A Pence for My Thoughts: A Hint About the Face of G-d at the End of Days.

So Michael Pence has in his name Peni'el, Pen from Pence and Keil from Micha'el, the mighty prince of Israel who informed Avraham and Sarah at this time, next year, you will have a son, a son who will be circumcised on the 8th day. So Ya'akov received the name Yisrael at Alot HaShachar after the all night wrestling match with SamKel (the angel of Edom). There are 72 minutes between Alot HaShachar and sunrise, 70 years of birthpangs + 2 years of Chezkat Mashiach while Mashiach proves himself. So how do we know that we are entering those final two years before sunrise? From the following in Bereishit 32:

כה וַיִּוָּתֵר יַעֲקֹב, לְבַדּוֹ; וַיֵּאָבֵק אִישׁ עִמּוֹ, עַד עֲלוֹת הַשָּׁחַר. 25 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day (Alot HaShachar).
כו וַיַּרְא, כִּי לֹא יָכֹל לוֹ, וַיִּגַּע, בְּכַף-יְרֵכוֹ; וַתֵּקַע כַּף-יֶרֶךְ יַעֲקֹב, בְּהֵאָבְקוֹ עִמּוֹ. 26 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained (The Holocaust, a very deep wound resulting from a Churban at the end of the dark night just before Alot HaShachar.   Me'am Loez said this sinew corresponds with the negative commandment against Rechilut.  There are 365 sinews in the human body, and there are 365 negative commandments including the mitzvah against Rechilut (talebearing).  In this case the talebearing was the talebearing of  bar Kamtza against Kamtza which destroyed the 2nd Temple.), as he wrestled with him.

כז וַיֹּאמֶר שַׁלְּחֵנִי, כִּי עָלָה הַשָּׁחַר; וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא אֲשַׁלֵּחֲךָ, כִּי אִם-בֵּרַכְתָּנִי. 27 And he said: 'Let me go, for the dawn breaketh.' And he said: 'I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.'
כח וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו, מַה-שְּׁמֶךָ; וַיֹּאמֶר, יַעֲקֹב. 28 And he said unto him: 'What is thy name?' And he said: 'Jacob.'
כט וַיֹּאמֶר, לֹא יַעֲקֹב יֵאָמֵר עוֹד שִׁמְךָ--כִּי, אִם-יִשְׂרָאֵל: כִּי-שָׂרִיתָ עִם-אֱלֹהִים וְעִם-אֲנָשִׁים, וַתּוּכָל. 29 And he said: 'Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.'the founding of the State of Israel at Alot HaShachar in 5708
ל וַיִּשְׁאַל יַעֲקֹב, וַיֹּאמֶר הַגִּידָה-נָּא שְׁמֶךָ, וַיֹּאמֶר, לָמָּה זֶּה תִּשְׁאַל לִשְׁמִי; וַיְבָרֶךְ אֹתוֹ, שָׁם. 30 And Jacob asked him, and said: 'Tell me, I pray thee, thy name.' And he said: 'Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?' And he, (the angel of Edom) blessed him there.
לא וַיִּקְרָא יַעֲקֹב שֵׁם הַמָּקוֹם, פְּנִיאֵל: כִּי-רָאִיתִי אֱלֹהִים פָּנִים אֶל-פָּנִים, וַתִּנָּצֵל נַפְשִׁי. 31 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: 'for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.'
לב וַיִּזְרַח-לוֹ הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ, כַּאֲשֶׁר עָבַר אֶת-פְּנוּאֵל; וְהוּא צֹלֵעַ, עַל-יְרֵכוֹ. 32 And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penu'el, and he limped upon his thigh.(72 minutes after Alot HaShachar which is likely 72 years since 5708).

Now I can hear already the shouting and the screaming.  Michael Pence is a Trinitarian.  He is a Xtian who may or may not believe in the mangod as his god or as G-d's partner in addition to the Creator of the Universe as G-d Himself.  So I simply point out, that it is the angel of Edom who wrestled with Ya'akov, and it is THAT angel who blesses Ya'akov at Alot HaShachar BEFORE the Truth of G-d's Oneness has become obvious to Mankind.  That only takes place at Sunrise, 72 minutes later.  And wow, did Mike Pence deliver in his speech before the Knesset.  He issued brachot since Rosh Chodesh Shevat that cannot be taken back.  We have no idea if Donald Trump might "change his mind" about Eretz Yisrael because he thinks that he can put into motion the real estate deal of the century and with his chutzpah, might bring world peace.  I realize that Donald Trump according to observations of rational people, is emotionally "unreliable" and that he, like the kings of ancient Persia from whom his soul root seems to come, might change his mind on a whim of intense emotion.  On the other hand, he seems to be doing teshuvah, and the man who ran for President is now more grounded in a complementary set of moral principles than the man who was running for POTUS in 5776.  And by the way, in this sphere of making and implementing stable and consistent policies, Pence is very emotionally stable and emotionally reliable.  And for sure, there was never a question in the General election.  The Suha Arafat hugging Amaleqia whom he ran against in the General election would have been ten thousand times more evil than Trump could have ever hoped to be.  If she, the Hilly in Oholibama, the Hivite snake, had won, we would already hear the roar of international troops intent of making Judea and Samaria and half of Yerushalayim Judenrein in the Jordan Valley sent by UN Sec Council decree, G-d forbid.  So Baruch HaShem, HaShem has been kind, and now that the time to receive Edom's brachah has arrived, it has arrived in spades.  "And he has recognized us as the same people who received the Torah and settled the land for over 1300 years from 2488 until the destruction of the 2nd Temple in 3830 and the crushing of the bar Kochba Revolt 65 years later in 3895.  They, he and his boss, have recognized our eternal connection to the Holy City where G-d Himself has dwelt in our midst where He Himself has placed His Holy Name.  Even if the former Rav of the British Empire, Yonatan Sacks Shlit"a, wrote half of his speech, Mike Pence sought him out to help him reach a spiritual height in order to dispense a brachah from the mouth of an angel that no change of policy on a whim can possible remove.  

If you want to comment on why there is a S sounding ending at the end of V.P. Pence's last name, by all means let me know.  I have not yet figured that one out.  In light of all this, I would love to link to this beautiful song written and originally performed by Rav Shlomo Carlbach.  It is one of his 600 melodies that he wrote in his lifetime.  During his lifetime, it was not one of his most popular melodies, and it seems to have been given a revival as other artists have sung this song posthumously, including this version by Mordechai ben David.  It is now a mainstay at every Jewish wedding.  Perhaps its latent popularity is because we all know deep down that those 72 years are reaching completion.  I commented on the Youtube page about this video. 

Stormwinds of Yemen, the Final Blast of the Shofar

For a Refuah Sheleimah of Menachem ben Rifka of the Absolute Truth 613 Blog.

I published this two years ago, and the missile that the Houthi rebels shot over the Riyadh civilian airport that the Saudis had to shoot down was shot on the Fourth of November 2017, exactly two years after this post.  Now this is the second time in the last two months where I have reposted a post that I wrote two years ago.  There is a message in that.  Perhaps, without predicting, the events of 5775 and 5776, the Shmittah and Yovel years, have simply been transposed to 5777 and 5778, two years later.  This was the message that I wrote about when the Cubs won the World Series in the Fall of 2016 in one of my posts about how HaShem for awhile there was trying to get His message out through Sports.  The (Bear)Cubs won in 7 games in Extra Innings by a score of 8 to 7 in that 7th Game!.  So we are now in overtime after the Yovel year in 5776, and the events of 5777 and 5778 where "The Spiritual Bears" or Dubiel, Russia and Persia, are now taking over the World!  And they won over the Cleveland Indians which is if everyone remembers, America in KaleivLand which is Middle Heartland America at -50.  KaleivLand here in Israel, the Hevron/ Kiryat Arba/ Othniel/ Hevron Hills metroplex is the first place in Israel to potentially reach the 50th Gate of purity Even before Yerushalayim reaches it!  Why? Because in order to reach the 50th Gate bein Adam leMakom in Yerushalayim, the nation or the nation's spiritual representatives in these places must first reach the 50th Gate bein Adam veChaVeiRo in CheVRon and in the Chevron Hills in places like Othniel.  Notice the word Chaveiro is the essence of the name Chevron.   It is why the Avot chose to live out their lives there along with some sojourns further south to Beer Sheva.  They wanted to reach the 50th level bein Adam leChaveiro in the place on earth most conducive to reaching that level, and only on very special occasions did they travel to Har Moriah or Ir Shalem to serve G-d bein Adam leMakom.  A telling lesson for today and in ancient times.  It was so important that the Qorbon tamid for Shacharit could not be offered up in Yerushalayim until the sun had risen in Chevron!  So on the opposite end of this scale was America at -50, a dubious distinction that was reached in the Early Summer of 5776 when Omar Mateen walked into that homosexual bar on Shavuot night, (the 49th anniversary of the beginning of the Summer of Promiscuous love in San Francisco) and murdered 49 homosexuals in which he himself became the 50th dead body in that bar at Alot HaShachar on Shavuot morning when the SWAT team burst through the wall and brought him down in a hail of bullets.  One month later the Republicans coronated their candidate Donald Trump in Kaleivland, Ohio (a city founded by MOSES CLEAVELAND) AFTER America had already sunk to that dubious level of cultural quicksand, -50.  The fact that in both cases, Kaleiv's lands in Israel and in America were bequeathed directly by MOSES or Moshe Rabbeinu, made both places conducive to reaching the 50th Gate before everyone else who was awarded their portion in a lottery conducted by Moshe's Assistant, Yehoshua bin Nun.  So the Lands of Kaleiv were bequeathed directly by Moshe with no lottery in the next generation being necessary.  But alas, America, actually the Middle America of American culture was given a full year to repent of falling to this level under the leadership of their miraculously elected leader, Donald Trump.  And that year concluded, and America in cultural quicksand is disintegrating so badly that plaques honoring where George Washington sat in church are being removed by his Virginia congregation because like Robert E. Lee, George Washington was a slave owner!

