A MAP & PROPHECY and .......

 

Ezikiel 38 – Turkey, Russia, Iran

Isaiah 17 – The End of Damascus

In Syria are the Russians and Iranians

Above that are the Turkish Red Flags

Just north of Israel is Turkey, Russia, Iran, heading c"s south......

Ezikiel 38 –

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 
2 'Son of man, set thy face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, 
3 and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; 
4 and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed most gorgeously, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords: 
5 Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet; 
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his bands; even many peoples with thee. 
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou guarded of them. 
8 After many days thou shalt be mustered for service, in the latter years thou shalt come against the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, against the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they dwell safely all of them. 
9 And thou shalt ascend, thou shalt come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many peoples with thee. 
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device; 
11 and thou shalt say: I will go up against the land of unwalled villages; I will come upon them that are at quiet, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates; 
12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn thy hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth. 
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the magnates thereof, shall say unto thee: Comest thou to take the spoil? hast thou assembled thy company to take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil? 
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog: Thus saith the Lord GOD: In that day when My people Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? 
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the uttermost parts of the north, thou, and many peoples with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a mighty army; 
16 and thou shalt come up against My people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the end of days, and I will bring thee against My land, that the nations may know Me, when I shall be sanctified through thee, O Gog, before their eyes. 
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD: Art thou he of whom I spoke in old time by My servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in those days for many years, that I would bring thee against them? 
18 And it shall come to pass in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that My fury shall arise up in My nostrils. 
19 For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath have I spoken: Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; 
20 so that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the ground, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at My presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. 
21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD; every man's sword shall be against his brother. 
22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will cause to rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 
23 Thus will I magnify Myself, and sanctify Myself, and I will make Myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am the LORD

Isaiah 17

1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 
2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 
3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts. 
4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
 5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim. 
6 Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as at the beating of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the branches of the fruitful tree, saith the LORD, the God of Israel. 
7 In that day shall a man regard his Maker, and his eyes shall look to the Holy One of Israel. 
8 And he shall not regard the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he look to that which his fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images. 
9 In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken places, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel, after the manner of woods and lofty forests; and it shall be a desolation.
10 For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and thou hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy stronghold; therefore thou didst plant plants of pleasantness, and didst set it with slips of a stranger; 
11 In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow, and in the morning thou didst make thy seed to blossom--a heap of boughs in the day of grief and of desperate pain. 
12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm. 
14 At eventide behold terror; and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Reb Neuberger – Matos-Maasei – Careful WIth Your Words

BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR WORDS

This week, we complete Sefer Bamidbar. The Children of Israel are now situated on the Plains of Moav, on the East Bank of the Jordan River. Soon they will cross into the Promised Land. Their desert travels have ended and they are poised for the culmination of their long journey, which was fraught with miracles, tragedy and triumph. 

You can see this Biblical landscape today. Leaving Yerushalayim on Kvish Echad, one immediately enters the Judean Desert with the road descending sharply, some three thousand feet in about one half hour. Whenever I travel this amazing road, I see in my mind’s eye the legions of Israel under the leadership of Moshe Rabbeinu and Yehoshua. 

Similarly in our own days, we are also poised “on the banks of the Jordan,” as we await the day when Hashem will “Sound the great shofar for our freedom, raise the banner to gather our exiles and gather us together from the four corners of the earth!” (Shemoneh Esreh)

Despite the travails which bombard us from every direction, it is vital to keep this in mind during these Three Weeks, when we can easily become depressed. The surrounding nations are not only filled with hatred, but they are also more powerful than we. One could think, “How will I overcome these troubles?”

“Perhaps you will say in your heart, ‘These nations are more numerous than I. How will I be able to drive them out?’ [That is why Hashem tells us,] do not fear them … Remember what Hashem your G-d did to Paro and to all of Egypt …. Hashem your G-d will thrust these nations from before you!” (Dvarim 7:17) 

Last week we read about Pinchas. He alone fought for Hashem and His Torah when the entire nation was apparently helpless. This is extremely difficult; social pressure is huge. “It is the nature of people to nullify themselves to other people and allow themselves to be influenced.” (Rabbi Avigdor Miller zt”l on Mesilas Yesharim)

I see this in myself. We want to please the people around us; we tend to shift our opinions when we hear the opinions of others, no matter who they are. Recently, I was conversing with people who are favorable towards known Jew-haters and I found myself feeling defensive. Why was I embarrassed? 

