Har haBayit Boycotted by the Arabs. Now What?

24 Tammuz 5777
BS"D

Will we accept HaShem's precious gift this time? Where I got this from | Original Source

UPDATE BELOW.

For the first time since 1967, the Temple Mount has been abandoned by the Arabs who have dominated the site since General Moshe Dayan "gave the keys" to them after the Six-Day War. This is due to the murder of two Druze police officers, whom Arabs killed there last Friday, and our response — which was to place metal detectors on the site shortly thereafter.

Riots have been taking place over our security measures, and as of yesterday, the Arabs have been boycotting their "third most holy site."

Best yet, Jews have been allowed to ascend freely. If you (a Jew or Jewess) wish to do so, here are some instructions from Reb Dov Bear bar Leib in a comment:

Ascend the Mountain of the L-rd, but do not turn toward the Center of the Complex up there that is do NOT turn toward the Golden Dome. There is only kares [spiritual death or excision - CDG] if you cross over the Chiel separating the Southern Ct. of the Gentiles from the East West line which contains within its borders the Ezrat Kohanim, the Ezrat Yisrael, and the Ezrat HaNashim. In order to stay on the Southern Court of the Gentiles when entering through the Mughrabi Gate, either walk straight ahead or turn right toward the Al Aksa Mosque. Go up with a Guide to make sure that you do not err. Also separate from your spouse for three days prior, and go to a mikveh, kosher for the removal of niddah tumah, the night before ascending. 

Rabbi Ephraim Sprecher also adds: Even men must clean themselves thoroughly first before immersing in the mikvah, just as a woman does before she immerses and is permitted to her husband (this is from a class I attended approximately two years ago). Consult your mikvah-going wife if you have questions. 😉

We don't have the Parah Adumah (Red Heifer) yet, so heed carefully the warnings above.


"Thou shalt not murder" is the 6th of the 10 Commandments. Thank G-d that the clamping down was swift this time; and may the status quo be changed irrevocably.


Who knew it would be that easy to empty Har haBayit of those who defile it and would keep the Jewish People from its destiny! May Mashiah be revealed, even before the 9th of Av!

The big questions are: When HaShem clears the way this time, will we reject, or accept, His gift of Har haBayit and know what to do with it? Will Mashiah be able to enter the area and reign there when he is revealed and crowned (may it be now)?

UPDATE: I have been remiss in not thanking G-d immediately, directly, for the miracle written about here. THANK YOU, HQB"H AVINU MALKEINU, FOR THE CONTINUING MIRACLE OF THE CONTINUED ABSENCE OF NON-JEWS ON HAR HABAYIT as of 4 Av 5777 / 27 July 2017. May it continue! WE WANT YOUR PRESENCE AMONG US!

More reading:
Har Habayit: Hashem Working in Mysterious Ways | One of the Most Serious Sins to Repent and Correct | Moshiach: A Discussion | [VIDEO] Did a Rabbi's Humility Destroy the Temple? |

Temple Mount (Har haBayit) Proponents, Beware!

 17 Iyyar 5783 | י"ז אייר ה'תשפ"ג

32nd Day of the Omer Count | יום ל"ב לעומר

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I received an email from someone who doesn't want to be identified, just before Pesach Sheni, which was erev Shabbat Emor as well, with the message I bring today. Even though the intent was to warn people on Pesach Sheni, it has come and gone and Mashiah has not yet arrived. And I am not actually quoting anyone else here, just my thoughts on the message and the people referred to therein.

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I think it is still a good thing to carry this person's warning about a particular group, High on the Har, that has an agenda contrary to the Torah. Apparently they hang out on the Har (that is, Har haBayit or the Temple Mount) as part of their agenda.

That is, they are Christians. I am tempted to ask, what are they smoking on the Har? What are they thinking?😂 

If Jews aren't allowed up there, NO ONE ELSE should be there at all. 

(I know, individual Jews and groups of Jews have been up there, even without incident. However, the Israeli government has not totally given in yet, and neither have the Muslim Arabs, at all. If everyone else complains, but the Jews aren't allowed up there, it's religious discrimination from our point of view; and more importantly, from God's point of view, these others are all nothing but encroaching outsiders. We are, or should be, the first to be allowed. But I digress.)

To be clear: It is our Holy Father, the One Who created and made everything and everyone, Who is like an ever-fresh cypress tree (cf. Hoshea 14:9). What is the emphasis on a successor to take His place about? Even the nation of Israel, who is God's first born son, does not take the place of our Father in heaven. 

