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31 July 2021

ITAMAR TOUR: A Glimpse of Ein Gedi UPDATED

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The sound is a bit low, but the scenery is breathtaking. Strain your ears, it is worth it. 

The Zimmerman Egg Farm of Itamar

 

A glimpse at the Zimmerman farm on Itamar which was made possible with the kind assistance of "Friends of Itamar


30 July 2021

Reb Neuberger: Parshas Eikev – FEAR



FEAR


There is a famous niggun with words attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov: “Kol ha olam kulo, gesher tzar me-od … all the world is a narrow bridge, and the main thing is not to fear ….” These are powerful words. What exactly do they mean? Even if we do not understand completely, one thing is clear: fear must be a big thing in this world if Rabbi Nachman says the “main thing” is not to fear. 


There is a passage printed in the Siddur after Aleinu: “Al tira … Do not fear sudden terror or the holocaust of the wicked when it comes. Plan a conspiracy and it will be annulled; speak your piece and it shall not stand, for Hashem is with us. Even till your seniority I remain unchanged; and even until your ripe old age, I shall endure. I created you and I shall bear you; I shall endure and rescue.” (Mishlei/Yeshiah ha Novi)


We have passed through the events of Tisha B’Av and we are still here. We have survived Holocausts, pogroms, inquisitions and crusades and it is not over. Today the world is closing in on us again as it closed in on our ancestors at the Red Sea, where it seemed that there was no escape. But Moshe Rabbeinu told Am Yisroel, “Do not fear! Stand fast and see the salvation of Hashem that He will perform for you today ….” (Shemos 14:13)


In every generation, we are told “Do not fear.” 


Right now, I believe that a lot of people are afraid. They are afraid of what is happening and what is going to happen in the world.


In this week’s Parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu speaks about the nations which inhabit Eretz Canaan and tells Am Yisroel, “Perhaps you will say in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I. How will I be able to drive them out?’ 


“Do not fear them! Remember what Hashem, your G-d, did to Paro and to all of Egypt ….”


Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch says (on Dvarim 1:8): if Am Yisroel had only lived up to the Torah, not one stroke of the sword would have been necessary to conquer the Land. Hashem would have given it to us without opposition! 


We make such trouble for ourselves! Those who reject Hashem claim that yeshiva bocher-im should be drafted into the army, but in fact they ARE the army! They are literally the ones who save us. I heard from Rabbi Yaakov Zev Smith Shlita”h that all our troubles come because we have no Bais Hamikdosh! If we are true to Hashem, then we will find ourselves in Gan Eden. If we rebel, G-d forbid …. 


It’s that simple. 


How can we overcome fear? 


I have tried to talk myself out of it. It doesn’t work. I believe that emotion is beyond our ability to control. I do not believe you can make yourself calm or unafraid through an act of will. But our Rabbis tell us that we can control the Yetzer ha Ra, the Evil Inclination, through immersion in Torah. How does that work? 


Look in the mirror. Whom do you fear? What do you fear? Do you fear some person who may have control over you? Do you fear powerful forces in the world? Do you think you have no control? Why? “Hashem has redeemed Yaakov and delivered him from a power mightier than he….” (Yirmiah 31:10)


Actually, I believe that we are afraid of ourselves. We are afraid of the Yetzer ha Ra, the internal force that will control us if we do not have Torah to save us. Every morning we beg Hashem, “Do not let the evil inclination dominate us.” When the Yetzer ha Ra is in control, then we are afraid. 


We project our battle onto others because we do not want to acknowledge the source of our fear, so we say that this person has power over us. We fear other nations just the way the Miraglim feared the inhabitants of Eretz Canaan. Why did this happen? Because they were unwilling to admit that the real battle was with their own Yetzer ha Ra


If the Yetzer ha Ra is subdued, then fear will be subdued, because the basic object of fear is the Yetzer ha Ra. In the words of Dovid ha Melech, “Min ha maitzar … from the straits I called upon G-d…. G-d is with me. I have no fear. How can man affect me?” (Tehillim 118)


“[Hashem says]: I created the Evil Inclination and I have created Torah as its ‘tavlin.’ If you involve yourselves in Torah, you will not be delivered into its hand.” (Kiddushin 30b) “Tavlin” actually means “spices.” Why does the Gemora compare Torah to spices?


