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| The Chofetz Chaim |
“The main thing is not to worry… Just as He provided for us until now with His kindness, so He will surely continue providing for us.” - Extract from a handwritten letter by the Chofetz Chaim to his wife during her journey seeking medical care - the letter is for sale here, top bid at time of writing was $44,000.
The Chofetz Chaim famously said that the war of Gog u Magog would occur in three parts: WW1, WW2 and then a third part. We can see from all the instant anti-semitism after October 7 that we have entered the third stage, it is a continuation of the anti-semitism that existed in WW2.
“While in London I heard from the holy Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, quoting the Chofetz Chaim, that Chazal say the War of Gog and Magog will be threefold. After the First World War, the Chofetz Chaim said that it was the first battle of Gog and Magog, and that in about 25 years there would be a second world war, which would make the first one seem insignificant. Then there would be a third battle …” [Leiv Eliyahu, Shemos, p. 172] - Source: Torah
The Chofetz Chaim also said that Moshiach will come in a year ending with a five. We have that in both the Hebrew year and the secular year: 2025 and 5785.
This is the last time the years will end in a 5 prior to 5790, which is the cut-off date for Moshiach's arrival.
The Leshem quoted the Zohar, which apparently held that the period of Techiyas HaMeisim is destined to last either 210 or 214 years. There are two opinions on the matter in the Zohar, but they BOTH agree that the period of resurrection will be AT LEAST 210 years. Source: Rabbi Pinchas Winston
"Don't Believe Him"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-trump-column-read.html
I can't access article. What is the gist of it?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-trump-column-read.html
DeleteI'm so psyched about America taking Gaza I think it was a frask to the Palestinians yimach shemom
DeleteIf you want to understand the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, you should listen to what Steve Bannon told PBS’s “Frontline” in 2019:
ReplyDeleteSteve Bannon: The opposition party is the media. And the media can only, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time. …
All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity. So it’s got to start, and it’s got to hammer, and it’s got to —
Michael Kirk: What was the word?
Bannon: Muzzle velocity.
Muzzle velocity. Bannon’s insight here is real. Focus is the fundamental substance of democracy. It is particularly the substance of opposition. People largely learn of what the government is doing through the media — be it mainstream media or social media. If you overwhelm the media — if you give it too many places it needs to look, all at once, if you keep it moving from one thing to the next — no coherent opposition can emerge. It is hard to even think coherently.
Donald Trump’s first two weeks in the White House have followed Bannon’s strategy like a script. The flood is the point. The overwhelm is the point. The message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the cumulative effect of all of them. The sense that this is Trump’s country now. This is his government now. It follows his will. It does what he wants. If Trump tells the state to stop spending money, the money stops. If he says that birthright citizenship is over, it’s over.
Or so he wants you to think. In Trump’s first term, we were told: Don’t normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don’t believe him.
Trump knows the power of marketing. If you make people believe something is true, you make it likelier that it becomes true. Trump clawed his way back to great wealth by playing a fearsome billionaire on TV; he remade himself as a winner by refusing to admit he had ever lost. The American presidency is a limited office. But Trump has never wanted to be president, at least not as defined in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. He has always wanted to be king. His plan this time is to first play king on TV. If we believe he is already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king.
Don’t believe him. Trump has real powers — but they are the powers of the presidency. The pardon power is vast and unrestricted, and so he could pardon the Jan. 6 rioters. Federal security protection is under the discretion of the executive branch, and so he could remove it from Anthony Fauci and Mike Pompeo and John Bolton and Mark Milley and even Brian Hook, a largely unknown former State Department official under threat from Iran who donated time to Trump’s transition team. It was an act of astonishing cruelty and callousness from a man who nearly died by an assassin’s bullet — as much as anything ever has been, this, to me, was an X-ray of the smallness of Trump’s soul — but it was an act that was within his power.
But the president cannot rewrite the Constitution. Within days, the birthright citizenship order was frozen by a judge — a Reagan appointee — who told Trump’s lawyers, “I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind.” A judge froze the spending freeze before it was even scheduled to go into effect, and shortly thereafter, the Trump administration rescinded the order, in part to avoid the court case.
What Bannon wanted — what the Trump administration wants — is to keep everything moving fast. Muzzle velocity, remember. If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him.