Pinchas alone stood up and saved Klal Yisroel! 

Later in last week’s Parsha, there is a census which contains a shocking statistic. The Tribe of Binyamin -- in the years since Our Father Yaakov and his sons had entered Egypt -- suffers the loss of five out of ten of its family-groups. Binyamin entered Egypt with ten sons (the most of any tribe). Half of these families had disappeared by the time this census was conducted 250 years later in the Sinai Desert!

We have to understand how special Binyanim was. He was the youngest son of Our Father Yaakov and the only brother who did not participate in the conspiracy against Yosef. He was the only tribal patriarch born in Eretz Yisroel. Furthermore, the Bais Hamikdosh rests in his territory. Additionally, both Mordechai and Esther come from Shevet Binyamin. 

However, Binyamin’s tribe was devastated, not only in the Desert but also during the catastrophic civil war resulting from the story of the concubine in Gibeah (recounted in Shoftim 19ff). What caused these tragic events?

As Yaakov Avinu and his family were entering Israel, near Bais Lechem, our Mother Rochel gave birth to Binyamin. (Beraishis 35:16ff) She died during this difficult birth, and her burial place, which we now know as Kever Rochel, stands at that very spot. Her dying words were the name she wished to give her son, “Ben Oni … son of my sorrow.” (Moshe HaDarshan, cited by Rashi, as seen in the Stone Chumash)

Oy, what tragedy!

A great rabbi explained that, based on this episode, we can learn to be exceedingly careful with our words. Rochel may have unwittingly brought future tragedy upon her son with the name she gave to him. 

Even though one may be in terrible straits, one never knows what the future will bring. At any moment, our lives have the potential to go either way. No one except a prophet can foresee the future. In fact, the Torah tells us, “tamim tehiye … be wholehearted with Hashem,” upon which Rashi comments, “Do not delve into the future. Whatever comes upon you, accept with wholeheartedness.” (Dvarim 18:13) This is a great test. 

It is important to keep in mind, that when we go today by the thousands to Kever Rochel, we find consolation in the darkest moments. We do not know what lies ahead. The moment of greatest difficulty may be the prelude to unimaginable joy. “In the evening, one lies down weeping, but with dawn … a cry of joy!” (Tehillim 30) 

May we see the Sun of Salvation arise soon on the eastern horizon! 

Jordan Valley from Mitzpe Yericho

Plains of Moav from Kvish Echad

Jordan River near Beit Shean

Kever Rochel, The Tomb of Rachel 

GLOSSARY

Bnai Yisroel: The Children of Israel

Kever: Gravesite

Kvish Echad: Highway Number 1

Mitzraim: Biblical Egypt

Moshe Rabbeinu: Moses

Sefer Bamidbar: Book of Numbers

Shevet Binyamin: The Biblical Tribe of Benjamin

Shoftim: The Book of Judges

Yehoshua: Joshua

Yerushalayim: Jerusalem 

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the RAF and USAAF killed over 40,000 Germans in Hamburg, some 2.5% of Hamburg’s population.....in 1943

Operation Gomorrah

The free world, and Jews in particular, are fortunate that in 1943, during Operation Gomorroah, there was no Facebook, Instagram, X, or Tik-Tok , that the NYT, Haaretz, and The Guardian still had some sense of morality, and that the UN didn’t exist. Op-ed.

It is in some respects, Hamburg of 1943 and Gaza of 2023 have remarkable similarities.

It is undeniable that the photographs and footage coming out of Gaza are deeply shocking and disturbing. And it is easy to understand how these graphic images influence public opinion. To be sure, every dead Gazan, every Gazan child crying over a destroyed home, every young Gazan mother holding her dead baby is a gruesomely effective propaganda tool for the Hamas against Israel.

All the explanations and all the historical context in the world can never combat the heart-wrenching sights of the consequences of the war in Gaza.

