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05 October 2024

HaShem's wisdom shines above all: Part 2, one of the miracles!

Light of 4 Tishrei 5785 | אור ד' תשרי ה'תשפ"ה

Note: I got this post (the picture came with it, so I don't know whom to credit) from a geula (redemption-oriented) group near me. This is one story that came out of the Iranian ballistic missile attack that took place on Tuesday night Israel time, 1 October 2024.

Its author, Hillel Fuld, is familiar to many as the brother of Ari Fuld, HY"D. I chose to link to a search, rather than to one site, to show his many sides.

I couldn't resist.

I L💓VE YOU, GOD!!! - HDG

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Amazing insight from Hillel Fuld: (Worth reading)

I really don’t think you understand the absolute miracles that we witnessed last night here in Israel.

In fact, I am sure you don’t.

Let’s break this down.

Israel has three air defense systems, each one of them a technological wonder and that’s not me saying it. That’s Dr. Gold who basically invented the Iron Dome who told me that. The level and sophistication of the Iron Dome is simply unparalleled.

But the Iron Dome only knows how to detonate short range rockets or missiles within a 70 km range, give or take.

Then Israel has the David’s Sling system. That knows how to deal with mid range missiles up to approximately 300 km.

Then we have the Arrow system that literally detonates missiles that can fly outside of the earth’s atmosphere. That has a range of about 2,400 km!! 🤯

Last night, as Iran rained down ballistic missiles on Israel, all three defense systems were activated and implemented to perfection.

The chances of all of these incredibly complex systems working in unison as flawlessly as they did last night, are basically non existent.

If one thing went wrong, if one of those ballistic missiles hit an apartment building, a shopping center, or an army base, we would now be burying hundreds of Israelis.

And all of that is not even the biggest miracle.

A few hours ago, I got a WhatsApp message from a good friend who is a senior executive at Microsoft and who wasn’t exactly a God fearing Jew. Until yesterday.

Here is what he wrote me.

“If you’re looking for miracles man - last night I started believing. Missiles hit all around me but none of them hit my house or any house, for that matter.”

He elaborated some more and shared info about the missiles that he watched land just meters away from very strategic places in Israel, to say the least.

Each one of those defense systems is, in and of itself, pretty miraculous, but what is even more insane is the low casualty numbers from the rockets and missiles that we’re NOT intercepted.

Where did those missiles go? I’ll tell you where. They landed in sand, in water, and in “Empty spaces”.

Have you been to Israel? It’s a microscopic country. What empty spaces? Where are these empty spaces? 🤷‍♂

How have hundreds of Iranian ballistic missiles all either get detonated by miraculous systems or totally miss their mark and land in empty spaces causing zero casualties and minimal damage?!

How??

Listen, I get it. This thought process begs the question, where was God during the horrible terrorist attack yesterday? Where was He on October 7th? Where was He during the holocaust?

All valid questions that require a very serious nuanced conversation.

But if you know anything about what had to happen last night and throughout this war in general, for such a low number of casualties, you’ll know that what we witnessed last night was the equivalent of God splitting the sea right before our eyes.

Guess what. When God split the sea, there were those who didn’t believe it was a miracle and didn’t jump in. And there are also those who feel the need to explain it naturally. Ok, that’s fine.

You don’t want to call yesterday an act of God? That’s your choice, but like my Microsoft friend, if you look at these events objectively, you’d have a really hard time seeing those hundreds of deadly missiles land in empty spaces and not see the hand of God.

Last night was an incredible display of the collaboration between two of the powers that protect the Jewish people: The IDF and Hashem.

Last night will go down in history right alongside many of Israel’s accomplishments in this war including the beepers and the unprecedented low ratio between combatant and civilian, as a military operation the likes of which the world has never seen. Ever!

Last night will be analyzed by military strategists and experts for generations.

Last night, we witnessed history.

Last night we witnessed open miracles.

Last night, we witnessed God in all His glory watching over His children.

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02 October 2024

HaShem's wisdom shines above all! He is allowing our military to beat our enemies, to whatever extent...

Erev Rosh HaShana 5785

29 Elul 5784 | כ"ט אלול ה'תשפ"ד

It takes not only a great idea, but also the ideal circumstances to create around it, the timing to make it shine brightly, and be of ultimate usefulness.

So it is in war as well.

A word to the wise, especially in the Israeli Government:

Please stop preventing Jews from observing our God-given mitzvot - separating men and women at High Holidays services, for example. Not only is it bad in and of itself, it's also hypocritical, since you allow Muslims to observe it, but not Jews.

What is wrong with your eyesight and your memory? Don't you see now that bad things follow refusal to observe at least Shabbat and the High Holidays properly?

Don't you remember that the "OCTOBER SEVENTH" massacre occurred after you did those terrible things? HaShem didn't even let the holidays end before it happened...

Many Jews who didn't previously observe Shabbat are doing so now. The majority is now increasing, and if you have any regard for your precious "demokratia," you cannot ignore it.

Someone should have made the Tel Aviv mayor reverse his decision last year. You can still do so for this year, if you hurry. Let's take responsibility for what is ours to do, and then we can expect others to follow for what is theirs.