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You could see this a few ways: Is Trump playing a part, making a bet or triggering a crisis? Those are the options. I am not certain he knows the answer. Trump has always been an improviser. But if you take it as calculated, here is the calculation: Perhaps this Supreme Court, stocked with his appointees, gives him powers no peacetime president has ever possessed. Perhaps all of this becomes legal now that he has asserted its legality. It is not impossible to imagine that bet paying off.
ReplyDeleteBut Trump’s odds are bad. So what if the bet fails and his arrogations of power are soundly rejected by the courts? Then comes the question of constitutional crisis: Does he ignore the court’s ruling? To do that would be to attempt a coup. I wonder if they have the stomach for it. The withdrawal of the Office of Management and Budget’s order to freeze spending suggests they don’t. Bravado aside, Trump’s political capital is thin. Both in his first and second terms, he has entered office with approval ratings below that of any president in the modern era. Gallup has Trump’s approval rating at 47 percent — about 10 points beneath Joe Biden’s in January 2021.
There is a reason Trump is doing all of this through executive orders rather than submitting these same directives as legislation to pass through Congress. A more powerful executive could persuade Congress to eliminate the spending he opposes or reform the civil service to give himself the powers of hiring and firing that he seeks. To write these changes into legislation would make them more durable and allow him to argue their merits in a more strategic way. Even if Trump’s aim is to bring the civil service to heel — to rid it of his opponents and turn it to his own ends — he would be better off arguing that he is simply trying to bring the high-performance management culture of Silicon Valley to the federal government. You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.
But Republicans have a three-seat edge in the House and a 53-seat majority in the Senate. Trump has done nothing to reach out to Democrats. If Trump tried to pass this agenda as legislation, it would most likely fail in the House, and it would certainly die before the filibuster in the Senate. And that would make Trump look weak. Trump does not want to look weak. He remembers John McCain humiliating him in his first term by casting the deciding vote against Obamacare repeal.
That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.
The flurry of activity is meant to suggest the existence of a plan. The Trump team wants it known that they’re ready this time. They will control events rather than be controlled by them. The closer you look, the less true that seems. They are scrambling and flailing already. They are leaking against one another already. We’ve learned, already, that the O.M.B. directive was drafted, reportedly, without the input or oversight of key Trump officials — “it didn’t go through the proper approval process,” an administration official told The Washington Post. For this to be the process and product of a signature initiative in the second week of a president’s second term is embarrassing.
It's a very long article, that's just 2/3 of it.
ReplyDeleteThank you Deborah, great article about great strategy !
DeleteSari here is the link to access the video and the transcript
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/steve-bannon-3/
Victoria
I don't buy it at all.. Just Steve Bannon's spin... saying what Steve Bannon wants you to think.. another "tactic".. we know Steve Bannon turned against trump .. ok.. next...
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we had to support trump against mamela beause her winning would be a calamity/trump was correct in his dissecting the demonrats.the problem is when they called him a narssisistic sciopath who loved only himself,they werent wrong!
ReplyDeleteYes, they were wrong. Say what you will about Trump's ego, but calling him a sociopath who loves only himself is absurd. He very clearly loves his country, and has demonstrated it by taking sustained abuse the likes of which would have demolished anybody else. Words have meanings, so please try not to throw around terms like "sociopath" without understanding what it means.
DeleteThanks
ReplyDeletewe correctly supported trump to win becaue of the terrible altermative. but when dems called donald a narsicist who loves himself only they werent wrong!
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the whole article yet, but whoever wrote it clearly hates Trump, and gives sketchy explanations that he hopes will pass as truth. For example, "birthright citizenship" is not quite as clearcut in the Constitution as this writer wants you to believe. It is speculated that Trump brought the Executive Order to end birthright citizenship in order to force the debate in the Supreme Court.
ReplyDeleteThere are other examples in this article that are not quite as cut and dried as this author claims. But he is right about "flooding the zone", which is a tactic used to great effect. And it's quite laughable that he thinks Trump wants to be king, when it was Barack Obama who repeated the phrase "I got a pen and a phone".
P.S. I just realized that the article iswritten by Ezra Klein of the New York Times. Well, that explains it, doesn't it. That's Trump Derangement Central HQ.
ReplyDeleteLOL that's funny.
