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06 March 2020

UPDATE ON CV – Mutation Explanation



Coronavirus and HIV homology in RaTG13 strain



COMMENTERS:

I just love the way officials keep telling us that face mask won’t work but the health care workers need them. I do believe the HC workers do need them but why do they make like we can’t see through that logic. More believable to say we messed up and don’t have enough masks for HC workers. They won’t work for the public but will for HC makes no sense!

Swimming goggles recommended (virus can enter via breathing and the eyes, touching face)

MAP TIMELAPSE OF THE VIRUS to 3/3/20




05 March 2020

Rabbi Kahana – Parashat Tetzaveh and Zachor

BS”D 
Parashat Tetzaveh and Zachor 5780
Rabbi Nachman Kahana

The Luxury of Knowing

The accepted practice when dealing with a nation’s future is for the planners to research its past accomplishments and its contemporary human resources and work from there to develop a rational approach to the future possibilities of the nation. Not so with the Jewish people. As in all things, we are very different than any other nation. We don’t predict where we are heading based on from where we came; we have the luxury of knowing our future destiny and need only synchronize the present with that future which includes the in-gathering of all Jews to our holy land; restoration of our sovereignty over all of biblical Eretz Yisrael, the Bet Hamikdash and much more.

A Message to the Gentiles

This Shabbat – Shabbat Zachor, we will read about the irrational, inborn hatred of Amalek towards the Jewish nation. There is no meeting ground with Amalek that could even begin a rational discussion to alleviate the hate. So HaShem who knows the instincts of all men declared in His Torah that there is only one way to deal with this evil seed, and that is to rid the planet of them, and of every vestige of their evil culture, down to the last Volkswagen.
In contrast to Amalek, our relations with the larger gentile world can be conducted in a constructive manner, and so it is to these gentiles to whom I am directing this week’s parasha.

Purim

In the wake of our amazing military victory over the mixed multitude under Persian rule who were directed by the king to destroy the Jews, there occurred two dramatic reactions: 1) Our rabbis taught that the Jewish people fulfilled the Torah’s mitzvot after being coerced to do so at Mount Sinai. But in the wake of the “turnabout” miracle that occurred in Persia the Jewish nation declared that they were now willingly accepting all of HaShem’s directives. 2) As reported in the Megila, great numbers of gentiles after witnessing the turnabout” and the religious resurgence of Am Yisrael, rejected their gentile religious beliefs and became Jews (Megila 8,17;9,1):
In every province and in every city to which the edict of the king came, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many people of other nationalities became Jews because fear of the Jews had seized them. On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overcome them, but now the reality was reversed (v’nahafoch) and the Jews attained mastery over those who hated them.
In our times we have witnessed an “historical reversal” far greater than what had occurred at the time of Mordechai and Esther. In three short years, the Jewish nation reverted from being gassed to death and burned in crematoria to establishing the third Jewish Commonwealth in the holy land. From 1945 to 1948 the world literally turned over.
However, in contrast to what occurred in Persia in the wake of the miraculous “reversal” when untold numbers of gentiles converted to Judaism, there was no such development among contemporary gentiles towards Judaism.
There are hundreds of millions of gentiles the world over who now reject their religious teachings; most churches are virtually empty except for several old people and perhaps a grandchild helping them, and the mosques are staging areas for training terrorists.
Our tradition states that at a certain point in history many nations will become Jews. Three times a day we recite the liturgical poem Ayeinu Le’shabai’ach that predicts the future tikun olam – reformation of the world’s evils, when all will accept the “Kingdom of Heaven”.
How is this going to happen? By a vast worldwide miracle, or by the sword as did Mohamed when he crossed North Africa to Europe? Who knows! But as things look now it will be a more natural process.
I put forward the suggestion that we change our paradigm vis-à-vis the gentiles. That we break the religious isolationist bubble that encloses us and call for all enlightened peoples to investigate the religious messages of Judaism. They have to be told that we, as the “mother” of all monotheistic beliefs, are the only authentic messengers of the Creator. They must also be informed that in the advent of Mashiach, conversion to Judaism will cease.
I am not suggesting that we be lenient in the conversion process, because Halacha is king; it is just that Judaism has so much to offer mankind, which is stumbling as a blind person in a maze. How can the multitudes of nations accept the “Kingdom of HaShem” if they are unaware of who HaShem is, and our eternal bond as His chosen people? As our rabbis have taught and as it appears in the prophecies of our Nevi’im, multitudes of gentiles will seek the safe shores of Judaism.
We have returned from physical exile, to be free to show the world the way of “Tikun Olam”, the reformation of all mankind. As stated by the prophet Yirmiyahu (16,19):
ה’ עזי ומעזי ומנוסי ביום צרה אליך גוים יבאו מאפסי ארץ ויאמרו אך שקר נחלו אבותינו הבל ואין בם מועיל:

The Lord is my refuge in time of distress, to You the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good”.

