The Yovel of Yovelot (A Recap) and Other Matters

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As a point of departure on this blog, it has been decided that it is best to talk about prophetic events as they unfold.  For instance, one cannot talk about the Ba'al Kerry sending troops to the Valley of Yehoshafat until he actually authorizes sending those troops.  makes perfect sense to me.  So I am working on one of my Confluence between the Science and Torah posts in the interim.  It will cover to best of my ability the Four Universes according to Kabbalah and the four primordial forces of nature, 10 and 11 and yes 26 Dimensional heterotic String Theory which unifies all four fundamental forces of nature including gravity into one equation.  Yes, those numbers above should excite any observant Jew.  Yet, writing a post like this qualitatively takes time because one has to qualitatively describe in layman's terms complex mathematical formulas.  And the necessity for all those extra dimensions is because Gravity, the stubborn force of nature, refused to be mathematically described by four dimensional or 7 half-dimensional spacetime rules which unify the other three forces of nature into one equation.  The answer is now obvious.  The force of gravity transcends space and time itself and seems to emanate from a universe which transcends the moment of Creation itself.  It comes from Atzilut where Yud Key Vav Key and His garment of 10 sefirot of Elokim dwell.  So until Physics began to hypothetically propose the existence of a pre-Creation universe of 10, 11, and 26 dimensions, it could not unify gravity with the other forces of nature.  In that essay I will seek to prove that electromagnetism emanates from the World of Asiyah, that the Weak Force emanates from the World of Yetzirah and is therefore held prisoner by lead, and that the Strong force emanates from the World of Beri'ah and is therefore held prisoner by iron.  For instance, the yetzer hara for avodah zarah comes from the world of Yetzirah, and it was held in a prison by a lead box. It is describes right here in Talmud Yoma 69b:

 Is it not written: And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which
they had made for the purpose. [. . . and Ezra praised the great God].8 And R. Giddal [commenting
thereupon] said: He magnified Him by [pronouncing] the Ineffable Name?-That was a decision in an
emergency.9 And [they] cried with a great [loud] voice unto the Lord, their God.10 What did they
cry? — Woe, woe, it is he11 who has destroyed the Sanctuary, burnt the Temple, killed all the
righteous, driven all Israel into exile, and is still dancing around among us! Thou hast surely given
him to us so that we may receive reward through him.12 We want neither him, the tayvah for Avodah Zarah, nor reward through him! Thereupon a tablet fell down from heaven for them, whereupon the word ‘truth’ was inscribed. (R. Hanina said: One may learn therefrom that the seal of the Holy One, blessed be He, is truth). They ordered a fast of three days and three nights, whereupon he (the tempter or demon for Avodah Zarah) was surrendered to them. He came forth from the Holy of Holies like a young fiery lion. Thereupon the Prophet (Zecharia) said to Israel:

This is the evil desire of idolatry, as it is said: And he said: This is wickedness.14 As they took hold
of him a hair of his beard fell out, he raised his voice and it went [was audible] four hundred
parasangs. Thereupon they said: How shall we act? Perhaps, God forbid, they might have mercy
upon him from heaven! — The prophet (Zecharia) said unto them: Cast him into a leaden pot, closing its opening with lead. Because lead absorbs the voice (or radiation), as it is said: And he said: This is wickedness. And he cast her down into the midst of the measure, and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof. (Zecharia 5:8) They said: Since this is a time of Grace, let us pray for mercy for the Tempter to evil.  (The evil tempter for avodah zarah and immorality are one and the same.) They prayed for mercy, and he was handed over to them. He said to them: Realize that if you kill him, the world goes down.  (There will be no procreation.) They imprisoned him for three days, then looked in the whole land of Israel for a fresh egg and could not find it.( Since men were no longer tempted to have sex, no human eggs were fertilized, but this might apply to eggs of all living creatures.  The text even seems to say that no eggs were produced!)  Thereupon they said: What shall we do now? Shall we kill him? The world would then go down. Shall we beg for half-mercy? (They thought that it was possible to let this tempter for immorality loose while preventing him from tempting for avodah zarah)  They do not grant ‘halves’ in heaven. (Sorry, wise men of the Great Assembly.  If the tempter for sex is let loose in the world, one cannot cancel out its other deleterious effects.)  They put out his eyes and let him go. It helped inasmuch as he no more entices men to commit incest.  (They somehow blinded the demon, thereby reducing his potency before letting him loose in the world again.)

One might say that it is no longer useful to look for this lead pot because the demon in charge of avodah zarah is no longer held prisoner in this pot.  Getting back to our story:

We know that all radioactive decay chains where the Weak Force rules and controls Beta decay end in a stable isotope of lead.  Beta emission is almost always an electron from an overwhelmingly positive nucleus.  It order for a nucleus loaded with protons to emit an electron, there has to be an additional force called the Weak Force that pushes those electrons out of the nucleus.  When the electron leaves, one of the nuclear neutrons becomes a proton of opposite spin, I believe.  Lead is therefore a enclosure for radiation since it cannot be penetrated by radioactive substances to create more decay by the lead box itself.  Stable isotopes of lead are therefore impervious to the Weak Force and act as containments for things that draw energy from their surroundings.  Since the tayvah or demon for Avodah Zarah was contained in a lead box for three days, that tayvah or demon drew its strength from the Weak Force and could not escape the lead box that imprisoned it.  Yet, we know according to Kabbalah that demonic forces that feed the Yetzer HaRa have their origins in Olam Yetzirah (The Universe of Formation).  This is just a sample of what I will be writing about.  For something like this, I will have to include sample charts of various decay chains that all end in lead.

In the meantime, let us review where we are right now:
I posted this comment on the Esser Agaroth blog:  He refreshingly says that he chose that name for his blog because ten agarot (1/10th of a shekel) is worth about two cents.  So we get his two cents worth of info when he posts.  We should now inform him that ten agarot have been inflating over the last seven years and they are now worth just under three cents.  Blame that on the collapsing dollar.

According to the chart here (The Yovel Cycles starting with Ezra HaSofer)

we are nearing the end of the 48th Yovel Cycle since Ezra HaSofer. All the Yovel cycles during the 2nd Temple period had 50 years while the remaining Yovel cycles after the Churban have been 49 year cycles. This is so because the Yovel year, being the 15th and 65th year of every Jewish Century, "decoupled" from the 7x7 years of the Shmittah cycles with the destruction of the 2nd Temple. Notice that the 48th Yovel Cycle (Yesod shebeMalkhut cycle) began in 5727 (1967). Since all that happened to Yosef happened to Tzion, we have had 48 1/2 years to get it right through our own efforts by bringing Mashiach ben Ephraim or MBYosef to rule over a united Yerushalayim. Because of infighting, outright Rishut, and major hashkafic divisions amongst Torah observant Jews, we only got as far as we have gotten by the grace of G-d. It is time to turn the page to the next phase. By this coming Shmittah year we enter the Malkhut sheBeMalkhut year of this Yovel cycle where we transition to Mashiach ben David at the beginning of the Malkhut sheBeMalkhut Yovel cycle in 5776. The transition year 5775 will be like holding on to a blanket as G-d shakes out the world. Hold on! I think that the preliminaries such as the coming of Eliyahu start this coming Nisan to prepare us all. Last thought: I saw this years ago that a shana me'uberet must classically take place during the famous 9 months which we are in already. According to one opinion those 13 months/ nine months conclude on Rosh Chodesh Nisan after Adar Sheini. And we just so happen to be at the end of the Ba'al Kerry's declared 9 months with 4 x 26 (YKVK) releases of murderers. 

