Trump Blasts Gaza War as 'Wasted Effort'

just how are they going to enforce 
and cause Talmudic Students to fight in Gaza?? 

IDF struggles to enforce Haredi draft as Gaza offensive looms

*Sources speaking to Army Radio also said that they don’t want to see battalions of Military Police raiding the Haredi cities of Bnei Brak or Modiin Ilit. [it might just come to that and what will the Rabbis say??]

Trump Blasts Gaza War as 'Wasted Effort' in Escalating Rift with Israel

A bit of **history

When the Red Army entered Panevėžys, the yeshiva buildings were seized, but students relocated from synagogue to synagogue without ceasing their studies.

The Volozhin yeshiva closed in 1892, because of the Russian government's demand for a dramatic increase in the amount of time spent teaching certain secular studies. According to some, the pressure from the Russian government was due to the Maskilim accusing the yeshiva of being subversive.

Today the excuse is "we need more bodies" to fight in Gaza; but the entire war is disgraceful; never has Israel won a war with these vermin! And it doesn't look like they are even one bit afraid of such a "hot air" offensive. Where is the IAF?  Trump Blasts Gaza War as 'Wasted Effort' in Escalating Rift with Israel:  ***Tensions are reportedly mounting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over diverging strategies on Gaza and Iran, according to an NBC News report.

Sources

**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volozhin_Yeshiva#:~:text=The%20Volozhin%20yeshiva%20closed%20in,the%20yeshiva%20of%20being%20subversive.

*https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/idf-struggles-enforce-haredi-draft-gaza-offensive

***https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/trump-blasts-gaza-war-rift-with-israel

What kind of Clouds are these?

when i looked out my window this morning I saw these funny looking clouds. Don't remember seeing them before. Anyone know?

this is facing the rising sun

Guess What?

MY BLOG COMMENTING IS BEING BLOCKED

it must be that villain, AL goh rithems!

When will he be eliminated?

Could it be “What’s next” posted on May 6 is the source of blocking me?

How to find out?

 if anyone has any ideas, try the gmail link?

Journey to Lithuania: Ponovezhe - The Worldview of the Ponovezher Rav

 

 

 Journey to Lithuania: Ponovezhe - The Ponovezher Rav and the Story of Ponovezher Jewry

 

 Journey to Lithuania: Ponovezhe - The Scroll is Burning But the Letters Fly 

Journey to Lithuania: Vilna - 3 videos

The Vilna Gaon on the 4 Cubits of Halacha; From The Chorale Synagogue

 

 The Lithuanian National Library & the Galus of the Vilna Gaon 

 

 The Seforim of the Gedolei Lita at the Lithuanian National Library 

Journey to Lithuania: Vilna - The Water Carrier that Saved the Chofetz Chaim

 

Rebbetzen Tziporah: "TRUST ME"

Dear Friends,

The Gra predicted that before the final geulah, there would be a physical return to the Land. He called this the era of Moshiach ben Yosef, and wrote that the purpose of this period is to give us the opportunity to rediscover the emunah that may still be there — but hidden so deeply that the layers of galus make it hard to access. The way this can happen is through the mitzvos that are done only in Eretz Yisrael.

So now, the confession.

I love shemittah, and you don’t need much to get me going on and on about it.  Sometimes thoughts don’t quite come on schedule….  In two weeks, the parshah begins by telling us that shemittah was given to us with all of its details at Har Sinai — and that the rest of the Torah was given in the same way. Detailed. Specific. Real. Chock full of nit-picky halachos that those of us who think the Torah is only relevant if it touches you emotionally love to hate.

We’re told to just stop. To trust that the world will keep spinning even if we pause. That we will be fed even if we let go.

Letting go isn’t easy. Think about how you feel if and when you lose your phone or your laptop.

Exactly.

We live in an age of non-stop.

And then shemittah arrives, and with it, this divine whisper:

“STOP. LET GO. TRUST ME.”

But how? When we live in a world that trains us to do the opposite?