Shabbat Shalom,
Nachman Kahana
Copyright © 5780/2020 Nachman Kahana

Rishon L’Tzion Composes Special Prayer to Stop the Plague

The Rishon L'Tzion, Israel's Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef composed a special prayer to stop the COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic. The prayer should be said when the Holy Ark is opened on Shabbat, Mondays, and Thursdays when the Torah is read publicly:

May it be Thy Will our G-d and G-d and our ancestors, that You be overcome with mercy upon all the world's inhabitants and upon the inhabitants of this land, and protect them from all the harsh and evil decrees that may visit the world, and rescue us from every sickness, disease, plague, and epidemic.

May all patients infected with the disease be completely cured. To You O G-d is the Greatness and the Rigor, the Splendor and the Eternity and the Majesty, because all in Heaven and Earth to You do individually concede the Kingship and the Authority, and in Your hands is the soul of all living and the spirit within all flesh, and it is in your Power and Strength to grow and strengthen and cure humanity to the utmost, to the most minuscule reaches of the spirit, and nothing is beyond Your Ability.

Therefore, may it be Thy Will O Faithful G-d, Father of Mercy, Healer of all ills among His People Israel, You Who are the Faithful Healer: Send healing and cure, and act with utmost kindness, pardon, and compassion to all patients infected with this disease.

Please O G-d, may Your Mercy awaken upon all inhabitants of the world and all Your People Israel. Please alight Thine Throne of Judgement and sit upon the Throne of Mercy, and go beyond the letter of the law to abolish all harsh and evil decrees. "And Pinchas arose and prayed and the plague was halted.”

And decree upon us good judgments, salvation, and consolation for the sake of Thy Mercy, and tear up our evil decree, and may our good points hold prominence before you; Arise, help us and redeem us for the sake of Your Kindness.

Hear now please the voice of our plea, for You hear the prayers of all; Blessed is He Who hears prayer.

May the utterances of my mouth and the reasoning within my heart find favor before You, O L-rd my Rock and Salvation.

And may it be fulfilled within us the Bible verse that says: "All the sickness I placed upon Egypt I shall not place upon you, for I am the L-rd your Healer," Amen.


Source: arutzsheva

Rabbi Mizrachi – Our Last Chance to Wake Up



Hashem should protect Rabbi Mizrachi shlit”a from the coronavirus and give the Rabbi heightened siata d’shmaya to continue to bring Am Yisrael closer to HKB”H (notice the tissues)

Ancient Segula to Prevent Plagues

Due to the confusion in Israel that is being caused by the virus, an ancient Segulah to prevent plagues has been uncovered. [YWN what confusion?]

In the early writings of Rabbi Shimshon of Ostropol there is found a Segulah against plagues. The Segulah consists of reciting the translation of Onkelos for the passages relating to the travels of the Bnei Yisrael at the end of Sefer Bamidbar. Rabbi Shimshon claims that this is a preventative measure against plagues.

Rabbi Shimshon, who is referred to by the Chida as a “Godly Kabbalist” died al-kiddush Hashem during the Khmelnytsky massacre in 1648. He wrote numerous Kabbalistic works and a Torah commentary known as Nitzotzay Shimshon. His most famous work is the Erev Pesach Letter called ‘Maamar Sod Eztba Elokim’ on the ten Makos, which is another Segulah that assures blessing to those that study it.

04 March 2020

Definitive Statement From Shamayim?

IDF general met with Netanyahu after visit to coronavirus-stricken Italy

An Israeli general who was later instructed to enter self-quarantine following a visit to Italy met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials last week. timesofisrael

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that the officer, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, the head of the IDF Operations Directorate, returned to Israel some 12 days ago from a personal trip to Italy, which has seen a high incidence of the COVID-19 disease.

Netanyahu meets with his cabinet regularly. Shaking hands is only one preventative; CV is airborne and on surfaces

COULD THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL 
HAVE TO ISOLATE IN QUARANTINE?

What a definitive statement from Shamayim that would be


UPDATE BELOW – SITUATION UPDATE IN THE JEWISH WORLD

YESHIVA WORLD NEWS seems to have more up-to-date information than the Israeli newspapers or internet sites.

Israeli School Principal and 9th Grader Have COVID-19, Over 1,000 Students and 5,000 Soccer Fans Isolated, Health Ministry: “Spread Of Virus Inevitable”

Prof. Itamar Grotto, the Deputy Director-General of Israel’s Health Ministry stated on Wednesday that the wide-scale spread of the coronavirus in Israel is inevitable after a vice-principal of an elementary school and a 9th-grade student were diagnosed with the virus, requiring over 1,000 students to be put into quarantine. Israel’s Health Ministry announced on Tuesday night that three more Israelis were diagnosed with the coronavirus, raising the total number of cases in Israel to 15.

