Who is G-d's firstborn son? And more...

 24 Tevet 5782 | כ"ד טבת ה"תשפ"ב

Blogger's note: First of all, I should warn my gentle readers (and my not-so-gentle ones too😉) that what follows may seem, or even be, what I'm terming "religiously politically incorrect" for some of you. Nevertheless, I write with the hope that we all seek the truth, whether it be PC or not.

I do not imagine that only Jews read this blog. Perhaps most readers are, but not all.

And away we go...

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According to a well-known law, or principle of Scripture, the Law of First Mention, one must find the first place where the question is answered. It will be the "simplest, most understandable reference from which the others build." (source)

The answer to our title question is in our previous parasha, Shemoth (the beginning of the book of Exodus), 4:22.

The context of this verse is a chapter where the Lord is commanding Moshe Rabbenu (Moses our Teacher) to go to Par'oh and speak with him about the matter of freeing the nation of Israel to go and worship Him in the midbar (wilderness. The specific detail of the celebration of G-d in the wilderness occurs in 5:1.).

A breakdown of the translation of the last three words in the Hebrew: The noun "b'chori" means "my firstborn," which is masculine, referring to "b'ni, "my son." "Is" is understood, and Israel is the object of the noun phrase, which in English is rendered "my firstborn son." 

Does this mean that Jacob, who attained the name Israel in Bereshith (Genesis) 32:25-30,  is G-d's firstborn son?

No. The first thing we learn from the principle of the firstborn son of HQB"H is that it refers to a nation and not to a particular person from within that nation (or a person from within any other nation, for that matter).

I repeat: Israel, as presented in the context of the ending of Egyptian slavery, does not refer to Ya'aqov (Jacob), but to his progeny, the nation of Yisrael.

There are no two ways about it, and no other way to interpret it. Israel — the Jewish People — is named by G-d as His firstborn son.

My search for the law of first mention brought only Christian sites. I know that Chabad teaches this too (my mom went to Chabad events for quite some time, and she taught it to me); and I imagine that this is common-sense enough that others would do the same as well, and have come up with it on their own. This would especially apply to those who believe in the infallibility of the Word of G-d in its original language.

(Anyone who can clarify this for me, please feel free to use the comment section. Thanks in advance!)

The main point to remember here is that we do not deviate from what is learned in the first mention. We may learn more details and elaborations on it, but we may not turn away from what it essentially means and make it something else.

Those who seek to use this tool properly need to be sure it does not lead in a direction that may not be warranted. It would probably be best to use more than one Scriptural reference, to make sure there is no conflict. I am about to present one here, that Christians bring upon themselves because, for them, all roads lead to Otoh haIsh (Yoshke/the J man).

The source above, which I'm linking again here, gives an example in the first mention of blood, Hevel's (Abel's) blood at the hands of Kayin (Cain) in Bereshith (Genesis) 4:10, and ends up with the one we call Otoh haIsh (Yoshke/J). The path they took completely missed the verse we're discussing here, thus coming to conflicting conclusions, creating more questions than answers.

This constitutes a violation of the law of first mention because it basically wipes out a whole lot of Scripture that explains the concept of the son of G-d, as explained above and, I'm sure, elsewhere. Not to mention that their whole understanding of sacrifice is skewed, and the unmistakably human sacrifice of Yoshke "for the sins of the world" is expressly forbidden.

As my rabbi from the States told me many years ago, long before I made aliyah: It took haShem close to 2,000 years to wipe out the human sacrifice of ancient times, and Xianity brought it back.

Who knew?

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R' Shimon Kessin firmly believes that both Christianity and Islam are above us today because we are still in violation of our obligation to love our fellow Jews. Listen here to the one on Christianity:

The History of Christianity and the Exile

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Official Israel proved this once again regarding a recent event in Dubai. A Jerusalem pavilion was created there, separate from the Israel pavilion — which presented Israel as a nondescript country, nothing particularly special — and labeled as belonging to "Palestine." Meaning, that Islam basically owns Jerusalem. 

Did our Ministry of Foreign Affairs do or say anything about it? The big question I have is...

Is this an accident, or is it a secret policy of our government to allow our ownership and responsibility for Jerusalem, our ancient capital, to be disavowed?

This question needs to be answered openly, publicly and honestly. We need to know the state of our governance, whether the system we live under can still serve us or not, on many levels and many issues besides this one. Basically, we cannot allow this desecration of our name and reputation to continue. Not only that, but we must be sure that we are ruled by those who have our best interest as a nation at heart.

Will we serve G-d or not?

We must do teshuva.

Avi Abelow introduced the following video:

Israel’s Foreign Ministry paid over $20 million to have a pavilion at the global expo in Dubai that is expecting 25 million visitors from around the world. Yet, instead of inspiring and exciting expo visitors with what makes the Jewish state of Israel unique and enticing to all of humanity, Israel’s foreign experts dropped the ball, big time. 

 

What bothers me more than the missed opportunity is the missing appreciation for their own heritage and homeland, that actually is what so many people around the world are so starving to experience on a visit to Israel.

 

 Israel's Foreign Ministry Missed Huge Historical Opportunity in Dubai

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More...