My friends, I can offer one simple answer: spices make food pleasant. Hashem wants us to live in a happy world, a world of beauty and perfection. Torah means that your life will be good; your life will be happy; your life will not taste bitter. Motzae Shabbos we smell spices to revive us; in the Bais Hamikdosh the aroma of ketores filled the air. It must have been like Gan Eden. 


This is the Season of Teshuva. If we allow Torah to dominate our thoughts and actions, there will be nothing to fear. We will soon greet Moshiach ben Dovid and see the Bais Hamikdosh on the Holy Mountain. 



Spices



GLOSSARY

Gan Eden: The Garden of Eden

Ketores: Incense offered in the Holy Temple

Miraglim: The Biblical spies sent into the Holy Land

Niggun: Song

Siddur: Prayer Book

Teshuva: Repentance

29 July 2021

Rabbi Kahana: Eikev – Un-Jewish? Un-Rabbinic?

BS”D 

Parashat Eikev 5781
Rabbi Nachman Kahana

 

Un-Jewish? Un-Rabbinic?


In last week’s message, I wrote of the pending “yom hadin” – HaShem’s inevitable day of judgement against all our historic and contemporary enemies, first and foremost the Christian nations of Europe and including others like Iran and their Islamic co-religionists. This evoked negative reactions of shock from several corners, claiming that my vengeful tone is un-Jewish and certainly inappropriate for a rabbi.


Un-Jewish Indeed?! Un-rabbinic? Indeed!


What is the difference between a “right” as in the first 10 amendments to the Constitution which make up the Bill of Rights, and a “privilege”?


A privilege is something granted as a special favor by the will of the grantor, which the recipient cannot demand.  A “right” is a status upon which one may demand its fulfillment. An American citizen has the right to demand his freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. But one cannot demand privileges reserved for the elite.


That we are alive is not a “right” that permits us to demand from the Creator; but rather a magnificent privilege granted by Him to be a real entity which is commanded to recognize and accept His mastery and Monarchy and to service Him by abiding to his will.


Our parasha begins (Devarim 7,12):


והיה עקב תשמעון את המשפטים האלה ושמרתם ועשיתם אתם ושמר האלהיך לך את הברית ואת החסד אשר נשבע לאבתיך

If you abide by these laws and will be diligent in following them, then the Lord your G–D will fulfill his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.

 Verse 8,19:

והיה אם שכח תשכח את האלהיך והלכת אחרי אלהים אחרים ועבדתם והשתחוית להם העדתי בכם היום כי אבד תאבדון

If you forget (ignore) the Lord your G–D and follow other G–Ds and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be lost.


Two basic principles arise from these verses:

  1. One does not have an inherent “right” (entitlement) to live. Life is a privilege granted to man by the Creator, and when one oversteps that privilege his life could be compromised.
  2. There are inevitable consequences to our behavior, for good and for bad.

Let’s return to my “un-Jewish” and “un-rabbinic” expectations that HaShem, the G–D of justice, mercy and truth will punish all who have lifted a finger or voiced condemnation toward – the Jewish nation.


What did our father Avraham do to the four kings who kidnapped his nephew Lot?

What about Shimon and Levi in the city of Shechem?


Moshe Rabbeinu took revenge on the Egyptian taskmaster for beating a Jew and was commanded by HaShem to destroy the nation of Midyan for leading 24,000 Jews to sin.

Yehoshua decimated the seven Canaanite nations.


Shoftim (Judges like Gidon, Shimshon, Devora, and Yael the wife of Chaver Hakaini) were not lily white.


King David ordered the killing of two thirds of the males of Moav, after their king murdered David’s parents and six brothers.


And the list is very long.

 

Avenging Evil is a Holy Mitzva


To avenge evil is a holy mitzva.  From where do we know this?


The Gemara (Brachot 33a) lists three things whose senior status of importance was emphasized in the Tanach by their written word, appearing between two names of Hashem. They are:

 דעה, מקדש, נקמה

Native intelligence, the Temple, revenge against evil doers.