Now I will agree that Mashiach did not come and that the Messianic Era was not "born" by the end of Sukkot 5777.  It was not destined that Persia should fall into the hands of Rome over the course of the nine months allotted for that to happen.  This is hinted at in the Gemorrah in Yoma 10 even if it is not explicitly stated.  Here is the entire section of the Gemorrah in question from Halakhah.com:

Rabbah b. Bar Hana in the name of R. Johanan, on the authority of R. Judah b. Ila'i, said: Rome is designed to fall into the hands of Persia, that may be concluded by inference a minori ad majus: If in the case of the first Sanctuary, which the sons of Shem [Solomon] built and the Chaldeans (Babylonians) destroyed, the Chaldeans fell into the hands of the Persians,37 then how much more should this be so with the second Sanctuary, which the Persians built and the Romans destroyed, that the Romans should fall into the hands of the Persians.38 Rav said: Persia will fall into the hands of Rome. Thereupon R. Kahana and R. Assi asked of Rav: [Shall] the builders (Persia) fall into the hands of the destroyers (Rome)? — He said to them: Yes, it is the decree of the King.39 Others say: He replied to them: They too are guilty for they destroyed the synagogues. It has also been taught in accord with the above, Persia will fall into the hands of Rome, first because they destroyed the synagogues, and then because it is the King's decree that the builders fall into the hands of the destroyers. Rav also said: The son of David will not come until the wicked kingdom of Rome will have spread [its sway] over the whole world for nine months, as it is said: Therefore will He give them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth; then the residue of his brethren shall return with the children of Israel.40

Now that last verse is from Micah 5 which foretells the final nine months of Olam HaZeh before Mashiachzeit, or Yemot HaMashiach is "born".  Notice the juxtaposition.  First Rav says that Persia will fall into the hands of Rome because the King decrees  that those who built the Temple should fall into the hands of those who destroyed it (Rome) and like Rome, Persia also destroyed synagogues.  Then the Gemorrah does what it often does and quotes other things that Rav said about Rome.  In this case he basically repeats himself by saying the same thing a different way!  In order for Rome to hold sway over the world for nine months, Persia must either fall  into the hands of Rome DURING those nine months or at the end of those nine months.  In short the bipolar world has to become a unipolar world because Persia falls into the hands of Rome.  The other possibility is that Persia "pretends" to keep all treaties that it is a party to signing during those nine months while silently working on its military expansion plans under the surface.  This way Rome would appear to hold sway for nine months, and after nine months Persia would cease to hide its intentions!  Well this is precisely what has happened.  After the first nine months of Trump's Presidency, Persia is becoming a menace to the entire world  The Sunni Arabs are waking up and smelling the coffee!  So what this also seems to mean is that Persia WILL NOT fall into the hands of Rome but will instead with Russian material help go forth to try to take over the world in overtime, this 8th year of the 578th decade, the 5770s.  And this time it is unclear if Rome can stop her.  As a matter of fact, there is no reason to assume that Rome can really stop Persia at all after these first nine months, but Rome will now try.

Now to bring the year 5777 to a close, I must first answer what did happen on Hoshana Rabbah 5778 at the end of the year?  Well it happened in N. Korea at their Nuke Mountain.  After testing N. Korea's first Hydrogen bomb in Elul 5777, the mountain underneath the caps on the mountain became very unstable.  Then on either the eve of Hoshana Rabbah or on Hoshana Rabbah night itself, the foundation of that mountain collapsed killing 100 people immediately and another 100 people when a rescue team was sent to rescue then while the foundation of Nuke Mountain completely gave way!   Yet, all this news was completely hidden from the world for three weeks after the fact.  Only less than two weeks ago did this news come out, perhaps because the foundation collapse of Nuke Mountain was so complete that nuclear by-products may have entered the groundwater that North Korea shares with China!  This is a temporary setback for Un's nuclear program.  He has lost his main test facility, and he probably needs to build another somewhere perhaps under the same mountain but in a parallel shaft.  Also while he has continued to shoot off his mouth at Trump, just today calling him an old lunatic, he has not shot off any missiles since Sukkot.  He is obviously restructuring his efforts after the catastrophe at Nuke Mountain.  So where do we see all this in the Torah.  Well we see it in the 5777th pasuk of the Torah itself, Rav Levi Saadia Nahmani's favorite pasuk when dealing with N. Korea (Deut. 32:22):

 כִּי-אֵשׁ קָדְחָה בְאַפִּי,  {ר}  וַתִּיקַד עַד-שְׁאוֹל תַּחְתִּית;  {ס}  וַתֹּאכַל אֶרֶץ וִיבֻלָהּ,  {ר}  וַתְּלַהֵט מוֹסְדֵי הָרִים.  {ס 22 For a fire is kindled in My nostril, and burns like a drill unto the depths of the nether-world (Sheoul), and devoureth the earth with her produce, and setteth ablaze the foundations of the mountains.

So right here in this pasuk we see both, the California fires that destroyed the grapevines in Napa Valley wine country and the destruction of the foundation of N. Korea's Nuke Mountain on Hoshana Rabbah!  And that destruction came from the blast of the Hydrogen bomb during the months of Elul under the cap of Nuke Mountain.  So rather than destroying Seoul with a blast of HaShem's nostrils just to the south of the 38th parallel, the explosion literally went downwards inside that mountain!  Yet, the crops that would have been destroyed by a nuclear missile against Norther California were destroyed by the worst wildfires in California history instead!  So at least for this past year, the Fire was contained for those who deserved it most:  The North Koreans and their nuclear ambitions and the State in the United States and the area where it began that sent the United States on its 50 year plunge toward the Abyss, San Francisco, California.  At least in round one, the good people of Seoul did not deserve to be a target of G-d's Wrath.  Half of them study Talmud because they want to learn the Wisdom of the Jews even if they learn it from dry sources.  There is something to be said about a culture that wants to give so much kavod to G-dly wisdom.  So, Baruch HaShem, Seoul was spared, round One.

Now all along we have been saying that this final war will be a two front war.  1. The Korean Front in the Western Pacific and 2. the Iranian front specifically around Batzrah, the Shiite stronghold in southern Iraq at the confluence to two of the four Rivers that come out of Gan Eden, the Chidekel (Tigris) and the Euphrates.   We learn this from the verse quoted in the Zohar VaEira 32a itself about a war at the edge of the world, that the L-rd will have a sacrifice in Batzrah and a Great Slaughter in the Land of Edom (Yishayahu 34).  The only way that this verse could have anything to do with that passage in the Zohar about a war with a nation at the edge of the world (at the international dateline) is if that nation, North Korea, has an unbreakable alliance with the Shiite powers who control the City of Batzrah.  And that Shiite power is Iran.  So until now it was not clear which front of this war would explode first, the North Korean theater or the Persian theater.  But what was clear from so many years ago, the place in the Persian theater of the Yalkut Shimoni war starting with a machloket between Persia and the King of Arabia that would first explode in the Middle East was in Yemen.  And now I present my post on this matter from two years ago with some additions:

  I wanted to help you complete the picture from the perspective of Emunah. We have been Crowning HaShem as King of the Universe every Rosh HaShanah since Sinai with blasts of the Shofar. The three final p'sukim in Musaph Rosh HaShanah dealing with the blasts of the Shofar (Shofarot) provide the key to the Final Redemption, the three blasts of the Shofar in Nevua for the Acharit HaYamim. The Third blast, the Stormwinds of Teiman (Yemen) has JUST OCCURRED! This is a post on my blog from almost precisely two years ago. I should point out that the missile from Yemen last Saturday night took place on the 16th of MarCheshvan, the Day before G-d Judged the entire world at the time of the Great Flood.

HaShem has been setting up Chess pieces for quite a while. There has now been a Hurricane in Teiman on Tuesday for the first time ever (This was a truly freak hurricane from two years ago). It is the last Shofar blast of the trilogy of shofar blasts at the end of Days. Look at Musaph Rosh HaShanah for the last three pasukim mentioned by the Nevi'im dealing with Blowing the Shofar to set the stage for the advent of Mashiach:.

And through Your servants, the Prophets, the following is written:

1. כָּל-יֹשְׁבֵי תֵבֵל, וְשֹׁכְנֵי אָרֶץ, כִּנְשֹׂא-נֵס הָרִים תִּרְאוּ, וְכִתְקֹעַ שׁוֹפָר תִּשְׁמָעוּ.
(Yishayahu 18:3) All the inhabitants of the earth and dwellers on the land, You will see like the raising of a flag (the Israeli flag) in the mountains, and like the blast of a Shofar you will hear.

This was the founding of the State of Israel in 5708. That was the first shofar blast. It was "Like" the blast of a shofar because the State of Israel was founded by the Erev Rav. The Erev Rav has provided a cocoon for Torah Judaism to grow and thrive without bringing on the wrath of the nations of the world that they would send troops to destroy the upstart State. So the Modern State by virtue of the fact that it behaves like the Western nations of the world, has fooled the Satan to allow nourishment for the future Messianic State while functioning at the level of statecraft like a Western country. So its founding was LIKE the blast of a Shofar.

2. וְהָיָה בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא, יִתָּקַע בְּשׁוֹפָר גָּדוֹל, וּבָאוּ הָאֹבְדִים בְּאֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר, וְהַנִּדָּחִים בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם; וְהִשְׁתַּחֲווּ לַיהוָה בְּהַר הַקֹּדֶשׁ, בִּירוּשָׁלִָם.

(Yishayahu 27:13) And it will be on that very day, a Great Shofar Blast will be blown, and the Lost ones (Russian Jews) in/from the Land of Ashur, and Castaways (Ethiopian Jews) in/from the Land of Egypt will come and bow before HaShem at His Holy Mountain in Yerushalayim.

This was the famous incident of the Ingathering of the Exiles that the Vilna Gaon spoke about for the years 5750 and 5751 because those years marked the 3/4 mark of the 6th millennium as if they were three quarters of the way through the 6th day of the week. At High Noon on Yom Shishi, shofar blowers would ascend the mountains of Israel to blow the shofar to call Israel in from her fields to prepare for Shabbat. So it would be the case 3/4 of the way through the 6th millennium. The davening at His Holy Mountain has not yet occurred.....yet, but the ingathering surely picked up speed in those two fateful years. Russian Jewry was a lost Jewry who lost its connection to Judaism while Ethiopian Jewry survived isolated in Ethiopia as a castaway nation when porters from the sacking of Mitzraim by Assyria were no longer needed by the Assyrian Army. So the porters from the Shevatim of Dan, Naftali, and Asher wandered down to Ethiopia to join the Queen of Sheba's existing Jewish country from 300 years prior. They survived beyond the River Sanbat, the tributary to the Nile River known by the gentiles as the Blue Nile whose source is from Lake Gondar in Gondar Province in Ethiopia. The bulk of the Ethiopian community that came during Op. Shlomo and Sheba were redeemed on Shabbat, the one day per week when the waters of the Sanbat River were placid.