He is ETERNAL. He bears neither sickness nor disease, nor old age. He is as strong now as He was in the beginning, and He will always be. 

Just let's not get in His way!

HaShem will deliver us from all evildoers, including the ones who think they run the world today, and bring us to the final redemption in His time, which He can — or will — hasten (Isaiah/Yeshayahu 60:22).

The video below, produced by High on the Har, has at least one immodest woman with tattoos (a confusing message if I ever saw one, because the combined tattoos form the words to the "I believe in the coming of Mashiah" song in Hebrew...), just to warn the men who read my musings here as well as messages like this one. 

It may be that no one will want to watch it. I cannot blame them. The video below it is much more suitable.

Temple Mount Proponents Beware!

 

 

 

Here's the song her tattoos read. I like this version:

Zusha: Mashiach

 

Notice the difference between their comportment and hers.

Happy 33rd Day of the Omer Count ! ל"ג לעומר שמח

Restore Jewish Prayer to Har haBayit!

Erev 23 Elul 5775

להחזיר תפילת יהודים על הר הבית! העם דורש תפילה בהר! אומרים המפגינים

A demonstration, organized by Yosef Rabin, blogger for Arutz 7 and Temple Mount activist, took place in the early evening by the Cords Bridge (Gesher haMetarim) near the western entrance to Yerushalayim, about returning Jewish prayer to Har haBayit (the Temple Mount).

Much spirit was displayed as people chanted, "Restore Jewish Prayer to the Temple Mount" and "The People Demands Prayer on the Mount" in Hebrew.

Mr. Rabin expressed the hope that in the near future, more would be done to arouse the desire for justice for the Jewish People, particularly with regard to central parts of our faith connected to the Land of Israel. As a blogger tracking the Complete Redemption as it goes along in its many phases, I am happy to advertise future events of this nature, so that the people have a chance to express their choice to walk along this special path. It is up to each and every one of us to do our part, especially because the mainstream media won't touch this!

This blog is dedicated to helping see every part of HaShem's agenda come to fruition, including the building of the Temple and praying on it, in addition to the Sanhedrin system of Torah governance and Mashiach.


In other related news, the nascent Sanhedrin is scheduled to go to Har Tzion (Mount Zion) to judge Har Esav (the mount of Esav, in particular the Vatican and its Pope) on Wednesday (Yom Revi'i), 9 September (25 Elul, the day of the creation of the world!) at noon according to the prophet Ovadiah, verse 21. We wait with 'bated breath for the results!

גאולה שלימה עכשיו! Complete Redemption Now!

Oh, yes. I did take that picture. ;)

Concerning “Beating Yishma’el at His Own Game”

5 Tishrei 5776
5th Day of Awe

Concerning “Beating Yishma’el at His Own Game” - a Teshuva Drosha by the maggid shiur Rabbi Yissocher Frand

***IMPORTANT UPDATES BELOW!*** 

NOTE: The picture above is yet another example of using the name Palestine to refer to something JEWISH.

I listened to what seems to be the Rav’s Teshuva Drosha for 5776, "How to Beat Yishma’el at His Own Game," several times over the last few days. It is one of the most powerful I have ever heard, and not only because the voice of the Rav projects well. 

I understand how hard it is to speak with Jews in chutz la’aretz about making major changes in their lives and attitudes – I’ve been there, and been one of those people. But I’m here in Israel now, in Yerushalayim – not in Ir haAtika; nevertheless, in Ir haKodesh. 

The Rav spoke movingly, lovingly and with great concern for me and my brothers and sisters here in the Land of the Jews. Clearly he has been here and seen what goes on here.

Since he wants to convince people to take Yitzhak Avinu as their role model for mesirath nefesh as well as prayer, I hope I can help, even a little, by suggesting that he include the following well-known merits of our middle Forefather:

1.   He lived his entire life in Eretz haKodesh, Eretz Yisrael. He never stepped one foot outside its borders. Everything he did was in this context.
2. Yishma'el, his elder brother, desired to kill him from childhood on, as the Rav points out; this is still going on today. I might add only that the teshuva he did when their father passed away must not have been sufficient, since his descendants do not seem to have remembered it; and even if they do, they still do not honor it.
3.  He offered his life on Har haMoriah – what we know today as the Temple Mount, Har haBayit. HQB”H had other plans that day, and so we have our forefather Ya’aqov and the Twelve Tribes…and the lineage that continues until today and beyond.
4. He re-dug the wells that Avraham his father had originally dug and had subsequently been filled in by the Philistines, thus reclaiming the land near Gaza that they were located on - and, not being satisfied with this, he dug three more: Esek (which today means business, but is often translated contention), Sitna (accusation, incitement, slander and denunciation) and Rehovoth (wide open spaces). (Note that although the Philistines had never dug the first two of these wells, they claimed them for their own, hence their names. Sound familiar? Have we learned the lesson yet?) Bereshith 26:15-24
5. It's a funny-strange thing: While Jews can pray at the Ma’arat haMachpela, we are not allowed to pray by Yitzhak Avinu, but only by his father Avraham and his son Ya’aqov. It seems that Yitzhak is the key to securing our heritage and inheritance. The Yishmaelite Muslims know that, so they keep us away from him.

