02 March 2026
Kevarim of Mordechai and Esther in Hamedan, Iran. קבר מרדכי ואסתר
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Almost, Not Close Enough…….
Oh, just a few more meters and we might have the beginnings of………
Iranian missile warhead falls less than a kilometer from Temple Mount, al-Aqsa Mosque
Police find warhead, incendiary material in Sultan’s Pool venue just meters outside Old City of Jerusalem. Missile could ‘very possibly’ have hit key holy site, police say
The warhead of an Iranian missile hit a site just several dozen meters from the Old City of Jerusalem, and just several hundred meters from the Western Wall and the Temple Mount, during the course of Saturday, police announced on Sunday. More at https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranian-missile-warhead-fell-less-than-a-kilometer-from-temple-mount-al-aqsa-mosque/
WHO IS SHOOTING MISSILES AT ISRAEL FROM THE WEST?
MAKES NO SENSE WHAT IS HAPPENING
I heard TWO “overhead” but about 6 SIX LANDING NOISES or two landing and 4 after noises. I say “noise(s)” because it was hard to distinguish between them. They all sounded the same, or slightly less.
Are they coming from Haifa
The US says 4 weeks to this War? That’s crazy. With all the air and sea onslaught it should be less than a week (maybe) if they are blowing up their launchers!?
I’m still not running. Neighbors with babies surely will do so. For us it’s not easy to run anywhere. We trust in Hashem that what will be will be.
The whole situation doesnt make full sense. We just need to have Emunah and Bitachon in the Abishter Who knows where everyone is and when it’s their time.
Purim: October 7th and the Elimination of Khamenei; Right Back at Ya! {Maayan Judaica Uptown Pomona}
B"H for all the koach of Rabbi Glatstein (from his yichus) to bring Torah to everyone near and far. Hashem please continue to bless Daniel Glatstein and his family.
The Birchas Hatzadik on Megilas Esther; "Hi'gida Esther" {Maayan Judaica Uptown Pomona}
Rabbi Weissman: Lies and Lessons from the Beit Shemesh Attack
Lies and Lessons from the Beit Shemesh Attack
Indisputable Torah guidance for ensuring that our prayers are not misdirected by Amalek
I was “off the grid” in Jerusalem, going about my business as usual, when I heard about the horrific attack in Beit Shemesh today. I heard numerous sirens throughout the day, and dutifully ignored them, like the other Jerusalemites who were outside, going about their business. I don’t know if we represented the majority of people, but the majority of people who were out in public were definitely not Pavlov’s dogs, scurrying for a “safe space” when ordered to do so by people who are wholly undeserving of our trust.
The official reports of the attack only further validate this distrust. The regime tells us that a ballistic missile from Iran scored a direct hit on a public shelter, which obliterated eight homes and damaged an entire street:
From Israel Hayom: A resident of the area said: "It fell on a neighborhood shelter, the entire public shelter was wiped out. Everything here is damaged. They said there were no warnings, but there were, everyone went into the shelter. An entire street was damaged here, eight houses were gone."
The response from the regime is predictably cynical:
Arutz Sheva: "The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit clarifies that following a review, the early warning system functioned as planned and was activated in the Beit Shemesh area of impact. The circumstances of the impact are under review," the IDF stated.
Belaaz: The Home Front Command says it will investigate the circumstances of the impact, including the integrity of the shelter.
What they are pointedly turning attention away from is the fact that interceptors repeatedly “failed”.
What they are also pointedly turning attention away from is the fact that following safety instructions from the Home Front Command and running to the public shelter was the absolute worst thing these people could have done.
Dating back to the previous round of “Iranian strikes”, this is far from an anomaly. At some point we have to stop ignoring a highly disturbing trend. It matters.
What they are also pointedly turning attention away from is the fact that the interceptors tend to only “fail” when the peasant class is targeted.
Just today someone called me a conspiracy theorist (yawn) for noting that the premium targets, the ones an external enemy would naturally strike in an existential war, the ones that would really hurt the rich and powerful class, are never hit, and will never be hit. She rationalized that the Iron Dome is intercepting the missiles headed for these targets.