Finally, the last Shofar blast in the trio of prophetic shofar blasts heralding the coming of Mashiach

3. וַיהוָה עֲלֵיהֶם יֵרָאֶה, וְיָצָא כַבָּרָק חִצּוֹ; וַאדֹנָי יְהוִה בַּשּׁוֹפָר יִתְקָע, וְהָלַךְ בְּסַעֲרוֹת תֵּימָן

(Zecharia 9:14) And HaShem was seen above them (watching our misery under the thumb of the Erev Rav), and His arrow will go forth like lightning. And the L-rd G-d will blow the Shofar, and go forth in the stormwinds of Teiman (Yemen). As if it were on cue suddenly, the news comes out:

This is the third and final shofar blast of the Final Redemption..... The Stormwinds of Yemen. This is why the last war had to begin in Yemen.  And the first shot of this war was fired by the Iranian supported and armed Houthi rebels when they shot a missile over the Riyadh, Saudi Arabian domestic airport on the night of the 16th of MarCheshvan 5778.  

Now how long will it take for this war to finally get really hot?  I will tell you right now.....  I don't know, and I won't hazard any guesses.  But the beauty of what is happening is that the last War has begun!

The Tehillim 91 Sukkot Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada

This post will be in Note form since preparing for Sukkot is the busiest time of the year.  There is no busier time for a man than the two days before Chag Sukkot.  I believe that there is as much pressure on a Jewish man before Sukkot as there is on a Jewish woman before Pesach.  Of course that is my opinion.  You are free to differ.:

H.T.: J. R. Ewing of Dallas, Texas, in the other land of Gog who, along with his father from Houston, tried to build a 33 story roof over the world called the New World Order... The roof seems to have sprung a Tumah leak on the 32nd floor.

Sukkah spelled with a Vav (סוכה) is 91: The Vilna Gaon said that there are 91 varieties of non-kosher sukkahs in Mesechtat Sukkah, and there are 85 varieties of kosher sukkahs spelled without a Vav (סכה) in that mesechta.

Aldean, the Country singer who was completing his concert, means (This is) about judgement.

Esav pretends that he rises to the 33rd level of purity in order to serve G-d for the purpose of making money by having a chazakah on the Mon at the 33rd level of purity, the third time that the Mon fell.  Yet, he only rises to the 32 2/3 level of purity because he never shed that third tear when tears welled up in his eyes upon losing the brachah.  Paddock was "lodged" in a room on the 32nd floor when he submachine gunned the Country Music crowd of 22,000 fans.  He was shooting through a 32nd story window.  Apparently, Divine Protection has been removed from America almost completely.  The 33 degree FreeMasonic roof has sprung a leak of Tumah.   The FreeMasonic sukkah is not kosher since it is spelled with a Vav with the gematriah of 91.  Plus it was established by Gog Washington, and Gog refers to a roof with with no holes in it.  If you have a hole in your roof (gag), you will either need to patch the hole in your roof or build a whole new roof.  So when Gog Washington established the Great American sukkah in the 31st century after Matan Torah, his intent was that two centuries later at the end of 33 centuries, another Gog would patch up the Roof.  Well as I mentioned above, that NWO roof seems to have sprung a leak.  

I should point out that there really is not a  US Route 91 in Las Vegas that I could find on my road atlas.  There are two US routes that go north and south through Las Vegas (Route 93 and Route 95).  Plus what do they harvest in the Nevada desert?  So this concert was only aptly named on a spiritual level since there is no harvest in the desert around Las Vegas and since there seems to no Route 91 in Las Vegas itself.  I am open to being shown that there is a Route 91 there.  

Tehillim 91 begins:

א יֹשֵׁב, בְּסֵתֶר עֶלְיוֹן; בְּצֵל שַׁדַּי, יִתְלוֹנָן. 1 O thou that dwellest in the covert of the Most High, and LODGES in the shadow of the Almighty;
ב אֹמַר--לַיהוָה, מַחְסִי וּמְצוּדָתִי; אֱלֹהַי, אֶבְטַח-בּוֹ. 2 I will say of the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust,

Over the years, many of America's sins have been overlooked.  The Name of HaShem that is used to represent the attribute of Erech Apaim is Shadai.  He suspended judgement on those sins.  The Hebrew word Yitlonan (יִתְלוֹנָן) means (he, the man in G-d's shadow) will lodge as in a hotel (מלון) room.  So to lodge in the Shadow of Shakai provides much security because G-d is suspending judgement on your sins at least for a certain year.  But if He no longer suspends judgement, then we see what we just saw in Vegas right after Rosh HaShanah since that man, Stephen Paddock, was either not lodging in G-d's shadow or he was when he executed G-d's judgement.  May the 515 injured from this heinous crime have a complete recovery.  Amein.  

The Pouring Forth of the Plagues of Submersion Under Water

Since I have very little time in the Coming few days to write an extensive post, I am posting here a whole Sea of Ideas in somewhat jumbled form about what is going on with all these Water plagues, the First Plagues of the Final Redemption corresponding with the Vav in HaShem's Name, right now.  Remember to Read carefully my post with all of its over 400 Comments about Meidad's Prophesy about GogUMagog in the Camp of Israel, a post from over two years ago:  Meidad's Prophesy in the Camp 

Here are my "jumbled" ideas.  There is a pouring out of G-d's Wrath along with His attempt to get us all to repent at this time.  Sorry about the jumbled nature of things.  Time is so Short.

We may have up to four Water Submersion Plagues in the month of Elul alone!! OM G-d. Water submersion plagues begin this final redemption because the Ark of Noah was submerged 11 Amot in the waters of the Mabul referring to the Vav and the Final Hey in HaShem's Name through which we are redeemed in the Final Redemption. The Redemption from Mitzraim was with the Yud and the Hey in His Holy Name. For this reason the Waters of the Flood rose 15 Amot above Mt. Ararat. The Yud was the ten plagues in Egypt, and the Hey was the the five times multiplier at the YamSuf (10 Plagues in Egypt and 50 at the Sea, 40 plagues in Egypt and 200 at the Sea, etc.) 15 steps in Dayeinu, etc. So the redemption from Mitzraim begins with Moshe Rabbeinu's little ark floating on the Nile River from which Batya, Bat Paro rescues Moshe from the Nile. Then 80 years later the first plague was when Aharon hit the SURFACE of the Nile with his staff since Moshe could not hit the surface of the Nile to perform a plague because he had hakarat Hatov that the Surface of the Nile saved his life as an infant. The First Plague in Egypt was against the principle Avodah Zarah of Mitzraim, the Nile River.

So with the Final Redemption we learn that the Ark of Noah was SUBMERGED in the Nile 11 Amot from a calculation that Rashi does based on when the Waters of the Flood began to subside on Rosh Chodesh Siwan. Then the Ark runs aground on Ararat on the 17th of Siwan. Then the peak of Ararat is seen on Rosh Chodesh Av. Since the surface of the floodwaters was 15 Amot above Mt. Ararat and since it took 59 or 60 days for the Flood waters to be seen on Rosh Chodesh Av, then the waters subsided one Amah every four days or four days per Amah. So on the 17th of Siwan, the waters of the Flood had subsided four Amot when the Ark ran aground on the mountain. So the Final Redemption unlike the first Redemption when it begins with the Vav in HaShem's Name, begins with at least two Water Submersion plagues. 

Did we mention that the First Plague in Mitzraim was against the Avodah Zarah of Egypt, the principle Avodah Zarah that most angered HaShem, the Nile River. The first plague of the Final Redemption, Harvey, first hit the principle Avodah Zara of Edom for the last 2000 years! Nope, it is not the Trinity even though that is an Avodah Zarah. The Trinity is a bizarre idea floating around in the heads of Xtains, but it is not Chayav Mitah to believe in Shituf outside of Eretz Yisrael. The Principle Avodah Zarah that is Chayav Mitah (requires the death penalty) all over the world is that the mangod can be worshiped in bodily form by sticking his Corpse on a Cross so that Catholics and Orthodox Xtians, can then kneel before him as they pray. That is the essence of Avodah Zarah, to worship statues and pictures of gods or a god in this case. Just look at the Aseret HaDibrot (Ten Commandments) itself. So whom are the worshiping? The Body of Yoshke whom they call Christ. We can call him X. And the City in Texas that was first hit by Harvey BEFORE it wandered on to Houston? Corpus Christi which is Latin for The Body of X!!!!! 

Now the following I posted on the Facebook Forum of Geulah Watch.  Some of this is repetitive of what I wrote above.  Sorry about that, but time for me is short now.  Perhaps a bit later when I have time, I will try to present this large amount of Geulah material in piece by piece form.  Frankly now, the Geulah is coming so fast like a torrent of Water, that there is not time to present this material in tiny portions.  

The Second Immersion or Submersion plague cometh. It is at least Part of Meidad's prophesy for the plagues of GogUmagog.  Meidad can best be translated as Water of Treasure or Beloved Water. The Ark of Noah rested on the waters of the Great Flood 15 Amot above the highest mountains. The first Redemption from Mitzraim was with the Yud and the Hey in HaShem's Name. The Yud manifest itself with the ten plagues, and the Hey was the 5x multiplier effect at the Yam Suf. So the First Redemption began with the rescue of Baby Moshe in his own Ark on the Surface of the Nile. And the first Plague was when Aharon's staff struck the Surface of the Nile turning the Avodah Zarah of Mitzraim into Blood. That was the Redemption from Mitzraim.