Hamas claims a current death-toll of some 40,000 dead, about a quarter children, and up to 100,000 injured, including about 10,000 permanently disabled.

Though these figures are taken directly from Hamas and are inherently suspect, the UN and most of the world’s media cite them as though they are definitive.

In fact, well over 20,000 of the dead are identified Hamas terrorists. Some of them are indeed children; but a 14-year-old boy brandishing an AK-47 Kalashnikov or an RPG is just as much a combatant, and just as dangerous, as a 26-year-old man brandishing the same weapon.

This means that even according to Hamas's propaganda figures, more than half the deaths in Gaza are combatants. This is a better ratio than just about any other urban conflict in the world.

This week marks 81 years since Operation Gomorrah, the massive bombing of Hamburg..

The population of Hamburg in 1943 was around 1,700,000; the population of Gaza in 2023 was around 2,100,000 according to Hamas figures (which are almost certainly exaggerated).

The Royal Air Force launched Operation Gomorrah on the night of the 24th-25th July 1943, using over a thousand aircraft, including 791 bombers. Among the targets on that first night were the municipal water-pumps, making it impossible for the fire-department to combat the subsequent fires which caused such catastrophic destruction.

Then on the late morning and afternoon of Sunday 25th July the United States Army Air Force attacked Hamburg with almost 500 bombers.

For seven nights the R.A.F. bombed Hamburg, and for eight days the USAAF bombed Hamburg. The single heaviest raid was carried out by the RAF on the night of the 27th-28th July, when 729 British bombers dropped 2,326 tons of bombs on Hamburg.

All in all, in that week-and-a-half from the 24th July to the 3rd of August, the RAF and USAAF killed over 40,000 Germans in Hamburg, some 2.5% of Hamburg’s population almost all of them civilians (most of them killed in that one RAF raid on the night of 27th-28th July).

More than quarter-of-a-million houses, some two-thirds of the houses in Hamburg, were destroyed or catastrophically damaged.

Out of 9,251 factories in Hamburg, 4,301 or 46% were destroyed.

By the 3rd of August, not one hospital was left functioning anywhere in the city. By the 8th, a million people, 59% of the population, had fled the city. And those still remaining in Hamburg were reduced to foraging for food in the rubble, and sleeping in the ruined buildings.

The entire world, and we Jews in particular, are fortunate indeed that there was no Facebook, Instagram, X, or Tik-Tok in 1943, that the New York Times, Haaretz, and The Guardian still had some sense of morality, and that the UN didn’t exist yet. Otherwise, these would all have inundated the world with heart-wrenching images of dead Germans, of German children crying over destroyed homes, and of young German mothers holding their dead babies, in a gruesomely effective propaganda tool for Nazi Germany against Britain and the USA

The more-than 40,000 Germans killed in Operation Gomorrah, and the hundreds of thousands more crippled, orphaned, widowed, bereaved, and rendered homeless, were just a minuscule fraction of the more-than 3,500,000 German civilians killed in the Second World War.

Yet it was Operation Gomorrah which changed the course of the war. Several years later, Albert Speer, the Nazi Minister of Armaments, wrote that “Hamburg had put the fear of G-d in me” (Inside the Third Reich, chapter 20).

On the 2nd of August, as Operation Gomorrah was ending and Hamburg was still burning, Speer informed Hitler y”sh that armaments production was collapsing, and added the further warning that a series of attacks of this sort, extended to six more major cities, would bring Germany’s armaments production to a total halt (ibid.).

Years afterwards, the British Army officer and military historian Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart revealed that the ancillary nature of strategic bombing of German cities as forerunner of land invasion was laid down in the Casablanca Conference of January 1943.

It was there that the directive to the Allied Air Forces ordered “the progressive destruction and dislocation of the German military, industrial and economic system, and the undermining of the morale of the German people to a point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened” (History of the Second World War, part VII, chapter 33).