Also as posted in the comments section of my blog about the Koreas in the Twilight Zone:

 It has a lot to do with the Koreas in the Twilight Zone since the next nuclear war will likely begin by the end of 5775 when North Korea, an ally of Persia, Assad, and the Shi'ites in Batzrah, shoots off a nuclear missile, probably due south of its border to Sheoul. The Gates of Heaven and Hell (Sheoul) are about to open. Seoul is 10 degrees west of the Tzeit Kochavim line. At 2.5 years per degree after the year 5750 (high noon on Yom Shishi), Seoul enters Yom sheKulo Shabbat. 5750 + 25 years is 5775.

All of the above is in my post from years ago entitled Koreas in the Twilight Zone. We can safely assume that from the year 5750 onwards we have been in the last pre-Messianic generation. The Jewish day is determined when it is High Noon in Yerushalayim which is at 35 degrees east of Greenwich, England. At that very moment it is sunset, 90 degrees further to the east, in the Yellow Sea at 125 degrees east. Twelve degrees further east takes us to Tzeit Kochavim, where the stars are out, at 137 degrees east at the same time it is high noon in Yerushalayim. Over the next 250 years Yerushalayim MUST enter Yom sheKulo Shabbat by the year 6000. At 250 years divided by 102 degrees, we get the figure of 2.5 years per degree approx. For further elucidation, click Koreas in the Twilight Zone   The point being that there is no way to escape the fact that Seoul, South Korea enters Yom sheKulo Shabbat some time in the Shmittah year 5775.

This is important because the Zohar in VaEira ties in a 3 months war "at the edge of the world" to the destruction of Edom in Batzrah.  This Zohar is the hint on the Great War between Edom and Persia that will engulf the world during the Shmittah year 5775....b'itah.

The Truly Sick and Evil Avodah Zarah of Our Time

I just posted this on Rav Lazer Brody's blog because frankly I believe it is true.  Rav Lazer asks the question, why gas?  Why is gas prevalent in so many of the recent tragedies of this past week??  Here is my answer.

Maybe this is also a warning about Auschwitz borders that some of the Jews who may or may not be real Jews are proposing just to get the world to love them a bit more??  We have a very sick Avodah Zarah amongst way too many Jews.  It is the sickest of all modern Avodah Zarahs.  It is called Popularity, but the only real popularity that they are concerned about is their own often at the expense of others who are not loved by the goyim such as settlers.  That is why they hate settlers.  They want the world to love them even to the point of setting up Auschwitz borders and putting their own lives in danger just for some transient and fleeting worldwide popularity.  It is truly truly sick, but it seems that about half of the Israeli population worships this avodah zarah.  I would argue that it is worse than Molech because everyone is placed in danger by this avodah zarah.  So this would explain the deaths by "gas".

As I wanted to post this week, I truly believe that now in the 6th year of this last Shmittah Cycle, Eliyahu HaNavi is surely going to show up this Spring, perhaps in a Chariot of Fire, when the nations of the world show up in the Jordan Valley this Spring.  We are talking about an event that might be less than three months away.   So I want to be on record.  I could care less about this avodah zarah for myself, but I am going to be like a Nazir on this issue.   On this blog we will stand for the Truth, and we spit in the face of this avodah zarah so much so that I will intentionally take positions that would cause 90% of humanity to hate my guts as long as I stay with what is true.  I really could care less anymore.  I have witnessed way too much evil in my life to give a freaking d-mn whether those people who worship that avodah zarah like me or not.  If you want to follow this avodah zarah with the Face of a Dog, perhaps this blog is not for you.   If you want to take the position of a Nazir that sometimes in the face of a raw evil where more than half of the Jewish people worldwide worship this avodah zarah,, we must choose the opposite position to the evil that we are up against.  If this describes you, please consider yourself welcome to post comments on this blog.  For instance, 89% of American Jews think that homosexual marriage certificates are fine and dandy.  I don't have words to describe how low the American Jew has sunk, and this disease of Popularity is far worse in America than it is here.  Believe me.  I know.   And it is pretty bad here too even with the Auschwitz like threats to our very existence.  It is time to take a stand.  Come join me in my pledge to be a Nazir on this very issue.  When Eliyahu shows up in the Spring, he is not going to sugarcoat his message either, for we all know his personality before the L-rd took him up in a Chariot of Fire 2800 years ago from the same Jordan Valley that he will be returning to.  He did not spend much time worrying about his own personal popularity then either.

In the meantime, I am looking for some information on the 3 irredeemable klipot and what three universes they emanate from in order to write a complete post on the passing of Ariel Sharon as the foundation for what will transpire over the next four months.  He represented the death of Klipah Noga in Klal Yisrael.  He died on the day that Noga (Venus) went dark for the first time since the Venus Transit in June of 2012.  Noga was in inferior conjunction on the date that Sharon died, the tenth of Shevat 5774.  This prepared for the attachment of the Vav in HaShem's Name to the Heavenly Throne probably starting in the two Adars.  Yet, in order to write a complete post, I need source information about the origin of the three irredeemable klipot that we are up against.  Thank you.  Shabbat Shalom.

The Rambam on x (times) 4 and x 5.

Every year at the Pesach Seder we read the following:

Rav Yosei the Galilean says, "How can you come to say that the Mitzrim were struck by ten plagues in Mitzra'im and 50 at the Sea?"  Of the plagues in Mitzra'im it says that black magicians said to Pharoah (regarding the plague of lice), it is the finger of G-d (Exodus 8:15).  Of those by the Sea what does the Torah say?  It says, "When Yisrael saw the Great Hand that HaShem placed up Mitzra'im (at the Sea),  the people feared HaShem and believed in HaShem and in His servant Moshe." (Exodus 14:31).  How many plagues were done with the Finger of G-d?  Ten.  Then it follows that if there were ten plagues in Mitzra'im, there were 50 plagues at the Sea.