Rambam (Melachim chapter 5):

ואי זו היא מלחמת מצוה זו מלחמת שבעה עממים, ומלחמת עמלק, ועזרת ישראל מיד צר שבא עליהם


Defines war which is a mitzva to wage as the war against the seven Canaanite nations (and by extension any war to liberate Eretz Yisrael); war against Amalek, and war against any non-Jew who threatens the life of a Jew.


In addition, we recite on most Shabbatot the following verses in the Av Harachamim liturgy before Musaf, Devarim 32,43:

הרנינו גוים עמו כי דם עבדיו יקום ונקם ישיב לצריו וכפר אדמתו עמו

Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for He will avenge the blood of His servants; He will take vengeance on His enemies and make atonement for His land and people.

The prophet Joel 4,21:

ונקיתי דמם לא נקיתי והשכן בציו

Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged? I will not. The Lord dwells in Zion!

Tehillim 79,10:

למה יאמרו הגוים איה אלהיהם יודע בגיים בגוים לעינינו נקמת דם עבדיך השפוך:

Why should the nations say, where is their G–D? Before our eyes, make known among the nations that You avenge the outpoured blood of Your servants.

Tehillim 9,13:

כי דרש דמים אותם זכר לא שכח צעקת עניים ענוים

Sing the praises of the Lord, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what He has done. For He who avenges blood remembers; He does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.


Un-Jewish and un-rabbinic, indeed!


In the matter of avenging evil, we are partners with the Creator. HaShem deals with the big and numerous enemies, the small but deadly one He leaves to us.


In conclusion: there are many beautiful subjects and ideas in our parasha that I could write about, aside from HaShem’s imminent wrath on our enemies. But as I perceive it, we are now in a time when Judenhass is going to fill a major role on the stage of history. We cannot afford the luxury of burying our heads in the sand and be oblivious to the changes in the United States and in many lands where Jews live today; not to speak of the Middle East.


It brings to mind the prophetic words of the sinister Bil’am in Bamidbar (23,9):


הן עם לבדד ישכן ובגוים לא יתחשב

I see a people who live apart and are not involved when dealing with the other nations.


Many of the commentaries explain this verse to mean, that on that day (or time) of reckoning when HaShem brings down the enemies of Am Yisrael, we will remain unscathed and will be the leaders of the new world.


Shabbat Shalom,

Nachman Kahana

Copyright © 5781/2021 Nachman Kahana

Rabbi Winston: Parshat Aikev

 THE PARSHA STARTS of with the verse:


And it will be, because you will—aikev—listen to these judgments and keep and perform them… (Devarim 7:12)


Translated, there is nothing unusual about the wording, but in Hebrew there is. The word for “because you will” is not the one most people would have chosen. The fact that the Torah chose the word “aikev,” a word that principally means “heel,” led Rashi to comment: 


If you will listen to the “minor” commandments which one [usually] tramples with their heels… (Rashi)


It’s a double message. In most cases the Torah does not distinguish between “easy” and “difficult” mitzvos, but it does in this parsha. It specifically speaks about mitzvos that people might “step on” with their “heel,” so-to-speak, because they don’t seem that important compared to other mitzvos like Shabbos for example. 


How does one know which mitzvah is minor and which is major? Seemingly as a result of the punishment for not doing them. Some sins are punishable by death, some by kares—excision, and some by 39 lashes “only,” though quite frankly, the lashes could kill, or at least make someone wish they would. 


The mishnah in Pirkei Avos echoes this idea, except that it adds an extra reason as well. You are not allowed to decide which mitzvah to take seriously and which one not to in general. Even if you are the type to anyhow, you certainly can’t do it based upon punishment alone:


Be careful with a light mitzvah as with a grave one, because you do not know the reward for the fulfillment of the mitzvos. (Pirkei Avos 2:1)


To be clear, as Jews we’re concerned about two things. First, about avoiding punishment in this world and the next one, which we do by avoiding sin. Secondly, we’re about earning as much reward as we can while we can, which we do by learning Torah and doing mitzvos. The fact that the punishment for certain transgressions is “less” than others does not necessarily mean that they cannot earn more reward in the World-to-Come, or even in this world, by avoiding them. 