One of the three is a 9th-grade student at Brenner High School in Givat Brenner, a kibbutz in central Israel near Rechovot, who works at the Red Pirate toy store in Or Yehuda where the first Israeli who was diagnosed with the virus upon his return from Italy also works. There are now a total of three employees of the store who have been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus. . . Also, over 5,000 Israelis are currently in self-quarantine due to having had contact with someone with the virus or having returned from a country deemed high-risk, including an employee of the Bnei Brak municipality who was at the shuk in Ashdod at the same time as someone who was subsequently diagnosed with the virus.(YWN)


IN AMERICA, WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, MANHATTAN, has Yeshiva University student in quarantine. There goes Manhattan and next is Brooklyn. Hashem yishmor. ALSO PASSAIC NEW JERSEY taking precautions. Good Grief. (YWN)

How does one hold a wedding or a bar mitzvah and escape the illness? Haredim need to wise up and take extraordinary precautions, because of the very closeness of their social lives.

MEANWHILE Netanyahu tells Israelis not to shake hands. 
How pitiful. Are they using the CDC tactics of keeping people mis-informed??

Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press on the measures Israel is implementing to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, and calls on Israelis to refrain entirely from shaking each other’s hands. He says that the world is in the midst of a pandemic — “this is the truth and it must be said.” *“Israel is one of the only countries in the West that is in a relatively good place,” Netanyahu says. “We’ve taking severe (?) measures in order to prevent the spread [of the virus].” (timesofisrael)(misspellings included)

*be careful, those other countries might start to complain about “our relatively good place”. Remember the Black Plague, and how they blamed that plague on the Jews?

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If Israel continues to listen to the CDC and the WHO Israel will be in trouble. The incubation period is NOT 14 DAYS BUT 24–27 DAYS. They are behaving as if they deliberately want the virus to spread all over the world.

These are the precautions Netanyahu and the Health Ministry as appeared on arutzsheva:

No gatherings of over 5000 persons (ridiculous); it should be to AVOID ALL gatherings more than a minyan, maybe just family.

No shaking hands. Not just shaking hands, but hugging and kissing, except for spouses, and one should distance oneself from others by at least 5 feet

MDA says receiving PANIC calls. They advise to call only if one has symptoms??
The MDA should answer ALL CALLS ESPECIALLY someone who is distraught; that’s the least they can do. If you do not help them, they will get information from the internet which could be fake, false and worse. Why not issue daily briefings in all the papers, so people can feel they are being taken seriously, and not being treated like children.

Americans will not be quarantined but all else will, ALL VISITORS to Israel, even  Americans NEED TO BE QUARANTINED the full 24 days.

These are the points from arutz sheva:
Corona limitations: No handshakes, gatherings of over 5,000 people
Netanyahu: Refrain from shaking hands due to coronavirus
Netanyahu: We are in the midst of a global epidemic
Coronavirus Panic: Overload at MDA Hotline


TO BE FAIR, THESE ARE THE JUST PUBLISHED PRECAUTIONS FROM THE HEALTH MINISTRY:

1. Israelis returning from France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Austria will be charged with home isolation for 14 days, the decision being retroactive from the date of departure.

2. Foreigners from these countries will not be able to enter Israel, but will exhibit a proven ability to isolate a home. Implementation of this decision will take effect in the coming days.

3. Prohibition on holding international conferences in Israel.

4. Residents of Israel returning from international conferences abroad - will have to enter home isolation for 14 days.

5. Health care workers face a blanket ban on going abroad.

6. Mass gatherings and conferences of 5,000 or more people are prohibited.

7. Participation in gatherings of over 100 persons is prohibited for persons returning from any destination abroad in the last 14 days.

8. The Civil Service Commissioner to prohibit workers at Israeli ports from traveling abroad.

9. Recommendation for those aged 60 and over and those with chronic background illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, respiratory disease or immunosuppression, to avoid crowds and contact with people returning from any destination abroad or with symptoms or people suspected of being blue.

10. Tourists staying in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon (in the last 14 days) will not be allowed to enter the country.

11. The Health Ministry recommends strict hygiene and avoiding handshakes.

The Health Ministry assesses that at least 50,000 Israelis will be quarantined in the coming period following the stricter orders for dealing with the coronavirus, according to Channel 12.

ALSO: Masks only help if the eyes are covered with see-thru full covering.

DO NOT SPEAK LASHON HARA — Some Thoughts From Rabbi Kessin’s Purim Shiur

Rabbi Kessin always leaves his audience on a tremendous high.

After listening last evening to Rabbi Kessin in his latest Shiur on Purim, at the 1:30 mark approximately he speaks about the Corona Virus as a Pandemic G–d is bringing as World Judgment (and he thinks it is in response to rising Antisemitism against Am Yisrael).

Because the SM has been unleashed via this CV, it means that everyone falls under this judgment, and to mitigate judgment one needs to NOT SPEAK LASHON HARA, because lashon hara brings judgment on the speaker.

Purim is the one day of immense Shefa and one can ask of HaShem whatever is in their heart, and it will be *given. So this is an opportune 24 hours to seek forgiveness, and other matters that one seeks to instill in oneself, in ones marriage, children, etc. You fill in the blanks.

From Rabbi Kessin’s words straight to HaShem, may this be a Purim that sees the continued end to the power of the Erev Rav over Klal Yisrael, a return of the hearts of Am Yisrael to their Father in Shamayim, and with Rachamim applied to the Geula Shleima.