First of all, I noted, the Holocaust was also a conspiracy, and many people had to be in on it. So let’s drop the stupid line already.
Second of all, if you’re arguing that the Iron Dome is fully protecting the rich and powerful, but not the peasant class, that’s quite a conspiracy theory you just stumbled into! That pretty much ended the conversation.
But the regime offered their own rationalization for this phenomenon:
Police English-language Spokesman Dean Elsdunne spoke with Arutz Sheva-Israel National News at the scene: "The world knows that the Iranian regime doesn't have a problem targeting its own civilians, and here you can see that they don't have a problem targeting our civilians as well."
In lockstep, the IDF echoed the same script:
IDF Foreign Spokesman Nadav Shoshani on Sunday accused the Iranian regime of deliberately targeting civilians following a deadly missile strike in Beit Shemesh.
“Since the beginning of Operation ‘Roaring Lion,’ the Iranian regime has been targeting civilians. We know that this is their strategy. The Iranian regime is a terror regime,” Shoshani said in a statement.
“The Iranian regime directly fired missiles toward the civilian neighborhood of Beit Shemesh, killing innocent civilians," the IDF tweeted. “The Iranian regime purposely targets civilian targets while we precisely target terror targets. This is who we’re operating against - a regime who uses civilian casualties as their war tactic."
So you expect me to believe that the Iranian regime is fighting for its very survival, and their strategy is to deliberately target some civilians in Beit Shemesh? They have taken out not a single major military target, not a single public utility or communication center, not a single member of the leadership class (while their own leaders are reportedly being taken out in droves), not even a single bank, hotel, or hi-tech company. According to the IDF, they’re deliberately not even trying to!
No, this is “a regime who uses civilian casualties as their war tactic”. Quite a strategy!
My personal policy is very simple. I do not take safety advice from pathological liars, intelligence failures, people who stood down on October 7, pedophiles, child-traffickers, those who cover up for them, those who cover up for Nazi collaborators, and other assorted monsters.
I know, it sounds crazy to disregard their instructions. We should all run to designated areas whenever they give the signal, and perhaps we should even call them as soon as we’re there, just to make it more convenient for them to…protect us.
The regime and I finally agree that the repeated attacks in places like Beit Shemesh are not random, but targeted strikes. The only difference of opinion at this point is who is perpetrating these strikes. Decide for yourself what makes more sense and if these people are worthy of your trust — even if the ramifications are that much of what you believed in and wish to believe in is a horrific lie.
Your life might depend on it.
We are supposed to be guided not by slogans, propaganda, and regime-serving “experts”, but by the divine truth of the Torah. I made the following suggestion last time, and, since we still didn’t learn, I will make it again.
This suggestion is guaranteed to be safe and effective, it is indisputably supported by the Torah, and even those who hate me should grudgingly support it, because there is literally no downside and nothing controversial about it.
If you make a prayer that is too specific and you’re wrong, your prayer will miss the mark. An enemy who recognizes the power of our prayers would certainly attempt to misdirect them accordingly.
Therefore, instead of praying that the IDF should win, or Israel should win, or Israel should defeat Iran, or we should be protected from Iranian missiles, etc., pray for the following:
Whoever was behind the attack in Beit Shemesh today, and October 7, and the other attacks, should be destroyed, like Haman was hung on his own gallows.
If you believe that these missiles came from Iran, and you’re unwilling to even consider the possibility that they came from somewhere much closer, no problem! You’ve lost nothing.
We can certainly all agree that whoever is responsible for these attacks should be destroyed, even if we cannot know with absolute certainty who is behind them, and we are forced to disagree on that point. Right?
I have ironclad proof from the Torah that a prayer of this nature is perfectly effective. Our ancestors prayed precisely this way when they were attacked by Amalek in disguise, and were confused as to the true identity of their attackers.
Below is part three from my booklet Amalek — Know Your Enemy. The entire booklet is available in English here and in Hebrew here. Please, please read this, internalize it, share it, and implement this suggestion.
