Prophecy vs. Covid Vaccine

 

Well I listened to this recent presentation of Rabbi Mendel Kessin and these are my takeaways:

The three places that Hashem came down to us:  Sneh  Mikdash   First Beis HaMikdash (the model of Beis is the Creation, at that time, likewise the human body)

Our Neshoma is the Beit HaMikdash to experience Hashem

Disease is blockage of divine energy to the organ which then allows the ‘bacteria’ (or whatever) to enter [and cause our disease]

After Mashiach comes, it will be Beit 3 (al pi Yechezkel)  = creation after the tikkun = the reality after Yechezkel and the reality of Mashiach

Shechina = place where Hashem resides, it moved to the Kosel

The Rabbi then spoke about Prophecy and the 7 Sefiros.

Prophecy = able to look into Atzilus (place of Divine secrets)

The Mind = Moach

From the Briyah, the Prophecy of Moshe Rabbeinu, was unique and Moshe was able to see into Atzilus while awake

The other 48 special Prophets were not on this level; and there were thousands (millions) of other prophets. All were enabled prophecy but at varying levels. These prophets went to “classes” to learn how to receive prophecy, because it enabled them to be aware of ’secrets’.

The main takeaway from what I listened to so far (not the questions) is:

THE CORONA PANDEMIC VACCINE INGREDIENTS WERE CREATED TO BLOCK THE MOACH OF MAN = BLOCKING PROPHECY AND THE ABILITY TO LOOK INTO ATZILUS, WHICH IS AN ACTION OF WAR AGAINST HASHEM. Those behind this travesty are trying to control “everything”, humanity and all of life itself.

So far, Hashem is allowing all this to occur, for His purpose(s). We do not know whether these people have gone beyond what they were allowed to do, as some of the other tyrants of history did and were/will be punished, OR they are doing the exact Will of Hashem because we have sinned and need to return to Hashem in order for Hashem to finish bringing the Geulah Shleima. Since this is the month of Elul and we are IY”H preparing for Rosh HaShana, we need to know this and take it with us into our prayers. [please Hashem forgive my impertinence]

CLARIFICATION It is not intended to mean that there are any forces other than HASHEM and what HASHEM allows to happen in our world of Asiyah.

Forces can go beyond what they were intended to inflict on Am Yisrael, in their evilness, and they will be punished severely for this, but even that HaShem allowed and controls.

Seeking Redemption Now

This is an excerpt from Seeking Redemption Now by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Carmell, that I read on Shabbos, in Hamodia Inyan Magazine, July 7 2021. (typed by me and any errors are mine)

“Sefer Bamidbar, which we will include this week is, as its name denotes, all about golus. […]

“The tumultuous events of the last year and a half make it very clear that the time is ripe to bring moshiach now. What should we be focusing on? is the question on every thinking person’s mind. As an answer, a colleague of mine, Harav Pinchas Zaltzman, shlita, Rosh Kollel of the Boston Shas Kollel in Beitar, brought the following Chazal to my attention (quoted by Rashi and the Radak on Hoshe’a 3:5).

“Rabi Shimon ben Yochai taught: Bnei Yisrael rejected *three things during the time of Rechavam [son of Shalom Hamelech] – the sovereignty of Heaven, the monarchy of the House of Dovid and the Beis HaMikdash …Rabbi Shimon ben Menasha said, “Yisrael will not see any sign of blessing [i.e. redemption (Yalkut Shmuel 1:8)] until they return and seek these three…’ Indeed, in this passuk, the Navi Hoshe’a prophesied that before Mashiach comes, ‘then Bnei Yisrael will return and… seek [a] Hashem their G–D, and [b] Dovid their king, and [c] they will anxiously wait (Malbim) for Hashem and His goodness at the end of days (“His goodness” refers to the Beis HaMikdash, as in Devarim 3:25).”

