Friday, November 7, 2025

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

14 comments:

  1. …are you saying… this last exile … is something we are about to see? New York???

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    1. I guess we just have to wait and see and do a lot of praying.

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    2. Amen… time to go

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    3. About to see? I think we've been in the Yishmael exile since we returned to Eretz Yisrael. As I recall learning, the Yishmael exile is not its own distinct exile like the other four. It's an arm of the Edom exile. I've heard some interpreting it as the feet of the statue in Daniel's dream that were made up of a mixture of iron and clay (representing a mixture of Edom and Yishmael). Anyway, we've been suffering from Yishmael wars and terror attacks and cruelty for many decades, so the NYC mayor is just a continuation of that.

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  2. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/kanye-west-meets-rabbi-pinto-to-apologize-for-antisemitic-tirades/

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  3. Melanie Phillips... Gd bless and keep her akways under H-s protection.... Amain.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OQisPSTaMs

    Estee

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  4. Mayor Mamdani is the physical embodiment of the klipot of the image Daniel interpreted from Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. An unholy and unprecedented amalgamation of all of our exiles, inherently unstable, but the final step before the inevitable collapse. Never before in history have Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and Ishmael been united. In the capital city of the world nonetheless. This is a very, very good and important step in the messianic process.

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  5. Little wonder that some sages expressed apprehensions about those days in terms of, “Let [Mashiach] come, but let me not see him.”
    Ikvot Meshicha: The Time Immediately Before Mashiach

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  6. Mamdani also promised to arrest Israeli PM Netanyahu if he goes to NYC, intending to comply with the requirements of the International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant.

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  7. Bus boy. Like Haman was a stableboy

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  8. The new mayor of NY saying he'll arrest Netanyahu if he comes to NY. If you think he's erev rav then this should make you happy no?

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    1. BH
      Benyamin Netanyahu has his faults like you and me and everyone else in this world, I’m sure nobody who belongs to Am Yisroel wants another Yid hurt in anyway.If the Lubavitcher Rebbe to take time out of his very busy schedule to talk and give Chizuk to Bibi then I’m sure he is a good man. His trials and tribulations in this world are not yours or mine and we all should hope he gets through his in the best way possible.

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    2. Just because the rebbe met him a few times doesn’t mean
      Anything .

      Who Netanyahu was in 1988-1994 is different to whom you have now and even America itself too for that matter is a completely different country than it was 3 decades ago . the world had changed completely since the Rebbe passed
      Away 32 years ago .especially all world governments.

      Netanyahu is CFR./NWO = Erav Rav

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