A Huge Win for the Jewish People in our Holy City of Hevron (Video) |

Jews & Christmas Trees by Efraim Palvanov (Mayim Achronim) — and more

 19 Tevet 5782 | י"ט טבת ה"תשפ"ב

Snippet:

As we approach Christmas and New Year’s Eve and start seeing “Christmas trees” popping up all around us, it is worth exploring where this custom came from, and what the Torah might say about it. It is especially important to address because some Jews from the former Soviet Union continue to have a (seemingly) non-religious “New Year’s tree” yolka in their homes, as do assimilated and intermarried Jews across Europe and America. Is it okay to have such a tree in a Jewish home? As might be expected, the short answer is “no”. To properly understand why, we must take an eye-opening trip back in time.

 Read more HERE

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I would note that many Jews, at least where I came from in the States, mock X-mas trees as "Hanukkah bushes."

 More reading on this topic:

21st Century Idolatry | Former missionary warns Jews about aggressive tactics to bring them to yeshu | Leaving Christianity and Finding the Truth in Torah Judaism | Yad l'Achim (English) |

 

Hanukkah 5782: Restoring the Messianic Light This Year?

Light of 26 Kislev 5782 | כ"ו כסלו

 2nd candle | נר ב

  

 

What can we do to speed things up?

updates indicated below

R' Mendel Kessin: Chanukah: Restoring the Messianic Light

 

UPDATE: New R' Kessin Video: The Menorah: Rededication of the Messianic Light

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Israelis Protest Dictatorial Law Outside the Knesset: The Jerusalem Report  Episode 7

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R' Alon Anava's Chanuka Page - more/different content added every day for the holiday!

 

 

Ever-changing mandates and definitions: Where are we going with this?

18 Kislev 5782 |   חי כסלו ה"תשפ"ב

 

Recently I saw a comment on Arutz-7 that revived an issue I have seen many times: A lot of people believe that the Jewish People has a self-destructive streak; and now this observation has been applied to Israel. Particularly now that we are best known for being the world's guinea pig regarding the Covid-19 vaccines (I prefer to call them "experimental study intervention injections" after the term used by Pfizer. May I just shorten it to ESII?).

 In fact, it is mentioned in Scripture: G-d seems to be worried that even He can't heal us. See this previous post (it's part 2 of 3) and its commentary. Yirmiyahu Lamed, yod-bet & yod-gimel (30: 12 & 13).

 Here's an example article from Arutz-7, undated: Why Are We Jews So Self-Destructive? It might not be the one I mentioned above, but it will have to do.

And, here's a DDG search.

Many Israelis have asked that question especially after the Oslo Accords began in September 1993. Every decision since then seems to have been made with our destruction in mind more than usual.

But, it turns out, we've been under emergency measures taken when we became a state in 1948 that have never ceased since! (1994 paper, Michigan Journal of Law (I updated the link 20220330 - HDG)) | Springer, Emergency as a State of Mind, from The Rule of Crisis by Suzie Navot, 2018) | (search for more evidence)

And we wonder why.

Has anyone noticed that the government never allowed itself to take anything but punitive actions against the enemies that surround us?

The worst actions have been always against the Jews who live here. Some of them: The expulsion from the Sinai, with a focus on Yamit, in 1972; the expulsion from Gush Qatif and northern Shomron in 2005; the severe slowing down of housing development in Yehuda and the Shomron; and the hesitancy to affirm our sovereignty in these areas.

Blaming Jews for violent actions against Arabs, for which some are still in jail, without proving they did such things, while killings of Jews by Arabs go unresolved. Duma, 2015, anyone?

The killing of a 16-year-old Jewish young man almost a year ago by police, which the relevant authorities have yet to answer for. Lately, people have been protesting this issue again (one example) (search for more). 

Yesterday a lone soldier was murdered near the Kotel (Western Wall). His funeral was today.

And many, many more. Whatever happened to the Jewish right to return to our land to live in peace here?

And now, our response to Covid-19. Our Ministry of Health has mandated more vaccines for adults (see this post for more; our fourth one hasn't started yet, be"H), and now is voting to vaccinate ages 5-11. Protesters have been out in the streets (see the video on this page), but does anyone at the top levels listen?

And now our Health Minister wants daily COVID testing on infants (article here). Where does this stop?

The ESII. How many people have taken it and had adverse reactions to it? Just like the US, no one knows for sure. As the Israeli People's Committee wrote to the FDA, we have nothing like VAERS here. The one thing we used to report AEs was ruined by the erasure of thousands of reports recently. 

The voting for a new government system, that will make us a dictatorship for sure, will make us the laughing stock of the world. Some democracy!

But perhaps this is HQB"H's way of making room for His plan, to be brought about when Mashiah is revealed.

Hey, why not? I think we're all seeing today that democracy Israeli style is not all it's cracked up to be. For that matter, no style of democratic government is working well in the "global" environment.

As for the dictatorship style, whether communist or socialist, it still reminds us of Mitzrayim: the government had the authority over what we put into our bodies, when we work and for how long each day...from each according to his ability, to each according to his need...does anyone remember who said it?