Shana tova umetukah to all Jews everywhere...may we see the revelation of our precious, long-awaited Mashiah this coming year.

HaShem is still with us, giving us wisdom and the means to carry it out against our enemies. Please give credit where credit is due, and do what is right. It's only derekh eretz / common decency.

We're still in the middle of the war...oy. Something still isn't right. But life goes on...

Happy Jewish New Year; Happy Birthday, Mankind!

[birthday picture would have gone here if I could download it; things have changed.]

04 September 2024

The rejected song, October Rain: some thoughts

Rosh Hodesh Elul 5784 | ר"ח אלול ה'תשפ"ד
A good and blessed month | חודש טוב ומבורך

Blogger's note: I am making an unusual request: Before looking at the video, readers might want to listen to the song first: Scroll down to the video and start playing it, and immediately scroll back up here, before you get very far into the video. After you hear it, you can think about the question I am asking below, and then watch the video and see if that makes a difference in how you think of the song.

And, of course, read the rest of the post. 😉

I estimated the amount of space it might take to allow for that, and it might not be useful for everyone. I apologize for that in advance. -HDG

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After finally hearing this song and choosing to blog about it, I have a question...

WHAT WAS SO "POLITICAL" ABOUT THE SONG, OCTOBER RAIN, THAT EUROVISION HAD TO BAN IT FROM THE COMPETITION?

Does anyone believe that the song's raison d'être will be so obvious five years from the event we know now? Especially if it is unaccompanied by a video?

I think that if it had been perceived as standing for anything else other than the tragedy suffered by Jews in Israel on October 7, 2023 at the hands of enemies who want all Jews dead, and that a Jewess from Israel was going to sing it, it would have been accepted with open arms.

(You'll notice that someone else is singing it, someone quite unexpected. I got it from HERE.)

Others did suffer as well, but no one seems to remember that, either.

The anniversary is coming up next month. What do you think?

I have not lost my hope and prayer that the ultimate good will come. But we will need to embrace it when it comes, rather than expecting more of the same old, same old thing we've been living with for the past 75+ years.

Have a good Hebrew month of Elul. May my readers merit to be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life for a good year...and more, in Tishrei 5785.

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28 August 2024

What are we waiting for? That is the question.

24 Menahem Av 5784 | כ"ד מנחם אב התשפ"ד

To see a part of what we're waiting for, watch this.

The rest of the Middle East (not to mention the US, who is playing both sides of this ongoing conflict) is saying lately that we are waiting for them to respond to the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and all the other evil leaders in the Middle East who have been seeking to annihilate us, wipe us off the face of the earth in the most painful and horrible ways.

Yes, we are waiting; but not for what they think. We are not dhimmis, even if they think we are, even those of us who are descendants of people in dhimmitude.

Besides that, we failed at least one test before that required us to wait. But we didn't; so, when the golden calf was made, we lost the opportunity to rectify the world, back in the days when we were in the desert; and we see the results today.

The other major test where waiting was required was before there was such a thing as Israelites or Jews. It was in the Garden of Eden when the satan-snake came to Hava haRishona (the First Eve) and suggested that she eat the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, that was forbidden to her.

Yeah, I know. She should have asked her husband. But you know, he wasn't there at the moment, and usually the snake-oil salesman tries to hurry the sale before he loses the customer, before he (in this case, she) had a chance to get confirmation or feedback otherwise.

What, you didn't know that the satan-snake was the first snake-oil salesman? 😉

Back to what the modern nation of Israel is waiting for, from north to south. No, we're not in any hurry to submit to you, Iran, or even to the rest of the Middle East, to become dhimmi again. It is not for you we wait.

Only for the king of the Jews.

(Yes, we know that someone else had that title, and that something bad happened to him. But that was because he wasn't the real king.)

As I have heard and expressed in writing before,

A family that is living here right now somewhere in this country holds the distant descendant of King David's unbroken male line, who is the heir to his throne. If he passes away, another will arise from that line; that's how we can say that Mashiah has been available, and could have come to Am Yisrael, in every generation. That's who Mashiah is, and his government will be the only truly legitimate one, recognized by all, here.

Many times in the past, the opportunity arose earlier in the process because there was a qualified descendant in every generation, but the people weren't ready to take advantage of it. Now, that doesn't matter because we are at the end, close to the very, very end. In a few years it will be 210 years before the seventh millennium of the world begins. A lot has to happen before the millennium-long sabbatical, just as, when every week draws to a close, we must prepare for Shabbath.

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The names of the American hostages in Gaza are: Edan Alexander; Itay Chen, HY"D; Sagui Dekel-Chen; Hersh Goldberg-Polin; Gadi Haggai, HY"D; Judith Weinstein Haggai, HY"D; Omer Neutra and Keith Siegel...since neither the American administration nor the American media are willing to SAY THEIR NAMES. Because Jews?! Pictures of these hostages can be found in the linked article as well.

