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!
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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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?
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).
#I oppose the law!
אני נגד החוק#
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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
The sign the child is holding up says: Enough!
A rough translation of the NOes and the last line:
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!
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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