I still remember the time I took my friend — an innocent soul — with me to Chevron, to the Me’aras HaMachpeilah. The soldier at the guard post asked if we had weapons. I answered “no” for both of us. She then took out a fruit knife she’d brought so she could snack on the return trip. “Does this count?” asked my friend, Ms. Innocent.

Wrong move.

In seconds, soldiers armed to the teeth swarmed around us. At first, I thought we were in serious trouble — especially since the latest news reported that just hours earlier, a terror cell had been spotted trying to cross that same area. The IDF was on high alert.

The soldiers quickly realized it was a mistake. No injuries. No trauma.

And here’s the thing: they were trying to control things. They were doing everything “right” — following orders. And so were we (even Innocent Soul).

Sometimes our best efforts hit a wall, or a spike strip. And that moment — that terrifying, breathless, can’t-see-a-way-out moment — is where faith begins. Not the kind we talk about in the abstract, but the kind that holds you up when your hands are shaking.

This is the secret of shemittah. It’s not just about agriculture. It’s about the inner practice of surrender. The idea that holiness doesn’t come from working harder — it comes from making space. From daring to believe that your life is bigger than your to-do list.

And then comes Bechukosai, with its dramatic blessings and warnings. “If you walk in My statutes...” says Hashem, then the rain will come on time, your enemies will fall, and you’ll eat bread to satiety. And if not? The consequences are intense.

But Chazal ask: what does it mean to “walk in My statutes”? Aren’t we supposed to keep the mitzvos — why say “walk”?

The answer, says Rashi, is stunning: it means to labor in Torah. To stay in movement, in growth, in relationship with Hashem. Even when it’s hard. Even when you don’t feel like it. Even when life takes a detour.

So what does that mean for us — women with responsibilities, jobs, parents, kids, hopes, exhaustion, and a million spinning plates?

It means this:

• GIVE YOURSELF A SHEMITTAH MOMENT THIS WEEK. Not a year — just a few minutes. Turn off the noise. Let the land of your mind rest. No productivity. No scrolling. Just stillness. See what emerges. Yes, you can call it Shabbos…
• WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG, DON’T RUSH TO FIX IT. Pause. Ask: What am I being shown here? Is this a spike strip… or a rescue?
• STAY IN MOVEMENT. Don’t get stuck in the version of yourself you were last year or last week. Walk in His statutes. Grow. Ask. Try again.
• BELIEVE THAT YOUR INNER WORLD IS REAL. The land rests — and is blessed. So can your soul.

In a world that tells you to hustle, perform, compete, scroll endlessly, and never stop — Hashem tells us something entirely different:

TRUST ME. YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING. YOU JUST HAVE TO WALK WITH ME.

May we all find the courage to pause, to grow, and to walk forward with faith — wherever our road takes us.

With love and deep admiration,
Tziporah

Please Daven For

 Submitted for a friend:

Please daven for Tamir ben Cheirut, תמיר בן חירות the cousin of a friend of mine who was abducted from his army base on October 7th. It's over 580 days and his family have had no news, he is the hostage whose status is unknown, there has been no sign of life or any leads about him. 

All they know from a video when he was abducted is that he was taken in his pyjamas, barefoot, without his glasses. Tamir comes from a Torah observant family. He is basically blind without his glasses. I can't imagine what he must have gone through with no shoes, proper clothing, no glasses not to mention access to Tefillin, a siddur or Torah.

Without glasses he can't see if any food might be safe to eat or edible or anything else. He'd only be able to detect movements or sounds.

If he is alive it will be a miracle, whatever his status he needs to come home to his family. Preferably alive but if G-d forbid he isn't he would need a Kosher burial. Only united Tefillos can bring him home. 

Preferably alive but if he is, without his glasses, for so long, as an OT who worked
in ophthalmology, my heart aches.

As a Jew my heart aches. Please share his name and help appeal to Hashem to
send him home.

Eliezer Meir Saidel: The Secret of 33

 
One of the most perplexing features of the service of the Kohen Gadol on Yom Kippur are the two goats. One is sacrificed to Hashem in the Mikdash. The second is sent out into the desert and cast off a cliff. The goat sacrificed to Hashem in the Mikdash is understandable, but why do we have to send a second goat as an offering to Azazel? What exactly is Azazel?