“This message becomes all the more poignant when one considers the previous pesukim in Hoshe’a. Under Hashem’s instruction the Navi acquired a wife for 15 shekel and a measure of 30 se’ah of barley and 15 se’ah of barley. The Gemara (Chullin 92a) explains that the 45 se’ah refers to 45 tzaddikim in whose merit the world exists  – 30 from Eretz Yisrael and 15 from chutz laAretz. The Gemara continues to say that most of these tzaddikim are not publicly known. Rashi on the verse says that it refers to the period between Pesach and Shavuos.

“This description brings to mind in chilling detail the recent tragedy in Meron, which all of our Gedolim have said was a wake–up call for us to do teshuvah. And the Navi has told us what is expected of us in order to bring the much awaited Geulah.

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Rabbi Avraham Chaim Carmell studied in Manchester and Gateshead Yeshivos in England and in Yeshivas Ponevez. Since 1980, he has been teaching in Boston Kollel, Yerushalayim. His articles have appeared in Hamodia since its inception.

The beginning and remainder of this article which goes into the detail of the *three things, can be found in the most recent copy of the Hamodia, available at newsstands and by subscription at  https://hamodia.com

[Me: this article appealed to me because I find my inner self is in limbo, waiting for …. what is to come next. That is why I posted this article under the title “Foundation of the Third Beis Being Uncovered in Our Day” – https://habayitah.blogspot.com/2021/07/foundation-of-third-beis-being.html. The Western Wall Excavations and the City of David Excavations is, in my opinion, the building of our next Third Beis HaMikdash (covertly). I’m sure readers can identify with this feeling. Your comments appreciated.]

We Are In Tremendous DARKNESS Right Before Mashiach

PREFACE COMMENTS:  It is going to be difficult and very challenging for us, Torah true Jews, upon watching what appears to be  a dismantling of our Mesorah and what HaShem has told us is the way we are to live, by Har Sinai Halacha. We may feel confused, and even angry when we see people that we believe are Jewish tearing away at the fabric of our traditions. They want the exclusion of religion in their societal life. They don’t want any religious restrictions. They want to be free of civil restraints, to do whatever they wish to do. And they will enact State laws to this effect. Very much in the way the Erev Rav wanted the golden calf.

It will be hard and for some a time of rethinking many of their long held illusions. They may be very angry and may want to fight the “anti-religious and anti-God” behavior of these people.

However, this is part of the process immediately before Mashiach comes on the scene. He may not all of a sudden appear, but may begin doing what HaShem wants him to do. And we will know him by his deeds and affect he has on the people and government of Israel and the world.

So, it is my belief that a cautious behavior is how we should go about our lives, of course not going along with any new “changes” this government enacts. But instead, increase our understanding and power of Emunah and Bitachon, while helping our “brothers and sisters” in any way we can, i.e. tzadaka, chessed.

The time is now to now to do a personal chesbon hanefesh in preparation for the Real Change coming our way.

Someone I listen to for updates, says “do not interfere with your enemy while he is in the act of his own downfall”.  HaShem is in control and He will bring our final Redemption as He did our first redemption in Mitzrayim, in an amazing way.

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 Rabbi Kessin clarifies why we need to go thru this challenging darkness

Rabbi Kessin on the Spiritual Revelations in Our Geulah Process

MY COMMENTS:  

HaShem is ‘stirring the pot’ of Geulah, causing events to erupt one after the other

And it says, when troubles come one after the other, get your Shabbos clothes ready because Mashiach is coming

The Geulah is marching all around us, ISRAEL, and it’s closing in 

When things in the world don’t make sense it’s clearly the Hand of HaShem moving around.

Increasing antisemitism will cause Jews to tremble in fear and hopefully come closer to their Father

I believe that the two tragedies that happened to the Klal have gripped them severely, and soon they will increase acts of achdus and begin ceasing lashon harah.  Something is beginning to happen, and this Yid gets it!

"Toldos Avraham Yitzchak Rebbe" Is Mesader Kiddushin For Mercaz HaRav Talmid

Both Rabbi Anava and Rabbi Kessin have brought commentary from the Kli Yakar. Interesting.

And simultaneously, events in America are taking a turn:

It has always appeared to me that events happening in Israel and America are Mirror Images. I see that but not the total meaning.

