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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 God stores all our prayers in a "prayer bank" of sorts from where they are "withdrawn" at some later point, perhaps for somebody else, and perhaps only generations later.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.