Yitzhak Avinu's and Rivka Imenu's graves as they are today. Jews are not allowed to visit them. This picture came from islamiclandmarks.com.

Kol hakavod to the Rav for what he did say (perhaps he felt he got his words in edgewise)! I wish him success in getting his hearers to dress up for davening, pray with more concentration, and give more of themselves. Surely he could go one step further and inspire them to come and live in the land of Yitzhak Avinu, and help us rise up and defend her. Yes, it is very different from what it was then. But we in Israel need Jews with serious mesirath nefesh now. Here is the story of a young, obviously-religious Jew who had to run through a gauntlet of Arabs after having been to Har haBayit. They have a still picture of him fallen to the ground and the women gloating over him as if he were dead. But if you watch the video, he was on the ground only a split second. He escaped to safety, thank G-d – but he got a grilling by security. 

Would decent Jews stand for that? I think not. In fact, here is the response of 150 fellow yeshiva bachurim to this near-lynching. Does this qualify as a good start on self-sacrifice?

I don’t need to argue with a Rav who has his values on straight, who speaks straight from the heart and is respected by those who hear him. But I think I need to pick him up a little and tell him that he needs to finish the job.

Make aliyah. Because it's hard. Because Yitzhak Avinu would have, if he'd had to.

May the Rav’s nephew, Shmuel Aryeh ben Malka Feige, have a refuah shleimah.

May all my readers be inscribed for good (and not for bad) in the Book of Life.

Many thanks to R’ Yeranen Yaakov for posting a link to the shiur on his blog. Click on the file that results when you click this link, to download it or listen to it.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: 4000 Karlin Hassidim prayed Selichoth by Yitzhak Avinu last night in the video below. I found out from a trusted friend that police had to clear the way for them. Many thousands more Jews will visit Hevron in the coming days before Yom Kippur. A7

VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE: We will NOT beat Yishma'el at his own game if he continues to OCCUPY THE TEMPLE MOUNT. Obvious, right? 

Step 1: Sign this petition: 1 Million for a Jewish Temple Mount! Petition | GoPetition

For more steps: Defending the Jewish Temple Mount is a Major Red Line!

You will make Yitzhak Avinu very, very HAPPY!!!

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When a Rabbi is Right, He's Right! Land concession IS like wife sharing...

3 Tammuz 5780

A view of the Shomron (source)

Land concession is like wife sharing. That's how Rabbi Shlomo Aviner put it in a recent interview with Rabbi Mordechai Tzion regarding our side of the Peace and Prosperity Plan ("Deal of the Century") that the United States is proposing - not to mention all the proposals since 1948.

Here is what Rav Aviner said when asked whether Israel should agree with the deal, counting on the Arabs to refuse:

Q. Some say that politics is just talk anyway, and therefore we can agree to this deal, because for sure the Arabs will refuse, and then we'll come out the good guys and we'll reap the benefits.

A. Regarding the Land of Israel, even just talk of betrayal is a terrible sin. It would be like a man who says that he agrees to lend his wife to his neighbor a few days a week, in the knowledge that his neighbor won't agree; this is also betrayal.

We all remember the Rosh HaShanah story of Rav Amnon who, under pressure from the king to convert to Christianity, finally said that he would "think about it." When he realized the he had actually given the impression that he might consider converting, he had terrible regrets, repented of his sin – and died with great suffering.

Incidentally, there is no guarantee that the Arabs will not agree. There were cases in the past when they agreed. When it comes to our very existence and national soul, we don't gamble. After all, the ties between the Nation of Israel and the Land of Israel are not those of a peddler and his wares; they are rather like man and wife, a bond of life.

Read more from whence this passage was taken. This article was translated from Hebrew by Hillel Fendel.

I think that's at the heart of all the difficulties we have been having over our Land. Too many Jews here, especially the leadership of almost all the parties (Yamina being a notable exception), have had ambivalent feelings toward her at the very least. And the Arabs have always refused any deal with us until now.