Rabbi Kessin said, the Election is only about the EREV RAV – to keep the ER from ruling over the Children of Hashem . . .

And that Netanyahu is the last obstacle to this.

He reiterated that 1.5 mil children in public school, are being taught curriculum of the reform/conservative values which is devastating. This is based on an article in the Hamodia. He said one can find it on the RabbiMendelKessin facebook page. The Rav said yes, he has a Facebook page but he never looks at it. I took a peek and this is where one can find info about coming shiurim.

On March 4 the Rav will be speaking in Beit Shemesh. So if anyone is in Israel you can go to hear him in person.

He also said that Rivlin has the power to give the mandate to the Knesset or someone else to form a government, [since the trial date is March 17] this is what he should do. This morning’s JPost says that there is tension between Bibi and Rivlin over this issue. Let’s hope that “something” happens to bring about a ‘sea change’ and we will see someone else lead the nation closer to their main purpose via a Geula transitional government, so HaShem can finally release the Mashiach for our Geula Shleima. Amen



*maybe not immediately, but is promised to occur

From Missiles and Miracles . . . From Prophecy to Reality

Message from Rav Sternbuch shlit”a for our Days
2020 is much sooner than the Missiles of 2014 
which brings us to:
From Missiles to Drones, from Commandos to A1, from the quiet of Deep Space to 
Pillars of Fire and Illuminating Sparks of Miracles

*At the Final Geulah We will witness Miracles Greater than when Hashem Brought us 
Out of Mitzrayim and Equal or Greater than What we Witnessed at *Har Sinai

Are We Living in a Star Wars Age?
SPACEX AND STARLINK
[. . .] Air Force acquisition chief William Roper told reporters at the Pentagon that the Air Force and SpaceX will conduct an event on April 8, together with other branches of the U.S. military, that will see SpaceX Starlink satellites link up with multiple armed forces systems in a “massive” live fire exercise. "SpaceX has been a great industry partner for us," Roper said. "They are very excited and we are excited to learn more about their satellites through the demonstration.”



The Air Force And SpaceX Are Teaming Up 
For A 'Massive' Live Fire Exercise
The demonstration will reportedly involve shooting down a drone and a cruise missile and will take place at several different sites including Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The massive tests will also include ground forces, submarines, ships, and a variety of space-based assets. the drive

ORLANDO, Fla., — Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk predicted Friday that the future of war would be carried out by autonomous drones and not by legacy aircraft. CNBC “The fighter jet era has passed,” Musk said during a fireside chat with U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Thompson at the Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Florida. “Drone warfare is where the future will be. It’s not that I want the future to be – it’s just, this is what the future will be,”  . . .
“The competitor to the F-35 should be a drone”



WILL WE ONE DAY WITNESS A “War in the Stars” OF THE 70 NATIONS FIGHTING ONE ANOTHER IN SPACE WITH WEAPONS 
REMINISCENT OF STAR WARS? 
Is all this a precursor to that Great and Awesome Day of the L-rd

Balak 212b
We have learned that in the future the Holy One will rebuild Yerushalyim and show one steady star, flashing with 70 pillars of fire, and with 70 sparks which illuminate (receive light) from it in the middle of the sky. There will be 70 other stars which are commanded and controlled from it, and they will illuminate and flame in the sky for 70 days.

On the 6th day, the 25th day of the 6th month, the star will appear. It will be gathered on the 7th day, at the end of 70 days. On the first day it will be seen in the city of Rome. On the same day, 3 supernal walls of that city of Rome will fall and a great heichal will fall. The ruler of that city will die. Then the star will spread out to be seen in the world. In that time strong wars [among the goyim] will awaken in the world on all 4 sides and Emunah will not be found among them.

In the middle of the world, when that star will shine in the middle of the sky, a great king will arise and rule the world, and his spirit will gain pride over all the kings and he will awaken a war on 2 sides, and he will become strong against them.

On the day that the star will be concealed, the Holy Land will quake 45 miles around the place of the Bais Hamikdash, and one cave under the ground will be revealed. From this cave will come out a strong fire to burn the world. From this cave a supernal branch will grow and it will rule over the whole world, and to it will be given the malchus. The supernal holy ones will gather to it. Then Moshiach will be revealed in the entire world and malchus will be given to him.

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* It is told, a “Rosh HaYeshiva” said that the Revelation of Mashiach will be as great or much greater than the Revelation of Hashem at Har Sinai.

** FIRST DRONE FIGHTER JET IN THE WORLD - Northrop Grumman's X-47B Unmanned Aerial Vehicle The X-47B is an unmanned combat air system carrier (UCAS) is being developed by Northrop Grumman for the US Navy (USN). The strike fighter size unmanned aircraft is currently in its demonstration phase. The unmanned aircraft was first developed as part of the X-47 program. Air worthiness of the X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator was developed at an estimated cost of $813m.. . The program aims to develop and demonstrate which fighter sized tailless unmanned aircraft can be deployed from US Navy aircraft carriers.

10 Most Insane Military Planes (https://youtu.be/coGRR1aiDvQ) AND (https://youtu.be/BZXjRalbW4w) AND you’ve got to see these!

