive the financial problems of the interwar period.

Exemplifying the verses in Psalms 34:13-14, "Who is the man who desires life...? Guard your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit," the Chafetz Chaim passed away in 1933 at the ripe age of 95.

The Chafetz Chaim's greatest legacy is the 21 sefarim [holy books] which he published. His first work, Sefer Chafetz Chaim [1873], is the first attempt to organize and clarify the laws regarding evil talk and gossip. He later wrote other works, including Shmirat HaLashon, which emphasized the importance of guarding one's tongue by quoting our Sages. The Mishnah Brurah [1894-1907], his commentary on the Daily Laws of a Jew [his first series in the Shulchan Aruch], is found in many Jewish homes and is accepted universally to decide Halacha.

Firmly believing that he was living right before the time of Moshiach and the rebuilding of the Holy Temple, the Chafetz Chaim wrote a work that stressed the learning of laws concerning sacrifices, the Holy Temple, and related topics. He also published seforim to strengthen certain aspects of Jewish life including kashrus, family purity, and Torah study.

More on the Chafetz Chaim click here

The Flying Cube

Here is a very recent photo of the cube, which I showed you previously here

Can you see it?

If you can't see it in the top photo, here is an image to help you identify it.

A 2,000-Year-Old Secret About the Sun: Now Proven by Science

Rabbi Zamir Cohen  - two minute video

Over 2,000 years ago, the Midrash stated a mysterious idea: “The sun has a sheath.” 

Modern scientists dismissed it—until now.

Where is the Shechina Now ?

"Yeisei V'Lo Achminei" - let Moshiach come but do not let me be alive to see him [Sanhedrin 98b].

Rebbi Yochanan said that he'd give up the privilege of greeting Moshiach in order to avoid living through the terrible days of the Ikvisa D'Mishicha. With the Geula so close at hand why will they be worse than the rest of the Galus?

Rav Yehonoson Eibshitz says that since the Shechina is with us in the Galus we are protected. However at the end of the Galus when it is time for us to return to Eretz Yisroel, the Shechina will need to leave the galus and come to Eretz Yisroel to prepare and facilitate our return. During those waning days of the Galus, we will be left on our own without protection and endless tragedies will befall us. Only then will we realize how fortunate we were to have the Shechina with us.

How does Rav Yehonoson Eibshitz know that the Shechina will return to Eretz Yisroel before us?

The pasuk [Nitzavim 30:3] says, וְשָׁב וְקִבֶּצְךָ מִכָּל הָעַמִּים.  Chazal tell us that the word וְשָׁב, which means ''He will return'', proves that Hashem is with us in the Galus, or else it should say "V'Heishiv"- ''He will return us''. 

Rav Yehonoson Eibshitz says that we see from here that first וְשָׁב, Hashem will return to Eretz Yisroel.   Only after the groundwork is laid, וְקִבֶּצְךָ מִכָּל הָעַמִּים, will He bring us back from among the nations.

Source: Revach L'Neshama

The Baal Haturim, The Bombing In Qatar, & Charlie Kirk

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

Apparently... the reason why the Hamas leaders escaped Israel's assassination attempt is because they went to morning prayers.   

And Charlie Kirk turned his phone off every Friday night, in honour of the Jewish sabbath. 

Those pieces of information came from Rabbi Glatstein in the video below.  I had never heard of Charlie Kirk until he was dead !  Now.... everyone is talking about nothing else.

If you're looking for Rav Chaya's video, I removed it because he took it off You Tube.  

Hastening the Geula

 

Art Mike Worrall

The Gemara teaches us that three things come בהיסח הדעת - unexpectedly, while we're distracted.

“Three things come unexpectedly : Moshiach, a lost object and a scorpion.” – [Sanhedrin 97a]

 "When the time comes, it will speed up, very quickly."

In it's time, I will hasten it.  [Isaiah 60:22]

A New Phase

In the final comments here, you can see that Dov bar Leib feels that we have entered a new phase in the march towards Geula.  Major contractions, if you like.

But there is no doubt that major things are happening, concurrently with the UN 80th General Assembly in N.Y. which culminates on 23 September which is Rosh HaShanah.

The heavens are full of passing planetary bodies and vivid colours and crazy weather.  

Everything is ready to go.   

So the question remains: are we going to see Moshiach in a year that ends with a 5 as foreseen by a disciple of the Chofetz Chaim?   

Let's see how the next week plays out.  

How to Recognise the Passing Planets

 

This may help some of you see the passing planets, sometimes they are incredibly obvious and other times much more subtle.  They are facing their sun, and we are seeing their dark sides.  You obviously don't need a telescope to see them.

And here is an example of how these clouds appear out of nowhere and block out our sky.

They're spinning around and come into view suddenly - one minute you've got blue sky and the next.... it's mostly obscured by alien clouds.  Then they disappear because they are continually moving.

Here is a mock up of the Nibiru system, put together by one of the team.  Please note that it is not to scale - earth is much smaller than these planets.

Image by R. Adam Lurie