Sounds nice, but not very motivating. You pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work is how it usually went in real life.

So, why, already? you might ask.

Just as Jews in the know speak about Erev Rav behavior (after the mixed multitude that followed Moshe Rabbenu and the newborn nation of Israel out of Mitzrayim, we should also speak about the children of Lavan (Laban) the Wicked.

Every Pessah we speak of Lavan, who wanted to wipe out the family of Ya'acov (Jacob) to the very last person.

Do you think he ever gave up on that dream of his? Since they are closely related to us (Lavan is Yaacov's uncle, the father of all four of Ya'acov's wives, plus he's the grandson of Avraham's brother Haran). Unlike the Erev Rav, who were mostly Egyptians, they can fit in and pass very well for children of Israel. And apparently they do, quite regularly.

Both groups of the worst enemies of the Jews have behavioral traits that, if you know what to look for, you can spot.

It seems to me that, while the Erev Rav want to seduce us into living as they do, the Bnei Lavan (whom some call Sabeans or Sabians, but maybe they've just been living alongside us for generations?) just want to do us in. Both are extremely good with words; put it just the right way and we'll be eating out of your hand. Just review the last aliyah of VaYetzé and see how Lavan butters Ya'acov up when he catches up at the mountain. 

And listen to how people speak to the citizens of Israel when they want us to line up for experimental shots and keep taking them.

Does the language sound familiar?

Don't look behind the curtain at the young athletes dying on the playing fields of other nations shortly after getting the shots. Nothing to see there...

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What is waiting for us before the coming of Mashiach? 

You will find a number of interesting definitions in this video, from the CDC.

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And for the soldiers, an inspiration: The Real Inglorious Basterds: The story behind the movie
(NOT shmirath einayim and not for the timid either!)

h/t: Israel Unwired

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We need to keep demanding:

 Show me "the coronavirus." SARS-Cov-2.

It's a great idea from The Jerusalem Report dated 20 November, with a guest, Ricardo from South Africa.

Let's not conflate issues; I don't mean its effect on people. I mean the actual organism. Tell us and show us the difference between this second version and the other dangerous coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS. Let's include the difference between each of the variants, while we're at it.

If "the virus" can't be isolated enough to be shown and proven that it is different from others like it, then there is no justification for turning the world upside down with ever-changing mandates and definitions.

The health associations and ministries of the world have the burden of proof. We ordinary citizens aren't obligated to believe the words of those who put off virtually until forever any obligation on the part of the pharmaceutical companies to be forthcoming about the details of what happened during this period of time that we are all suffering until the revelation of Yo'el Tzidkenu (our righteous redeemer).

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And while our attention is on the above, tell me what you think of this article, describing a development that might make it all moot, has"v. 

Is it possible we've been looking in the wrong direction?

#I oppose the law about to be passed, h"vs...

Erev Rosh Hodesh Kislev 5782

UPDATES BELOW...

Just because last night I wasn't able to get a password to the Israeli Ministry of Justice (Hebrew עברית) (summary & commentary in English) on time to protest the law extending the Covid-19 laws (Hebrew)  that we have been living under for nearly two years now, doesn't mean I can't protest at all. I hope every Israeli who has any sense, who hears of this who sees the evil in this law, and who wasn't able to protest on the MOJ website, will protest on whatever media, social or otherwise, that they can. As of today, I have not heard that it passed.

Law is not G-d. He is the Creator of law; He created the best laws, both for Jews and non-Jews, and the mess the world has been in right up until this present moment can be attributed to rebellion against His laws.

Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. (Teh. 34:15)

I haven't seen the actual Hebrew for the following picture, which is meant to summarize what's in store...but I pray it turns out not to be true, that H' will intervene and replace the whole governance system we live under now with the coming of Mashiah, the Sanhedrin and the Beit haMiqdash (Holy Temple, version 3).

The deadline already passed; we must do what we can from where and when we are. 

Did any of us imagine that in our beloved homeland this would happen???

#I oppose the law!

אני נגד החוק#

More about this

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Today is my Hebrew birthday; so I want to bless all my readers with all good things, including: courage and a calm spirit, constant provision and parnassah, health, ways and opportunities to avoid all the evil and to do good, and many ways to spread the good to your family and those around you; and that you and yours will survive to greet Mashiah with all Israel.

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UPDATE: 50,000 Women

 

A giant demonstration of women and children at the Rose Garden in Jerusalem, between the Knesset and the Supreme Court, on 9 November 2021 (5 Kislev 5782) between 2:30 and 6:00 PM (that's tomorrow, at the time I'm posting - HDG). I have no idea who is organizing it. Check with the contact information at the bottom of the poster above. 

The sign the child is holding up says: Enough!

A rough translation of the NOes and the last line:

• NO! to forcing experimental vaccines on children.
• NO!  to conducting tests that lead to endless isolation.
  
• NO! to coerce wearing masks that block the airways.
  
• NO! We want our children to be emotionally sensitive, for their sake, to enable them to live a stable and normal life.*
  
• NO! to depriving the children of the natural faces of their parents.*

Dear mothers, join us in the battle for the protection of our children!

