Even Today

by Rabbi Yisroel Bronstein

''With this shall Aharon come into the Sanctuary''  [Acharei 16:3]

The Jewish nation was ravaged with brutal and horrible pogroms in the year 5408 [1648 - the year commonly referred to as ''tach'' the numerical equivalent of 408].  Jews all over the world shook the Heavens with their prayers for an imminent redemption.

''I am quite certain'' remarked the great kabbalist R' Shimshon of Ostropoli, ''that we will indeed be redeemed this year, for the verse states: ''With this [b'zos] shall Aharon come into the Sanctuary.'' The numerical value of ''b'zos is four hundred and eight: ''tach'' !

When the year had passed and the redemption had not arrived, R' Shabsai Cohen [known as the ''Shach''] sent out a proclamation which stated:  ''The verse says 'This emanated from Hashem; it is wondrous in our eyes. This is the day Hashem has made' [Tehillim 118: 23,24].  ''This [zos] emanated from Hashem'' - the year tach was destined by Hashem - ''it is wondrous in our eyes'' - to be the year that we would witness the wonderful redemption of the Jewish nation.  However, ''Today is the day Hashem has made'' - we failed to repent as hinted to by the word ''today''.  

For Chazal recount in Maseches Sanhedrin [98a] that R' Yehoshua ben Levi asked Eliyahu HaNavi ''When will Mashiach come?''  ''Today!'' replied Eliyahu.  Later, Eliyahu explained that he was referring to the verse ''Even, today, if we but heed His call''.  When we repent wholeheartedly, we will be worthy of redemption.

''In our time as well'' concluded the Shach, ''we lacked the merit of repentance, which would have enabled us to have been redeemed this past year !''

Understanding Mashiach ben Yosef

Rabbi Efraim Palvanov

The Sun in the Light of the Torah

This is Amnon from Alshich Academy speaking about the sun at the end of days.  

Strange things are happening around the sun, and this may shed some light [no pun intended] on things.  I wonder what we may see, soon I hope.  Thanks for sending it to me Amnon, very interesting.

An Eye for an Eye ???

The Jerusalem Post and other places report that Israeli official security and governmental sources told The Jerusalem Post on Friday: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Israel retaliated where they were attacked.”

Could somebody please teach some Torah to Israeli official governmental sources..... "an eye for an eye" is not meant to be taken literally.  

עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן "An eye for an eye" [Mishpatim 21:24]

The term "eye for an eye" explain Chazal [Bava Kamma 84a] is not meant to be taken literally - one who causes another the loss of an eye is not punished by having to lose his own eye.  Rather, it means that the responsible party must pay the monetary value of an eye.

Chazal's interpretation of this halachah, said the Vilna Gaon, is alluded to in the words of the verse.  Why does the verse state "Ayin tachas ayin" - which literally means "an eye beneath an eye" - and not "Ayin be'ad ayin" - which means "eye for an eye"?

The Torah, explained the Gaon, is hinting to us that in order to discover the true meaning of the verse, we must look at what is "beneath" the ayin, that is the letters that follow the word "ayin" עין:

The letter ayin ע is followed by the letter pei פ

The letter yud י is followed by the letter kaf כּ

The letter nun is ן followed by the letter samech ס

These letters form the word keseph - כּסף - money !

Source: Rabbi Yisrael Bronstein

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Thank You

I had a dream last night and hence this blog post.  

I want to thank Devorah Haggar from Chicago for the header for this blog, which she made for me a long time ago - so long ago that I can't even remember when it was.  She designed and put it together, and sent it to me, and it's been up there ever since.

I lost contact with her a long time ago, and because I've been through at least two computers since then, I have also lost a lot of contact details for people over the years.

So thank you Devorah Haggar. I don't know if you still read this blog, but I had a dream about you.

The Redemption Process: How it All Unfolds

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Dubai

 

April 16 2024

Dubai International Airport 🇦🇪 has recorded nearly 160 mm (6.3 inches) of rain in the last 24 hours. For context, most of the Dubaï metro typically averages 3.5 inches per year. This is truly a historic event for the area.

This is where Hashem is reminding the mega-rich with their tallest buildings that they are no match for His power.

And no it's not cloud seeding, CERN or weather manipulation, which are the preferred conspiracy theories for this event.

It was Napisiti and Atu: green and purple respectively.  They blocked the sun, turned day into night, turned roads into rivers and the sky turned green.  Here's a few videos to show you how it looked.  This is real, nothing is photo-shopped or AI, we don't need to do that because Hashem is doing it for us.

This is Napisiti approaching. I've shown you this so many times before, it's obvious.

The strobe lightning

Pink lightning, it was very pink in the video which I couldn't download

Sky turned green

Day turned into night

Roads turned to rivers

If you want to see more examples of Napisit, Atu and the rest click on the WONDERS label underneath this post.