Here is the key section from the article, followed by the entire article:
[Amalek] said, ‘We know that they have an heirloom from their fathers, that [Yitzchak] said to them ‘The voice is the voice of Yaacov’, that they pray and are heard. We will come upon them, and they will think we are the children of Canaan, and they will pray about the Canaanites, and we will murder them.’
When they saw that the form of their faces was that of Amalek, but their dress and speech was that of the Canaanites, they said ‘Master of the world, we don’t know who they are. In any case, do justice against them,’ as it says ‘If you will give these people [in my hand]’. Immediately, ‘Hashem heard the voice of Israel.’
Here is the article:
It is a great failure of our society that a Jew can attend the “best” yeshivos from an early age, yet never learn that we faced Amalek a second time in the desert. They might be able to repeat a complex discourse on five different ways of reading a line of Gemara, or split hairs on hypothetical minutiae, but when it comes to the fundamentals of the Torah and our history they can offer only blank stares and fumbling responses to those who might question them. Our education system — if it can be called that — creates argumentative yet cowardly scholars who devote their studies to the Torah equivalent of calculus without ever having learned arithmetic.
As our second encounter with Amalek occurs in Parshas Chukas, which generally occurs during summer vacation, there is virtually no chance it would be part of any school curriculum. For someone to “discover” it, he must decide to study Chumash on his own, and by the time a Jew is old enough to do that, chances are he won’t want to “waste his time” on Tanach when he can split another Talmudic hair and impress those around him.
Even if one paid attention to the Torah reading, he would still miss it, for Amalek’s name doesn’t appear in the text. One would have to look at least as far as Rashi to discover there is more here than meets the eye, and what Talmudic scholar with an ounce of dignity would be caught studying Chumash and Rashi?
I begin with this digression because our collective disconnection from the fundamentals, even as Talmudic scholars and intellectuals abound, is devastating on many levels. The information I am about to share with you should not be a chiddush. It should not be something I had to learn on my own well into adulthood and gradually put together. We should have all learned this by fifth grade, and the presentation that follows should be merely a review.
I don’t know how much control Amalek and the Erev Rav have over our children’s education, but the greatest gift we could give our enemies is to marginalize and trivialize the fundamentals. We’re easy prey.
End of rant. Let’s turn to Bamidbar 21.
The forty years in the desert were nearing their end, but our travails were far from over. Aharon HaKohen, who had lovingly shepherded the Jews in Egypt and in the desert, had died, throwing the nation into turmoil. The clouds of glory that surrounded the Jews in his merit temporarily dissipated while they mourned.
The “Canaanites” happened to be lurking nearby. They noticed that the Jews were suddenly exposed, and took this as an invitation to attack them, even managing to take a captive. Although the Jews regrouped and took vengeance on their attackers, the battle took a deeper toll on many of the people, who were already in a fragile state.
Despite being so close to their destination, despair set in. Many Jews lost their faith — the constant miracles all around them lost their effect, as inevitably they do — and they decided they had enough. An undercurrent of rebellion that had flared up at various times reached a new peak.
Several families joined together, appointed a leader, and broke away from the nation. They were returning to Egypt to be slaves.
They retraced their steps for seven journeys, throwing away the yoke of Torah for the yoke of the gentile taskmaster – a bargain many continued to strike ever since.
The greatest yetzer hara of the Jew — including Orthodox Jews — is to be approved by the goyim, to emulate them (even if only in subtle ways), to be dependent upon them, and to be subservient to them in a land other than their own. This is the precise opposite of the very reason for the Jewish people to exist, and thus the greatest threat to our existence throughout history, present times included.
However, the dream of these rebels in the desert to abandon Jewish destiny for a hell they had become used to was not to be. The tribe of Levi chased after them and overtook them at Moseira, where a civil war ensued. The Levites killed seven families of renegades and lost four of their own in the battle – but they succeeded in ending the rebellion. When it was finally over the survivors mourned Aharon’s death again, for it had precipitated this tragic spiral, and returned to the nation (see Rashi on Bamidbar 21:4 and 26:13).
The Torah only hints at this civil war, most likely out of sensitivity for the fact that this rebellion was caused more by grief and emotional turmoil than wickedness.