Aretz/eretz ארץ is feminine, therefore the Land is feminine...so go ahead, call her Mother Eretz Israel. I suspect it's also where R' Aviner got his simile above.)

Surrounding these difficulties like a layer of heart tissue is the propaganda campaign initiated by the KGB and inculcated into Yasser Arafat to win the hearts of the world to his side, against us.

We can overcome this layer by examining the picture we each hold of the Land we love, and by increasing our love for her.

It isn't easy, as we saw recently in parashath Shelah Lekha שלח לך, Send for Yourselves. The people who lived on her at the time were intimidating. So are the people who lived here when we returned, some of whose descendants still live here now.

Lately, I've been reading over and over messages to the "settlers" of Yehuda and Shomron that they are interpreting the Plan wrong, and the maps as well. How many times over the last two-and-a-half decades have they been wrong? Actually, they have a better track record than the rest of the country. They also have the most "skin in the game."

They were correct to declare that we should never have abandoned Gush Katif and northern Shomron. We are still paying the price, fifteen years later; even as I type now, the denizens of Gaza have resumed their terror war against us (terror balloons, rockets, etc.(1): Our fellow citizens who live near the border fence can probably tell us it never stopped).

The Arabs do this because they have heard that we're offering them parts of our land, and they stand to benefit, if they pressure us enough!

They were correct to declare that we should not confine our borders as strictly as the Left would have us do today. Remember when Abba Eban called them "Auschwitz borders"? Even the Left knew better back in Abba Eban's day.

And the settlers are correct now, insisting that we should not give up the right to claim all, yes, ALL, of our territory and not leaving any of our towns and villages in enclaves where people who live there would have to abandon them or die, making things worse for ALL ISRAELIS. Let's not kid ourselves: The less we defend our rights to the whole Land (at least up to the Jordan River), the more the world will demand that we abandon ALL of it altogether, until there is NO MORE ISRAEL. How can any Jew anywhere in the world really stand that, after all we've been through in just the last century alone???!!!

And that's just the "derekh eretz" part of it, including simple logic and past experience. But we read a parasha every year, which we just read again last week, that spells out just how important our Creator thinks it is that we appreciate what He's given us here. The leadership that discouraged us was killed on the spot, and the rest of us had to spend nearly 40 years in the desert thinking about what we'd done wrong - which led to more wrong, as we'll see this week and the rest of the book of BaMidbar (Numbers).

Perhaps a lot of our troubles are still the part of the 40 years that we didn't spend in the actual desert, but are still suffering the loss? Are we still reaping the results of our lack of gratitude way back then, and since then?

And one more "derekh eretz" thought: Younger Jews, especially those who are not related to Holocaust survivors or those who perished, have not been bearing the loss of the Six Million (or more or less) as long as we older ones and are farther away from it, and so appear to be more vulnerable to suggestions that it wasn't as real as it actually was, and that it isn't as important now. It's something to think about, if for no other reason that after 72 years we still haven't recovered our numerical strength to where we were at the beginning of the Second World War, unlike the rest of the world, which has far outstripped us!

Eighteen million really isn't that large a number in the grand scheme of things, and we should have been there many years ago if we were like the other nations. This is what "assimilation" and "intermarriage" have done to us since the Holocaust.

In any case, all Israel (the people) is a family. At the very most, we divide ourselves by tribe, and not by race or other criterion. And we have a Land, much of which is still waiting for us to take it to our bosom with love.

Do we hear the land's melody within us? Rav Dovid Mark explains...there are no deals on Eretz Yisrael, you just won't hear the niggun. Land concession is like wife sharing. So, our "wife" will not share her songs with those who treat her like just any old dirt, to be bargained away to suit someone else's age-old agenda.

Also, remember when Jordan annexed the "West Bank"? They deny it now, but they did, to the disapproval of most of the world. Because it really did belong to someone else before, and that "someone else" is us.

The nations know it, or else they would have thrown out their Bibles long ago, or burned them in public as they did the Talmud in ages past. I dare them to try that again!

Here's what kind of enemy we're dealing with among us...https://youtu.be/xFJyptyJjrs - h/t to Avi Abelow from Israel Unwired, here. (Of course, Blogger wouldn't let me embed the video.)

Our Land should be free of people such as these; and we shouldn't be giving money to them!

And here are two very recent news posts, on Arutz 7: Dr. Hagai ben Artzi, world authority on the Tana"kh, declares that the Jordan Valley must be Israel's eastern border. And: a "black hole" has been embedded in the "Peace to Prosperity Plan." See the explanation by Orit Strook, former Member of Knesset.