UPDATE on the *Deep State falling in disarray:

"The Biden administration is now trying to explain why the people are seeing inflation. We see gas prices moving up, corn, wheat, lumber etc.  The answer, you will see bumps. Wait until it gets really bad. The [CB] plan is unraveling, the world is not going along with it and they are pushing back. 

"The [DS] is now being exposed. All the fake stories are now turning on them, the viewers no longer believe. The people have become aware and are now awake to what has been happening. The US election audits are moving at a very fast pace. T...he plan is moving at a faster pace than people realize. 

"The [DS] is panicking, they know once the people see the truth about the elections it is game over. 

"They will push back, see something say something."

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*think fauchi being sworn in to testify, gain-of-function, financing, double-speak, lies, WHO, threats, new plandemic = this all equals hysteria as the walls to their evil begin to close in around them.

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PREPARE FOR COMBAT: 

I believe they are gearing up to attack Jerusalem. Remember, we are on top of hills, with only so many roads out. The threat of 10,000 fighters within Israel is both a statement and an alert, for this 10,000 to prepare. When that happens we will see the IDF in the streets of Jerusalem. We citizens will have to shore up in our homes. The deletes are pretty secure, but the mirpesot and windows are not. So stock up on food stuffs just in case, and prepare a “bag of essentials” to grab on the way to the safe rooms. 

AMAZING TORAH CODES – REDEMPTION IN ITS TIME

 אני ה‘ אלוהיך

MASHIACH 5781 / 2021

REDEMPTION IN ITS TIME

Four Unique Characteristics of the THIRD TEMPLE

By Yehuda Shurpin Chabad.org

In the 25th year of the Babylonian exile, G‑d showed a vision of the future Temple to the prophet Ezekiel.1 Yet the Second Temple was built only partially based on the description in the book of Ezekiel, as this prophetic description was reserved for the Third and final Temple.2

The Midrash tells us that when G‑d commanded Ezekiel to describe the dimensions of the Temple to the Jewish people, Ezekiel asked, “Master of the Universe, why are You telling me to go and tell Israel the form of the House; they are now in exile in the land of our enemies—is there anything they can do about it? Let them be, until they return from the exile. Then I will go and inform them.”

G‑d answered: “Should the construction of My House be ignored because My children are in exile? The study of the design of the Holy Temple as detailed in the Torah can be equated to its actual construction. Go tell them to study the form of the Holy Temple. As a reward for their study and their occupation with it, I will consider it as if they actually built the Holy Temple.”3

Based on the above Midrash, the Lubavitcher Rebbe strongly promoted learning about the building of the Temple, especially during the time of year in which we mourn its destruction.4

Thus, we present an outline of some distinct characteristics of the Third Temple. (Note, however, that Maimonides writes that the design of the Messianic Temple, though mentioned in the Book of Ezekiel, “is not explicit or explained.”5)

It Will Be Big
The Third Temple will be many times larger than the previous two Temples. For example, the area set aside for the Second Temple complex, or what is known as the Temple Mount, was 500 by 500 cubits (each cubit being approximately 18.9 inches). In the Third Temple, it will be 3,000 by 3,000 cubits—i.e., it will be 36 times larger, or 9,000,000 square cubits (approx. 22,325,625 square feet or 512.5 acres)!6

It Will Be Square
The basic division of the Temple into different sections, such as the Kodesh (Holy) and the Kodesh HaKodashim (Holy of Holies), will be the same as in the previous Temples. However, the section called the ezrat nashim in the Second Temple (and “outer courtyard” in Ezekiel’s prophecy) will have a very different layout in the Third Temple. Whereas in the Second Temple this section was a 135-square-cubit area in front of the azarah (the latter is equivalent to the “inner courtyard” in Ezekiel’s prophecy), in the Third Temple this area will be 312 by 317 cubits, and completely surround, almost like a square, the azarah.7

