Yitzchak and Yaakov reveal the final battle before Mashiach

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff

Both Yitzchak and his son Yaakov revealed what nations would come and attempt to block the final redemption before Mashiach’s arrival.

Let's Do This

This segula is attributed to Rav Palagi, via Rav Shalom Arush

"Whoever merits to not complain or speak negatively at all from Rosh Chodesh Kislev until the 8th day of Chanukah, will see a miracle that year."

Not a Penny in the Pocket

H/t Rivky

Alternatively, the Messiah will not come until the peruta will cease from the purse....

Sanhedrin 97a.10

A peruta is a small coin, a penny.

The U.S. Mint presses it's final penny as the 1-cent coin gets cancelled.

Yaakov and Esav, the eternal fight of Good and Evil

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff

The Battle Ground Before the End of Days

The first six minutes of this is basically an introduction, if you're in a hurry.

Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

It's us against the nations of the world, us against Eisav.  Now Eisav was a wicked guy but there was one merit that Eisav had that was so powerful that we're still dealing with it until this very day. That mitzvah is kibud av v'eim - honouring your father and mother.

When Yishmael Will Fall

The end of last week's Parsha finishes with the words, "Al Pnei Kol Echov Nafal" - "Over all his brothers he [Yishmael] shall fall". 

This week's Parsha starts with the words, " ViEileh Toldos Yitzchak" - "And these are the offspring of Yitzchak". 

Baal HaTurim explains the connection. "Al Pnei Kol Echov Nafal" - when Yishmael - [the Arabs] will fall, then, "ViAyleh Toldos Yitzchak" - Mashiach Ben David will come from the descendants of Yitzchak. 

The fall of Yishmael is a prerequisite for the coming of the Mashiach.

Source: Revach

Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall

It's like watching a car crash in slow motion.  I mean, seriously, you couldn't make this stuff up and have people believe it.... but it's all reality now.  The lunatics really are running the asylum.

Remember Robert de Niro... he had a whole lot to say at the time, and here's a little reminder. 

"Hell No, I'm Not Afraid!" - Netanyahu Exclusive Interview

Erin Molan speaks to Netanyahu "Hell No, I’m Not Afraid” — Reacts to Mamdani, Trump’s Pardon & Ending U.S. Aid 

The Mistakes of Trump and their Messianic Consequences

Rabbi Mendel Kessin, new shiur

Heavens Above !

I see a lot of sky photos daily, but I thought these worth sharing here.

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Photo: Amanda Grant-Mock

Original can be seen here on FB

I guess you think this is AI.  You'd be wrong.  Everything in the photo is identifiable.
The clouds top right belong to a planet, the clouds top left belong to a different planet, and the round swirly cloud is formed by a passing asteroid.

 

This photo of the sunset was taken on November 7 by MiKaSa.

Not only is the sun totally distorted by something, but you can clearly see two eyes, one on either side. The one on the left is more distinct.  It is not AI, it is a real photo, and you're welcome to check it on any AI image detector.

The distortion of the sun is happening because there are planets all around pinching the sun and distorting it.  

And finally, this was the moon over Portugal, November 4, 2025

Yishmael Repents before Mashiach Arrives

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff - 20 min video

When will Jacob's star arrive? The War of Ishmael and Edom in the End Times.

4 min video in Hebrew, English sub-titles. 

Rabbi Yuval Ovadia

I have typed up a semi-transcription but I suggest you listen to it yourself for the exact words.

Just a note here [from me].... obviously the comet that we saw on 25 Elul over a year ago was not THE STAR, unless it does a boomerang and comes back.  But at the moment we have many comets approaching earth and an unknown entity they call 3I-ATLAS.  

The holy Zohar says, in Parshat Vayeira, Rabbi Chaya said.... the bnei Yishmael will rule the Holy Land when it is empty of all things for a long time. Just as their bris is without perfection, they will follow the bnei Yisrael to their place until the right of the bnei Yishmael is finished.  

We see this with our own eyes.  For 100 years, if not 150 years, they have been delaying the return of the bnei Yisrael to their place. But it is not written that they will completely eliminate us and therefore the Jewish kibbutz in the Land is  increasing and increasing and this is proof that this is a move of G-d. The whole point of the kibbutz of the exiles here in Israel is a move of G-d.  

It is written "the children of Jacob, the children of Yisrael - meaning all those who come to the Land are children of Israel.  We are in the category of the children of Israel who are equal to their place.  That is why Ishmael came into the world.  

Why was his name called Ishmael? In the last days, the people of Israel will cry out to G-d because of the many troubles He will cause them.They will do teshuva and G-d will hear and answer them.  What about all the Jews who live in the rest of the world?  It will be that Ishmael will cause problems for those Jews as well, to every Jew wherever he is.  Ishmael is the staff in the hand of HKBH.  We can strengthen ourselves with gatherings, with tzniut [modesty], humility.  If there will be no deviation from the Divine, there will be no permission for the harmful to harm. And if we unite and love each other and multiply in kindness and tzedaka, it can be completely cancelled or at least sweetened.

The Holy Zohar says in Parshat Vayeira: the children of Ishmael will incite strong battles in the world and the children of Edom will gather against them and there will be battles, one on the land, one on the sea and one near Yerushalayim.  At that time, a people will be aroused, from the end of the earth, against the Romans of iniquity, and they will wage war for three months, and nations will gather there and fall by their hands.