The above corresponds to the first redemption from Mitzraim being a manifestation of the Yud and the first Hey in HaShem's Name.  The Yud is the ten plagues in Mitzra'im, and the Hey was the five times multiplier at the Yam Suf (the Sea of Reeds).  As discussed at length on this blog, the Final Redemption will be with the Yud Key Vav and then with the Final Hey when the Mt. of Olives is split in two instead of the Sea of Reeds.  Continued....

Rav Eliezer says, "From where do we know that each plague that HaKodesh Baruch Hu brought upon the Mitzrim in Mitzraim consisted of four plagues?"  As it says, "He sent upon them His burning anger, (1. Wrath), (2. and Indignation), (3. and Trouble), (4. a dispatching of messengers of evil.)"  (Psalm 78:49)   One can say from this that in Mitzra'im they were struck with 40 plagues, and at the Sea with 200 plagues.

Rav Akiva says, "From where do we know that each plague that HaKodesh Baruch Hu brought upon the Mitzrim in Mitzraim consisted of five plagues (not four)?"  As it says, "He sent upon them (1. His burning anger), (2. Wrath), (3. and Indignation), (4. and Trouble), (5. a dispatching of messengers of evil.)" (Psalm 78:49)  One can say from this that in Mitzra'im they were struck with 50 plagues, and at the Sea with 250 plagues.

One can ask until the cows come home how can one look at the exact same verse in Tehillim and get two different answers?  Why in one analysis is His burning anger one of the plagues, but in the other analysis is His burning anger not a plague?   The most common answer is that His burning anger is a composite description of the four manifestations of His anger.  Ok, but is there a deeper explanation?  That deeper explanation is provided by the author of the Mishneh Torah, the Rambam, who happened to call his great work, Yad HaChazakah (The Mighty Hand) in reference to this same Hand of G-d on which we are anthropomorphically counting all five fingers.  This is what he says is the deeper meaning behind the dispute between Rav Eliezer and Rav Akiva:

The deeper meaning of the dispute originates in the very significance of the numbers 4 and 5.  The four stands for Yud Key Vav Key the Tetragrammaton, and the five stands for Elokim (Aleph, Lamed, Hey, Yud, Mem).  Yud Key Vav Key refers to HaShem exercising his quality of Mercy, and Elokim refers to Him exercising His quality of Judgement.  The gematriah of Yud Key Vav Key is of course 26 while the gematriah of Elokim is 86.  And of course Yud Key Vav Key is composed of four letters while Elokim is composed of five letters.  The plagues had the dual aspect of punishing the Egyptians and liberating Klal Yisrael (judgement on our oppressor and mercy on HaShem's first born).  Rav Eliezer considered these plagues primarily as mercy on Klal Yisrael while Rav Akiva considered these plagues primarily as judgement on the Egyptians (the Mitzrim).

As difficult as these releases of murderers have been, let us take comfort in the fact that there are only FOUR such releases of 26 murderers each as we approach this coming Purim and Pesach.

I am delaying posting about the Valley of Yehoshafat and other matters to see if these pieces talks will be delayed until after the US Congressional midterm elections next November so that Democrats in key northeast districts don't get pounced upon by their Jewish constituents.  Netanyahu, the great procrastinator, basically told the Ba'al Kerry that he would like a stay of execution until after those elections to avoid doing horrible things to his own people for almost another year.  For a very long time now I have wondered whether the Axis of Evil in the Obamanation Administration would bring the hammer down in their minds on Israel before or after those pesky midterm elections.  If Obamanation considers his dictatorship as being solidified, he won't wait on imposing the crowning glory of his wicked rule: the division of the Land of Israel.  We will know next week, when the Ba'al Kerry announces his plan of imposition of division of the Land of Israel, whether or not he wants Pieces Now or Pieces after the Nov. Midterm elections.  So while the "9 months" of Geulah b'Rachamim apparently began with 4 x 26 murderers being released starting last Av and ending during Pesach, the "9 months" of Geulah b'Din, which ends next Sukkot, begins next week just before Tu B'Shevat.  Maybe by then we will take note of something taking place 5 times 86?  It will be curious to see.

May this post bring about an Aliyah to my father's neshamah, Aryeh Leib ben Shmu'el who passed on to the next world on the 6th of Shevat 5734.

At the End of History

I am still doing research on my post about the Valley of Yehoshafat.  So in the meantime, I believe it is now appropriate to share an email that I shared with a few choice friends a few weeks back in mid-October about what almost assuredly will take place over the next two years.  I won't come out on this blog and say that there is a 100% odds that these things will occur.  So at the end of this post, I will simply quote Daniel in his last chapter about a promise that Gavriel, the Man of G-d dressed in linen told Daniel about what would happen at the end of the last Sabbatical cycle at the End of Days.  Here is the email:

1. The entire world economy will undergo the greatest economic collapse in history by the end of the year 5775 (before Rosh HaShana in September of 2015), less than two years from now.  At that time all debts will be completely erased except our debts to Heaven.  Again this can happen at any time up until September of 2015 but no later than Rosh HaShana during that month.

2. The nations of the world will TRY to force an agreement on the establishment of Palestine and the division of Jerusalem no later than Passover of 5775 which is in April of 2015.  That is, between now (mid-October 5774) and Passover of 5775, the entire world will attempt to send troops against Jerusalem in order to divide it.  The most likely time period for the sending of troops is from Rosh Chodesh Shevat of 5774 (January 1st, 2014) until Passover in 2015.

I am posting this now in order to create the signpost that we have reached the End of pre-Messianic history.  For the last several years starting in 5766, a possibility existed that a Mashiach ben Yoef (Ephraim) figure could arise in Israel that the population would follow and approve of by acclimation.  Because the Am simply is not ready for the prospect of taking on the entire Western World, we have simply limped into the time in history with leadership that has no compunction with brown-nosing the nations of the world in order to 1.be loved or 2. survive the coming onslaught without telling Mankind to "take a hike" with their advice.  It got so bad last year that our listed PM decided that it was fine to release blood-thirsty murderers from jail for nothing except to distract the nations of the world from sending troops last summer and this Fall.  (He basically delayed the inevitable for nine measly months.  9 months...Hmm.)  Today there are basically two powers in the world today: Yishmael and Amalek.  The rest of Edom has basically died the death of old age.  This will be discussed more in the post about the Valley of Yehoshafat.

Daniel 12:5-7-  Then I, Daniel, looked and behold!  Two others are standing, one on this side of the (Nile?) riverbank and one on (the other) side of the riverbank.  One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the River, "How long until the concealed End?"  I heard the man clothed in linen who above was the waters of the (Nile) River, as he lifted his right hand and his left hand to the Heavens and swore by the Life Source of the Universe that after a period, periods, and a half upon the completion of the fragmenting of the hand of the holy people, all these (things) would be completed.