The Final Redemption is with the Vav and the Hey in HaShem's Name. Vav + Hey is Eleven. So Rashi calculates from when the Ark of Noach ran aground until the mountaintops of Ararat could be seen that the Ark was immersed beneath the waters of the Flood eleven Amot into the Water. So the Final Redemption begins with Immersion plagues below the Surface of the Water. Yet, again, though, the first Plague would first strike the Avodah Zarah of Edom for the last 2000 years, the Avodah Zarah for which Edom could be Chayav Mitah. The Trinity, although it is Avodah Zarah, is in Raiyon only. Therefore it is not Chayav Mitah. The real Avodah Zarah of Edom was to worship the mangod in his human form, often kneeling before him as they pray as he hangs from his cross. The figure on the cross is of course, Yoshke's body, the object of their worship. They called Yoshke "Christ" for which we say X. The city in Texas that was first hit by Hurricane Harvey was Corpus Christi which in Latin means the Body of X. So just like in Egypt where the Nile was struck first because it was the leading god of Mitzraim, the final redemption began with the striking of the Avodah Zarah of Edom, the Body of X. The Storm then wandered to Houston which was immersed underneath slightly more than two Amot of Water using the calculation that each Amah is about 21 inches. I believe that we will see a total of 11 Amot of water immersing the various places where the 4 to 6 plagues of the Final Redemption will at least begin before Eliyahu HaNavi shows up to herald the plagues associated with the Final Hey in HaShem's Name. Because Eliyahu tried to return the Torah to G-d, he lost the privilege of heralding the Plagues that correspond to the letter Vav in HaShem's Name. He complained to G-d that his master performance at Har Carmel went unheeded by the Klal Yisrael. Jezebel saw that noone had really changed and had sent him a note that "Today You Eliyahu won the day, but tomorrow I am coming to kill you." So he ran away, dejected and a bit depressed. He fell asleep under a rotem tree, and Michael the Archangel tried to cheer him up with food and then a second time with the eschatology for the End of Days (Medrash Sefer Eliyahu) which was for him in the distant future. So he returned to Chorev to return the Torah to G-d. So first G-d fired him, and told him to anoint Elisha in his place who would recognize the spark of every Jew being kindled in the recesses of their souls even if it could not be seen in their enthusiasm for serving G-d through external behaviors such as saving Eliyahu's life. Apparently Eliyahu had missed that point when he ran away from Jezebel. He then told Eliyahu that he would attend every Pesach Seder and every Brit Milah until Mashiach came to teach him that even the most estranged Jews still observed Pesach Seders and Brit Milah. He then lost five of the Vavs at the end of his name after this episode of him trying to return the Torah to Heaven. Four of the Vavs are missing from his name in 2nd Melachim chapter 1. And one of the Vavs is missing from Behold I am sending you Eliyah the Prophet .... before the Coming of the Great and Awesome Day of HaShem (The Hoshana Rabbah of the Final Redemption). Those five Vavs only appear in Ya'akov's name spelled with a Vav four times in Yirmiyahu and one time in VeZecharti eth Briti Ya'akov in the Tochachah in BeChukotai. From this we see that the plagues associated with the letter Vav will not be heralded by Eliyahu HaNavi. They will come out of Tzafun, that which is hidden, which precedes the third cup of wine (The Letter Vav in Shem HaShem) at the Pesach Seder. Only after the Vav has been completely manifest does Eliyah without a Vav show up in the form of Kos Eliyahu to herald the second half of Hallel and the fourth cup of wine (The Final Hey in Shem HaShem) at the Seder. So for the first four, five, or six plagues of the Final Redemption, there is no Eliyahu to herald those plagues.

At this point we need Meidad whose name refers to Water to tell us that the plagues of Water in the Final Redemption would first affect the Land of Gog immersing that Land in many Amot of Water. So the Land of Gog is none other than the Congressional district of Gog Herbert Walker Bush Sr. in Houston, Texas who was elected POTUS 3300 years after Matan Torah for his only purpose for serving G-d was to guarantee that the prosperity of Edom would exist forever at the 33rd level of purity. The 33rd level is that level because on Lag B'Omer, the Mon had fallen three times. Esav interprets that as having a chazakah on the Mon or the Money so that the Money would be there forever. At that point he builds a roof over his civilization cutting it off from Divine Providence and declaring a New World Order with him and his friends in charge of the entire world. It is known that he tried to do this. And his first act after the Persian Gulf War was to have an international pieces conference in Madrid to divide Yerushalayim and the Land of Israel. His last act as President of the US in foreign policy was to condemn Israel on the first night of Chanukah for expelling 400 Hamas thugs into Southern Lebanon at the border at the 33rd Parallel! So whip out your Chumash, and read the first pasuk in the 33rd chapter of Bereishit (which has a total of 50 chapters altogether) and it says: Bereishit 33:1

א וַיִּשָּׂא יַעֲקֹב עֵינָיו, וַיַּרְא וְהִנֵּה עֵשָׂו בָּא, וְעִמּוֹ, אַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת אִישׁ; וַיַּחַץ אֶת-הַיְלָדִים, עַל-לֵאָה וְעַל-רָחֵל, וְעַל, שְׁתֵּי הַשְּׁפָחוֹת. 1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

And Ya'akov lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, ESAV CAME AND WITH HIM 400 MEN! Case closed.

The Vav Plagues are the plagues associated with HaShem's hidden, emotional Sefirot: Chessed, Gevurah, Tiferreth, Netzach, Hod, and Yesod. Those plagues are NOT being heralded by Eliyahu HaNavi because he failed to see the hidden sefirot in Klal Yisrael after the Great Qiddiush HaShem he did at Mt. Carmel. He only saw the lack of Outer teshuvah. He did not see the inner teshuvah that the demonstration at Har Carmel brought about in those Northern Kingdom Israelis who were present. And since externally they did very little to prevent Jezebel from saying that she was going to kill Eliyahu the next day, he became depressed and tried to return the Torah to G-d. So Elisha was anointed in Eliyahu's place since Elisha was more adept at seeing the P'nimiyut of the miracles performed through him. This explains why usually when Elisha prophesied a miraculous salvation, it was almost always done behind closed doors in secret. Compare that to Eliyahu's miracles that always had dozens and sometimes thousands of witnesses. And so it is at the End of Days. When it is time to herald the coming of Mashiach before the entire world, Eliyahu without a Vav will be there to do it. Those plagues will be associated with the final Sefirah, Malkhut since those plagues L'taken Olam b'Malkhut Shadai. I believe they will be Fire plagues since the 7th Sefirah in the 7th hakafah on Hoshana Rabbah is all about Fire.  The nukes and the nuke plants in the way of Irma are the Fire in all this. The Floods are the Water. N. Korea's nukes are part of the Fire plagues which I believe Eliyahu HaNavi will herald according to our sources. Remember Eliyahu while he lived often caught everyone's attention with his prayers for Heavenly fire.  

The Houston immersion plague was connected to the Gog Sr. election to the Presidency in 1988, 3300 years after Matan Torah. This second immersion plague has to do with the election of his son, Gog W. Ben Gog Jr. in the year 2000, the closest and weirdest election in American history. The deciding votes were in three beach counties in South Florida where they counted ballots with hanging chads for four weeks before the Supreme Court said, "Enough of this. There are too many ballots to count!"

And now Jose, whose name is Yosef in Hebrew.  Is that hurricane associated with the final hidden emotional sefirah of Yesod, the crowning of the Vav on HaShem's Name?  Time will tell.  ..... Very little time, so it seems.  Everything is happening so so fast.  Impossible to keep up.  Sorry about that.  

The Plagues of Submersion, The Trigger.

Yes, with a bang the Final Redemption has begun.  For 12 days in Tamuz/Rosh Chodesh Av, HaShem intensely desired a Dwelling in the Lower World on the Temple Mount, but the world in which we live influenced our Linguine Spined Prime Minister to capitulate to the Status Quo.  These 12 days between the 18th/19th of Tamuz and the 29th of Tamuz/ Rosh Chodesh Av can be understood by studying this chart brought down by the students of the Arizal.  Perhaps a full post on what happened this past Tamuz/Rosh Chodesh Av is in order, but for now the following will suffice.  During those 12 days the Arabs, who have controlled the Temple Mount since the 6 Day War because our Erev Rav powers that be did not want the "headache" of controlling a place so holy, were either exiled by force from the Temple Mount or self-exiled themselves from the Mount because they refused to go through metal detectors supervised by the State of Israel to prevent weapons (made of iron) from being brought on the Mount.  For His Part, HaShem was trying to enforce His first rule, chronologically listed in the Torah, for building a Temple or a Mishkan (Shmot 20:21):

 וְאִם-מִזְבַּח אֲבָנִים תַּעֲשֶׂה-לִּי, לֹא-תִבְנֶה אֶתְהֶן גָּזִית:  כִּי חַרְבְּךָ הֵנַפְתָּ עָלֶיהָ, וַתְּחַלְלֶהָ. 21 And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it.

Later on in Devarim, the tools that are specifically not to be used to cut stones for the Mizbeach are listed as tools made of iron because as Chazal tell us, Iron weapons shorten life while the Mizbeach is constructed to offer up Qorbanot that prolong our lives.  (Devarim 27:4-6)  And we all know how those iron weapons that were hidden in the Al Aqsa Mosque were used to shorten the lives of those two Druze Police Officers.

  וְהָיָה, בְּעָבְרְכֶם אֶת-הַיַּרְדֵּן, תָּקִימוּ אֶת-הָאֲבָנִים הָאֵלֶּה אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוֶּה אֶתְכֶם הַיּוֹם, בְּהַר עֵיבָל; וְשַׂדְתָּ אוֹתָם, בַּשִּׂיד. 4 And it shall be when ye are passed over the Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaster them with plaster (bedolach based limestone cement).
ה  וּבָנִיתָ שָּׁם מִזְבֵּחַ, לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ:  מִזְבַּח אֲבָנִים, לֹא-תָנִיף עֲלֵיהֶם בַּרְזֶל. 5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones; thou shalt lift up no iron tool upon them.

ו  אֲבָנִים שְׁלֵמוֹת תִּבְנֶה, אֶת-מִזְבַּח יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ; וְהַעֲלִיתָ עָלָיו עוֹלֹת, לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of unhewn stones; and thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God.