But there is another hint in the Torah with even greater implications. The “Canaanites” who had attacked the Jews, which broke the spirits of many of the people and set a rebellion in motion, were actually Amalek. As Rashi on Bamidbar 21:1 explains, it was Amalek who dwelled in the Eretz HaNegev mentioned there, and Amalek was always on standby, a whip of punishment ready to attack the Jews at all times.
The Jews had lost faith and sunk into despair after Aharon died. Nothing charges Amalek’s batteries like loss of faith. As we saw in our first encounter with them, whenever Moshe lowered his hands and the Jews lost some of their divine connection, Amalek got the upper hand. When Moshe’s hands were raised and the Jews looked to heaven, they got the upper hand, and ultimately defeated Amalek.
The same pattern repeated itself here. After their initial setback, the Jews regrouped, turned to Hashem, and proceeded to decimate their attackers.
But why does the Torah refer to Amalek here as Canaanites?
Rashi explains that Amalek approached the Jews dressed as Amalek, but speaking in the language of the Canaanites. This was intended to confuse the Jews so they would ask Hashem to save them from the Canaanites, and render their prayers ineffective. The Jews were indeed confused, but finally prayed simply for Hashem to deliver “these people” in their hands, whoever they were, without being too specific.
There are critical lessons here about our ongoing war with Amalek:
- As we saw in the Mechilta, the first time Amalek came upon us was the only time they showed themselves as such. From now on they were playing dress-up and engaging in subterfuge. This time they disguised themselves as Canaanites, but they would assume many other identities as time went on.
- Amalek is most concerned with the power of Jewish prayer, and they go to great lengths to neutralize our ability to pray effectively.
Rashi’s source, the Yalkut Shimoni 764:13, adds important details and background:
If it was Amalek, why does the Torah call him Canaanite? Because Israel was forbidden to wage war against Esav, as it says ‘Do not start up with them, etc.’ (Devarim 2:5). [However] when Amalek came upon them one time and a second time and started up with them, Hashem said to [the Jews] this one isn’t forbidden to you like the [other] sons of Esav, but he is to you like the Canaanites, about whom it says ‘You shall utterly destroy them’ (Devarim 20:17). Therefore they are called Canaanites.
Amalek was always ready to strike Israel when they rebelled. We find that when they said ‘Is Hashem in our midst?’, immediately ‘And Amalek came’. Here as well, ‘And the entire congregation saw that Aharon had perished, and the Canaanite, king of Arad heard, etc.’. [The Jews said] ‘Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt’, and Amalek went down [to wage war against them].’
The Midrash then relates the flight from the nation and the civil war, and seems to indicate that this preceded the war with Amalek. If that is the case, we can well understand that their vulnerability to attack was not “merely” for a loss of faith following the death of Aharon, but as a punishment for the terrible sin of the rebellion.
The Midrash continues as follows:
Esav said to Amalek, ‘How much I tried to kill Yaacov! But he was not given into my hands. Set your mind to collect my revenge.’
Amalek said to him, ‘How can I successfully engage him?’
Esav said to him, ‘This tradition should be in your hands: when you see that they stumble with something, go and jump upon them...’
Amalek rejected the advice of his father, Eliphaz, and instead carried the eternal, implacable hatred of his grandfather, Esav. His entire existence revolved around waging war against the Jewish people, and, both directly and indirectly, bringing down the rest of the world as well. This tradition — the seething hatred for Israel and God’s world — would be passed down from generation to generation, and the war would continue until the end of days. When Amalek is unable to show his true face or wage war directly, he goes undercover and continues the war through proxy and subterfuge.
It is Amalek that would form and maintain secret societies over centuries that plot to take over the world, with an emphasis on destroying the Jewish people. There are many who lust for power and harbor hatred for the Jews, but none is so devoted, so organized, and so ruthless like Amalek. Unlike the others, Amalek is not driven by greed or personal ambition, but by a Satanic religion that consumes them.
It is why the Germans diverted critical manpower and resources to murdering as many Jews as possible, for as long as possible, even though it cost them dearly as the war turned against them. This defies all logic, unless one realizes that the Nazis were Amalek, and annihilating the Jewish people was their war. World domination was secondary. That could wait.