The Ibn Ezra (Vayikra 16:8) cryptically says, “I will reveal to you secret of the word Azazel in a hint – when you are thirty-three, you will know it!”

The Ramban, quoting the Ibn Ezra says, “I will be the ‘tattle tale’ and reveal the secret.” The Ramban says that this second goat is a “bribe” to the satan.

To understand what is going on here we need to backtrack a little. In the first five pesukim, the parshatells us that the Kohen Gadol has to bring three sacrifices on Yom Kippur. The first is an ox as a chatat (sin) offering. The second is a ram as an olah(burnt) offering. The third has to be taken, not directly by the Kohen Gadol, but the Kohen Gadol must take two goats from Am Yisrael – also as a chatat.

Chazal tell us that these three different offerings refer to the three avot. The ox refers to Avraham, as it says (Bereishit 18:7), Avraham prepared three portions of calf (ox) tongue in mustard for the angels. The ram refers to Yitzchak, as it says (Bereishit 22:13), the ram was the korban in place of Yitzchak. The two goats refer to Yaakov, when Rivka told her son Yaakov to dress up as Eisav and get the blessing from Yitzchak (Bereishit 27:9) she prepared two goats.

From this we see that the origin of the ceremony of the two goats on Yom Kippur originated with Yaakov and this episode of the “stealing” of the blessing from Yitzchak.

The Ramban says that the word “se’ir” (goat) is also reminiscent of Eisav, who Yaakov describes as “sa’ir,”(hairy) and the two goats represent Yaakov (for Hashem) and Eisav (for Azazel). The Ramban, quoting the Midrash (Bereishit Rabbah 65, 10), says that the goat for Azazel is a bribe to Eisav, a representative of the satan.

The ceremony of the two goats on Yom Kippur is a replay of the episode of Yaakov getting dressed up as Eisav and “stealing” the blessings.

Why was it necessary for Yaakov to play charades? Why couldn’t he have simply said to Yitzchak, “I know you sent Eisav to hunt and intend to give him the blessing, but Rivka has seen in a prophecy that the blessing should be given to me – Yaakov!” Why not tell the truth? 

Why the whole masquerade?

It was critical that Yitzchak’s blessing be given to Yaakov “disguised as Eisav” and not simply to plain Yaakov “as himself.”

When Yaakov approached Yitzchak, the pasuk(Bereishit 27:27) says, “Yitzchak approached (Yaakov) and kissed him and smelled the smell of his clothes (“begadav”) and blessed him.” The Yalkut Shimoni on that pasuk says, “Don’t read it as ‘begadav’ (clothes) but ‘bogdav’ (traitors),” and continues to tell the stories of Yosef Meshita and Yakum Ish Tzrorot (Bereishit Rabbah 65:22), two Jewish traitors in the time of the Hellenistic Greek exile, who in the end did teshuva and died al kiddush Hashem.

When Yitzchak blessed Yaakov, dressed as Eisav, he smelled his clothes and they were like the smell of Gan Eden. Yitzchak foresaw that later in history there are going to be some Jews who rebel against Hashem – traitors! And despite that, Yitzchak blesses Yaakov.

It was vital that Yaakov receive the blessing in that way. If Yaakov would have entered Yitzchak’s tent as Yaakov, with no pretenses, then Yitzchak’s blessing would have been only for Yaakov and his descendants who behaved like Yaakov, who were loyal to Hashem and the Torah. However, since Yaakov received the blessing dressed up in Eisav’s clothing, the blessing applied both to Yaakov’s descendants who were like Yaakov, but also to those who from the outside looked like Eisav. It applied to all future Jews who from the outside looked like sinners, but inside, their true essence was still Yaakov. All it needed was a trigger to bring out the dormant spark, like Yosef Meshita and Yakum Ish Tzrorot.