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*...especially the last two lines, if you have a better way of saying it in English, please write me at my blog email. TIA!

H/T: Devorah Chaya

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Avi Abelow (Pulse of Israel) interviews Dr. Paul Alexander, a Health Advisor to US Health & Human Services (HHS) under the Trump administration about "the shots"

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Ilana Rachel Daniel interviews several lawyers and other people concerning Israel's real situation regarding C-19 and "the shots" on The Jerusalem Report 

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20211110 The women at the demonstration yesterday were harassed by low-flying helicopters (a sample of one,  HERE).

The Women for the Children of Israel (50.000 נשים למען ילדי ישראל) has a Telegram channel HERE (Hebrew עברית).

Rav Chaim Kanievsky's Daughter: NO MORE SHOTS

Mashiah ben Rahel and Mashiah ben Leah...?

23 Heshvan 5782

In honor of the yom neshama (anniversary of the passing on) of Rahel Imenu just passed; also for the yom neshama of my uncle, Sam ben Nazira uMoshe, which was 20 Heshvan.

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The videos below, by the twin Ravs Shimon and Mendel Kessin, respectively, have been stewing around in my neshama for the last couple of weeks, and I thought I'd share a few of my thoughts from them.

Rahel Imenu (daughter of Lavan, who was Rivka's brother and Avraham and Sarah's great-nephew) played a large part in Jewish survival by doing several things related to family issues:

• giving up her position as Yaacov Avinu's only wife, which she would have been if she hadn't given her sister Leah the secret codes and arranged for her go first.
• giving up her place in the grave beside her husband, in Hevron, and being buried on the side of a road going out of Eretz Yisrael, so that she could cry for her descendants when they were forced out, and help them in times of trouble, even in our times. We still go to her grave during wartime, and Israeli soldiers have even seen and been helped by her. Here's another story on that.  And yet another.
  
•  by doing all the above, she enabled us to survive galuth. She even passed on this trait to special people in her line of descent, like Esther haMalkah, who gave up her position among the Jewish People in Persia and the other 126 countries in the Persian empire in order to save them from Haman the Agagite (descended from Amalek).
  
• and, by the way, we wouldn't have Yosef haTzaddik, the ancestor of Mashiah ben Yosef, without his mother, Rahel.

So what would hurt if we prayed for the revelation of Mashiah ben Yosef ben Rahel and Mashiah ben David ben Leah? Since we're praying for living people here, we usually identify them by their mother's name. Sephardim often identify passed-on people by their mother's name also.

The True Sacrifice of Rochel Imeinu

The Weapon of Mashiach Ben Yosef

Avraham Avinu and the Imperative to Do the Tikkun

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Thanks to SG for sending the videos.

Interesting coronavirus news...

20 Heshvan 5782

 

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ADVISORY

The first section of this post is just for education, mine as well as yours. Please don't take this advice without confirming (or denying) its veracity and consulting with your medical professional.

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I'm sure many people (otherwise known, to some, as potential or actual experimental subjects) are concerned about the "vaccine" shots. For people who are nevertheless into getting the experimental study intervention(1), early last week I encountered a very good suggestion made by a retired British nurse with 30 years' experience who has taught quite a few nurses how to give shots, in a video from April 2021. 

His name is Dr. John Campbell, from the United Kingdom, and his 'Dr.' is a PhD in open learning resources for nurses. So, he's been in nursing and health education for quite some time. A lot of people follow his (as far as I can tell from what I've seen so far) sensible talking points to take back to their medical teams/physicians.

I derived a major tip I got from the two videos at the end of this section — no one else, from what I can tell, which might be quite limited, has mentioned it — it's something Dr. Campbell wishes would be brought back as standard procedure. 

The following, while not directly quoted, is from his material at the end of this section of the post (sections are indicated by *** at the end). 

Before you get injected, ask the nurse who is going to give you the shot to aspirate the needle before putting the vial contents in. 

Aspiration in Hebrew is aspirátzia אספירציה.

If the nurse refuses to aspirate the needle for you, or doesn't know how to do it, you have every right to walk out without taking the shot. It's a Nuremberg Code law and you don't have to consent obey. 

Again, if this news perturbs you, or even if it doesn't, please watch the two videos at the end of this section of the post, and find out why.

As with anything involving the heart, myocarditis and pericarditis are not as light a matter as they're made out to be!

Dr. Campbell mostly refers to the J&J and AZ products, since they are being used in his country, England. I highly suspect that Israeli nurses haven't been aspirating their needles either, considering the number of myocarditis and pericarditis reactions we've had here; according to what he says, the same would apply to the Pfizer product and, for that matter, any vaccine. The good doctor thinks that not aspirating the needle before injecting is the reason for all the myocarditis and pericarditis adverse reactions from the experimental study intervention all over the world.

Also, having this procedure done before injecting you doesn't guarantee that you won't have any adverse reactions. But it will mitigate them by taking out the circulatory system- and heart-related complications that have a lot of us very well frightened for ourselves, our spouses and especially our children. 

We do want them to have a life, right?