As Dr. ben Artzi, PM Binyamin Netanyahu's brother-in-law, said to him:

"Bibi: Be courageous, move ahead. The Jordan Valley must be declared as the eastern border of Israel, and this will be your heritage."

Of course, I think we need to extend sovereignty over all of Yehuda, Shomron and Emek haYarden (Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley). See the video below!

(I would have embedded this video too, but Blogger wouldn't let me, once again!)

Applying Israeli Law in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley

https://youtu.be/FMb9OTX3F3Q

One last thing: Every last one of us Jews in this country needs to stop debasing ourselves, our religion and our land! The Lubavitcher Rebbe (his 26th hillula is today) noted (with much pain, I'm sure) -- in 1976:

“Never before have Jews turned themselves into Canaanite slaves! Since the religious Knesset representative is ashamed to say outright that he is a Canaanite slave, he calls this a religious accomplishment!

“The situation has reached such a low that they have agreed to surrender to the Arabs any piece of land that they will demand with the sole stipulation that they will draw this out for an extended time in order to show outwardly that they are taking a strong stand of resistance. If they were doing this in the name of Karl Marx, it would be well understood, but why are they doing this in the name of Torah?”

Read the rest here. And please, stop appeasing the goyim, including and especially the Arabs! No matter over how little land we extend sovereignty now, we will still get the same war. We might as well give them something to really cry about, and exercise all self-defense measures and even offensive measures, no matter how much the rest of the world objects!

And, while we're at it, let's take back our heart, Har haBayit, and reunite Yerushalayim too!!!

You know that if the goyim really loved, and were really following, HQB"H, they would have stopped objecting to our taking our land back years ago. So, let's be strong and take courage!

Land concession is like wife sharing...especially in a time when we are looking forward to the complete redemption. It's a sin to even speak of betraying our Land; all the more so to actually hand her over to another, G-d forbid!

(I almost posted a map of an Arab's view of Yehuda and the Shomron, complete with a flag of "Palestine" stamped on the territory of Binyamin, where Har haBayit is located. I wonder how my readers would have reacted to that.)

(1) All the news sources I reviewed note 2020 attacks only in January and February. All noted "Palestinian" rocket attacks on Israel are here.

Dealing with FEAR...a pre-Geula meditation

9 Nisan 5780

Sorry, I can't find the source of this magnificent picture of our future Holy Temple, may it be rebuilt soon!

  
Some very appropriate words for us today, and every day, come from R' Itamar Schwartz, the author of Bilvavi Mishkan Evneh (בלבבי משכן אבנה) (Building a Sanctuary in the Heart) in answer to a reader's question:

QUESTION:Is fear ever a good thing? For example, I live in a place in Eretz Yisrael where need to protect our cars from rocks that Arabs sometimes throw at our cars, and sometimes there are life-endangering situations here which cause us to have real fear. Is this a constructive kind of fear to have?

ANSWER: The only thing a person must ever be afraid of is the fact that he fears anything besides Hashem. That is something to be truly afraid of, and it is the only pure fear which exists. Either we fear Hashem Himself, or fear anything that is besides Hashem – which causes us to have the fears. Whenever we experience a fear, like when we feel fear from the Arabs, we should view it as an awakening to remind us that we are not afraid enough of Hashem, and that is why we have become afraid of something. It is an awakening to us that we are not close enough to Hashem; because if we would really feel close with Hashem, there would be no reason to fear anything.

Read the rest...then come back

I need this mussar too. This is every bit as much for me as it is for you, my precious readers.

We've had a lot of reasons thrown at us as to why we're not able to attend our batei knesset (synagogues/shuls) any longer. But we must think about this very important issue:

How much longer will HQB"H have to wait for His house, the Beit haMiqdash? It's His foothold into this world, and He wants to dwell among us here. As long as this issue isn't dealt with, He isn't happy. Think about how we would feel if we didn't have a place to live — and about those who actually have no place to live.

Do we respect our "miqdashim me'atim" more than we do His Holy Dwelling? Or even, as much? Not that we don't respect them at all — we should be grateful for these reminders of what we're missing, but we really shouldn't hold them above haShem's Bayit. At this period in history they've been delaying us from fulfilling His clearly-expressed will. So we can't attend them any more, for the time being.

No dwelling on earth is as important to the well-being of the earth and its inhabitants, both the Hebrew nation and the rest of the nations. No house, no apartment building, no synagogue, no school (beit midrash or yeshiva), and definitely not the Vatican, the United Nations building, or that European Parliament building that looks like a modern version of the Tower of Babel. Yet, we have neglected it since the state of Israel was founded - the only opportunity we've had in the last 2,000 years. How have we squandered this precious time? I hope it's not yet too late...