DeleteHello, while we are on the subject of Trump here are yet more evidences that he is tightly linked to the event we seek:
ReplyDelete390,625 is the sum of the letters, words, and verses in the Torah. There is an analytic procedure for numbers of four of more digits where the digits are separated out based on the thousands or in other words where the commas are, so for 390,625 we get 390 plus 625 equals 1,015 which is a number that has no particular significance that I am aware of. If however we use the same procedure using only the positive integers we then get 39 plus 625 equals 664, and Trump Tower in New York (there is another one in Chicago) is 664 feet tall. Note also that 664 is the much-misunderstood number 666 minus the first prime number, two, in similar fashion to 360, as in the number of degrees in a circle, minus 2 equals 358, the Gematria value of Messiah.
In addition, it has 58 stories, and 5 to the 8th power is again 390,625.
Also according to news reports Trump is scheduled to meet Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday, February 4th, and with this in mind, then, I believe that they can be linked to the element uranium in the following way: Trump is both '45' and '47', 45 + 47 equals 92, and uranium is element 92.
Trump was sworn in 2025, which is the 92nd year since the Presidential inauguration date was changed to January (in 1933).
From Netanyahu's 75th birthday on October 21st, 2024 to Trump's last day of his 78th year on Friday, June 13th, 2025 is 235 days, and the fissionable isotope of uranium is 235.
Dennis this is very interesting !
DeleteVictoria
I think that confusion is the name of the game here. Everyone is confused about what is really going on and whether we should trust the Donald or not. I don't expect to have any answers, and I think it will just get even more chaotic, which is great because Moshiach comes out of chaos.
ReplyDeleteAll eyes on Bibi
ReplyDeleteTrump says 'no guarantees' Gaza truce will hold ahead of Netanyahu visit
What's wrong with everyone searching for negativity in the
ReplyDeletenew President's way of running the government. Instead of being thankful to Hashem, first and foremost, that HE allowed for normalcy to return to the world, already we see the way typical man thinks and behaves by finding fault with even those who are doing good things for the country and, hopefully, even the world. Let's embrace that and pray that Hashem will give him the wisdom and righteousness to bring back sanity, safety, etc. to the country and that he will show
and express thanks to the One Above who runs everything and has placed this President in a position where he can bring back the knowledge that there is a G-D that runs the world and that we should all be thankful that HE gave us another chance because if the other side would have won,
the world would descend to the abyss, c'v.
So, let's pray that DJT will be good for our people and for Eretz Yisrael, which automatically makes it good for all peoples. Maybe he is the one to assist the Jews at the time of our Redemption, and may that be very soon. The whole
world will benefit and the knowledge of Hashem will fill the earth as the waters cover the seabeds! KenYehi Ratzon!
emes l'yaakov
Afshine Emrani wrote:
ReplyDeleteReporter: “Would you support annexation of West Bank by Israel?”
Trump : “Israel 🇮🇱 is very small in the Middle East, like the tip of this pen compared to the table. That's not good!”
I still believe Israel's borders will expand to her Biblical rights and God's promise.
First, destroy the enemy.
Next expand the borders.
Next Middle East peace with Iran becoming a friend of Israel.
Last... Our Third and final Temple.
It's happening. Stay awake. We are living in Messianic Times. Believe. Have Faith. 💙🇮🇱♥️🇺🇸🙏🙏
Everyone has totally different viewpoints on what is actually going on. Just want to point that out.
ReplyDeleteDevorah, I don't know if you've heard - Trump will be watching the footage of Oct 7th before meeting with Bibi. His envoy, Steve Witkoff, watched it and was reportedly shaken by what he saw. He suggested that Trump should see it, too, so that he has a better idea of what Israel is up against.
DeleteThat's excellent news.
DeleteI hope he has a strong stomach. I wouldn't watch that even if you gave me a billion dollars.
I wouldn't either. The verbal accounts of the atrocities were traumatizing enough.
DeleteThose who 'hate' DJT, are obviously outright 'leftists' who
ReplyDeletehave some defect in their outlooks (hashkafot) and are
usually G-Dless and as has been proven in the past few years, violence seems to be part of their psyche.
The alternative to him would have been so disastrous that could only equal the Great Flood in Noach's time.
We need to pray that he continue to do good, as he has
shown these past two weeks.
