20 Tevet 5785 | כ' טבת ה'תשפ"ה
💖Welcome home, Romi, Emily and Doron! Refuah shlemah to all of you, and all the others...💖
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A Prime Example
A
lot of things have been going on, as the vast majority of people know; so, A BIG THANK YOU SO MUCH for bearing with me until now. I hope these posts
will help us all think more clearly about what we're witnessing and
going through as God responds openly, finally.
As it turns out, US president-elect Donald Trump really meant something quite different when he first said:
"If those hostages aren't back — I don't want to hurt your negotiation — if they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. And it will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone, all hell will break out..."
(emphasis mine, HDG)
For the rest of the quote and more, see this video from Tomer Devorah on how this statement is being fulfilled — in the USA.
What that emphasized phrase means on our side of the earth, it turns out, is that WE, the Jews of Israel, are "getting the shaft" after all. It is intended that we are to release hundreds of murderous Arab prisoners from our jails as we get only 33 of our hostages, not all of whom are alive. I'm finishing up this post as three of our living hostages were released today (Sunday, 19 January 2025) and rescued the body of a dead soldier ourselves with God's help (which should not be added to the tally, if there was any decency in this whole thing they call "a deal"...). Otherwise, we have no idea which ones are dead or alive, only estimates as of this writing. The families of the hostages who were not chosen are screaming bloody murder at our government, and I can't blame them.
In fact, I must say that I favor the holy, son-after-son scion of King David-run Kingdom of Israel to the "demock-racy" of Israel. It's just proof that, with democracy, all a country has to do is get the populace to believe that evil is good, and — voila! — a decent country has been slowly, then quickly, made into an evil country — by law, no less!
The "democracy" called the State of Israel favored a smaller portion of the population over all the others — until October 7th, which was Simchat Torah back in 2023. Then, it was their turn to be "sacrifices for the sake of the State." Meaning, that they would be mutilated and murdered by surprise. Unfortunately, the religious Zionists (the real term is datí le'umí, national religious) were eager to get into the battlefield, as usual...and we are losing many more soldiers, most of them datí le'umí, than the massacre itself and the hostages...combined.
A Jewish kingdom, designed according to Divine command, will then be able to say NO!!! to the nations, and mean it. That would be just the beginning. Until then...
It's time for Jews to
say, 'Sorry, not sorry.' Frankly, we have to stop being envious of
the nations, which leads to appeasing them, because we think they have
more freedoms in this life than we do.
One
of the greatest things we should not be sorry for is claiming our Biblical right to live
in THE LAND OF ISRAEL; and not only that, but to live here as HaShem wants us to.
Israel
is synonymous with Jacob (Ya'acov יעקב), the forefather of all the
Jewish People; it is the name the angel gave Jacob after he won the
overnight battle with it. ON THE LAND.
Rabbi Levi Diamond of Chabad Rechavia presented the case for the Jews' Right to our Land at the beginning of the current war (immediately below).
(...you can see that I started writing this series much earlier from this video.)
| A word, to the wise, is sufficient. |
Forgive
me if you've heard this admonishment too many times. I haven't heard it
in many years, and wonder whether people's sensitivity to events has
been affected by its absence. I added what I think are essential commas
to the statement because I didn't understand it when I first heard it as
a child.
And here's one more: If there is no hope for the Jewish People to win Mashiah through prayer, and to overcome their enemies in this horrible war, then there is no hope for any other nation, either, no matter how strong they are, to win anything.
Seriously,
it would be wiser to quit trying to appropriate the Land that God gave
to the Jews, than to continue on a path to an end you will never enjoy
without the presence of the inheritors of it. We have a Jealous GOD and
trust that HE will judge those who have hindered us from enjoying our
inheritance from Him. Everyone on Earth should be getting ready to meet
Him up close and personal, whether they like the prospects or not.
People who say they believe in God and read their bibles should naturally understand what it clearly states.
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I
have a thought, or at least the draft of one, of a real explanation of
why God has been treating my people with such exactness that others
think He hates us, compared to how He treats them. It has to do with the
difference, and the interplay, between envy and jealousy, and how the
Hebrew of the Bible treats these words and the concepts they represent.
It certainly doesn't have to do with anything leading outsiders to
believe that He has given up on us, or has abandoned us for them.
If
you read the Torah (Five Books of Moses, but especially the books of
Exodus and Numbers) carefully, you will see, even in translation, how
the descendants of Israel (Jacob) have doubts about whether they should
have left Egypt (Mitzrayim means constraints and refers to their slavery there. I note that its current name, Misr مصر, in Arabic, is basically the same.).
Risk-taking,
especially if one were accustomed to being forced to depend on a
"master" for the most meager need for generations — the fulfillment of
which depended on the degree of compliance with "his" demands — is the
last thing a freshly-freed slave would be able to accomplish. Yet, that
is exactly what God expected us to do — to trust Him and His servant,
Moshe (to whose name we now append Rabbenu, since he taught us how to
behave as a free people and interceded on our behalf with God when we
slipped up...which was often...) to follow them and do what they said.
In today's vernacular, we would say that we were infantilized
emotionally and mentally, not to mention spiritually...and now we had to
grow up and take responsibility for ourselves, with His help.
My
guess is that it's why our ancestors back in the day complained so much
and didn't think to ask nicely for what they needed. This thought led
me to ask haShem for permission to return home to Israel, rather than just barging in. It took two years for it to be fulfilled, and now we're well within our 18th year here, thank God.
The
last thought I want to leave you with is that jealousy has a very
positive aspect, which I personally have discovered over the past 2
years and change. When a couple is very much in love, the last thing
they want is to lose each other. They become jealous over each other with a desire to protect each other and the relationship.
I'm not sure if this is within the bounds of correct English, but the phrase jealous over seems
to suggest to me the picture of a large, beautiful umbrella over the
couple involved. And it definitely fits what I experience as God's
watching over me.
Envy does not have this quality at all.
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My very last thought on this, for now, is that I still have a lot to learn: how even words like vast, enormous, huge, gigantic (and relatively newly widespread synonyms derived from the last three, "ginormous" and "humongous") don't even begin to touch any description regarding HaShem, God. It may be why the Breslevers among the Jews quote Rebbe Nachman of Breslev, saying that we don't know anything.
Which is why ge'ulá shlemáh will be a big surprise...for the vast majority of the peoples of the earth.
I wish all my readers a healthy winter and a better year to those both inside and outside of Israel.
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