The Yalkut Shimoni then describes how Amalek came against Israel when the first Beis Hamikdash was destroyed. Although it was Bavel who was the dominant force at the time, Amalek watched as the Jews deteriorated spiritually and materially, and seized on the opportunity. They lingered a short distance away and watched the battle for Jerusalem.
He said to himself, ‘If Israel wins, I will say I came to help you, and if the kingdom of Bavel wins, I will turn against Israel and murder them’, as it says ‘Don’t stand by the juncture to cut off his survivors’ (Ovadia 1:14).
This is a perfect example of Amalek always remaining close to the Jewish people, taking their spiritual temperature, and jumping on the Jews when they are vulnerable — all while posing as allies.
Indeed, the Midrash then relates that Amalek played the same game centuries earlier, when they ambushed the Jews after Aharon died.
Rabbi Tanchum bar Chanilai said, when they heard that Aharon died, they armed themselves from within [their garments] and dressed [normally] from without, and they came as if they were mourners.
Amalek saw that the clouds had dissipated, but before they attacked, they needed to scope out the spiritual situation of the Jews. If the Jews were vulnerable, they would attack. If not, they came prepared with a disguise and a cover story. Classic Amalek.
The Yalkut Shimoni concludes:
[Amalek] said, ‘We know that they have an heirloom from their fathers, that [Yitzchak] said to them ‘The voice is the voice of Yaacov’, that they pray and are heard. We will come upon them, and they will think we are the children of Canaan, and they will pray about the Canaanites, and we will murder them.’
When they saw that the form of their faces was that of Amalek, but their dress and speech was that of the Canaanites, they said ‘Master of the world, we don’t know who they are. In any case, do justice against them,’ as it says ‘If you will give these people [in my hand]’. Immediately, ‘Hashem heard the voice of Israel.’
It is no coincidence that during the Covid portion of today’s war against humanity, which is spearheaded by Amalek, they placed a particular emphasis on closing down the shuls and yeshivos. Amalek has faithfully transmitted the tradition that our power lies in our prayers and Torah, and they strategize accordingly to short-circuit our spiritual defenses.
Do you understand now what’s really going on? Do you realize that this is not a series of coincidences or natural events, but the latest — most likely final — chapter in a war with Amalek that has spanned thousands of years?
We cannot defeat an enemy that we do not recognize, or are unsure even exists.
Amalek knows this quite well, which is why they disguise themselves as various other nationalities and come as friends, as saviors from crises real, imagined, exaggerated, or orchestrated by them.
Amalek also knows the power of our prayers and faith. If only we knew it as much as they do.
If we armed ourselves only with this information, we would be well on our way to defeating Amalek. But there is still more to learn from the Torah and Chazal to round out our understanding of Amalek and his methods.
After all, for thousands of years Amalek has been lurking around us, watching us, collecting data, analyzing us, and fine tuning their strategies against us, while we denied they were even there at all. Let’s finally wake up and catch up.
01 March 2026
Trump, Purim and Iran
In this urgent and insightful session, investigative journalist Simcha Jacobovici reports from his bomb shelter in Israel to explore the deep, mystical, and political connections between the biblical story of Purim and the current geopolitical landscape.
In this video, we discuss:
🔹 The Victory of Purim: A look back at the Jewish holiday celebrating the defeat of Haman in Persia (modern-day Iran) thousands of years ago.
🔹 The "Hidden" God: Why the Book of Esther is the only book in the Bible that doesn’t mention God—and what that reveals about the "hidden" forces shaping our world.
🔹 A Call to Action: Simcha draws parallels between the biblical King Ahasuerus and modern leaders like Donald Trump, urging a return to the decisive leadership seen in the story of Esther.
🔹 The Amalek Connection: Understanding the ancestral enmity of the tribe of Amalek and its role in the recurring threat of genocide against the Jewish people.
🔹 From Nuremberg to Today: The haunting link between the ten sons of Haman and the ten Nazi war criminals executed after the Holocaust.
