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.