Good night for now.  I apologize for the double Shmittah cycle since the aerial bombing of Afghanistan began on Hoshana Rabbah 5762, but the Geulah is coming now because we have reached the lowest common denominator and because of our interminable suffering for the last 2000 years.  All purer aspects of Edom don't exist anymore except for Amalek   So the Redemption has to come in order to erase the Desecration of G-d's Name that exists in the world at this time.  Good night..  

An Analysis of Cyclone HaiYan: The Hey in Hashem's Name

Haiyan apparently is the strongest cyclone to make landfall at the peak of its strength in recorded world history.  It first hit the Philippines on Thursday night/Friday morning, November 7th and 8th (5th of Kislev 5774) with 195 mph sustained winds.  The 2nd most powerful storm to make landfall was Hurricane Camille with sustained winds of 190 mph hit directly the Mississippi Gulf coastline in 1969.  The powerful leading edge of that storm extended all the way to Panama City, Florida since all cyclones in the northern hemisphere turn counterclockwise.  In the Southern Hemisphere they spin clockwise.  Yet, Camille's storm surge was so powerful that it wrecked utter devastation from where the eye hit in Mississippi all the way past Mobile Bay down the Florida panhandle past Panama City.  Back in 1978 I went to visit someone in Destin, Florida, and the devastation from nine years earlier was still all over the place.  We drove to Pensacola, and the closer we got to Pensacola, the more ghastly the devastation.  In short, Katrina in 2005 may have done more damage because its eye hit New Orleans, but Camille was far more powerful a storm.  Now a cyclone even more powerful than Camille has hit the Philippines, and the loss of life is devastating.  Estimates now are that approximately 10,000 people are dead, and up to 800,000 people are still missing (which simply means that the death toll will likely go even higher).  People are walking around in a daze after losing everything.  It is the damage that would have happened if Camille had hit downtown New Orleans in 1969, as a weaker Hurr. Katrina did after the Evacuation from Gush Katif in 2005.  This blog will not attempt to place fault for the immense tragedy that has just unfolded.  It is an act of G-d, and we will leave it at that.  The good people of the Philippines did NOT deserve the likes of this anymore than far more deserving nations (of a natural disaster of this magnitude) to have hit them.  Yet, this is a horrific Act of G-d at the End of Days, and it needs a certain analysis as to what is going on.  In the meantime, whatever help and assistance can be delivered to this Central Philippines disaster of Biblical proportions should obviously be given and offered.

As a prelude to saying anything else, I wish for readers to read the previous Mystical Paths post that was made months ago when the first set of 26 bloodthirsty murderous prisoner releases was offered up here.  Akiva of MPaths named the post originally.  So that name sticks.  Yet, for the purpose of review perhaps it should be renamed "The Four Cups of Wrath" or "The Grapes of Wrath"....  Well that name is already in use.  So let us stick with "The Four Cups of Wrath".   The Grapes of Wrath might be appropriate too because of allusion to those events in Yishayahu 63 and in Yoel 4: 12-13 which are so so close in the near future.  Keep in mind that the first cup of wrath was directed against Egypt since the Yud in HaShem's Name was manifest in Egypt in ancient times through the Ten Plagues.  Even though each prisoner release includes 26 prisoners, a reference to the entire Name of Yud Key Vav Key, each cup of wrath is related to one of those letters.  So less than two weeks ago we had 26 bloodthirsty savages release number 2 which would indicate that a Cup of Wrath with the Hey and the previous Yud in HaShem's Name would be manifest soon thereafter.  Last Thursday night/ Friday morning, about one week after the 2nd prisoner release it occurred.  Hurricane HaiYan made landfall. For modern spelling in Hebrew of all foreign words we defer to Sheldon Adelson's Yisrael HaYom newspaper because of his keen sense, from a semi-secular perspective, of right and wrong when it comes to right and wrong with regards to Israel and the rest of the world.  He sponsored Newt Gingrich's most recent presidential run during which for the first time ever the world learned that the "Palestinians" are an invented people.  No one in the Republican Primary campaign debated Gingrich on that fact.  The only challenge to that was from Mitt Romney arguing that it would not help Netanyahu in Pieces negotiations with the invented people if the Palestinians themselves were reminded of that Truth.  So in the Republican Primaries, Truth in deed as represented by Rick St. Iram and truth in word as represented by Newt Gingrich lost to Beauty and looking Presidential as represented by Mitt Romney, and Romney was doomed to failure.  But Sheldon and Newt by that simple statement of the Truth earned themselves a Piece of Peace in Olam HaBa.  So on issues of how to spell foreign words, this blog defers to Sheldon Adelson.  Looking at Yisrael HaYom today, I see that HaiYan should be spelled Hey Aleph Yud Aleph Nun sofit.  The Hey and the Yud are there for all to see.  So in this cyclone we see the manifestation of the first two letters in HaShem's Name with primacy given to the Hey in His Name.  In addition to this, remember during the Exodus from Egypt, the Yud was the Finger of G-d in Egypt, but the Hey was the five times multiplier effect at the Reeds Sea (The Yam Suf).  So while the Yud in this particular case has been manifest in Egypt right after the first 26 bloodthirsty savages release, the Hey and the preceding Yud has been manifest at the Sea in this most recent devastating cyclone.

For those who are wondering about when does Edom itself get whacked, the answer should be obvious.  Previously on multiple occasions this blog has pointed out that

1. Mashiach Ben Yosef is manifest by the  3rd cup of wine at the Pesach Seder, the Vav in HaShem's Name  and

2. Mashiach Ben Yosef will destroy Edom's supremacy in the world.

So look for big things to happen before and immediately after the 3rd scheduled prisoner release.  As the Vav is being attached to the Yud and the Hey in HaShem's Name, look for a swipe against wicked Edom in the world in close association with the 3rd release of 26 murderers scheduled for 2 months from now.  As the Vav is being added to His Name, look at the Yahoo (Yud Hey Vav) in the Prime Minister's Office to see if he continues to remain a changed man.

more later......

Welcome Back Avigdor

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was acquitted today of the latest round of trumped up criminal charges against him.  Our evil garbage collector parading as Attorney General @#$% Weinstein yemach shmo will surely follow up these charges with another slew of charges until he ends Avigdor's career.  Here is Avigdor davening at the Kotel thanking HaShem for his yeshu'ot and nechamot.    I can't bring myself to attach Weinstein's name yemach shmo to his holy first name which just by attaching himself to that name, he besmirches the holy character of that name.  But until the next slew of persecutions from the Left, Avigdor is back.  In many positive ways, his relationship with Bibi is kenegdo.  Bibi speaks with forked tongue for good and for ill.  He is hated by Obama and Sarkozy.  But his word is mud with the straight arrows on the Right too.  His word simply can't be trusted as a signal for what he truly believes.  Avigdor speaks what he believes, and he does not check the weather vein to see if the world will approve of what he has to say.  He is the most breathtakingly honest Diplomat in modern Jewish history.  How a man who means what he says and says what he means can have such a positive working relationship with Bibi defies explanation.  But Bibi held the Foreign Ministry position for Avigdor for a reason.  Perhaps now we will find out why at this critical time when someone like Avigdor could potentially be breathtakingly honest to stick it to a dying world.