 

He is pro-vaccine, nevertheless he has reservations about the way the Covid-19 vaccination effort is being carried out. In the two videos below, he makes it clear why the aspiration procedure MUST be renewed and followed for intramuscular shots such as vaccines, to avoid certain nasty problems, which we've already discussed.

This is not an anti-vaccination position. It is a matter of common decency, or as we like to call it here in Israel, derekh eretz. More precisely, it is a matter of performing the procedure correctly. If that cannot be accommodated, then we need to walk away. 

And there is more reason to walk away anyway - see the rest of the post.

Dr. Campbell explains all this very well, and more professionally than I ever could...

 

Aspirate to vaccinate! (15 Apr 2021)

NOTE: 11 min in - some news about Israel

 

Aspiration, Q&A; other topics may be included. (30 Sep 2021)

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More recent news...

The videos above would be the end of today's post, if the way people were given vaccines were the only major problem we have. However, America's Frontline Doctors (AFLD) has got ahold of a letter and video from an independent group of Israeli physicians, lawyers, scientists and researchers called the Professional Ethics Front (החזית המקצועית לאתיקה). Dr. Yaffa Shir Raz, Haifa and Reichman Universities and IDC Hertzliyah International School's Health and Risk Communication lecturer, is interviewed by Mordechai Sones (usually for Arutz -7; but in this case, it seems he's doing this on his own) concerning the group's report to the US FDA expressing severe concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine reporting system here. Both of these items explain how we really, really weren't prepared to be the world's laboratory — to say the least.

The topics the letter deals with are:

• Lack of a public and transparent adverse events reporting system
  
• Severe impairments in healthcare professionals' adverse events reporting system
• Data distortion
• Legal and ethical violations in data collection processes

 More on the PEF on Facebook. Please feel free to let me know how you like the organization and its site, since I don't have FB. So far, the posts I was able to see are in English; but there might be Hebrew also (and other languages?).

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Dr. Shir Raz wrote an article last year that was taken down from Ynet about Israel's Ministry of Health's decisions on the virus as a cause of death. The following articles (two of them featuring Dr. Shir Raz, regarding her article) on Arutz-7 were written by Mordechai Sones in 2020. I have placed them in reverse publish date order: 

Health expert predicts eventual COVID-19 commission of inquiry

Who informs government COVID-19 policy?

Journalist 'stands behind' removed COVID-19 article

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More reading:

'We're in the middle of a major biological catastrophe' | Global COVID Summit | How to give a good shot [how nurses think now - HDG] (Slate) | Orwell City: Research on the study intervention in Spanish and English | 

Considering #BeagleGate - how do we continue to trust the American doctor in charge of beating COVID-19??? A sampling of articles below, plus a search link to more.

 BeagleGate Strikes Fauci | Anthony Fauci Facing Quiz over NIH Funding for 'De-barking' Beagle Puppies | Beyond #BeagleGate: Fauci Experiments on Children??? | More on DDG, fauci beagle gate |

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I wish my readers excellent and fearless decision-making as well as excellent health.

Something positive from my WhatsApp feed: Authorities here are refunding closure-related fines handed out unlawfully last year! Details for Israelis who still haven't collected what is due them.

 

(1) study intervention - I didn't make this up. I got it out of this Pfizer document.

What the promoted Covid-19 treatment protocol is doing to us...and the world

21 Tishrei 5782

...the right way

 

I am finding that the Covid-19 situation as has been presented by the Israeli Ministry of Health (and other health ministries around the world), and especially the sole solution to it, the experimental injection, to say the least, do not inspire public confidence. Here are some steps that could have been taken, but weren't, so far, that would have actually saved lives and the public trust at the same time. 

I'll start off with one simple "test" that my communication research professor would have flunked them on from the beginning.

1. Define "unvaccinated" properly. And I'm not the only one who thinks so. Let's keep it simple:  Don't violate the face validity test(1). To most people, "unvaccinated" means, to put it in the Covid-19 vernacular, "never got the jab." Once vaccinated with the first jab, it is impossible to throw them back into the unvaccinated category without violating face validity and confusing millions of readers around the world. There can't be only "fully vaccinated" and "unvaccinated." This is the test all of the pharmaceutical companies and their researchers failed, over and over again, explaining the pushback against the vaccine. It just doesn't add up.

I suggest that we...

2a. Separate out groups properly. It may take more work, but don't put people who have been jabbed, even only once, in the group of the totally unvaccinated. Don't keep throwing the ones who have failed to keep up with the vaccination schedule, or just couldn't do it anymore for whatever reason, into the same box with those whose bodies have not been exposed to the experimental substance. It simply is not valid to do so. We may need three or more groups (one for each jab?) to properly clarify who is who, and what is what.

2b. Separate out those who had bad reactions from everyone else. This is an important group, not to be ignored.  Like mushrooms after rain, websites featuring vaccine injuries and death testimonies have popped up. You will see links to some of them below. 

And we have to apply the same rules that letters to the editor of a newspaper used to have: One submitted report equals x number of people who have a similar one. I don't know how many that comes to, considering all the confusion around the various reporting databases such as VAERS. But it must be a lot, lot more than the comparatively small number (I don't remember what that was, exactly) that it was before chatrooms, blogs and other online feedback-soliciting forums.

