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16 December 2025

Hanukkah 5786: Where was the 1960s Jewish Lib movement when we needed one?

26 Kislev 5786 | כ'ו כסלו ה'תשפ"ו

Hanukkah 5786 | חניכה ה'תשפ"ו

2nd candle | נר ב

I took this pic in 2016.

NOTES: "Lib" stands for LIBERATION, for those who don't remember those days, or who weren't alive yet, then.

This post was inspired by an article from Vision Magazine, "They didn't teach me Hanukah" by Danit Grady. Like her, I didn't learn the real story of Hanukkah until later in life. For me, it was MUCH later.

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People might be forgiven for thinking that from the end of the Holocaust until the Six-Day War, almost 20 years, was the process of liberation of the Jewish people from the notion that we were weak and helpless against our enemies. We had gained and declared a state, after all, within the boundaries of our ancestral homeland in the Middle East.

The June 1967 victory was so great, the world stood up and took notice. But, unfortunately, it's hard to describe the relationship between the Israeli government and its citizens as having any kind of unity. The army and the government were taking all the credit for the victory, but the rest of us — as well as many Arabs who witnessed this with their own eyes — saw the miraculous happenings. Unlike the Holocaust, which ended almost 20 years prior, God was not "hidden" from the Israeli Jews that fateful June.

Our leadership, however, was oblivious. They have taken credit for every victory then and ever since. We've been paying for it even during the Simchat Torah/October 7th massacre and followup war.

I was a pre-teen at the time of the "6-Day War", and it was the first time in my life that I could stand up straight and look my peers in the eye. It didn't last very long, unfortunately.

We cannot allow them to get away with whatever shenanigans they've been up to, then and ever since. The liberation we were expecting at that time didn't come. It still hasn't.

Rather than accepting and ensuring that Judaism would flourish in the Land, our leadership suppressed and mocked anything particularly Jewish, to the point of allowing Arab Muslims to be in our government, even though these were enemies of the so-called Jewish leadership that invited them in and the laws of the country, and especially of our religion and relationship with God.

Certain leaders made a point of abdicating leadership, for example the handing over of the Temple Mount to the Arabs there and not allowing Jews the same rights. (Ideally, no one should be up there at all until King David's scion and heir to the throne is revealed (and who would also be Mashiah). But no one was ready to treat Jews equally with Arabs. Either both on, or both off.)

The article linked to above, if you haven't read it already, is about the struggle of the Hebrew people to retain our religion and the culture that grew out of it. You might want to say that nowadays it's about the Palestinians...but unfortunately for us, and also for you, dear reader, is that today the moniker Palestinian is applied to the wrong people. Our government screwed up, quite frankly, when then-prime minister Golda Meir decided to throw that name to the dogs, so to speak. They picked it up and ran with it, and we don't even bat an eyelash when we hear it used by our enemies as their identity.

EVERY REFERENCE TO PALESTINIANS UNTIL THEN WAS TO THE JEWS. The Palestine Post (and many other names of things I can't think of right now) was JEWISH. My maternal grandmother was a Palestinian Jew (not many American Jews can say they have a relative who was a Palestinian Jew before the declaration of the state; but I can, and in her merit I returned here, after asking Heavenly Permission.).

But I didn't only come here to rehash a bit of history. I came here to insist that we demand liberation from the necessity to follow the dictates of the nations so that we can recover ourselves from our own sources.

The best way to do that is to SAY BYE-BYE TO THE NATIONS and come home to the Land we were given by God millennia ago. Even Israel Behind the News is writing about this HERE, saying: "Jews are no longer welcome. The days of comfort for Jews in the west are over!"

While things were relatively good in lands across the seas and over dry land, we might have needed to ask permission to come home, as I wrote about doing in the link three paragraphs above. But now HQB"H (God) seems to be forcing us to reconsider and even run home as soon as possible!

Despite everything I heard about our governance system while I was still in chutz la'aretz, I have not regretted a single moment since I made aliyah. I have found that it's more important to choose a city, town or village — wherever you want to live — where you can make friends with your neighbors, if you don't already have friends there, and trust them.