Sneak Preview: We Are All Tzo'ar: The 52nd year of Accountability for Our Sins

Bibi is Melekh Bela (King of Bela), the only one of the five cities of the plain whose king is NOT named in the four kings against the five kings in Parshat Lech Lecha. It screams out for an explanation. Bela also happened to be the same name as the son of Binyamin ben Ya'akov, and Bela, the city, was renamed Tzo'ar. It was not destroyed when S'dom was destroyed because it only had 51 years of accountability for its sins (See Rashi).  So it was one year younger (tza'ir) than the other four cities of the plain. So think that Bibi (Binyamin) is not only Melekh Bela but Av Bela. The other cities had a full 52 years of accountability for its sins. Bibi is now 64 years old. The first 13 years of his life he was NOT accountable for his sins. So this entire year until the 28th of Tishrei 5775, he is like Bela with only 51 years of accountability for its sins. As with the 4 kings against the 5 kings, Tidal Melekh Goyim (Obama) and Chedarla'omer Melekh Eilam (Iran or Persia) will likely be attacking us in the 14th year since we became enslaved by the world during the Al Aksa Intifada...if they indeed come this Pesach.  See here.   

But while their attack may destroy most of the rest of the world (that is those who attack us), we will survive...like Tzo'ar did. This is the last thing that Moshe Rabbeinu saw at the end of his life after he saw the evacuation from Kiryat Dekalya (Newe' Dekalim) aka the City of Date Palms and then he saw Tzo'ar (Deut. 34:3 along with the Targum Yonatan ben Uziel). Bibi was born at the close of the War of Independence. During that war we accrued NO sins as opposed to what the entire world thinks. We only started sinning against each other from the year that the war was over starting in 5710 (Fall of 1949), just like Bibi himself who was born near the end of Tishrei 5710 and as pointed out above is now 64 years old. Cutting off the peyot of Teimani Jews descending from their aircraft qualifies as disgusting behavior for instance. For the first 13 years we were not accountable through 5722 (Fall of 1962). We were then accountable for the next 51 years like Tzoar. Only in this year before we are accountable for a full 52 years are we comparable to Tzo'ar through Sukkot of 5775. This argues strongly for an attempt to divide Yerushalayim this year.

We are all Tzo'ar. The post, bli neder, will be written soon.

The Passing of Another Tzaddik

With a heavy heart I have to inform everyone of the passing of HaRav Dr. Marvin (Moshe Shlomo) Antelman, zt"l from heart diseease.  He was best known for his "To Eliminate the Opiate" series of books.  He was also on the Who's Who list of American Chemists and blazed trails in the field of Chemistry.  He was one of those assigned by Vendyl Jones to use mass spectrometry to devise the component parts of the Temple incense that Dr. Jones found in Qumran.  It is worth noting that Rav Ovadia Yosef zt"l had another team of Chemists verify Dr. Antelman's results.  Validate and independently verify is a well known scientific technique.  And for sure they found most of the component parts to the ketoret even after 2000 years of degradation of the original mixture.  Dr. Antelman lived here in Kochav Yakov for the last several years of his life.

His funeral is in Beit Shemesh or near it in the Eretz Chaim Cemetery at 5:30 pm today the 13th of October 2013 (9th of MarCheshvan).  The cemetery is just south of the Eshta'ol junction on Hwy 38 on the way to Beit Shemesh before reaching the Har Tuv Industrial Park.

The Prime Minister Becomes a Man

It is a day of great simcha amongst the nation of Am Yisrael.  Our PM Binyamin Netanyahu, the gilgul or bechinah of Shaul HaMelekh just became a man tonight.  G-d help us that it will last and that he won't wimp out when the entire world comes against us.  He will need much emunah and bitachon that HaShem will redeem us from the wicked world.  Over 13 years after the beginning of the Al Aksa Intifada, the Prime Minister of Israel just declared our independence from the rest of the world and their freaking opinion.  Here is the latest Bar Ilan speech in the form of a story on Arutz 7:  PM becomes a Man and not simply the face of a dog.  Mark this day on your calendar as a day of remembrance:  3rd of MarCheshvan 5774.  It is a day of our independence from the false and evil beliefs of this world of lies.  It is a day where our elected leader decided that it no longer mattered what the opinion of Mankind was or even what the opinion of the American President is.  Holy, holy, holy is the L-rd of Hosts, the entire world is filled with his Glory.  What a great day for Klal Yisrael.  And for yours truly after ten years of living under the oppression of leadership that was in constant fear of world public opinion and other related decrepit gods, I can go to bed with a big smile on my face for crossing a Rubicon or better yet a Gichon Spring of sorts.  May we never look back to these lowly days of worshiping this ugly avodah zarah.  Dear L-rd, I pray that I have not spoken too soon.  Amein.

Sukkath David HaNofaleth? (The Fallen Sukkah of King David?)

No time to write a major post, just a brief statement.

IF this man is correct about his timing, DURING Sukkot 5775, this coming Shmittah year, the Mt. of Olives will split in two (half going to the north and half going to the south and the former Intercontinental Hotel falling right through the crack in the middle!):

Moshe Feiglin :  Please check this man's yichus to be making such a claim!!  If he is correct, his ascendancy will likely take a year longer than he thinks it will.  From Sukkot 5775 until Yom Kippur 5776, there will be a year long recompense for the cause of Tzion against the unrighteous nations of the world for the horror show that they are trying to re-create here in Eretz Yisrael as if their historic horror show against the Jewish people were not enough.

Chag Sameach.  Happy Shmini Atzereth, The 8th Day of Cessation 5774.

Sorry for the Overflow: Added 1.2 meters to My Sukkah

I am building the walls to an additional 7 day temporary house this year.  My wife wanted an extra long sukkah.  Yes, G-d willing it will be covered with S'chach, but it has been a real adventure.  We brought our walls from the US on our lift over 10 years ago.  Now I am using all the amazing wood even from a crate that was part of our lift.

This is the overflow for now.  Serious posting will have to wait until Chol HaMo'ed.  I am aware of the "terrorist" attack in the United States at the Wash. D.C. Naval Yard.  12 are dead.  I never mention the perpetrators amongst the dead.  If there is a 2nd gunman still at large, then this was a well-planned coordinated operation which makes it a terror attack.  For what purpose, who knows at this time.

A Shot Across the Bow

This is a short post, but is needed to continue the subject matter of the previous post.  This week's parsha means "We are standing here today."  Every time this parsha comes up every year, we know within one week we will be passing before HaShem to be judged for the coming year like sheep passing underneath a shepherd's staff.  It is that time of year again.  This Shabbat begins Creation Week with the First Day of Creation on the 25th of Elul.  It is also Syrian War week, no matter what a "Shot Across the Bow" might really mean.  You decide for yourself.  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50153906n .