Why did I put avoiding punishment before earning reward in the World-to-Come? Because ever since we “absorbed” the yetzer hara after the sin of the Aitz HaDa’as and were expelled from Gan Aiden, we have tended to put earning eternal reward a distant second to avoiding punishment. Especially in our generation when you can seemingly have your cake and eat it too (be “frum” while acting somewhat secular), Torah life for many has become somewhat an issue of “risk management.”


So people wear clothing that pushes the limits of tznius—modesty, and pushes those limits more and more in the wrong direction. They do things on Shabbos that are not in the spirit of Shabbos, or worse. They use technology in ways that might be fine for non-Jews, but not for Jews. They indulge in materialism more than might be sanctioned by a Torah way of life. 


It’s a BIG mistake.


I ONCE ASKED someone how they could knowingly turn their back on Torah after having first become a ba’al teshuvah. Unlike many who are born into a Torah lifestyle, this person became observant in their twenties because the argument in favor of Torah made sense. That hadn’t changed, just their attitude towards being religious.


I have never forgotten what they answered me, and it is at least 35 years later. In fact, they taught me a REALLY important lesson about how our minds work. On a less serious level, it explains something as trivial as undesirable weight gain. On a more serious level, it explains something as mind-boggling as the Holocaust. 


This is what they answered me. They said that the first time they broke Shabbos by turning on a light, they “expected” lightning to come down from Heaven and strike them. But of course it didn’t, so they did it a second time with less fear, and then a third time with even less fear. Eventually they left everything behind they had learned.


The truth is, the Talmud warns about the same thing:


If a person sins once, and then a second time, it is permissible to them. If they sin once, and then twice, it is permissible to them?! Rather, it becomes as if permissible to them. (Kiddushin 20a)


You have to ask yourself about the psychology of this incredible mental process if you want to avoid being victimized by it. Few people aren’t victims of it, which is why the world has become as troubling place as it is today. 


This morning I received a video link from a good friend of mine that, I have to say, is very disturbing. The video that is. It is meant to be disturbing, because it is a German tracing the steps that were taken by the Nazi regime to manipulate fifty million Germans to carry out the Holocaust. It is called, “You Thought You Were Free? (Revised),” and it is found on the Armstrong Economics web site. 


Anyone who lives “outside” the secular world has got be shocked by the direction of society, and afraid of where it might be going. Historically, the current liberal trend in the West has, in the past, led to major wars. Anyone who is NOT shocked by the current state of Western society is already a victim of what the video describes.


But the finger should be wagging at more than secular people, because we’re all guilty of the same psychological error. The Torah is not talking to secular Jews, but to religious ones, those who keep mitzvos but only to the extent that they deem necessary. Does the yetzer hara care if someone is religious or secular? 


On the contrary. Getting a religious Jew to compromise on a Torah value even just a little, as opposed to a secular Jew to compromise a lot, is like knocking off a general as opposed to only a corporal during a war. Because that’s what it is, the Ramchal says, a raging spiritual war. And he adds, and this is the scary part: if you don’t feel that war raging, then you’ve lost it already. 



THE MISHNAH IN Pirkei Avos says that the Jewish people tested G–D ten times in the desert, the tenth being the episode of the spies. A very obvious question that many people obviously don’t ask is, “What do you mean tested G–D ten times? They sinned against G–D ten times!”


The Leshem provides a not-so-obvious but incredible answer. He says that the majority of Jews never actually sinned in the desert. In fact, it was always a small number of Jews who actually committed the sin, even during the episode of the spies. Sometimes it was even only Dasan and Aviram, and perhaps the Erev Rav, even though the Torah makes it seem like the entire nation sinned. 


Although this explains why the language of “tested” is used instead of “sinned,” it does not explain why the entire nation was punished because of a handful of repeat sinners. To answer that, we need only recall that in last week’s parsha there was a mitzvah not to test G–D. That is exactly what the rest of the nation did do to warrant being dragged into the sins of others. 


How did they test G–D? Rather than protest against the sinners, the majority of the nation stayed quiet and waited to see how G–D would respond. Would He still support them, or cut them off, continue to take care of them, or destroy them in the desert? While they “waited” to see G–D’s protest, G–D waited to see theirs.