We need to deal with the people who have been preventing us from doing what needs to be done: 1) our enemies who are currently holding the land it sits on; and 2) our government, that until now discriminates against Jews by arresting only Jews for even appearing to be praying on the Temple Mount. Everyone else can do whatever they please, even desecrating the site with their secular activities. This needs to be stopped.

Or, we might wait until, maybe, G-d will deal with them via the coronavirus? He's already started by putting several government officials and their employees into quarantine, including our Health Minister (who has the virus, ironically) and our Prime Minister. And no one is on Har haBayit either, due to "King Corona."

I know we're the most traumatized people on the face of the earth (Rivka Levy once wrote about that, but I think it was on her now-deleted blog), but are we really that afraid of them that we can't deal with our "leadership," with G-d's help?

If we are, then we need to start thinking about how much we don't fear (not to mention, love!) Him, and how far away we are from Him.

Do we need proof from a Torah verse? The Shema Yisrael, which includes three Torah passages that we recite twice a day, is a good place to start. To begin with, everywhere in the passages that make it up where we see the word kol (כל - all), whether by itself or embedded in another word (as in, בכל, bechol, with all) we should take note of what it refers to, and whether we take them seriously enough.

That's enough for today. Thank you for reading, and engaging your neshama with me here.

Many thanks to Myrtle Rising for linking to R' Schwartz here.

Rav Schwartz's ebooks in English are to be found here. (He writes in Hebrew, so if you read it with understanding, you might want to start on the home page.)

May we all have a good Shabbat haGadol!
 

Turkey collaborates with Palestinians to take land from Israel? And is the US helping them?

4 Shevat 5780


I started writing this article last month, and things have only gotten worse (and better) since then.

This news should have broken wide open in October 2005, when Haaretz published this article by Danny Rubinstein (for once, not behind a paywall, as far as I can tell). That is when he first reported (according to Google) that Turkey sent the Ottoman Empire archives to the Palestinian Authority so that they could examine them for lands they want to take back from Israel. Most of these are in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.


People who knew back in 2005, after the Gush Katif expulsion of Jews, must have forgot about it (or did they keep it a secret?). Well, now it's back, and I hope we're taking it seriously. Not that we should consider going back to the lands we were exiled to; but that we should fight for our land and our lives!

It's possible that we can win by argument - after all, King David bought the land around the Temple Mount/Har haBayit with money; Avraham Avinu bought the Double Cave in Hevron (Ma'erat haMachpela) to bury his wife Sarah, with 400 PURE SILVER shekels; and one more that I don't remember (and Google doesn't help. They keep saying the Arabs owned it first!) Kever Yosef (Joseph's Tomb - see comments below, thank you Dan G!), all of which are recorded in the Tana"kh/Jewish Bible. This precedent was set by the Jews before we became "the Jews"!

The Ottoman archives should be considered prima facie evidence of the Ottoman occupation of the Holy Land, as far as I understand the term (maybe there's a better one?). Yes. I said OCCUPATION of Jewish Holy Land! We don't know from which Jew each piece of this land was bought with money, as those who set the precedent did, and not by violence -- rape, pillage, murder of civilians and only G-d knows what else!

They certainly didn't think they had to conquer the land from any Jewish army. There was none. The land was almost deserted because of the dispersion by the Romans some 1500 years prior, and while there have always been Jews here and there in the Land, how well do you really think they could have defended themselves from the Muslims who claim it now?

But they are clever. They knew that without any Jews here, they couldn't survive here either. So, they made harsh rules, but they had to let some Jews stay, even if they were a minuscule minority in 1516 CE.

And now they plan on trying to hand over the land from their previous occupation to the current occupiers, the Palestinians!

The rest of us have heard about all this through the good auspices of Israel Hayom and Israel National News (Arutz 7), who published these articles on Tuesday, 1 January 2020. Apparently they got their information here, most likely from the primary source and not from a web page, like I did here.

Now that the subject has been brought up again, I've been expecting this story to be taken up by all the Israeli media, and then by the world's media. Certainly, it will go very well with the news of all the attacks on Jews and Israelis around the world, saying, JEW, GET OUT.

Commenters in the US have been asking two pertinent questions: If we're supposed to get out of the US, then why are these same people who are telling us to get out saying that Israel is not our real homeland? And where should we go?