03 March 2020

Was This Prophecy?

Is this Prophecy for Now?
Remember this article from Hamodia 2014?
The message in this is especially relevant to our days. The words are timeless.

Harav Moshe Sternbuch Spoke About Miracles and Missiles. 
  • Hundreds of sophisticated missiles, each one capable of causing mass destruction, fall in Israel.
  • Most of these missiles land in open areas, and as a result no one is killed.
  • The Kipat Barzel, the Iron Dome, intercepts some of these missiles, and the shrapnel and debris from these exploded missiles causes almost no injury or damage.
  • The head of Hamas admits, “We have experts launching these missiles, yet their G-d will not allow us to hurt them.”
[those events happened ’then’ but what HaRav Sternbuch says is also for now] 

What is Hashem telling us?

Free Choice
The passuk tells us, “Hu Dasan V’Aviram” (Bamidbar 26:9). Chazal explain that Dasan and Aviram continued in their evil ways from the beginning of their lives until their deaths (Megillah 11a). We know that Dasan and Aviram were not tzaddikim. What is it that our Sages were trying to convey to us here?

The deeper message of their words is startling. Dasan and Aviram saw the eser makkos, Krias Yam Suf, the mann and the be’er. Yet witnessing these miracles did not inspire them to abandon their evil ways.

At the time of Krias Yam Suf, Hashem brought a powerful northern wind that raged the entire night before the sea split (Shemos 14:21). The Sefer Hachinuch (132) explains that the purpose of this wind was to give people the option to believe that Krias Yam Suf was not a miracle, but rather that it resulted from natural causes. Similarly, after the makkos in Mitzrayim, the sorcerers of Egypt showed that they, too, could perform similar feats (Shemos 8:14).

Whenever Hashem performs miracles, He always leaves an opening for people to err by believing that these events came about through natural causes. Dasan and Aviram assumed that all of these miracles had natural causes, and therefore they clung to their evil ways. Yet the question remains: If the purpose of a miracle is to display Hashem’s might and glory, why should He want to hide Himself?

Hiding Behind Nature
This world is a corridor leading to Olam Haba, and we will receive reward in the Next World in accordance with the degree to which we prepared ourselves in this world. If the Almighty were to reveal Himself openly, that would leave no room for free choice, and we would not have a chance to earn reward. Hashem hides Himself behind the cloak of nature so that we will need to search for His Presence.

For this reason, when Hashem performs open miracles, He always leaves room for a natural explanation for them. In Mitzrayim that explanation was the sorcerers; at Krias Yam Suf it was the northern wind. All of these natural causes are merely diversions He creates to hide Himself and to give evil people the opportunity to deny that it was Hashem’s Hand that performed these miracles.

While we cannot ignore the fact that our enemies are trying to destroy us, we must be wary about becoming overly absorbed in the details of what is happening. We should always remember that, just as the Almighty is stopping these missiles from hitting their targets, He is allowing them to be launched. We must recognize that every missile is a test in emunah: Do we attribute what is happening to natural causes or to Hashem?

Open Miracles
If we take a few minutes to think about what is going on around us, we will be amazed. Each of these missiles has the ability to cause mass death and destruction, Rachmana litzlan, yet not a single person was killed. One of the missiles made a direct hit on someone’s home, yet  the family had decided to go away that day; another missile hit someone’s home and miraculously did not explode.

These are highly sophisticated long-range missiles that, according to Hamas, were fired by expert missile launchers. The possibility of most of them missing their targets is extremely low. This is an overt miracle of the highest degree.

After witnessing these miracles firsthand, why is it that all of us — each and every individual — have not decided to make major changes in our lives and taken upon ourselves an intense regimen of teshuvah, tefillah and tzedakah? We have been so strongly influenced by the media and by our nonreligious brethren who tell us that natural causes are behind these events that we have hardly been affected by these miracles.

Blessing After Tragedy
Harav Sternbuch relates that after World War II he spoke to Harav Mordechai Pragamansky about what would happen to the Jewish people. Harav Pragamansky told him that when Hashem brings a great disaster to the world, such as the Holocaust, inevitably it will be followed by a period of great shefa, affluence. Even then, at a time when most Jews were living in great poverty, Harav Pragamansky foresaw that Jews of the next generation would become millionaires and billionaires.

We find a precedent for this phenomenon in the time the Jewish people left Mitzrayim. After suffering 210 years of slavery and servitude, at the time of their departure, the Egyptians gave them great wealth. Following Krias Yam Suf, Klal Yisrael received even more with the bizas hayam, the spoils they gained from the Egyptians who drowned in the sea.

Harav Pragamansky explains that all of this affluence is meant to be a nisayon for the Jewish people: If we attribute everything to Hashem and His kindness, and if we use our resources to serve and sanctify Him, then we will have passed the test. If we attribute this wealth to our own ingenuity, then we will inevitably fall and be punished, as we see happened to the Jews in the Midbar, who sinned with the egel hazahav.