Iron Is In
Iron was not used in the building of the first two Temples, as the verse states: “The House, when it was in building, was built of stone finished at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe (nor) any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.”8 Why? Because iron is used in the fashioning of weapons used to shorten life, and the purpose of the Temple was to “make peace” between man and G‑d, thereby lengthening one’s life. Thus, it is improper to build a life-sustaining structure with a material that is its very antithesis.
However, the Lubavitcher Rebbe explains at length that in the messianic era, when “swords will be beaten into plowshares” and iron will be used only for the positive, this prohibition of using metal in the structure of the Temple will no longer apply.
The use of iron in the Third Temple will not just be a symptom of the peace that will reign, but it is symbolic of the messianic era in general.9
The Hebrew word for iron is ברזל, which the Arizal explains is an acronym for the four wives of Jacob, from whom the Jewish nation is descended: בלהה רחל זלפה לאה.10 This corresponds to the mystics’ explanation that in the era of redemption, women will be on a higher level than men.

We’ll Go There Often
The verse at the end of Isaiah states, “‘It shall be from new moon to new moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath that all flesh shall come to prostrate themselves before Me,’ says the L‑rd.”11 The Midrash explains that although during the eras of the first two Temples the Jews made a pilgrimage to the Temple only three times a year, in the messianic era we will do so every first of the new month. The Midrash goes on to explain that this was impossible to do during the first two Temples, but that in the era of the Third Temple we will have “clouds” that will transport us to Jerusalem and the Temple, enabling us to visit the Holy Temple on a much more frequent basis.12

May the merit of learning about the building of the Temple stand us in good stead, and may we merit the rebuilding of the Third Holy Temple speedily in our days!

FOOTNOTES
1.See Ezekiel, chs. 40–48.
2.For more on that, see Did the Jews Disregard Ezekiel’s Prophecy of the Temple?
3.Midrash Tanchuma, Tzav 14; Yalkut Shimoni on Ezekiel 43:10–11 (382).
4.See Likkutei Sichot, vol. 18, p. 411.
5.Mishneh Torah, Hil. Beit HaBechirah 1:4.
6.Rashi, Ezekiel 42:20.
7.See Ezekiel ch. 40 with commentaries.
8.I Kings 6:7.
9.See Sefer HaSichot 5752, p. 233.
10.
11.Isaiah 66:23.
12.See Yalkut Shimoni, end of Isaiah.

The Temple Mount as the “Truma” of Eretz Yisrael – Parashat Va’et’chanan and Tish’a Be’Av

BS”D 

Parashat Va’et’chanan Week of Tish’a Be’Av 5780

Rabbi Nachman Kahana

 

The Temple Mount as the “Truma” of Eretz Yisrael

 

This Wednesday night is the 9th of Menachem Av (the 9th day of the 11th month of our calendar year Menachem Av, counting from the previous month of Tishrei [Rosh HaShana]- that is our 9-11).  For the 1950th time, we will mourn – in that exquisite unity that binds all Jews – the death of the 600,000 Jews in the desert who turned their backs on Eretz Yisrael and will feel the fresh anguish at the destruction of our two temples and subsequent expulsions into galut.

Notwithstanding the depths of our sorrow, there exists an ongoing reminder that the third Temple will be built and that HaShem will restore our nation to the grandeur that was once Am Yisrael. That reminder is Har Habayit – the Temple Mount – in Yerushalayim.

What makes Har Habayit the eternal repository of sanctity?

The Midrash (Devarim Raba 11,10) teaches that Moshe beseeched HaShem 515 times to be allowed to enter Eretz Yisrael.  This equals the gematria (number equivalent) of the word Va’et’chanan. Moshe did not request a homestead of lush rolling land, nor did he request a palatial home befitting the first king of Israel. He desired to enter the land for one sole purpose, as the Gemara (Sota 14a) says: “Was it to eat of its fruit or find pleasures of the Land that Moshe wished to enter? No! It was for one reason. Moshe prayed for the opportunity to keep mitzvot in Eretz Yisrael.”

It would appear that the Gemara is at odds with the Midrash in describing Moshe’s prayer to HaShem.

The Midrash relates that when HaShem denied Moshe the privilege of entering the Land, Moshe pleaded: “If I cannot enter in a living state, let my body be brought into the land.” HaShem’s answer was no! “Let me enter in the form of an animal so I can tread on the Land.” No! “Then let me enter as a bird without touching the Land.” No”!