It may even be that HaShem will guide you there, in times like these.

We may never have a completely joyful occasion again until we're all gathered together and Mashiah makes himself known.

We need to try to have a happy Hanukkah as best as we possibly can, through our tears.

...and maybe we should call what should have been the Jewish Liberation movement back in the 1960s/5720s the "goodness liberation" movement...and have it now, in the 2020s/5780s. What do you think?

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P.S. The US First Amendment to the Constitution limiting certain forms of expression from freedom of speech is exemplified by the phrase "shouting 'fire!' in a crowded theater." Why? See here for more.

The reversal there and in Europe is more evident by the day.

Whatever fire there is, is between us and HaShem!

I cannot speak for other countries or peoples.

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12 October 2025

Continuous war or sovereignty? The current question in Israel.

20 Tishrei/Tashri 5786 | כ' תשרי התשפ"ו
6th of the 7 days of Succoth

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Online pics have recently become more aggressively sales-oriented...so no more with articles unless I take them myself. Sorry about that.

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Most of us choose sovereignty, from what I've been reading and hearing...so why hasn't HaShem let us have it? He turns the hearts of the leaders...or are they too stubborn to listen?

Well, how much have we learned in the last two years, the aftermath of the October Seventh Massacre so far?

Will we ever have peace without our Biblically-mandated homeland(s) that include Yehuda, Shomron and Aza?
Will we ever have peace without total victory over ALL the enemy organizations among the nations, whether Xian or Muslim?
Will we ever have peace with the current system, which includes a military leadership that often seems to favor the other side's victory, even in public?
And do the nations, especially the USA, understand yet that whoever divides Eretz Yisrael is in BIG, BIG, BIG trouble? Apparently NOT! (See the SEARCH for lists of Biblical references, not only Jewish, but also Xian ones — see explanation below.*)

Did we learn yet that every single Jew who lives in Eretz Yisrael needs to consider the Kingdom of God to be our proper governance system — and let go of the idea that it's equivalent to Iranian (or any other kind of) Islam???

Especially, that our current governance does not allow for a Jewish victory over our enemies, but rather war after war after war, ad nauseam.

The one thing I think (you don't have to believe what I think, but you do have to think about your own reality, and your understanding of our blood enemy) is that Islam is both very much like Judaism, and radically the opposite as well.

It has the same rules, but they are followed very differently. Anything we would consider a sin, they feel comfortable doing, as long as it is justified as "for Alla". Stealing, lying, murder and much more are all included, even though they have courts — all against, and opposite, the Ten Commandments.

A funny thing: If I were to translate the last sentence into Hebrew, the word NEGED נגד means both "against" and "opposite" and would certainly be included.

Furthermore, things they do, they accuse us of doing...stealing land that belongs to the Jews is at the top of the list, necessitating the war of genocide against the Israeli Jews that they've been perpetuating, with the help and encouragement of the rest of the world, ever since we started returning home as a nation.

That's at least 120 years ago.

Avi Abelow (of the Pulse of Israel and Israel Unwired) spells out clearly here what he sees as the result of the "deal" to bring the hostages home, the dead as well as the living.

And somehow, I think they "won't be able to find all the dead bodies" — liars that they are. I just pray that all the living ones are still alive when they're returned to us, and that the ones that are not, will be found quickly and delivered whole.

If we don't claim sovereignty over our lands and act upon it, the gentiles are doing so on their own behalf!

Happy Succoth and a good and sweet year to all my people around the world as well as Israel! And may the culmination of our troubles begins now.

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22 July 2025

The Prophet Nathan's words from God to King David...a commentary

26 Tammuz 5785 | כו' תמוז ה'תשפ"ה

Tower of David, Old City, Jerusalem (source)

The idea that Messiah is someone who would be supernaturally created (like the "virgin birth" of JC, for example), was not predicted by the Jewish scriptures. A prophecy in what we know as "2nd Samuel" (in Hebrew, Shmuel Bet שמואל ב) should explain the background of the real Jewish Messiah, promised by the very real Living God.