This should clarify matters between people and result in better, more truthful statistics, if allowed to take place. We will hear no longer the phrase "pandemic of the unvaccinated" and be confused by this term. And we might actually come to understand what is really driving the pandemic.

By the way: WHO European Advisory Group of Experts in Immunization former Vice President Professor Christian Perronne said on 16 August 2021 that all vaccinated people must quarantine over the winter months or risk serious illness, and that unvaccinated people are NOT dangerous, citing Israel's recent experience with the Delta variant. Watch him on video HERE. You'll see, no typos here. 

In addition to that, a WHO insider blew the whistle on GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance and Bill Gates, its founder. Watch the video here.

3. Do you think it might be a good idea to test serologically for those who remain unvaccinated before attempting to vaccinate them? Well over 6M Israelis are vaxxed at least once; so it wouldn't cost Pfizer nearly as much to do this one thing right (my doctor was actually more concerned over the cost to Pfizer than about my concerns! And I wonder whether there are doctors resisting the pressure to be that way if this one doesn't "do teshuva."). It would save a lot of lives and illness if people with evidence of COVID survival were not vaxxed too.

4. Most important of all: The rules of science and other disciplines (such as the whole validity and reliability part of what should be part of every study) are based on the search for the truth behind all the things we study. G-d created truth, and also lies, so that we could choose between them. 

Unfortunately, many people who learn these rules also derive, or are taught, whether in school or by their employers, how to get around them and ignore them as well. We, the intended subjects in this global experiment, must beware.

There's even more HERE.

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While I was writing this post, I asked haShem and myself...

...where is the Israeli People's Committee, the group that was putting out all kinds of Covid-19 information in Israel NOW that we need them? 

I have good news. They have been gathering testimonies for what has been happening with vaccinated people. Not all, but a lot of them, many more than have given their stories for video. Contact the IPC here.

Also, the Professional Ethics Front (Facebook only, it seems; I'm not on it, so I can't say for certain) might be good backup guidance for knowing what is ethical and what is not. They helped the IPC with the following video...

The Testimonies Project: In Hebrew with עברית or English subtitles, just over an hour and 5 minutes. (Tip: You can also watch by segment by scrolling down when you get there. Much shorter that way for each issue.)

Other interesting sites concerning the vaccine effort are: C19 Vax Reactions  | No More Silence  | Vax Longhaulers  |  A Twitter channel re: the basic Pfizer purchase agreement |

(Many thanks to YB and RRL for the above information.)

I would like to add that, just as in the past we believed children and women who testified to being abused, all the more reason we should believe people who were injured after being inoculated with the Covid-19 "vaccines." Especially after seeing the videos of those who allowed themselves to be on camera. 

The medical profession needs to take it on itself to acknowledge their reality, investigate, come to valid conclusions and find effective, helpful medicines, and help these people. Now.

Or else...

Expect a lawsuit like this one. (The document also contains a lot of information about normal vaccine development as opposed to this one, as part of the information-gathering process. I think it prudent to wait for the trial to get underway before commenting on the information presented.)

(Official Israel, wake up!!! ישראל, התעוררו)

In addition, Avi Abelow reports: Israeli Officials Totally Deflect & Spin Recent FDA Booster Shot Decision

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(1) About face validity: 

...face validity offers a quick way to provide feedback on a test, questionnaire, or exam that doesn’t appear to measure the thing that it sets out to measure.

If a test does have face validity, we would likely go on to verify that it has more rigorous forms of validity like criterion validity, content validity, etc.

 Which means that if it doesn't measure what it's supposed to, then we don't have to go further. I fully expect this whole "process" to stop dead soon, as the full truth comes out...

And I wonder whether this is the real "Gog and Magog" war, this being the part where the peoples behind the Esavian philosophy are in charge.

The big shame of it all is that all the people who are now disabled from the shot(s) they took because they weren't "antivaxxers" (and still aren't, by the way) and they wanted to do their part  to stop the pandemic, are being shamed, figuratively locked away unseen, unheard and ignored. Is this any way to treat people???

I am afraid Israel will do the same because, despite its image as the first to offer its entire population to the experiment, it follows lockstep behind America.

We are to trust in G-d alone, and we'll have to, in the end. 

Hashem created "regeneration" after all (possibly even of the heart). What a surprise!

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Regarding face validity, here's some more information from the book I studied with when I was in college, "in the dark ages"...published in 2000:

Establishing face validity involves simply looking at the operational indicators of a concept and deciding whether or not, on the face of it, the indicators make sense. The indicators might be items on an opinion survey or they might be tests of knowledge and ability.

— Bernard, H. Russell, Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, London, and New Delhi, 2000, p. 49.

The question of "who is to be considered vaccinated" could be considered such an operational indicator — indicating to me that the powers-that-should-not-be are treating the Covid-19 vaccines as a matter of opinion, rather than a real medical problem to be solved. After all, they've already changed the definition three times over the nine months so far of 2021 for the general public, even excluding those who have already taken shots. How valid does that look to the average reader?