As the sirens sound in the background, Simcha provides a unique perspective on why the Purim story is a prophetic blueprint for the events unfolding in the Middle East today.
Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer
Prophecy Unfolding: Downfall of Iran, Purim & The End Of Days - Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer
I wrote in another post that I expected we would hear from Rabbi Fingerer, but then I erased it. Well, here he is with his analysis.
INTERVIEWS IN BEIT SHEMESH
At least 9 killed in direct Iranian missile impact in Israel
Shocking footage from inside Israel during Iran’s missile attacks
Air raid sirens are sounding across Jerusalem as missile interceptions continue, with plumes of smoke rising from interception sites and alerts sent to mobile devices.
The situation has rapidly escalated from early warnings to a coordinated military operation by Israel and the United States against Iran.
Residents report hearing explosions from intercepted missiles and the roar of fighter jets overhead, while smoke rises near sensitive and historic areas.
The tense atmosphere underscores the growing regional crisis as military action unfolds.
WAR UPDATE: Something Happened in Beit Shemesh
Saw it on screen before computer froze! Very rare.
LIVE: Saudi Arabia To Launch WAR In Iran - IRGC Has MELTDOWN On StreetsAn Iranian ballistic missile struck a residential area in Beit Shemesh, Israel, killing at least six people and injuring more than 20 others, according to Israeli emergency services. The missile impact caused significant destruction of homes and infrastructure west of Jerusalem as tensions escalate following a broader Israel-Iran confrontation.
FROM A SOURCE: Apparently eight homes were obliterated and people were killed in a public shelter. The IDF promises to investigate what structurally went wrong, because obviously shelters are safe, not targets of the regime, and another layer of aluminum siding or whatever would have made all the difference. As someone who knows his stuff explained it to me, it's not the missile impact that kills the people, so the structure has little to do with it. But people don't know and don't want to know.
ILTV: Throughout the day, rocket barrages triggered sirens across Israel, striking cities including Tel Aviv and Bet Shemesh, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more as search and rescue teams operate under a nationwide state of emergency, with airspace closed, tens of thousands of reservists called up, and the country now officially at war.
How US & Israeli Strike KILLED Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei
⚠️ This video is intended for educational and informational purposes. All information presented is sourced from verified international news outlets.
On the morning of February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched the largest combined military strike in modern Middle Eastern history — a coordinated aerial assault targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the entire senior leadership of the Islamic Republic. Roughly 200 Israeli fighter jets struck over 500 targets across Iran while the U.S. military launched Operation Epic Fury, targeting Iran's nuclear infrastructure, ballistic missile sites, and IRGC installations. Khamenei's compound in downtown Tehran was hit with approximately 30 bombs, reducing the fortified complex to rubble. President Trump confirmed Khamenei's death on Truth Social, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared the operation a success planned in close coordination with Washington for months.
This video breaks down exactly how the strike was planned and executed — from the intelligence that confirmed Iran's top leadership had gathered in Tehran during Ramadan, to the deliberate decision to accelerate the timeline and strike in broad daylight on a Saturday morning, to the coordinated decapitation strike that killed over 40 senior regime figures including IRGC commanders, the defense minister, and the intelligence chief. We examine the years of Israeli intelligence penetration that made the operation possible, the collapse of Iran's Axis of Resistance proxy network, and the historic significance of the first assassination of a sitting head of state by Israel.
Inside Iran, the reaction was deeply divided — state media broadcast mourning while ordinary Iranians celebrated in the streets of Tehran. With no successor named and the constitutional body unable to convene under ongoing airstrikes, the Islamic Republic faced its most existential crisis since the 1979 revolution.
This is the full story of how the Supreme Leader of Iran was killed, and what it means for the future of the Middle East.
TEXT FROM ANOTHER ai VIDEO:
Iran fired missiles at seven countries in a single afternoon. Bahrain, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan all hit. U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters under attack for nine hours. Trump calls for regime change — "take over your government." Full Day One breakdown.