From me to you.  LeShana Tovah ve Metukah.  Watch out for rapid change after this retaliation for chemical weapons use begins if Russia, China, or Iran interprets this "shot across the bow" in a way that brings back a sharp response for the disparate reasons for why they support Assad.  I am sorry, for the shortness of this post.  busy preparing for Rosh HaShanah and Armageddon at the same time.

266 Days and Counting

Well let us just review.  Back on the 15th of Kislev 5773 (29th of November 2012), the UN Gen. Assembly voted to establish Palestine as a nation with observer status at the United Nations.  The vote was 138 to 9, and it called for Palestine to have its capital in what the UN calls Occupied East Jerusalem or Al Quds depending upon whether you are a Xtian, pagan, Communist, or Muslim.  It was noted by Jewish End of Days at the time that the Talmud Yerushalami when discussing the names for Mashiach asks what do the names Tzemach and Menachem have in common?  They both have the gematriah of 138.  Also a quorum of ten nations did not vote against the division of Jerusalem/ Al Quds.  So there were not ten righteous nations to be found in all the earth.  So the official nine months began.

So what were the causes for delay in the nine months?  Why did it not begin on Tisha B'Av 5772 60 days after the Flame virus had been spotted in the cyber-rakia?  So many bloggers and Geulah websites were focused on Tisha B'Av 5772, not just this one.  And what happened is that the Syrian Civil War blew up almost four-fold with over 5000 people being killed every month since Tisha B'Av 5772.  Yet, the nations of the world stood by and watched.  The answer is two fold for the delay.

1. After Hurricane Sandy, Jews in America needed a full summer to make Aliyah.  The best time to make Aliyah for families with children is during the summer.  It is very difficult to pull up stakes during the middle of a school year.  So HaShem had mercy on American Jews by giving them a full summer to make Aliyah after Sandy and the re-election of Obama which came in large part as a direct result of the hurricane and how presidential he looked.  The once in a 300 year storm should have been the boot to kick Jews who are awake out of the coming h-ll hole.  The pyramids of sand from Sandy's cleanup in Far Rockaway were a nice Divine touch.  Yet, when America sealed its fate by re-electing the Man of Chaos, there should have been no question in any sane person's mind that America would soon die.  Chareidi schools in Israel have been in session since the 1st of Elul.  And the Govt. schools officially begin next Tuesday, the 21st of Elul.  At least that summer Aliyah moment time is now up.

2.  Because our collective merit for Geulah is the Shoah and the 6 x 300 year cycles of Churban that preceded it for a total of 7 cycles of Churban, we need to be at least 72 years (from Alot HaShachar to sunrise) after the beginning of the massacre of Jews during the Shoah along with having 6 million Jews in Israel including long term yeshivah students here on tourist Visas.  Prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union, Jews were either worked to death in hard labor camps or were crowded into various Polish and other East European ghettos.  The official date for the beginning of the Final Solution was the 2nd of Shevat 5702 with the Wannsee Conference, but the large scale massacres of Jews began in late June 1941 with the invasion of Belarus and basically the entire Soviet border.  It got so bad so quickly the the Massacre at Babi Yar was already on the 8th of Tishrei 5702 just before Yom Kippur.  So we are now in the zone to be redeemed in the merit of what would be the worst part of the Shoah since the worst injury of the galut was at Alot HaShachar.  And Ya'akov was healed from his hip wound at sunrise by the Face of G-d.

So let us quickly recap what has been discussed in the extensive comment section of this blog.  According to the Talmud in Niddah, there is a Torah from Sinai that the "official" length of pregnancy is 271 days where 266 days are exactly nine Hebrew months.  So 271 days are nine months and five days.  The Talmud tells us that one of the reasons for this is because HeRaYON (pregnancy) has the gematriah of 271.  Ok that is fair enough.  The 271st day happens to be the 21st of Elul.  Now there is a perturbation in the calendar this year.  Hillel HaSheini did not want Yom Kippur to fall out on Motzei Shabbat.  So he shortened the month of Kislev 5773 to 29 days when it most often has 30 days.  This moved up every day of the year following the 29th of Kislev by one day and placed all the moladim (births of the New Moons) on Rosh Chodesh itself before the moon could be seen that following evening. THIS NEVER HAPPENED IN ANCIENT TIMES!  In ancient times it was always assumed that Rosh Chodesh could not begin until at least 6 hours after the molad when the moon might be seen that following evening.  As a matter of fact the Talmud in Rosh HaShanah discusses an example when Yom Kippur was set to fall on Motzei Shabbat, and Beit Din decided to add a 30th day to Elul just so that vegetables would not spoil by sitting around for two days.  So the decision by Beit Din was to delay Rosh HaShana until Friday night pushing off Yom Kippur until Sunday night even though the moon could be seen on Thursday night prior to Rosh HaShana.  So Beit Din often used its power to extend a month by one day from 29 to 30 days, but it never used its power to shorten a month by a day so that the molad would actually fall on the first day of the next month.  Yet, we follow the calendar of Hillel HaSheini, and I am not going to start telling people to commemorate festivals one day later.   Yet, is should be pointed out that the 271st day should be the 20th of Elul because the 21st of Elul this year should be the 20th of Elul as it would be in almost every other year.

This is only important because of the following statement in Medrash Sefer Eliyahu in the sidebar to this blog:

 On the twentieth (day) of Ellul, the Messiah will come: his name is Yinnōn.  On that same day Gabriel will descend (and) from the ninth to the tenth hour will destroy from the world ninety-two thousand people.

Because of the exactness of this prophesy in a medrash which is already incredibly accurate such as predicting Operations Moses and Joshua, the first rescue of Ethiopian Jewry to the very day and predicting the last Prime Minister's name from the Erev Rav at the End of Days (TRMLO).  Now no year is given for the above statement.  So we are simply declaring a WATCH for two days next week, the 20th and the 21st of Elul, next Monday and Tuesday.  If it happens, we will surely know about it.  But please don't say that I am predicting anything.  It is just a WATCH notice....with our kids in Israel safely back in school or at school in Israel for the first time.  Welcome to all of you who correctly interpreted the message of Hurricane Sandy and Obama's subsequent re-election.

UPDATE:  I just linked to the Jewish End of Days post which speaks about the UN vote mentioned above.