Now, if according to the Gemara, Moshe wanted to enter the Land to keep its mitzvot, why would it satisfy him to enter as an animal or a bird?

We must, therefore, conclude that there is a spiritual experience that even an animal or a bird can experience – and that is fulfilling the mitzva of just being present in the land.

If the Land is so holy that even its air space is sanctified (the Zohar says that Eretz Yisrael is directly under the kisay ha’kavod – the Heavenly Throne – and the earthly Yerushalayim is directly under the heavenly Yerushalayim, influencing the spirit of all who are present there), the question arises: How can we live as “normal” human beings, doing the things people must do in order to maintain their personal and national lives? How do we get up in the morning and go to work, deal in commerce and industry, fix our cars when they break, eat, sleep, and attend to our bodily needs? The whole Land should be as the Kodesh HaKodashim (Holy of Holies) of the Temple, if even an animal is stirred by the sanctity of the Land.

I suggest:

Newly grown crops of wheat, grapes, and olives in Eretz Yisrael are designated in the Torah as “tevel,” and no part may be eaten because of their sanctity (all other fruit and vegetables are “tevel” by rabbinic decree). The resultant punishment for this transgression is the termination of one’s life prior to the time allotted to him at birth. The prohibition is annulled by separating the required tithes as stated in the Torah. One of the tithes is “teruma gedola,” which is given to a kohen. The amount of teruma from the Torah is one grain of wheat (or grape or olive) from an entire crop. Not being a farmer, I would give a wild guess that there are millions of grains in a decent-sized wheat crop, which would make the teruma gedola totally insignificant in terms of quantity. Nevertheless, this tithe and the others are the factors determining one’s life expectancy.

We can conclude that this one single grain concentrates in itself the sanctity of the entire crop; because the spiritual world has a different set of physics and chemistry where size, space and numbers are irrelevant.

Thus, I suggest we live normally and function in Eretz Yisrael despite its inherent sanctity.  This is feasible because HaShem has separated a piece of teruma that contains in it the necessary amount of kedusha, rendering the rest of the country kadosh – but less than the status of the Holy of Holies.

That “piece” of teruma is Har Habayit.

The Rambam states that, even in the period when the halachic status of Eretz Yisrael in terms of the agricultural laws was changed by the destruction of the first Temple, the halachic status of the Temple Mount was never altered since the time of King Solomon.  Hence, we may offer up sacrifices even in our times (if we could overcome several halachic obstacles, such as the exact place of the altar and who is an authentic kohen).

The Temple Mount is the holiest site in the Jewish world, and proof of this is what the great Ramban wrote to his son after arriving in Yerushalayim, “Whatever is more holy is more desecrated – Yehuda is more desecrated than the Galil, and Yerushalayim is the most desecrated of all.”

If you are shuddering at the thought of how many “karet” transgressions one performs when ascending the Mount, permit me to fill you in on a little halachic geography.

The Temple Mount is made up of two distinct areas. In the center is solid bedrock, which is surrounded by landfill made by Hordus (Herod) when he turned the Temple Mount from a square into a rectangle. His Bet Hamikdash was 100 amot high (50 meters) – equivalent to a 25-story building. Hordus built it with huge stones, like those in the Kotel.  The sheer weight of the Bet Hamikdash was much too heavy to be held up by landfill. This means that even though we do not know where the exact site is, we do know where it is not; and, therefore, we tread only on the landfill. Indeed, the Kotel is no more than a supporting wall for the landfill to prevent slippage. The only area where karet is punishable is on bedrock in the area of the Temple.  There is no punishment of karet for entering the surrounding Mount even for the most severe types of tuma.

[On a personal note: Were it in my power, I would close off the Kotel and hang a big sign on it saying, “All this because of sin’at chinam (unjustified hatred),” and then direct the people to Har Habayit.]

In the reality of our contemporary religious, geopolitical and military situation, whoever controls the Temple Mount controls Eretz Yisrael emotionally and religiously – and his G-d is victorious. It is clear that religious emotions are the dominant factors here in the Middle East.