By the time we're done here, you'll see why the Christian Church in all its forms has got its figurative foot stuck firmly in its mouth. Especially the pastors and other spiritual leaders in churches and governments all over the world (at this writing, Mike Huckabee represents them in my mind) who deal with Israel and Jews in such a way as to try to make Judaism disappear in the face of the false religion of "Christianity," especially and particularly in the homeland of the Jewish People.

Dear God, please let the shock ensue, the false walls come down, and the truth come out. But let no Jew, whether loyal or repentant, be harmed, whether in Israel or outside the Land.

The one real standard that the Christians go by, whether they mean it or are just using it as a ploy of some kind, is that one has to prove everything by its presence in Scripture. By this they include the Tanach (Torah, Prophets and Writings), which they call the Old Testament, which a person can understand in more than one way: They can't outright get rid of it — because it would completely delegitimize them — but rather, they disparage it and rarely refer to it, except when it serves their interest.

However, one of their favorite books is included in it: The book of Psalms, written and compiled by none other than King David. And they love the Prophets...or so they say.

It is by no means the only place one can find this information scripturally, but it is the foundation on which it all rests.

Let's begin.

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The books of Samuel testify that two Prophets, Samuel and Nathan, came to King David to make and confirm not only him King of all Israel, but also his seed, son-after-son, forever. As part of this, we'll see that the term Mashiach always refers to the legitimate King of Israel.¹

Accordingly, the Mashiach will be revealed, whether in this generation or the next, or whenever; he is a human being and not a supernatural creation. I believe that the disparagement of the classic Jewish Testament books contributed mightily to the rejection by Christians of this testimony in favor of the "virgin birth" that supposedly God begot, or sired, a detail that is to be found nowhere in the Jewish Testament.

It still continues today.

The prophetic statement of King and Mashiach has been there all along: It's the entire perek (chapter) 7 in the book of 2nd Samuel and is backed up by individual statements in both parts of the book of Samuel, the first and the second.²

This portion of 2nd Samuel, where God promised King David, after he was anointed King of Israel and fought the wars he needed to, when He did away with his enemies all around, that his direct male line from his time until the present — whenever that "present" is, because the promise is forever — is the messianic family as well as the royal family, FOREVER.

Even if, or when, the intervening generations of this line abandon God's Torah and stop walking in His laws (also in Psalm 89, specifically verses 30-38, written, not by David, but rather by Eitan the Ezrachite),

He will never forget His promise to David. It will come about, no matter how long it takes, no matter how winding the road is, before it comes to its never-ending fulfillment.

That's why we have said that the Mashiach has had the potential of revealing himself, or being revealed, in every generation. That's also why reference to mashiach ben David is made constantly in the Jewish prayer books.

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In your reading of the Holy Scriptures, have you ever noticed that King Saul, before he was rejected as king, was also referred to as Mashiach haShem²? (We would have to know where to look for that. It's in the Hebrew text, and if you don't have a Tanach or an "Old Testament" with Hebrew, it won't be there. My source has both, and my references are to a Jewish version published by Artscroll³.)

...and by none other than David, who was not yet king, himself, in different places in 1st Samuel. David knew that the properly-anointed Jewish king also means that he's Mashiach.

David, the youngest son of Jesse/Yishai, was anointed by the prophet Samuel/Shmuel in 1 Samuel 16 according to God's command.

In English: The anointed one of the Lord. It always refers to a king of Israel, including all the tribes.

Unfortunately, King Saul slipped up badly, and even his son Jonathan and all the rest of his sons paid with their lives. So, there was no male descendant to whom to pass the kingship on.

See this article, "Who is Mashiah in Tanach" for more details. The main Scriptural reference is 1 Samuel 24:7 and surrounding text. To summarize the point, it is written that, while Shaul haMelech was Melech (king), he was the Mashiach haShem (anointed of the Lord). All I know is that now that there is no "nation of Amalek" to speak of, we only know him by his behavior, specifically the goal of genocide against the Jewish People. The current leadership of Iran, and Hamas in Gaza, along with its brother organizations there, are prime examples of this.