I could go on to cover the other three kinds of validity as well; both the site and the book define all of them, and much, much more. Research of all kinds is a serious business. And I'm not the most experienced researcher, by any means. But even I know that something smells rotten in Washington, DC; Brussels, and even Jerusalem. 

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And finally, eight (8) hours of video about the FDA meeting with the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee from 17 September 2021...you can start where this video where others put it (and I did too), or you can watch the entire video if you want.

Since it seems I'm not allowed to post the video, I'll put a link here. There are many other videos at the YT site on this and related topics.

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Here is a sample of other sources for what's going on right now.

Reuters Covid-19 Tracker: Israel | Preprint: Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 Breakthrough Infections to Time-from-vaccine; Preliminary Study (NOTE: a preprint is not yet, or may not ever be, published.) | Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta | It's time to get real | More research and alternatives | Hashem created "regeneration" | The FDA's Clinical Failure | Off-topic: Why Oslo Still Rules by Caroline Glick (while we're distracted by Covid, other things are going on.) | 

To the Jews of the world: I hope you had a wonderful, happy Succoth, and are having a happy Hoshana Rabbah today, and will have a Shemini Atzereth and Simchath Torah to come!

 

Yom Kippur – An Out of Body Experience! (Rabbi Sprecher)

 the light of Erev Yom haKippurim 5781 | אור ערב יום הכיפורים ה"תשפ"ב

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yom Kippur – An Out of Body Experience!



by Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher

The last Mishna in Taanit states, “There is no more joyous festival for Israel than Yom Kippur.” Yet, Yom Kippur is also the most solemn day of the Jewish year; and it is also the strangest day because it seems to negate all that makes us human. For that one day we step out of ourselves and have an Out of Body Experience. We are no longer part of this world as we know it. Denying our bodies the physical pleasure of food and drink, marital relations, bathing, anointing, and wearing leather shoes, we act as if the normal impulses that make us human no longer exist. It is as if we have slipped out of physical life into immortality. On Yom Kippur we become virtual angels.

This is what the Rabbis were telling us by explaining why Yom Kippur is the only time when we recite aloud, “Boruch Shem Kevod Malchuto L'Olam Vaed” in the recitation of the Shema. Where did “Boruch Shem Kevod Malchuto…” originate?

When Moshe went up to Heaven to receive the Torah, he overheard the angels praising G-d with these words. When he returned to earth, he instructed the Jews concerning all the Mitzvot that he had received, and he also taught them this sentence of praise. But Moshe said to the Jews, “All the Torah and Mitzvot I have given you, I received openly and directly from G-d; but this verse is something that I overheard the angels say when they praise G-d. I stole it from the angels; therefore, say it in a whisper.”

The Midrash in Devarim Rabba continues, “It may be likened to someone who stole a diamond and gave it to his daughter. The thief tells his daughter, ‘All that I have given you, you may wear in public except this stolen diamond. Wear it only indoors.’” The Midrash then continues, “Why is Boruch Shem Kevod said aloud on Yom Kippur? Because then we are like angels, and we have nothing to hide on that day.”

The rest of the year we are not angels — far from it. We have human needs and desires. We have impulses that lead us to sin and transgression as well as the ability to channel these impulses through Torah and Mitzvot. We all sin in word, thought and deed. We are indeed human. The beauty of Judaism is that it recognizes our physical and material needs and our impulses and desires. Judaism does not seek to deny them, but rather to regulate, channel and control them.

Judaism is not about self-denial. The denial of the body is not praised or required. The pleasure of eating and drinking is a Mitzvah - for example Shabbat and Yom Tov feasts and the Seudat Mitzvah which is obligatory for a Bris, Bar Mitzvah, Wedding or Siyum of a Tractate. The act of eating and drinking is also controlled and regulated by the Halachot of Kashrut. Physical desires are considered normal and positive; but they, too, are controlled and regulated by the Halachot of marriage and family purity laws.

So too is the desire for wealth. We are not commanded to live lives of poverty; but we must share what we have with the poor and needy through the acts of Tzedakah and to acquire our wealth honestly. We know that we are not without sin, and for this reason G-d gave us this most precious gift of Teshuva on Yom Kippur.

On Yom Kippur, we are given a taste of eternity, an experience of something other-worldly. We are like the angels, or as close to it as human beings can get. When all of our physical needs and desires are denied, we have a day when we can concentrate solely on spiritual matters. Yom Kippur is the day of the soul.

The Torah states in Vayikra 23, “On Yom Kippur V'INITEM ET NAFSHOTECHEM.” This is usually translated as, “You shall afflict your souls.” However, RAMCHAL points out that on Yom Kippur our souls are not afflicted, only our bodies are afflicted. Therefore the word, V'INITEM, is related to the word in Devarim 26 concerning the Mitzvah of Bikurim (the first fruits) ‘V'ANITA…’ when you bring the first fruits to the Holy Temple. Abarbanel states that the word, V'ANITA, in that verse means that the farmer has to sing to G-d when he brings his Bikurim.