I hate to be harsh, but you have been living in the exile, plush as it may be, or not. Wake up. The nations aren't exactly giving you options. The plan is to kill every single Jew on the planet, so an attempt was made to brainwash us to believe that we have no land to call our own, so that you who are still out there will oppose those who resisted the brainwash (that's me and all my fellow Israeli Jews), and thus have no place to go when they kick us out of all their countries.

I'm not saying that every Israeli Jew isn't brainwashed. A lot of the leadership seems to be, judging by the way that, when the nations demand us to jump, their only response seems to be: "How high?"

BUT, if you don't believe in G-d and the Jewish Destiny, you have no other options. If you do, then join us here for the fight for our lives and for our Land. Now is the time. With His help, we will win.

Do you remember when the Israeli seer Nir ben Artzi said in May 2016, during the US election campaign season: "Remember: G-d will choose the president that only loves the Jews in Israel."? Translated here (but please, no emails there, as the blogger passed away went to Shamayim nearly two years ago!). Here's the blog search for Nir ben Artzi's comments on aliyah at The Absolute Truth. I'm curious to find out how you find them in retrospect.

The Ta'ir Neri site, where NbA's divrei Torah originate, now has an English translator. Here's his Parashath Bo' 5780 translation. According to this, we've come much further than we were four years ago.

Back to 2016 for a paragraph: Heads should have been going up by the millions. Some of those who were, are here now. I hope that my readers from lands far flung from here will now follow as best they can.

In the meantime, when the Palestinians come knocking on the doors of the High Court, seeking to take back lands that have deeds from the 1500s, we need to be prepared with hard questions. Like these:

• Whose land was it before it was that of the person named on the deed?
• How much did the previous owner get paid for the land?
• If it wasn't a proper purchase, what was it?
• and more???

I suspect that most of the answers, upon proper investigation, to be: No evidence of previous owner, no payment, and a takeover of some kind. In other words, REAL OCCUPATION. For 400-plus years, right up until 1948 and even until the present day (which would make it over 500 years).

I'm counting on the whole truth to be revealed, once and for all time. Jewish traitors will also be revealed where these were, or are, a factor.

@Shurat haDin, are you ready for this one???

Is this hishtadluth (human effort) enough to attract Mashiah Goel Yisrael???

#MeJew

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And, in the meantime, is it possible that the Arabs and their spear point, the Palestinians, recognize who their real enemy is???

And, the US has come out openly to "compassionately" divide our land. Here's a report:

"US Ambassador David Friedman told reporters that before Israel decides to apply sovereignty over the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria the Trump administration wanted to form a committee with Israel to discuss the issue, but stressed that it could not be said how long this would take.

"It's a process that requires effort, accuracy and calibration and you have to make sure that the annexation matches the map in our plan," said Friedman.

"We will look at the Israeli proposal and examine it and make sure it is in line with our plan. We will set up the committee as soon as possible and work on it immediately and try to end quickly but I do not know how long it will take," the ambassador added."

I don't think HaShem cares how "compassionate" it is. The Creator of the Universe says NO DIVISION OF ISRAEL -- and that's final!


I'm beginning to think that it's not so much whether the local Arabs/"Palestinians" will accept the deal, but what the Israeli Jews are beginning to do in response, even with no answer from "the other side." G-d forbid — we make room that we don't have, and then they'll come to kill us again — G-d forbid!!!

Thank you so much, DJT and Jared Kushner. How the "mighty" will fall because of you! 

And the Jews will get Geulah Shlemah, be"H!!!

Suddenly, real war is thrust upon us...

 26 Tishrei 5784 | כ"ו תשרי ה'תשפ"ד

 

 War - the Temptations (the original version, 1970)

If songs like this one had changed the world, we wouldn't be having this war now.
My beracha (blessing) is that our enemies will end up singing this song,
and the more shortly, the better!

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The Eternal God of the Jews is a Jealous God, and He does not change, despite what others may tell you.

It won't be easy to explain to people who were taught that jealousy and envy are one and the same, synonymous. It wasn't always that way, and since this is a time of sorting things out and coming to clarity, I would like to contribute to that effort, even if only a little bit, by explaining why we need to separate them again in people's minds so that each has its own meaning, even though they usually refer to the same issues.

What does jealousy mean? What is different about it from envy? 

I'd like to share my studies on how and why God dealt with our "rubbing Him the wrong way" (my expression; our Torah example can be found in the Book of BaMidbar/Numbers, chapters 25 and 31, in parashioth Balak and Mattoth, respectively...) long ago, and how that relates to what's going on now.  