Many thanks to Varda Meyers Epstein for the link immediately above; I didn't know what all their names were. I hope that all the nations represented in any way by the hostages currently in Gaza are reminding people of where they come from, whether alive or dead.

The HY"D after some of these hostages' names stands for May God avenge his/her blood. It means they were murdered, whether during captivity or beforehand, in this case during the 7 October 2023/Simhath Torah 5784 atrocities.

A note to clarify: Among the Ten Commandments, the sixth one, which is usually translated "Thou shalt not kill" (lo' tirtzáh לא תרצח), specifically refers to murder. Other kinds of killing have different verbs in Hebrew, and are not included in this commandment. It is the same in both versions presented in the Hebrew Bible. See HERE.

May Mashiah (the king of the Jews) come and be revealed today...שמשיח יבוא ויתגלה היום

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11 August 2024

Rav Eli J. Mansour: Parashat Debarim — Building the "Bridge" to Redemption

7 Menahem Av 5784 | ז' מנחם אב ה'תשפ"ד

The original d'var Torah by Rav Mansour was posted in time prior to SHABBAT DEBARIM 5784.
Take the Temple Institute Illustrated Tour of the Holy Temple HERE.

(Holy Temple = Bet Ha'mikdash)

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On Tisha B'Ab, as we know, we observe a fast and mourn the destruction of the Bet Ha'mikdash. Although this calamity occurred many generations after the Torah was given, nevertheless, the day of Tisha B'Ab – like everything else – has a source in the Torah.

This source is revealed to us by the Zohar, in Parashat Vayishlach, where it teaches that the 365 days of the solar year correspond to the 365 Misvot Lo Ta'aseh – prohibitions introduced by the Torah. Each day of the solar calendar is associated with a different Biblical prohibition. And the day of Tisha B'Ab, the Zohar writes, corresponds to the prohibition of "Gid Ha'nasheh," which forbids partaking of a certain sinew of animals. This prohibition commemorates the incident that occurred when Yaakob Abinu was on his way back to Eretz Yisrael after having spent twenty years with his uncle. On the night before he crossed the river into the Land of Israel, he was attacked by a mysterious assailant, identified by the Sages as the Satan, the angel of Esav. Yaakob ultimately prevailed, but suffered an injury in his Gid Ha'nasheh. In commemoration of this struggle, we refrain from eating the Gid Ha'nasheh of animals. The Zohar teaches us that this prohibition corresponds with Tisha B'Ab. Just as this command requires us to refrain from eating something to commemorate a foreigner's attack that caused Yaakob a painful injury, on Tisha B'Ab we refrain from eating to commemorate the pain and suffering caused by our enemies on this day.

The Hatam Sofer (Rav Moshe Sofer, Pressburg, 1762-1839) develops the Zohar's teaching further, establishing that this fight between Yaakob and Esav's angel actually took place on the night of Tisha B'Ab. That night set the precedent for what would happen many centuries later, when, like then, our enemy would come and deal a painful blow.

If so, then we can perhaps understand an otherwise peculiar aspect of the Torah's description of the events of that night when the angel attacked Yaakob.

The Torah relates that on this night, Yaakob brought all his belongings across the river, to the other side ("Va'ya'aber Et Asher Lo" – Bereshit 32:24). Afterward, he was left alone on his side, and he came under attack. Rashi explains this verse to mean, "He made himself like a bridge, taking from here and placing it here." We must wonder, why is this important? Why did the Torah find it necessary to inform us that Yaakob formed a "bridge" over the river, bringing his possessions from one side to the next?

The answer is that this "bridge" is the secret for how we defeat "Esav" and recover from the destruction and exile that he brings upon us. In Yaakob's famous dream, he saw a ladder extending from the ground – from the site of the Bet Ha'mikdash – to the heavens. This is what the Bet Ha'mikdash represents – connecting the earth to the heavens, infusing our physical world and our physical reality with sanctity, with spiritual meaning. Offering an animal as a sacrifice means taking a physical entity and making it sacred, which is precisely the way we are supposed to live. This is what the Bet Ha'mikdash represented, and this is the symbolic meaning of Yaakob forming a "bridge" for his material possessions. When he brought his assets across the river to Eretz Yisrael, he was showing us what religious life means – infusing our physical, worldly existence with holiness. This is the significance of Yaakob's "bridge" – bridging the gap between heaven and earth, between the sacred and the mundane, between the spiritual and the physical.

On that night of Tisha B'Ab, which established this occasion as a time of exile, suffering and calamity, Yaakob showed us how we can bring an end to our troubles and earn redemption. In order to be worthy of the Bet Ha'mikdash, we need to work to make this connection between heaven and earth, between our physical reality and Kedusha. We need to infuse our mundane activities with spiritual meaning, by directing everything we do toward Torah and Misvot. We do this by going about all our activities in strict adherence to Halacha, and by devoting time and resources for sacred purposes. By elevating our worldly existence, and injecting it with holiness, we form the "bridge" that will lead us to the rebuilding of the Bet Ha'mikdash, speedily and in our times, Amen.

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May haShem bring this about with all due speed; may the upcoming Tisha b'Av become a feast day before our very eyes!

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