So HaShem wanted to enforce this basic rule starting on the 20th of Tamuz when those two Druze officers were murdered.  And until Jason Greenblatt got off the plane to tell Bibi to dismantle those metal detectors on the 2nd of Av in the wee hours of the morning, the Arab World refused to ascend the Temple Mount until the 2nd of Av!  For eleven magical days, only Jews went up to the Southern Court of the Gentiles through the Mughrabi Gate.  But our desire to build the Temple, collectively, was almost non-existent.  So Bibi caved like the Caver that he is before the pressure of Trump, Greenblatt, probably H.R. McMaster, and of course the King of Jordan.  But let us look at those dates.  First we know that as long as Amaleq remains in the world, the Throne of G-d is incomplete:  From Shemot 17:16

 וַיֹּאמֶר, כִּי-יָד עַל-כֵּס יָהּ, מִלְחָמָה לַיהוָה, בַּעֲמָלֵק--מִדֹּר, דֹּר.  {פ} 16 And he said: 'The hand upon the throne of the LORD: the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.'  From this we see that the word for throne כסא is spelled without an Aleph, and the Name of HaShem is spelled without a Vav and a Final Hey.  Together missing from His Throne is His Eternal Desire to dwell in our midst which is the word Ivah spelled אוה.  As it says in Psalm 132:

  בַּעֲבוּר, דָּוִד עַבְדֶּךָ--    אַל-תָּשֵׁב, פְּנֵי מְשִׁיחֶךָ. 10 For Thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of Thine anointed.
יא  נִשְׁבַּע-יְהוָה, לְדָוִד אֱמֶת--    לֹא-יָשׁוּב מִמֶּנָּה:
מִפְּרִי בִטְנְךָ--    אָשִׁית, לְכִסֵּא-לָךְ. 11 The LORD swore unto David in truth; He will not turn back from it: {N}
'Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
יב  אִם-יִשְׁמְרוּ בָנֶיךָ, בְּרִיתִי--    וְעֵדֹתִי זוֹ, אֲלַמְּדֵם:
גַּם-בְּנֵיהֶם עֲדֵי-עַד--    יֵשְׁבוּ, לְכִסֵּא-לָךְ. 12 If thy children keep My covenant and My testimony that I shall teach them, {N}
their children also for ever shall sit upon thy throne.'
יג  כִּי-בָחַר יְהוָה בְּצִיּוֹן;    אִוָּהּ, לְמוֹשָׁב לוֹ. 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for His habitation:
יד  זֹאת-מְנוּחָתִי עֲדֵי-עַד:    פֹּה-אֵשֵׁב, כִּי אִוִּתִיהָ. 14 'This is My resting-place for ever; here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

From this we see that on the cusp of anointing the seed of David as the Mashiach, HaShem who chose Tzion, will demonstrate an intense desire to establish His Place of permanent habitation.  But when will he demonstrate His desire?  For that we must study the Arizal's chart above.  We see that the 72 days between the 25th of Adar and the 6th of Siwan correspond to the Gematriah 72 letter name for HaShem, spelled: Yud Vav Dalet (20) Hey Yud (15) Vav Yud Vav (22) Hey Yud (15).  Notice that spelling out the letters in this way leads to a total Gematriah of 72.  Now assuming as the Arizal assumed that before the Cheit of Adam HaRishon, the lunar cycles were precisely 30 days, we see that there are precisely 72 days between the 25th of Adar and the 6th of Siwan (6 days in Adar, 30 days each in Nissan and Iyyar, and 6 days in Siwan).  Notice from the spelling above, Aleph Vav Hey do not appear consecutively during those 72 days.  The reason is because the first Redemption from Mitzraim was with the Yud and the Hey in HaShem's Name.  Because of our sins in the desert, the Vav and the Hey never had a chance to manifest themselves in that Redemption.  Moshe died in the desert.  So this basically guaranteed that throughout our long history we would be exiled (on two occasions) from our Land until Mashiach came whose soul is a merging between the soul of the scion of David and the soul of Moshe Rabbeinu.  Once Moshe's soul is drawn down into Eretz Yisrael from Sha'ar HaNun (the 50th Gate), the cycles of Churban and Exile and Redemption will come to a close.  We will not be exiled again.  So while we were redeemed from Egypt and received the Torah under the direction of G-d's approval, we began to spiritually deteriorate from our high spiritual plateau forty days after Matan Torah, on Shivah Asar b'Tamuz 2448, and in the second year in the desert by Tisha B'Av 2449.  In both cases according to the Arizal chart above, we were within the next phase of our journey, the 63 days of SaG (Samech Gimel which is 63).  This 63 days period extends from the 7th of Siwan through the 9th of Av, again with Siwan and Tamuz having 30 days each.

Now just to clarify, it should be understood, that the Gematriah 72 Name of HaShem fills the World of Atzilut during those initial 72 days, and the Gematriah 63 Name of HaShem fills the World of Bri'ah in the Year of the Final Redemption.  Since the first 72 day period had already "been perfected" by the First Redemption, it does not need to be repeated in the Final Redemption, but the corruption of our sins, the Sin of the Golden Calf and during the following year, the Sin of the Spies, corrupted the Filling of the World of Bri'ah and therefore needs to be rectified in the year of the Final Redemption which starts with HaShem showing that He has a tremendous desire to dwell on the Temple Mount.  Now keep in mind, for 49 years starting with the potential Yovel year of 5678 (Fall of 1917 -1918), HaShem provided an opportunity to make Aliyah to the Land of Israel is large significant numbers starting with the Balfour Declaration and the Conquest of Yerushalayim from the Turks by PM David Lloyd Gog, a living, breathing philo-Semite.  The 50th year of this Aliyah to the Land of Israel was interrupted by another Yovel event, the Re-unification of Yerushalayim.  This set into motion another 49 year Aliyah to the Old City and the Western Wall of the Temple Mount and to Judea and Samaria beyond the 1949 arbitrary armistice line to which we could not make Aliyah between 1948 and 1967.  In both cases we reached 600,000 Jews during or at the end of those 49 year periods.  There were 600,000 Jews in Israel by the Fall of 1947, and by 2016 there were 600,000 Jews living in Yesha and Yerushalayim beyond the Green Line.  The 50th year was 5776, but the vessel to take us to the next level Aliyah Har HaBayit was incomplete.  (There were not 600,000 Jews willing to go to the next level.)  Not enough of us were willing to go to the next level.  So even though the father of the murdered Hallel Yaffa Ariel (hy"d) wanted to tie her murder in the land of Kaleiv, Qiryat Arba, to making Aliyah to the Temple Mount by secretly doing Birkat Kohanim on the Temple Mount under the eyes of the watching policemen, the vessels of Redemption to start 50 years of Aliyat Har HaBayit were simply lacking in our minimal numbers.  There were not 600,000 Jews who desired to go to this level.  So for this reason and other reasons to be discussed at another time, the Tikkun was delayed one more year, until this year 5777.  So let us look at the letters for the Name Gematriah SaG:  Yud Vav Aleph (20, from the 7th of Siwan until the 26th of Siwan), Hey Yud (15, from the 27th of Siwan until the 11th of Tamuz), Vav Aleph Vav (13) and Hey Yud (15).  Notice that consecutively we see the Ivah that HaShem desires to dwell in the lowest world Olam HaAsiyah on the Temple Mount.  Now when were those twelve days since Aleph Vav Hey is Gematriah 12?  Well the first Vav in Vav Aleph Vav is (6, from the 12th of Tamuz until the 17th of Tamuz.  The Aleph Vav Hey (12, is from the 18th of Tamuz until the 29th of Tamuz), and the final Yud is from the 30th of Tamuz which for us is Rosh Chodesh Av until the 9th of Av.

From previous discussions on this blog, we discussed that with the advent of Hillel the 2nd's calendar, we can basically only establish the New Moons Rabbinically.  We simply do not meet the criteria of setting the months d'Oraita when we don't have witnesses appearing before the Sanhedrin.  So although the calendar is precise and accurate to 1/ 10,000 of a second, the New Moon as established here on earth through the calendar might be one day off from how Heaven sees the situation.  This is especially true in years when the molad for Rosh Chodesh that has 30 days is on Rosh  Chodesh itself.  Since while the Temple stood, Rosh Chodesh could only be declared the following day AFTER the crescent moon was seen because on that day the Musaf for Rosh Chodesh could then be offered by noon, Heaven might rule that Rosh Chodesh is indeed the following day.  Notice that I am carefully using the word MIGHT.  But one thing that seems certain, since the molad for Rosh Chodesh Av was on Rosh Chodesh itself and since this was intentionally set up by Chaza"l so that Yom Kippur would not fall on Motzei Shabbat (a big no no), the Arizal's calculation was advanced one day this year from the 18th of Tamuz to the 19th of Tamuz and from the 29th of Tamuz to Rosh Chodesh Av.  Lo and Behold the self-exile of the Arabs from the Temple Mount fulfilling the first commandment for making a Mishkan, that metal implements not be used to hew, the whole stones of the Mizbeach, was precisely during those 12 days of Ivah!!

But HaShem's entreaties not only went unanswered.  He was utterly spurned.   And unlike anytime before in history except for the Generation of the Flood, His Wrath will now be felt by the entire World.  It is from this that we received upon ourselves the First plague of the Final Redemption, The Plague of Harvey.... To be continued.

The Fire and the Fury of the Year 777

So how did this day begin?  We may be asking this question every day now until Hoshana Rabbah/ Shmini Atzereth 5778.  Well now the news is out there.  Kim Jong Un can miniaturize a nuke and place it on every rocket that goes up and comes down without burning up on re-entry, which is only  a problem with ICBMs who travel long distances in outer space.  And then there are EMPs whose rockets don't really have to come down once the warhead is launched into space.  That was how we started the morning.  Then Donald Trump issued his "Fire and Fury like the World has never Seen" remarks before what appeared to be a Cabinet meeting.    And now in retaliation, North Korea just threatened the entire island territory of Guam and Andersen AirForce Base by saying that "The KPA strategic force is now carefully examining the operational plan for making an enveloping fire at the areas around Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 in order to contain the US major military bases on Guam, including the Andersen Air Force base."