Reward or Punishment
Over the past week we have been witness to the highest degree of kindness and mercy from Hashem, when He prevented hundreds of missiles from hitting their targets. If we internalize the extent of His Kindness, and use it to raise our recognition of His Presence in our lives, then we will have passed the test that He has given us. We can be sure that this is one of the final nisyonos before the Geulah.

Since it is possible to deny all of these miracles, the reward for one who recognizes them is extremely great. Someone who sees Hashem’s Hand during such times, thanking Him constantly for His benevolence and telling other people about the great miracles that He has performed for us, brings great nachas ruach to the Almighty. He has recognized what the Ramban writes at the end of Parashas Bo:
“There is no such thing as nature in the world, 
and everything that happens is a direct result of Hashem’s Hand.”
[everything we see as nature are miracles of Hashem]

However, if we attribute what took place to natural causes, then we are putting ourselves in the gravest danger. If we do not recognize His Hand in our lives, we can arouse great Divine wrath, and we will no longer be worthy of His protection. Then we are liable to receive a punishment similar to that of the generation of the Midbar, whose people used their affluence to make the egel hazahav.

The Power of One Person
Chazal describe the great reward that Pinchas received for his act of kana’us. By taking up arms and killing Zimri and Kozbi, Pinchas saved the entire Jewish people from destruction (Bamidbar 25:11). So too, every single Jew, without exception, has the potential to be the “Pinchas” who saves Klal Yisrael during these times.

Hashem is performing ever greater miracles before our eyes, and our avodah is to recognize Hashem. We must thank Him for the past (modeh al ha’avar) and beseech Him that He continue to have mercy on us (mevakeish al ha’atid). Anyone who breaks through the smoke screen of nature, who recognizes Hashem’s Hand behind all of these miracles, and who helps to open the eyes of his fellow Jews who have not yet been privileged to see this, can be considered the Pinchas of our generation.

Those people who recognize and publicize the miracles that are taking place will receive the greatest reward for doing so. However, we should realize that as soon as the Geulah comes, this test will be no more. On the day that Hashem reveals Himself to the entire world, there will no longer be any free choice, and we will not be rewarded for seeing the obvious. [emphasis added]

May this day come soon.

2020 is much sooner than the Missiles of 2014 
which brings me to this:
Lessons From Rav Sternbuch shlit”a  For Our Days
“From Missiles to Miracles"

02 March 2020

ELECTION UPDATE: AN ELECTION YEAR ANOMALY

Every election year has a Disease:




Rav Meir Turnheim, a Chabbad chassid who lives in Lod has successfully predicted the results of past political elections in Israel and throughout the world with great accuracy, basing his predictions on a specific complex method of singling out letters from one passuk in the parsha read in the week of the elections in the section read on the day of the elections. At times, his predictions were proven true despite the fact that all other predictions and polls predicted otherwise.

According to his predictions for the Israeli elections on Monday, Rav Turnheim claims that based on his method, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will win the elections, as his name is mentioned ten times in the parsha (Parshas Tzevah) and Gantz’s name is not even mentioned once.

“I predict he [Netanyahu] will win,” said Rav Turnheim. “He was mentioned only once [in the previous elections] and this time he’s mentioned ten times.” YWN




Voting *Results interpretation:

Likud 35
Blue White 32
Yisrael Beytenu 6
Shas 10
Yahadut HaTorah 7
Yamina 9
HaAvoda-Gesher-Meretz 12
Joint List 12


BUT THIS CONTRADICTS:

“ […] based on Gemorrah Sanhedrin 98a, the third election will ALSO result in no Govt.
It is supposed to fail one last time so that when Mashiach takes over, it is because the entire existing system has a Chazakah on failing 3 times. “

NO, IT MEANS HE WINS BUT AGAIN CANNOT FORM A GOVERNMENT


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*originally posted to here in comment 32 of Qeren Qayemet …

UPDATE Stats on the Virus

What is a Cytokine Storm

Is COVID-19 Receiving ADE From Other Coronaviruses?

Tetro JA1.
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One of the most perplexing questions regarding the current COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic is the discrepancy between the severity of cases observed in the Hubei province of China and those occurring elsewhere in the world. One possible answer is antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) of SARS-CoV-2 due to prior exposure to other coronaviruses. ADE modulates the immune response and can elicit sustained inflammation, lymphopenia, and/or cytokine storm, one or all of which have been documented in severe cases and deaths. ADE also requires prior exposure to similar antigenic epitopes, presumably circulating in local viruses, making it a possible explanation for the observed geographic limitation of severe cases and deaths.
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A cytokine storm is an overproduction of immune cells and their activating compounds (cytokines), which, in a flu infection, is often associated with a surge of activated immune
Cytokine storms have potential to do significant damage to body tissues and organs. If a cytokine storm occurs in the lungs, for example, fluids and immune cells such as macrophages may accumulate and eventually block off the airways, potentially resulting in death

Cytokines are proteins that are produced by cells. With regard to arthritis, cytokines regulate various inflammatory responses. Cytokines interact with cells of the immune system in order to regulate the body's response to disease and infection, as well as mediate normal cellular processes in the body

When cytokines are released into the circulation, systemic symptoms such as fever, nausea, chills, hypotension, tachycardia, asthenia, headache, rash, scratchy throat, and dyspnea can result. In most patients, the symptoms are mild to moderate in severity and are managed easily.