We are awaiting our Geulah Shleimah and pray that it
comes with great kindness, ease and compassion from Above. We Jews have an obligation to show Thanks to G-D and His messengers whoever & wherever they are. Let's pray it continues on a righteous path; think good, do good and pray for good and it will be good.
Emunah/Bitachon in Hashem is really all we have
Izzy
There is no confusion if it's quite clear that we trust in Hashem alone, and are not searching for salvation from flesh and blood, and we rightly believe that the geula can come today. Trump is neither here nor there. If he supports and promotes restoring Israel's borders to their full extent and the migration, voluntary or not, of all Arabs all well and good. If he pulls a look what I've done for you, now it's time for a plasticinian state, entity of any kind within Israel to pacify Saudi, then very not good. He will be judged by his actions and the outcome.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should show Trump this
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/sj14-soc-religmap/world-religions-map/
Amazing, xns and muslims have colonised nearly the whole world, destroying and marginalising indigenous peoples, languages and cultures, yet begrudge us one small country (even when expanded) of our own in our historical, indigenous, ancestral homeland. Even by UN Indigenous People's charter we are indigenous to the land.
As reported, the great Trump plan is for the US to steal Aza from us from under our noses.
ReplyDeleteAza belongs to Israel and in particular to the soldiers who fought for it, not for fat cat American developers.
I hope and pray this plan, part of the gaslighting Abraham Accords is thwarted.
Trump is on Trump's side.
I haven't caught up yet, been out all morning. All I managed to see was Trump saying Gaza is a demolition site and they need to move somewhere else.
DeleteSomeone has to fix the mess that it's become.... how do you know he isn't planning on giving it back to Israel?
My thoughts exactly, Devorah. Listen very carefully to Rabbi Kessin's latest class. He gives several subtle hints of events about to unfold.
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As you say, you haven't caught up with the news yet.
DeleteRead Sultan Knish on the issue.
The real question is do you have a narrative that you are trying to fit the facts into, or do you see what is happening and form a view from that.
There are things that I heard about Oct7 that I haven't written, as I don't know for one hundred percent sure, but I trust my source, and if true would make you very much rethink the love of anything American.
Also see nachmankahana.com Very insightful
The Jewish attitude to Trump, or any leader, should be cautious, not this man can do no wrong. It's verging on idolatry.
DeleteHashem has many ways to bring yeshuot. When we see the result we can also express gratitude to the shaliach, but until then wait and see what the results are.
Just as you say to me, how do you know etc, I can turn it around. Neither of us know. In the meantime, Trump has publicised that America will own Aza. Not good. When Aza is annexed to Israel and settled by Jews only I'll change my tune.
We all need to eat more oranges. It’s the coldest part of winter and moshiach can arrive any moment. We should be stocking up on oranges (vitamin C) so that when moshiach comes we are healthy and prepared to meet him
ReplyDeleteTrump says he wants America to own Gaza and develop it as a "Middle East Riviera" for the world's people. He wants to relocate the entire population of Gaza to other countries like Egypt and Jordan, then clear out all the mines and unexploded bombs, fill in all the tunnels, and build beautiful cities and towns. Bibi said it's "worth considering". But I doubt the religious Israelis will go for this idea. Maybe Trump is doing what he always does in negotiations - he throws out an extreme demand or idea, then scales it back to achieve what he wanted in the first place. We shall see what comes of this.
ReplyDeleteI agree. He's very tactical and look how he got the 10,000 troops guarding the borders of Mexico and Canada. Don't underestimate this guy. Bibi is laughing for a reason, he couldn't keep a straight face. Bibi knows more than we do.
DeleteWe know nothing still.
I think Bibi was laughing at the protests of all the journalists there.
Deletewho would you prefer occupying Aza, Americans or the other groups. When Moshiach comes all nations will come to the Beis Hamikdash to show Kovod to HaShem. Maybe Ada is where they will stay when visiting.
Deleteokay, he does care for america,in the same way tsar putin and emporer shi care fer theirs but he puts himself firsr. i will say that his wanting to clear gaza one way or another is music to my ears.the truth is might makes right in our pre messianic worlld. the fact that "democracy" prevented us frow executing terrorists guilty of murder is very sad(ptting it mildly)
ReplyDeleteI hope this doesnt mean more missionaries in Israel
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/ZTMDcHdBnKI?si=VWvL2OZiXtvRF3sc.
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