So we know that after a day of  "To the Moon" major escalation toward the actual bloody conflict of the 3rd battle of the 3rd War of GogUMagog, we don't have to look far into our holy sources to see a reference to Fire being the main theme of the 7th year after 77 decades of the 6th Millennium.  We find it in our davening on Hoshana Rabbah, the 7th day of the 7 day festival of Sukkot during the 7th and final circuit around the Bimah in front of the Holy Ark.   This hakafah (Circuit) says that the main theme of this year of sevens would be Fire which would descend to earth in honor of our Avot, Moshe, Aharon, and a host of other leaders and prophets from our long history.  It goes like thus:

In the merit (For the sake of) of the towering one (Avraham) who was hurled (by Nimrod) into flaming ...................................................................................................................................... FIRE!
For the sake of the son (Yitzchak) who was bound upon the wood near the .............................FIRE!
For the sake of the strong one (Ya'akov) who wrestled with a Ministering Angel of ................FIRE!
For the sake of the tribal flags which you guided with a light and cloud of ..............................FIRE!
For the sake of the one who was raised up (Moshe) to the Heavens and was made exalted like the Angels of ................................................................................................................................... FIRE!
For the sake of the one (Aharon) who was to You like the Deputy at Erelei .............................FIRE!
For the sake of the Gift of the (Ten) Commandments that were given from .............................FIRE!
For the sake of the canopy of curtains (that were) a cloud of .....................................................FIRE!
For the sake of the ceremony at the Mountain upon which You descended in .......................... FIRE!
For the sake of the Camaraderie of the Temple which You loved more than Heavens made of ......................................................................................................................................................FIRE!
For the sake of the one (Moshe) who (yearned) until the sinking of the .................................... FIRE!
For the sake of him (Aharon) who took a fire pan and removed an anger burning like ............. FIRE!
For the sake of him (Eliyahu) who zealously took great vengeance (for G-d) with ................... FIRE!
For the sake of him (Yehoshua) who raised his hand in prayer and down came stones of .......... FIRE!
For the sake of him (Shmu'el) who offered a nursing ewe to be completely consumed by ......... FIRE!
For the sake of him (David) who stood in the granary and was shown favor with ...................... FIRE!
For the sake of him (Shlomo) who prayed in the Courtyard (of the Temple) and down came .... FIRE!
For the sake of the agent (Eliyahu) who ascended to Heaven and was exalted through a chariot and horses of ........................................................................................................................................ FIRE!
For the sake of the holy ones (Chananiah, Mishael, and Azariah) who were cast into the .......... FIRE!
For the sake of him (Daniel) who saw myriad myriads and streams of ....................................... FIRE!
For the sake of the ruins of Your City which was devoured in .................................................... FIRE!
For the sake of the descendants of Yehudah's Generals whom you will set as a flaming ............ FIRE!

For the sake of all those and more who were burnt in fire throughout the Centuries and finally in the Shoah, G-d Almighty presents the FIRE and the FURY.

The Avimelekhs of the East Bank of the Yarden

The Peace with Jordan could only potentially last for three generations of Abdullahs (Avimelekhs). Just as it was with Avraham and Yitzchak with the ancient Philistines. The first Abdullah was assassinated either at Al Aksa or the Golden Dome in the early 1950s because he wanted to make Peace with Israel. The state of Israel was born in 1948 just as Avraham had been born in 1948 from Adam's sin. The second "Abdullah" was certifiably insane so that his son Hussein, the 3rd Avimelech became king for a long long reign. Eventually after the 6 Day War he repented and signed a peace treaty with Yitzchak....Yitzchak Rabin just as Yitzchak Avinu signed a second peace treaty with the 2nd or 3rd Avimelech in the Torah. Yet this Avimelech Peace Treaty with the Avot was only for three generations of Avimelech. Look at the Torah to see what was pledged with Avraham. So now with the fourth Abdullah/Avimelech the Peace Treaty is null and void.

This is of course my greatest hope.  Yet, we have a Linguine Spined Prime Minister who might make this post obsolete by sunrise on the 2nd of Av.  As it should be obvious to the world, he has NO Emunah or Bitachon with which G-d could potentially strengthen his backbone because frankly, Bibi has no backbone to speak of unless you think that a wet noodle has a backbone.  The Caver in Chief has made a career for the last 20 to 25 years out of caving before pressure.  He will not lead Israel into battle against the forces of evil unless HaShem plays tricks on him forcing him to stand strong or literally lose his life for being a coward.  When the Malbim and others postulated that the last PM of the lowly pre-Messianic State of Israel prophesied in Zecharia 12 would have the precise Yichus of Bibi Netanyahu (which he does, believe it or not) and would be Mashiach ben Yosef, the PM pierced with a dagger by Armilus at the Gateway to Yerushalayim, they likely had not met a member of the secular Judenrat like Bibi.  Yichus and all he is about as low as you can get...., until you start to examine his competition in Labor and Yesh Atid.  It seems to me that G-d is going to have to do it Himself without Bibi providing the "stirring from below" since the one posing as Mashiach ben Yosef as PM is a poor excuse for a leader even if he is 1000 times LESS poor than the electable alternatives.  ... End of Rant.

So we all might ask, Why isn't Avimelekh in Gaza near the Gerar Wadi as he was in ancient times?  Why is Avimelekh in Jordan?  Well for this we need that commentary by the Targun Yonatan ben Uziel.  We know from his peirush on Devarim 34: 1-3, that the Pshat is that Moshe saw closest to him while he stood on Mt. Nebo in Jordan which overlooks the northern tip of the Dead Sea, Yericho the City of Date Palms.  The Targum Yonatan waxes poetically about how this city called Qiryat or Qirvat Dekaliya would be evacuated by 200,000 of its fellow Jews.  Now almost everyone might think that this City of Date Palms is Yericho since, the actual text of the Torah says that Yericho is the City of Date Palms (Tamarim in Hebrew and Dekaliya in Aramaic).  Now in his commentary on this verse he does say that the Squatters in the Jewish heartland of Yehudah and Shomron would be from Ammon (as in Amman) and Moab in Yarden and that there would also be a large terrorist army in the "Maishra", the marshlands of Gaza.  He doesn't mention that the majority of those in Gaza would have the last name Masri which means Mitzri which means Egyptians, but he does say that Qirvat Dekaliya would be evacuated by its fellow Jews.  What is curious is that the entire evacuation in 2005 (5765) was in Gaza and the Northern Shomron and that the largest populated city that was evacuated was Newe Dekalim, the Beauties of the Date Palms, and that this city was in Gaza, not near Yericho!  So here we see that the entire prophesy of Moshe, as described by the Targun Yonatan, that we thought would apply to the Plain around Yericho ended up applying to the Maishrah, the marshlands of Gaza!  So if that is the case, the endtimes places were spiritually switched.  The City of Date Palms at the end of days was in Gaza, and the Avimelekhs are in Yarden.  Why?  Let me think about it.  

The Timepiece for B'itah, the Koreas Leaving the Twilight Zone

Today is the Day of the Dry Bones (Yom HaAtzamot HaYevashot) when the first half of Yechezkel's prophesy on the Dry Bones occurred on the Fifth of Iyar 5708 aka Israel Independence Day (Yom HaAtzma'ut).  The difference in spelling is that Atzma'ut has one extra Aleph, the Aleph of Elokim, who decided that the time of PHYSICAL wandering for the Jewish people was coming to a close.  The spiritual prophesy on the Arba Ruchot, the second half of Yechezkel's vision, the spirit of the Messianic Era, has yet to occur.

This post is based on the previous two posts:
The Light of Mashiach Courtesy of the Korean Peninsula Leaving the Twilight Zone
and
The Two Legged Goat .

It is also based on all other posts that I have written on this blog since its inception in 2005.  Some of those posts are linked to in the first post above.  I suggest everyone review the material in all those posts because this post will incorporate in it the combined work of all posts discussed before on this blog dealing with the Korean Peninsula at the halakhic international date line.

As discussed previously according to the Vilna Gaon and others, B'itah and the ingathering of the exiles "officially" began with Rosh HaShanah 5751 (19 September 1990 at sundown) which was 3/4 of the way through the 6th Millennium and which corresponded to high noon on Friday, the 6th day of the week.  In came the Lost in the Land of Ashur (Russian Jewry) and the castaways in the Land of Egypt (Ethiopian Jewry) like clockwork as if the shofar blast at high noon on Friday to call Jews in from their fields for Yom SheKulo Shabbat had been blown precisely on time.... because it WAS blown in Heaven precisely on time.  So it was time for those two groups of Jews to come home.  (This was discussed in post #1 above.)   Keep in mind that Yom sheKulo Shabbat, the day that will always be Shabbat is the entire 7th Millennium which should "officially" begin b'itah no later than Rosh HaShanah 6001, the first year of the 7th Millennium.  Now every observant Jew knows halakhically we are allowed to bring on Shabbat as early as Plag HaMincha which is half way between Mincha Ketanah and sunset.  This would correspond with approximately being 1 and a quarter halakhic hours before sunset on Friday afternoon.  Depending on the time of year 1 1/4 halakhic hours could last 1 hour and 20 or 25 minutes in the Summer OR 1 hour and 5 or 10 minutes in the Winter.  Usually those who bring Shabbat on early do it in the Summer time when the sun sets rather late such as at 8:20 pm.  So they bring on Shabbat at 7:15pm in order not to have Shabbat dinner at an unG-dly hour late at night every week.  Now 1 1/4 hours before sunset can be calculated as being the last 1/8th of the 2nd half of the 6th Millennium or the last 1/4 of the last 250 years of human history between 5751 and 6001.  Each quarter of 250 years is equal to 62.5 years.  So from this simple calculation it would seem that b'itah cannot begin until 62 1/2 years before the end of the year 6000 in the year 5938.  That date would be a long way off, and talking about b'itah bringing the Utopian Age of human history that far into the future would be a big let down.  So why would one want to anticipate Mashiach's coming since it is obvious that he is not coming because of our merits Achishena at any hour of any day?  He is obviously coming B'itah while we are hanging on at the 49th level of impurity while Edom has beaten us to the Sewer of -50 last Shavuot 5776.  He is coming In its time very likely, and even those who say that Mashiach could come in the next five minutes agree that after Mincha Gedolah of the 6th Millennium which was in Av 5771, he is almost assuredly coming B'itah.  See our conundrum?