ELECTIONS

ISRAELI ELECTIONS

Just a few days away from elections in Israel, I would like to share some observations and thoughts.

I should say up front that I am not a big Bibi fan. Some of his actions or inactions have greatly disappointed me and I do not have any hope that he will find the strength to change.

There are people in politics today that I have more faith in to do what is right for the land of Israel and our Jewish traditions and values, but they are presently not candidates for the job.

Netanyahu has indeed accomplished big things for Israel on the economic, tech, energy front and in diplomacy abroad. His tenacity with the Iran threat is to be appreciated very much.He would want the best for the Jews in every case if he only had the courage to do the right thing more often. (I think of his embracing Arafat with all smiles, support for the Gush Katif expulsion, the Hevron and Wye plantations capitulations, his soft record on Jewish settlement and curbing massive illegal Arab land grabs..)

He would like to do more good, I believe, but he does not have it within him.

On the other side, the "Center- Left, " do not struggle with any inner doubts about how to strengthen the Jewish state and people. They are just waiting for the chance to expel lots and lots of Jews from their homes who live in "occupied" Arab territories and create a terror state in its stead. They are eager to make Israel as less a Jewish country as possible and more part of the Global Village.There is not an illegal infiltrator (amongst tens of thousands of illegals) from Muslim Sudan, Eritrea and elsewhere for whom the Left will not battle. Don't be surprised that none of these humanitarian cases live anywhere near their principled protectors on the Left.

In their desperation for power that drifts from them more and more, the Left has long abandoned even the veneer of classic Zionism. Knowing that the large majority of Jews do not share their global village vision and won't be fooled, they turn to the Arabs of Israel and beg them for their support in the battle against those who are uncomfortably just too Jewish for them and for their Arab friends.
Just today "Blue and White"("Center-Left") MK Ram Ben Barak (former deputy Mossad chief!) promised the Arabs of Israel that his party would drop the word Jewish from the "National Law" that states the importance of Jewish settlement in the Galilee and Negev.

This is just classic Zionism but immoral today for the LeftBen Barak tells the Arabs that this is racism and his party sees settlement of the land by all Israelis, Jew and Arab as a national goal. Vote for Blue and White and thus diminish the Jewish character of Israel.They have sold their souls and are eager to sell our land. Between shame and power, power wins. Anything for power.

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'We Will Come Through all the Difficulties with Great Nissim, Miracles, B’Rachamim'

"[. . .] the world has become so wild, senseless, and irrational. If we don't just trust in Hashem there is no way we can get up every morning and get through the day. When you have all of these crazy things happening around you, all of these things that seem to go against one another, be directly opposite each other, when the same people are saying two opposite things with the same conviction, well it's definitely maddening and is very hard to get through it.

"Our food is poisoned. Our minds are poisoned. We can't trust the immunizations that they give us in the Kupot Cholim (healthcare providers) all over the world. We can't trust anything. We can't trust the police. We can't trust the government. We can't even trust our own clergy in many instances. So what's left? There is nothing we can trust anymore.

"There is only one thing we can still trust 
and that’s Hakodosh Boruch Hu, 
the Ribbono Shel Olam.

"If we have true Emunah and Bitachon in Him we will be OK. We can even eat the poisoned food. We can even be not too afraid of the police, and we can even be in the most dangerous situations, and we don’t have to fear. He took us out of Mitzrayim whole. He will take us out of this Golus whole.

"He will negate the *poisons. He will negate the **radioactivity. He will negate everything that can cause us harm, and we are going to come through all the difficulties with great Nissim, miracles, and Rachamim. But on one condition, that we hold on to Him, so-to-speak, and not let go. That we hold on to His Torah and try to fulfil His Ratzon. And that’s the only protection there is in this confused, polluted, horrible world full of evil people.”  Moishele’s Book


*coronavirus
**5G internet satellites

INFOGRAPHIC of The Spread of the Virus

UPDATE: Vitamin C and COVID-19 Coronavirus 2/28/2020

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Vitamin C and COVID-19 Coronavirus
by Damien Downing, MBBS, MRSB and Gert Schuitemaker, PhD

(OMNS February 28, 2020) There is only one existing treatment for the new coronavirus: vitamin C.

Vitamin C supports your immune system.
Vitamin C helps to kill the virus and reduces the symptoms of infection.
It's not a COVID "cure," but nothing is.
It might just save your life, though, and will definitely reduce the severity of the infection.

If someone tells you it's not proven, consider two things:

Nothing is proven to work against COVID-19, because it is a new virus.
Vitamin C has worked against every single virus including influenzas, pneumonia, and even poliomyelitis.

What to do

If you do nothing else, start taking vitamin C right away; at least 3 grams a day, spread right across the day. That's a 1,000 milligram capsule every 8 hours, or a level teaspoon of powder dissolved in a pint or so of water, drank all through the day.

