Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Within Reach
Monday, January 13, 2025
The Beginning of the End??
H/t Sherry and Serious Bible Student
Rav Ron Chaya
Subtitles available, all languages. Rough transcription in the comments.
Understanding Edom Part 4
Rabbi Efraim Palvanov
What is the significance of Egyptian obelisks erected in major capital cities around the world? Who was Zepho, grandson of Esau, and what is his connection to Rome and Edom? How did the myth of Vulcan originate in an earlier Biblical figure? And what does the Soviet Union have to do with it all? Find out in this class as we continue our exploration of Edom and its eye-opening relation to current global events.
Plus: Was Christopher Columbus Jewish? Is there a Star of David in the US Great Seal? And is there an “Illuminati” pyramid with all-seeing eye in the Israeli Supreme Court?
Sunday, January 12, 2025
The Palisades Palestine Connection
People are noticing the similarities.... they both currently look the same, i.e. totally destroyed and they both start with "Pal" - even though the "Palestine" they refer to is actually called Aza or Gaza - nevertheless there is a connection, just not the one the anti-Semites have grabbed hold of.
Dov bar Leib shows us the connection between the Mishkan and California - although there are a lot of comments there, just click this link to take you to the actual page, scroll down to see his comments dated 9 January.
I'm going to quote his last sentence:
Both Eretz Yisrael and California have 50th Gates (Golden Gates). Eretz Yisrael has the Golden Gate from the Qidron Valley to the Ezrat HaNashim on the Temple Mount, and San Francisco's Golden Gate is well known and has been used by some in humanity to take the Human race in the wrong direction. Both places have spiritual power to move all of humanity in one direction or the other.
Friday, January 10, 2025
The Tenth Day of the Tenth Month
The 10th of Tevet (known as Asarah B'Tevet) is observed as a day of fasting, mourning and repentance. We refrain from food and drink from daybreak to nightfall, and add Selichot (penitential prayers) and other special supplements to our prayers. The fast ends at nightfall (and Kiddush has been said, when this fast occurs on Friday), or as soon as you see three medium-sized stars in the sky.
What does it commemorate?
Jerusalem Surrounded
For years, G‑d had sent His prophets to warn Israel about the impending destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple if they didn’t mend their ways. But they derided the holy men as bearers of “false prophecies of doom,” bent on demoralizing the nation. They even went so far as to kill one of the prophets.
Then it finally happened. On the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tevet, in the year 3336 from Creation (425 BCE), the armies of the Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem.
Ever patient, G‑d delayed the destruction to give the Jews yet another chance to repent. He repeatedly sent the prophet Jeremiah to admonish His nation, but they foolishly had him imprisoned. Thus, 30 months later, on Tamuz 92 (or 17,3 the very date the walls would be breached when the Second Temple was destroyed), 3338, the city walls were breached, and on 9 Av of that year the Holy Temple was destroyed and the Jewish people were exiled.
Unique among Jewish fasts, 10 Tevet is observed (in a joyful manner) even when it falls on a Friday, though it interferes somewhat with Shabbat preparations.
More plus footnotes: Source
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Woken Up Yet ? [updated]
I spent most of yesterday watching a Live Stream of the fires in California. I was horrified and amazed as I watched million dollar properties burn while people helplessly watched on, with no water to put out the fires, compounded by the fact that there had been no back-burning - which is what we do here in Australia.... back-burning is to deliberately burn parcels of land well beforehand in order to halt an out-of-control fire spreading even further.
Australians are prepared for fires, but it seems these Palisades people didn't have a clue what to do.... and there's only one road out. Scenes of earth-moving equipment shovelling abandoned cars out of the way to make a path for the Fire trucks was something I'd never seen before. Hundreds of abandoned Porsches, Mercedes.... all being unceremoniously pushed to the side.
How is that even possible.... in California, the land of the disaster movie... out of control fires, the devilish Santa Ana wind blowing through like a jet engine, and no water available from the fire hydrants so the Fire Dept had to leave.
Well, it's because the Governor of the State is woke [the new word for stupid] and even Trump had to call him out.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Monday, January 6, 2025
The Spiritual Significance of 2025
Rabbi Efraim Palvanov