Into this fray comes the Zohar HaQodesh VaEira 32.  We are told that B'itah, the third battle of Gog UMagog will begin when "wicked" Rome has to fight a war against a nation  at the edge of the World for about three months.  Since the world is round, there is only one way to understand what is the "edge of the world".  The edge of the world is the halakhic international dateline.  This dateline is determined when it is high noon in Yerushalayim, for if Rosh Chodesh is sanctified for the entire world by the Sanhedrin BEFORE high noon, then Rosh Chodesh is that very day not just in Yerushalayim but all over the world.  If the Sanhedrin delayed until after high noon to sanctify the new month, then Rosh Chodesh for the entire world is not that day but the following day.  So from this we learn that at High Noon in Yerushalayim, the actual day or date of the month on the calendar is determined for the Entire World!  Since Yerushalayim is at 35 degrees longitude on the Globe, then at the moment it is high noon in Yerushalayim, it is sunset 90 degrees to the east at the 125 degree longitude mark, separating between one day and the previous day.  So 125 degrees to the east of Yerushalayim at this 125 degree mark IS the halakhic international dateline!  From a Global map we can see that this 125 degree line separates China from the Korean Peninsula in the Yellow Sea.  Approximately 2000 miles to the south of Pyongyang, N. Korea is the southern Philippines island of Mindanao where ISIS terrorists are trying to take over the island (and where President Duterte has threatened to eat them!).  The importance of this will become clearer later on either in this post or in comments.  Here we are just noting the geographical facts.  If we extend this 125 degree line into the Southern Hemisphere, we see that it cuts in half the Island nation of Indonesia through the island of Timor.  And further south, it cuts through the western deserts of the Australian continent in what is for the most part a sparsely inhabited part of Australia.  The two places where we will concentrate our understanding though will specifically be in the Northern hemisphere (Korea and the Philippines) because Yerushalayim, and its high noon timepiece is specifically in the Northern Hemisphere.  So it seems much more likely that the places of final war of GogUMagog will be at least experiencing the same season as Eretz Yisrael at the time of its onset.

Yet, as we see from previous posts about this matter, it is at this 125 degree line or "Sunset" line that we begin to have a problem.  D'Oraita, that is according to the Torah, the day may begin at Sundown, but it does not end until the stars come out the following day approximately 45 minutes AFTER sundown.  So for each potential day during Twilight, between Sundown and "Tzeit Kochavim" it is BOTH the day before Sundown and the new day after Sundown at the same time!  On the Globe we know that there are 15 degrees for each hour time zone.  So for let us say 42 minutes of Twilight, 42/60 = 10.5/15, we have 10.5 degrees of Twilight where at high noon in Yerushalayim on Rosh Chodesh or on Shabbat or on Yom Kippur, it is both the day before and the day after at the same time.  Anyone who would live in that "Twilight Zone" would need to keep two days of Shabbat out of every seven days, and they would need to fast for 48 hours on Yom Kippur!  This actually happened to the Mir Yeshivah when they escaped Nazi Germany and ended up at first in Kobe, Japan which is just inside this Twilight Zone shaded area.  The Chazon Ish ruled that the Mir refugees would need to do just that (two days of Shabbat every week and fasting for 48 hours on Yom Kippur).  They did not stay in Kobe long. They quickly moved to Shanghai in order to NOT have to live with these halakhic issues because Shanghai is significantly less than 90 degrees to the east of Yerushalayim.  So in Shanghai there is no doubt D'Oraita what day it is.  So there in Shanghai, one day of Shabbat every week and 24 hours of fasting on Yom Kippur are just fine.

Now why mention a Twilight Zone of 42 minutes?  Isn't that arbitrary?  Well actually not.  I went to MyZmanim.com, and looked up Seoul, South Korea, the capital city in the Korean Peninsula a mere 30 kilometers from the DMZ (DeMilitarized Zone or No Man's Land between N. and S. Korea).  Now here is the table that came up for the month of Nissan.  In order to view this table, you may have to log in with a UserName and Password.  You might even have to make a contribution.  They are a private site that needs funding, and who am I to complain if they want me to give them a few bucks to have access to their exact Zmanim times over the course of an entire year.  They even have a new feature to take into account the altitude of the place you might be at!    I started with Nissan because I noted that the it was at the very beginning of Tekufat Nissan that Trump sent those 59 missiles to destroy the Syrian Airforce base because Assad used chemical weapons.  Almost immediately after that the situation of the Korean Peninsula began to explode into the headlines, and Trump used his military action against Assad as a show of force to convince the Chinese to help him against Kim Jong Un.  So the Whisper of War against the country at the edge of the world did begin during the month of Nissan 5777.  Notice that the time between sunset and Tzeit Kochavim (stars coming out) is between 41 and 42 minutes for Seoul, South Korea at least during the entire month of Nissan.  Again this corresponds with an additional 10.5 degrees on the Globe AFTER the 90 degree mark east of Yerushalayim for 100,5 degrees on the Globe.

Now let us put two concepts together.  High noon on Yom ShiShi (Friday) was at Rosh HaShanah 5751 which kicked off the "official" period of intense ingathering of the Exiles.  Ostensibly it could last 250 years until the year 6001.  At the same time it is Sunset through Tzeit Kochavim on the entire Korean Peninsula.  So it is a Saffeik (a halakhic doubt) that at high noon in Yerushalayim on Friday whether that Saffeik area, between 125 degrees and 135.5 degrees, is going into Shabbat or into Thursday night at the same time.  Assuming that the Saffeik assertion that they are entering Shabbat is true, then there are 100.5 degrees on the Globe that enter Shabbat before Israel enters Shabbat.  Over the course of those 250 years, places to the east of Eretz Yisrael enter Yom sheKulo Shabbat BEFORE Eretz Yisrael enters Yom SheKulo Shabbat, that is especially with places which are within either 90 to 100.5 degrees to the east of Yerushalayim.  Yet because the first 10.5 degrees to enter are a Saffeik (A DOUBT) UNTIL those 10.5 degrees have fully entered Tzeit Kochavim so that the 90 degrees to the east then begin to enter, the period of time from Rosh HaShanah 5751 until the 10.5 degrees to the east of 125 degrees fully enter into the darkness of the starlight, Yom sheKulo Shabbat could not begin b'itah.  Upon entering the darkness of twilight, the light of Shabbat would begin to shine upon the world from the places on the Globe furthest East of Yerushalayim once there is no doubt that those places entering are now within the 90 degrees east of Yerusahalayim!  At the point that the area 90 degrees east of Yerushalayim begin to enter Yom SheKulo Shabbat, the entire area 10.5 degrees further to the east enters Yom SheKulo Shabbat with it.  From the number above we see the following:  Over the  course of 250 years, 100.5 degrees on the Globe enter Yom SheKulo Shabbat.  That is 2.5 years per degree on the Globe starting in the year 5751.  If the Twilight Zone shaded area of doubt is 10.5 degrees as it is at the DMZ and Seoul on the Korean Peninsula, then it takes 2.5 years/ degree x 10.5 degrees to bring the Korean theatre and places to the west of it in the Yellow Sea into Yom SheKulo Shabbat.  2.5 x 10.5 = 26.25 years.  Rosh HaShanah 5751 + 26.25 years is precisely Tevet of the year 5777!, this year at the beginning of the Nine Months!  From this we see that the entire Korean Peninsula has now entered Yom SheKulo Shabbat, and on Shabbat the wicked are judged.

From the Psalm 92 for the Day of Shabbat:

  ח  בִּפְרֹחַ רְשָׁעִים, כְּמוֹ עֵשֶׂב, וַיָּצִיצוּ, כָּל-פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן:    לְהִשָּׁמְדָם עֲדֵי-עַד. 8 When the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

ט  וְאַתָּה מָרוֹם--    לְעֹלָם יְהוָה. 9 But Thou, O LORD, art on high for evermore.

So as the entire Korean Peninsula now has its time guaranteed as entering Yom SheKulo Shabbat, it is from there that G-d brings judgement upon a Wicked world less that 250 years before the end of the year 6000 long before Plag HaMinchah.  

If this material is confusing, please leave a comment asking for elucidation, or if you want, you can clarify for others.  To be Continued.......

The Two- Legged Goat

In a previous post we spoke of how Klal Yisrael became like Yosef who is compared to a Bull who is a vehicle for giving parnassah to his nation.  In this post we start with the assumption that Esav is compared to a Goat.  There are many sources for this:

1. When Ya'akov fooled his father Yitzchak to think that he was his brother Esav so that he could receive Esav's brachah, he wore the skin of a goat on his arm and neck.

2. When Esav inherited his portion in this world, his first territorial inheritance was Mt. Se'ir, the Mountain of the Male Goat.  A Se'ir is a male goat.

3. Me'am Lo'ez based on the Zohar compares the meeting of Ya'akov and Esav when Ya'akov is traveling back from Lavan's house in Aram Naharai'im to the meeting of two goats on Yom Kippur.  Ya'akov goes LaShem by traveling on to the next festival, Sukkot while Esav goes to Mt. Se'ir (toward Aza'zel) to be "thrown over the cliff" there at the End of Days.

In actuality though, it is not at Mt. Se'ir, Esav's ancient homeland, where Esav is thrown over the cliff.  The text of Yishayahu 34 and 63 and the Zohar VaEira 32 from the previous post tell us that the Angel of Edom will be slaughtered in Batzrah, the modern city in southern Iraq at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as they enter the Persian Gulf.  These two rivers flow from Gan Eden, and their mineral wealth (50% of the world's sweet non-shale oil reserves) will only be truly valuable in Olam HaZeh.  So when Olam HaZeh makes way for Yemot HaMashiach, Esav's guardian angel will be slaughtered there.  Even the text of Yishayahu 34 compares Esav's guardian angel to a Male Goat.

 וּפָגְשׁוּ צִיִּים אֶת-אִיִּים, וְשָׂעִיר עַל-רֵעֵהוּ יִקְרָא; אַךְ-שָׁם הִרְגִּיעָה לִּילִית, וּמָצְאָה לָהּ מָנוֹחַ. 14 And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals, and the (Se'ir or satyr) shall cry to his fellow (satyr); yea, the night-monster (Lilith, the Chief Se'ir's feminine companion) shall repose there, and shall find her a place of rest.