Maybe the most graphic depiction of the effects of the Hamburg bombing is that of the Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Göbbels y”sh, who wrote in his diary on 29th July:

During the night we had the heaviest raid yet made on Hamburg… Kaufmann [the local Gauleiter, Nazi political regional governor]…spoke of a catastrophe the extent of which simply staggers the imagination. A city of a million inhabitants has been destroyed in a manner unparalleled in history, we are faced with problems that are almost impossible of solution. Food must be found for this population of a million. Shelter must be secured. The people must be evacuated as far as possible. They must be given clothing. In short, we are facing problems there of which we had no conception even a few weeks ago… Kaufmann spoke of some 800,000 homeless people who are wandering up and down the streets not knowing what to do” (cited by William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, book 5, chapter 28).

The former Mayor of Leipzig, Carl Goerdeler, wrote to Field Marshal Günther von Kluge after the Hamburg bombing that “the work of a thousand years is nothing but rubble”.

Goerdeler was genuinely and ideologically anti-Nazi, and had frequently intervened to protect Jews under his jurisdiction from Nazi persecution. He knew that von Kluge was a devout and loyal Nazi, but apparently hoped to influence him to support an assassination of Hitler out of self-interest.

Goerdeler was involved with the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler on 20th July 1944, was arrested, and hanged on 2nd February 1945. Von Kluge remained loyal to Hitler y”sh till the end of his life; knowing that he was nevertheless suspected of being involved in the plot, he committed suicide on 19th August 1944.

The descriptions of Hamburg during and after Operation Gomorrah are eerily similar to the current descriptions of Gaza. Of course there are also major differences:

-In July 1944, Britain and the USA killed 40,000 Hamburgers in a week and a half, while Israel has [allegedly] killed a similar number of Gazans in over nine months.

In Hamburg, almost all the casualties were civilians, while in Gaza well over half are combatants.

-In 1943, Britain and the USA never gave any warnings to the civilians of Hamburg to take shelter or flee. In Gaza, Israel almost invariably gives warnings, usually days, sometimes weeks in advance.

-In 1943, neither Britain nor the USA allowed any humanitarian aid into Germany, much less supplied any such themselves. Israel is both allowing several tons of humanitarian aid (food, water, medications, blankets, etc.) into Gaza for the civilians there, and also actively supplying such.

The innocent civilians of Hamburg in 1943 (and indeed throughout Germany) had genuine, legitimate, and justified grievances for their horrific suffering. But those genuine, legitimate, and justified grievances were against their own Nazi government which had led them into a war of aggression and genocide, not against the Allied bombers which were raining down such death and destruction.

It was the civilians of Gaza who created the Hamas as a genuinely popular movement. Hamas was not some outside organisation foisted on the innocent civilians of Gaza; it was the population of Gaza who created the Hamas, voted them into power by an overwhelming majority in 2006, supported them in their seizure of complete power the following year, and have kept them in power ever since. The civilian population of Gaza is far more responsible for their Hamas government than the Germans were for their Nazi government. Hence the population of Gaza is far more responsible for its own suffering than the population of Germany was for its own suffering in the Second World War.

If the Gazans have genuine, legitimate, and justified grievances for their suffering, then those genuine, legitimate, and justified grievances are against themselves for bringing this Hamas government into power and keeping it in power, and for overwhelmingly supporting this war of aggression and attempted genocide.

Killing civilians arguably constitutes a moral price to pay for victory.

But that price was unarguably worth paying to defeat the ultimate evil that was Hitler y”sh and Nazism.

And that price is equally unarguably worth paying to defeat the murderous evil that is Hamas and its genocidal psychopaths.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393834

Reb Ari Goldwag – War of Gog Umagog ***very special***

 Bitachon 170 - WW3 and Israel's Rise

 

We continue our study of the passuk found in Tehillim chapter 46 passuk 2 which speaks of Hashem's presence which is found in a much deeper way when we are going through personal or national challenges. 

We further discover that the context of the verse is referring to the War of Gog Umagog (Armageddon), which could also be understood to be the world war. The purpose of this war is to bring about the impossible - the rise of the Jewish people in Israel as the leader of the world.

