Priests and Prostitutes — Part 1
Chazal warned us about this
The consensus among Torah-minded Jews is that we are living in the period of time known as Ikvesa D’Meshicha, the footsteps of Moshiach. We don’t know how long this period — which includes the dreaded birth pangs of Moshiach — will last. That is largely dependent on a critical mass of Jews doing real teshuva (not a cheap facsimile). Whether this happens the easy way or the hard way is up to us.
So far we’ve collectively opted for the hard way, and even that hasn’t been enough, which is why the redemption is schlepping and the screws only continue to tighten. Hashem has demonstrated incredible mercy and patience, because He really doesn’t want us to suffer and die, but at some point the wake-up calls need to get more severe, G–D forbid. There’s a schedule to keep and prophecies to fulfill, and one way or another we need to get on board.
Chazal taught us a great deal about the Ikvesa D’Meshicha (see Sotah 49 and Sanhedrin 97), giving us signs to recognize this unique period and the knowledge to properly navigate it.
It’s especially important that Chazal did this for us, because the prophetic signs of the Ikvesa D’Meshicha include the following:
1. A drastic deterioration of wisdom — even among the sincere Torah leaders. This should be readily apparent to everyone over the age of 40, who can compare the Gedolim of even a generation ago to what passes for Torah leadership today.
It is normal and generally expected for there to be a gradual decrease in Torah wisdom from generation to generation, but it’s fair to say that, for all the many people studying Torah today — G–D bless them all — what passes for a Gadol today isn’t even a shadow of what our Gedolim were mere decades ago. There are probably many reasons for this (and I have a lot to say about the yeshiva system) but the decline in leadership has been stunning, absolutely precipitous.
2. Truth will become increasingly difficult to determine. Indeed, there has never been so much information so readily available at our fingertips, yet it has simultaneously never been more difficult to tell fact from fiction. We can watch videos of wars and hear from people on the ground, yet have no idea who is actually fighting whom, what they are really fighting over, or even who is actually winning. It’s hard to be sure what’s real altogether.
3. The gathering place of the sages will become a house of prostitution. Rashi connects this to the general decline in Torah wisdom and those who study Torah, whereby their places of study will become desolate and available for degenerates to take them over. However, one cannot escape the unsettling indication that, at least in some cases, the sages themselves will become the prostitutes.
If we believe in these teachings of Chazal, which are derived from the prophets and a mesora dating back to Har Sinai…and we also believe that we are living in the Ikvesa D’Meshicha…then we must accept the uncomfortable reality that many name-brand rabbis today are corrupt prostitutes — Erev Rav — and many of the rest are inadequate.
One who doesn’t accept these teachings either denies that we are living in the Ikvesa D’Meshicha or denies the words of Chazal. You can’t have it both ways.
It doesn’t mean we can’t succeed, but it does mean we need to be far more discerning in whom we trust and to what extent. We certainly cannot blindly outsource our decision-making to anyone — especially secular “experts” and the rabbis who work for them.
It should have become abundantly obvious to all during the Covid era that many rabbis were being paid off, the media was being paid off, and the media specifically boosted these rabbis as part of an incestuous ring of prostitution.
Anyone who believes we have an honest media that is looking out for us, the information marketplace is a meritocracy, and the rabbinic establishment is above bribery and corruption even when your life is on the line, is not just naive; they are wilfully blind. Were the media honest and the information marketplace a meritocracy, not completely captured by bribery and corruption, the debate around Covid protocols and the shots would have looked very different — as would the outcome. If the Erev Rav and their Amalek cohorts didn’t fix the game, they couldn’t possibly win.
They are doing exactly the same thing now over a dubious measles crisis. I call it dubious not because some children aren’t getting sick and, in a small number of cases, even dying, but because we are being bombarded with rhetoric and propaganda by people who have lost any entitlement to our trust.
Consequently, every detail of the narrative they tell us must be considered suspect, their explanation for the facts that we can verify (such as the death of a child) must be doubted, and their every call to action must be assumed to be against the Torah and otherwise contraindicated unless proven otherwise beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt. The health and safety instructions of corrupt “experts” and rabbis should be given the same weight as those of swastika-wearing Germans.
בנה ציון בדמים וירושלם בעולה: ראשיה בשחד ישפטו וכהניה במחיר יורו ונביאיה בכסף יקסמו ועל ה’ ישענו לאמר הלוא ה’ בקרבנו לא תבוא עלינו רעה
Each one builds Zion with blood and Jerusalem with corruption. Its heads judge with bribes, and its priests give rulings for a price, and its prophets divine for money, and they rely on Hashem, saying “Is Hashem not in our midst? No harm will befall us.” — Micha 3:10-11
Metzudas David and Radak explain regarding the Kohanim, whose job it was to teach Torah truthfully, that they would issue Torah rulings for a fee according to the will of the one paying them.