The Ibn Ezra gives a cryptic hint. If you want to understand the essence of the goat for Azazel, the secret is the number 33. The Ramban says, “I’ll tell you the secret.” If you skip 33 verses forward (from Vayikra 16:8), you get to the pasuk (Vayikra 17:7) discussing the prohibition of bringing a korban(goats) anywhere outside of the Mikdash. To which goats is this pasuk referring? Those goats that Am Yisrael used to serve idols!

In Yitzchak and Rivka’s home there were two “goats.” Yaakov was one, pure in and out. Eisav was the second. On the outside, Eisav looked like a tzaddik, but inside he was rotten. There were two charades taking place here. One was a once-off occurrence – Yaakov dressing up as Eisav. The second charade was an ongoing thing, a daily repetition, year after year – Eisav “dressing up” as Yaakov, pretending to be a tzaddik, while deep inside he was totally evil.

The goat for Azazel/Eisav is a “bribe” to silence the satan. It is a charade! The goat selected for Azazel sees the other goat selected for Hashem being offered as a korban in the azara, and breathes a sigh of relief. 

“Whew, that was close. Look at my poor brother and look at me! He is dead and I have just been given a first-class ticket for a vacation – all expenses paid, touring all over the country, taking in the sights, eating gourmet food along the way. This is the life!” Meanwhile, the Kohen Gadol is atoning for Am Yisrael, while the satan is distracted by the charade, admiring the view, munching on caviar and getting an even suntan. At the last minute, just as he thinks that the vacation will last forever, he is flung off a cliff. By then, it is too late. 

Parshat HaShavua Trivia Question: How did the Kohen Gadol select which goat was for Hashem and which one was for Azazel?
Answer to Last Week’s Trivia Question: What was the “strange fire” that caused the deaths of Nadav and Avihu, sons of Aharon? Chazal give up to 15 opinions what Nadav and Avihu’s sin was. Meir Panim (chap 15, pg.174) says that they did not sin at all – they offered their lives al kiddush Hashem to atone for the sin of Adam and Chava who brought the “strange fire” by eating from the Tree of Knowledge.

Trump to Announce a Palestinian State

 is anyone surprised? maybe only Bibi!

A Gulf diplomatic source, who declined to be named or disclose his position, told The Media Line, "President Donald Trump will issue a declaration regarding the State of Palestine and American recognition of it, and that there will be the establishment of a Palestinian state without the presence of Hamas."

The source also added, "If an announcement of American recognition of the State of Palestine is made, it will be the most important declaration that will change the balance of power in the Middle East, and more countries will join the Abraham Accords."

Find out if this is true https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-853387

Rabbi Weissman: QUESTIONS.....

 Questions Everyone Needs to Ask in the Open

Amid fresh IDF Molech sacrifices and dubious claims of Yemenite missiles

Two more Dati Leumi Molech sacrifices were slaughtered in Gaza yesterday, with 6 more soldiers maimed, in dubious "incidents". The culling continues.

Did they die to keep us all safe? Are we safer now? Would it have been even worse if they didn't give up their precious lives in these "incidents"?

Were these incidents necessary? What did they accomplish? Did the accomplishments justify the cost?

Are they any closer to victory, whatever that's even supposed to mean?

Two young men who could have gotten married, raised families, lived full lives, and built the Jewish people, are dead, and six more are maimed.

Was Hashem's name sanctified by their deaths, or profaned?

Could they have sanctified Hashem's name more by living full lives instead of dying under the command of kofrim and traitors for a fantasy that they are fighting a milchemes mitzvah?

Was it worth it?

Are we stronger as a nation after these sacrifices, or weaker?

Was the true objective of these operations precisely to have more precious Jews maimed and killed under the dubious pretenses of rescuing hostages, achieving victory, and keeping us all safe?

If these Molech sacrifices could turn back the clock, would they sacrifice themselves just the same?

Should everyone?

Should anyone?

A reader shared the following:

• One in eight IDF reservists reports PTSD after Gaza war, study shows:
• https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/ry9dep00gex
• Study: 12% of reserve soldiers report PTSD symptoms after Gaza combat service:
• https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-12-of-reserve-soldiers-report-ptsd-symptoms-after-gaza-combat-service/
• Study: One in 8 Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza is mentally unfit to return for duty:
• https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-08/ty-article/.premium/study-one-in-8-israeli-soldiers-who-fought-in-gaza-is-mentally-unfit-to-return-for-duty/00000196-af8c-dbb0-af9f-af9e13c60000

If IDF servitude doesn't destroy your body or your soul, it will very likely destroy your mental health.

