A two minute shiur from Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Third Rome: Russia, Ukraine and Moshiach
HT: Yaak
Rabbi Efraim Palvanov
This is the one of the most exciting and interesting shiurim I have ever heard. Highly recommended.
Did the ancient Jewish Sages prophecy the Russia-Ukraine war? What does the coming of Moshiach have to do with it? An eye-opening talk on the intertwined history of Rome, Moscow, Kyiv and the Jewish people.
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Friday, April 1, 2022
Tikun HaGadol - Our Secret Weapon
Rabbi Alon Anava - short video, 27 mins
"In order to have a new beginning, there has to be a destruction of the old..."
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Power of Words
Pharris Art |
These parshiyot – Tazria and Metzora tell about the metzora. Chazal say that the word “Metzora” is a combination of the word “motzi ra – one who emits slander” [lit. spreading negative information], implying that tzara’at is retribution for one who slanders, since he spread derogatory information. But there is another meaning to tzara’at that a metzora suffers, as it is stated in Gemara about tzara’at [Berachot 5b]: It is nothing else but an altar of atonement. Suffering purifies a person from all evilness, since through suffering he is cleansed from all sin. This is the reason for the juxtaposition: “If a woman conceives … and on the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised” and following this is parashat Metzora, which signifies that just as through the mizvah of Brit Mila [circumcision] the child connects to the Covenant of Avraham Avinu, so too the suffering and pain that a person experiences because of his tzara’at removes all evilness from him and connects him to Hashem, since suffering is for the benefit of man and he should not despair when it comes upon him.
Source: Rabbi David Hanania Pinto
This shall be the law of the person afflicted with tzara'ath, on the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought to the kohen. [Metzora 14:2]
Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Rav Chaim Kanievsky ZTL - A Living Sefer Torah
Monday, March 28, 2022
Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Angels and Mashiach
Sunday, March 27, 2022
Tazria: Following Your Destiny, or Not
Friday, March 25, 2022
This is What You were Selected For
Source: Rabbi Yisrael Bronstein
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Yarzheit: "The Rebbe of Rebbes"
Kever of Rabbi Elimelech in Lizensk, Poland [Photo: יהונתן וואקסמאן] |
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
A Sobering Thought
Art Rob Gonsalves |
"Do not drink wine that will lead to intoxication, neither you nor your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of Meeting, so that you shall not die. [This is] an eternal statute for your generations..." [Shemini 10:9]
Sunday, March 20, 2022
The Death of a Tzaddik Atones for Us All
From Rabbi Mendel Kessin:
Friday, March 18, 2022
Purim: Russia Vs. USA ; Is This The Final War?
HT: Yisroel
Rabbi Daniel Glatstein
Probing the Historic Tradition of the Vilna Gaon
Thursday, March 17, 2022
For Such a Time as This
What will Purim bring this year?.... we were all born for such a time as this. [not making a prediction, just being hopeful]
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
The Purim Code
It is fairly safe to assume that (a) Streicher did not know about the three small letters in the Megilla, (b) he did not know that these letters corresponded to the year in which he was being hanged, and (c) even had he known, he would have had no motivation to reinforce the validity of Jewish texts, traditions, or prophecies. One could not ask for a more independent confirmation of the all encompassing knowledge to be found in the Sifrei Tanach.
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Queen Esther, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, & the Chabad Shluchim in Ukraine
Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson
In this lecture, around the 17:40 mark, Rabbi Jacobson speaks about the Rebbe's last talk
which I blogged here: The Rebbe's Eerie Prediction
The Clothes Have No Emperor
Art: Vladimir Kush |
The nucleus of this explanation was presented by the Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760, founder of the Chassidic movement). It is quoted in his name by Rabbi Zee'v Wolf of Zhitamir (a disciple of the Maggid of Mezrich, heir to the Baal Shem Tov) in his Chassidic work Or Hameir on the Meggilah. Reference to it is made in Or Hatorah (by Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, the Tzemach Tzedek, 1789-1876) Megilas Esther p. 72.