Another FollowUp to Reservists

Im just posting the title to the article as it says it all 

INSANITY: Prosecutors Called Hamas Terrorists In Gaza To Testify Against IDF Soldiers

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Rabbi Weissman – Top 28 Reasons to Join the IDF

Tomorrow at 4 PM Israel time will be my weekly Torah class.  Among the Torah sources we will see this week is a Midrash from this week's parsha that provides insight into how Jews are expected to react when their leaders send them into death traps.  Considering how easily people are manipulated, and how even intelligent people use their intelligence to talk themselves into foolishness, we need the Torah to teach us even things that may seem obvious to some.

It's a shame that not as many people are interested in the Torah classes as they are in the other things I share.  It should be just the opposite.

The link to register for the live classes is here.

Thursday at 4 PM Israel time will be my monthly Amalek and Erev Rav program.  I will be joined by Israeli journalist Haim Yativ, who reported on the fact that the IDF bases near the Gaza border were taken out FROM THE INSIDE the night before the red carpet was rolled out for Hamas (video here), contrary to the official narrative from the official liars that never made any sense to begin with.

The link to register for the live program is here.

Top 28 Reasons to Join the IDF

1. You can be part of “the most moral army in the world”, so called for their policy of sacrificing you to protect the other side.
   
2. You can still be hated and persecuted by the world anyway.
   
3. You can get killed by “friendly fire” incidents and “operational mistakes”.
   
4. You can get sent into death traps by traitors and useful idiots who use the IDF as a vehicle to kill Jewish fighters and turn over our land.
   
5. If you die you will be honored in very moving state ceremonies, and some people will think of you in a vague way during moments of silence. It won't bring you back, but it's your best chance of being remembered as a hero. (And your headstone will be left blank instead of wishing for Hashem to avenge your death. The people who led you to your death definitely don't want that.)
   
6. Your organs might be donated to those you were fighting. Hopefully you will actually be dead by the time they are taken, but if not, close enough to make a final sacrifice.
   
7. You can get your legs blown off instead, and be celebrated in statist promotional videos.
   
8. You can be forcibly injected – not physically forced, but basically forced – with lots and lots of safe and effective vaccines that definitely won't hurt you. Probably.
   
9. It's rough losing your limbs, but you also get to enjoy handicapped benefits for the rest of your life. The state will rob you less than it robs people with all their limbs.
   
10. If you've successfully been indoctrinated to hate religious Jews, you can join special units where you get to beat them up with no consequences. The state has your back.
    
11. If you have a sadistic streak, the Shabak might recruit you to torture people.
    
12. You won't be allowed to be victorious over the Arabs, but you can let out your aggression on Jews and throw them out of their homes, sometimes by the thousands (just call it an evacuation for their safety).
    
13. You can stay in shape running away from Arabs who throw rocks at you.
    
14. You can get outdated, malfunctioning weapons. This is a good thing, lest you have an urge to open fire on Arabs who throw rocks at you. Sticks and stones will break your bones, but the state will break your body and your soul if you open fire.
    
15. Jews around the world who have been indoctrinated to support the IDF will lavish gifts upon you. This is good, because you will need the basics.
    
16. You can get prosecuted for accepting these donations, because it's unsafe, and might make it harder for you to be killed, which would slow down the agenda.
    
17. You can get arrested by military police wearing black masks for being too rough on monsters who tortured and brutally massacred your people, then treated worse than the monsters.
    
18. You can be ordered to stand down when the traitors let the next massacre happen.
    
19. You can be ambushed at your base and killed in your sleep before the next massacre.
    
20. Brainwashed citizens who support the IDF will dance with you before you get sent into a death trap.
    
21. If you follow orders really well and aren't religious, you can get promoted pretty high.
    
22. If you follow orders really well and are religious, you get first crack at the death traps.
    
23. The girls in the IDF are indoctrinated to have loose morals, and they REALLY follow orders.
    
24. If you have no soul and are willing to sell out your own people, you can really go places.
    
25. You get to laugh at all the fools who believe what the media – which we control – tells them.
    
26. You don't ever have to think again, just follow orders.
    
27. You get to serve your country.
    
28. The rabbis who work for the state all agree: It's a Mitzvah!
    

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It's ridiculous how easy it was to come up with these.  It just took a few minutes.  And I'm sure there's plenty I forgot (#6 was actually suggested by a reader on Telegram.)

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