As written above, 2 Samuel 7, the whole chapter, is about the prophecy concerning King David from the prophet Nathan. It includes David's relationship with God and the promises He made to him, concerning Israel and himself.

There are lots of commentaries as well as verses on this page; the site is called Al haTorah (About the Torah), and you can customize what you want to examine: To the right of the page you can choose the pasuk (verse) by Hebrew letter. On the left on each pasuk you can choose the E in a box to view the English translation, and it shows both Hebrew and English. That's how I copied the relevant verses in Hebrew and English, below.

The one problematic thing is that the page numbers in Hebrew end up being in the middle, or at the end, of sentences; I tried to put them at the beginning and it doesn't work for me. I apologize, especially to those who are more fluent in Hebrew and therefore notice these details.

I bolded the parts most relevant to this discussion, particularly in verse 12 and below, in both languages.

(י) וְשַׂמְתִּ֣י מָ֠ק֠וֹם לְעַמִּ֨י לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל וּנְטַעְתִּיו֙ וְשָׁכַ֣ן תַּחְתָּ֔יו וְלֹ֥א יִרְגַּ֖ז ע֑וֹד וְלֹֽא־יֹסִ֤יפוּ בְנֵֽי־עַוְלָה֙ לְעַנּוֹת֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר בָּרִאשׁוֹנָֽה׃

10 And I will appoint a place for My people Israel and I will plant them that they may dwell in their own place and not be agitated anymore. Neither shall the wicked afflict them anymore, as at the first,

(יא) וּלְמִן־הַיּ֗וֹם אֲשֶׁ֨ר צִוִּ֤יתִי שֹֽׁפְטִים֙ עַל־עַמִּ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַהֲנִיחֹ֥תִי לְךָ֖ מִכׇּל־אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ וְהִגִּ֤יד לְךָ֙ יְהֹוָ֔ה כִּי־בַ֖יִת יַעֲשֶׂה־לְּךָ֥ יְהֹוָֽה׃

11 even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, Hashem tells you that Hashem will make you a house.

(יב) כִּ֣י׀ יִמְלְא֣וּ יָמֶ֗יךָ וְשָֽׁכַבְתָּ֙ אֶת־אֲבֹתֶ֔יךָ וַהֲקִימֹתִ֤י אֶֽת־זַרְעֲךָ֙ אַחֲרֶ֔יךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יֵצֵ֖א מִמֵּעֶ֑יךָ וַהֲכִינֹתִ֖י אֶת־מַמְלַכְתּֽוֹ׃

12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall lie with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, that shall proceed from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

(יג) ה֥וּא יִבְנֶה־בַּ֖יִת לִשְׁמִ֑י וְכֹנַנְתִּ֛י אֶת־כִּסֵּ֥א מַמְלַכְתּ֖וֹ עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃

13 He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

King David ends the conversation with the request that, indeed, from His blessing that his house be blessed forever.

(כט) וְעַתָּ֗ה הוֹאֵל֙ וּבָרֵךְ֙ אֶת־בֵּ֣ית עַבְדְּךָ֔ לִֽהְי֥וֹת לְעוֹלָ֖ם לְפָנֶ֑יךָ כִּֽי־אַתָּ֞ה אֲדֹנָ֤י יֱהֹוִה֙ דִּבַּ֔רְתָּ וּמִבִּרְכָ֣תְךָ֔ יְבֹרַ֥ךְ בֵּֽית־עַבְדְּךָ֖ לְעוֹלָֽם׃

29 Now let it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You; for You, Hashem God, have spoken and with Your blessing, may the house of Your servant be blessed forever."

Many comments on the word זרע alone run throughout the site I got this from.

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It takes a firm emunah among the generations to hang on until this all happens; but knowing that God is All-Knowing, All-Seeing, All-Powerful, and Everywhere helps, no matter how bad the situation looks.

If you studied the p'sukim and their translations above carefully, I think it should be clear that the Mashiah cannot be the "only begotten son of God" and a direct male descendant of King David simultaneously.