But it never came. No one ever stood up to the bad guys except for Chur, Miriam’s son, and he died for it. And lest a person say, “What good would their protests have done? Would anyone have listened to them?” the Talmud recounts how that argument did not save the tzaddikim of the First Temple period (Shabbos 55a). They perished with everyone else in the Churban for not having tried to protest against the sins of their generation.  


As the Talmud says:


Rebi Yonason, which some replace with Rebi Yochanan, said: Whoever can protest against [a sin in] their household but does not is held responsible for [the sins of] their household; their fellow citizens, they are held responsible for [the sins of] their fellow citizens; the whole world, they are held responsible for [the sins of] the whole world. (Shabbos 54b)



WHO IS NOT disgusted by Titus’ profanation of the Torah and the Temple (Gittin 56b)? How could G–D allow such a terrible human being to enter the Holy of Holies with a Sefer Torah and profane both so horribly? Even the difficult death he suffered seems too kind for what he did.


But everything G–D does is middah-k’negged middah—measure-for-measure. What Titus did had to be in response to something we did first, measure-for-measure. But to our knowledge, no Jew ever did anything remotely as profane as Titus did, so the question returns: How was Titus able to do it?


In Kabbalah, the concept is called “k’illu—as if.” It refers to a situation where something doesn’t actually occur, but since the net result is the same, it is “as if” the thing that usually causes it did occur. 


An example of this idea is embarrassing someone in public. Since it draws the blood of a person from their face making them “go white,” it’s k’illu—as if—the person doing the embarrassing killed the person they embarrassed. Since it is only k’illu, they won’t be punished as a murderer by Bais Din, but it is k’illu enough that they will be considered a murderer on some level from Heaven’s point of view.


Likewise, a Jew never physically did what Titus did on top of a Sefer Torah, and in the Holy of Holies no less. But that doesn’t mean that from Heaven’s point-of-view our treading on “light” mitzvos, and how much more so on “serious” mitzvos, is not the same thing. On the contrary, G–D may have had Titus do that to tell us what our abuse of Torah seems like from His vantage point. Something we did had to open the door for Titus to behave as he did.


This is a major part of the warning in this week’s parsha. It would be a terrible mistake for us to think we understand G–D and Torah enough to properly weigh the gravity of our actions, or lack of them. 


“So I don’t take the mitzvah seriously. How bad can it be?” 

“So I don’t protest. At least I’m not actually doing the sin!”


History has answered these questions many times over, and never the way we imagined or hoped. But take G–D, Torah, and His mitzvos seriously, and you not only make G–D happy, but you earn His protection…in this world and the next one.

Facing Reality


From time to time I feel sliding down my cheeks little moist droplets of reality.


Shabbos, our Shalosh Regalim, and other Moadim are life rafts in this sea of reality.


Keeping HKB”H in vision and Hashem’s Creations in view give temporary solace.


Greeting Mashiach will be the antidote.



Preparing for The Third Beis HaMikdash: The Parochet Chamber – לשכת הפרוכת הינו סטודיו

Parochet Chamber - Studio - Visitors Center - Beit Midrash Creator for Temple Curtains and Priesthood Clothes, Parochet Chamber - Temple Weavers

The Parochet Chamber is a studio - a visitor center - a beit midrash creates for the affairs of the Temple curtains and priestly garments, which researches and implements the weaving of the curtains for the Temple. At the center, workshops are held on the subject of the curtains of the Temple, women's work in the Temple, thanksgiving bread and the second worm.


Parochet


Orna Hirschberg - a woman, artist, educator, tourist, who found herself weaving and researching the curtains of the Temple. Living in Itamar on the hills of Samaria, (she) took the project of the Parochet Chamber seriously and achieved great results, famous(ly) in the media, in the country, Internet newspapers and  television, and even international media.


From the Ivrit:

לשכת הפרוכת הינו סטודיו- מרכז מבקרים - בית מדרש יוצר לענייני פרוכות בית המקדש ובגדי כהונה, החוקר ומיישם את אריגת הפרוכות לבית המקדש. במרכז מתקיימות סדנאות בנושא הפרוכות של בית המקדש, עבודת נשים במקדש, לחמי תודה ותולעת השני.