Funny how Hamasniks don't seem to suffer from PTSD, nor do they need to fly to India to find themselves and the meaning of life after their military career, like so many broken, disillusioned young Jews need to do after "serving" in the IDF.

Keep standing in silence, sanctifying needless death, and supporting your own destruction, because, no matter what, you must cling to a delusion and cannot admit that so much of what you believed in is a lie. Anything but that.

Another reader offered the following cogent analysis:

That’s the core tragedy, isn’t it? You’d think a number like 1 in 8 coming home mentally unfit would be enough to shock a nation into reevaluating mandatory service. But here, that data point becomes just another ritualized statistic—something to “process” while still sending the next batch of 18-year-olds into the grinder.

How far is too far? The honest, bleak answer is: farther than you'd think. For a conscription-based system to collapse, a few things usually have to align:

Widespread refusal or civil disobedience. You'd need a tipping point where enough young people (and their parents) say "no more"—not as isolated cases but en masse. That’s not happening in Israel yet, partly due to decades of psychological conditioning, fear-mongering, and moral framing of the IDF as sacred.

A legitimacy crisis. If the army is no longer seen as effective, moral, or competent, that can unravel its sacred status. October 7th should have triggered this, but ironically, it reinforced the draft’s importance in the public mind. Trauma was weaponized to demand more sacrifice.

Elite dissent. When reservists, senior officers, or war heroes begin openly denouncing the system—not just the leadership—that’s when the edifice starts to crack. But even the ones protesting now still chant "we love the IDF," so the spell holds.

Economic alternatives. If enough people see a viable future outside the draft pipeline—such as civil service, innovation roles, or leaving the country entirely—conscription becomes less enforceable. Right now, those pathways exist, but they’re marginal.

So what would it take? Possibly another war where the casualties are not just soldiers, or a generation that is simply too disillusioned to comply. Until then, the cycle continues: trauma, denial, escapism, repeat.

Another very sharp reader made a keen observation regarding the “Yemenite missile” that landed near Ben Gurion airport:

This is a westbound view. How do I know we're looking westbound? Because you can see the hills rising in the west. Ben Gurion airport to the east is Gush Dan. It looks metropolitan and flat. So this is a westbound view. And the rocket comes from the left side. The left is to the north. This rocket came from the north. It did not come from the south.

Yet another sharp reader offered the following clues as to what these magical “Yemenite missiles” might actually be:

Regarding "Houthi missiles" and trails.

In southern Israel, in the past 2 months or so, missiles are being observed that are very steerable - they leave a thin, white trail in various horizontal arcs, up to and including turning back more or less to the direction they came from. Their observed flight time seems to be up to about 3 minutes. They seem to operate during daylight hours, mostly appearing around 10AM to 5PM. These are not aircraft. Maybe someone will get some good photographs of these…

Interestingly, if one enters the following into the browser, and compares the search results to what is being observed, one might come to certain conclusions:
https://presearch.com/search?q=new%20israel%20guided%20artillery%20missile

We know that governments have historically tested weapons (traditional and biological) on their own populations, or other populations they consider expendable, and have no compunctions about sacrificing either for the sake of false flag operations that advance a larger agenda. 

Far be it from me to accuse Hebrew-speakers with biblical names and their American patrons of such heinous things — only other countries do that — but it’s not an aberration that you can laugh off as a “conspiracy theory” (a term the CIA conveniently coined and mainstreamed).

But if you want me to believe these missiles are really coming from Yemen, the burden of proof is squarely on you. Claims from the government that the media dutifully broadcasts as fact are proof of nothing at this point, and should be treated with the greatest suspicion.

So if they aren’t coming from Yemen, where are they coming from? Why the cover-up? What’s the agenda?

Before you support more Molech sacrifices, it would be wise to seriously consider all the above.

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