On the human, practical level, the reality on the Temple Mount will be decided by numbers. If in the past very few Jews ascended the Mount in a year, the numbers are now in the tens of thousands. Things will change when the numbers will be in the hundreds of thousands. At that time, the pressure from the population will force the changes necessary to remove the abominations which are presently there.

The Haredi segment will join and even lead the great numbers, as they are beginning to see that the halachic decisions of the Dati-Leumi rabbis are the ones which are pertinent for our generation.

The most important mitzva in our time is the one that Jews “tread on with their heels” (Parashat Aikev) – to ascend the Temple Mount and declare that here we will build the third Bet Hamikdash.

It is enlightening to recall the words of our leaders at the time the second Bet Hamikdash was being built, as recorded in the book of Ezra chapter 4:

)א) וישמעו צרי יהודה ובנימן כי בני הגולה בונים היכל לה’ אלהי ישראל:

(ב) ויגשו אל זרבבל ואל ראשי האבות ויאמרו להם נבנה עמכם כי ככם נדרוש לאלהיכם ולא ולו אנחנו זבחים מימי אסר חדן מלך אשור המעלה אתנו פה:

(ג) ויאמר להם זרבבל וישוע ושאר ראשי האבות לישראל לא לכם ולנו לבנות בית לאלהינו כי אנחנו יחד נבנה לה’ אלהי ישראל כאשר צונו המלך כורש מלך פרס:

 

1: When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin (Samaritans and others) heard that the exiles were building a temple for the Lord, the G-d of Israel,

 2: they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, “Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your G-d and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of Esarhaddon King of Assyria, who brought us here.”

3: But Zerubbabel, Joshua and the other heads of the families of Israel answered, “You have no part with us in building a temple to our G-d. We alone will build it for the Lord, the G-d of Israel…

 

When the time comes (may it be soon) for us to rebuild the Bet Hamikdash, the nations will offer the Medina “foreign aid” to be partners in HaShem’s new world. And we shall say to them, as did our fathers, “You have no part with us in building a temple to our G-d. We alone will build it for the Lord, the G-d of Israel.”

This Tish’a be’Av will mark the 1950th year since the destruction of the Second Temple, by the cursed Romans in the year 70 C.E.

Look around.  Do you see any descendants of the ancient Romans, or for that matter, a descendant of any of our long-lost enemies? And with just a little patience, we will not be able to find a descendant of any of our latter-day enemies.

So, for now, we will have to weep for what was and contend with our increasing anxieties stemming from the realities of our present-day challenges, but never taking our eyes off the three Bs:

B careful  B healthy  B here

…and its corollary JLMM – Jewish Lives Mean More

 

Have a meaningful fast and Shabbat Shalom,

Nachman Kahana

Copyright © 5780/2020 Nachman Kahana

הרב יוסף מזרחי - עם ישראל בסכנת קיום! נבואת אחרית הימים!

The people of Israel are in danger of existence! The prophecy of the end times

What’s New?

GOOGLE BLOGGER HAS CONVERTED ALL POSTS TO THEIR NEW LAYOUT SO EXPECT SOME CONFUSION AND ERRORS IN PUBLISHING POSTS UNTIL ONE CAN MASTER THE NEW DESIGN ***also expect censoring***

All of social media, google et al have SCRUBBED ANYTHING RELATING TO HCQ AS A TREATMENT because “they” don’t want to lose $$$$$$$$$ on “their” highly suspect and dangerous VACCINES.

There is/was a Twitter war between Trump and the vaccine mafeeeia and this is when ALL and ANY videos, articles, etc, were SCRUBBED. I hate to see what they do to Dr Imannuel. She is courageous and need protection from physical attack et al.

I was an early bird and viewed all the videos and links. I’m sure the video will pop up on a protected site soon. 

Trump is in high alert danger from the medical mafeeeia who are a big portion of u no hu!