Twelve hours after the first strikes, Iran launched what the IRGC called the first wave of large-scale missile and drone attacks — and they did not just fire at Israel. Ballistic missiles struck American military installations in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan. Saudi Arabia and Iraq intercepted incoming fire. A hotel in Dubai is in flames. The headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain took direct hits and endured over nine hours of continuous attack. Military families were ordered to evacuate high-rise apartments in Manama. Seven countries under fire in one afternoon — a scope nobody predicted.
We now know two separate operations are running simultaneously. Israel's campaign is Operation Roaring Lion. The Pentagon's is Operation Epic Fury. Two sovereign militaries, two named operations, against the same country at the same time — something that has not happened since World War Two. Netanyahu placed a book about Allied coordination in WWII on his desk for the cameras. That was not an accident.
Western intelligence sources told the Washington Post that strikes on Iran's Ministry of Intelligence killed at least four top leaders including the heads of counterterrorism and counterintelligence. Israel targeted the defense minister and IRGC ground forces commander — both reportedly killed. Satellite imagery shows damage inside Khamenei's compound. Iran's own foreign minister said the Supreme Leader is alive — then added the words "as far as I know." The Iranian Red Crescent reports two hundred and one killed and seven hundred forty-seven wounded across twenty-four provinces. The strikes were not concentrated. They were nationwide.
Then came the words that changed everything. Trump told the Iranian people — bombs will be dropping everywhere, when we are finished, take over your government, it will be yours to take, this will probably be your only chance for generations. He offered the IRGC complete immunity if they lay down their weapons — or certain death if they do not. No American president has openly called for the overthrow of the Iranian government since 1979. This is no longer a strike. This is a war with a stated objective — regime change.
Vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dropped twenty to twenty-five percent. Four supertankers carrying eight million barrels turned around. The Houthis announced they will resume Red Sea attacks. When oil markets open Sunday night in Asia, expect chaos.
Recently Read Something Amazing About Amalek.....
First I recommend this Sefer, which is a companion to appreciating the Uniqueness and Specialness, and Spirituality of the Land of Eretz Yisrael:
Places in the Parasha: Biblical Geography and its Meaning
About what I read, on the following pages:
If you are able to click & enlarge these pages, begin reading "What is the meaning of our eternal conflict with Amalek?
then continue on these two pages.
What captured my thoughts was this:
"Apparently, Amalek serves, in a way, as the nation of Israel's "evil twin." After this is a chronology of appearances of Amalek in the early history of the Israelites.
Then follows elaboration:
"Amalek is a figure that competes with us for our *identity and for our place – in our land, in the world, in history. The war with Amalek is more than just revenge; it is an act of defense – it is either us or them. We are commanded to blot out the memory of Amalek, but it is no less important for us to be able to distinguish between Israel and Amalek."
Also: "[...] It is almost difficult to avoid modern-day comparisons, and every generation has its own Amalek." (ed.) "When a nation **claims that it is the chosen race, while the Jews are an inferior nation that must be destroyed – when people claim claim that this land is not the Land of Israel, but a land with a different name, belonging to them – perhaps this is the essence of Amalek......"
This is what shines a floodlight on our struggles under the usurped leadership since the mid 19th Century, through 1948, up to and including the present.
And once again:
From Rav Moshe Sternbuch shlit"A:
"In every generation there are heretics who fight against Hashem and His Torah. Furthermore, Rav Moshe Cordovero wrote almost 500 years ago that the heads of government in the last generation before the coming of Moshiach will be from Amolek.
Rav Chaim Brisker writes that the commandment to eradicate Amolek does not necessarily refer to the descendants of Amolek, but to anybody who espouses his atheistic philosophy.
[…] not to fear Iran or any eternal enemy We are only afraid of anti-Torah actions adopted by our coreligionists which cause sorrow to the Shechinah.
Based on droshos by Maran HaGaon Rav Moshe Sternbuch shlita, Gaavad of Yerushalayim. To receive these weekly divrei Torah email ravsternbuchtorah@gmail.com
* possibly a body of people who dominate the government of Israel.
** possibly a non-people non-nation that tries to usurp our identity and tries to eliminate Yehudim/Israelim from the face of the earth.
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