Of course, the offense back then was really much worse than a brush of another's hair in the wrong direction; part of the reason is because we don't fully understand God's prerogatives as the Creator, as opposed to our rights as human beings. Some have though that what God does is an example for them to follow, with disastrous results. Misunderstanding this, and many other things, has led to many mistakes, and even criminal actions, on the part of humans the world over.

We do have courts of justice to settle these things...or do we?

The work may be difficult if not impossible, but that doesn't mean we desist from hard questions. I am writing further about this topic, and how it applies to God and our relationship with Him. The war between Israel and Hamas (which might turn out to be between Israel and the "Palestinians" and even more) is a good place to use as an example before we start. I think that God allowed this war because we in Israel especially haven't been paying attention to His role in keeping it relatively peaceful here. Because our leadership is always blocking Him and His ways regarding how the country should be run, He cannot defend it fully. But He will, eventually, when enough of us say, "ENOUGH!"

I should not have to remind my readers that if we had done things the way He wanted them in 1967, when we had just won the Six-Day War, there would be total peace here (I'm looking at you, Moshe Dayan, who made the mistake of letting the wrong people have the Temple Mount at the worst possible moment, and a few others as well, for being all too generous after the war.).

Stay tuned. We may be in for a rocky ride here. Or — and this is what I'm hoping and praying for — a better way up and out of this situation and into the culmination of geulah shlemah for us and for all the good and decent people in the whole world.

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More reading:

New prayer for the soldiers, translated to English | "I can't believe I'm alive," Rachel Edry told the news site Walla after her release | The "Settler" [Judea-Samaria Jewish Homeland] Heroes Saved Tel Aviv from a Katyusha Holocaust 2.0 | 50 Israeli Supreme Court Decisions...see why Israel needs judicial reform. | Al-Jazeera doesn't want you to see this video about the Temple Mount [Har haBayit]! |

Did US President Trump Acknowledge Jerusalem, DC?

20 Kislev 5778

(US President Donald Trump: Getty Images)

 I'm not feeling so euphoric about the whole thing. And I'm not the only one.

While it is difficult to describe how good it is to hear the president of the United States recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, I also heard him say: "Jerusalem is today, and must remain, a place where Jews pray at the Western Wall, where Christians walk the stations of the cross, and where Muslims worship at al-Aksa mosque."

I took a few minutes to transcribe this bolded bit word for word because I feel it is the heart of the speech. I fervently wish the bubble didn't have to be burst...but there you have it, from Donald Trump's mouth. I wonder how that sounded in Heaven's ear.


My husband thought the speech important enough to download and put on our family Web site's home page so that it won't disappear, G-d forbid. We don't want to forget exactly what was said...and what was not said.

Thanks and appreciation are due for the acknowledgment, but not "to the skies."


Do you see anything missing here?

Here's what I see, as of now: Not only did HaKadosh Baruch Hu give us the site of Har haBayit, the Temple Mount, but DAVID HAMELEKH bought the site with gold - not with the currency of today which, by comparison, means nothing. Not for himself, but for the entire Jewish nation: he, through whom Mashiah comes. Am I crazy, or did I hear US President Trump aid and abet the theft of the heart of our holy city, the threshing floor bought and paid for in the transaction with Arauna in Shmuel Bet 24:24-25, by the enemy that wants to do away with us, while recognizing the rest as ours? And "must remain" means that this must not be the way to geula. I don't know about you, dear reader, but I feel that a vicious sting came with the honey. A wrong turn has been taken and we are backed into a corner.

Nevertheless, I'm sure geula will be advanced, not only because of President Trump's words, wherever they came from, but possibly in spite of some of them as well. 

I have to believe that HQB"H has our best at heart and in mind. This moment is indeed an opportunity for us Jews, whether in Israel or in Diaspora, to assert ourselves as He would desire, even though some Jews just don't seem to be willing.

It may be, and I hope it is, enough for now that at least one great nation from afar acknowledged Jerusalem, David's Capital (thanks, Tamar Yonah!) as Israel's capital, incomplete though it may be. Be'ezrath haShem, im yirtzeh haShem.


May He bless His people with redemption, peace and our inheritance from Him. I believe and hope that going forward, being on the side of His (and our) enemies will not be tolerated any longer.

Please, Abba she'ba'Shamayim, now would be a good time to show Yourself...
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I also promised that I'd post R' Sprecher's videos in the merit of Reb Menachem ben Rivka, may he enjoy a swift recovery...a new one, Current Events on Parashath Yeshev, came out today. Of course, words about President Trump's speech were included; and the Rav is responsible for his own words.