In this verse we see that the Sar (Heavenly Minister) of Esav is dead at this juncture because the Chief Goat, the Ministering Angel of Esav, has already been slaughtered in Batzrah, but his servant demons called satyrs in English continue to live on in this burning wasteland.  And the Heavenly Minister of Esav had a mistress named Lilith who continues to live on in this barren hell on earth with burning oil fires that are never quenched and tar on the principle rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, continuing to burn in smoldering fires.  

This of course happens after the oil rich Persian Gulf and the two Rivers themselves go up in flames as described in the text of Yishayahu 34, and no Red Adair will go to the Gulf to put out the fires at one million bucks per oil well, demonstrating that it will not be economically feasible to put out these oil fires in Yemot HaMashiach.  The oil just won't be worth that much as it was in 5751 after the First Persian Gulf War when "Red" Adair went to Batzrah and neighboring Kuwait to douse these fires to preserves the ancient "Red"'s inheritance called in the Torah, Shmanei HaAretz, the Oil of the earth.

Bereishit 27:    לח  וַיֹּאמֶר עֵשָׂו אֶל-אָבִיו, הַבְרָכָה אַחַת הִוא-לְךָ אָבִי--בָּרְכֵנִי גַם-אָנִי, אָבִי; וַיִּשָּׂא עֵשָׂו קֹלוֹ, וַיֵּבְךְּ. 38 And Esau said unto his father: 'Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father.' And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

לט  וַיַּעַן יִצְחָק אָבִיו, וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו:  הִנֵּה מִשְׁמַנֵּי הָאָרֶץ, יִהְיֶה מוֹשָׁבֶךָ, וּמִטַּל הַשָּׁמַיִם, מֵעָל. 39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him: Behold, of the fat places of the earth {or Oil of the earth.  (This is a double entendre.)} shall be thy dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above;

From here we see that Esav's blessing gives him the oil of the earth cart blanche.  He does not have to have merit for it.  The dew of heaven which he also receives comes as a result of all the merits that he has in This World, but since the dew is mentioned AFTER the blessing of the oil of the earth and not before as it is with Ya'akov's brachah, the oil is not dependent upon his merits whose reward comes through the Dew.  Also the name Elokim is missing from his brachah meaning that unlike Ya'akov he will not necessarily suffer for his sins in This World.  He will only suffer from them primarily in the World to Come.  That aspect of his brachah made him extremely angry and is the source of much of his hatred for Ya'akov throughout all of history.  And at the very end of history when his merits have been used up, Esav's angel will flee to Batzrah to permanently receive his reward of the Oil of the earth.  And there the Angel, the two legged goat as we shall soon see, will be slaughtered.

 A more detailed discussion of this was presented in my 2006 post about Esav's angel fleeing to Batzrah.     I have in previous years written extensively about this topic on this blog.

A chicken has two legs called Kra'ayim, but a bull, a sheep, and a goat have four legs.  It is well known in Hebrew grammar that when there is two of something that is when things are paired, the plural form Cheerik dot followed by a Yud and a Final Mem (the regular plural form) is transformed into Patach Yud Cheerik under the Yud followed by a Final Mem.  In modern Hebrew an extra Yud is added after the Cheerik to distinguish it from the regular plural consonants of the three letter shoresh followed by a Yud and a Final Mem.  In ancient Hebrew though, no such second Yud was added.  Consonantally it was impossible to distinguish between the two forms, the regular plural form and the form that meant a pair of something.  Here are examples from the Torah and Na"kh:

From Sefer BaMidbar 22 in the story about Bilaam we see that he hit his jackass three times:

כח  וַיִּפְתַּח יְהוָה, אֶת-פִּי הָאָתוֹן; וַתֹּאמֶר לְבִלְעָם, מֶה-עָשִׂיתִי לְךָ, כִּי הִכִּיתַנִי, זֶה שָׁלֹשׁ רְגָלִים. 28 And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam: 'What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?'

Or when speaking of the three Pilgrimage festivals when in ancient times we all walked to Yerushalayim, we have this verse from Shemot 23:

יד  שָׁלֹשׁ רְגָלִים, תָּחֹג לִי בַּשָּׁנָה. 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year.

Notice in both cases the regular masculine plural form.  Now here is the form referring to pairs of legs:  Iyov (Job) 29:

טו  עֵינַיִם הָיִיתִי, לַעִוֵּר; וְרַגְלַיִם לַפִּסֵּחַ אָנִי. 15 I was eyes to the blind, and legs was I to the lame.

I specifically chose that pasuk so that you could see the Pair of limbs and organs form of both the word for Eyes and Legs in Tana"kh since almost every human being on the planet was born with two of them each.

Now from this past week's parsha, Shmini, let us look at an insect whose hind legs are for hopping and its front legs are for stabilizing their body.  These are the kosher locusts that can be eaten if you have a mesorah to know exactly which species of locusts are kosher:  VaYikra 11:

כא  אַךְ אֶת-זֶה, תֹּאכְלוּ, מִכֹּל שֶׁרֶץ הָעוֹף, הַהֹלֵךְ עַל-אַרְבַּע:  אֲשֶׁר-לא (לוֹ) כְרָעַיִם מִמַּעַל לְרַגְלָיו, לְנַתֵּר בָּהֵן עַל-הָאָרֶץ. 21 Yet these may ye eat of all winged swarming things that go upon all fours, which have jointed legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth;

Notice the Pair of limbs form of the word כְרָעַיִם.  It makes sense because for a locust, the hind pair of legs are for leaping upon the earth (as the pasuk itself says) while the front legs are only for standing on all four legs.  The hind legs have knees above the plane of the body while the front legs do not.  In this case you really have two distinct pairs of legs.  Just to point out where we are headed with this, notice the singular form of of the word Kra'ayim.  It is Kera which is a combination of both the lower and upper legs.  For a chicken the lower leg is called a shok while the upper leg known as a thigh in English is called a Yarech.  They are joined at the knee, and together they are called a Kera spelled Kaf Reish Ayin. So the Hebrew word for kneel is Korea (כֹּרֵעַ) (Yes, you read that right.)  From the Book of Esther 3 when Mordechai refused to kneel before Haman we have the following:

   ב  וְכָל-עַבְדֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲשֶׁר-בְּשַׁעַר הַמֶּלֶךְ, כֹּרְעִים וּמִשְׁתַּחֲוִים לְהָמָן--כִּי-כֵן, צִוָּה-לוֹ הַמֶּלֶךְ; וּמָרְדֳּכַי--לֹא יִכְרַע, וְלֹא יִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה. 2 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, knelt down, and prostrated themselves before Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordechai knelt not down, nor prostrated himself before him.

and   ה  וַיַּרְא הָמָן--כִּי-אֵין מָרְדֳּכַי, כֹּרֵעַ וּמִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה לוֹ; וַיִּמָּלֵא הָמָן, חֵמָה. 5 And when Haman saw that Mordechai would not kneel, nor prostrate himself before him, then was Haman full of wrath.

So now here is the important point of this post.  Starting from the first chapter of VaYikra we learn about the various Qorbanot.  In only one case are the limbs themselves burnt upon the altar.  It is with a fully burnt offering, usually a personal and voluntary one.  It is often offered up for failing to do positive commandments since the Qorban Cheit (Sin offerings) are for unintentionally transgressing the Thou shalt nots.  In all other cases, the limbs are either eaten by the Kohanim or in the case of Peace offerings are eaten by the general public in Yerushalayim when they are tahor.  Sometimes they are burnt outside the Temple Mount compound.  But in the case of the fully burnt offering or the Qorban Olah, they are burnt upon the altar.  So notice from VaYikra 1, first the Torah tells us about how to sacrifice a Bull, a Par.  Notice the words used to describe the four limbs that are burnt on the altar:

  ט  וְקִרְבּוֹ וּכְרָעָיו, יִרְחַץ בַּמָּיִם; וְהִקְטִיר הַכֹּהֵן אֶת-הַכֹּל הַמִּזְבֵּחָה, עֹלָה אִשֵּׁה רֵיחַ-נִיחוֹחַ לַיהוָה.  {ס} 9 but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water; and the priest shall make the whole smoke on the altar, for a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Now this makes sense because in the case of a four legged kosher mammal, the front legs and the hind legs serve virtually the same purpose.  It allows for the four legged mammal to walk on all four legs, and each of the four legs has a split hoof.

Yet, just four pasukim later, we read about the exact same Qorban from the flock instead of from cattle.  There should be precise parallelism since a four legged sheep or goat has legs which serve the same purpose as a four legged bull or cow.  Therefore it should read Kirbo UKra'av, meaning its innards and its legs, but it does not! 

Instead for the sheep and goat Olah it reads:
יג  וְהַקֶּרֶב וְהַכְּרָעַיִם, יִרְחַץ בַּמָּיִם; וְהִקְרִיב הַכֹּהֵן אֶת-הַכֹּל, וְהִקְטִיר הַמִּזְבֵּחָה--עֹלָה הוּא אִשֵּׁה רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ, לַיהוָה.  {פ} 13 But the inwards and the legs shall he wash with water; and the priest shall offer the whole, and make it smoke upon the altar; it is a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

Now we all know that unlike a chicken or a turkey, a goat or sheep does NOT have two legs.  So it should not read Kra'aim.  It should also read either Kra'av (its limbs) or Kra'im (limbs) without the extra patach before the Yud.  I have yet to find the reason in Chaza"l why there would be this difference between the bull and an animal from the flock.  So I have to conclude it is a hint that the Qorban of Edom, who is compared to a goat, at the End of Days will have two limbs, two proxy limbs fighting each other which when the time comes will both be placed on the altar in Batzrah when Western Civilization is brought to its knees.  The two limbs?  The Korea (Kera) of the North and the Korea (Kera) of the South.

To the East we go to Enter the 7th Millennium, The Time Piece for B'itah before the Year 6000; Why it is necessary for a nation at the Edge of the World to enter Yom sheKulo Shabbat less than 250 years BEFORE Eretz Yisrael enters Yom sheKulo Shabbat in the year 6001:

To be continued later......