Monday, March 14, 2022
Rabbi Yochanan quotes Shimon bar Yochai on Gog u Magog
Transcription of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's talk on the war of Gog u Magog, taken from this video.
Megilla 2022: Understanding the Madness
HT: Rahel
Rabbi Lazer Brody has an interesting Podcast/video up [recommended listening if you want to understand a few things]
"We are in the final stages of Redemption.... this is so exciting...."
Sunday, March 13, 2022
A Message from Russia
This was written by I.S. in Russia, I am not posting his full name because I don't want to cause anyone any problems.
It was posted to FB by D.V. and I received it from Rahel.
Ikvot Meshicha: The Time Immediately Before Mashiach
Friday, March 11, 2022
Soaring Inflation
One of the many signs given that will occur in the days before Moshiach are the soaring prices, and as you can see we have sky-rocketing inflation in some places, and gradual rises in others:
Inflation around the worldThursday, March 10, 2022
Don't Forget to Remember
Text by Rabbi Benjy Simons
Worldwide Tehillim for Geula
HT: Myrtle Rising
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
The Time of Mashiach
HT: Sherry
Rabbi David Ashear [under 3 minutes]
What will it really be like? When Moshiach is here....
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
Ukraine's Komarna Rebbes
Komarno is near the city of Lviv |
[Interestingly, all of the previous Komarna Rebbes passed away during the time of the Omer]
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After the collapse of communism in 1990, the chassidim of the Komarna dynasty travelled to search for the graves of their Rebbes which had been destroyed by the Nazis.
They arrived in Komarno [Ukraine] and asked many people where they could locate the part of town where the Jews had lived. Here they found an old farmer and questioned him regarding the whereabouts of any Jewish graves.
The farmer had no idea, he couldn't help them at all.... but the chassidim continued to question him and ask him if he could think of anything that could help them....... suddenly the farmer remembered that there is a certain paddock, about a mile from the town of Komarno, where they take the cows and sheep to graze. The animals would always stop at a certain point and refuse to go any further. They would only eat the grass on one side of the paddock.
Ohel of Komarna Rebbes |
A visitor to the ohel reported a newly-lit candle burning in the corner. He wondered who had been there and left it - he went outside and asked the children playing there who it was who had just visited and left the candle. The children said that no-one had been there at all, and that he was the first visitor that day.
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Monday, March 7, 2022
Purification Requires Agitation and Confusion
from the writings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, translated by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan
When one begins to attach to a great tzadik and truly serve G-d, he is often filled with great confusion and evil thoughts.
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Ukraine's Moshiach Hint
I just noticed that the colours of the Ukranian flag are the same colours as the Moshiach flag.
The Rebbe's Eerie Prediction
Friday, March 4, 2022
Russia is Gog? and Ukraine is....?
HT: Yosef
Australia's Biblical Rain Bomb
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.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Zelensky Tweets Holocaust 2.0
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Monday, February 28, 2022
Accountability
מִשְׁכַּן הָעֵדֻת "The Dwelling of the Testimony" [Pekudei 38:21]
Sunday, February 27, 2022
Expect the Unexpected
Something to bear in mind as we watch current events:
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Please Support Emergency Food Supplies Ukraine
Please join the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine to deliver over 30,000 packages of emergency food supplies and essential needs across 180 Communities in Ukraine.
Friday, February 25, 2022
Let Moshiach Come
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Putin and the Jews, and Moshiach
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?"
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
A Hint in the Numbers?
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.
Friday, February 18, 2022
Is Putin Starting WW3? Biblical Prophecies about Gog u Magog
Rabbi Alon Anava - Current events and more
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
Chevlei Moshiach and the Double Adar
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 !
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Vilna Gaon: "Arrival of Moshiach is Close"
"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