In addition, it can be seen that God never promised that He Himself would sire a child at all, never mind one who would be half human and half God, or all God; He commanded His vegetable, animal and human creations to "be fruitful and multiply." Therefore, there is no "wiggle room" to allow for a human being to be sired directly by God, and no room for another nation to have a leader who will bring the whole world back to Him.⁴

This is the foundation of the prophet Daniel's 'rock not made by human hands.' "Scriptural proof" of any other messiah is on a shaky foundation, and we all know what a building on a shaky foundation is called: Fallen and broken.

What really shakes me up about this is that I never heard about it before a rabbi pointed out (I would give him credit, but I don't remember who it was; it was a long time ago) that the Hebrew term zera' זרע actually refers to flesh-and-blood children and cannot be 'spiritualized,' as Christians particularly tend to do.

I wonder why this point is not brought up more often. After all, no matter how you look at it, it's like saying that the masculine half of the reproductive process is irrelevant.

The end has not yet arrived. May it come soon, in our days!

Here's a short video a bit late, sorry about that (my fault, not the fault of the person who sent it to me.).

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¹The kings of Israel, when separated from Judah, are not what is referred to here; only the unified nation of the Jewish People.

²The phrase, Mashiach haShem, is found in the following pasukim (verses) in 1st Samuel: 24:7 (twice); 24:11 (David actually referred to King Sha'ul to his face here as Mashiach haShem); 26:9, 11, 16, 23; 2nd Samuel 1:14, 16; 2:4, 7 (the latter referring to David, who was anointed king of Judah).

³My Artscroll translation takes bayit, usually house, and translates it as dynasty — in context about a royal family, this also makes sense.

⁴This does not mean that the whole world has to become Jews, as has been written and said many times before. In fact, it will be the end of accepting conversion candidates! Everyone loves a winner and, as we often say about other things, "the opposite is also true." If you are not a Jew, and understand that only people who have found the truth in the Jewish scriptures despite all the lies, the attempts at ridding the world of Jews, and even when Jews have been evil, you might still be a candidate. But you might want to do it now, and not wait until we have survived it all, arrived at victory, and the world is free of evil.

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Think for Yourself: Nissim Black on Candace Owens | Myrtle Rising: Interesting tidbits about the church accidentally hit in Gaza | VIN: Christian church hit in Gaza built on R' Yisrael Najara's shul, where Shabtai Tzvi was later declared Messiah [where's the proof that ST was King David's scion of his generation? I suspect there is none. - HDG] | Tomer Devorah: The Chr*stian blood libel is back!!!; URGENT follow-up to Huckabee visa complaints (includes video evidence); Setting the record straight on Taybeh | IL Hayom: US envoy [Huckabee]: I did not blame Jews for Taybeh fire | IL Unwired: It's Time: Sovereignty NOW in Judea & Samaria | "A picture is worth 1,000 words." Tomer Devorah: The Israel Guys = HAYOVEL the MISSIONARIES!!! | Shoemaker Report: The Covenant that Heals a Broken World | Bet El Friends: Unwanted Foreign Funding | VisionMag: The Myth of the Altruistic Evangelical Ally | Shirat Devorah: The 210-214 years | JFeed: It's not genocide — but someone's still guilty | R' Dov Fischer: Let's not waste another G-d-given opportunity. Sovereignty NOW! | A-7: Netanyahu to Red Cross: 'Images of hostages reminiscent of Nazi crimes; Idan Amedi lashes out at artists' ceasefire petition: You're worthless, we're sick of you | Myrtle Rising: UPDATED: Rav Avigdor Miller on the true story behind the Kamtza bar Kamtza Fiasco & what it REALLY means | Going Home to Yerushalayim/Mishpacha Mag: Getting the record very straight | Myrtle Rising: "The terrorists were ready to give up all the hostages and Sinwar, and fully surrender" But...why didn't they? Also: Links to Past Posts for the holiday season (updated!) [For 2025. Includes a revealing Q&A about Yoshki! - HDG] |

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