Soon, my friends, a world war will be waged until all the children of Edom will gather against it - that same people from the end of the world.  Then HKBH will awaken upon then. This is by way of natural disasters. When you will be in a world war, you will understand that the sign of it is about to arrive.,,,

THE STAR. 

Later it is written that He will take hold of the corners of the earth and wash the bnei Yishmael from it just as one washes away the dirt from the carpet. 

Everything is happening. Everything is in progress. The great and terrible day of the Lord is closer than anything else, and our eyes will see it and our hearts will rejoice in the chariot and in the approaching day.

Amen v' amen.

Will Moshiach come in 2026? Practical Survival Guidebook - Part 2

Part 1 can be found here

Laivi Shor

Are the Days of Moshiach going to begin in 2026? We learn the Midrash Ne'alam in the Zohar that teaches about when the Ingathering of the Exiled Jewish people, the Days of Moshiach, and the Resurrection of the Dead will begin.

The Final Exile of Yishmael

from the writings of Rav Chaim Vital 

Rabbi Chaim Vital (1542-1620) was unquestionably the leading disciple of the Holy Arizal, Rabbi Isaac Luria, and his foremost interpreter. The Ari himself wrote very little and what is commonly known as the "Ari's writings", were in fact transcribed by Rabbi Chaim.

"You already know that the exiles [from Egypt until the Mashiach] are four: Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome [as represented by the four cups of wine on Pesach, the four beasts in Daniel 7, and many other places. The fourth, Rome stretched out from the 2nd Temple destruction and apparently ended with the Holocaust].

However, the Jewish people are destined further in the end of days to be in the exile of Yishmael, as mentioned in Pirkei D'Rebi Eliezer, and in the Midrashim of our Rabbis, and in the Zohar end of Parsha Lech Lecha. And there in [Zohar] Parsha Lech Lecha it says that being that Yishmael is the son of Avraham, and was circumcised, he is called "Pereh Adam" - "A wild donkey of a man" - [Bereishit 16:12], implying not a full man, because he was circumsized without Priah [an integral part of the Bris Mila]. But the other four exiles are compared to beasts as mentioned in the book of Daniel Chapter 7.

.....and he will cause suffering to Israel, great and terrible sufferings, such that none like these had ever been seen, and we will not know what to do. And we will have no other hope than to trust in His great Name to save us from his hand. And this is what is meant in verse 8, "Our help is in the name of the L-ORD, who made heaven and earth. Which means who made heaven and earth for the sake of the Torah and Yisrael who as in the verse "if not for my covenant day and night [study of Torah], I would not have appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth [Yirmiyahu 33:25]". Therefore He is forced to help us from their hands, and redeem us a full future redemption, in order that there will be a cause for the existence of heaven and earth.

Read the entire essay at Daf Yomi Review

The Murky Roots of Mashiach...

 

...he's NOT who you would ever expect him to be.

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff

The 50th Gate

The Kabbalah speaks of "50 gates of spiritual understanding", 49 of which can be achieved by a person as a result of his own initiative.  The final 50th gate is then granted by G-d from Above.

When Avraham had circumcised himself, he had reached the greatest degree of spiritual perfection that he could possibly achieve as a human being - the 49th gate - and he became "sick" yearning for the 50th gate.  This is alluded to by the fact that choleh חולה [the Hebrew term for "sick person"] has the numerical value [gematria] of 49.  Then "God appeared to him", revealing to him the 50th gate of spiritual understanding, which cured his spiritual sickness.

And, being that his physical sickness was a reflection of his spiritual dissatisfaction, the Divine revelation healed him physically too.

Based on Sichat Shabbos Parshas Vayeira 5750 - Lubavitcher Rebbe

The Mystical Secret Behind not mixing Milk and Meat

Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff - 12 min video

Some really good insights here that you may not have heard before.

Moshiach is Coming Soon

A Practical Survival Guidebook Part 1 

If Moshiach (Messiah) comes this year will you be ready? Have you just heard about Moshiach and want to learn more? What do we have to do to get ready?

Laivi Shor

Hidden Blessings

“A blessing rests only on something that is hidden from the eye.” [Taanit 5b]

"And they gave their father wine to drink on that night....."[Vayeira 19:33 ]

According to the Zohar, the dot on the word - וּבְקוּמָהּ - alludes to the fact that God was secretly assisting this event, because Moshiach was to materialize from it, since Ruth, King David's great-grandmother, was a convert from the Moabites.

The latter event between Lot and his younger daughter [19:35] is written without the letter vav, to indicate that the union did not produce such great offspring.  Rabbi  Shimon said "When the verses states that Lot wasn't aware, it means he wasn't aware that Moshiach was destined to come from this union."

Why should the beginnings of Moshiach occur in such an undignified manner?

Ramak explains that when a very lofty soul is about to descend into the world, the forces of kelipah [evil] oppose the soul's descent vehemently.  Sometimes, however, kelipah will consent to the soul's descent if it occurs amidst a particularly sinful act.  Thus we find that from this undesirable act the ancestor of Moshiach was born.

Source: Lubavitcher Rebbe

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.

Heavy Rain Floods Chabad HQ

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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.... "