Temporary Overflow Post on the Previous Post about the Nine Months

I need to open up a new post on the previous post because of the 200 comment limit.  Please comment on this post in order to comment on the previous post.  Bli neder, by Monday afternoon I will have time to write a new post.  I want to comment on Daniel Greenfield's (Sultan Knish's) excellent article about the Judenrat ghetto government that Shaul HaMelekh has agreed to here in order to kick the can down the road by avoiding really tough decisions about survival and thriving in a Geulah environment.  He is just not up to the task, especially if there is no broken reed amongst the world powers to lean on.  As mentioned in the comments section of the previous post,  I will write a new post....before the release of 26 murderers (blood-thirsty savages) by the State of Israel's Judenrat in order to keep Obama and his bloodthirsty henchman, Lurch, the Ba'al Kerry happy.  There are 3 other releases of 26 murderers planned at regular intervals over the next nine months.

Sorry Shaul, there is no one amongst the five permanent members of the UN Security Council who cares whether we live, die, or thrive.  It never was their business anyway.  The Cold War kept us in good stead with the West until 1990 (5750).  We have had 23 years to learn to stand on our own with G-d's help, but as usual we will need a crash course in true independence.  Also 30 standing ovations before a joint session of the US Congress won't help you either because with the advice of Alexander Hamilton, the US Congress has very little to say about the day to day running of US foreign policy anyway according to the US Constitution.  They can declare war if the President thinks it is necessary to seek Congressional approval for an action without going first to the UNSC, but this President especially prefers the UNSC over the US Congress.  If the State Dept. or the President signs a treaty which rarely happens anymore anyway, 2/3rds of the Senate needs to approve it.  And the Congress can vote to defund something.  The power of the purse is really the only foreign policy power that the US Congress has left.  So having good friends in Congress will not help Israel in any substantial way anyway.  And there is no time left to kick the can.  Obama knows that in order to stay on as President for his 3rd, 4th, and 5th terms, he has to declare martial law before 2016.  So in 2015 he will be busy "handling" the results of destroying his own domestic economy.  So his goal for the end of 2014 is to divide Jerusalem and to make Yesha Judenrein as the world disintegrates all around us.  There is no time left to kick the can.  It is Gog UMagog now or bust.  The last thing that we need right now is a can-kicker.  And speaking like Winston Churchill is great, but it is meaningless if you are going to behave like Chamberlain.

Everyone Seems to Have a Nine Month Program!! (G-d's or Bibi's?)

I could not help but read this week's parsha from Shabbat, and then took a look at the three trees out the porch glass door.  We have three of the five tree fruit species mentioned in the parsha.  We have a fig tree with about 500 figs about to become ripe, and the species of fig tree that we have does not get worms as long as the figs do not crack open.  We have a pomegranate tree with about 50 pomegranates on it which will ripen about two weeks before Rosh HaShana this year.  We also have an olive tree which will ripen sometime during Cheshvan, late Cheshvan this coming year 5774.  All the trees have the Din of the 5th year of the Shmittah cycle.  The are obligated in Terumah Gedolah and Terumat Ma'aser (a full 1% or 10% of 10%) to a Kohen.  They are of course obligated in a full ma'aser (10%) to a Levi, and Ma'aser Sheini (10%) of what is left to be eaten in Jerusalem if there were a Temple there.  Next year, the 6th year, is a Ma'aser Ani year (10% to the poor).  Then comes Shmittah when the trees belongs to everyone in our neighborhood.  Actually it belongs to G-d in the 7th year, but everyone in the neighborhood comes to eat from it.  The odd thing about the olive tree in 5775 is that the fruit in Cheshvan 5775 will still be Ma'aser Ani fruit since the olives will basically be full size by Rosh HaShana of the Shmittah year.  So for the olive tree, the crop of Cheshvan 5776 will be Shmittah fruit.  I have lived here for ten years now.  So I am growing accustomed to the routine around here.  And our well used nusach for tithing and terumah (raising) to the Kohen have become a regular staple around here.  Baruch HaShem.

Now I look at the news and I see that there seems to be a battle setting up this week starting tomorrow.  Bibi in his long exhaustive letter to the general public about why it is ok to release over 100 blood thirsty savages from our jails seems to think that the nine months begins either tomorrow or when negotiations begin this coming Tuesday with the invented people. Bibi's Nine Month Program  Take a look for yourself.  Besides all the lame excuses, he is pointed to tell us that negotiations will last nine months.  How quaint.

Danny Danon seems to bitterly disagree.  He thinks that the nine months should end by within the next month when the world gets really angry at us for not committing suicide.  Here is Danny Danon's opinion.
Hopefully, we pray, G-d's Nine Month Program

Danny is now the CEO of the Likud Party, and Michael Kleiner is now the Chief Internal Judge.  My sense is that all Hell, literally, will break loose this week no matter how this vote goes.  Bibi is no Sharon.  Maybe 10 MKs at most will remain with him in Likud/ Beiteinu if he heads down the road of folly, and the entire Likud internal apparatus is arrayed against him too.  He does not have an Omri Sharon controlling the Likud Party operations like his predecessor.  May the brave man win.  That would be Danny, not Mr. Linguine Spine.  He, King Shaul, has one out.  Make releasing Yehonatan Pollard a pre-condition to releasing murderers from Israeli jails.

I should point out for those who have not been keeping track on this blog.  According to the Gemorrah Niddah 38, the length of pregnancy is 271 days because the gematriah of HaRaYON equals 271.  The UN vote for Palestine 138-9 passed on the 15th of Kislev (November 29, 2012).  The 271 days are up either on the 20th or 21st of Elul, an auspicious date that is mentioned in Medrash Sefer Eliyahu in the sidebar of this blog for Mashiach to come.  And his name will be Yinon.

Islamicists Fight Back: Episode 5 Part 2

Please continue comments here from previous post.  Blogger only allows for 200 comments to be posted on the Post page.  Yet, press Post a Comment on the Post page after all the comments, and one can view all the comments on the Comments page for that particular post.  I will try to resolve this problem next week.  Today was our 15th wedding anniversary.  So there is no time today to resolve blog problems.  In the meantime just post your comment here if you want.   Thank you.  Shabbat Shalom.

Episode 5: The Islamicists Fight Back

Well you all thought that the chaos was over yesterday, didn't you?  The coup d'etat took place on July 3rd. A Western jerk named El Baradai who once said that the Iranians had no intentions of making nuclear weapons was named interim leader of the "democratic and moderate" forces who of course, they say, are in the majority in Egypt.  Suddenly the 65% who a year and a half ago voted for an Islamicist parliament have showed up in Tahrir Square (we are talking millions) today, and they are mad as heck.  I doubt that this Egypt coup will be controlled by the Egyptian military no matter what the Powers at Be have in mind.  Happy Fourth of July...Egypt.  LIVE FEED

UPDATE:  For whatever reason, the live feed stopped before midnight while the protest was still going strong.  Here is an article to chew on until after Shabbat.  Shabbat Shalom.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/04/anger-gives-way-to-gloom-at-pro-morsi-rally/

It will be interesting to see how peaceful this rally after Friday prayers turns out to be:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/04/arrests-ordered-for-leaders-muslim-brotherhood-in-egypt/

Melachim Aleph (Kings I) 19:11
Klipah 1: And behold, HaShem was passing, and a great powerful wind, smassing moutnaisn and breaking rocks, went before Hashem.  "HaShem is not in the wind!"  (Eliyahu was told).