Dyed and Drying Thread for the Parochet

אורנה הירשברג - אישה,אומנית, מחנכת, תיירנית, שמצאה את עצמה אורגת וחוקרת את פרוכות בית המקדש.

גרה באיתמר על גבעות השומרון, לקחה את הפרוייקט של לשכת הפרוכת ברצינות והגיעה להישגים נאים, המפורסמים באמצעי תקשורת בארץ, אינטרנט עיתונים וטלויזיה, ואף תקשורת בינלאומית.




Visit Orna to learn more about her Studio



Here on Itamar Orna Hirschberg founder of Lishchat Haparochet prepares for the building of the third Temple by researching special weaving methods used in preparing the priestly garments and the Parochet.


28 July 2021

AAPS Patient Bill of Rights

 All patients should be guaranteed the following freedoms:

  • To seek consultation with the physician(s) of their choice;
  • To contract with their physician(s) on mutually agreeable terms;
  • To be treated confidentially, with access to their records limited to those involved in their care or designated by the patient;
  • To use their own resources to purchase the care of their choice;
  • To refuse medical treatment even if it is recommended by their physician(s);
  • To be informed about their medical condition, the risks and benefits of treatment and appropriate alternatives;
  • To refuse third-party interference in their medical care, and to be confident that their actions in seeking or declining medical care will not result in third-party-imposed penalties for
  • patients or physicians;
  • To receive full disclosure of their insurance plan in plain language, including:
    • CONTRACTS: A copy of the contract between the physician and health care plan, and between the patient or employer and the plan
    • INCENTIVES: Whether participating physicians are offered financial incentives to reduce treatment or ration care;
    • COST: The full cost of the plan, including copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles;
    • COVERAGE: Benefits covered and excluded, including availability and location of 24-hour emergency care;
    • QUALIFICATIONS: A roster and qualifications of participating physicians;
    • APPROVAL PROCEDURES: Authorization procedures for services, whether doctors need approval of a committee or any other individual, and who decides what is medically necessary;
    • REFERRALS: Procedures for consulting a specialist, and who must authorize the referral;
    • APPEALS: Grievance procedures for claim or treatment denials;
    • GAG RULE: Whether physicians are subject to a gag rule, preventing criticism of the plan.

27 July 2021

Report From Holland: Doctors Speak Out

THE U.S. CONUNDRUM IS PEAKING

The [CB] infrastructure bill is going to be like a nuclear blast of inflation. People are already experiencing inflation but if the deal is made it will be something like we have never seen before. 

Trump is warning against this, a crisis is coming


Credit Suisse says its time to buy gold


Bitcoin rises sharply, [CB] trap


The patriots are in total control, the election forensic audits are going to be presented to the people, more and more states are signing on to have their states audited. Most likely in the end every state will be audited. 


The [DS] is now preparing to stop this at any they can. They are now setting the stage for a false flag. The pandemic is disappearing the FDA and CDC have changed the tests, they will now use tests that will distinguish between covid and flu. 


Covid will disappear while the flu reappears, the [DS] knows that this is their last push to get everyone vaccinated, they are now at the stage where they will be forcing it on people. 


The people are rising up, they don’t want vaccines or vaccine passports, the counterinsurgency has begun.


UNDER THE GUN 

Rand Paul Vs. Dr. Fauci: Their Three Most Recent Senate Hearing Clashes



Sen. Braun to Dr. Fauci: Did Facebook consult with you when deciding what is COVID misinformation?



JUST IN: Jim Jordan says he can prove Fauci LIED


He's Not Going To Answer The Question': GOP Senator Presses Fauci On COVID-19 Origin Theory During Tuesday's Senate Health Committee hearing, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci on whether he agrees with a one-time statement from Dr. David Baltimore that features of COVID-19 make the case for a "smoking gun" that it does not have natural origins, which Fauci pointed out Baltimore has since backtracked on but would not affirmatively say he himself disagrees with.

