I just noticed that the colours of the Ukranian flag are the same colours as the Moshiach flag.
HT: Yosef
It's been raining here for so long, it feels like 40 days and 40 nights [it hasn't been, but it does feel like it].
It's being called a "Rain Bomb" and over half a million people on the east coast of Australia have had to flee their homes.
Whilst Australia is known as the "land of droughts and flooding rains", we've ever seen anything like this before. Biblical times, to be sure.
It's still coming down, and no end in sight yet.
Photos can be seen here - and although the Daily Mail is not exactly my news outlet of choice, they do publish a lot of photos.
Between the rain bomb and the Ukraine crisis, everyone's forgotten about Covid, apart from our PM who has a dose of it and thankfully has been temporarily removed from speaking his usual nonsense. Perfect timing to shut him up before he aggravates Putin so much that Russia will attack us as well.
מִשְׁכַּן הָעֵדֻת "The Dwelling of the Testimony" [Pekudei 38:21]
Something to bear in mind as we watch current events:
HT: Sherry
This short video below is Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia, speaking about Moshiach. "Through the Eyes of Moshiach: Who Needs The Ideal World?"
It's already Tuesday here in Australia. Today's date is 22.02.2022 [21 Adar A]
We are in the 3,333rd year from Yetzias Mitzrayim.
All these recurring numbers, and each set adds up to 12.
Twelve represents totality, wholeness, and the completion of God’s purpose. There are 12 tribes of Israel, 12 months in the year, and 12 houses of the zodiac [Genesis 27:20, 25:16; Exodus 24:4, 25:27; Ezekiel 43:16;Yoma 75b, 77b; Taanit 25a; Hullin 95]. [Source]
Our generation has all the signs of the generation before Moshiach. The war of Gog u Magog appears to be starting. Maybe these numbers are a hint that this year will see the completion of God's purpose.
I'd love to hear your thoughts and insights.
Rabbi Alon Anava - Current events and more
As we all know, we have a double Adar this year. We are being told that Russia is set to invade Ukraine on Wednesday [15th of Adar I]. In regular years, the 15th of Adar is Shushan Purim, the festival that celebrates -- in Jerusalem and other ancient walled cities -- the salvation of the Jewish people from Haman's evil decree in the year 3405 from creation (356 BCE). In a leap year -- which has two Adars -- Shushan Purim is observed in Adar II, and the 15th of Adar I is designated as Shushan Purim Kattan, the "Minor Shushan Purim." [Source: Chabad]
Normally, the Jewish calendar year has 12 lunar months and every few years (7 in each cycle of 19 years) we have a “pregnant/intercalated year” (שָׁנָה מְעֻבֶּרֶת) with 13 months. In these years, the first Adar is the intercalated month (חֹדֶשׁ הָעִבּוּר)—the month of ibbur—the 13th month that is added to the year, while the Second Adar is the original Adar that we have every year, which is why Purim waits patiently until we celebrate it during the Second Adar. [Source Inner]
How appropriate that we have the chevlei Moshiach [birthpangs of Moshiach] during a pregnant year !
"When the ships of the kingdom of Russia cross the Dardanelles you [Israel] should dress in Shabbat clothes because this means the arrival of the Moshiach is close." - Vilna Gaon - This quote is said over in the name of Rav Chaim of Volozhin who received it from the Vilna Gaon.
Link to Daf Ditty Shabbes 118 for more on this.
The first part of a Russian Navy amphibious landing ship force, which can carry troops, tanks and supplies, has entered the Dardanelles, connecting the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. This is significant, representing a point of no return in their controversial voyage towards the Black Sea and Ukraine.
Source: Naval News
[Jonathan] Pollard said that Esther’s last words had “completely changed my life.” He said that “she was dying and her eyes were closed. She opened her eyes and I was holding her hand and…I don’t know where she was, she was just looking up. She said in a very small voice that ‘My neshama volunteered to come back for two missions. One of them was to bring you home and the other one was to bring you home as a Jew and not as a goy.’ She said the first mission was the easiest one of all….I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. She added that the hardest mission was to make sure you returned home as a Jew. She said that ‘now I have accomplished my missions I can go home’- and then she died.”
Source: VIN