If you're smart and motivated, do all the other things recommended in our previous release Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus ( Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus(http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n04.shtml))

When and if you catch a bug that might be COVID-19, simply increase your vitamin C intake: a rounded teaspoon (that's 4 to 5 grams) in water (which helps to keep you hydrated) every 3 or 4 hours. And keep on taking it.

Do you consult a doctor? Do you self-isolate? Yes and yes. Of course you do; that's your duty to others.

Vitamin C and the other measures are what you do for yourself.

These links provide a large number of references to back up our above statements:

Feb 21, 2020Three Intravenous Vitamin C Research Studies Approved for Treating COVID-19
Feb 16, 2020Early Large Dose Intravenous Vitamin C is the Treatment of Choice for 2019-nCov Pneumonia
Feb 13, 2020Coronavirus Patients in China to be Treated with High-Dose Vitamin C
Feb 10, 2020VITAMIN C AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE TREATMENT OF nCoV CORONAVIRUS: How Vitamin C Reduces Severity and Deaths from Serious Viral Respiratory Diseases
Feb 2, 2020Hospital-based Intravenous Vitamin C Treatment for Coronavirus and Related Illnesses
Jan 30, 2020Nutritional Treatment of Coronavirus
Jan 26, 2020Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus


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ISRAELI DEVELOPS CV A SECOND TIME

Here is the “corona-roulette” (my phrase coined first on this blog) in this pandemic

Israeli Who Recovered in Japan Develops Coronavirus Again
Four new cases were discovered on Friday alone, including the first case of transmission on Israeli soil. JPost

Friday saw a worrisome spike in Israeli coronavirus cases, as four more citizens were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus in Israel, the Health Ministry reported.

Shimon Dahan returned from quarantine in Japan after having having been presumed to be “recovered",  following his infection with the virus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and subsequent quarantine in Tokyo.

Read full article at link above

UPDATE: Liberman Has Lost It . . . Lock Him Up

If this is true??

LIEBERMAN EXPOSED: “Put The Chareidim Into Ghettos And Shoot Them One By One” YWN

However, Liberman might be correct on this:  
“Netanyahu told Jordan that ‘annexation of Jordan Valley’ is political talk”

A website called “סכנה מביתנו” (“Danger from [Yisrael] Beiteinu]” is beginning to scare Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman. The website, run by former Russian refusenik Natalia Rotenberg, opens the Hebrew-speaking public’s eyes to the depths that Liberman is willing to descend to garner votes and reveals how radically different Yisrael Beiteinu’s election campaign in Russian is than its Hebrew one. It reveals the depth of his incitement – actually criminal in nature – against the Chareidi population and aimed at the lowest elements of society.

Rotenberg’s website translates Yisrael Beiteinu’s appalling propaganda against Chareidim from Russian to Hebrew. A sampling of some translated statements are: [censored for inappropriate language]: “Put all the Chareidim into ghettoes, shoot them one by one.” “Throw fuel on them and burn them.” “Burn Bnei Brak and sell the ashes to Europe. “Destroy them by sword and cross.”

Liberman, realizing that the revelation of the darker elements of his party can lead to unwanted consequences for him, has initiated a war against Rotenberg in an attempt to have her site shut down. He went so far as to file a deceitful police complaint against Rotenberg, claiming that her site “serves as a basis for spreading anonymous false propaganda against Yisrael Beiteinu through the use of bots among other things.”

Rotenberg, who made aliyah to Israel many years ago after much suffering in Soviet Russia as a refusenik, said: “We began to act because we felt that Liberman was harming our life’s work. We came here, to a Jewish country that was supposed to be a paradise without anti-Semitism. We were horrified when we saw what he’s doing on the Russian street and who he’s leading – ignorant people who don’t know Hebrew and write nonsense about Judaism.”

Rotenberg said that she receives threats all the time. She knows who is threatening her and even filed a police complaint. “The Russian media outlets also incite against Chareidim,” she added.

Rotenberg told Kikar Shabbos that she has no intention of shutting down her site despite the threats against her: “No way. This is Bolshevik behavior that takes me back to the USSR from where I fled…Liberman is trying to turn the state of Israel into a Bolshevik dictatorship.”

“I was a prisoner of Tzion and I’ll continue to defend my precious and beloved country from him without fear. I’ll continue to inform the Israeli public about Liberman and his cohorts’ unacceptable actions…I was arrested 16 times in Russia by the KGB but I never heard anti-Semitic remarks on the level of Liberman and his supporters.”

Max Brodsky, another one of the site’s operators, also received disturbing threats that “they would treat him like the Nazis treated their victims.”

Attorney Yitzchak Baum, who represents Rotenberg, stated: “Freedom of expression allows for criticism of Liberman. The claim that Rotenberg operates a website through bots is a product of his imagination.”

Yisrael Beiteinu responded: “After an in-depth examination, we identified the fact that most of the site’s operators are apparently Likud supporters and activists. The person who sent the response letter in the name of Rotenberg is a lawyer, a member of Likud. The findings were passed on to the police.”

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