NVIC VACCINE UPDATE

THE LATEST FROM THE NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER “NVIC”


Infections in Vaccinated People in U.K. are Outpacing Infections in the Unvaccinated

The Zoe COVID Study, led by epidemiologist Tim Spector, MD, of Kings College in London, estimated that there were 17,581 new daily symptomatic cases of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people, or 22 percent less than the previous week’s total of 22,638 new cases. According to a press release issued by the study’s authors, “With cases in the vaccinated group continuing to rise, the number of new cases in the vaccinated population is set to overtake the unvaccinated in the coming days.” […]



Most Infections in Israel are Among Vaccinated People

In Israel, about 60 percent of the country’s population of 9.3 million has received at least one dose of a COVID vaccine. About 85 percent of adults in Israel have been vaccinated. Yet most of the new coronavirus infections are occurring in vaccinated people.


In early-July, former Health Minister Chezy Levy, MD confirmed that “55 percent of the newly infected [people in Israel] had been vaccinated.”  There has also been a concerning rise in the number of vaccinated people in Israel being hospitalized. An article in The Jerusalem Post last week noted that the Israeli Health Ministry reported 124 people had been hospitalized for COVID-19 on July 20 and that 65 percent of them were fully vaccinated. Of the 124 people, 62 were in serious condition and 70% of those patients were fully vaccinated. […]



Infections in Chile, Seychelles and Mongolia Mostly in Vaccinated People

Another example of a highly vaccinated country which has been experiencing a new outbreak of coronavirus infections mostly among its vaccinated population is Chile. Of the thousands of new coronavirus cases being reported daily in that country, 80 percent of them are in vaccinated people. Chile has fully vaccinated 55 percent of its population.


The examples of the U.K., Israel and Chile, as well as other highly vaccinated countries like the Seychelles and Mongolia experiencing coronavirus infections mostly within the vaccinated segments of their populations pose a dilemma. The governments of these countries have to decide if the problem is that not enough of their people have been vaccinated, or that the vaccines are simply not as effective as initially assumed they would be. […]



Could Vaccinations Be Causing Rise in Infections?

There is also a third possible problem which was raised by French virologist and Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier, MD in May 2021. In an interview with Pierre Barnérias of Hold-Up Media, Dr. Montagnier said he believed that the mass vaccination programs for COVID may actually be causing SARS-CoV-2 mutations like the Delta variant and, thus, prolonging the pandemic.


Dr. Montagnier explained that in each country that undertakes a mass vaccination campaign, “the curve of vaccinations is followed by the curve of deaths.” He said that the COVID vaccines create antibodies that force the virus to “find another solution” or “die,” adding that it is the variants that “are a production and result from the vaccination.”


Dr. Montagnier’s views are admittedly controversial. The thought that vaccinations may actually be exacerbating the COVID pandemic is perhaps too difficult a concept for government officials to consider. But this possibility should not be dismissed outright.


One of the best explanations of this dynamic was given by Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) in a 2011 interview when she described the evolution of pertussis bacteria to evade the vaccines:


[E]very life form wants to live, wants to survive. Universal principle. And viruses and bacteria are no exception. And when you put a pressure on a virus or bacteria that’s circulating, with the use of a vaccine that contains a lab-altered form of that virus or bacteria, it doesn’t seem that it would be illogical to understand that that organism is going to fight to survive, it’s going to find a way to adapt in order to survive. […]




All articles in full can be read at https://thevaccinereaction.org/2021/07/coronavirus-spreading-among-the-vaccinated-in-highly-vaccinated-countries/

26 July 2021

UPDATE Let’s Get These Conundrums Straight . . .

WHY THEY ARE DOING THIS IS TO "LOWER THE NUMBERS" OF VACCINATED GETTING SICK AND ENDING UP IN THE HOSPITAL

THEY HOPE TO BLAME THE INCREASE IN DEATHS TO THE FLU 
(even if they die)

PCR CASEDEMIC – So it was the PCR Testing all the time!

CDC withdraws fraudulent PCR testing protocol that was used to falsify covid “positives” to push the plandemic. The use of PCR tests for covid illness diagnosis is a global scientific fraud, since no PCR instrument can produce quantitative results that might indicate a specific viral load. Yet this CDC-approved testing protocol was relied on to fabricate the “casedemic” illusion which pretended that hundreds of millions of people around the world were infected with covid.:


07/21/2021: Lab Alert: Changes to CDC RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Testing = https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html




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