Censorship in action

Good News From Eretz Yisrael

Welcome Home Ben Yisraelis


On Thursday, February 19, under the cover of secrecy, a group of ten Jews from Yemen, nine of them members of the Ben-Yisrael family, made aliyah to Israel. The Jerusalem Post

The latest immigrants from the Yemenite community of Raida - a town fraught with tension between its Jewish and Muslim residents in recent months - the Ben-Yisraels, accompanied by another young man from their community, arrived in a special aliya operation, shrouded in secrecy, organized by the Jewish Agency and Yemenite Jewish Federation of America.



As they stepped into the arrivals hall, the Ben-Yisraels looked as if they had walked through a time warp. "Thank God, I'm happy to be here," said family patriarch Said Ben-Yisrael, clad in a felt yarmulke and long black side curls as he stood in front of his wife and seven children.

This is but one family. On one of my trips to Eretz Yisrael, I stayed in the home of an elderly Yemenite woman who came to Israel as part of Operation Magic Carpet. She lived meagerly, but happily. She cleaned other people's homes, rented out a room occasionally (once to me), but I was in awe of her quiet knowing. She made me delicious Yemeni marak and fresh real Yemeni style pitas, with zhug. She lived on very little, so her children and grandchildren could have. They are such gentle Jews.

But what is happening with 

the remaining Yemenites? 

THE JEWS OF YEMEN, THE LAST GENERATION
Zion Ozeri, premiere Israeli photographer presents...
by Zion Ozeri
Illustrated by: Zion Ozeri
Zion Ozeri was born in 1951 to a Yemenite family that had come to Israel two years earlier in "Operation Magic Carpet." Here he returns to his roots -- both the Yemenite Jews of Israel and the remaining Jews of Yemen. These 138 photographs are of people in both countries, mostly in scenes of daily life. The introduction, in Hebrew and English, is a fascinating essay by the author on his own family's history. 
Keter Books Israel, 2005

To look at these photos is to be present in the moment they were taken -- in a felafel stand in Israel, or on laundry day in Yemen. And more than that, Ozeri has an uncanny knack for capturing personality in a photograph. To look at these photos is to feel that you know the people in the pictures. That's what great photography is all about.

ANOTHER "COUNTDOWN" MOMENT

Did We All Miss This One?

"DEBKAfile EXCLUSIVE: THE HALT OF JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO ISRAEL
IS ONE OF TWO KEY ARAB PRE-CONDITIONS
FOR ENGAGING THE JEWISH STATE IN PEACE TALKS!
March 29, 2007"

REAL CHUTZPA?
OR IS THIS A WARNING FROM ON HIGH TO ADD TO THE THREAT OF THE DISSOLUTION
OF EL AL AIRLINES AND OUR SECURE FLIGHTS TO ERETZ HAKODESH?

Whatever we do to elevate our Neshomas during this year's
COUNTING OF THE OMER please add to that list, a current PASSPORT
and as 'Blessed to be Yerushalmi' advised, to open a "file" with the
Israel Aliyah Center - even if you're not sure when and if you are going!

Are we taking our ability to go to Eretz HaKodesh too lightly?
How many "warnings" do we need before we get the message?

HOW DID DATHAN AND ABIRAM MERIT TO BE REDEEMED?

Moshe Rabbeinu confronted Dathan and Abiram who were fighting one another.
One lifted his hand to hit the other, and Moshe called him a rasha!

How did a rasha merit to be redeemed and be included in the Geulah?

Well it seems that despite the despicable behavior of Dathan and Abiram,
- and the matter became known to Moshe - they did merit to be eventually redeemed
because they BELIEVED in the GEULAH, they did not give up HOPE.

The remaining four fifths of yidden that did not make it out of the Night of Darkness
had GIVEN UP HOPE in the redemption and therefore did not make it out of
that thick Darkness of that Night (loss of Bitachon, loss of Emuna).

We need to focus on "the finish line" and continue preparing for our departure from this golus
with a valid passport, packed suitcases, and a huge dose of
EMUNA in HASHEM.

This Pesach at the Seder, I announced that "Lifne" (before) Shana HaBa (I want to be ) B'Yerushalayim!

Personally, I'd rather be on our Holy Land of Israel where Hashem watches over Her
from the beginning of the year to the end of the year (only Hashem),
than in a foreign nation under the influence of a foreign sar (ministering angel/malach).