Consider these contemporary examples of heads and priests, and decide for yourself if this prophecy is outdated.
Exhibit 1, from the mouthpieces at Arutz Sheva:
Israel’s Chief Rabbis on Thursday issued an urgent call to the public to vaccinate their children against measles virus, following the spread of the disease and the recent deaths that it has caused.
In their official letter, the Chief Rabbis emphasized that “Torah commands us to do everything possible to protect ourselves and our health,” citing the verse, “You shall greatly safeguard your lives,” as a halakhic (pertaining to Jewish law) obligation to vaccinate…
The rabbis’ letter represents a clear halakhic statement from the Chief Rabbinate, emphasizing that vaccination is not only a right but a religious duty. The message is particularly aimed at communities where there is resistance to vaccines for religious or other reasons.
Is this a respectable Torah ruling, or primitive scripted rhetoric?
Is this honest investigative journalism, or an incestuous web of prostitution?
Who’s feeding them the script? Who’s paying them? And who’s paying them?
Exhibit 2, from the mouthpieces at Yeshiva World News:
HaGaon HaRav Moshe Brandsdorfer, the renowned Yerushalmi Posek, the Av Beis Din of Heichel Horaah, published a sharply worded letter on Sunday, after four toddlers, all residents of the Mea Shearim/Beis Yisrael area, passed away from measles within a week…
…“In the last two weeks, many parents have approached me, confused and very scared because people are dissuading them from vaccinating their children for measles. And this is against the instructions of the Badatz due to ‘ונשמרתם מאוד לנפשותכם.’”
“Therefore, all those who try to convince parents not to vaccinate their children against measles – this matter borders on murder and the spilling of blood and violates ‘לא תעמוד עך דם רעך.’”
“And it is possible that a time like this, when the virus is rampant in our area, that it’s permissible to vaccinate against measles even on Shabbos and Yom Tov, if the doctor says that delaying it could be life threatening.”
Bransdorfer is another go-to rabbi for the media, which never fails to heap superlatives upon him, boosting the inevitable “rulings” that are the true reason for the fawning attention. Ami Magazine devoted lengthy features to the greatness of Bransdorfer and his Covid proclamations. He doesn’t toil in poverty, that’s for sure…
Rule of thumb: if a rabbi is frequently quoted and featured in the likes of Mishpacha and Ami, he is being artificially boosted to promote the Erev Rav agenda. Brand-name rabbis nowadays do not emerge; they are handpicked and created.
This is irrespective or whether or not they actually know a great deal of Torah. If they are Torah scholars, it does not make them righteous; it makes them more dangerous.
As for the “instructions of the Badatz” that Bransdorfer references, it took me literally four minutes to expose that as a completely corrupt and fraudulent “ruling”. See the following:
Exhibit 3, from June 11, 2024 (source):
Under Francis, the Pontifical Council for Life canonized the vaccine crusade, even inviting Rabbi Avraham Steinberg — whose fanatical views on the jab Jewish scholars and fellow-rabbis had condemned as “extremely misleading” and “hateful” — to deliver a “biblical reflection” at a Vatican conference promoting the jab.
The rabbi compared intentionally unvaccinated people to “murderers” and argued that they should be judged in a “criminal” light “in the sphere of damages/torts.”
In an op-ed for Israeli daily Arutz Sheva, the rabbi, who heads the editorial board of the Talmudic Encyclopedia, maintained it is permissible to force vaccine refusers “to be vaccinated against their will or to punish them for their refusal, as a consequence of the criminal aspect of their refusal.”
In addition to hobnobbing with the Vatican, Steinberg continues to hold fast to his Covid “ruling”.
The rabbi who referred to his views as “extremely misleading” is most likely me, in an op-ed on Arutz Sheva that exposed this “religious Zionist media organization” as just more costumed mouthpieces for the government spewing propaganda. (Arutz Sheva added disclaimers to the article after Mordechai Sones published it, reprimanded him, and instructed him not to post anything against the official Covid narrative without explicit permission. He resigned in protest.)
You can read my response to Steinberg here.
It’s funny how the people like Bransdorfer, Steinberg, Asher Weiss, and so many other priests and prophets of their ilk have so much time for media features, but won’t answer simple questions about their “rulings” from you and me.
"Its heads judge with bribes, and its priests give rulings for a price."
Who do you think Micha was talking about?
In part two we will look at another house of prostitution, owned and operated by the Erev Rav State, that is spewing nothing but state-serving rhetoric and propaganda in the name of the Torah:
The IDF Rabbinate.
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God created Measles in childhood to protect them later in life. This is no ordinary measles going around now, and now no ordinary vaccine on top of it.
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