Klipah 2: After the wind came an earthquake!  "HaShem is not in the earthquake."

Klipah 3: After the earthquake came a fire!  "HaShem is not in the fire."

After the fire came a still, thin (barely audible) sound.  (HaShem's light was in the barely audible sound.  Some say this is klipah Noga and can be uplifted to Qedushah.  So it does not matter how much noise Islam can produce in the world at this present time.  It is all leading to destruction.  

The Day the Music Died: Bye Bye Miss American Pie

According to the Talmud in Chulin 92, there are three mitzvot that the nations of the world accepted on themselves basically in order not to really anger G-d to the point where they will lose the merit of previous generations.  They vowed to never grant marriage contracts to homosexuals, to never weigh out and sell human flesh in the marketplace, and to show respect for the Torah.  America just lost that merit of previous generations today.  It stands before HaQodesh Baruch Hu as a corpse.  The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defined marriage as between one man and one wife was overturned in a 5 to 4 decision.  And the really really sad part is that 3 of the 5 Justices on the High Ct. in the US that voted to overturn that law of the US Congress (as being unconstitutional) are...Jews.  Sorry, America, I am ashamed of these folks today.  To Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elana Kagan, I have to ask why?  Why would you consider making your host country a corpse?  Do you really think that the Creator of the Universe is not taking notice?  Are you that cavalier to endanger the lives of American Jews when the country has its Divine bracha completely removed and when Americans start looking around for a scapegoat?  Do you think that righteous G-d fearing gentiles are not in tears over watching the Jewish community in the United States destroy what was their blessed country from within??  Do you think for one minute that they will ignore that 3 out of the 5 Justices that signed America's death warrant are people with Jewish mothers?  Oy mah haya lanu!!

This short post will be updated later, bli neder.

One actual verse and the chorus from Don McClean's Bye Bye Miss American Pie:

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in hell
Could break that satan's spell.
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite,
I saw satan laughing with delight
The day the music died

He was singing,
"bye-bye, miss american pie."
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."

Dear G-d America, what have you done to yourself?

Zot Chukat HaTorah: This is a Decree of the Torah, And Now It Begins

In 1242 in the streets of Paris, France on the Friday before Parshat Chukat, 24 cartloads of Talmuds were burnt in a wild conflagration of flames decreed by one of the 365 Principle Saints of the Roman Catholic Church.  His name was Louis IXth, King of France also known as St. Louis.  Forty days earlier on the exact same spot at the urging of the Jews of France, copies of the RaMBaM's works Sefer HaMada (The Book of Science) and Guide for the Perplexed (Moreh Nevuchim) were burnt.  Apparently the Jews of 13th Century France had a serious problem with the confluence between Torah and Science and Aristotelian logic being used to prove the existence of G-d.  The Rambam (Moshe Maimonides) was known in both spheres to the consternation of many.  So they had the Catholic Church burn his books.  Forty days later on Erev Shabbat Parshat Chukat, all the Talmuds in France with rare hand-written Tosefot in the margins were burned on the exact same spot.  So for burning the books of the Rambam, the greatest logical sage and codifier of Jewish Law since Moshe Rabbeinu, G-d looked down from Heaven and said Zot Chukat haTorah, and the Jewish community of France was destroyed for hundreds of years without one drop of blood being spilled.  You see, it was only the Talmud that was burned that day.  Read Kinah 41 from your Tisha B'Av Machzor.  I did it several times sitting in the shadow of the St. Louis Art Museum at the same spot that Scott Joplin played the "The Cascades" on the promenade for the 1904 Worlds Fair.  (Some say that he only performed on The Pike at the Worlds Fair because he was a black man.  I will have to check with the MO Historical Society.  But the song "The Cascades" was about the waterfall that flowed from where the statue of St. Louis sits today.)  Right next to the 110 year old promenade, there is a statue to the Talmud burner himself, sitting on a horse sitting in front of the Art Museum....A fitting climax to a dying city.  Before the city (St. Louis) built that statue of the Talmud burner whose name it bears, it knew no pitfalls.  From the moment that that statue graced the the 1904 World's fairgrounds of Forest Park, it was downhill from there.  Such is the fate of those who curse G-d's chosen and burn His precious library of books.  It is kind of funny how the Catholic University in town, St. Louis University, has a Talmudic Law section in their School of Law.  jokes on us I guess, or Louis the IXth is turning over in his grave.

So on this very day, it seems to have begun.  The United States has now decided that Assad has used poison sarin nerve gas weeks after it was already proven.  But the Obama Administration wracked with scandals needs a foreign war to distract our attention.  Is it a wag the dog scenario in the generation whose face is a dog??  Considering that Obama is being cajoled by Billy "bark bark" Clinton, perhaps this is the case.  (I believe that "zu billen" is to bark in Yiddish.  Please confirm that one.)  So here it is:

Zot Chukat HaTorah

So it will start with a no fly zone over Southern Syria 25 miles deep.  How will the Russians respond?  How will Persia and Hezbollah respond?  Again we shall see.

The Hindenburg Just Blew a Gasket

This morning after davening, I casually looked at the various market data for a few minutes.  And my eyes almost popped out of its sockets.  The Nikkei 225 Average in Japan dropped a whopping 6.35% overnight.  This is an especially precipitous drop considering that a DOW Industrial Average drop of over 2.5% is considered carnage in the American market.  To be honest, I am not a stock market whiz.  To be a whiz in the market, one has to master the art of the bandwagon of idiots effect which causes the masses to follow their instincts into this lying market today.  In short one has to be brilliant in the area of how idiots think.  And there are many brilliant people like Warren Buffet who have mastered this area of social science.

But there is something called the Hindenburg Omen, and this time it is for real.  Here are two articles on this Omen Here and Here .  I realize that we have had false starts and apparent imminent collapses before, and then the Central Bankers would come in and put on a nice big bandaid which usually involved printing more money and therefore maximizing liquidity.  The maximized liquidity would therefore overwhelm the plummet in the Velocity of that money because for all intents and purposes the Western economies are either comatose or dead since the Financial Collapse of 5768 (2008).  So they have been playing games with our minds and our sanity for almost five years.  Yet, sometimes the dam breaks.  And I am wondering aloud, is a massive 6.35% drop in the Nikkei in just one day a sign that the dam has broken?  We shall see.

Today is the Fifth of Tamuz, the day that Ezekiel saw the Chariot of G-d by the Rivers of Babylon.  Also the Walls of Yerushalayim were breached for the first time on the Ninth of Tamuz in the year 3338 at the time of the Babylonian destruction of the First Temple.