Thus, in the context of Yom Kippur, the phrase ‘V'INITEM ET NAFSHOTECHEM’ can also mean, “You shall allow your souls to sing.” You shall free your soul of all its bodily needs and desires and dedicate Yom Kippur to your soul and to G-d.

Within the comforting, loving embrace of G-d Who forgives us on Yom Kippur, our bodily needs become superfluous, as our souls take over our bodies, singing to G-d. Yom Kippur is a unique opportunity for every Jew to receive a new beginning in life, a second chance. That's why the Talmud in Taanit tells us that G-d gave us the Second Luchot (Tablets) on Yom Kippur, symbolizing that G-d always gives us a second chance.

On Yom Kippur the day belongs to the soul as our physical needs are eliminated. The soul, freed of its physical bonds, can now soar, ascending to the highest level of Kedusha, where it can express its deepest feeling and emotion. On Yom Kippur we become like angels, devoting ourselves exclusively to singing the praises of G-d.

At the closing of Yom Kippur, we experience an incredible inner joy when we move beyond consciousness of hunger into a feeling of relief and renewed strength. Yom Kippur ends with that magnificent Shofar blast — the Shofar that once proclaimed liberty for all the Hebrew slaves on the Yom Kippur of the Yovel year.

That Shofar blast now also proclaims liberty from sin for all of us and freedom from all that enslaves the mind and the body. This Shofar blast symbolizes the ability of a Jew to rise above material and physical desires, freeing the soul to unite and bond with G-d.

 

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May you have a good signing, with all the people of Israel | במר חתימה טובה, בתוך שאר כל עם ישראל

How do we know when Mashiah is here?

 26 Elul 5781 | כ"ו אלול ה"תשפ"א

Shabbat shalom u'shana tovah ! שבת שלום ושנה טובה | Ketivah weh'hatimah tovah ! כתיבה וחתימה טובה

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Myrtle Rising has a recent post about the Unknowable Beginning...which might explain, or somehow otherwise blend in with, a concept in R' Mendel Kessin's video below. 

Scientists are Documenting the Keter d'Reisha d'Lo Ityada—Only They Don't Know It

Enjoy them both!

כתר דרישא דלא אתידע

(h/t SG for the videos)

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May our government do teshuva or be replaced by one that will do G-d's will!

Waw...fascinating! (Strengthening Ourselves in Preparation for Redemption by R' Eli J. Mansour)

 light of 15 Elul 5781

Waw...the letter Israelis now pronounce "vav"...a key to redemption...fascinating! - HDG

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Parashat Ki Teseh 5781

Strengthening Ourselves in Preparation for Redemption

by Rabbi Eli J. Mansour (original article here)

In the prophecy read as the Haftara for Parashat Ki-Teseh, the prophet Yeshayahu foresees the return of the Jewish People to its homeland. He turns to the Land of Israel and cries, "Expand the space of your tent, and the curtains of your residences shall be moved… Extend your ropes, and strengthen your pegs" (54:2). Whereas the land lay empty throughout the years of exile, the prophet promises that the time will come when the land will need to expand to accommodate the influx of Jews who will return.

The Ben Ish Hai (Rav Yosef Haim of Baghdad, 1833-1909) offers a deeper explanation of the words, "Vi’ytedotayich Hazeki" ("strengthen your pegs"). The plain meaning, of course, is that this refers to the pegs used to bind the ropes of the tent to the ground. As the tent expands, the pegs need to be strengthened to hold down the extended ropes. The Ben Ish Hai, however, adds that a peg is shaped like the letter "Vav," and the prophet here exhorts us to strengthen our commitment to the quality represented by this letter. He explains that if the letter "Vav" is removed from the word "Kadosh" ("sacred"), the result is the word "Kadesh" – referring to a harlot, the diametric opposite of holiness. The letter "Vav," then, signifies the difference between decadence and sanctity, our maintaining proper standards of purity and morality so we attain Kedusha, rather than becoming the opposite, Heaven forbid. For this reason, the Ben Ish Hai notes, Yosef was dressed with "Bigdeh Shesh" (flax garments) when he was appointed vizier over Egypt (Bereshit 41:42). The word "Shesh" (flax) also means "six," alluding to the letter "Vav," which in Gematria equals 6. Yosef embodied the quality of "Yesod," of resisting temptation to maintain purity, and thus he is described as being clothed with "Shesh," the letter "Vav," the attainment of Kedusha.

The Ben Ish Hai explains that this is the meaning of the prophet’s charge, "Vi’ytedotayich Hazeki." He is telling us that in order to earn our final redemption, we must strengthen our "peg" – the letter "Vav," our commitment to maintaining our standards of Kedusha. This is a struggle that must be waged as we prepare for our final redemption.

It is no coincidence that in our times, as we inch closer to the arrival of Mashiah, we face unprecedented challenges particularly in this area, the area of purity and Kedusha. Already the prophet Yeshayahu informed us that as our nation returns to its homeland in preparation for the final redemption, we will need to work very hard to strengthen our "peg," our commitment to the Torah’s standards of purity. This challenge is an especially difficult one, but it is one which we must wage, with devotion and determination, confident that this struggle will bring us closer to our final redemption, may it arrive speedily and in our time, Amen.

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